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From Italy…… What Happened? A Must read

ITALY’S COMMUNIST RECIPE FOR DISASTER

 

(Giacomino Nicolazzo is one of Italy’s most beloved writers.  Born

and raised in Central Pennsylvania, he lives in a small village in

Lombardy where he writes his books.)

Montecalvo, Lombardy, Italy. As I sit here in my involuntary

isolation, it was just reported that overnight 743 more people died

and 5.249 new cases have been reported. This brings the total cases of

infection to 69,176 and the body count to 6,820. We take relief in

knowing that 8,326 people have recovered so far. (Numbers as of 3/24,

8:30pm in Italy.) Most towns here in Italy, from the upper reaches of the Alps to the

ancient shores of Sicilia and Sardenia, while not deserted, are closer

to being ghost towns than the bustling centers of tourism, business

and daily life they were just a few weeks ago.

Stores and shops have been shuttered. Restaurants and coffee shops no

longer serve customers. Schools, universities, sporting arenas…even

our museums and theaters…all closed. Even the Vatican City has

closed its gates and armed patrols monitor the 20 foot tall walls that

protect it! Streets and roads are now empty for as far as the eye can see.

Normally they would be filled with crazed Italian drivers in tiny cars

and scooters (the ones that sound like demonic insects) darting here

and there, reaching the limits of centrifugal force on our roundabouts.

 

In the piazze of our towns and cities, there are now officially more pigeons than people.

 

Many of us know someone who has been infected and recovered. Some of us know someone who did not recover…now they are dead. But everyone

knows someone who has been affected by this microscopic monster in one

way or another. Sixty million of us are in lockdown…it is like a war zone here. We

are being held prisoner in our own homes by an unseen enemy that

sneaked in unnoticed…by most of us. As you will read in just a few

more minutes, there were those who knew something like this was

coming…or at least they should have.

So who is to blame? With all this craziness swirling like a whirlpool

at our feet, I just had to find the blame answer. And so I have spent

my free time (of which I have a lot in these days) digging and

researching. I was literally shocked to discover how this has come to

be.

I am not going to bore you with talk of Patient ‘zero’ who spread it

to Patient ‘1’ and how mathematics efficiently explains the rapid

expansion of infection. No…I am going to tell you how (as I see it)

the virus came to Italy.

It has everything to do with communists. Allow me to explain.

 

Beginning in about 2014, Matteo Renzi, the imbecile ex-mayor of

Firenze (Florence) acting as the leader of the Partito Democratico

(synonymous with the Italian Communist party), somehow managed to get

himself elected as Italy’s Prime Minister. To give you a proper

frame of reference, Matteo Renzi was so far left, he would make Barack

Obama look like Barry Goldwater!

 

At the same time that Renzi was leading Italy into oblivion, strange

things were happening in Italy’s economy. Banks were failing…but

not closing. Retirement ages were being extended…for some reason the

pension funds were dwindling or disappearing. The national sales tax

we call IVA (Value Added Tax) rose from 18% to 20%, then to 21% and

again to 22%.

And in the midst of all this financial chicanery, the Chinese began

furiously buying up Italian real estate and businesses in the North.

Now the reason I mention Renzi and the Chinese together is that

strange things were also going on between the governments of Italy and

China. A blind eye was being turned to the way the Chinese were buying

businesses in the financial, telecommunication, industrial and fashion

sectors of Italy’s economy, all of which take place in Milano.

 

To be brief…China was getting away with purchases and acquisitions

in violation of Italian law and EU Trade Agreements with the US and

the UK…and no one in either of those countries (not Obama in the US

or Cameron in the UK) said a thing in their country’s defense. As a

matter of fact, much of it was hidden from the public in all three

countries.

 

In 2014, China infused the Italian economy with €5 billion through

purchases of companies costing less than €100 million each. By the

time Renzi left office (in disgrace) in 2016, Chinese acquisitions had

exceeded €52 billion. When the dust settled, China owned more than

300 companies…representing 27% of the major Italian corporations.

The Bank of China now owns five major banks in Italy…all of which

had been secretly (and illegally) propped up by Renzi using pilfered

pension funds! Soon after, the China Milano Equity Exchange was opened

and much of Italy’s wealth was being funneled back to the Chinese

mainland.

 

Chinese state entities own Italy’s major telecommunication

corporation (Telecom) as well as its major utilities (ENI and ENEL).

Upon entry into the telecommunication market, Huawei established a

facility in Segrate, a suburb of Milano. It launched is first research

center there and worked on the study of microwaves which has resulted

in the possibly-dangerous technology we call 5G.

 

China also now owns controlling interest in Fiat-Chrysler, Prysmian

and Terna. You will be surprised to know that when you put a set of

Pirelli tires on your car, the profits are going to China. Yep…the

Chinese colossus of ChemChina, a chemical industry titan, bought that

company too!

 

Last but not least is Ferretti yachts…the most prestigious yacht

builder in Europe. Incredibly, it is no longer owned by the Ferretti

family.

 

But the sector in which Chinese companies invested most was Italy’s

profitable fashion industry. The Pinco Pallino, Miss Sixty, Sergio

Tacchini, Roberta di Camerino and Mariella Burani brands have been

acquired by 100%.

 

Designer Salvatore Ferragamo sold 16% and Caruso sold 35%. The most

famous case is Krizia, purchased in 2014 by Shenzhen Marisfrolg

Fashion Company, one of the leaders of high-priced, ready-to-wear

fashions in Asia.

 

Throughout all of these purchases and acquisitions, Renzi’s

government afforded the Chinese unrestricted and unfettered access to

Italy and its financial markets, many coming through without customs

inspections.

 

Quite literally, tens of thousands of Chinese came in through Milano

(illegally) and went back out carrying money, technology and corporate

secrets.

 

Thousands more were allowed to enter and disappeared into shadows of

Milano and other manufacturing cities of Lombardy, only to surface in

illegal sewing shops, producing knock-off designer clothes and

slapping ‘Made In Italy’ labels on them. All with the tacit

approval of the Renzi government.

 

It was not until there was a change in the governing party in Italy

that the sweatshops and the illegal entry and departure of Chinese

nationals was stopped. Matteo Salvini, representing the Lega Nord

party, closed Italy’s ports to immigrants and systematically began

disassembling the sweatshops and deporting those in Italy illegally.

But his rise to power was short-lived. Italy is a communist

country…socialism is in the national DNA. Ways were found to remove

Salvini, after which the communist party, under the direction of

Giuseppe Conte, reopened the ports. Immediately, thousands of

unvetted, undocumented refugees from the Middle East and East Africa

began pouring in again.

 

Access was again provided to the Chinese, under the old terms, and as

a consequence thousands of Chinese, the majority from Wuhan, began

arriving in Milano.

 

In December of last year, the first inklings of a coronavirus were

noticed in Lombardy…in the Chinese neighborhoods. There is no doubt

amongst senior medical officials that the virus was brought here from

China.

 

By the end of January 2020 cases were being reported left and right.

By mid-February the virus was beginning to seriously overload the

Lombardy hospitals and medical clinics. They are now in a state of

collapse.

 

The Far-Left politicians sold out and betrayed the Italian people with

open border policies and social justice programs. One of the reasons

the health care system collapsed so quickly is because the Renzi

government (and now continued under the Conte government) redirected

funds meant to sustain the medical system, to pay for the tens of

thousands of immigrants brought in to Italy against the will of the

Italian people.

 

If you remember the horrible earthquake that decimated the villages

around Amatricia, in the mountains east of Rome in 2015, you would

also remember how the world responded by sending millions of dollars

to help those affected.

 

But there is a law in Italy that prevents private donations to

charitable Italian organizations. All money and donations received

must be turned over to a government agency, who in turn is to

appropriate the funds as needed. But that agency is corrupt just as

are all the others.

 

Most of the money never reached a single victim in the mountains. The

Renzi government redirected the vast majority of those funds to pay

for the growing immigrant and refugee costs.

 

As the economy worsened under the burden of illegal immigration,

compounded by gross government spending and incompetence, unemployment

rose quickly…especially among young people. The unemployment rate

for men and women under age 35 is close to 40%.

 

So more money was diverted from the health care system and used to pay

what is known here as guaranteed income. Whether you work or not you

are paid here, especially if you belong to the PD! The government

simply raises taxes on those who do work.

 

Let me give you a quick example of the height of insanity to which

Italian taxation has risen. If you live in a building that has a

balcony or balconies…and any of those balconies cast a shadow on the

ground, you must pay a public shadow tax! I will say no more!

The point I am trying to make here is that not only did the Chinese

bring the virus to Italy (and the rest of the world) it was far-Left

politics and policies that facilitated it.

 

This should hopefully be a warning to Americans that while they work

to rid themselves of the China Virus, they should just as vehemently

endeavor to rid their government of any politician that circumvents

the Constitution and ignores the laws of the land…plain and simple.