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2020-04-04 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Italy's communist recipe for disaster
A taste:
[Smith & Wesson Forums] 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 theancient shores of Sicilia and Sardenia, while not deserted, are closerto 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 nolonger 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!

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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 00 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.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [18 views ]  Top
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#1 This brings the total cases of infection to 69,176 and the body count to 6,820

That's 10% mortality.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-04 04:10||   2020-04-04 04:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Communist/schmamunist
If you look at Italy, Spain, and Portugal stats you see the same except the starting time.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-04 05:40||   2020-04-04 05:40|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Same time-curves.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-04 05:44||   2020-04-04 05:44|| Front Page Top

#4 The Italian Left and the EU's Austerity Push both worked to force Italian businesses into foreclosure and they got bought up by the Chinese.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-04-04 20:19||   2020-04-04 20:19|| Front Page Top

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