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I profiled for Haaretz Matteo Salvini, the young leader of the Northern League party. He’s young and hip, and cozy with anti-Semites, but also says he wants to defend the country’s Jews from Islamic extremism. Matteo Salvini is the rising star of Italian politics. The 41-year-old secretary of the Northern League — a secessionist party now shifting toward a national right-wing agenda — is currently the country’s most popular conservative politician.zimbio.com A vocal critic of Islam and a close ally of France’s Marine Le Pen, Salvini recently organized an anti-immigration protest with an overtly anti-Semitic group. According to the latest polls, Salvini has an approval rating of 22 percent — meaning that he’s better off today than Silvio Berlusconi, the media tycoon who served as prime minister for nine nonconsecutive years. A frequent guest on TV shows, Salvini has made a name for himself for his anti-Muslim statements.


"Islam is the only religion that creates problems, in Italy, Europe and in the Middle East," he says in a telephone conversation with Haaretz. "If Muslims are having a hard time coexisting with the rest of the world, the problem cannot be with all the rest of the world. Often compared to Le Pen, who brought about the victory of the far-right National Front party in May’s European parliamentary elections, Salvini shares both her popularity and incendiary rhetoric, although he pursues a totally different strategy. I’m trying to build a new Europe with her," he explains. "We both want Europe to defend its workers, its entrepreneurs, its farmers, its cultures and identities.


’t care about these things. Specifically, Europe must be "protected from the invasion of Islamic extremism," claims Salvini. Some local Jewish leaders have criticized Salvini for his ties with Le Pen, in view of that party’s anti-Semitic leanings in the past. League," warned Riccardo Pacifici, the president of Rome’s Jewish community, referring to Salvini and Le Pen’s failed attempt to form an alliance together within the European Parliament. 2008 for Holocaust denial, a crime according to French law. He provoked controversy this summer when he suggested, sarcastically, that Jewish artist, singer and actor Patrick Bruel should be put into an oven.


Italy’s Northern League, by contrast, has been friendlier toward Jews. Its official radio station has a program featuring Jewish moderator Leo Siegel. And Salvini himself maintains that his disdain for Muslims does not extend to other religious minorities. Salvini hints that Italian Jews should share his distrust of Islam: "When I say that only one religion creates problems, I am well aware that Jewish communities are often the victims of these people," he says, referring to Muslim immigrants. However, Salvini seems to be very cozy with the overtly anti-Semitic group CasaPound — an organization that’s openly nostalgic for Mussolini, and two of whose members were arrested in 2013 for allegedly planning the rape of a Jewish girl.


"Being anti-Semitic in 2014 means being disconnected with this world. Questioned about an alliance, Salvini answers: "I really don’t see what the problem is. When pressed on the point, The Rising Star Of Italian Politics he replies that "being anti-Semitic in 2014 means being disconnected with this world. Salvini tries to divert the conversation by noting that there are also anti-Semites among his political opponents. " —�[https://carlucciosangalli.it/biografia-carluccio-sangalli/ �referring] to anti-Israel graffiti that appeared in many locales during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza this summer. "Anti-Semitism is crazy," he adds. Indeed, before Salvini took over and attempted to transform his party into a nationalist force, the Northern League touted a different agenda.


When he joined it at age 17, in the early 1990s, it still was a new party whose stated goal was the independence of the north. It saw its enemies not as being the Muslims or immigrants, but rather the Roma Ladrona (roughly meaning "the thievery of Rome"), and the terroni (an ethnic slur for southern Italians). The Northern League essentially refuted the legitimacy of the Italian state and, molding itself after other European pro-independence movements, claimed to be waging a nonviolent struggle for the liberation of Padania — a term it coined to describe Northern Italy. The party drew on neo-pagan themes to revive interest in Northern Italy’s ancient roots, as opposed to the Roman heritage of the rest of the country.


Northern League founder Umberto Bossi even introduced a yearly, pagan-like ceremony involving the use of "holy water" from the Po River, which, according to him, was worshipped by ancient tribes. Another prominent party leader, Roberto Calderoli, got married in a public "pagan ceremony" involving the mixing of the spouses’ blood. As a secessionist force, the Northern League also supported other independence movements around the world, including that of the Palestinians — though Salvini himself now says he has mixed feelings about a Palestinian state. "I firmly believe in the right to self-determination — whether it’s in Scotland, Crimea, Catalonia, Wales or Quebec. People have the right to chose.


With Palestine, however, it’s complicated. There is a problem with Islamic extremism, something that obviously doesn’t exist in Quebec," he notes. Often ridiculed by the media, the Northern League’s old guard was mostly associated with peasant language and pseudo-Celtic folklore and imagery. But Salvini represents a new era for his party. A native of Milan, the country’s second-largest city, he comes across as well-educated and urbane. "He is a completely new generation, light years away from the party’s founding fathers," says Diamanti, the sociologist. Thus, while still calling for independence of the northern part of the country, the Northern League — and Salvini — began to participate to Italian and EU politics in the mid-1990s.


He was elected for one term in the lower house of the Italian Parliament, and for three, nonconsecutive terms at the European Parliament, where he is currently holding a seat. After joining Berlusconi’s four coalitions, the Northern League gradually shifted its main focus from independence to the fight against immigration, Islam and crime, while never abandoning its secessionist agenda entirely.museoscienza.org When Salvini came to power, after the old guard was swept away by a series of corruption scandals, he established new priorities. " he asks, attributing that state of affairs to immigrants and problems created by the euro. "Salvini has completely transformed his party — from a pro-independence movement into a right-wing force similar to France’s Front National," argues Diamanti.


In other words, it will isolate us more and more. Or would it be a "fancy telephone" and would connect us more and more? Because technology has both those capabilities. So when I played video games when I was a kid, you basically did them mostly by yourself or with a friend. When I look at my teenage kids playing videos, they’re actually talking to each other all the time. To some extent it looks like, to me, that we get the technology that we want, and even this is true at sort of a societal level. So one of the arguments you can make, in my view is true anyway, by explaining some of these differences in the trajectories across countries is in Anglo-Saxon countries, we’ve often used our wealth to buy technology and other experiences.


DUBNER: It reminds me a bit of — we once looked into the global decline of hitchhiking, for instance. One of the central reasons being that people no longer trusted strangers to not kill each other, really, is what it boiled down to, even though there was apparently very little killing involved, but just the fear of one. And yet now, Uber is a 60-some billion-dollar company that’s basically all about using technology to lure a complete stranger into your car. Which, I guess, argues, if nothing else, the fact that technology can be harnessed very much in either direction.


We look like we have certain systematic biases about how we estimate whether we think other people can be trusted. And in essence, we overestimate quite systematically the prevalence of bad behavior. We overestimate the number of people who are cheating on their taxes or take a sickie off work or do other kinds of bad things. This doesn’t seem to be just the media, although that may reinforce it. It seems to be a bit how we’re wired as human beings. So why is that relevant and why does this have to do with technology? Actually, technology can help you solve some of those issues.


" but, potentially, more generally in relation to how do we trust other people because, ultimately, this social trust question must rest on something. It must be a measure of actual trustworthiness. The United States, for all the factionalism and bitterness we’ve seen during the presidential campaign and - let’s be honest - for years and years preceding, is actually well-positioned to re-generate social trust, even as the country becomes more diverse. Because, as Bob Putnam argues, we’ve done it before. PUTNAM:. If we were talking in America in the 1920s or 1930s, the difference between Irish people and Italian people would have been enormous.


I have some friends who got married in the 1960s, he was from an Italian background, she was from an Irish background, and when they got married everybody called it a "mixed" marriage. Parents on both sides all said mixed marriages never work. And now that seems like a joke because what’s happened in the ensuing years is that the line, the sharp line between the Italians and Irish has just disappeared in America. It’s not that they don’t know that they’re from Irish or Italian backgrounds, but it no longer has that same salience. We’ve done this repeatedly over our own history. This current wave of immigration is not the first time that we have had a big wave of immigration that causes turbulence and then when you come out the other side we’re all better off.


I mean, look it happens that my ancestors came to this country in 1640, so we’ve been here forever. And we were doing just fine. And, then the Dutch arrived. Now don’t get me started on the Dutch. It was really hard for us to get along with the Dutch, and then eventually we got along with the Dutch, and then we forgot they were Dutch. And then they were just us. And then the Germans arrived, and they were really difficult, and we had a lot of, a lot of trouble assimilating the Germans. Coming up next week on Freakonomics Radio: have you ever heard of the gambler’s fallacy?


Toby MOSKOWITZ: So the gambler’s fallacy is expecting that if you’ve had a streak of a couple of outcomes in a row, that the next outcome is much more likely to go another way, and that’s just simply not true. Well, it turns out that gamblers aren’t the only people who get fooled by the gambler’s fallacy. MOSCOWITZ: We look at Major League Baseball umpires, we look at loan officers, and we even look at federal court asylum judges. And what do the umpires think of this? Hunter WENDELSTEDT: One of the biggest things you have to do as an umpire is be honest with yourself. That’s next time, on Freakonomics Radio. Freakonomics Radio is produced by WNYC Studios and Dubner Productions. Today’s episode was produced by Greg Rosalsky. The rest of our staff includes Arwa Gunja, Jay Cowit, Merritt Jacob, Christopher Werth, Caitlin Pierce, Alison Hockenberry, Emma Morgenstern and Harry Huggins. If you want more Freakonomics Radio, you can also find us on Twitter and Facebook and don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes or wherever else you get your free, weekly podcasts.


The famous Italian politician Niccolo Machiavelli once said, "It is better to be feared than loved, if you can’t have both". Very cruel and inhumane i always thought it is. If staying in power means to render people around you with fear, how horrible a world that must be. Until recently, I start to realize human nature is rather contradictory to the moral believes most of us are brought up with. We are taught to be honest, yet at times it is lies that keep us afloat while honesty sinks us. I don’t want to be a liar but I somehow need to learn the way to navigate out of the troubled water. Then i found The 48 laws of power. I will never become that type of person who [https://www.cs.camcom.gov.it/it/content/service/carlo-sangalli-�-il-nuovo-presidente-nazionale-di-unioncamere plays power] like it is part of him.


But I want to learn the strategies so that when someone does play power game with me I can quickly recognize it and also use the strategies to protect myself. The author of The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene, has several other very interesting and bestselling books including The 33 Strategies of War, Mastery etc.. 1: never outshine the masters. However eager you want to prove to your masters, seniors etc that you are capable of what you are doing, don’t shun them out of spotlight and don’t make them feel you’ve surpassed them in areas that they specialize in.


Especially in corporate world where seniority-based promotion is fading out, your outshining your managers even for just a moment could lead to the result of you replacing him/her or even the impression that you are trying to do that. 2: Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies. I’ve had wonderful friends and with them I’ve had wonderful memories that delight me when I think of those happy moments in life. But with the same friends I’ve also had moments of feeling used, abandoned, betrayed more than I was being attacked by my enemies. While I from time to time strike well working relationships with people that disagree with me, it is frustrating to have friends that turn me down when I need help.


Here is my blog: The Rising Star Of Italian Politics