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My stupid recipe, Doctor Restrepo, achieved the highest employment rate, the lowest rates of hunger and poverty of the 21st century, and some of the highest levels of per capita income in the last quarter of my government in the entire history of Colombia. You and Abelardo today, just as you did in Duque's government during the first month of his administration, shot up unemployment almost to the double-digit figures that you handed over to my government. That's called a step back! It's unfortunate that a part of the Colombian electorate believes that Colombia's destiny is to go backward. Again the IMF, again over-indebtedness that you promoted, Dr. Restrepo, by giving subsidies to the rich and imposing a gasoline subsidy paid with the budget. These days, that is called economic ignorance and anachronism. I propose my support from the opposition to make a great agreement for the equitable progress of Colombia. What allowed us to have the best social economic figures of the century was: 1. Leaving hydrocarbon extraction and moving to real production in industry, commerce, and tourism. Prioritizing production, that is, the transformation of materials to make other materials for a good life for people, automatically raises employment levels and overall productivity. 2. Raising the minimum wage every year to the level of the vital basket for a family. This was demanded by the social doctrine of the Catholic Church in the encyclical "Rerum Novarum" by Leo XIII, and you, as a fervent Catholic, should apply it. In that encyclical and in that of Francis I about the "common home," and in that of Leo XIV about "a dignified Humanity," you would find a comprehensive agreement with the progressivism I lead. 3. A leading role of the state in the economy in strategic matters such as tariffs for industrialization, abundant and cheap credit for small and medium-sized industries, cheap credit for industry, food production, exports, and zero-interest credit for any national industry that produces an increase in Colombia’s computational capacity, energy, and railroads. 4. Leading the decarbonization of the economy through a 100% clean electricity generation matrix, replacing the prohibitively expensive gas with extremely cheap and abundant solar energy in Colombia. Remember that in my government I managed to increase growth in the four years by 500% in the naval industry and 200% in the electric automotive industry. 5. Redistributing another million hectares among farmers and doubling food production in the country to lower the prices of the family basket and increase real wages. You and we can lower the interest rate set by the Board of the Bank of the Republic by configuring another majority in the board that is friendly to production and work. 5. And if you don’t want, Mr. Restrepo, to reach agreements given the mind-numbing sectarianism that predominates, then just remember my advice: work and nature are the sources of wealth, and in Colombia, the real wage as an expression of the value of work allows the expansion of the internal market, both formal and informal, and increases the number of companies and workforce. When the country decides to return to legitimate institutions, it might be too late for you, but these will be the economic bases already experienced with positive data for a national agreement. (translated)

At the Genoa Boat Show, Silvia Salis stays outside the ribbon-cutting while Giorgia Meloni is at the center of the ceremony. The mayor represents the city hosting the event: her presence is not a concession, and the respect for her role cannot depend on political color. Salis responds by recalling a simple principle: those who hold a public office serve the institutions, they do not become their owners. No theatrics, no competition of insults. A firm response that puts back at the center the meaning of her mandate. This is what makes the scene so unedifying for Meloni: celebrating an excellence of Genoa while the representative of the city remains on the sidelines. The arrogance of power is also measured by the ease with which it is accepted that another institution is placed in the background. The sense of institutions, on the other hand, emerges in the respect granted even to opponents. In this affair, Silvia Salis has shown style and dignity. Palazzo Chigi would do well to take example from it. (translated)

Balzano observes that the political climate seems to impose a taboo: one can criticize the Netanyahu government, but not the State of Israel, and he recalls that the director of Il Fatto Quotidiano, Marco Travaglio, on Otto e mezzo, cited Ovadia to support the assertion that it should also be possible to claim that that State should not exist. (translated)

What I think. I believe it is necessary to make some clarifications regarding the many things that are being said these days about the actions of the technical consultant appointed by the then Public Prosecutor of Vigevano. When a public prosecutor entrusts an assessment to their own technical consultant and the assessment is carried out in the manner provided for in Article 360 of the Criminal Procedure Code - that is, involving the defenders of the accused and any appointed consultants - that consultant has a legal obligation to make available to the same Public Prosecutor, and obviously to the other parties, all the material related to their work. The obligation of the consultant to submit all documentation is accompanied by the prosecutor's duty to include everything in their file so that the parties can, if they wish, use that material in a future trial. In this case, the lack of knowledge of every operation related to the assignment has ultimately created a procedural flaw (or perhaps it would be better to define it as a “virus”) that has then spread in the subsequent phases of the proceeding. Just to give a concrete example, the experts that the Judge of the abbreviated trial had appointed for an ad hoc expertise on this aspect (DNA on the pedals) did not have knowledge of the negative replies. This process continued until we reached the latest ruling of the Supreme Court, which considered that it was undisputed that there was highly cellular genetic material belonging to the victim on the pedals of the "Umberto Dei" bicycle. By denying the judges of the merits (the GUP of Vigevano and the Courts of Assize of Appeal in Milan) knowledge of the objectively hidden elements (in the sense of "not present"), it ultimately undermined, in my humble opinion, the entire validation process of the evidence, rendering it in fact illegitimate. I am firmly convinced that the Public Prosecutor's Office of Pavia is necessarily committed to the faithful reconstruction of what happened and any related responsibilities. Last note. If at the time of the appeal presented by Stasi's defense to the European Court of Human Rights it had been possible to report this enormous violation of the right to defense that was unknown at the time, the outcome of the appeal would have been completely different. (translated)

"Avete messo a rischio la vostra vita per salvare gli altri e avete evitato una terribile tragedia. Oggi il mondo intero ha visto il volto bello e coraggioso della società israeliana"Durante i colloqui, il presidente Herzog ha espresso "il suo profondo apprezzamento per la prontezza, il coraggio e il senso di responsabilità reciproca dimostrati dai quattro in una situazione di estremo pericolo" e gli ha comunicato la sua intenzione di sottoporre la loro storia di eroismo alla commissione consultiva per il Premio presidenziale al valore civile e di raccomandare che il riconoscimento venga assegnato a tutti e quattro. #VoloFlyDubai #SicurezzaAerea #Eroismo

The Gramscian French state that sees schools being set on fire recognizes these facts as positive because they show that more educational services, more psychologists, more funds for inclusion, more listening services, more widespread control, and more repression of racism are needed. And these are all services that it will provide personally. (translated)

Abbas was not kept out of the UN Assembly due to racism. The USA denied him a visa because the Palestinian Authority continues the “pay for slay,” unilateral appeals, and a framework that Washington still considers linked to terrorism. It is not an ethnic exclusion. It is a sanction. (translated)

The stupid thing is to think that the economic theory of degrowth is for poor countries. The economic theory of degrowth is for rich countries and starts with luxury consumption and consumption of goods based on hydrocarbons. If developed countries do not reduce their poisonous consumptions for life, what is extinguishing is human life, including life in Colombia. In Colombia, what is spectacularly decreasing, and only in the first month of Abelardo, is employment. (translated)