In just nine months since becoming Prime Minister of Italy, Meloni has earned massive criticism from the political right. She appears to be a globalist in nationalist clothing, siding more with Volodymyr Zelensky and Joe Biden than her own nation.

Dutch activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek is disappointed, as she expressed on Twitter:

I’m so disappointed in @GiorgiaMeloni. Despite her being a WEF member, I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt when she became Prime Minister of Italy – turned out that was a mistake.

Before she got in power, I listened to her speak passionately about her being a proud Christian, mother and Italian, standing up against the globalists. She was fiery and made big promises about stopping mass migration. Ones she seemed serious about keeping.

But so far, she hasn’t delivered at all. From the first day she’s been in power, she’s done nothing but sucking up to Zelensky and the EU bureaucrats. She didn’t install any of the “sea blockades” that she promised while campaigning. Instead she just went to Tunisia to make a fake deal about migration with Mark Rutte and Ursula von der Leyen. It’s all window dressing.

It’s a disgrace how spineless she’s been: Empty rhetorics, zero results.

I’m so disappointed in @GiorgiaMeloni. Despite her being a WEF member, I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt when she became Prime Minister of Italy – turned out that was a mistake.

Before she got in power, I listened to her speak passionately about her being a…

— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) July 17, 2023

According to Jack Montgomery from The National Pulse:

From the beginning of 2023 to July 12th, 73,414 illegal aliens reached Italy by sea, compared to 31,333 over the same period in 2022. Giorgia Meloni, who became Prime Minister of Italy in October 2022, is also radically increasing legal mass migration to the Mediterranean country despite running on a populist-nationalist platform to lower migration.

Meloni and her Brothers of Italy (FdI) party topped the polls on their eurosceptic, socially conservative, and especially anti-mass migration platform. The 46-year-old prime minister even claimed she would impose a naval blockade to stop boat migrants, often transported most of the way to Europe by so-called “rescue” ships operated by foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs). But she has thus far failed to do so, instead offering much of her attention to Ukraine’s defensive war against Russia instead.

Meloni has adopted a fierce anti-Russian, pro-Ukrainian stance, despite the damage the associated sanctions war has done to Italy’s economy. Her compliant approach has earned her a level of acceptance in Washington D.C., however, with President Joe Biden pictured holding hands with her in May, and recently inviting her to the White House.

While neglecting the issue of illegal immigration, Meloni appears to have caved to big business interests on legal immigration, with her government announcing it will hand out almost half a million visas to non-European Union nationals between 2023 and 2025. In 2019, by contrast, only 30,850 such visas were issued.

Perhaps we should have listened to our gut when we discovered Meloni was a WEF disciple. Recovery from such indoctrination is challenging. Sound off about this post on our Substack.

Bradey and Heather Jobson of Ohio, both 34, are parents to daughters, Alexa, 9, and Chloe, 7. Frustrated by the pace of life in the United States, they sold most of their belongings in 2020 and set off to travel the world.

“We sold our house, sold our cars, sold our furniture and clothes, even some of the kids’ toys, and donated the rest,” Bradey told The Epoch Times. “We took that pool of money saved up, I think about US$40,000, and began traveling the world for almost two years. During that time, we were looking for a new place to live.”

Falling in Love With a 200-Year-Old Stone Building

In their travels, the family explored Australia, Costa Rica, Indonesia, the Philippines, and parts of Europe before falling in love with northern Italy and its culture. They parked themselves near Lake Como for a month to explore real estate. For the family, house-hunting in Italy was “like finding a needle in a haystack.” But after innumerable viewings, they stepped onto a four-acre property with a unique, abandoned stone house in Limbadia, in the foothills of the Italian Alps, and knew just right then that they had found their home.

“We fell in love with this 200-year-old stone building,” Bradey said. “It’s a very beautiful temperate climate here, but we have snowcapped mountains off in the distance and plenty of hiking trails. … There are fantastic airports that connect the rest of the world, and it’s also an easy drive to get to the rest of Europe.”

Bradey shared that many people have thought the family left the United States for political reasons, however, he confirms that wasn’t the reason at all.

“The primary reason we left was because we were looking for a culture that we more identified with,” he said. “The culture in America is exceptionally busy and chaotic, a culture that prioritizes work first and relationships second. In our travels, what we quickly realized is that most of the world lives in reverse of that.”

Bradey and Heather closed on the stone house in October 2022, setting them back €120,000 (approx. US $131,000). Next came the renovation.

Bradey said: “The house had been abandoned for quite a long time, so there’s no electricity, no plumbing, no running water. … The first couple of months, we weren’t exactly doing construction, we were just kind of getting our feet wet. A lot of time was spent adapting to the new culture, getting settled, and waiting for our permits.”

The stone house was actually licensed as a barn.

“[S]o we are taking this abandoned barn, stripping it down, and making it our dream home. In the process of doing that, we have to meet certain new European Union regulations for it to be a ‘greenhouse,’ so it’s a very challenging process to do it properly, legally. But in the end, it will be essentially a zero-energy home,” Bradey said.

Although Bradey believes it would have been easier to just rent a comfortable, affordable apartment with a view of the mountains, the couple was in love with the idea of breathing life into something that was abandoned and had historical significance.

“There’s so many of these beautiful properties in Italy that deserve to be restored, to shine again, and deserve to be lived in,” Bradey said. “But it takes an incredible amount of work to get them back to a point where you’re legally allowed to live in them.”

Breathing Life Into an Abandoned House

Bradey and Heather began their reconstruction outside by tearing down an old goat fence and using the wood to build an outdoor kitchen. They then erected a tall chestnut wood fence, using wood from a local mill, to keep their daughters safe from the 26-foot drop into the valley below.

“We’ve been using mostly the materials that we find on the property,” said Bradey, who is living off-site with his family in a rented apartment. “We’ve done a lot of gardening, a lot of building up, and fixing stone walls and stone steps. … We have running water and a cooking stove, and we built a composting toilet, so we have all of the makeshift necessities to be working here full-time. … We just can’t sleep here.”

For the interior, Bradey and Heather have had to start with the heavy work, digging down to 30 inches through solid clay and parts of the mountain using a jackhammer to lay pipes and insulation under the entire ground floor of the property, competing with small boulders weighing as much as approx. 661 pounds (300 kilos).

So far, they have also planted a garden and plan to lay enough solar panels on the large roof of the south-facing home to generate all the electricity they’ll need, including for heating, air conditioning, and charging their car, eventually eliminating energy bills completely.

Bradey said the property came with a donkey named Stella, who lived with them for the first few months of the renovation. But since donkeys need other animal companions and the family wasn’t able to provide for her, she was adopted by a neighbor.

Although the whole renovation is a challenge, Bradey said: “I think that’s part of the reason we’re doing it; we’ve always been drawn to living out of our comfort zone.”

Thriving

Two family members that have readily embraced living outside of their comfort zone are Alexa and Chloe, who get involved in the renovation whenever it’s safe to do so.

“They’ve helped us digging in the foundation a little bit, they’ve helped build the fence. Pretty much every project along the way is not only a chance for us to spend time together, but also a chance to teach them work ethic and how to build things,” Bradey said. “They pick up sticks and stones, and they build the most incredible forts. They’re always building ‘fairy gardens,’ as they call them, and their creativity just comes alive.”

This is one of the reasons the couple has been trying to push their timeline as quickly as possible.

Bradey, who lived in Ukraine between the ages of 9 and 16, knows what it is like to emigrate and was hesitant to move his kids but is proud of their resilience.

“It’s a very painful thing to go through and yet they’ve done incredibly well,” he said. “I’m sure that has to do with the years and years of travel and the fact that this is the first home they’ve had in the last two years. They’re doing so well. They are learning the language, they’re attending school. … They’re thriving.”

To share their homestead dream with the world and to generate revenue for the renovation, Bradey, who has a background in cinematography, is sharing their progress on YouTube. Their family video blogs chronicle everything from leaving the United States, to their first days at the stone house, to building their outdoor kitchen.

“I want people to know that you can live life outside of a box, that you can write your own story, that you can, what I like to call, ‘reverse engineer’ that finish line,” Bradey said. “10 years ago, we sat down and we scripted out how we wanted our life to look, and every year it changes a little bit. We have worked incredibly hard to get here. But it is possible, no matter what background you come from or what financial position you’re in.”

People often ask Bradey if he regrets the decision to relocate his family to Italy to chase their dream. He replies with a resounding, “No.”

“[A]ny time I take a break and you step outside of the work and you look at the view, you’re just flooded with a peace that’s inexplicable. … you come out here and you’re like, ‘Ah, this is why I’m doing this! This is why I’m breaking my back,’” he told The Epoch Times. “It’s hard to explain until you look out at the view, and you listen to the goats off in the distance, and the church bells. … it’s completely worth it.”

Bradey and Heather aim to meet the legal requirements to move into their home in December, after which they will spend another six months finishing the renovation. Their long-term goal is to take their 4 acres of land “back to what it was meant for,” and that’s agriculture.

“We will put in a vineyard, we even plan on putting in an automated greenhouse and being able to grow foods that are not normally grown in this climate, such as avocados,” Bradey said. “Those are plans and dreams for a future year.”

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“A battle of civilizations. In defense of citizens’ health, of our production model, of our quality, of our culture, simply our food sovereignty,” said Italian minister of agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida in a tweet Wednesday, adding: “Italy is the first nation in the world to say no to synthetic foods.” There will be fines up to €60,000 ($65,144) for failure to comply. If the parliament passes the proposal, food produced from cell cultures or tissues derived from vertebrate animals will not be allowed in the country.

“Laboratory products in our opinion do not guarantee quality, well-being and the protection of our culture, our tradition,” said Lollobrigida, a member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing Brothers of Italy party, at a press conference on March 28.

Prime Minister Meloni had changed the name last year of the ministry of agriculture to the ministry of agriculture and food sovereignty, and Lollobrigida is an outspoken critic of the European Union’s food programs.

The agricultural lobby Coldiretti backed the latest move to ban synthetic foods and claimed that the bill was necessary to protect the local industry from multinational companies. Along with fines, the proposal seeks to shut down producers who violate the law and restrict them from obtaining public funding for up to three years.

Opposition From NGOs

The bill has received blowback from several supporters of cell-based agri-products as well as animal rights organizations.

“The passing of such a law would shut down the economic potential of this nascent field in Italy, holding back scientific progress and climate mitigation efforts, and limiting consumer choice,” said Alice Ravenscroft, head of policy at the Good Food Institute (GFI) Europe, an international nongovernmental organization promoting plant-based and cultivated meat.

“Italy would be left behind as the rest of Europe and the world progresses toward a more sustainable and secure food system. And the 54 percent of Italians who already want to try cultivated meat would be banned from doing so.

“The European Union already has a robust regulatory process in place for confirming the safety of new foods like cultivated meat, and regulators in the United States and Singapore have already found it to be safe. The government should let Italians make up their own minds about what they want to eat, instead of stifling consumer freedom.”

The GFI cited peer-reviewed research when it said that cultivated meat cuts down emissions by 92 percent compared to conventional beef, reduces meat production-related air pollution by 94 percent, and consumes up to 90 percent less farming land.

The bill put Italy at odds with other European nations like the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Spain, where the government is pouring in millions of euros in funding toward cultivated meat, said the GFI.

The anti-vivisection group LAV said that the policy was “an ideological, anti-scientific crusade against progress,” while the International Organization for Animal Protection said that cultivated meat was an “ethical alternative” that did not harm animals and was protective of the environment.

Cellular Agriculture Europe complained that Italy was limiting choices of consumers who were concerned about animal welfare and the environment.

Critics are claiming that the new law would not have a significant effect on the Italian economy because of the freedom of movement of products and services across the bloc.

Eating Insects

The Meloni administration is also against promoting insects as a suitable food alternative—a trend adopted by the European Union and backed by elite organizations like the World Economic Forum. In January, the European Commission approved two more insect species for human consumption in the region, even after acknowledging concerns about the bugs triggering allergies.

Last week, Meloni said the government was preparing policies that will require companies to label products containing or derive from insects following a debate on the use of cricket-based flour.

“The government has presented four inter-ministerial decrees which will introduce information labels on products that contain or derive from insects,” Meloni wrote on Twitter. “Citizens must be able to choose consciously and be informed from every point of view.”

The government is also reportedly considering including Italian cuisine in the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage.

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The latest victim of this is newly elected Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The nationalist conservative Christian firebrand express her nationalist, conservative, and Christian perspectives in a 2019 speech that helped launch her into the international spotlight. Whatever “community guidelines” Google used to remove the video, it’s definitely all about ideology and has nothing to do with protecting the community.

Here’s the portion of the speech that has over 20 million views on Twitter:

This is Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

I’ve never heard any politician so perfectly explain what we’re up against and why we fight.

When you watch this video, you’ll quickly realize why the establishment is afraid of her.
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— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 26, 2022

Nothing she said should go against any sane community guidelines. But Google and YouTube are woke, not sane. It offended their radical progressive sensibilities and since it was getting millions of views, they couldn’t risk people hearing her words and realizing she is right.

She said:

Why is the family an enemy? Why is the family so frightening? There is a single answer to all these questions. Because it defines us. Because it defines our identity. Because everything that defines us is now an enemy for those who would like us to no longer have an identity. And so they attack national identity. They attack religious identity. They attack gender identity. They attack family identity. I can’t identify myself as Italian, Christian, woman, mother. No. I must be citizen X. Parent 1. Parent 2.

According to Louder With Crowder:

The odd thing is that no one is sure what exact community guideline the speech violates. As of now, it’s still uploaded on another channel. When you tell people they can’t watch something, they tend to be spiteful about it and reupload the video anyway.

But it was also 2019. It’s pre-pandemic, so there was no “misinformation” that we now know wasn’t misinformation. I doubt she deadnamed anyone. Maybe she thought your preferred pronouns were stupid. But it was three years ago, long before that was the worst thing you could say or do to anyone ever. The only thing about the video YouTube could have found offensive is that a lot of people on the right were enjoying it.

I’d be curious to hear YouTube’s rationale. And hope they have something more creative to say it was removed in error.

There was no error made. This is intentional, blatant, and draconian censorship in its purest form. I’d say Google and YouTube should be ashamed of themselves, but no level of shame can penetrate their woke defense shields.

The previous prime minister, former Goldman Sachs banker Mario Draghi, implemented one of the most restrictive – and inhuman – Covid shutdowns, which, along with supporting economically suicidal sanctions against Russia, have left Italy an economic basket case.

Replacing the bland banker will likely be Giorgia Meloni from the right-wing Sons of Italy party. Meloni will be a first for Italy: the first female prime minister. But don’t expect the Left to celebrate it: her name cannot be mentioned in the mainstream media without reference to Mussolini.

Ironically, the democratic victory of Meloni and the rest of the Italian right likely owes a great deal of gratitude to one of Europe’s most undemocratic and anti-democratic leaders: European Union Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen.

On the eve of the Italian elections, the unelected von der Leyen warned Italians that if they voted for the “wrong” parties they would be punished. Asked about the surge of the political opposition in Italy on the eve of the elections, she warned Italian voters, “we will see the result of the vote in Italy. If things go in a difficult direction — and I’ve spoken about Hungary and Poland — we have the tools.”

In other words, her message to Italian voters was “yes you can vote, but if you vote in a way I do not approve of, you will be punished.”

Italians rushed to vote in a way she did not approve of. It will be interesting to see what happens.

How does any of this relate to the United States as the US moves closer to the midterm elections? Americans have also been given warnings by the political elites that they dare not vote for the “wrong” candidates or parties.

On September 1st, President Biden issued a warning similar to that of Europe’s von der Leyen. In one of the most bizarre speeches in political history, Biden warned that Trump supporters “…are determined to take this country backwards — backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.”

He spoke on a frightening, red-lit stage with US Marines serving as props on either side of him. This was no “Checkers” speech with Nixon speaking wistfully about his cocker spaniel. No, it was a declaration of war against half of the country.

A few weeks ago Sweden threw its left-wing government out and Sunday the Italians did the same. While the political differences in Europe seem more cosmetic than substantive – for example Italy’s presumptive new prime minister supports weapons to Ukraine just like her predecessor – there is still a strong feeling of popular revolt against political elites in the air.

That doesn’t mean things will easily go our way, as there is no automatic libertarian surge. But we must study hard and take advantage of every single opportunity. People are sick of the elites? That means they are likely open to the concepts of non-interventionism and sound money. Let’s help educate them!

This means Italy will have new elections as early as September. This comes at a crucial moment for the nation with extremists on both sides of the political aisle vying for control of the European Union’s third-largest economy.

Draghi was supposed to represent Italian unity at a time of multiple crises. But he was unable to accommodate both sides adequately with the socialist wing pulling their support last week. According to The Guardian:

The political crisis was triggered last week after M5S boycotted a vote on a €26bn (£22bn package) designed to help Italians tackle inflation and energy costs, arguing it was insufficient. The party was also unhappy that the package contained a provision to build a huge waste incinerator plant in Rome.

The League and Forza Italia had called for a new Draghi-led government, but without M5S, while demanding a cabinet reshuffle. M5S was annoyed that Draghi had not embraced the policy priorities presented to him in its “nine-point” plan, including a basic income and green homes bonus scheme.

This could lead to a right-wing government taking over in Italy. According to Politico:

The favorite to take over as prime minister will be Georgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party, who welcomed the prospect of new elections. “With Draghi’s resignation this legislature is over for Brothers of Italy,” she wrote on Twitter. “We will fight to give back to the Italian people what citizens of all other democracies have: the freedom to choose who represents them.”

Unrest is leading to revolt across the globe. The upheaval is both political and driven by people who are upset about pretty much everything that is happening. It’s this type of chaos that makes the world ripe for a Liberal World Order to take control.

One of the challenges they face in achieving their goal of jabbing every man, woman, and child on Earth is in knowing who isn’t jabbed. There will be many who choose not to participate or who curtail their participation by refusing to get current and future boosters. It’s easy for the powers-that-be to withhold certain services from those who do not get jabbed; we saw vaccine passports and other proofs of vaccination used to prevent people from holding their jobs or attending events. What’s more challenging for them is finding those who avoid activities that require proof of vaccination.

An increasing number of Americans are breaking away from government engagement. We’ve seen a sharp rise in those who are storing away food to keep themselves out of future government breadlines. People are pulling their money from banks and finding value outside of standard markets. There’s a growing off-the-grid mentality. These are the people who governments will have a hard time isolating if they ever choose to reinstate even more draconian vaccine requirements.

In Italy, they’re already addressing this “problem” through artificial intelligence software that can identify the unvaccinated. It is the type of development that, if it’s as accurate as they claim, will almost certainly be adopted in the United States and across the globe in the future. Even if it’s not effective enough for widespread adoption, we will see others who build a better unvaccinated mouse trap.

The article below translated by Free West Media details what’s happening in Italy. Be watchful for such technology rearing its ugly head in the United States very soon.

Software Developed to Detect ‘Non-Vaccinated’ Individuals

The Italian Association of General Practitioners Fimmg and the organization Cittadinanzattiva have developed software that could be used to identify two million “unvaccinated” patients in Italy that could pose a “risk”.

Italian daily La Repubblica reported on this development.

For this reason, the two organizations have asked for a meeting with Minister of Health Roberto Speranza and General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo to fully explain the potential of such technology for the health of citizens when placed in the hands of general medicine.

According to La Repubblica, 520 000 people over 80 and 1,5 million citizens aged 70-79 have not yet received their first dose. Silvestro Scotti, Secretary General of Fimmg, and Anna Lisa Mandorino, Secretary General of Cittadinanzattiva, commented on the issue: “Minister Speranza and Commissioner Figliuolo wanted to meet with us immediately, which shows great political sensitivity and attention to an issue of enormous importance.”

As La Repubblica explains, NetMedica Italia, Fimmg’s IT company, in collaboration with the Computer Engineering department of the Polytechnic University of Marche, has developed an algorithm based on artificial intelligence solutions.

Applied to GPs’ clinical and health databases, the algorithm is able to provide clues that, while not definitive, can assist the physician in determining the priority for administering the injection.

The resource is “integrated with other useful tools for the full management of the patient’s active recruitment path and the entire vaccination process” and is already being used by many doctors across the country.

What about side-effects?

In Germany alone, some 2,5 million people have received medical care for side effects from the experimental injections until the end of 2021. This is apparent from a shocking report from the German doctors’ organization KBV.

German MP Martin Sichert (AfD) asked the director of the KBV in March how many patients had been treated by a doctor because of complaints after a jab.

Three months later, Sichert was sent a highly explosive three-page document, which The Epoch Times newspaper has seen. Nearly 2,5 million people had to be treated by a doctor after being injected and this only concerns the vaccination victims until the end of 2021.

Curiously, the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, the German vaccine authority, stated that fewer than 250 000 “suspected cases of side effects” had been reported as of December 31. That is less than a tenth of the number mentioned in the KBV report.

Sichert, health care spokesperson for AfD, spoke of a scandal. “If almost 2,5 million people have visited a doctor after a Corona vaccination, then that must be made public. This must have consequences.”

The MP demanded that doctors and patients be informed about this risk in the future. He said that the government should pay for all the damage associated with their forced vaccination campaign. If out of 60 million vaccinated, 2,5 million (4,2 percent) need treatment for side effects, then the claim that the vaccine is safe is absolutely false, he stressed.

Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis (Crash) was detained on Sunday in the southern Italian town of Ostuni on charges of sexual assault and aggravated personal injury, according to multiple reports in the Italian media and a statement by the public prosecutors of the nearby city of Brindisi.

A young woman, identified only as being “foreign,” that is not Italian, has pressed charges against Haggis, accusing the two-time Oscar winner of forcing her to engage in sexual intercourse over the course of two days in Ostuni, where Haggis was scheduled to hold a series of master classes at the Allora Fest, a new film festival launched by L.A.-based Italian journalist Silvia Bizio and Spanish art critic Sol Costales Doulton that is set to run from June 21-26.

The woman was taken to the Papola Casale airport in Brindisi on Sunday morning and left there despite her “precarious physical and psychological conditions,” according to an Italian police report. She was then aided by airport staff and police officers and taken to the hospital. She subsequently filed formal charges.

This isn’t the first time Haggis has been accused of rape. He has faced civil cases in the past that included multiple women, one of whom issued claims very similar to his latest charges:

In 2018, the publicist Haleigh Breest sued Haggis, who wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay to Million Dollar Baby and wrote and directed Oscar best picture winner Crash, alleging he had violently raped her in her New York apartment after a premiere in 2013. In the wake of her allegations, three more women came forward with separate sexual misconduct allegations against Haggis. Haggis has denied all the claims.

Though Haggis hasn’t been on Twitter since 2020, one of his last actions on the platform was to retweet Democrat Congressman John Yarmuth:

The President just declared war on millions of Americans and the 1st Amendment. He is the greatest threat to the American way of life in our history.

The President just declared war on millions of Americans and the 1st Amendment. He is the greatest threat to the American way of life in our history.

— John Yarmuth (@JohnYarmuth) June 1, 2020

When are Hollywood elites going to learn they can’t just go around raping women (or boys) without repercussions?