Curfew days in Nigeria…giorni di coprifuoco in Nigeria

( in calce la versione italiana)

Tormented, frustrated and whipped Nigeria, unable to use democracy and the common sense of peace and humanity.

The enforcement of rights continues to clash with old privileges and widespread ignorance.
The people struggle to improve their existence but still kneel prostrating themselves to popular little false teacher, distributors in the city districts and in the villages of enchanted, false and empty words … The right doctrine is the wisdom of the elderly, family solidarity and the enlightened wisdom of young entrepreneurs.

People rioting on the street seem to be asking to be enslaved by the vices embodied, rejoicing over a brief shower of pennies, drowning in misery and sweat.
Crowds demand justice but most are content to just steal a TV from the mall during the riot.
People swell like angry turkeys in the middle of the streets and ask for blood but believe the speeches of little barons who live off absurd traditions far from the needs of the people and who have never really offered ear or soul to the people.
The people have not yet understood the use of democracy and perhaps, for many, not even the use of logic and intelligence: they only try to scratch some small privileges to their masters, not knowing that the next day they will be poorer than before, still slaves of barons.

In a democracy you can vote, learn to do it, don’t bark and don’t look for shortcuts to democracy.

Poor children of a Greater Nigeria who still, after sixty years of independence, float in the sea of ​​ignorance and seek in history an excuse for their poverty … in a country where Nature offers divine goods … the rules of democracy would be to learn instead of reviving atavistic hatreds.

Strong and honest fathers who work folded under the scorching sun, their children who want and can be equal to young people around the world and courageous entrepreneurs must be the pride of this country … enlightened politicians will be born from them.

The path of democracy is not easy, but it is the only one that can be taken … democracy, civic education, must be taught and learned in the classrooms of schools and universities … non-violence is a teacher of civilization if you have your own goals in the heart.
A great country is built with pride, there is no pride by storming shopping centers or traveling clandestinely on boats to Europe: build your country with courage, passion and honest work.

God bless Nigeria.

by Romano Pisciotti

“Gift of God”

Nigeria tormentata, frustrata e frustata, incapace di usare la democrazia e il comune senso di pace e umanità.

L’ applicazione dei diritti continua a scontrarsi con vecchi privilegi e ignoranza diffusa.
Il popolo lotta per migliorare l’esistenza ma ancora si inginocchia prostrandosi a popolari piccoli falsi maestri distributori, nei quartieri cittadini e nei villaggi, di parole incantate, false e vuote…La giusta dottrina è la saggezza degli anziani, la solidarietà familiare e l’illuminata saggezza di giovani imprenditori.

La gente in rivolta per strada sembra chiedere di essere schiava dei vizi incarnati, esultando per una breve pioggia di penny, lasciandosi annegare nella miseria e nel sudore.
La folla chiede giustizia ma la maggior parte si accontenta di rubare solo una TV al centro commerciale durante la sommossa.
Le persone si gonfiano come tacchini arrabbiati in mezzo alle strade e chiedono sangue ma credono ai discorsi di piccoli baroni che vivono di tradizioni assurde lontane dai bisogni della gente e che non hanno mai veramente offerto orecchio o anima alla gente.
Il popolo non ha ancora capito l’uso della democrazia e forse, per molti, nemmeno l’uso della logica e dell’intelligenza: cercano solo di scalfire qualche piccolo privilegio ai loro padroni, non sapendo che il giorno dopo saranno più poveri di prima, ancora schiavi di baroni.

In una democrazia puoi votare, impara a farlo, non si abbaia e non si cercano scorciatoie alla democrazia.

Poveri figli di una Grande Nigeria che ancora, dopo sessant’anni di indipendenza, galleggiano nel mare dell’ignoranza e cercano nella storia una scusa per la loro povertà… in un paese dove la Natura offre beni divini… le regole della democrazia sarebbero da imparare anzichè far rinascere odi atavici.

I padri forti e onesti che lavorano piegati sotto il sole cocente, i loro figli che vogliono e possono essere uguali ai giovani di tutto il mondo e gli imprenditori coraggiosi devono essere l’orgoglio di questo Paese…da loro nasceranno politici illuminati.

La strada della democrazia non è facile, ma è l’unica percorribile…la democrazia, l’educazione civica, va insegnata e imparata nelle aule delle scuole e delle università…la non violenza è maestra di civiltà se hai i tuoi obbiettivi nel cuore.
Un grande paese si costruisce con l’orgoglio, non c’è orgoglio assaltando i centri commerciali o viaggiando clandestinamente su barconi verso l’Europa: costruisci il tuo paese con coraggio, passione e onesto lavoro.

Dio benedica la Nigeria.

di Romano Pisciotti

Le quattro parche (FATES)

Le quattro parche

Onestà e sogno

sono morti

sotto le mura d’Invidia

e paludi di Gelosia.

Non c’è storia

quando l’Infamia

rammenda le verità

di cuciture incerte

imbastite da giochi

d’altri interessi.

Non c’è riscatto

ma solo vociare

dopo squallide sentenze

di Vergogna.

Il cuore batte e

non s’arrende mai

ai pupetti di bottega.

 

Romano Pisciotti

The four Fates

Honesty and dream

dead

under the walls of envy

and swamps of jealousy.

There is no story

when the infamy

repair the truths

with uncertain seams

basted by games

of other interests.

There is no ransom

but just chat

after squalid sentences

of shame.

The heart beats and

it never gives up

to the workshop puppets.

 

Romano Pisciotti

False speranze

Ancora ho nei polmoni

l’aria del secolo scorso:

il sogno di speranze

di una vita migliore,

intima e privata,

come private sono gioie

passioni e amori

di un’ umanità comune

nella felicità e nella lotta.

Non si affitta l’anima

non si globalizza la vita.

Falsi profeti abbattono confini,

bruciano bandiere e glorie,

disegnando il mondo uguale

per ebeti strabici e connessi,

veloci e più ignoranti.

Reclamo il senso della vita,

la corsa alla Luna,

il senso del viaggio

e la voglia di futuro

fatto di sudate scalate

e non di falsi pianori

in un modo appiattito:

meglio i muri che

i ponti sul vuoto.

 

di Romano Pisciotti.

Globalizzazione

 

IVECO manufacturing plant..Yesterday Today Tomorrow

1955 Torino – ITALY

The name Iveco first appeared in 1975 after a merger of Italian, French and German brands. Its production plants are in Europe, Brazil, Russia, Australia, Africa, Argentina and China, and it has approximately 5,000 points of sales and service in over 160 countries.

With over 28,000 employees, Iveco is present in all five continents: 27 plants located in 16 countries around the world manufacture vehicles with top level technologies developed in 6 research centres. Outside of Europe, the company operates in China, Russia, Australia and Latin America. An extensive after-sales service network guarantees our support in all geographic areas where an Iveco vehicle is at work.

 

The joint venture of Iveco, FPT Industrial and Nikola will produce electric and fuel cell trucks for the European market at Iveco’s headquarters in the German city of Ulm. The first trucks will roll off the assembly lines next year.

Nikola Tre, a truck designed for the European market, was presented in December 2019. Iveco, FPT Industrial and Nikola announced last week that the large electric vehicle would be made in Ulm, which is the home of the IVECO’s chassis engineering hub. The joint venture partners will invest 40 million euros in the modernization of the factory. 

“The decision to build the Nikola TRE in Ulm – a centre of heavy-duty truck engineering excellence – underscores the site’s strategic location at the heart of Germany’s fuel cell technology cluster.”

Presented by Romano Pisciotti

RIVA D’AFRICA

Riva d’Africa

 

L’oceano del silenzio

che si stende sull’Africa

è un mare stanco

di parole e promesse.

La schiuma grigia

dei vecchi riti dell’ignoranza

inquina pace e sogni

cercando l’alibi nella storia.

Non ci sono più

le rive degli schiavi

ma insistono pesanti verità

di corrotti e inutili parolai.

Folli trascinatori

con folle di sciocchi creduloni

bruciano ogni ragione 

nell’illusione che l’orgoglio

stia solo nella pelle nera.

Che siano il tuo cuore, 

l’intelligenza, la bellezza e la forza

a gridare il tuo orgoglio!

 

di Romano Pisciotti

La storia è custode della nostra provenienza e origine.

La storia è custode della nostra provenienza e origine. … La storia ci aiuta a costruirci un futuro, in un certo senso il futuro è già stato provato in dieci mila anni di storia dell’uomo, infatti la storia tende a ripetersi in quando gli errori commessi sono sempre simili, basta adattarli e interpretarli.

Presented by Romano Pisciotti

Piccole onde

Passeggi 

lungo l’umida spiaggia

davanti al mare freddo

di piccole onde

e leggera risacca.

Ascolto i tuoi pensieri 

di parole dolci ancora 

nuove

che colmano un vuoto 

e riempiono il cuore.

Canti dell’amore e lacrime

di sorrisi, d’umori e 

tempo andato che vive

nella foschia del mattino

e nei lenti tramonti.

 

di Romano Pisciotti

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Romano Pisciotti

Creative destruction

How Antitrust Regulation Hinders Innovation and Competition

Few economic concepts elicit such strong reactions as that of monopoly, and the policy intended to address it—antitrust regulations (called competition policy in the European Union). Yet, both supporters and opponents of antitrust regulations agree on one fundamental point—that effective competition is vital to the American economy and the welfare of its citizens. However, they differ in how the law should encourage this. There are essentially three schools of thought regarding antitrust policy:

  1. Interventionist. Regulators should use the law proactively to break up companies that are abusing their market power and restore a competitive market. The size of a company is a good guide as to when this should be done.
  2. Consumer welfare. Abuse of market power is rare and dominant market positions can be achieved through delivering improvements in consumer welfare. Therefore, antitrust laws should be used not to break up companies that have grown big through successful competition, but to address instances of collusion, price fixing, or other anti-competitive behavior.
  3. Free market. Antitrust law is unnecessary. Market processes routinely undermine monopolies—and attempts to create monopolies. Laws against “unfair competition” prevent property owners from experimenting with joint ventures and other innovations that can improve consumer welfare.

Until recently, there was a sharp partisan divide between these schools, which can be roughly described as liberal, conservative, and libertarian, respectively. Traditionally in practice, this meant that antitrust conservatives would more often side with the libertarian camp, while leaving some room for cooperation with the liberal faction. However, the recent rise of “big tech” has led some conservatives to turn to the most interventionist approach with a zeal that threatens innovation in America’s world-leading technology industry.

The interventionist approach suffers from the same problems classical liberal economists have long identified with government interventions in markets.

First, there is the “knowledge problem”—how do regulators know better than the market what the best market structure is?

Then there are what are known as public choice considerations—regulators might exercise their powers to promote their own preferred policy positions. The very existence of those powers will lead to intense lobbying by regulated entities—both those seeking regulatory relief and those who benefit from entry barriers that limit competition from potential new entrants in a market.

The consumer welfare approach also has problems. Retaining antitrust law as an option that may be used against entrepreneurs carries the same threat to innovation posed by the interventionist approach. For instance, politicians with an animus against certain companies may pressure regulators into opposing mergers involving those companies. Regulators assessing unfair competition will not be immune from the knowledge problem and public choice effects. Entrepreneurs, eager to avoid provoking antitrust enforcement actions, will be dissuaded from pursuing innovations that might run afoul of the law.

The third approach, abolishing antitrust law, is extremely controversial. There is a widespread belief, among policy makers, the media, and the public, that without the threat of antitrust law, companies will disregard customer preferences, extract excessive profits, and kill off competitors. Yet there is no such thing as a dominant market position unless it is guaranteed by government. AOL, Borders, Blockbuster, Sears, Kodak, and many other firms once considered dominant in their markets have fallen as the result of competition, without any antitrust action.

This process of creative destruction, succinctly described by the economist Joseph Schumpeter, is a major driver of the kind of innovation that helps raise living standards. It will surely continue unless, ironically, antitrust regulators gain too much power. Were that to happen, large firms will be tempted to reach accommodations with a government that restricts their activities in exchange for not being broken up. Those accommodations will usually include protections and guarantees that act as entry barriers against potential innovative challengers. The result will be less competition, fewer innovations, and lower consumer welfare.

Creative destruction is the best answer to dominant market positions. Rather than use antitrust law aggressively, those who wish to see big companies fall quickly should instead work to end antitrust law. As for other barriers to creative destruction—for instance, financial regulations that make launching an initial public offering of stock prohibitively costly—increased competition can be achieved through deregulation in those other areas.

 

Presented by Romano Pisciotti

PRIMULA: The most important car you have never heard of

If we look under the skin of various European family cars, we can see their basic engineering layout is mostly the same, and it has been for the best part of forty years. An inline-four cylinders engine mounted transversely at the front of the car, and a compact transmission unit right beside it delivering the power to the front wheels. The Autobianchi Primula first introduced this configuration in 1964, thanks to Ingegner Giacosa yet only a select few cognoscenti know about it. Well, it’s about time to introduce you to the Autobianchi Primula, the most important car you’ve never heard of.

Se guardiamo sotto la pelle di varie auto familiari europee, possiamo vedere che il loro layout ingegneristico di base è per lo più lo stesso, ed è stato per la maggior parte di quarant’anni.
Un motore a quattro cilindri in linea montato trasversalmente nella parte anteriore dell’auto e un’unità di trasmissione compatta proprio accanto che fornisce la potenza alle ruote anteriori.

La Autobianchi Primula ha introdotto questa configurazione per la prima volta nel 1964, grazie all’Ingegner Giacosa eppure solo pochi conoscitori eletti ne sono a conoscenza. Bene, è giunto il momento di presentarti l’Autobianchi Primula, l’auto più importante di cui non hai mai sentito parlare.

https://youtu.be/KgO55yJnmv4?t=2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobianchi_Primula

Presented by Romano Pisciotti

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