RIO DE JANEIRO – Twenty-two pages to reiterate, in 85 points, the commitment “to building a just world and a sustainable planet, while leaving no one behind” …maybe even taxing the super-rich properly. The final declaration adopted by the leaders of the G20, which concluded today in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, arrived after a difficult mediation between the diplomacies of such different countries and often with such distant positions (ranging from the USA to Russia via Argentina, India and China, to name a few). A mediation carried out by the Brazilian presidency which made everyone agree at least on the global alliance against fame and poverty, the Task Force on global mobilization against climate change and the call to action on governance reform global. →
TORONTO – “…was a text on my reading list in my last year at University. It is a study, of the radical political response of the Puritans to disorder in the 18th century, as a first and unremitting determination to transform on the basis of an ideology the existing political and moral order. The religious zealots (the Orange Order and the Family Compact still operating in post-war Toronto) it spawned have not disappeared But this is not about them …entirely.”
(“The revolution of the saints. A study in the origins of radical politics” by Michael Walzer, 1965)
While cynical American politicos reduce all debates to their succinct basic arguments: “do we have a dog in the fight”; more politely put, which interests are we defending and how will they nurture our purposes and improve our [economic] goals.
TORONTO – Let us begin with an appeal to Premier Ford: for the love of anything sane and rational, please do not subject yourself to a review of the TCDSB video link here – from 24.11.14. Those who believed you when you promised the Archbishop of Toronto that you would uphold, if not protect, the [constitutional] continuity of Catholic schools, are likely to request that you place the Toronto C[haotic] School Board under supervision.
TORONTO – “Respect for Meredith”. That’s what residents of Perugia are demanding from their Mayor after she permitted Hulu [the Disney owned streaming service] to start filming Blue Moon in their city. Blue Moon is an eight-part drama series starring Grace Van Patten (Tell Me Lies) as Amanda Knox – an American college student who was charged with murder seventeen years ago, before eventually being acquitted in 2015.
TORONTO – Coincidentally, days after my teenage sons and I were discussing hypothetical crossovers in the comic book world – in which my eldest son suggested John Wick should team up with Batman – Italian Producer Andrea Iervolino announced additional cast members to his much buzzed about Indie-Superhero flick Bunny-Man. The project already included an eclectic cast ranging from Boxing Legend Mike Tyson, to a semi-blacklisted James Franco to Bella Thorne – a former Disney star and Actress/Director who dipped her toes in Only Fans. Adding to this hotchpotch of actors, Andrea Iervolino recently announced the addition of Italian talents Michele Morrone and Franco Nero.
