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One of the parks in Modi'in has an interesting arrangement of boulders I've been meaning to explore, so I did.
ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2021. 31 Giorni con Virginia - "Filth, burning buses and rampant boars are grim proof that Rome has gone to the hogs." THE TELEGRAPH U.K., (01/10/2021) & Foto di: Andrea Severini / Fb (03/10/2021). wp.me/pbMWvy-1Zk
“Roma è ingovernabile. I politici di alto profilo tendono a non voler essere sindaco perché finiscono sempre per perdere."
“Ci sono troppe autorità concorrenti e una mancanza di responsabilità. In molti modi si potrebbe dire la stessa cosa di tutta l'Italia».
Commento di residente romano intervistato in: THE TELEGRAPH U.K., (01/10/2021).
ROME - Filth, burning buses and rampant boars are grim proof that Rome has gone to the hogs. THE TELEGRAPH U.K., (01/10/2021).
Dispatch: As the Eternal City prepares to elect new mayor, residents are dismayed and disillusioned at rapid decay of the Italian capital.
Even by the standards of Rome, it was an audacious display.
A herd of 13 wild boar snuffled their way down a busy street, nonchalantly weaving between oncoming traffic to the consternation of motorists and passersby.
Romans are accustomed to incursions by boar, which in recent years have increased in numbers, but this appeared to take the phenomenon to a new level.
“There are so many of them around here, I’ve even seen them in the road outside my house,” said Maria Elena Marcuina, a local resident who was walking her dog in a nearby park in northern Rome. Four months ago, the dog that fathered her border collie was gored to death by a large boar.
The presence of wild pigs, which feed on great mounds of uncollected rubbish, has become emblematic of the many problems that Rome faces as it heads to an election on Sunday which will decide who will be mayor for the next five years.
Across the country, 12 million Italians will vote in more than 1,200 villages, towns and cities, including Bologna, Milan, Naples, Turin and Trieste.
In many ways, being mayor of the Eternal City, as Rome is known, is an unenviable job. It may be arguably Europe’s most beautiful capital, with a history reaching back 3,000 years, but its magnificence is marred by pot-holed roads, neglected parks, acres of ugly graffiti, chaotic traffic and a creaking public transport network.
Poorly maintained public buses spontaneously combust with alarming frequency, erupting in flames and sending terrified commuters fleeing for safety.
The city has been mired in a waste collection crisis ever since its principal rubbish dump, the largest landfill in Europe, was closed in 2013.
Freshly painted pedestrian crossings fade within a few months, allegedly because contractors use cheap, watered down paint.
Electric scooters, which were meant to be a clean, green transport innovation, lie scattered across pavements, while electric bikes are routinely chucked into the Tiber.
There is a well-known Facebook page that documents the neglect and dysfunction. It is called Roma Fa Schifo – Rome is Disgusting – with a logo that reads “Who has reduced the most beautiful city in the world to this?”
Photos posted to the page offer an eye-watering tour of overflowing bins, exploding buses, dumped mattresses and broken pavements.
The increasingly assertive boar have also become a key election issue. Virginia Raggi, 43, the current mayor, has blamed the region of Lazio, which surrounds Rome, for failing to cull enough of the hairy hogs.
The regional government, for its part, says the boar living in Rome are the mayor’s responsibility.
“Everyone blames everyone else. The problem is that the rubbish is not collected off the streets so the boars find plenty to eat. I don’t like Raggi – I feel like she has only started trying to improve the city in the last few months, as the election approaches,” said Ms Marcuina, who moved to Rome more than 40 years ago from Venezuela.
The mayor, who is from the populist Five Star Movement, is seeking another five years in office.
“I’m going to vote for her again. I feel she has done a lot, especially in terms of law and order,” said Simone Mariano, another local who was taking a stroll in the park.
He cited the mayor’s crackdown on a criminal clan called the Casamonicas and the demolition of gaudy villas that they constructed illegally.
Under her leadership, the city installed bicycle lanes, cleaned up some piazzas and bought 900 new buses. But polls suggest she is in trouble and can only expect around 16% of Romans to vote for her.
She is up against three other candidates. Carlo Calenda, 48, a former minister of economic development who set up his own tiny liberal party, appears to be in last place on around 14%.
The battle is likely to be between Enrico Michetti, the centre-Right’s candidate, who is polling around 35%, and Roberto Gualtieri, from the centre-Left, who is on 28%.
Mr Michetti, 55, caused a stir earlier this year when he suggested that the city’s residents should revive the stiff-armed Roman salute because that way they could greet each other without the risk of touching and spreading Covid-19.
The Roman salute is closely associated with Italy’s inglorious 20 years under Benito Mussolini and Mr Michetti was accused of being an apologist for Fascism.
The lawyer and radio host retorted that “if for some people the Roman salute evokes Fascism and Nazism, that’s their problem.” His main opponent, 55-year-old Mr Gualtieri is a former finance minister, academic and historian.
He is an uninspiring public speaker but has the backing of the powerful centre-Left Democratic Party.
On Friday he called Rome “the dirtiest city in Europe” and said tackling waste problems would be his main focus.
Mr Michetti, his main rival, also said that “the priority is to clean up the city.”
Whoever wins the race will face a range of difficult issues, many of which predate the tenure of Ms Raggi.
“Rome is ungovernable. High-profile politicians tend not to want to be mayor because they always end up the loser.
“There are too many competing authorities and a lack of accountability. In many ways you could say the same thing about the whole of Italy.”
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--- THE TELEGRAPH U.K., (01/10/2021).
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--- Andrea Severini, "31 Giorni con Virginia." Facebook (03/10/2021).
“RED, WHITE and BLUE” at Modi’in Street Art Festival, July 6, 2011
The Office of Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv invited the residents of Modi’in, a modern, planned city with an ever growing population in the center of the country, to a “Meet America and Get Acquainted” Day in the city’s Cultural Plaza, as part of the city’s first “Street Art Festival.” Embassy-sponsored U.S. break dance and hip hop dancers, Geoffrey Chang, Gabriel Gerome Joachino, and Moises Rivas wowed the children, teenagers, and families with their “super-cool” moves before performing in the “Battle of the Year break dance competition.
The crowds then moved to investigate the Embassy’s colorful booth, with bunting, balloons and give-away water bottles who were eager to enjoy the grassy flooring and comfortable poofs, watch street dance videos, inquire about U.S. studies, visas to the U.S. and to enjoy the American atmosphere -- right in the middle of Israel.
Narendra Modi जी ने काला धन और आतंकवाद के ख़िलाफ़ ठोस क़दम लिया. 500rs और 1000rs के नोट हुए बंद।
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Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi & Prime Minister of Italy, H. E. Ms. Giorgia Meloni at the Raisina Dialogue 2023
Chandigarh , 25 December 2013 -
BJP Kisan Morcha National Secretary and Prabhari Himachal Pradesh Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal said that Lalu Prasad Yadav's accusation of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) as communal party and Narendra Modi as a supporter of the Capitalists after his release from jail. Grewal said that the current political trend was such that many politicians want to become relevant in the country by criticising Narendra Modi Chief Minister of Gujarat. He said that Lalu Prasad Yadav is also in that category of Indian Leader's. He termed Lalu Prasad Yadav President, Rashtriya Janata Dal ( RJD ) as an empty shell and lost his explosiveness, aiming to gain relevance by criticising our party BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. Grewal said that Narendra Modi has been sending out developmental messages through his meetings across the country. He stated that the Narendra Modi's last meeting of the year scheduled in Ranchi on December 29. He said that this meeting " Vote for India " would be turning point for politics in Jharkhand as well in India politics.