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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../assets/xml/rss.xsl" media="all"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Mardy (Posts about actualitate)</title><link>http://mardy.it/</link><description></description><atom:link href="http://mardy.it/categories/actualitate.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><language>en</language><copyright>Contents © 2026 &lt;a href="mailto:info@mardy.it"&gt;Alberto Mardegan&lt;/a&gt; </copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:54:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>Nikola (getnikola.com)</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Will the internet forget russophobia?</title><link>http://mardy.it/blog/2023/06/will-the-internet-forget-russophobia.html</link><dc:creator>Alberto Mardegan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I've often wondering what will happen when this horrific war in Europe will
finally be over. I won't be discussing politics here, but what is mostly
interesting to me is how (and if) all the companies who made high proclaims
about not doing business with Russia will justify their getting back into the
Russian market. They will probably count on the fact that the war will be long,
and that people will forget what these companies' stance was. After all, the
world has forget about all the companies who collaborated with the Nazi regime,
so we can expect the same to happen with this war.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But I don't think that's right: if you made a mistake, you should be held
accountable for it. You might be wondering what is the “mistake” I'm talking
about: that's &lt;strong&gt;russophobia&lt;/strong&gt;, indeed. To put it simply, and make a concrete
example: if The Qt Company stops doing business with Russian companies and
blocks its downloads page to Russian IP addresses because of the war, &lt;em&gt;without
being forced by the government to do so&lt;/em&gt;, but does not take similar measures
against other countries who wage wars which have caused way more deaths and
displacement of individuals, well, that's what I call “russophobia”. Of course,
I'm aware that there's way more than that, and that the hatred for all what is
Russian (including culture and sport competitions) is an even bigger issue, but
in this blog post I'm especially focused on the IT world, so please forgive my
semi-intentional narrow-mindness on this topic.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now, I'm fully aware that we live in a mediatic bubble that directs our
decisions in a way that is almost automatic, and I'm sure that most people
working for companies who took russophobic decisions are not themselves
russophobic at all (and I'm not dismissing the possibility that even the very
same people who took these decisions might not be russophobic) and that these
decisions were taken on impulse, because “everyone else is doing the same” and
due to the media pressure that if you don't do that, you might get accused of
supporting the “wrong” side of the war.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But that's not an excuse, especially for “smart” people like IT engineers (and
I put the adjective between quotes &lt;a href="http://mardy.it/blog/2022/11/the-idiotism-of-software-developers.html"&gt;for a
reason&lt;/a&gt;), and especially after
the initial heat has passed and when, after more than one year of war, we
should have been exposed to different point of views and be able to evaluate
the situation more rationally. It has been therefore especially stunning for me
to learn that the Linux Kernel community, and hence The Linux Foundation, has
recently given room to russophobic behaviours, refusing a patch coming from the
Russian company Baikal (a CPU maker). For the record, the incriminated patch
was not related to supporting hardware produced by this company (not that this
would make the deed less serious, but at least one could have argued that there
could be some spot of logic in it):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="code"&gt;&lt;pre class="code literal-block"&gt;From: Jakub Kicinski &amp;lt;kuba@kernel.org&amp;gt;
To: Serge Semin &amp;lt;Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru&amp;gt;
[...]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 01:42:24 +0300 Serge Semin wrote:
&amp;gt; From: Serge Semin &amp;lt;Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru&amp;gt;

We don't feel comfortable accepting patches from or relating 
to hardware produced by your organization.

Please withhold networking contributions until further notice.
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href="https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230314103316.313e5f61@kernel.org/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; the
link to the original discussion). One week later, someone denounced this as a
violation to the Code of Conduct committee (unfortunately the only link I could
find to this is coming from a &lt;a href="https://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID3/129994.html#529"&gt;Russian IT
forum&lt;/a&gt;, and any
other references seem to have been removed from DuckDuckGo and Google), only to
receive a reply that it was all fine.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me this is not fine. The war will end, sooner or later, but it bothers me
that we never learn from the past and repeat the same mistakes over and over.
We apparently know a lot about propaganda, yet we fail to recognize it when it
influences our own mind and actions. My humble contribution is the creation of
a page where I list the companies who have taken russophobic actions, and, on
the opposite side, companies (like Flickr and Zorin OS) who have stood out for
positive messages and helpful actions. My hope is that some of the listed
companies will find the courage to review their actions, and either correct
their stance, or at least clarify their reasons. So, I hereby present&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center; font-size: 130%"&gt;
  &lt;a href="https://github.com/mardy/russophobia"&gt;Denouncing russophobia&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;where you'll find some of the good and some of the bad companies. I'm sure I'm
missing plenty of them: I just started recollecting my memories and searching
online a couple of days ago. I created this as a GitHub project, because indeed
I'm looking forward for contributions, to help me make the lists more complete.
I need to stress that the fact that a company has announced the suspension of
its business in Russia does not automatically make it russophobic: what we need
to look at is the &lt;em&gt;reason&lt;/em&gt; for that decision: companies like LEGO and Nintendo,
for example, have suspended their operations citing logistic and financial
reasons; no judgement involved.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let me repeat it once more, just to make sure there are no misunderstandings:
it's perfectly fine for businesses to take a stance on politics, and sometimes
it might be even praiseworthy; but if a company is international, and does not
apply the same reasoning to other armed conflicts, or seem to care only about
certain human rights violations and not others, then it's a case of double
standards which we need to be aware of, and make the company think twice about
it. And that's also the reason why you won't find any Ukrainian company among
the “bad” ones, because in their case the reaction is perfectly understandable
and they can hardly be accused of adopting double standards (well, technically
speaking, they are adopting double standards, but when you are so directly
impacted I think it does not deserve a blame): if it's your house which burns,
you should definitely scream about it, even if you previously have been silent
about your neighbour house's burning.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm especially looking forward for more “good” companies&lt;/strong&gt;, who have shown empathy
towards the people affected by the war (and maybe even collected money to help
them) while refraining from taking the judging role and forgetting about all
the injustice and suffering that other wars have caused (including on that very
same piece of land that suddenly appeared on all newspapers' front pages on
February 24th, 2022). I hope that these companies can serve as an example of
positive action, humanity, and love.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>actualitate</category><category>Bielorussia</category><category>english</category><category>etica</category><category>flickr</category><category>informatica</category><category>Japon</category><category>Linux</category><category>planetmaemo</category><category>Qt</category><category>reflexiones</category><category>Russia</category><category>societate</category><category>Ucraina</category><category>USA</category><guid>http://mardy.it/blog/2023/06/will-the-internet-forget-russophobia.html</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2023 07:41:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Un editoriale di Marco Travaglio</title><link>http://mardy.it/blog/2023/03/un-editoriale-di-marco-travaglio.html</link><dc:creator>Alberto Mardegan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Nonostante io non legga più Il Fatto Quotidiano (per i motivi spiegati
&lt;a href="http://mardy.it/blog/2016/10/il-fatto-quotidiano-plagio-e-propaganda.html"&gt;qui&lt;/a&gt;, che restano tuttora
validi), continuo a imbattermi negli editoriali di Marco Travaglio, che spesso
apprezzo. Oggi invece mi sono imbattuto nell'introduzione del suo nuovo libro
&lt;a href="https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2023/02/24/un-anno-di-bugie-per-mettere-agli-italiani-lelmetto-no-pax/7075675/"&gt;“Scemi di
guerra”&lt;/a&gt;,
e ve ne riporto un estratto che ho trovato particolarmente incisivo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Abbiamo abolito la storia. È vietato raccontare ciò che è accaduto in Ucraina
prima del 24 febbraio 2022: gli otto anni di guerra civile in Donbass dopo il
golpe bianco (anzi, nero) di Euromaidan nel 2014 e le migliaia di morti e feriti
causati dai continui attacchi delle truppe di Kiev e delle milizie filo-naziste
al seguito contro le popolazioni russofone e russofile che, col sostegno di
Mosca, chiedevano l’indipendenza o almeno l’autonomia. Il tutto in barba ai due
accordi di Minsk. La versione ufficiale, l’unica autorizzata, è che prima del
2022 non è successo niente: una mattina Putin s’è svegliato più pazzo del
solito e ha invaso l’Ucraina. Se la gente scoprisse la verità, capirebbe che il
mantra atlantista “Putin aggressore e Zelensky aggredito” vale solo dal 2022:
prima, per otto anni, gli aggressori erano i governi di Kiev (l’ultimo, quello
di Zelensky) e gli aggrediti i popoli del Donbass. Fra le vittime, c’è il
giornalista italiano Andrea Rocchelli, ucciso dall’esercito ucraino… Abbiamo
abolito la geografia. Proibito mostrare la cartina dell’allargamento della Nato
a Est negli ultimi 25 anni (da 16 a 30 membri)… Eppure, che la Nato si sia
allargata a Est, accerchiando e assediando la Russia, minacciandone la
sicurezza con installazioni di missili nucleari sempre più vicine al confine,
in barba alle promesse fatte a Gorbaciov nel 1990, fino all’ultima provocazione
di annunciare l’imminente ingresso nell’Alleanza dei vicini di casa della
Russia – Georgia e Ucraina – è un fatto storico indiscutibile…&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;L’altra cartina proibita è quella dei Paesi che non condannano o non sanzionano
la Russia, o se ne restano neutrali: quasi tutta l’Asia, l’Africa e l’America
Latina, cioè l’87% della popolazione mondiale. Ma al nostro piccolo mondo
antico occidentale piace far credere che Putin è isolato e noi lo stiamo
circondando. Sul fatto che Cina, India, Brasile e altri paesucoli stiano con
lui o non stiano con noi, meglio sorvolare: altrimenti lo capiscono tutti che
le sanzioni non funzionano… Solo abolendo la storia si può credere al
presidente Sergio Mattarella quando ripete che “l’Ucraina è la prima guerra nel
cuore dell’Europa nel dopoguerra”. E Belgrado bombardata anche dall’Italia nel
1999 dov’è, in Oceania? E chi era il vicepremier del governo D’Alema che
bombardava Belgrado? Un certo Mattarella… Abbiamo abolito il rispetto per le
altre culture. In una folle ondata di russofobia, abbiamo visto ostracizzare
direttori d’orchestra, cantanti liriche, pianiste di fama mondiale, fotografi,
atleti (anche paraolimpici), persino gatti e querce, soltanto perché russi. E
poi censurare corsi su Dostoevskij, cancellare dai teatri i balletti di
Cajkovskij, addirittura estromettere la delegazione russa dalle celebrazioni
per la liberazione di Auschwitz. Come se il lager l’avessero liberato gli
americani o gli ucraini e non l’Armata Rossa… i trombettieri della Nato
propagandano la bufala dell’“euroatlantismo” e gli scemi di guerra se la
bevono, senz’accorgersi che mai come oggi gli interessi dell’Europa sono
opposti a quelli dell’America. &lt;/p&gt;</description><category>actualitate</category><category>information</category><category>Italia</category><category>italiano</category><category>politica</category><category>reflexiones</category><category>Russia</category><category>Ucraina</category><category>Union Europee</category><category>USA</category><guid>http://mardy.it/blog/2023/03/un-editoriale-di-marco-travaglio.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2023 17:37:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A peace plan for Ukraine</title><link>http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html</link><dc:creator>Alberto Mardegan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Among the peace plans proposed by various European and U.S. politicians, to be
frank, I haven't read a single one which I would consider even remotely
feasible. My impression is that such plans have been redacted more for a need
to fool one's voters and present onself as a peace operator (whereas one
factually supports sending of weapons and tightening of sanctions) than for a
genuine peace effort, since every politician that had spent even just a few
minutes to document oneself on the situation around Ukraine would perfectly
know that these peace plans are not just unacceptable by the Russians, but
plainly unpresentable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A believable peace plan must first and foremost take into account the reasons
that pushed Russia to invade Ukraine and, above all, those who push the Russian
people to support the war. It's certainly legitimate, and even reasonable, to
doubt the official reasons: on the contrary, it's very likely that the reasons
who push Russia to continue this “special operation” are, at least in part,
others, economical in nature and to the benefit of a few especially powerful
individuals (arm producers above all). We can put our heart at rest, and
accept the fact that we'll never get to know the real reasons; but, on the
other hand, it's not even so important to know them, after all.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What we really need to know is the mood of the Russian population, and
especially the reasons why president Putin's popularity has risen after the
invasion of Ukraine. The mainstream information we get in the West is not
helpful at all in this, because it's since 2014 that it omits reporting
important facts about the war in Donbass. Well, nowadays the Russian people are
constantly fed images of civilians dying in Donetsk and in other cities of the
Donbass, right in the center of the cities, where there are no military
targets. We can call it propaganda, sure, but the facts are real and are just
an aggravated continuation of what has been happening for the past 8 years, all
well documented by the OSCE mission and by the Office of the High Commissioner
of the Human Rights of the United Nations&lt;sup id="fnref:1"&gt;&lt;a class="footnote-ref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fn:1"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Besides, the massive transfer of weapons and the episodes of discrimination
against Russian artists, athletes, personalities of the culture and
entertainment, sometimes against the very Russian language, these are all
widely publicized by local mass media and get the Russians convinced that their
country is fighting an existential war against a horde of fascists, and,
militarily, against the whole of NATO.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If the West had really the will to restore peace it should work to destroy this
representation of itself and disarm the Russian propaganda by removing the
facts on which it's built. Specifically, I'm persuaded that many of the
following points would be well received by the Western population and would
demotivate the Russian people (including many of the soldiers stationed at the
front) in fighting this fratricidal war:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Removal of every discrimination against Russian culture and its
   representatives and performers.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Promise that Ukraine won't be let into NATO or in other military alliances
   that would go beyond the commitment to reciprocal defense (that is, no to
   joint military drills or foreign bases in the territory of Ukraine, yes to a
   promise of military intervention in case of attack).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pausing the shipment of weapons until Ukraine removes the title of hero of
   Ukraine to Stepan Bandera and other members of the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia"&gt;nazist organisation
   UPA&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pausing the shipment of weapons until Ukraine stops bombing civilian
   settlements devoid of military installations.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It should be noted that none of these points require collaboration or
agreements between states (even joining NATO can only happen after the
unanymous vote of all current members, as Turkey reminds us), so they all could
be immediately implemented by any willing state. The bigger the number of
Western countries pushing forward these policies, the more uncertainty will
grow among the Russian population, and will ultimately transform into
incomprehension and dissatisfaction, since this would destroy the ideological
reasons that make the Russians support the conflict.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If we are to speak of a peace plan, agreed among NATO, Ukraine and Russia, then
it could be developed along these lines:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ukraine condemns the nazist ideology (therefore Bandera and friends),
   accepts to open an international commission of inquiry (including Russia as
   well) over the massacres of Maidan square and Odessa.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ukraine grants the status of second official language to the Russian
   language, similarly to how Swedish language is treated in Finland&lt;sup id="fnref:2"&gt;&lt;a class="footnote-ref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fn:2"&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ukraine enacts laws to guarantee a limited autonomy to the 5 regions
   currently under Russian control (including Crimea) and amnesty for all those
   rebels that are not found guilty of war crimes (in other words, a sort of
   Minsk accords extended to all the occupied regions).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ukraine promises not to host military forces or equipment from other
   countries in its territory, and to not participate in joint military drills,
   without the consent of the Russian federation. It can, however, join
   defensive military alliances.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ukraine promises to never enact sanctions against Russia, nor to require
   visa from Russian citizens in order to cross its borders.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Russian army withdraws and gets temporarily replaced by the army of a
   third country, not member of NATO, chosen by Ukraine.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;New referendums, under the supervision of international observers (including
   Ukrainians and Russians) in the 5 contested regions. Times will be
   established by Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine commit to recognize and implement
   their results.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The peace mission introduced in point 6 gets wrapped up.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It's of fundamental importance understanding that territorial questions are
only a secondary matter, and that what is most pressing for the Russian people
is to have good relations with the neighbouring countries: not having to worry
about coups, colour revolutions stirred up by the West or about other attempts
to use Ukraine as a weapon against Russia. If, for example, there were a
Russian region that desired to separate itself from the federation and join
Belarus, I'm convinced that this could happen in a peaceful way without serious
repercussions, since the relationships between the two countries are good and
Belarus is not perceived as a threat. This was also the situation with Ukraine
before 2014&lt;sup id="fnref:3"&gt;&lt;a class="footnote-ref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fn:3"&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, and it's the situation to which we should strive to return to.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="footnote"&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li id="fn:1"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See for example the &lt;a href="https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Countries/UA/ReportUkraineMay-August2018_EN.pdf"&gt;report for the period May-August
  2018&lt;/a&gt;,
  page 5, point 22. More reports can be found &lt;a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents-listing?field_content_category_target_id[180]=180&amp;amp;field_content_category_target_id[182]=182&amp;amp;field_geolocation_target_id[1136]=1136&amp;amp;field_entity_target_id[1349]=1349&amp;amp;field_published_date_value[min]=&amp;amp;field_published_date_value[max]=&amp;amp;sort_bef_combine=field_published_date_value_DESC&amp;amp;page=0"&gt;in this list&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a class="footnote-backref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fnref:1" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text"&gt;↩&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li id="fn:2"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Note that Swedish in Finland is the native language for just 5% of the
  population, whereas in Ukraine Russian is the native language of about 30% of
  the population. &lt;a class="footnote-backref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fnref:2" title="Jump back to footnote 2 in the text"&gt;↩&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li id="fn:3"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Not exactly, since there had already been attempts at colour revolutions
  resulting in anti-Russian governments. But I hope you'll pass this
  oversimplification of mine here. &lt;a class="footnote-backref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html#fnref:3" title="Jump back to footnote 3 in the text"&gt;↩&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><category>actualitate</category><category>english</category><category>Italia</category><category>politica</category><category>reflexiones</category><category>Russia</category><category>Ucraina</category><category>Union Europee</category><category>USA</category><guid>http://mardy.it/blog/2023/01/un-piano-di-pace-per-lucraina.html</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2023 19:33:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Media</title><link>http://mardy.it/blog/2022/09/the-media.html</link><dc:creator>Alberto Mardegan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Ah, the media. No words from me are necessary here: just read these two
articles, then read their titles again, then wonder.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://news.mc/2022/09/12/ukrainian-refugees-attacked-by-russian/"&gt;news.mc/2022/09/12/ukrainian-refugees-attacked-by-russian/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://news.mc/2022/09/15/assailant-appears-in-court-charged-with-assault-on-ukrainian-refugees/"&gt;news.mc/2022/09/15/assailant-appears-in-court-charged-with-assault-on-ukrainian-refugees/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just wow.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>actualitate</category><category>english</category><category>information</category><category>politica</category><category>reflexiones</category><category>Russia</category><category>societate</category><category>Ucraina</category><category>Union Europee</category><guid>http://mardy.it/blog/2022/09/the-media.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2022 20:29:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>L'acqua santa non ritornerà</title><link>http://mardy.it/blog/2022/02/lacqua-santa-non-ritornera.html</link><dc:creator>Alberto Mardegan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Forse ciò che mi ha colpito di più la scorsa estate, quando sono ritornato in
Italia in tempo di pandemenza, è stato trovare le acquesantiere vuote. La
sensazione provata in quel gesto abituale, stavolta culminato col tocco della
pietra asciutta con le mie dita, mi ritorna periodicamente alla memoria e mi
infonde un certo senso di incompletezza, decadenza, se non proprio di
sgradevolezza.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sono tornato a rifletterci più di una volta, e — forse per il fatto di vivere
all'estero e di non aver ascoltato o letto le motivazioni ufficiali della sua
rimozione — la domanda più martellante che il ricordo dell'acqua santa mi
suggerisce è questa: abbiamo tutti perso la fede?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Già, perché se da un punto di vista scientifico sappiamo benissimo che la
benedizione del sacerdote non cambia la composizione chimica dell'acqua e non
le conferisce alcuna proprietà antivirale, sappiamo anche, da fedeli, che
l'acqua in cui intingiamo le dita è acqua &lt;em&gt;santa&lt;/em&gt;. E ciò che è santo, per
definizione, ci avvicina a Dio, e non va temuto. L'acqua benedetta non si beve
a tavola, non si getta nel lavandino; al contrario, ci eleva: viene usata nei
battesimi, e negli esorcismi per scacciare i demoni. Nella cerimonia
dell'aspersione si prega con queste parole:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Signore Dio onnipotente, fonte e origine della vita, benedici quest’acqua con
la quale saremo aspersi, fiduciosi di ottenere il perdono dei peccati, &lt;strong&gt;la
difesa da ogni malattia&lt;/strong&gt; e dalle insidie del maligno, e la grazia della tua
protezione. Nella tua misericordia donaci, o Signore, una sorgente di acqua
viva che zampilli per la vita eterna, perché, liberi da ogni pericolo
dell’anima e del corpo, possiamo venire a te con cuore puro. Per Cristo
nostro Signore.&lt;sup id="fnref:1"&gt;&lt;a class="footnote-ref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2022/02/lacqua-santa-non-ritornera.html#fn:1"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Altrettanto esplicito è il testo della benedizione in latino, laddove recita
&lt;em&gt;“ut creatura tua, mysteriis tuis serviens, ad abigendos dæmones morbosque
pellendos divinæ gratiæ sumat effectum”&lt;/em&gt; (“affinché la tua creatura [l'acqua],
diventi un agente di grazia divina al servizio dei tuoi misteri, per scacciare
gli spiriti maligni e allontanare le malattie”). Fermo restando che va
condannato l'uso superstizioso dell'acqua benedetta così come di tutti gli
altri oggetti santificati e dei rituali, la fede ci impone di riconoscere che
il fedele autenticamente credente nel Signore non potrà corrompersi venendo a
contatto con l'acqua santa, indipendentemente da quanti virus e batteri ne
siano stati versati dentro.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chi ha un minimo di fede sa benissimo che il Signore non permetterà che chi lo
cerca venga attaccato da una malattia trasmessa proprio da un oggetto
santificato; sa pure che, se una propria futura malattia fosse contemplata nel
disegno divino, questa si abbatterebbe su di lui nonostante vaccinazioni,
mascherine, distanziamenti sociali e aquesantiere vuote. Il che, si badi bene,
non significa non essere artefici della propria vita: significa riconoscere il
ruolo del sacro e il potere del Signore di operare nel nostro quotidiano.
Quindi non rassegnazione, ma ricerca attiva del divino.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;È per questo che provo un certo rammarico e un profondo senso di delusione,
soprattutto rivolto alle autorità ecclesiastiche che, obbedendo ciecamente e
convintamente ai diktat del potere politico, vuoi con chiusure dei luoghi di
culto nei periodi del &lt;em&gt;lockdown&lt;/em&gt;, vuoi con distanziamenti, mascherine e
rimozione dell'acqua benedetta, hanno dimostrato, nella mia percezione, di
riporre maggior fede nell'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità che nella
Provvidenza.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Temo che non sia stata colta appieno la pericolosità di questi cambiamenti per
quanto riguarda gli effetti a lungo termine sulla fede delle comunità. Comunità
che un tempo si meravigliavano per l'avventatezza dei religiosi che prestavano
le loro cure ai lebbrosi e ai malati di peste, incuranti della propria
incolumità e desiderosi soltanto di servire Dio e le sue creature. Non solo
oggi mancano esempi simili, ma anche la sola menzione del concetto di
"Provvidenza" non viene accettata, se non nei contesti più astratti.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;La rimozione dell'acqua benedetta o, forse peggio ancora, il suo ritorno in
forma di un pratico dispenser, relega Dio nei piani più alti dell'iperuranio,
dove vivono le belle idee che mai, tuttavia, potranno influenzare la vita
terrena.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Io, senza vergognarmene, continuerò a credere che l'acqua santa non possa
contagiare il fedele.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="footnote"&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li id="fn:1"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dal Messale Romano, edizione 2020, pagina 990. &lt;a class="footnote-backref" href="http://mardy.it/blog/2022/02/lacqua-santa-non-ritornera.html#fnref:1" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text"&gt;↩&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><category>actualitate</category><category>Italia</category><category>italiano</category><category>philosophia</category><category>reflexiones</category><category>religion</category><category>scientia</category><category>societate</category><guid>http://mardy.it/blog/2022/02/lacqua-santa-non-ritornera.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2022 15:30:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cammino quindi penso - 2021-05-18 - Palestina, conflitto mal raccontato</title><link>http://mardy.it/blog/2021/05/cammino-quindi-penso-2021-05-18-palestina-conflitto-mal-raccontato.html</link><dc:creator>Alberto Mardegan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I nostri mezzi di informazione raccontano gli eventi in Palestina in maniera
distorta, mettendo sullo stesso piano l'aggressore e l'aggredito — talvolta,
addirittura, imputando a quest'ultimo le vittime di questo conflitto.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="youtube-video align-center"&gt;
&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/-Hk2L4bThbw?rel=0&amp;amp;wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><category>actualitate</category><category>Cammino quindi penso</category><category>information</category><category>italiano</category><category>video</category><guid>http://mardy.it/blog/2021/05/cammino-quindi-penso-2021-05-18-palestina-conflitto-mal-raccontato.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2021 09:54:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Napoli retorna in Oriente</title><link>http://mardy.it/blog/2008/09/10/napoli-retorna-in-oriente.html</link><dc:creator>Alberto Mardegan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href="http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=277050"&gt;un articulo in le magazin &lt;i&gt;Il Giornale&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; del 19 julio 2008, nostre amatissime prime ministro Silvio Berlusconi annuncia “Io ha reportate Napoli in le Occidente”, pro significar que ille habeva solvite le emergentia del immunditias que desde plure menses (o annos) affligeva le citate.
Le problema ha essite “solvite” per portar le immunditias foras del citate e arder los in le periferia, in locos distante del oculos del populo; e &lt;a href="http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=mtHnPYgEVJ0"&gt;impedir omne manifestation de opinion contrari&lt;/a&gt;, in violation del articulo 21 del constitution (que nostre politicos non cognosce, ma necuno es perfecte).
E finalmente il es un nova de iste dies, que Napoli ha ancora abandonate le Occidente:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hYlAw88E3rA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hYlAw88E3rA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;
&lt;p&gt;E illes qui sperava in le establimento del recolta differentiate del immunditias ha essite ancora deluse...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;P.S.: Si, io sape que io debe ancora publicar le photos de mi vacantias in Sancte Petroburgo! Ma attende, le patientia es le virtute del fortes!
(ma io non dice que io va portar Sancte Petroburgo in Occidente...)&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>actualitate</category><category>Italia</category><category>politica</category><guid>http://mardy.it/blog/2008/09/10/napoli-retorna-in-oriente.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Poste Italiane: servicio de fama international</title><link>http://mardy.it/blog/2008/08/23/poste-italiane-servicio-de-fama-international.html</link><dc:creator>Alberto Mardegan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Iste vespere io curiosava in Ebay, inter le multitude de offertas de objectivos photographic, sin un particular idea. Mi interesse esseva captivate per alicun lentes Zenitar, in quanto &lt;em&gt;Made in Russia&lt;/em&gt;, e immediatemente io cliccava pro satisfacer mi curiositate e vider le detalios del offerta. Le venditor es un boteca electronic de Moskva, e quasi tote le material que illes ha es manufacite in Russia. Ma io sape que vos non es interessate in isto. Le ration pro le qual iste offerta es tanto interessante pro me (e le ration pro le qual io scribe iste lineas in loco de vader a dormir) es un nota in grande characteres rubie que es presente in tote le insertiones de iste venditor:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Sin emphatisar le errores grammatical del nota, io lo traduce pro illes qui non comprende anglese: “&lt;i&gt;Attention! &lt;b&gt;Nos non face expeditiones a Italia.&lt;/b&gt; Il ha grande retardos e multe paccos ha essite perdite. Tote le compras per compratores italian essera cancellate. Nos spera que vos comprendara&lt;/i&gt;”. Io memora que ante alicun tempore io trovava annuncios simile in Ebay, ubi on diceva que on non expediva a Italia e China. Ma ora, nos ha remanite sol. &lt;b&gt;Le sol pais in le mundo al qual le russos non invia paccos es Italia&lt;/b&gt;, perque nostre servicio postal non es considerate efficiente e digne de confidentia. Isto pote apparer sensational pro illes qui non ha vivite in Italia; ma pro nos, ubi es le surprisa?&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>actualitate</category><category>curiositates</category><category>Italia</category><guid>http://mardy.it/blog/2008/08/23/poste-italiane-servicio-de-fama-international.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Salutos de Linköping</title><link>http://mardy.it/blog/2008/08/02/salutos-de-linkping.html</link><dc:creator>Alberto Mardegan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Io es currentemente in &lt;a href="http://www.linkoping.se/index.htm"&gt;Linköping&lt;/a&gt;, le citate del Svedia que ha essite seligite como sito pro le incontro nordic de &lt;a href="http://www.interlingua.com"&gt;interlingua&lt;/a&gt;. Si, apparentemente io anque ha devenite un nordico — le cosa me disturba un poco, ma le dolor es tolerabile.
Le incontro termina dominica, ma pro vider alicun photos de illo vos debera attender plus tempore, nam mi vacationes va durar tres septimanas (ma io non va ancora revelar qual es le destination successive, pro crear suspance).
Io spera que le volo de retorno de Linköping essera minus travaliate que illo de vadita: illo esseva retardate de cinque minutas, postea de dece, postea de ancora cinque minutas, postea illo esseva cancellate e nos esseva promittite un solution alternative, infin (o quasi) illo esseva restaurate e schedulate pro le vespere, ma tosto retardate ancora, e finalmente (io promitte que isto es le fin) illo partiva a 21:15, con un retardo de quasi cinque horas in respoecto al schedulation originari.
Ma io es patiente.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>actualitate</category><guid>http://mardy.it/blog/2008/08/02/salutos-de-linkping.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mappa seismic</title><link>http://mardy.it/blog/2008/03/02/mappa-seismic.html</link><dc:creator>Alberto Mardegan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hodie io audiva le nova que alicun concussiones seismic esseva registrate in le Appennino Tusco-Emilian; pro curiositate, io cercava alicun datos super le eventos seismic actualmente observate in Italia, e trovava un sito interessante. Il es le &lt;a href="http://www.emsc-csem.org/index.php?page=home"&gt;European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre&lt;/a&gt;, que reporta informationes super le plus recente registrationes de tremores de terra, quasi in tempore real. In particular, le pagina &lt;a href="http://www.emsc-csem.org/index.php?page=home&amp;amp;sub=gmap"&gt;http://www.emsc-csem.org/index.php?page=home&amp;amp;sub=gmap&lt;/a&gt; reporta le eventos seismic registrate in le ultime 48 horas, in un mappa. Per cliccar sur un evento, on lo pote locar sur le mappa.
Si io ha ben comprendite, le datos es complete pro le Europa, durante que del resto del mundo on monstra solmente le tremores habente un magnitudo superior a un certe valor. Ma il esserea interessante comparar un mappa seismic del Italia con illo del Japon... forsan alicuno cognosce un servicio simile pro le altere areas del mundo?&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>actualitate</category><guid>http://mardy.it/blog/2008/03/02/mappa-seismic.html</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>