Italy's horse of a different color

  Turin, June14th 2021 LEARNING TO LOVE THE BOMB why the West energy policy is a FOREIGN POLICY failure... and Putin is laughing. As much as possible the original source material is included or linked in the article, and this doesn't represent in any shape or form “investment advice” under current EU and/or Italian regulations. Today CNN reported that an EPR III nuclear reactor in China has some problems , of a nature that pushed its original designer and operator, French Framatome , To signal to US authorities its intention to ask for assistance under existing treaties by invoking an “ "imminent radiological threat" , one of the admissible reasons. China has been building up domestic electricity generation in various ways, Coal , Hydro , and Nuclear as well , understandably for an economy at a development stage where Energy intensity of GDP is  still high relative to more mature economies . Of course, a problem in a Nuclear plant design on which France has sta

Dedicated to my bright and beautiful daughter, who today is celebrating her Birthday 750 km. from home.  Angheria Or why Italians have a tormented view of rule of law...and you would too in their place, or “will”, if your country is sliding in the same direction. ” Angheria” in today's Italian language means “prevarication”, but it was originally a technical term, meaning the days of compulsory labor that farmers had to personally provide to their feudal Lord. It is indeed the name of a form of taxation.   I am a lucky man. I have a family I adore, and a slew of acutely stimulating friends and acquaintances strewn across the world. Yet, “stimulating” means varied, opinions differ, and there are some individuals I value most because, on some issues, we are more unlike than like. But I was strangely put out when a good friend of mine, a person I REALLY look up to, lamented that “after the COVID scare, Italians are reverting to their usual self and disrespecting rules. Soon