Saint Peterburg's Russia-Africa summit

Russian President promises grains, debt write-off, as Russia's government seeks Africa allies. Moscow also promotes joint fight against global "neocolonialism".

African leaders, who are attending a summit in Saint Peterburg, agree on this.

Policy-makers' inconsistency

Walking across the port of my town I still see attack helicopters, which are ready to be shipped to East Europe. In other words, while the UN security council on Ukraine is held, Western countries continue to send weapons and military equipments to Kyiv. 

Meanwhile, American diplomat Victoria Nulan is visiting South Africa just before BRICS summit ... she will obviously be delivering threats of the largest arms exporter in the world. Easy to understand she will likely try to sabotage BRICS currency. 

On the illegal immigration front, mainstream media system doensn't tell us (Italians) that thousands of illegal immigrants are invading Italy. Another 500,000 are on the way. A real apocalypse. The Italian Prime Minister allows illegal immigrants to invade Italy. 500 a day. And they are all men handling Samsung mobile phones and wearing Adidas or Nike shoes.

If EU policy-makers wanted to help African people, they wouldn't steal human resources from Nigeria and Senegal. They would create job there, on the African continent.

Steve Hackett at Ostia

On the 8th of July the British guitarist and songwriter, Steve Hacket made a brilliant performance at the old Roman theatre of Ostia, which is located close to Rome.

I have made myself the gift of listening  Steve Hackett's superb sounding band. They played the most epic songs sung by Peter Gabriel. He also performed some songs from his solo albums, such as Spectral Morning and Voyage of the Acolyte.

Steve hackett gained prominence as the lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Genesis since 1971 to 1977. It seems he still is a guitar genius.

I enjoyed both the progressive rock concert and the beautiful archaelogical site surrounding the old Roman theatre, which was built at the end of the 1st century BC.

Sorry to see that some dumb people stole old bricks from the wall of the old Roman theatre (picture below).

Nice weekend to all the blogging community!

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The image below doesn't need any description. I have realized that situations like these were what turned people into hypocrites. Not to mention of brainwashed people 🇸🇩

Have a nice Sunday ☀️

On a sunny Saturday, July 1st

 

Since the first decade of June Italian children have been enjoying Summer holidays. The picture above shows a boy while he was enjoying an ice-cream on the Italian beach of Santa Marinella (Central Italy, 60 km North from Rome) 🔆

Italian students have very long Summers break covering from early June to early September. It seems Italian students' Summer break is the longest in Europe, as schools are closed for around thirteen weeks 🇮🇪

How long is the Summer break in your country⁉️

I hope you will have a nice month of July ⛵

Rome in late June

 

In my previous post I mentioned the problem of  illegal immigration, human traffickers and migrants smugglers. That's why I took the picture of six-meters-long sculpture dedicated to the world's migrants and refugees. The sculptor, the Canadian artist Timothy P. Schmaltz, said: "migration is something that humanity has always had". In January our blogging friend, Veronica , already shared a picture of such sculpture after she had gone to Italy. 

While I was walking past one of the Vatican State's gateway I saw the Swiss guard uniform. 

That typical orange,  blue and red uniform has been worn since 1506,  when the first Swiss guards come to Rome. Swiss soldiers are responsible for the safety of the pope. 

Vatican Street view

 

Vatican square and its basilica are both named after Saint Peter. The square houses more than 300,000 people, and it is probably one of the world's most breath-taking squares.

I walked as for as the river Tiber, which flows through the city of Rome and enters the Mediterranean Sea.

There are many buildings in Rome that remind us Italian rationalism, which is an architectural style inspired by structure and simmetry of the old Roman architecture.

This architectural style is also called Fascist-style. It became popular in the early 20th century.

 

Last week I saw a little kid with their parents while they were listening a rock concert in Rome. Sorry to see there isn't any specific age restriction set by the venue or event organizer.

One good thing is that the kid was wearing headphones to protect his/her hears.

The Italian singer and song-writer Vasco Rossi, who is unknown to American audiences, performed in front of 120,000 paying spectators at the Rome Olympic Stadium.

Have a nice weekend!

Tunisia's departure point

Since 2022 the coast near the Tunisian town of Sfax has become an important departure point for people fleeing poverty and conflict in Africa. In this context, the EU is ready to give Tunisia 100 million euros for border management.

Italian Prime Minister and EU Commission Chief visited the North African country later last week, as they wanted to offer aid. The problem is that before they went to the North African country, Tunisian President had already said that Tunisia's government would not accept becoming a border guard for other countries. 

In my opinion, Tunisian President doesn't want to accept money from Western countries. I think he is afraid that if members of Tunisian government were to accept money from EU and Western countries, their country would lose its neutrality. As it is well known, many Africa's countries are going to join the BRICS. In addition, they  disagree on Washington's policy to support Taiwan and Ukraine.  

Meanwhile, according to Italy's National Institute for Statistics, around 9 out of 10 rape have been committed by people with an immigrant background. I'm afraid that the big surge in cross-Mediterranean illegal immigration will increase sharply in the second  half of this year. 

The photos above were taken in Tunisia two months ago.