Beppe Grillo hilariously sums up the commonalities between Southern Europe’s most toxic nationalist-separatist groups. Wow, takes me back to the early nineties when deeply mistaken writers were comparing Serb separatists to those sane, cozy Northern Italian separatists.
Sorry kids, it’s in Italian — it’s been a long week.
Second: Berlusconi spoke in Parco Sempione tonight. I’ve been jogging past the set-up (or rather, altering my route so I can manage to have a run through the set-up) for the past week, and I’ve been noting the contrast of the massive police buildup — not only your standard Guardia di Finanza, Carabinieri, Polizia dello Stato, but also the Corpo Forestale (as if the foliage is that dense) — to the lack of people other than joggers in the park nightly, so it’s not like I didn’t know about it. But a deadline clashed and I wasn’t able to make it at 4 pm tonight, regrettably. Corriere has a video up; I can say that I’m glad I wasn’t on hand to hear yet more complaining about the judiciary, but watching his histrionics as he excitedly pinned the blame for every problem the South has on the left and the Naples garbage crisis on that city’s leftist mayor might’ve been worth the trip out. “I said it and I’ll repeat it, loud and clear — the Naples trash crisis has a name and it’s name is Rosa Russo Iervolino!”
His comments on his absolution of Bossi on worth it, too. (-1.33). I’ll leave you with the video and a pledge to make my deadlines better.
MTV.it has an interesting series of videos up on the youngest members of the Lega Nord. I saw in the Corriere, mainly because I’d never imagine that MTV in the US would be capable of anything less than totally vapid. Have a look; although the one I watched (Filippo) is filmed in Novara province, the terrain reminded me a lot of the Polesine.