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Tag Archives: berlusconi
Osama, Mladic, Berlusconi: rough winds do shake
May ended up being a very bad month for the intolerant: first Osama bin Laden, then Ratko Mladic, and now Silvio Berlusconi, whose coalition was dealt a serious blow in run-off mayoral elections all over Italy this past week. Of … Continue reading
Posted in electoral crisis, gypsies, human rights, humor, il cav, immigration, italy, lega nord, roma, the italian left, the italian right
Tagged #spanishrevolution, berlusconi, lega nord, mayors, Milan, mladic, racism
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So you want to write a book?
Tim Parks stands out from most expatriate writers on Italy by choosing to write about the daily realities of a life lived among regular people. Lesser writers are enchanted into irrelevance by the cultural, gastronomic and sartorial consumption opportunities afforded … Continue reading
Posted in italy, literature, tim parks, veneto
Tagged berlusconi, death of publishing, franzen, italian politics, italy, IULM, kindle, machine translation, Silvio Berlusconi, social media, technology, tim parks, translation, veneto, word lens
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Berlusconi and Fini explained – in less than 5 minutes
From the geniuses at Beautiful Lab, this video should explain all the Berlusconi-Fini tensions from the past 18 years in five minutes. Right? Hattip to Owni.eu.
Posted in Bossi, electoral crisis, fini, il cav, italy, the italian right
Tagged berlusconi, fini, italian politics, journalsim, videos
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150 Years of Unity?
Italy’s political situation, overshadowed lately by events in Middle East, is grim. Berlusconi’s coalition totters. Fini’s breakaway group seems waiting for the right moment. Indeed this fall March was bandied about as the right time for a vote. More power … Continue reading
Posted in Bossi, electoral crisis, fini, il cav, italy, lega nord, the italian left, the italian right
Tagged berlusconi, bossi, fini, italian sesquicentennial, lega nord
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Getting Clowned
This week’s l’Espresso features Berlusconi getting ‘clowned’ (as old school hip hop might have it) by the US, via the leaked Embassy cables. Coverage is running in English as well, and the magazine promises to publish more than 4,000 cables … Continue reading
Posted in america, il cav, italy
Tagged aircraft carriers, berlusconi, cablegate, diplomacy, l'espresso, mediterranean, mussolini, rubygate, spogli, us strategy
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Minetti on CNN
[youtube_sc url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE9Da8Pw4Rk] Minetti’s English is not the issue. Someone claimed she was near-native, which is obviously not true, but she speaks English much better than many a company head, tourist operator, receptionist at one of the few blue-chip firms, or … Continue reading
Posted in electoral crisis, il cav, italy, the italian right
Tagged berlusconi, CNN, minetti, rubygate
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Berlusconi’s Steganography
Yesterday the FT ran the following photo, shot by AP photographer Riccardo de Luca, above-the-fold in its Europe edition. The unspoken message is clear: you’re old, and it’s time to leave. Even in a recent broadcast, Berlusconi seems old and … Continue reading
Posted in electoral crisis, il cav, italy, the italian right, the right in europe
Tagged berlusconi, fininvest, gun, italy 1970s, kidnapping, mafia, P2, tobias jones, vittorio manago
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Lelemore Lelemore
If you find recent write-ups on the doings at Arcore too much to bear lately, then get your day started right with this hilarious Grease parody. Warning: not only do you have to follow the news and Italian, you have … Continue reading
Posted in electoral crisis, humor, il cav, italy, the italian right
Tagged arcore, berlusconi, grease, italy, john travolta, politics
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The Chains are Broken, the Knives are Sharpened, the Glock is Photographed
Morning roundup: Interesting times in Tunisia. Is it the Arab’s world Gdansk or is that too much to hope for? We’ll see. But it’s something. I was heartened to see that Yglesias also excused himself from blogging extensively on Tunisia … Continue reading
Posted in america, electoral crisis, eu, il cav, immigration, italy, the italian right, tunisia
Tagged berlusconi, David Reisman, Glocks, Tunisia
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More Zungu Zungu, less Bunga Bunga
This site isn’t meant to break news. But there’s been a near-perfect storm of events — so much excellent newsworthy material on Italy, the Balkans and international relations in general, and not nearly enough time to bang out a coherent … Continue reading
Posted in Balkans, Bossi, electoral crisis, fini, il cav, immigration, italy, kosovo, lega nord, serbia, the italian right, Wikileaks
Tagged berlusconi, lega nord, speculative attack, tsa
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