#berlusconiland

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Berlusconi vs Sbardella - La Grande Sfida - Mai dire Domenica

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Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers explaining the Greek debt crisis.

I love following the Euro debt crisis, because with all due respect to Brangelina, the most interesting couple on Earth is these two, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy.  How great is this pairing?  They couldn't look more like a German woman and a French man if they were cartoons in a Tintin book.

 It's up to these two to hold Europe together, and they're not getting any help at all.  The leader of the next biggest country in the Eurozone is Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is going on trial for having sex with hookers.  So basically, Berlusconi's best economic plan is "the money's on the dresser".

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voglio solo morire...

via IlFattoQuotidiano

Italian style da esportazione? Non si pensi però a scarpe firmate da uno stilista, moda o prodotti tipici perché a Londra, zona Battersea Bridge Road, si incrocia un locale che nell’insegna riporta, l’uno di fianco all’altro, la torre di Pisa, un pezzo della Creazione di Michelangelo, la Fiat Cinquecento, un gondoliere e un tenore che scimmiotta Luciano Pavarotti. Ma sopra a tante icone più o meno caricaturali del Belpaese, eccone un’altra, lanciata a bella posta nell’insegna: “Bunga Bunga”.

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'Ho un messaggio sobrio per Berlusconi e compari' di dietnam

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Cultural Heritage, Politics, and Movies in Italy

Since 14 December 2010, when he barely survived a no-confidence motion, Italy's Cultural Heritage minister Bondi disappeared...

Missing (Costa Gavras, 1982)? No, I'd rather say... They Live (John Carpenter, 1988).

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Berlusconi telefona a papa Ratzinger e interrompe l' Angelus.

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Oltre lo strateggismo

Ruby e Alfonso Luigi Marra, io non so davvero più cosa dire. [E vogliamo parlare delle versioni doppiate? No vabbè, è troppo]

via inkiostro

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Italy - Art in the Time of Corruption

Writes @john_hooper : “Berlusconi’s Italy drifted away from the standards of public morality that are regarded as normal in Europe” http://bit.ly/6BNIJG

In fact, notes Hooper, though Italy is today richer than Britain, it ranks only 63rd out of 180 countries on the corruption perceptions index – "below Cape Verde and Botswana".

It wouldn't make sense asking poor-man Bondi-the-poet (the so called Minister for Culture in Italy - the same guy who hired a McDonald-Italy manager better to promote art and culture). We'd rather need a new Walter Benjamin to inspire us.

But the question at stake is an important one, nonetheless: What kind of art can we have in an era of mass corruption, as the present one in Italy?