Battles in Italy
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Giulia Lagana: Entrenched prejudice is now spilling over into open hate with violent attacks and government clampdowns
The Independent (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
Nine hundred soldiers are to be deployed in Rome with the job of making the Italian capital a cleaner, quieter and more decorous place, under a law and order package approved by parliament which targets the country's illegal immigrants.
Timorous Beastie (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
I laughed when a friend who works in another university told me exactly this story last week. Then it happened to me and I started to think something must be going terribly wrong with the high school curriculum. I was giving some first year English communications skills students their obligatory end of semester oral exam. Their English is really poor, so it has to be very simple or they panic, and...
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Illegal immigrants convicted of crime in Italy face prison sentences a third longer than those for Italians, under new laws approved by parliament
Evening Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
Italy's parliament has approved legal reforms that will make it easier to expel foreigners and confiscate property rented to illegal migrants.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Italy's top criminal court has overturned its ruling that a woman wearing tight jeans could not possibly be raped.
BobFromBrockley (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hak Mao sez: This CNN report , found via SimplyJews , was bad enough. Two drowned Roma girls are left to lie on a beach near Naples, while sunbathers sit around them, apparently quite unconcerned - sunning themselves or eating their lunch. This report is worse : Witnesses say they lay on the beach for hours - and so did many of the sunbathers who allegedly watched the drowning and, according to some...
Spittoon (Free subscription) | yesterday
A wine for a damn-decent-if-I-may-say-so seafood risotto. Waitrose have this new(ish) deli range; one item of which is a tub of mixed seafood in a herbed olive oil. Rather tasty I must say. Mixed in with a decently flavoured risotto it makes for a superb meal. An Italian wine to accompany, obviously, and you can't go wrong with this bottle also available from Waitrose. Review 0.3 Wine Tasting Note:...
Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Boy do we need a similar law here. Rome, 23 July ( AKI ) - Italy has approved a controversial new law targeting illegal immigrants with harsher penalties and swifter deportation procedures. For the first time, illegal immigration will now be treated as an "aggravating circumstance" punishable with a custodial sentence of between six months and four years in prison. The Italian Senate passed the new...
Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
In the Congo, Fri-el Green, an Italian biodiesel development company, signed a 30 year agreement with the Congo national government to cultivate oil palm on 98,000 acres on lands owned by Sangha Palm and Congo National Palm Plantations Authority. Fri-el is one of a number of companies vying for up to 4.32 million acres on [...]
i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has won parliamentary backing for a crime package critics say discriminates against immigrants. Under new laws approved by the Senate, illegal immigrants convicted of crimes will now face jail sentences a third longer than those for Italians, BBC announced. Courts will be able to jail illegal immigrants for up to four years rather than simply deport them. Property...
France24 (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Holidaymakers on the beaches of Naples are determined to enjoy their time in the sun, even to the point of studiously ignoring the dead bodies of two gypsy girls washed up on the sand after falling foul of the strong current.
Right Celebrity (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Meet Chiara Fantoni, the recent winner of Miss Modena who has been excluded from the Miss Italy competition because of sexy photos. See her biography, photos and video here. Chiara Fantoni Chiara was recently named Miss Modena in the regional beauty pageant, on her way to competing for the title of Miss Italy. Unfortunately for [...]
mondosapore (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Which country would you want to live in? Americans and other Anglophones tend to idealize both countries. But it's easy to idealize from afar and almost impossible to do so when you're there, particularly when you're there a lot and get to see the country up close, warts and all. Let' do a brief word association test for the Positives and Negatives of each. POSITIVES Italy: sunny, sensuous, sexy, fun-loving,...
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 34 minutes ago
Reviving Canova's age-old beauty has raised awareness of long-neglected stone architecture in the region.
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matucana | 09/06/2008
Did you know that Berlusconi's media imperium has been expanded with one of the major media concerns ( Endemol ) in the world? Endemol was already owner of the Spanish Telefonica. Why didn't we read anything about that in our media? This happened mid 2007. Did you notice that latest years investigative journalists are a dying race? Maybe it's not a bad idea to draw a clear map of the current media...
matucana | 28/05/2008
These are all statements of Silvio Berlusconi himself in the weeks before the 2008 elections. Silvio Berlusconi assures a few weeks before the elections that there is no place in his coalition for persons with a criminal past or with mafia connections (an exception is made for political crimes) A few days before the elections, Berlusconi remembers one of his previous plans: submit judges at regular
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He's the biggest threath to mankind and democracy since Adolf Hitler
I think he IS the mafia and that they are bying their way in into Europe.
Who controls the media, controls emotions like joy and happiness, but also...
en - (not a member) - 25/06/2008