France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini on Saturday warned world leaders their credibility could suffer if they failed to make concrete commitments at next month's Copenhagen climate summit. "Our credibility in the eyes of global public opinion is at stake," said Frattini at a conference in Milan, Italian media reported. "Our commitment is to contain global warming and to reduce (polluting)...
copyranter (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Tagged "bring the world into focus," this goofy, cheaply-produced TV spot by Paris agency Publicis Conceil for the magazine of the French daily newspaper doesn't make them look especially worldly or focused. But, it's got a squeezy boob in it—much like the set of stress boobs sitting in front of me on my work desk right this very moment—and it childishly makes fun of W. Bush....
scaryideas (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Rolling Stone : Silvio Berlusconi rockstar of the the year [Image] The best cover in the last 150 years “I sincerely believe I am by far the best prime minister Italy has had in its 150-year history (since unification in 1861),” Mr Berlusconi said in a televised news conference in Sardinia with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. September 10th 2009. Advertising Agency (Name,...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Europe: Ferretti in charge of $800 million development -- Rome's Cinecitta Ent. and the Eternal City's mayor, Gianni Alemanno, have unveiled an $800 million movie theme park based on classic titles, including "Ben-Hur" and Federico Fellini's films, which built the fame of Cinecitta Studios, known in its heyday as Hollywood on the Tiber.
The Empire Chronicles (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Italy’s Foreign Minister Franco Frattini proposes the creation of a European army after the “new Europe” takes shape at this week’s EU summit following the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty, The Times reports. Frattini said that the Lisbon Treaty had established “that if some countries want to enter into reinforced co-operation between themselves they can do so”. This...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The announcement at the beginning of the month that the government was postponing a Euros 800 million (US$1.2 billion) investment in modernizing Italy's broadband infrastructure has provoked indignation among government critics and embarrassment among ministers.The announcement was made on Nov. 4 by Gianni Letta, a powerful undersecretary in the prime minister's office. The funds would only be released...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Italian police arrested a top Sicilian mafia boss on Sunday who had been a fugitive for more than 15 years, dealing what a minister said was a major blow to the crime syndicate. Domenico Raccuglia, considered the most prominent member of the Cosa Nostra after the most wanted fugitive, Matteo Messina Denaro, has been convicted in absentia to three life sentences for murder and other Mafia crimes. Interior...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Italy's Northern League is not just anti-immigration. It's anti-kebab. The agriculture minister, Luca Zaia, a league member, said that Italy must block the arrival of all food that had nothing to do with the country's rich agricultural heritage. What, like tomatoes, which came from Peru, or pasta, which probably arrived from China? Fired with gastronomic xenophobia, some cities have banned new ethnic...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
ROME — Police captured one of Sicily's top Mafia fugitives on Sunday, dealing a stiff blow to the island's Cosa Nostra crime syndicate, Italian officials said. Convicted mobster Domenico Raccuglia, who has been on the run for 15 years, now faces several life sentences for crimes including the murder of a rival's 9-year-old son, whose body was then thrown into a vat of acid. "Mimmo"...
Musings from Medway (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Dan Hannan - Do you trust this man? I watched with interest Dan Hannan's latest online video for the Taxpayers Alliance where he indicated his support for an European military bloc. This is an interesting slip - as such an idea has been mooted today by Franco Frattini, the Italian Foreign Minister , who said that the Lisbon Treaty had established "that if some countries want to enter into reinforced...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Silvio Berlusconi will use the start of a global food security summit in Rome on Monday as a pretext for not turning up at the resumption of a trial in which he is accused of corruption.
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Gaspare Mutolo By Nick Pisa The Mirror | 15/11/2009 A mafia turncoat has claimed Cosa Nostra planned to kidnap the Italian Prime Minister - but the plot was scrapped because Silvio Berlusconi had already hired a feared mobster to protect himself. Gaspare Mutolo, 69, who claims he murdered 30 people during his 25 years in the Mafia, says in the 1970s he was ordered to kidnap Berlusconi, then a wealthy...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Kebab shops come under attack as the Northern League demands bans on foreign dishes On a cold, foggy lunchtime in Turin, Demir Ergulu is slicing hot wedges of glistening meat into oven-fresh pitta bread as hungry office workers queue up. "This is local veal, bathed in milk and minced onion, then grilled with a touch of added veal fat," said the Turkish kebab chef. "We don't touch those...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
ROME -- Investigators have broken up an international terrorism ring in a series of raids in Europe, according to Italian officials. Seventeen people were arrested in a sweep that targeted a terrorism group allegedly involved in raising funds to finance terrorist activity, Italy's Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told a news conference. He didn't provide details on the nature of the alleged operations....
Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The Libyan-Italian barracks bomber with the little bomb - had bigger plans! Rome, 13 Nov. ( AKI ) - The Libyan man who partly detonated his explosives at an army barracks in the Italian city of Milan in October, apparently had a dossier containing information on Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and other politicians, Italian media reports said on Friday. According to joint investigations by...
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matucana | 16/09/2008
Silvio Berlusconi and his organization have understood very good that if you control the media, you can act undisturbed and they are not only interested in the Italian media... Will Europe follow the current faith of Italy? Organized crime is very interested in European business( interview Rita Borsellino ) and if you control the media, you can act indisturbed. By coincidence, Silvio Berlusconi and...
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? This happened mid 2007. Now(20/09/2008) Mediaset is interested in the biggest independent British mediaconcern ITV... Why didn't we read anything about that in our media? Did you notice that latest years investigative journalists are a dying race? Maybe it's not a bad idea...
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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the cheif of the Mafia in Italy today
there is no doubt that there wa a conspiracy against the Gypsies, to try and make a smoke screen on his people so that he would continue with his criminal...
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...
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