Tuesday, August 23, 2011

The italian saga continues, more about the telenovela


Protesters Make Italian Rail Project the Little Engine That Couldn't

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The enemy is a more than $28.4 billion plan to build a high-speed rail line between Italy and France, and so far Mr. Richetto's prayers have been answered. With street protests, legal actions and even some violent skirmishes, a thousands-strong group of villagers, lawyers and environmentalists has delayed the Treno Alta Velocita rail project, or TAV, as it's known here, for two decades. In the process they've left Italy's northwest bereft of a key source of international trade and jobs.
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The line is due to go from Turin, in Italy's Piedmont region, to Lyon, in southern France. On the Italian end, the line, it is estimated, will generate nearly 8,000 jobs in the towns that dot the Susa Valley. Supporters estimate the line will boost traffic of commercial goods moving through the valley and give a 1% lift to the gross domestic product of the Turin province —one of Italy's industrial centers.
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the fame of a culture of holy immobility
of the republic at limited sovereignty under the pope king
is now making news on planetary scale
like praying the oil fury is going to save
the kingdom of little king Francis version 2.0

if wealth was rated by number of churches
and holy and charity and christian movements and organizations
we would be leading the world
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Italian MPs' cheap meals no laughing matter during tough times

Italian MPs may enjoy delicious meals at rock bottom prices in plush parliamentary restaurants, but for the people who voted them into power life is about to get very much harder.

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and the cow pays
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Italy 'could recover billions in taxes by setting up licensed brothels'

Mr Marchetti, the mayor of Altopascio near Lucca in northern Tuscany – an area popular with British tourists – said the sex industry employed between 70,000 and 100,000 people and millions of euros in revenue were going untaxed.

He said there were many sex workers in and around his town because of its geographical position – close to a motorway exit and in between several large cities.

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but is "so immoral"
even the roman pisseurs were immoral
so now people piss in the back of the trees
just like the ones that have sex in the streets

and the cow pays
culture of bigot morons
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Italian art experts accused of censoring phallic fresco

Italian art experts who restored a cryptic medieval fresco depicting a tree of fertility have been accused of censoring the work by painting over the numerous phalluses which dangle from its boughs.


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god, so immoral
and the cow pays
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Italy

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Currently, the amount of Italy’s debt held by foreigners — nearly 800 billon euros — is more than that of Greece, Ireland and Portugal combined. Should Italy stumble, the aftershocks would be more disruptive than anything the euro zone has felt so far in the crisis.
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Italy has regularly turned up on the informal list of Nations That Worry Europe. While its finances are not as precarious as those of Greece, Portugal or Ireland, because it is far larger — the Italian economy is the seventh largest in the world — its troubles are more frightening
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Public sector debt amounts to roughly 119 percent of Italy’s gross domestic product, nearly identical to Greece. And like Greece, Italy is trying to ease fears in the euro zone and elsewhere with an austerity package, one intended to cut the deficit in half, to 2.7 percent of G.D.P., by 2012.
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The current political crisis is so complex as to confound even veteran political analysts, to say nothing of average Italians. But what is clear is that Mr. Berlusconi has been struggling mightily to hold his coalition together.

Mr. Berlusconi narrowly survived two confidence votes on Dec. 14, 2010, avoiding the collapse of his government but prolonging Italy’s political agony. The votes, in the Senate and lower house, came in a highly charged atmosphere. Some protestors clashed violently with the police, who fired tear gas, as tens of thousands of people marched through Rome calling on Mr. Berlusconi to step down.

In spite of the victory, Italy was plunged into political uncertainty. Mr. Berlusconi, with his razor-thin majority, no longer has the margin to govern, and analysts predicted that he might resign and call early elections anyway.
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and the cow pays
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amun
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