Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Can You Get Waxed While On Solodyn

Berlusconi's Italy, a country on the path dell'imbarbarimento

Libération


Italy is a normal country? The anomaly is that Berlusconi - that focus on themselves political power and media, using Parliament as a "factory" to produce legislation to save him from the courts, who throws mud on the judiciary, who relentlessly criticize the Constitution, which reduces the political jokes and histrionic statements, that you drag behind the remains of his sex scandals - would lead us to say no.

But there's more. What is striking, for example, is that after being tried as an advanced laboratory in Europe, Italy, today, regressing to a state of "provincial". The political class has its own provincial travels little, rarely speak English. The central role given to television still remains [of the typical, NdT] "80." It is "in" all dressed up television, everything is entertainment, advertising, talk shows dominated by screaming, bottoms and lace, the transmissions of inquiry are very rare, those, in-depth, with the participation of philosophers, historians, sociologists, psychoanalysts and scientists virtually non-existent.

One night out of two, on Rai Uno, conducted by an adamant journalist corny and servile, there is door to door, a kind of put to the politicians themselves who are always involved, and which is not far from replacing the House and Senate. Very rarely, in public broadcasting political, sporting or variety, you see a black or mulatto. New

province, Italy loses points a bit 'in the charts, which relate to the school, health, ecology, human rights, culture (budget massacred), and even technology. More recently, after Bob Geldof, who blamed the government to make ends meet at the expense of the poor, Bill Gates himself to be speaking to accuse Berlusconi ("The rich spend more money to solve their personal problems, such as baldness, than it spent on fighting malaria ") of halving the ODA pledged in front of Telvision made Italy" the European country most stingy. "

same regression of this data. You know that, because of the Pisanu decree for the wireless Internet in public places, an airport or an internet café, you need an identity card? That the appropriations Development of broadband have stalled since 2008, the ranks of the majority, voices are being raised demanding the control of social networking sites like Facebook? Who signed petitions everywhere, asking the government to "emancipate the Internet" by laws that penalize the country's future, which, for access to the network is already "backward and under-developed compared to the rest of Europe"? It is true that Berlusconi is a man of old-fashioned television, the Internet is as dangerous as it "fluid", uncontrollable - outside of his empire.

But at the company level that the decline is more marked. Berlusconi mobilize the attention and abroad so you do not understand very well that the effect is greater than a drift of society toward the positions of the Northern League, it follows that carries a civic and moral degradation, that is a "barbarism" of ' Italy. The Northern League of Umberto Bossi - whose body, La Padania, wrote: "As we are liberated from blacks, the whores, thieves immigrants, rapists from hazel and the gypsies which infest our houses, our beaches, our lives , our minds? Throw them out these damned! "- Key ally of Berlusconi's party, has made electing his men, many of whom are ministers, in a considerable number of administrations, has spread throughout its values \u200b\u200band its language, has made regular duty and xenophobic attitudes.

It would take a Vatican library to enumerate the speeches of incitement to racial hatred, [address] of homophobia, anti-Southerner, "spoken by its members. You look up YouTube videos of Mr. Mario Borghezio, or just listen to some excerpts of broadcasts by Radio Padania: in no country would tolerate such an unleashing of hatred, and stupidity, xenophobia! They defend Christian values, family, work, you want the cross on the flag and the crucifix in schools, but Education Minister expected to impose a limit on foreign players in the classes, the Minister of Interior wanted to establish surveillance patrols (colossal fiasco, fortunately, no one has to be submitted), ruled that the mere fact of being a candestino a crime.

A small star of politics, business head to the right of the extreme right, mentioned as a future under-secretary at the Welfare commissioned by Berlusconi as well (about which he said, "is obsessed with me, not give them much do ", or" he likes only women in a horizontal position "), stands elegantly stating that" Muhammad was a pedophile. " A fanatic (Elect one) was determined to sanitize the trains taken by the Nigerians, the other (also elected) wanted to "remove all children (Roma) who rob the elderly and, interrupted by the applause of the" people of Padania, "invited Muslims to "piss in their mosques."

Still others start fires in huts of immigrants, brought the train cars or buses to separate Italian and foreign ...

discrimination of any kind of aggression, punitive expeditions [array of ethnic, NdT], or crimes, strisconi rallies and shout racist League, a real black man hunt with sticks and rifles, which evokes, for the international press, the Ku Klux Klan, and that the Interior Minister, he said: "We have shown too much tolerance towards immigrants."

This raises a few reactions in Europe. And in this sense is no doubt that Italy is the most "provincialization" you look at it from afar and from above, while loving it for its cuisine, its art and its landscape, not take itself too Seriously, either in good or bad. Try to imagine what would happen in the streets of London, Paris, Berlin or elsewhere was the Northern League party, say, Austrian or French, and if his name was Umberto Bossi Jörg Haider!



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