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Mass rally in Venice to call for independence from Italy Two centuries after Napoleonic forces snuffed out the 1,000-year Venetian Republic, Venetians are once again aspiring to become an independent state.

Mass rally in Venice to call for independence from Italy


Two centuries after Napoleonic forces snuffed out the 1,000-year Venetian Republic, Venetians are once again aspiring to become an independent state.

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How Coca-Cola Squeezes Workers in Italy’s Orange Groves

“They typically earn 25 euros [about $33] for a day’s work in the Calabrian orange groves. They are often recruited by gangmasters acting on behalf of farm owners cashing in on the ready supply of cheap labour. The gangmasters, both Africans and Italians, can charge workers for transport to and from the orange farms—typically between 2.5 to 5 Euros—and sometimes make other deductions from wages paid by farmers. Many of the migrants in Rosarno and the surrounding countryside live in appalling conditions, in run down buildings or in makeshift slums on the edge of town. There’s no electricity or running water. In many cases there’s no functioning roof.”

http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/03/coca-cola-orange-juice-fanta-italy

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Lusty libertine meets austere Italy at La Scala open Opera’s most famously reckless libertine opened the season at Milan’s opulent La Scala Wednesday inside a theater where the first round of applause was reserved for the architect of Italy’s most restrained government in more than a decade. Outside, hundreds of angry demonstrators packed the Milan square surrounding the theater, waving banners and jeering the wealthy, powerful and famous guests as they arrived to watch Mozart’s seductive and doomed “Don Giovanni.” In the flower-bedecked hallways of the opera house, applause welcomed Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano, the mastermind of a dramatic political change that has seen internationally respected technocrat Mario Monti replace scandal-plagued Silvio Berlusconi as Italian prime minister. As Monti and his wife silently made their way among the guests and stood for the national anthem inside, protesters in the closing dark of evening outside voiced their anger over the swinging cuts to the arts and other areas of the Italian economy facing the axe in the 30 billion euro ($40.2 billion) austerity package Monti’s government announced this week. Under a fluttering banner which read: “WE WILL NOT PAY FOR YOUR CRISIS” a woman who would only give her name as Antonietta said people have been shocked by the sudden change in fortunes. for one of the EU’s largest economies. “Only a month ago we could not imagine having a new government, and being so close to losing our jobs.” more…

Lusty libertine meets austere Italy at La Scala open

Opera’s most famously reckless libertine opened the season at Milan’s opulent La Scala Wednesday inside a theater where the first round of applause was reserved for the architect of Italy’s most restrained government in more than a decade.

Outside, hundreds of angry demonstrators packed the Milan square surrounding the theater, waving banners and jeering the wealthy, powerful and famous guests as they arrived to watch Mozart’s seductive and doomed “Don Giovanni.”

In the flower-bedecked hallways of the opera house, applause welcomed Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano, the mastermind of a dramatic political change that has seen internationally respected technocrat Mario Monti replace scandal-plagued Silvio Berlusconi as Italian prime minister.

As Monti and his wife silently made their way among the guests and stood for the national anthem inside, protesters in the closing dark of evening outside voiced their anger over the swinging cuts to the arts and other areas of the Italian economy facing the axe in the 30 billion euro ($40.2 billion) austerity package Monti’s government announced this week.

Under a fluttering banner which read: “WE WILL NOT PAY FOR YOUR CRISIS” a woman who would only give her name as Antonietta said people have been shocked by the sudden change in fortunes. for one of the EU’s largest economies.

“Only a month ago we could not imagine having a new government, and being so close to losing our jobs.”

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Antonio Beato (British, born Italy, 1825-1903), Travelers at the Great Pyramids (about 1870). Albumen print. Gift of Dr. Robert L. and Chitranee Drapkin from The Ludmila Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin Collection. more…

Antonio Beato (British, born Italy, 1825-1903), Travelers at the Great Pyramids (about 1870). Albumen print. Gift of Dr. Robert L. and Chitranee Drapkin from The Ludmila Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin Collection.

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Silvio Berlusconi resigns as PM Silvio Berlusconi has resigned as prime minister of Italy, after dominating the country’s politics for 17 years. President Giorgio Napolitano accepted his offer and is likely to appoint technocrat Mario Monti his successor. Mr Berlusconi lost his majority amid an acute debt crisis that threatens the eurozone. He promised to go once MPs had approved new austerity measures. Crowds celebrated outside the presidential palace, shouting “buffoon” as he entered and exited. The BBC’s Alan Johnston in Rome says Mr Berlusconi’s last journey as prime minister was an undignified one, and he was booed along the way. He said he felt “embittered” after hearing the insults.

Silvio Berlusconi resigns as PM

Silvio Berlusconi has resigned as prime minister of Italy, after dominating the country’s politics for 17 years.

President Giorgio Napolitano accepted his offer and is likely to appoint technocrat Mario Monti his successor.

Mr Berlusconi lost his majority amid an acute debt crisis that threatens the eurozone. He promised to go once MPs had approved new austerity measures.

Crowds celebrated outside the presidential palace, shouting “buffoon” as he entered and exited.

The BBC’s Alan Johnston in Rome says Mr Berlusconi’s last journey as prime minister was an undignified one, and he was booed along the way.

He said he felt “embittered” after hearing the insults.

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Silvio Berlusconi is Italy’s longet serving post-war prime minister. He’s been sworn in four times, and has been a big-name Italian player for more than 17 years — in politics and in the bedroom. Known in his home country as Il Cavaliere (“The Knight”), Berlusconi has a well-known weakness for beautiful women, often paying in the tens of thousands of Euros for a night-long (or weekend-long) escape with lovely ladies in what is known as a “bunga bunga” party. While this 75-year old may be an Italian stallion in the bedroom, his efforts to gallop his country’s economy back into health haven’t been so successful. On Tuesday, following a key budget vote, Berlusconi was asked to resign — and he obliged. Though there were many (oh, so many!), we want to pay special attention to the women that may (or may not!) have helped keep this Italian leader large and in charge for so many years. Following their elimination from the reality television show “I’m a Survivor, Get Me Out of Here,” Berlusconi gave 27-year-old twins Imma and Eleanora De Vivo jobs as weather girls. It really is who you know, not what you know.Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/08/top-ten-berlusconis-babes-slideshow/imma-de-vivo-and-sister/#ixzz1dDdxQmud

Silvio Berlusconi is Italy’s longet serving post-war prime minister. He’s been sworn in four times, and has been a big-name Italian player for more than 17 years — in politics and in the bedroom.

Known in his home country as Il Cavaliere (“The Knight”), Berlusconi has a well-known weakness for beautiful women, often paying in the tens of thousands of Euros for a night-long (or weekend-long) escape with lovely ladies in what is known as a “bunga bunga” party.

While this 75-year old may be an Italian stallion in the bedroom, his efforts to gallop his country’s economy back into health haven’t been so successful. On Tuesday, following a key budget vote, Berlusconi was asked to resign — and he obliged.

Though there were many (oh, so many!), we want to pay special attention to the women that may (or may not!) have helped keep this Italian leader large and in charge for so many years.

Following their elimination from the reality television show “I’m a Survivor, Get Me Out of Here,” Berlusconi gave 27-year-old twins Imma and Eleanora De Vivo jobs as weather girls. It really is who you know, not what you know.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/08/top-ten-berlusconis-babes-slideshow/imma-de-vivo-and-sister/#ixzz1dDdxQmud

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Occupy Europe: How a generation went from indifferent to indignant  From Madrid to Athens, young people facing a bleak future are casting doubt on European identity. The most significant current youth movement in Europe started with a tweet on Justin Bieber, the boyish Canadian crooner. On May 15, following a rally against education cuts at Madrid’s main square, a cluster of 40 students stayed on, talking into the night. Spain, like Greece and Italy, faces huge public deficits. The government has been cutting outlays for basic services like schools, health care, and social welfare. While college attendance in Spain is a success story, youth unemployment has risen to a horrific 44 percent. So on Puerta del Sol square, the kids were hashing it out. They wanted to bed down on the square, but the police had other ideas. About 4 a.m., the police pushed the makeshift campers off. A month before, students had slept there to buy tickets to a Bieber concert. No one is sure who sent the first “Bieber tweet,” but it went instantly viral: “We can sleep on the square for Bieber tickets, but not to discuss our future.” The tweet distilled perfectly frustrations among youth that Europe, Spain, their politicians, the banks, the system, their lives – all are in trouble and need to change. The Zapatero government, like governments across Europe, hews to a neoliberal model that stresses cutting deficits and using taxes to shore up banks. But it has said little about how to spur growth. Austerity is seen as the predominant answer to spiraling debt costs. But this offers no solace to an educated but unemployed generation that says it wants both work and meaning in life.

Occupy Europe: How a generation went from indifferent to indignant

 From Madrid to Athens, young people facing a bleak future are casting doubt on European identity.

The most significant current youth movement in Europe started with a tweet on Justin Bieber, the boyish Canadian crooner. On May 15, following a rally against education cuts at Madrid’s main square, a cluster of 40 students stayed on, talking into the night. Spain, like Greece and Italy, faces huge public deficits. The government has been cutting outlays for basic services like schools, health care, and social welfare. While college attendance in Spain is a success story, youth unemployment has risen to a horrific 44 percent.

So on Puerta del Sol square, the kids were hashing it out. They wanted to bed down on the square, but the police had other ideas. About 4 a.m., the police pushed the makeshift campers off. A month before, students had slept there to buy tickets to a Bieber concert. No one is sure who sent the first “Bieber tweet,” but it went instantly viral: “We can sleep on the square for Bieber tickets, but not to discuss our future.”

The tweet distilled perfectly frustrations among youth that Europe, Spain, their politicians, the banks, the system, their lives – all are in trouble and need to change. The Zapatero government, like governments across Europe, hews to a neoliberal model that stresses cutting deficits and using taxes to shore up banks. But it has said little about how to spur growth. Austerity is seen as the predominant answer to spiraling debt costs. But this offers no solace to an educated but unemployed generation that says it wants both work and meaning in life.

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Capuchin Mummies, Italy More than 400 years ago, the monks at the Capuchin monastery in Palermo, Sicily, discovered that deceased friars interred in catacombs underwent natural mummification. Word got out, and the order began allowing ordinary citizens to be buried there as well. Now, visitors can see thousands of preserved corpses, most wearing the tattered remains of their finest garments, arranged in the macabre museum’s narrow halls.

Capuchin Mummies, Italy

More than 400 years ago, the monks at the Capuchin monastery in Palermo, Sicily, discovered that deceased friars interred in catacombs underwent natural mummification. Word got out, and the order began allowing ordinary citizens to be buried there as well. Now, visitors can see thousands of preserved corpses, most wearing the tattered remains of their finest garments, arranged in the macabre museum’s narrow halls.

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