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Jan 26, 12 •
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The word “bankster” has been over used since the crash of 2008. In some respects, witnessing the unelected premiers of Greece and Italy turn the tables versus the banksters, is fascinating. To use the German word “schadenfreude” seems...
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Jan 13, 12 •
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“The Creator Made Italy From Designs by Michael Angelo” – Mark Twain 1835-1910 European shares and the single currency have risen on Friday after positive comments on the region’s outlook from the European Central Bank and the success...
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Jan 11, 12 •
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Italian Technocrat Fears Uprisings And Protests In Italy Once Austerity Measures Begin To Bite Unelected technocratic Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has made a plea for more “help” before convening talks in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela...
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Dec 23, 11 •
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“All your base are belong to us” (often shortened to “All Your Base”, “AYBABTU”) is a broken English phrase that became an Internet phenomenon in 2000–2002. The text comes from the opening cutscene of the 1991 European...
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Dec 5, 11 •
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“Elsa Fornero in Lacrime” was the short headline in many Italian newspapers and online publications this morning. As the scope and damage of the new austerity autocracy was finally revealed by the unelected technocrats in Italy on Sunday evening a...
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Nov 29, 11 •
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“It isn’t easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.” The adage “the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent” may have been in traders’ minds during the two trading sessions on Monday,...
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Nov 15, 11 •
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Sacrifices were the essential elements in Greek and Roman religious rituals. Sacrifices could be offered for thanksgiving, to ask for something, or to satisfy the gods. Sacrifices could be of meat, other food, or drink. The last are usually called libations....
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Nov 14, 11 •
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As the dust settles with regards to Greece and Italy can we expect their respective crises to ‘do a Libya’ and simply disappear from the mainstream media’s glare as if the crisis is over, or will the stark realisation emerge that nothing has...
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Nov 7, 11 •
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Taking a step back it has been incredible to witness the ‘volte-face’ performed by Greek politicians. How quickly the door has been slammed in the face of the democratic process and how those politicians have re-grouped in order to protect the...
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Nov 4, 11 •
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Comments Off on La Dolce Vita – The Sweet Life, Full of Pleasure and Indulgence is Finally Over as the New Reality Begins to Takes Shape
La Dolce Vita, Italian for “the sweet life” or “the good life” is a 1960 comedy-drama film written and directed by Federico Fellini. The film is a story of a passive journalist’s week in Rome, and his search for both happiness...