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 appropriate given Ms. Merkel was instrumental in encouraging both countries to put aside such petty trivial matters […]
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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 of Spain’s bond auction yesterday, attention is now focused on Italy’s first debt sale of the year.
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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 Merkel today, warning that his austerity measures could trigger anti-European protests in Italy without signs of progress. Monti
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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 Sega Mega Drive version of the video game Zero Wing which was poorly translated from Japanese… It’s only
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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 minister was left in tears. Now powerless to stop the relentless invisible hand of the
“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, or perhaps they considered the quirky alternative; “the market can stay solvent longer than
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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. There were various types of animal sacrifice, including suovetaurilia, for a pig, ox, or
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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 changed other than (day by day) the problems get deeper as certain
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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 banks and markets is breath taking. Not once but twice in the space of
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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 and love that will never come. Generally cited as the film that marks the
