Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi Attack At Milan Rally Condemned As "Act Of Terrorism"
Populist anger is starting to awake all over the world, as the G-20's actions continue favoring only the "aristocratic" banker class. We hope Berlusconi's mistresses will still find him just as attractive even with a black eye, bleeding lips and busted teeth.
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on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 13:53
#162124
So, will this be the beginning of "The Uprising"?
Or "The Crackdown"?
Interesting times, these.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:04
#162143
The crackdown started a long time ago.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:47
#162211
the pawns are disposable -- whether they die by public outcry or assassinated for championing their will
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 17:36
#162408
And the pawns believe everything they see on TV. The way CNN has it Signore Putrefazione was 'punched'. Excellent reporting! He had a metal object thrown at him you stupid...
Okay, I'll stop.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 07:41
#163082
It would appear the revolution will be televised after all.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:27
#162267
Indeed the crackdown began some time ago. However, that point of the uprising has been and will be insignificant to what may be the last straw for many here in America and coming populist action. Our numbers are growing. Populist rage over the abuse of our constitution is growing significantly and come this April, it looks as if a literal line in the sand will be drawn by, hopefully, a goodly mass needed to take appropriate, peaceful civic action in securing their liberties from a tyrannical state.
This webinar, while a long listen, outlines what has and will happen something I I, along with many of you’re here, will support. http://www.republicmagazine.com/webinar
The mass withdrawal of financial support to the American Federal Government is drawing near and the Articles of Freedom will be evoked by the masses who care here in America.
I will be standing on that line in the stand. The crackdown may be bloody or bloodless and I would assume the former, but I will go to my post as this is only peaceful and possibly effective means to an end. Should they crack down on this civic action of the masses then it may be enough to wake the rest.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 17:30
#162403
I suppose the O-Team should have gotten the draft up and running bit sooner. I predict that is the 'Final Solution' to the unemployment question. No matter, there is still Iran and the empire needs plenty of conscripts for that adventure.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 05:27
#163036
Wish you best luck.
However, don't be surprised to taste some 'counter-terror measures' in such event.
Terror definition has been stretching to include anything unwanted by the Statu Quo.
Good luck, again.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 17:40
#162412
They've been boiling these frogs for a while...
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:50
#162215
It is the beginning of a criminal case for an individual in Italy who threw (presumably) a punch. It hardly seems as if it is a watershed moment in the trajectory of European history, but perhaps I should learn how to be more dramatic and over-reactive . . .
It's the end! THE E-e-e-e-n-n-n-n-d!
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:02
#162234
when will americans get pissed off at their fellow citizens?
American Dream 2: Default, then Rent.
Love the example of fireman who defaults on his mortgage so he could keep him BMW... the important lessons in life to teach our children.
http://www.fundmymutualfund.com/2009/12/wsj-american-dream-2-default-then-rent.html
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:42
#162284
I read that link.
New term:
Trickle Down Moral Hazard theory at work.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 16:37
#162350
From the same article, I love Ms. Richey's concept of saving money:
Ms. Richey's family of five used some of the money to buy season tickets to Disneyland, and plans to take a Carnival cruise to Mexico in March. "We're saving lots of money," Ms. Richey says.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 22:31
#162752
What kind of weed are you smoking because I want some....
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 00:49
#162922
Actually, the Clampdown(The Clash) is more appropriate.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 11:54
#163286
Why do think the US CONGRESS has increased security and budgets to protecting their racketeering/conspiring thieving asses?
14.5% increase in Capital expenditures in this Depression for FY2010? Another $50 Billion for Homeland Security... or is that Homeland Oppression/Indoctrination?
The Aristocrat Elitists want their "CAKE" well protected.
Imagine that, the "other" Fascist... Obama, is having Tea and Crumpets with the Banksters/Wall Streeters today!
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 13:53
#162125
I expect Janet Napalitano to use this as an excuse for heightened surveillance of US citizens.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 22:15
#162738
Yes, bring in the Israeli security companies so they can turn non-jew Americans into the new Palestinians. Thanks.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 13:55
#162126
The 18 year old ones are highly impressionable. Likely to think Silvio is "valiant."
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 13:57
#162129
Sort of on topic, anyone who has not read the novel "Callisto," a masterpiece of post-911, police state fiction, is missing a bet.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:00
#162136
I'm sure they decided this is hardly worth covering in the U.S. msm
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:13
#162255
Brought to you by Fox News for your viewing entertainment...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD-3F_n2yvQ
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:03
#162142
i can only hope the rage travels to the usa....i
have used as much legal method as i can but it
does not register with the arrogant asshole
politicians such as pelosi, reid, frank, obama,
dodd, hoyer, chambliss, issakson, and the rest
of the vipers in congress.....
they are out of touch contemptuous whores of the
plutocrats....
and yes we live in a cia-produced hoax of permanent
war to justify the totalitarian state....the fed-cia
must be destroyed - they are both controlled
by the very same oligarchs....i'd love to see
someone pour some nano-thermite in the coffee of
the foul bush crime syndicate....
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 17:58
#162441
its 2009. get over the bush stuff. can't believe what this site has turned into lately, miss the old days.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 18:19
#162463
It is going to take me as long to get over Bush as it took my Grandma to get over Hoover. She died before that happened.
I use to be a republican and I never understood why she was such a die hard dem and refused to give republicans a second chance. After almost 60 years? I dont anymore. If live long enough, I plan on breaking her record for never voting republican.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 19:29
#162561
It's this kind of blind faith that so many dictators depend upon.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 19:39
#162572
nothing short of a revolt vs the banking industry can make a noise at this point.. and not attacking the players, the game has to be attacked
they'll just replace the players...head's of state, CEOs, etc
but we'd have to go back to damn near the dark ages to run them out of town..can't wait till they leave us for dead and the squids go to suck the life outta china
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 22:00
#162727
There used to be something called a Liberal Republican. I guess the last one was Jacob Javitz. Someone who wants the government to pay its bills AND stay out of my bedroom.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 22:32
#162753
Remove yourself beyond the narrow-minded left/right paradigm. Watch 'Fall of the Republic'
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 23:49
#162837
And voting Democrat accomlishes what, exactly? The fryler is just a bit hotter now than it was before.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 03:49
#163024
Never voting Republican works, but only if you also never vote Democrat.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 03:51
#163025
+1
And winner of 'blank stare of the day' award.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 08:16
#163101
Time for "None of the above".
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:06
#162148
Awesome!
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 22:20
#162743
FU shit stain.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:10
#162152
Eu is coming apart at the seams..
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 07:00
#163065
God. If Ireland and Greece don't throw thier freaking nike's and boots on and run as fast as they can for the exit then they are going to be caught in a burning theater.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:10
#162154
Touchable.
promising development.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:16
#162160
Which world leader most deserves a smack in the face and why?
The winning answer will receive an all expenses paid 3 yr vacation to a resort in Cuba...
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:22
#162264
Gordon Brown - a.ka. the snot goblin.
I could have a good workout smaking him in the gob. Couple of hours a day and in a year or ten, I'd get most of my anger out of my system.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:16
#162161
I am seriously questioning whether the EU can hold together when one of the PIGS default or a Baltic crisis takes down a larger member state.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:44
#162206
The ECB is not so much an actual central bank, as it is a co-op. When (or should I state 'if') the fiscal fecal matter hits the fan blades, you will find most Germans agree with this statement.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 17:43
#162416
The kindling has been laid out all that's needed is a foreign government to exploit the situation.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:18
#162162
Terrorism? As much as Tiger's beating was.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:23
#162168
I wonder if they ever partied together
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2768606/Madam-claims-Tiger-Woods-paid-for-escorts.html
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:19
#162163
You gotta give it to the Europeans, their governments fear the people. In the USA, people are more easily led to the slaughter....placated by the "magic" words of B.O. and his boyz.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:48
#162214
Really? Berlusconi is the very definition of plutocratic government asshole.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 22:23
#162744
From your unique American perspective. Go eat some wonder bread and drink a pepsi while you watch opera's wonderful interview w/ obama.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:05
#162237
We have a lot to learn from the Europeans!! Wake up America and take your country back!
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 23:56
#162851
What do we have to learn? That you can kick the can for a lot longer than anyone suspects by buying people off via the welfare state? Socialism is failing right before our very eyes, gentlemen. You must awaken to the new dawn.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:20
#162165
Sorry, I don't speak Italian, so I was wondering if his injuries were caused by someone throwing punches, or was he hit with something else?
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:34
#162191
He was hit by a stoned souvenir rappresenting the
Cathedral of Milan. He has got a cutted lip and two broken
teeths. The man that hit him has been arrest. He just
is an insane person under medical control with the driving license suspended.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:42
#162285
Check out the Foxnews link someone posted above. Apparently he was hit with a rock.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:26
#162169
I can see Tiger's wife in the crowd...
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:28
#162175
gesù cristo. not berlusconi!
i saddened by the attack on a man who know-a how to play this planet.
i pray-a to the gods that he and his familia are recover from such a cowardly and senseless act-a on a man who act like a man.
the state-a is armed to the teeth but violence is no tolerated against the state.
but the state loves us, so it's fair to be this way.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:38
#162195
sorry i can't translate because i'm a caricature of an italian american
i'm also a caricature of a human being just like you
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 16:33
#162343
but you do the greatest jumps in the whole galaxy, thats why i love you. And because you are not to shy to dress like a bee or some other gay animal. WhoppAAh
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:29
#162179
Here's the latest on the story.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/12/13/berlusconi-attacked.html
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:30
#162181
Populist anger over the globalist bankers and politicians stealing the wealth of nations and impoverishing the citizens will become a crisis in most every nation in 2010 as the international financial, employment and food crisis deepens ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUFA1Ql52hc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-TqMDthnEo
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:31
#162183
in related news shares prices in Dubai soar
http://www.gulfbase.com/site/interface/MarketWatch.aspx?m=2
http://www.gulfbase.com/site/interface/NewsArchiveDetails.aspx?n=119273
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:55
#162199
"There will be times when nations -- acting individually or in concert -- will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified."
from Obama's peace prize speech, which could also be re-stated as
"There will be times when individuals -- acting in concert -- will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified, against national leadership that lied to them to get elected and then immediately sold them out."
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 23:52
#162840
That's amazing. I had no idea how deluded Obama is. There may occasionally be times in which force as public policy is justified, but I hardly think Iraq or Afghanistan fall into that category.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:39
#162201
Here's what a US president needs to do.
First, he gets into office by saying he's all about change to the people. He says that we need to bring the people in control of Washington, not the special interests. At the same time, he tells the special interests that they will be taken care of. He takes there campaign money so the special interests believe they have him in their pockets.
The new president gets into office, and for the first few months he stays quiet. This is where he prepares. He outlines what needs to be said, what needs to be done. He makes good relationships with those in the military, and a few good congressmen. Then, he makes appointments, most of them being outsiders who truly love the country. He delays putting in the lobbyists. He remains quiet, the elite become nervous but he reassures them that everything is good. The people also become nervous.
Then, once the president has the right support, especially from the military, he makes his move. He EXPOSES the elite, he exposes them for who they are and what they want. He makes his plea to the American people. He tells them what needs to be done, how this country needs to make important moves now or else inevitable bankruptcy will occur. The president double crosses the special interests and makes the information known publically. He exposes the banks, the weapons manufacturers, the insurance co's, big pharma, big food, he exposes them all. The people go into a frenzy with rage but their support for the president is at record levels. The president uses the military as his hammer, he orders them to the fed to have its books opened, he orders the military to protect him from any and all threats from the enraged and terrified elite. All illegal banker bonuses are confiscated and given back to the people. He cuts spending everywhere, and brings back the country to fiscal sanity.
Obviously this type of president would have many powerful enemies, but with the support of the people and especially the military, it could be done.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:46
#162209
i agree with you, hitler was a smart man.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:56
#162220
but would be great to see an old fashioned blitzkrieg on wall street...down to 85 Broad
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:00
#162231
Of course the main attack and accusation against him will be that he is a dictator and a form of a "hitler". His enemies will make the false accusations but by his actions he will prevail. The military will be there as a show of force, so that his enemies will fear him. This is the only way the country can have a revolution. If it starts from the bottom, then the powers that be will declare martial law, giving them more power. Only if a just, honest, and brave leader emerges and doublecrosses the power elite can this nation survive as a republic.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:09
#162248
don't listen to that part of yourself that wants truth and justice
somehow-a you are equating your well-being with the well-being of a people under truth and justice
nietzsche say-a you becoming crazy
just make-a money, fuck-a the pussy, and watch football.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 16:05
#162311
By a footballa you a meana soccer... no?
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 16:40
#162357
Mario, WTF is wrong with you.
As a fellow Nintendo character, let me just say I think Donkey Kong must have dropped one too many barrels on your damned head.
Don't ask me how I know this, but somehow I don't think Pricess Peach would approve of this kind of commentary.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 17:48
#162425
Super Mario cart for the win!!
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:57
#162225
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara sez, "Junta great idea!"
* except for the whole getting shot in the head thingy....
All right, Camara's not exactly the most relevant example for your point. I do appreciate the whole notion of a righteous dood taking control and cleaning house. First you gotta find the right person to lead (a difficult enough task), but then they must conquer the special interests variously and vastly arrayed against him/her. I just don't think we're capable of it, human nature being what it is.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 03:42
#163021
funny,,,
i posted that whole Prez comes out and truth bombs the sheeple, japs Joe TrillPack on DailyKos.... It got trollRatified into oblivion
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:04
#162235
The Military? Here is another scenario: Life long slacker uses his connections to get governorship of bigredstate. Catapults from there into the WhiteHouse. Gives the bankers more than enough rope to hang themselves. Buries the military in bottomless Middle East wars so badly that not even his cronies in the oil industry can clean up. Cuts taxes to everyone making over a million and tells them to go party. Viola! Revolution!
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 18:11
#162455
I think that's been done already... except for the Voila Revolution part...
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:59
#162303
Posse Comitatus
The military cannot be used as domestic law enforcement.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 17:50
#162428
Under an administration that has show such callus disregard for the Constitution many things are possible.
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/143485/after_the_billionaires_plundered_alabama_town,_troops_were_called_in_..._illegally
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 20:50
#162666
Bullshit.
Blackwater can piss on the Constitution whenever they want.
The definitions of both military and law enforcement are completely fallible.
You'd better learn to shoot a gun because many will be shooting at you in the near future.
Failure is nothing but rewarded.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 00:42
#162916
Shooting guns is the last thing we need to do. Don't believe for a second that the vast, vast majority of our fine soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen would allow the US Govenment to stampede their brethren.
When we have had enough, we can just stand in the street on Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues and within four hours it will all be over with nary a drop of blood.
These guys are sheisters and criminals, not fools.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 02:09
#162976
Please let me know when you have had enough!
Because I know I have had it, and I'm not even American!
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 17:56
#162437
Sorry he's a politician first, then its Bro's before Ho's
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 22:58
#162774
The special interests own the media. How would the president get this broadcast without "technical difficulty"?
Remember when JFK introduced the silver certificates after we were already off the gold standard. What happened to him? The tree of liberty is going to have to be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 06:03
#163044
"The tree of liberty is going to have to be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Where did I hear that before? Ah, in Iran's religious regime war mantra!
"...It needs the blood of martyrs to help it grow into a towering tree..."
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 06:19
#163047
Good movie script , thats all .
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:44
#162208
It's getting ugly out there. In Greece, police in Athens defused early on Saturday two bombs placed outside the Greek media pension fund:
Will the world crumble into a state of anarchy? Let's hope not.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:48
#162213
it's no ugly. it's ugly when you on the streets too.
everybody relax.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:55
#162218
not? Thats the only hope. You need to get through anarchy stage to get to the order, there is no other ways.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 16:37
#162349
Perhaps someone is trying to tell the media to investigate the pension funds....
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:46
#162210
Apparently it was hit by an iron statue by a mentally disordered man.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:59
#162228
"Mentally disordered," yes, so they always say. Which means, that anybody who attacks a world leader will automatically have an insanity defense. And of course, top quality defense counsel, for free. Not that anybody should get any ideas from that.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:31
#162276
In the UK they have a thing called the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre (FTAC). Anyone that is thought to be a threat to the like of the Prime Minister are picked up and ‘disappeared’ into the mental institutions – no trial or anything. It’s also handy for getting rid of troublesome political dissenters too. Stalin would be proud of the Labour government in the UK. The trouble is that the alternative party, the Conservatives, plan to continue to use it if they ever get into power.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:01
#162232
Yep, that's a good story for the media. He couldn't possibly be lucid, or worse, intellegent enough to be really pissed...
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 06:06
#163045
Disordered?
He was MAD LIKE HELL, AND HE COULD NOT TAKE IT ANY LONGER!!!
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:07
#162240
Um Tyler read this weeks Economist (the editor a bilderberg atttendee as always) and you will see he is not part of the elite...
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:08
#162246
How do they know this wasn't one of his Mistress's?!!
Love how he faces the crowd to show them what a big, tough guy he is...Bravo Berlasconi--your Oscar awaits!
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:13
#162252
I guess they don't get CNBC in Italy. If they did perhaps the man would have had his tensions eased knowing about the green shoots, the better than expected numbers, end of a recession, safety in the dollar, peaking Credit card defaults oh and that Dubai is A-OK.
What a shame.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:13
#162254
I guess they don't get CNBC in Italy. If they did perhaps the man would have had his tensions eased knowing about the green shoots, the better than expected numbers, end of a recession, safety in the dollar, peaking Credit card defaults oh and that Dubai is A-OK. What a shame.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:21
#162263
I'll be impressed when the populist anger moves in an organized fashion. Read some of what went on in the 30s in US, the moves against the elites and for the regular folks only happened when elites were very very scared a few were smart enough to know they needed to give some power to live to another day.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:24
#162265
Give it some time. One more year of high unemployment followed by an inflation can make people really pissed off.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:29
#162271
"We hope Berlusconi's mistresses will still find him just as attractive even with a black eye, bleeding lips and busted teeth."
Who says they ever found him attractive?
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:38
#162280
"You gotta give it to the Europeans, their governments fear the people."
I grew up all over Europe and I can second that. The politicians over there are keenly aware of the fury of the masses. Plus as Europeans we have been brought up with a social mindset and are used to hitting the pavement to fight for our rights. I personally found myself in clashes with the 'Polizei' in the 1980s. Over here in the U.S. the youth has been completely domesticated and fear of an uprising is very small. Take for instance the case of the tazing of that kid during the Kerry speech - in Europe there would have been revenge attacks on police stations or police cars. Which is also why cops over there don't act like cowboys like they do here.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:57
#162298
"the youth has been completely domesticated"
I think the neologism for this is "affluenza", the cure for which is probably "realigize".
Realigize: to recognize reality; an awakening to reality or truth; to experience the bursting of one's "bubble" that one has heretofore been living in separate and apart from reality.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:58
#162299
Yes, while America is a superpower in the present day, she is but a minow as a student of history. The Europeans know the dangers of giving a government ultimate power.
The brainwashing of the youth in this country is amazingly effective and consistent. It is the only country I have lived/worked in where my junior (and some senior) colleagues alike look on in awe as I take 3 week vacations at a time. It is as if they have no voice, no ability to question any authority, to break the status quo.
Only when the pain intensifies, perhaps when their I-pods or cable TV is taken from them, may they take action.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 18:57
#162509
"The Europeans know the dangers of giving a government ultimate power."
Except for the Brits - they very much follow in the footsteps of the Americans. My apologies for all my Marmite eating friends ;-)
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 16:37
#162351
Bullshit molecool, Europeans are worthless sheep nowadays. The only reason Europe still exists is because the United States prevented a Soviet takeover. Unfortunately our protection has left the Europeans in a socialist fantasy land, so much so that they actually believe they have influence over their Orwellian governments. Ignorance is truth, molecool?
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 16:41
#162358
+1000
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 17:23
#162396
what private equity group you from?
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 19:01
#162513
Typical Republican rethoric - LOL :-)
Europe: BAD!! Me: RIGHT! You: WRONG!
Grow up mate - I can't take you seriously when you spout shit like this. You are not making a point at all - go back to start, do not collect $200 and try again.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 04:06
#162969
Is that the best you can do? Vague claims that I'm not making a point? Try reading my posts before attaching a simple label to my views.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 18:00
#162442
"The politicians over there are keenly aware of the fury of the masses."
Isn't that the beauty of the EU molecool?
The mobs go after Berlusconi he says "No its the EU Minister of Jackoff. It's out of my hands!"
So the mob is goes over to the EU Minster of Jackoff and the Minister says:
"By the Lisbon Treaty that is an Italian jurisdiction. It's out of my hands. You will have to petition the Berlusconi government."
And then the mob... well you get the idea... circle jerk. A faceless bureaucrat is a politicians best friend... next to a campaign bribe.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 19:03
#162518
The EU is the biggest beaurocratic turd ever conceived by humanity. I hope it falls apart by the end of the next decade as the failed experiment it is and we all go back to securing our borders.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 23:58
#162855
So...you riot to get more handouts from your masters? I'm not getting what you have gained here. At the end of the day, you're all still pathetically surbordinate to the statist power structure.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:45
#162286
Couldn't happen to a more deserving man.
Except for...
DavidC
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:47
#162289
berlusconi is a slimy plutocrat, and a worthless leader.
HOWEVER, my guess is that this act was perpetrated by some anti-globalization asshat with whom i share very few sympathies. capitalism of the classical and naturally emergent variety remains a legitimate ideal, whatever flaws in its governance this crisis has served to show.
regardless, this is quite funny, even though i will never stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the kind of people who want local-everything and redistributionist schemes
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:50
#162292
Eventually ,THE TRUTH,Comes out and when it does there is Anger Anger Anger.People are tired of being lied to , cheated,taken for granted.Whether Mrs.Woods, this Italian citizen,or the American Public.They will eventually strike with whatever weapon is nearby.
Mad Bull has lost its way...Gimme shelter...
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:55
#162296
Glad to see that. He's a piece of work.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 15:59
#162304
which second exactly do you see anyone hitting him?
all makeup, politicians do that
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 16:08
#162316
can't you just hear your italian wife bitching at you.......
Lord have mercy.....
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 16:18
#162326
What has happened is very sad and serious.
Violence must always be condemned, full solidarity with man Silvio Berlusconi.
Strong condemnation against all types of violence
Valeriobrl
http://hopersomianonna.blogspot.com/
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 16:19
#162328
What has happened is very sad and serious.
Violence must always be condemned, full solidarity with man Silvio Berlusconi.
Strong condemnation against all types of violence
Valeriobrl
http://hopersomianonna.blogspot.com/
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 16:28
#162338
I heard a rumor it was actually Tiger Woods behind the attack...
he was pissed that Berlusconi was going after one of his mistresses.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 16:30
#162340
1914 The Archduke Ferdinand--
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 16:41
#162359
It's too bad. Berlusconi is one of the few good leaders in Europe or in the world for that matter. Why this happens while scum like Chavez continue to breathe is beyond comprehension.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 16:49
#162367
Are you from an affiliate cnbs and do you really know what your talking about?
I've had a gutsfull of Berlusconi
"I’ve had a gutsfull of Berlusconi". Say it public, in all the bars and the restaurants. Shout it out loud on the radio and at the traffic lights. Write in to the newspapers, send e-mails to both Italian and International websites, to the e-mail addresses of Deputies and Senators. "I’ve had a gutsfull of Berlusconi". I don’t want to spend my days looking out for the latest Alfano Bill, the latest Ghedini bullshit or the latest legal acquittal of a corruptor. I don’t want to get into yet another discussion on the umpteenth “ad personam” law, or on the way in which democracy is being taken for a ride time and again. I can no longer tolerate these servants that continue to blabber on about reforming the justice system on our television programmes. The kind of people that continue to defend the indefensible and get paid to lie, cover up and howl.
http://tinyurl.com/yezubhn
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 17:44
#162420
If you cannot tolerate, you can either go to live in Sweden, or candidate yourself as a counter- Berlusconi. I have a gutsfull of a politicized judiciary system that is trying to rule a country like Italy since 1992, day by day. I have a gutsfull of spending my days listening to people like you on television programmes and newspapers.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 16:45
#162363
I'm confused about these ideoologies. I've seen people beat up exactly like that and it was called "law enforcement" not terrorism. So I guess it depends on if you dress up your violence in uniforms and quote laws or assert rights beforehand.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 22:13
#162736
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
- Quote by President Thomas Jefferson
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 16:56
#162373
Berlusconi is and has always been against the bank establishment in Italy, be informed about what you write.
Berlusconi is a great leader, worthless are those who comment by writing useless and unfounded comments. I
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 17:20
#162394
A man that uses the media as a shit-spraying fan against anyone who dares stand in his way. Italy deserves far better, we have become the laughingstock of the entire world.
This old man of seventy-four has had his chance, just like the gaggle of henchmen that he has gathered around himself to protect him, henchmen that have managed to infect both the media and our Parliament. Arrogant and ridiculous individuals. Once Berlusconi goes (and go he will), we will have to clear his shit from every barn in Italy. It's going to take take years.
http://tinyurl.com/yezubhn
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 18:46
#162492
which bank are you referring to?
The Vatican Bank? richest & most corrupt organization in the world, would that be the one?
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 17:18
#162393
We must (re)read :
Voltaire "Traité sur la tolérance" 1763.
Strong condemnation against all types of violence
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire
http://hopersomianonna.blogspot.com/
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 17:25
#162398
Well, at least the Europeans know how to riot and get sh#t done.
If only the fat lazy stupid Americans could follow suit....
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 17:30
#162404
It's not terrorism when the state is being attacked by its own people. I mean, I'm not terrified at all by that, as I'm not the state, nor in league with it.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 17:38
#162409
yeah
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 17:48
#162422
Who assaulted Berlusconi?
Ex girlfriend? Ex Mistress? Fashion model wife?
Husband, boyfriend, brother, father of any number of Italian women Berlusconi made a pass at?
The papal banker? The pope's chauffeur? The pope's Swiss guard?
US embassy employees slash CIA operatives after the Italian courts sentenced 30 CIA worms for kidnapping in abstention?
Those two Asian guys with the fake Bernank-ster Bonds busted at the Swiss border?
Could have been anybody.
But don't mess with real Italian ladies. They are no Maria Bartiromos... They won't marry a Citi exec to get even.. They will slap you silly judging by our dear Prime Minister...
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 17:54
#162431
A criminal finally gets what he deserves. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Let's hope the other politicians are so lucky.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 18:01
#162444
Welcome to Fight Club.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 18:21
#162466
I hope the video isn't translated into English. It's much more entertaining in Italian. My message to the protesters: Grazie!
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 18:28
#162473
Copy cat events? We can only hope.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 19:35
#162567
Although Marla will still dis- approve, I do believe in my heart that a good punch in the face is due just about every senator and congressman in wAshington. That lying sack of jack squat Obama too..
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 20:14
#162623
Wow. Now he looks like Nancy Pelosi.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 20:16
#162624
A petition to send to Congress, just four words;
I Fucking Hate You.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 20:52
#162669
Was Timmothy McVeigh a terrorist? Or hero?
US government is the enemy. Take appropriate actions.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 22:29
#162750
Neither, he was a patsy.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 20:59
#162673
An object lesson in the ideal form of government: democracy tempered by the occasional assassination.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 21:06
#162676
An object lesson on the ideal form of government: democracy tempered by the occasional assassination.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 21:22
#162690
They gave Jesus Death nailed to a cross.
Somehow I don't give a fuck if Berlonosci or anyone else for that matter goes feet first into a Hobart industrial potato peeler on slow.
-MobBarley
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 21:28
#162696
I think we've been too nice to our politicians up to this point.
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 23:30
#162814
Ok Folks, time to cue up "The Final Countdown" by Europe on your cassette player. Or if you're feeling really masochistic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw8sNoodIDk
on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 23:36
#162826
LOL, what's with all the Berlusconi shills here today? No doubt all are on the payroll. I wish I could shake the hand of the man who whalloped the old pervert with a scale replica of a Milan cathedral.
Molto bene.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 00:27
#162894
Obama to send 30,000 troops to Italy, to defend freedom, build nation-building, train police, stop the selling of votes for sex (or, sex for votes?), and learn why the local religious leaders dress so funny.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 23:30
#164169
Taliban to Send 30,000 Troops to Troubled US
Kabul Times- December 13, 2009
Afghan Troops needed to defend freedom and democracy...
Taliban leaders say US systemic corruption, bribery of government officials, rigged markets and opium trafficking major obstacles to building a stable democracy.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 01:22
#162954
In the 70's they shot politicians in the knees.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 01:25
#162957
I understand and generally agree with the idea of non-violance.
But you know, one can't underestmate the potential for behavioral correction brought on by a broken nose and a few broken teeth. Better governments live in fear of citizens versus citizens living in fear of government.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 01:32
#162963
Ummmm...
Greece defies Europe as EMU crisis turns deadly serious
Euroland's revolt has begun. Greece has become the first country on the distressed fringes of Europe's monetary union to defy Brussels and reject the Dark Age leech-cure of wage deflation.
"Salaried workers will not pay for this situation: we will not proceed with wage freezes or cuts. We did not come to power to tear down the social state," he said.
Were we to believe that a country in the grip anarchist riots and prey to hard-Left unions would risk its democracy to please Brussels?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/6804156/Greece-defies-Europe-as-EMU-crisis-turns-deadly-serious.html
on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 00:34
#164205
Man CombustibleAssets, you look just like Michael Jackson in that Pepsi commerical...
I am going to nominate you for the Icon/ Picture of the Year Award at the ZH Awards Xmas Bonus Year End Dinner...
I hear Timmay Geithner is going to be the special guest Awards Dinner speaker...
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 01:54
#162970
Wrong... The squid has no place to go - name one. So it will retract the tentacles for a while, and put some lipstick for a good measure. The proles will rejoice, and then rinse, repeat. Happy holidays...
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 02:14
#162983
If anyone is bored, check out "The Panama Deception" courtesy of YouTube of course,
or try reading a bit of "Silent Weapons for a Quiet War". Great reading.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 04:47
#163029
Dear Sirs - I like a lot of what ZH does.
But yet another time, you show i) an embarassing, outlandish, ignorance of basic matters outside the borders of the United States in the worst tradition of your country (e.g. you seem to have discovered the existence of Dubai 3 weeks ago)ii) an alarming tendency for dangerous and misleading simplification of international events
Maybe getting some Europeans to write for you would avoid you this type of gaffes. Certainly, most of them would not have the revolting arrogance to post with glee and with your "i told you so tone" the news that the US president has been punched in the face. While I personally find that in itself sickening and irresponsible - a tone unworthy of any publication that wants itself to be considered relevant - the real reason why your post is (quite frankly) idiotic, is that the man who hit Berlusconi suffers from mental illness and has been under treatment for 20 years. Such a person is representative of nothing if not a sad and unfortunate human condition and your attempt to portray this as the beginning of some widespread social instability or the end for Italy or Europe is nothing if not proposterous.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 05:43
#163040
Coming to a Banker/politian near you Soon.
Cmon lets get this party started.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 06:19
#163049
Berlusconi is probably the prototype of corrupt leader.
He's got the country so rigged he brags about it.
No surprise he has made himself a target for the most obvious rage.
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 07:08
#163067
Hello people - the guy who did this was mentally unstable.
Ignorant americans and other foreigners (by no means all of the population...)who know next to NOTHING about the Italian situation, should stop rambling about this stuff with their whacky conspiracy theories. keep them for another occasion.
FYI Italy has had none of the financial sector unbalances of caused by US and co. style housing bubbles and you can accuse Berlusconi of everything except favouring the "aristocratic banker class" (whatever that means), since he is not really in favour of free market economics. Conversely, his government has kept the country finances afloat for now - avoiding populist spending sprees that others have followed. For that, he would deserve anything but praise - if you were into serious analysis instead of tabloid - style populism that is.
And also, ZH shows itself to be the truly anti-democratic one, repeadtedly refusing to publish comments that go against the populist mindset of many people of this website (second time i try to write this).
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 07:17
#163069
I believe "Berlusconi Beatdown" is already a meme...
AKA - "Gotchya ass beat dawg"
http://www.break.com/fights/two-punch-ko-cause-car-wreck.html
on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 11:48
#163282
Why do think the US CONGRESS has increased security and budgets to protecting their conspiring thieving asses?
14.5% increase in Capital expenditures in this Depression for FY2010?
The Aristocrat Elitists want their "CAKE" protected.
Imagine that... That "other" Fascist Obama, is having Tea and Crumpets with the Banksters today!
on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 10:49
#349255
ARRRRGGGHHH the fascists already yanked down the video! Unbelievable! Well thats the world we live in now, and any moment theyll pull the plug.