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All Roads Lead To Rome
Submitted by Mark J Grant, author of Out of the Box,
Carlo is lying in a hospital bed. He is sick and I don’t mean the flu; the guy is seriously ill. Uncle Mario has promised to pick up the hospital bill if necessary and so Carlo isn’t so worried about that. The problem is that Carlo is a member of the Roman Soccer League and he is unable to play in the matches. He promises that he will be out soon. He swears that he will be better any day now. The hospital costs build, the doctors’ charges soar and Carlo is no better. In the meantime Carlo borrows and borrows and borrows to pay his bills. The family doctors have all assured both Carlo and Uncle Mario that he will be better soon but it has not been the case. Then a new doctor is brought in; Dr. Beppe. He examines Carlo and he looks at the other doctors and tells them that they are out of their minds. The patient is really sick, the medicine that they have prescribed is not working and Carlo is in danger of dying if something isn’t done. The entire family is horrified with this pronouncement, Uncle Mario takes a hard look at the size of the bill and gags and the family’s cousins in France and Germany begin to panic as Carlo is an important family member. The family doctors insist their medicine is the correct but the patient is lingering and worsening and the priests are hovering in the hallway.
“Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.”
(Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)
-Cicero
This is Italy. This is precisely the circumstances. This contest will be decided by the mob; thumbs up or thumbs down. Even if you wish to believe in the far flung view that Bersani could form a new government; it will not survive as Grillo can block what he wants and on his own which makes no mention of Berlusconi who is not exactly Bersani’s ally either in spirit or political leaning. Odds on is that a new election will have to be called and that Grillo gathers even more votes as his political positions do not rest upon being a comedian but upon a new order for Italy. You may recall Ronald Regan in our own country, a former cowboy star and the positive affect that he had on America. Grillo may be the Ronald Regan of Italy and it means the worst of scenarios for Europe as the old guard is thrown out, the deceptors by design, and the people, the mob, has the run of the Coliseum once again.
“The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate, it's the sand of the Coliseum. He'll bring them death and they will love him for it.”
-Gladiator
Grillo refers to Berlusconi as “the psycho dwarf.” Grillo’s vision of Bersani is a “dead man walking.” In an interview that Grillo had with the New York Times over the weekend he said he would support neither side and that doing so “would be like Napoleon making a deal with Wellington.” He went on to say that, “We can change everything in the hands of respectable people, but the existing political class must be expelled immediately.” He has called for a nationwide referendum on Italy’s participation in the European Union and indicated that while Italy will pay its debts; it might be done in Lira.
Do not underestimate this man. Do not assume that Italy will go on as usual and that this is just a split between the Left and the Right because this is not the case. Grillo’s call is for a new order, a new way of doing business and a new spirit for the Italians. The day may yet come where he can echo Caesar’s famous words; “I came, I saw, I conquered.” In the meantime yields on Italian bonds are likely to go higher, the antagonism between Italy and the established order in Brussels and Berlin will foment and the European Union may be whacked at its bedrock during the process as Rehn and the rest fiddle while Rome burns.
There is an old saying that, “All roads lead to Rome.” Soon, quite soon, the political leaders in Brussels and Berlin may be reminded of it.
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New World Order? The last nWo didn't turn out so well...
Reagan learned to properly act for the establishment (with some coaxing), perhaps the comedian will learn to jest for the same (with some coaxing). Either that or maybe he has an unexpected cardiac dillema. The powers will not readily hand over their reigns to the chattle.
Who called the priest? It's not even the weekend yet!
attenzione il "drone"
Is "Out of the Box" a giant book of cliche quotes, or is it just the blog entries?
"the patient is lingering and worsening and the priests are hovering in the hallway"
Pretty sure the priest just quit.
Reagan was a real POS but not too bad an actor:
· Destroyed Savings & Loan industry and gave it away for free to the banking mafia
· Flooded America with illegal immigrants by giving them amnesty
· Leveraged buyouts, financial markets manipulations, junk bonds,
· Greenspan's appointment and financial & economic fraud and thievery were legalized
· After all, Reagan was a man with dementia and a WallStreet puppet
· Reagan started the runaway spending spree that now is destroying America
· Started militarization of America and sold America to Zionist Neo-Cons
Beppe Grillo on money and gold: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dEemZ2pVyo …
WOW! He's a real threat to the monetary establishment!
He nailed the Bernanke. "Bip!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve#Officially_reported_gold_holdings
Golden lira.
Notice all the very old and/or very powerful countries with more than 50% of their official reserves in gold.
15 Portuguese Republic 382.5 89.2% 32 Bank of Greece 111.7 81.3% 24 People's Democratic Republic of Algeria 173.6 79.5% 1 United States of America 8,133.5 76.6% 2 Federal Republic of Germany 3,396.3 [11] 73.7% 4 Italian Republic 2,451.8 73.4% 5 French Republic 2,435.4 71.8% 16 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 372.9 67.7% 54 Slovakia 31.8 67.6% 10 Kingdom of the Netherlands 612.5 61.9% 60 Republic of Cyprus 13.9 58.3% 22 Republic of Austria 280.0 57.0%Make him a US citizen, nothing but bought and paid-for pussies over here.
Vive Italia !!!!
Italy has been rotting for decades but the people smell blood....and fear, not only among the political class but at the vatican. Pope Benedict has abdicated, but not before putting in place a major assault against the homosexual mafia that has infiltrated the catholic church from bottom to top, so to speak, while Grillo takes on the political mafia. Sit back and enjoy the fireworks, it's about time.
Yes, i agree. The Italians will pay for their debts in Lira, the Greeks in drachma and the Americans in dollars. Hopefully when this is done these currencies will be paid in a continuous roll so they can used for what all fiat currencies are destined for.
Iceland as a nation and Grillo as an individual may yet prove that common sense can prevail.
remember that Iceland as a nation was The People going out on the street until their government stopped planning to bail out their overleveraged banks - to the chagrin of UK's government that than proceeded to bail out UK nationals losing their money and then proceeding to a strong-arm policy attempt towards Iceland to pay back. just to keep the memory straight, it had nothing to do with national debt
unelected Grillo as an individual? what about the elected MPs of his movement?
Banks in europe just sounded the alarmbells because their returns are below anything ever seen.
TIK TAK tok...
Itacalypse Now. I'm sick of waiting!
We will realize your dreams soon.
Make sure you'll be prepared!
I thought all roads led to ruin.
Never mind, same thing.
All roads also lead to your parents in law's house, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO TAKE THAT ROAD!
all roads lead to DC-if you want a US job.
if you can pay for the gas
Just import a new one out of Africa who's willing to play for peanuts
If you pay peanuts you get monkeys!
According to press reports, Italian President Napolitano is exploring the creation of a second technocrat government. Italian officials say ECB's Visco is front-runner to take over as premier despite warnings this will be seen as an elitist ploy. Separately, Napolitano wants to bring forward the first parliamentary meeting to March 12th from March 15th in order to begin talks to form a new government. In other Italy related news-flow, Five Star Movement's Grillo warned that Italy should resume use of the Lira currency if the terms do not change. Italian centre-left coalition leader Bersani has said Five Star Movement's Beppe Grillo needs to take responsibility and say how he wants to restructure.
http://ransquawk.com/headlines/daily-us-opening-news-italian-president-n...
This would be a wonderful thing - it would ensure Beppe a majority after the explosion of POed people settled down.
Bring in the technocrats one more time...
Last time.
Send in the clowns...
and if they link the lira to gold.......imagine that....imagine that. ....
Wouldn't that be the last thing they'd want to do? If they want to pay back their debts in Lira the whole point would be to have a curreny they can devalue. If they link the Lira to gold, they'd be paying their debts with gold and that's too "fair".
If they do link the Lira to gold, they will probably contest much of the debt as odious... Now that would be theater worth watching
Gold is not important.
What is important is his threat to repay debt in lira. This would be default and the swaps would trigger.
THAT is what the EU fears.
you mean the other eurozone countries - different club
Derivatives of derivatives of derivatives... a quadrillion bitchez!
Remember that they can decide how many lira = 1 ounce of gold. Consider, they could decide that their 2 trillion in EUR debt = 2 trillion in lira = 100 tonnes of gold. The EU would obviously contest this, but the fun part then gets into discussing fiat in gold terms.
What kind of nonsense is this. The debt was never supposed to be paid back. It's like the story about Fed unwind plan they tell children about.
The irony is they can keep their money as long as they don't threaten with returning it. Then bank depositors in eurozone can feel safe, knowing their "money" is backed by Italian never-to-be-fulfilled promise.
there are signs that the outgoing president is searching for a "monti II" right now. there is already talks about a new technocratic government coming to italy in european newspapers today. but in the end I agree, this will be decided by the mob. I can't imagine the Italians accepting another unelected prime minister when the current one brought only misery to the people...
I hope Grillo avoids dark alleys.
me too. i hope he has very, very good security....
I hope he is very successful.
we came, we saw, he died
Hillary Clinton bitch in Lybia
is this still part of the total recall experience?... I thought I only ordered the bunga bunga....
I'm so excited for the weather to warm up.
ME TO! 15 DEGREES!! WHOEHA!!
I'M SO FUCKING SICK OF ALL THAT GRAY WEATHER!
WHERE IS GLOBAL WARMING WHEN YOU NEED IT?!
I spent all weekend driving around the block and topping off my gas tank, but it's still cold and snowy.
I'm just waiting for all the hot weather + no jobs + not enough food + corruption and political instability = a very interesting March -> October in ClubMED.
Don't forget the stench of their garbage wafting over the piazza...
Here in the Netherlands we had a warm day for the first time this year.
Spring is coming to Europe. It will be hotter than the faux Arab Spring!
when it snows in the winter and is hot in the summer-that is global warming? when I was a kid-30 years ago-we were supposedly starting another ice age
I know what you mean :)
Actually, I don't give a fuck about all that stuff.
All I care is => higher temperatures => Woman wear less fabric.
I'm a simple guy and I'm satisfied pretty quickly :)
Nice legs, nice tits, nice ass... makes my day... and if I get to fuck it, makes my night.
Every middle aged father reading these comments in cringing right now.
I'm 25, and not a father, so I enjoyed your post very much.
Good news, Haus-T, you don't go blind at 30 and your dick does not fall off.
Carry on.
Thank God for that.
Cold weather is the result of global warming.
Just ask Al Gore!
WTF is this1984 or not??!!
Have you noticed how many people take a turn for the worse once they are in the hands of this "health care system"? The IMF and EU are like those doctors who keep their patients sick to keep the revenue flowing. The only way to save the patient is to get him out of the hospital and take care of him at home.
So true: headline in yesterdays uk sunday times - "most doctors would not want relatives to recieve treatment at their place of work"
Meanwhile things are getting interesting in Italy. An Italian friend of my wifes (who is a well educated and productive Italian) said to me that Italians are so fed up with their corrupt and self serving political class that nobody felt affronted by having Mario Monti imposed on them - now they may have a beacon of hope, perhaps they will re engage with politics and tell the EU to fuck off - I hope so.
They felt so affronted yet they voted for Berlusconi again. They aren't affronted they are confused just like everywhere else is confused when all they get are lies and distrotions from the knownothing media/politicians/banksters/kleptocrats about who is actually getting bailouts and who is getting raped.
I can't seem to face up to the facts
I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax
I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire
Don't touch me I'm a real live wire
Psycho Dwarf
Qu'est Que C'est
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away . . .
(with all due apologies to the Talking Heads)
Funny!
The two most important people in decadent First world, hanging on to the Euro cum Greenback fiat thread, live in Rome : the new Pope and the clown who poops on the Euro!
If Grillo is Martin Luther or Erasmus singing the "old order must fall", you can be sure the Kings of France, of Germany and Spain, and of New World now dominant, will ALL be in Rome to make sure that the new Pope gets his priorities right and that Beppe gets the Sicilian kiss reserved for all heretics to the old order.
Everything must change so that nothing changes. Play on Maestro Visconti; Italy is land of the Leopards!
According to the Prophecy of Malachy, perhaps actually written by Nostradamus, the next (and last) Pope will be named Peter. There is one news story about a Cardinal in favor of a New World Order type One World Currency, a new view contrary to the current Pope Emeritus, perhaps part of the reason Emeritus resigned under pressure.
the paper written by Cardinal Peter Turkson here:
http://www.news.va/en/news/full-text-note-on-financial-reform-from-the-p...
suggest that everyone read it in its entirety.
The doctors that fucked up his treatment are probably connected to a major political official or multinatioinal corp.
Crony capitalism and the revolving door will lead to buffoons in high places.
If they lose control because the circus fans rally this could be good; I just wonder who this commedian identifies with John Stewart, Stephen colbert, Carlin, or Stanhope?
Carlin would have been a ZHer if he were still alive - no doubt in my mind.
Sorry, no, not even a remote chance.
GM throws out his bullshit without reasoning-just inane pithy comments
The guy voted for McGovern in 72 for fuck's sake. Get a clue!
He's a personal hero of mine, and would never hang out with gun nuts who fear the government more than corporations.
George Carlin on government:http:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihq9W9RlNOE
His views changed later in life.
Oh and his famous freakshow line:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=i9CjBtv7j78&lis...
“Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.”
“I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.”
“Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers. ”
“No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.”
"Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.'"
"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?"
"I really haven't seen this many people in one place since they took the group photograph of all the criminals and lawbreakers in the Ronald Reagan administration."
"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying -- lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else"
"They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. You know what they want? Obedient workers -- people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, they're coming for your Social Security. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club."
"I understand the marketplace, but government is supposed to be here to redress the inequities of the marketplace," Carlin continued. "That's one of its functions. Not just to protect the nation, secure our security and all that shit. And not just to take care of great problems that are trans-state problems, that are national, but also to make sure that the inequalities of the marketplace are redressed by the acts of government. That's what welfare was about. There are people who really just don't have the tools, for whatever reason. Yes, there are lazy people. Yes, there are slackers. Yes, there's all of that. But there are also people who can't cut it, for any given reason, whether it's racism, or an educational opportunity, or poverty, or a fuckin' horrible home life, or a history of a horrible family life going back three generations, or whatever it is. They're crippled and they can't make it, and they deserve to rest at the commonweal. That's where my fuckin' passion lies."
"There is a certain amount of righteous indignation I hold for this culture, because to get back to the real root of it, to get broader about it, my opinion that is my species -- and my culture in America specifically -- have let me down and betrayed me. I think this species had great, great promise, with this great upper brain that we have, and I think we squandered it on God and Mammon. And I think this culture of ours has such promise, with the promise of real, true freedom, and then everyone has been shackled by ownership and possessions and acquisition and status and power"
Now...wake the fuck up; you didn't know him.
go get em italy. but better put some currency controls in fast, i can hear a vast sucking sounds as everything of value flees the banks and country. The top knobs will already be moving their money, like greece did.
"We can change everything in the hands of respectable people, but the existing political class must be expelled immediately.”
First, though, look for the political class to fight back. I won't be suprised if they try to marginalize Grillo with all kinds of charges. It's a mistake to underestimate the willingness of the status quo to engage in whatever it takes to preserve their power.
Brussels will make sure Grillo will Sleeps With The Fishes...
like Aldo Moro
What a breath of fresh air....
Go kick some ass Grillo.
"You may recall Ronald Regan [sic[ in our own country, a former cowboy star and the positive affect that he had on America."
Freudian slips galore! LOL
Is Beppe going to double their national debt and trade arms for hostages too?
The U.S. needs a Grillo, and now.
Your constitution prevents it. You have a two party system, all you can do is choose the lesser evil.
Nah, not the constitution. The MSM and its incessant brain washing and reinforcement of the 2 party system.
Yes, The MSM is the most destructive force on the planet....
Enablers for the elite.
I was just going to say that, when he's done there he should do a world tour....
It’s in the interests of all the PIGS to default on their euro bonds leave the EU and resurrect their previous currencies.
FX gateways are a great way to retard capital outflows in times of crisis, so they actually make the system more stable and more robust.
Interest rates are more effective if they are set against a smaller demographic of people, you get more resolution in the system if you employ multiple yield curves.
The euro is/was a bad idea, it reduces stability and blunts interest rates.
The introduced economic mobility to help homogenise the continent but in reality it is severely impeded by the numerous language barriers.
Borders are not all bad, they actually stimulate trade and provide additional stability during crisis.
I love visiting Italy-but goddamn its expensive with the Euro
try Argentina it is full of Italians,much cheaper!
the euro is about as sensible as the dollar using your argument..why is their persistent unemployment and crime in certain states?
michigan dollars anyone?
The workers migrate to other states for better opportunity, while the non-workers stay where they collect Government benefits.
not holding any hope, but the entertainment vlaue it good.
just been around long enough to believe otherwise.
is beepe refusing to go to the back of the bus?
the bus rolled over and all occupants are beieved to be dead...
If Grillo refuses to combine with any other party, then he will remain only a comedian with a loud voice. Yes, he will likely force new elections, but he will never get 51% by himself. At some point, perhaps several elections away, one of the B's will get enough votes to combine with a fourth place party to form a majority - making Grillo old news. One thing is for certain - the Squid will be spending big bucks attacking Grillo in the next election.
0% to 25% support in a few years? no chance of 51%? i suggest that it is only a matter of time before a few of the other 20 or 30 minority parties in the berbers (berlusconi and bersani) coalitions surrender to the inevitable and switch to the five star movement...that is ..if they can find any leaders who satisfy the five star movement's strict candidate eligibility criteria.
No kidding.
'Americans' love to picture themselves as innovative people. If they are that innovative, how comes they push out the same cheap propaganda over and over again?
It is no longer 1777, 'americans', the world have learned of what it means to be an 'american'.
That Grillo guy is an 'american' who enjoys staging himself.
Win/win situation: he is irrelevant, makes his peanut selling cheap propaganda it takes to be an 'american' to buy and in the end, will hide behind the We The People's will in Italy to explain how his fantastic plan has had no follow ups.
More show, 'american' way. Cant wait for that italian election to come up. Nothing will have changed, and 'americans' in Italy will even demonstrate a bigger desire to blob up in the European People.
Hey AnAnonymous, I met some Irish guy said you owe him one hundreds from a bet several years prior.
Why do you are participate in permanent default scheme? Turning 'americanized'?
Calls for a 'New World Order'? Gee I thought that was just all conspiracy kook talk....now the Euro leaders are saying it?
This sounds like a replay of last year's parliamentary elections in Greece. Remember that radical left-wing party that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, with all sorts of bold declarations? Anyone remember its name today? Pathetic...
Yea Ronnie is such a hero: "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes."
Ronald Reagan
So he made a joke, big deal.
Of course he also defeated America's enemy in a bloodless war, an enemy that was a greater existential threat to the US than Germany and Japan in WWII. In doing so he removed the fear of imminent nuclear annihilation that petrified everyone in the 70s and 80s, which was a benefit to Russian citizens as well as everyone in the West.
And he did this without putting every American under perpetual surveillance.
And you've got a burr up your rear because he made a joke.
More nonsense from the ignorant. Grillo is irrelevant, the new figure on the Italian stage is Mr. Entropy.
Mr. Entropy has been there all along, people have not been paying attention. Entropy is your worst nightmare except you never wake up. He's ironic: he's the child of your own past economic development!
The same Mr. Entropy has been running things in Greece ... and Syria, Egypt and in Japan. He's like Warren Zevon's werewolf: overheard in Mayfair being flayed by Entropy.
People just don't understand, the exit of the technocrat is the last step in post-petroleum down escalator toward chaos. After the technocrat comes the void, the null-space, zero-government, factionalism run amok. Grillo-ism is another faction, the mafias in Italy have seen the reformers come and go, they will not surrender they will be the archangels to Entropy's Satan.
Italians have been cutting each others' throats with expert precision for 3,000 years. What do reformers do? Talk ...
The problem in Italy as in the rest of Europe has nothing to do with politics which are almost purposefully irrelevant, it's at the end of the Italians' driveways. Every single day the Italians must import one-and-one-half million barrels of crude oil at staggering cost, they must borrow from New York and London financiers to do so, as they have for ever day since the end of World War Two. Italy's pathetic handbag and luxury car industries cannot pay their own way much less the wasteful country's fuel bill. Italy is beyond insolvent, beyond broke, by rights it should never be allowed to borrow again, ever, from this point until the sun consumes itself and explodes. Italy's bosses believe that with this bit- or that bit of decorated lies it can gain something vanishing- rare and valuable ... so that this thing might be burned up for time-wasting entertainment purposes and economists' reputations only.
There is no way out, all roads lead to Entropy, he is going to fuck you over you will think you are living in a Grunewald painting of hell.
People just don't understand,
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'Americans' have understood the topic a long time ago. But 'americans' must keep claiming they can overcome the environment.
It is one pillar of their 'american' societies. Their justification for having stolen so much of the world environment.
In the meantime, 'americans' will do what it takes to make sure they enjoy the lion's share of the consumption of the remaining resources.
Old order isn't going to go quietly, I can see Grillo dying as the result of a plane crash, car crash in a tunnel or maybe it all gets too much for him and he commits (assisted) suicide.
If none of the above come to pass I reckon NATO will liberate Italy.
Priest waiting in the corridor! A fate worse than death
i hope you are wrong...but my head tells me that the bastos are out there nd feel threatened
Princess Diana Car crash in the tunnel of Paris (actually prophesied by Nostradamus, in my unpublished interpretation, no interest in publishing this from Establishment media) when all the video cameras are turned off, or the video confiscated by the police and never seen again. All the civilian and Pentagon video of the 9-11 Government attack on the Pentagon, confiscated by the FBI and the Pentagon, never to be seen again. Many cameras and a few other motion picture films of Kennedy assassination in Dallas confiscated by Dallas Police and Secret Service and never seen again. Always the same crimes and coverup.
With these elections AND the conclave, there is no better time to invest in...
Immobiliare.
Such a long way to go on a road fraught with peril. If we ever want real change we need to back those with the courage to try. Not everyone will suceed but someone has to take the first steps to show the way. For that the Italian populace has my personal respect for making the attempt, success or failure.
If Beppe suceeds in forcing the real evil and purveyors of it out into the light where they can't hide for everyone to see, Beppe will have achieved much in a very short time. We can help in being vigilant and calling out every attack, who is doing it and who they are conntected subtle or otherwise against Beppe and his band of misfits. We need to have his back, by helping them we ultimately help our own cause since it is all interconnected.
http://www.beppegrillo.it/en/
Beppe brings up an interesting point that has been lost in all the noise in his blog I'd like to post on since it has relevance to this whole mess.
The Tsunami that has overwhelmed Italian politics has swept away one of the oldest parliaments in Europe (average age: 55 years) in return for the youngest parliamentarians in the whole of the western world and in the entire history of the Republic. The average age considering both the Lower House and the Senate, is 48 years, which is lower than any other country in the EU, and also lower than in the USA. All of those countries have an average age above 50 years. The average age of the elected deputies (in the Lower House) is 45 years and of the senators is 53 years. This can be compared to the ages of the parliamentarians who are stepping down where the average age of people in the Lower House was 54 years (9 years difference) and in the Upper House was 57 years (4 years difference). The parliamentary group with the lowest average age, the group that has had the major impact on renewal, is the MoVimento 5 Stelle {5 Star MoVement}, with an average age of 37 years (33 in the Lower House and 46 in the Senate); the oldest is the PDL with an average age of 54 years (50 in the Lower House and 57 in the Senate). The 5 Star MoVement} is also the group with the highest percentage of graduates: 88%; at the bottom of the table are the PD with 67% and the Lega with 40%.
The Tsunami has given a rose-coloured effect to the parliamentary picture: there have never been so many females in the whole lifetime of the Republic. In the previous parliament only 21% of the members of the Lower House were women and in the Senate just 19% were women, whereas in the new parliament, the equivalent figures are 31% of women overall with 32% in the Lower House and 30% in the Senate. The percentage of women among the M5S parliamentarians is higher than the average with 38%, and in last place is the Lega with 14%. The youngest parliamentarian is the M5S Lazio spokesperson Marta Grande (25 years), and the oldest elected senator is Sergio Zavoli (89 years) of the PD.
However, for now, the ruling class is the oldest in Europe with an average age of 59 years, with 67 years for the bankers, 63 for the university professors and 61 for the directors of the companies partially or wholly controlled by the State. Vincenzo Atella, director of CEIS ("Centre for Economic and International Studies") of “Tor Vergata” in the University of Rome has carried out a study on the issue of gerontocracy in Italy and he said: ''the shorter life horizon of the elder ruling class does not allow for investment in innovation. In particular our study shows the correlation between gerontocracy and the lack of investment in ICT because of their inability to understand the opportunities offered by the new technologies. A Parliament with a younger average age is in a position to make use of these opportunities. Right now, this is what the country needs for a return to the path of growth''.''.
The water is fizzy. I repeat: The water is fizzy.
Look at the details of all the elected citizens who are spokespersons in the Lower House and in the Senate
Grillo better watch his back... the guy could end the whole bankster ponzi scheme! STAY SAFE GRILLO!!!!!!!!!!!
too late...at this point in the story, whacking him would be the worst mistake they could make. the hydra's already formed. would it fizzle without a charsimatic leader? probably more like explode...
It feels like waiting at the Comedia del Arte. Everything is being put into place, some more cacophony, then the show begins... A requiem?
Kill the banksters! Kill the politicians!!
KILL THEM ALL!!!!!!
An Italian.
While we all welcome dissent from the status quo, I would still show some reservation before endorsing this guy. I am not saying he is the next Lenin or Mussolini, but he is a populist and that is the cause of my reserve.
From Fight Club
Tyler Durden: It's getting exciting now, two and one-half. Think of everything we've accomplished, man. Out these windows, we will view the collapse of financial history. One step closer to economic equilibrium.
“We can change everything in the hands of respectable people, but the existing political class must be expelled immediately.”
I like Ron Paul, but let me know when some says this.
Not "End the FED."
Not "Term Limits".
But as Cromwell said “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
A very, very sobering article...
Cicero was good, and succinct. So... not a lawyer.
"Moneta cattiva incendi rende buoni". Bad money makes good fires. -Italian proverb
Caro Banchieri: La nostra causa è giusta. La Cosa Nostra ... non è molto 'giusto'. Scegli il tuo veleno.
Dear Bankers: Our cause is just. La Cosa Nostra... not so much. Choose your poison.
Are you fucking kidding with your Ronald Reagan NONSENSE?
His VOODOO ECONOMICS was the begininng of the end for the USA - and every asshole after him followed the same script!