This funny flash animation can give you an idea of how Italy is different from Europe. I especially enjoyed the representation of how Italians form queues, and I can swear that it is totally true: queue is probably a too difficult concept for us. This humorous anthropologic study can be useful in case you are pondering about coming to live here (you know who you are).
It is already 2 weeks since I came back to Italy but I haven’t had time to realize it.
I have spent the past 3 months at the Computer Science department of University of Maryland and it was a very useful and interesting period.
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Italian bloggers need the help of Metafilter of any blogger with our Italian miserabile fallimento. Link and spread, thanks.
If you look in Google for miserable failure, you get this miserable failure.
We can do the same for this miserabile fallimento (Italian equivalent).
How? It’s easy. Just write an entry with this HTML code
<A HREF=”http://www.palazzochigi.it/Presidente/Biografia/biografiait.html”>miserabile fallimento</A>
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As suggested by Isocrazia I expose this banner on my blog.
I’m really worried about my Italy. Berlusconi (our prime minister) owns all the national televisions (3 are publics and 3 are privates). Italy is 53th in the world press freedom ranking!. Everyone that is not enslaved is not allowed to go in TV (Luttazzi, Santoro, Biagi, Grillo are some of the notable examples but I guess there are thousands of unknown journalists in the same condition).
The last step towards a dictatorship was the stop after the first week of a tv program of Sabina Guzzanti raiOt – Weapons of Mass Distraction that was of course very critic against Berlusconi.
She is planning to do the show however in some place in Rome.
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Myself wearing the t-shirt “I did not vote for Berlusconi”
This is a funny truck I pictured in New York.
I noticed that here in US you can find US flags everywhere. Someone told me that it is so after 9/11. I guess the flag has become the symbol of “United we stand”.
In Italy luckily we try to stand united behind the peace flag.
According to bandieredipace.org, in Italy 2.500.000 balconies were exposing the peace flag at 03/17/2003.
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(da http://unimondo.oneworld.net/article/view/70379/1/)
Dure critiche alla Legge finanziaria 2004 da parte dell’Associazione delle ONG Italiane che in un comunicato denuncia la “scandalosa proposta di tagliare del 15% i fondi destinati alla cooperazione”, mentre viene istituito un Fondo di riserva di 1.200 milioni di Euro per “provvedere ad eventuali esigenze connesse con la proroga delle missioni internazionali di pace”.
E’ il caso che la finanziaria incominciamo a farla dal basso
http://www.blognews.it/
solo quelle italiane sono qui
http://www.newsisfree.com/sources/bycat/84/
Poiche’ la maggior parte delle visite arriva qui cercando “repubblica rss”, ecco il link a Repubblica Mondo
http://www.newsisfree.com/sources/rss/1753/
e qui c’e’ direttamente il feed RSS
http://xml.newsisfree.com/feeds/53/1753.xml
oppure a Repubblica Politica
http://www.newsisfree.com/sources/rss/174/
e qui c’e’ direttamente il feed RSS
http://xml.newsisfree.com/feeds/53/1744.xml
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