Blogging the democratic revolution
French Revolutionary Sabine Herold Source: Never Yet Melted La Margaret Thatcher of France? Source: The Telegraph, London Glenn at Instapundit has found the impossible, an authentic French revolutionary and Babe of Politics, Sabine Herold, 25, who takes it as a compliment when people call her Mlle. Thatcher. Mlle. Herold is a fierce free marketer who thinks Nicolas Sarkozy is a wimp and has begun running for office on a campaign ticket that says the French have got to stop going on strike all the time. Given the fact that the French are just northern Latin Americans, white-wine Latin Americans, deep…
Yes, because if I think my nation’s player, Zaccardo, own-goal, I can’t sleep tonight: Italy have to win against Czech Republic if it wants to continue to play at the World Cup. But I think that what counts the most at this WC 2006 are the fans. So, below are some of them: Yes, I know, I am biased. I’ve posted only photos of Italian fans…
For as much as I love the United States, I have to support my national team. It’s sport, guys. But I liked some photos I found on Yahoo/NewsPhotos/Germany , showing Italian and American fans joking and smiling with each other. Posters of Italian players…half naked!
Two days ago, Madrid has been flooded with over a million people who marched to say a sound NO to Zapatero and his appeasing policy toward ETA. The Spanish Prime Minister decided to open a dialogue with those who terrorized and murdered hundreds over the last decades. This demonstration was not at all meaningless. It showed how not all of Spain’s population supports their prime minister’s absurd policies. And yet, there has been a total media blackout. However, I found tons of photos in several Spanish blogs. It fills the media vacuum! “Why do you hate Spain, Zapatero?” “Spain does…
I did my best to analyze the latest statements by Oriana Fallaci released at the New Yorker. I think you might be interested in reading my article at Tech Central Station here.
Polls have closed at 3 p.m. today. These elections were to elect governors of several Italian provinces,city councils and a regione, Sicily. First exit polls ( be cautious, we may recall how they were dead wrong in the recent political elections in Italy) are like the following: Election for the governor of Sicily: Salvatore Cuffaro ( Democratic Christian Union of the Center, center-right) 53,1 % , Rita Borsellino ( center-left ) 42,2. Source: Ansa. Election for the City Council of Milan: Letizia Moratti (center-right) 49-51% , Bruno Ferrante (center-left) 48-50% . Still too close to call. I expect Moratti to…
In London, site of the cold-blooded Islamofascist train and bus bombings in 2005, terrorism is a serious subject. We already know that the London cops, having shot an innocent Brazilian in string of police errors, aren’t really up to the frightening task of countering such major-league terrorism, and the city is full of hundreds of thousands of home-grown Islamofascists and their imported mullahs who “love death.” What’s stunning is that, surrounded by real terrorists, the trivial mayor of this vulnerable city, should be so quick to label a Venezuelan blogger as a supporter of terrorism. We’ve never heard him go…
Red Anti-semitism at work in Italy. From YNet News: Holocaust cartoon stirs row. An anti-Semitic caricature published by an Italian Communist Party’s newspaper depicted Israel’s security fence with welcome sign paraphrasing Auschwitz’s ‘Work Liberates’ . Yasha Reibman, spokesman of Milan’s Jewish community, told Yedioth Ahronoth that the cartoon publication was a very severe act and demanded that the newspaper editor be dismissed immediately in a bid to prove that the stances presented by the journal do not represent the stances of the party it represents. The problem is that it represents the stances of the party. Indeed: Italian Lower Chamber…
A dozen of supporters of the Italy Cuba friendship (with Castro) association display a welcome banner as Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez heads to the Vatican for talks with Pope Benedict XVI, in Rome, Thursday May 11, 2006 Why didn’t the Venezuelan freedom fighters in Italy demonstrate against Chavez? It was a good occasion to show Chavez and the Italian communists that most Venezuelans don’t buy the Chavista propaganda
I had long explained the way Mr. Romano Prodi won the Italian election. The slim margin with which he won offers, according to numerous international and italian analysts (from both the left and the right) little chances that his government will last 5 years. In an open violation of the democratic debate with the now-opposition Berlusconi’s House of Freedom, the Left has elected 3 of their militants for the most important institutions: Franco Marini, ex-christian democrat, as President of the Senate; Fausto Bertinotti, leader of the Communist Refoundation Party, as president of the Chamber of Deputies. And, right yesterday, former…
This is the question many would ask themselves after reading the news of a new terror attack against Italian troops. This time the fact occurred in Afghanistan. Just a few weeks after the attack on the Carabinieri in Iraq, that killed 3 of them, now it’s the turn of the Italian soldiers in Afghanistan. The new Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi announced that its weak government would withdraw the troops out of Iraq as soon as possible. Terrorists may have thought that by hitting Italy in Afghanistan as well, Prodi might be easily convinced to withdraw the troops from there…
Italian communist groups helped kill 3 Italian soldiers in Nassirya I reported about here. An article on L’Opinione reports (in Italian) that anti-globalization and communist groups based in Italy, among which is the infamous “anti-imperialist camp” (that collecting “Euros for the Iraqi resistance”) coordinated with Islamic terrorists in Iraq to attack our troops in Nassiryiah. The Italian intelligence heard phone conversations in which the red fundamentalists instructed the Islamists about how and when to kill our soldiers. It seems that the attack was organized in order to pressure Mr. Prodi to speed the pullout from Iraq. And of course all…
I’ve stumbled across quite a few articles lately about growing support for far-right parties in France and Britain. Of course, while the numbers remain small (though larger in France), it is perhaps the biggest untold story of Western Europe because, for as much as these people preach tolerance, most Europeans I know — very educated people — absolutely hate the “pakis” and the “beurs“. These are exactly the sentiments that the far-right play on, so it is no wonder that they are most popular in white working-class neighborhoods, the same people who consider themselves truly French and British. Resentment against…
On April 25, Liberation Day in Italy, Italian communist demonstrators shouted “10,100,1000 Nassiryahs”. Today they must be celebrating. Three Italian heroes have been murdered in a terror attack in Nassiryiah today. They’re not only victim of terrorists. They’re victim of those politicians on the Left whose first concern is not to heal the frail and declining economy; their first concern is to put an end to the military’s humanitarian work in Iraq. The Italian troops in Nassiryiah had made it clear to Mr. Prodi that they strongly disagree with an immediate withdrawal. It’s not a coincidence that our troops in…
It had to be a day of remembrance of our liberation by the Allies. It has been a day of infamy. Nobody should expect communists or ex-communists to pay tribute to the American fallen soldiers. It’s still too hard for them to recognize that it was America and the Western Allies, and not the Soviet Union, that liberated Italy. They cannot yet forgive them the legitimate help America gave us in preventing Italy from becoming a Soviet satellite. But let’s come to yesterday’s sad events. In Milan, Leftist extremists shouted insults at the former Education Minister (of the Berlusconi’s gov’t,…
We always knew there was something wrong with Prime Minister Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and today that missing link got just a little bit more primal. Turns out his idea of democratic revolution is equal rights for apes under the law. That’s right, Zapatero’s gone ape for ape rights, and given that he’s lost the confidence of his human supporters one can probably surmise that he wants to empower a newer and far more loyal core constituency that sees things as he does. Here are the monkeyshines: The Great Ape Project is founded upon the genetic similarity between great apes –…
Today Italy remembers the liberation from Nazi-Fascism. Neveretheless, those on the Left march to remember only the (communist) partisans. They have completely forgotten that, if it was not for the United States and the Allies, the partisans couldn’t end the work. It’s to be reminded, however, that most partisans were not communists; many were Christian-Democrats and Liberals, of course staunch anti-communist. Sadly, the Left is once again refusing to pay tribute to the Allies; to add insult to injury, some radicals almost surely are gonna burn the US and Israeli flags, while waving the Palestinian one, as occurred last year.…
Breaking News: Italy’s former Minister for Reforms, Calderoli, affirms today that if the Court of Cassation confirms the not irrelevant irregularities, the election outcome could change and the center-right could continue to govern. Please read this news here . “Not only are a lot of votes being contested, but so are the election irregularities and both could change the outcome. The latter are being contested because of what was on record and how it was transcribed. These particular irregularities, which have to be sniffed out, took place all over the country”. Calderoli continued, “I would like to give you an…
Nile Gardiner at the Heritage Foundation has an interesting piece about Prodi’s likely foreign policy: appeasement of terrorists and Middle Eastern tyrants; pro-EU and pro-U.N. policies at the expense of Italy’s alliance with the U.S. and Israel. Read the whole thing here.
Whatever will be the Supreme Court’s response after recounting the votes and regardless of how long will a likely Prodi’s government last, one thing is for sure: after 5 years of stable gov’t, Italy returns to political instability. In the last 60 years, Italy had 55 governments in 50 years. Prodi’s last administration changed prime minister for 3 times in 5 years. This is because his coalition – made up with communists, greens, moderate christian democrats and ‘former’ anti-globalization street protestors (people who incited communist mobs to throw molotov cocktails at police and shops, now will sit at the parliament!)…
The great political thinker, Alvaro Vargas Llosa, has written a beautiful essay on the trouble with France and its unsustainable economic model. He touches on the French sense of fear and insecurity as one reason why the protests were so sudden and virulent. He also notes the irony of French students saying they want jobs and security defending the very system that denies it to them. 25% unemployment is not job security. In fact, it’s not even a job. Read the whole brilliant thing here.
There have been numerous Italian regions that, although had elected left-leaning administrations, have voted for Berlusconi this time. In Italy, the right is still very popular. And yet, with its usual dictatorial method rooted in its DNA, the Left claims victory only because of the votes of the Italian expatriates! In Italy, the Italians voted a half for the right and another half for the left, with a slim majority for the right. The right has won the Senate and almost won the Upper House. The Left won the Upper House only by 0,7 votes of difference! The reality on…
France has scrapped its proposed youth jobs laws that allows workers in their first two years of employment to be fired at will. The idea behind the bill, backed by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, was to give employers more incentive to hire the young by alleviating their fears of getting a slacker they wouldn’t be able to get rid of. Things had been so bad in France that no one wanted to hire anyone. Consequently, young people had the highest rates of unemployment, by far, in the nation – something like 20%, with at least 40% unemployment rates among…
Yes, it will be. The Interior Ministry informs that Berlusconi’s CDL (House of Freedom) leads 49,8-49,1% at the Chamber of Deputies and leads at the Senate too! And the votes of the Italian expatriates have yet to be added, although sources say that Italians in Chile voted for CDL ! It will be a long and tense night and I am far more optimistic than I was , say, 2 hours ago. P.S. Some Italian regions that have leftist rulers seem to have voted CDL now!
Polls will close today at 3 pm, but the outcome won????????t be announced almost certainly until tomorrow morning (Italian local time). Acording to many analysts, a high turnout might mean the victory of Berlusconi. The analysts are saying that if turnout reaches at least 82%, Berlusconi has a big chance to be the winner. Yesterday at 10 pm the turnout was 66.7%. So, today it is possible to have a turnout at 17% and the total (66.7 + 17 ) will be more than 80 %. Polls bet in such a chance. Let????????s keep fingers crossed! I voted Berlusconi even…