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Titolo: The Agony and the bunga bunga

The Agony and the Bunga Bunga
By FRANK BRUNI
Published: September 12, 2011
Florence, Italy
 
 
September has been Italy’s most uncertain month, with questions about 
whether the Parliament will pass an austerity package, if that package 
will be stringent enough and how Europe’s fiscal stewards will react.
 
There’s also this: what sort of celebration will the country’s epically 
libidinous emperor — sorry, prime minister — orchestrate for his 75th 
birthday? Silvio Berlusconi’s big milestone is about two weeks away, and 
you have to assume he’ll pull out all the stops, but you also have to 
wonder what stops are left to be pulled. The man hasn’t been shy about 
sating himself.
 
As we now know, thanks to his current trial on charges of paying for sex 
with a minor, he regularly assembles veritable harems of young women for 
bacchanals with a dress code that could be described as whimsical. He 
calls them “bunga bunga” parties, which has no particular translation 
and no need of one. The hormonal gist comes through.
 
The bunga allegations grabbing headlines last week were that Berlusconi, 
in moments of pulchritudinous piety, was treated to lap dances from 
women attired as nuns. This followed claims that he received 
ministrations from women outfitted as nurses. And it’s said that Italy 
is a chauvinistic society! For Berlusconi, no profession is beyond a 
woman’s pantomime.
 
We Americans have found great entertainment in all of this — lengthy 
Berlusconi exposés appeared recently in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair — 
because it’s lurid, yes, but also because it’s reassuring. Our own 
political madness pales beside his triple-X opera buffa.
 
But we shouldn’t just gape and laugh. His country’s path from glorious 
to ridiculous, paved in part by his carnal and legal distractions, 
threatens the financial stability of Europe, and benefits no one. Beyond 
that, Italy presents a cautionary tale for many immodestly privileged 
Western democracies that have been lulled by comfort into complacency; 
have let too much silliness create too much damage; and haven’t held 
leaders to adequate account.
 
Our is one of them. America is in some ways a petit guignol version of 
Italy. We also coast on the accomplishments of yesteryear. Also neglect 
our infrastructure. Also watch young people struggle. Also waste 
precious time while lawmakers behave in petty, self-serving fashions. 
Also let money corrupt politics.
 
Money is Berlusconi’s lance, his armor, his steed, his everything. A 
billionaire many times over, he uses it to engender loyalty, and his 
business empire reaches deep into the image-burnishing and 
opinion-manipulating realms of television, journalism and publishing. At 
the end of a long interview years ago, he asked me if a recent book of 
mine had been distributed in Italy. It hadn’t.
 
“Would you like it to be?” he said.
 
But Italians have had his number for a while, and have seen their 
country’s economy stagnate and debt rise over the last decade. And 
Berlusconi, in power for much of the last 17 years, has made minimal 
progress on necessary tax, regulatory and entitlement reforms.
 
So how does he last? I asked many smart, concerned Italians that 
question, and was told that Italians have been too slow to take a hard 
enough look at his shenanigans, and allowed him to entrench himself.
 
The opposition, meantime, hasn’t mustered the maturity to move past its 
fractiousness and make him go away.
 
“The fact remains that there’s no alternative,” Giuliano Pisapia, 
Milan’s new mayor, told me. Milan is a Berlusconi stronghold, and yet 
Pisapia unseated a Berlusconi loyalist, proving the prime minister’s 
vulnerability. But nationally, Pisapia doesn’t see someone poised to 
supplant Berlusconi.
 
In a country with such treasure and beauty, maybe hardship is dulled and 
the situation hasn’t become quite bad enough.
 
I asked Mario Calabresi, a celebrated Italian journalist, why young 
Italians, whose unemployment rate is estimated to be about 27 percent, 
weren’t protesting on the scale of the “indignados,” or indignant, who 
crowd public squares in Spain. He said it was partly because their 
parents remain affluent enough to supply them with money for clothes, 
clubs and beach vacations, at least for now.
 
“You’re indignado, but not so indignado that you’d rather go to the 
square than to the restaurant,” he said as we sipped espresso on a 
cobbled piazza in Turin.
 
Still he hasn’t given up his belief that Italians will pull it together. 
Neither has the mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi, an emerging center-left 
star.
 
“If Italians decide they really want to change 20 years of immobility, 
silence and political scandals, we have a future,” he said Monday in his 
Palazzo Vecchio office, whose walls and ceiling are covered in 
magnificent frescoes.
 
“It’s not easy to work here,” he added, “because you’re surrounded by 
the past. But I want to believe the most beautiful page in Florence’s 
history hasn’t been written.” I hope that’s true for all of Italy. For 
us, too.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/opinion/bruni-the-agony-and-the-bunga-bunga.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=berlusconi&st=cse
 
 
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Ma io sono piu' sveglio di quello che pensate."
 
[PirlasusRx-01 su ip, 31 agosto 2011]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:22:32 +0200, 
no...@m.it
 (maximus) wrote:
 
 
http://mondoqueer.tripod.com/ComunicatiStampa/5865CODS01.html
 


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Mica vero vecchio cialtrone bugiardo.
Ho sostemuto che prima di fare sermoni di morale ad altri dovresti occuparti
del bunga bunga dei pervertiti del tuo Cul Cul Clan.
http://mondoqueer.tripod.com/ComunicatiStampa/5865CODS01.html
Invece di occuparti di chi tromba donne occupati di chi succhia cazzi e se
li fa infilare nel culo.

The Agony and the Bunga Bunga
ERNESTKUL PENSA AI PERVERTITI DEL TUO CUL CUL CLAN
http://mondoqueer.tripod.com/ComunicatiStampa/5865CODS01.html
VECCHIO RINCOGLIONITO IDIOTA ! Invece di cianciare dei presunti bunga bunga
di Berlusconi, pensa alle turpitudini certe di casa tua che sono di dominio
pubblico su internet. 
Pensa ai tuoi squallori ernesto banana. Squallori che si trovano su internet
come questo appello per i pervertiti nel quale compaiono tua moglie e tuo
figlio. : 
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1/10/1999 quindi di lungo corso .... 
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digitare GASTALDI. 
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E tu hai una tale faccia di culo da cianciare di bunga bunga di Berlusconi
dal lercio pulpito del tuo Cul Cul Clan ?
E che cosa c'� di pi� ripugnante di maschi che si succhiano il cazzo e se lo
mettono nel culo ? 
E' la froceria che ti ha fatto impazzire vecchio cialtrone rimbambito ?

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OK.................OCCUPATI DI TUA MAMMA VA' BENE?............... 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
QUESTO TESTO E IL PIATTO FORTE DI CHIAPPOSDELCUL
LO CPIA/INCOLLA IN OGNI MEXE........CHE RAZZA DI SCEMO 

 li fa infilare nel culo.
 
Non puo' resistere senza scriovere la parola "culo". E ' un compulsivo 
del KKK.it, quello dei FROCI FEROCI perchè repressi e quindi omofobi e 
razzisti.
 
A lui la repressione lo spinge a scrivere tante volte la parola "culo": 
un caso interessante per qualche giovane psichiatra
Volete il suo telefono? Scrivetemi in privato
 
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