[Nettime-bold] BERLUSCONIMANIA: BLAME IT ON THE MAMBO! (News from Banana

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Dear Tim, there is even more:

BERLUSCONIMANIA: Blame it on the Mambo!

While Berlusconi's Daughter goes to oustanding "debutant's bal" (sic) in Paris wearing "a green dress the same green of her eyes" (as coyly declares national press) and leading the first dance with Turn und Taxis youngster (is this a sneak preview of future alliances?) the Banana Kingdom's King seems to be pushing forward all the time.

And right to the target!

Resisting and denying the principle of "international penalty" applied to financial crimes (guess why...) he opened a new international scandal that (seemingly) will not be easy to solve, as European Community claims.

But more frightening signals come from common sense and mass feeling inside country.

Italy, for 40 years the most boiling, riotous, earthquaking of european countries seems to have acquired a completely different status.

Nothing seems to trigger reactions.

Even the last strikes do not change the balance of power between teachers-students and the Iron Lady of Ministery of Education.

The (former fascist) party now at governement allows two or three restaurations of old thirties (fascist) elements included in small town monuments. A little convention in Trieste deals about a french nazi (still alive). Little signs of re-styling of the antifascist concepts basic in italian republic pop up here and there.

The last from IRON/LADY MorattiMinisterOfEducation: defining "Presidents" to Universities straight from Governements.

That Means controlling Universities.

But blame it on the Mambo!

More to come.........

Lorenzo