So the Italian elections interest me. Lets start with Zero Hedge (ZH).
It may come as a surprise to some, but the largest single party in the Italian Chamber as a result of today’s elections, when stripping away all alliance partners, is none other than Beppe Grillo’s Movimento 5 Stelle. With 25.53% of the votes (96.44% of the vote counted), the comedian/blogger/counterestablishmentarian/contrarian received more votes than either Bersani’s Democratic Party which got 25.51%, and Berlusconi’s Popolo Della Liberta, which got 21.44%. Congratulations to both him, and to the Italian people who made the most symbolic vote of all: that they are done with a broken statist status quo, and that despite engrained beliefs to the contrary, there is a third alternative to the fake Party A-Party B paradigm.
I got this link from the comments at ZH. The post is two videos. The English subtitles begin at 1:50 in of the video posted here. This video was made about 14 years ago.
He was calling our masters banksters way back then.
Update: 27 Feb 2013 2205z
Veeshir left a few links in the comments that deserve wider attention. One to commentary at his blog Doubleplusundead (which Veeshir reminds me is NSFW – although I found none of the words inappropriate) and another to this Brit blog Blottr.
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That guy is awesome wrapped in fantastic smothered in alfredo sauce.
I weeded through a bunch of links to get to one that didn’t hate him and Berlusconi and figure out what actually happened.
He’s the founder of the V-Day Protests.
The V is for an Italian word that, translated to English, would be a two word phrase that start with ‘f’ and rhyme with Luck You.
He’s the None of the Above party for real.
That’s the platform, they are refusing to work with any other parties.
They’re the Sand in the Gears party.
Veeshir,
Thanks! Feel free to drop bare links into the comments. If it goes into moderation from too many either Eric or I will pull it/them out.
This is the best link I found
http://www.blottr.com/contributor/old-holborn/v-vaffanculo
That will give you a place to start to do some more searching to find stuff out.
Lastampa in english is another good place to read stuff on them.
Here’s my cuss-filled post on it
http://doubleplusundead.com/2013/02/26/when-the-moon-hits-your-eye-like-a-big-piece-acowpie/
It actually should have read, “when the vote hits your eye…”
And good for him for saying it! The Grillini may not last long, but what’s the alternative? Bunga-bunga? Unelected technocrats pushed into office to support German and French banks?
Via I Grillini!
Thanks for the link Simon.
You might want to put a language alert.
DPUD’s stylebook calls for max cussing.