Italian right may conquer Rome for first time in six decades - Europe, News - The Independent
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Who is Gianni Alemanno?
It is the CV of a classic extremist: joined a neo-Fascist party as a youth; arrested for beating up a young leftist; arrested again for throwing a Molotov cocktail; eight months in jail on remand; acquitted on both charges; arrested for attacking police during a visit by President Bush Snr. Then abruptly in 1994 Gianni Alemanno and the rest of his party went straight, abjuring Mussolini, renouncing Fascism, and trying to rebrand the National Alliance as an ordinary European conservative party. Now Mr Alemanno is walking a tightrope: trying to persuade middle-of-the-road Romans he means no harm, while baring his xenophobic teeth to the neo-Fascist faithful. Complicating the picture is the fact he has been a practising Zen Buddhist for 15 years – and his meditation teacher is a card-carrying Communist. Which is why his calls for "inter-religious dialogue" may not be as empty as they sound.
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Surprise surprise he is a mate of Berlusconi, says it all.
Berlusconi is a dodgy fellow indeed and was a good mate of Tony. Back in the 80's when the Italian police busted a crime outfit masquerading as a Freemasons lodge over dodgy fraud dealings, Berlusconi was linked to the group along with dodgy mafia folks amongst others. This was a massive scandal at the time as the group was supposed to be responsible for the collapse of an Italian financial giant.
Berlusconi is also supposed to be appointing seperatists to the new Italian governments cabinet.
Also I've read that the Italians have essentially been pushing for concentration camp type affairs for sticking the gypsies in, and have done deals with the Libyans to build camps over there for housing illegals.
Italys future is going to be an interesting show to watch!
I'll see if I can dig out the articles and add them to this post for those interested.
Ea of dune