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  • Obit: Jeno Palucci, 93, Humble Beginnings of Italian Immigrants to World #1 Entreprenuer

    • Jeno F. Paulucci (July 5, 1918 ? November 24, 2011) the son of Italian immigrants who rose from humble Iron Range beginnings to earn the title "No. 1 overall entrepreneur in the world" and whose sharing of his self-made millions left an indelible mark on Duluth and northeastern Minnesota, famous for starting over seventy companies during his long career. 
  • Wealthy Show Support For OWS

    • Therse are the REAL AMERICA Patriots, who are are Concerned abouty COMMUNITY,and Country,  and not merely their own Selfishness, Self Centered, Faud, and Greed!  Kudos to Them.

    October 2011

    Bin Laden Capture Will Be An Italian Corker of An Event
    Monterey restaurateur Ted Balestreri was chided by some of his 28 guests about the $10,000 Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1870, one of the world's most celebrated bottled wines,sitting in his wine cellar. Asked when he would finally uncork it, he answered: "When Leon catches Bin Laden." 

  • Oh, To See Ourselves As Others See Us

    • Stereotypes are rife when it comes to any nationality, but as with other nationalities, when it comes to Italians it's impossible to paint everyone with the same brush.
  • Obit: Antonio Cassese, 74; War Crimes Law Expert

    • He became a prominent Italian jurist who helped found two international war-crimes tribunals and who was often described as the chief architect of modern international criminal justice.
  • Mario Draghi, Bank of Italy Head: Young People Right to be Indignant

    • Mario Draghi, is set to take over as head of the European Central Bank (ECB) next month.
  • Sharia Law, Hasidic Law, or Civil Secular Law- Women to Back of the Bus

    • The principle is that if Jewish law conflicts with civil law, civil law takes precedence, and is known as "dina de-malkhuta dina", "the law of the land is the law"! 
  • Southern Europe's Lost Generation Stuck In Junk Jobs

    • While I applaud "Occupy Wall Street" efforts, Wealth does not relinquish power easily, and the mere presence or signs or verbal chants can be easily ignored by the Wealthy while being protected by the Police State.
  • "Lake Shore" Canada's Answer to MTV's Jersey Shore Cancelled

    • One  Anti-Semitic comment gets "Lake Shore" series Cancelled Before Airing, whereas "Jersey Shore" has FIVE Seasons of  TOTALLY  Anti-Italian  Portrayals and Negative Stereotyping.  What's the DEAL ????
  • Italy's Black Widow Refuses Day Release As She Does Not Want To Work

    • Patrizia Reggiani, Italy's Black Widow of Gucci Heir  46-year-old fashion magnate husband, Maurizio Gucci, who paid a hit man to murder her husband in 1995 is serving a 26 year term.
  • Obit: Pete Rugolo; 95; Jazz Arranger, Composer

    • Pete Rugolo won the DownBeat magazine poll as best arranger in 1947, the first of five wins as best arranger over the next seven years.
  • Il Volo: The Boys Who Tempt Teens to Love Opera in US

    • Il Volo (The Flight) is a trio of Italian operatic pop teenage singers, consisting of Piero Barone (18), Ignazio Boschetto,(17) and Gianluca Ginoble (16) causing Opera to Take Flight in the U.S. 
  • Dissent of Selection of Grand Marshall of Columbus NYC Parade

    • I too am disappointed that Joe Plumeri (not to be confused with Joe the Plumber)  was chosen Grand Marshall of the Columbus Day Parade ,who while having great success, has NO known connection to the Advancement of Italian and Italian American Heritage, nor as a Defender of the Negative Stereotypes.
  • Beppe Severgnini's "Mamma Mia!": 10 Reasons Why Italians Tolerate Berlusconi

    • Beppe Severgnini is Italy's most popular and wittiest columnist, and in his new book "Mama Mia" reveals Ten Reasons Why Italians Tolerate Sivio Berlusconi 
  • Alyssa Campanella, Miss USA 2011, Stars in NYC Columbus Day Parade

    • Miss USA 2011, Alyssa Campanella was an unusually beautiful addition to the  World's largest celebration of Italian-American culture.
  • The "MOVEMENT" an  Italian American Educational Exhibit in Chicago

    • The "MOVEMENT" an educational exhibit in Chicago offers three (3) historical sections for public viewing.(1) The Italian American Alien Discrimination During WWII (2) The Importance of Columbus (3) The Negative Stereotyping of Italian Americans by the Media.
  • Columbus Day Is More Complex Than It Looks

    • Our American Anglo Centric and Northern European Centic Society and the Push Back By Native  Americans has made Columbus an unfair symbol of Conquest, rather than for the Unimaginable Navigation Feat of Courage.
  • COLUMBUS - Third  Most Important Person in History, That is Non Religious

    • Christopher Columbus Explorer who set in motion a series of events that would change the world forever. He made the North and South American continents available for exploration
  • "Foxy Knoxy", Casey Anthony, & O.J. Simpson - All Not Guilty, But Not Innocent

    • First Casey Anthony, now "Foxy  Knoxy". Such a Travesty !!!!!!!!! "Foxy Knoxy" is NOT what others named her, but what Amanda named herself. Not Guilty is NOT the same as INNOCENT !!!!
  • IAOVC  Scores Again: Paterson NJ School District Reinstates Columbus Holiday

    • The Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition (IAOVC- an Anti-Italian Defamation Org) has scored a third victory within the last 4 weeks. 
  • Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, CEO of Ferrari,  Uncrowned King of Italy

    • Meet the uncrowned king of Italy, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, chairman of Ferrari, multimillionaire entrepreneur and champion of Italian culture

    September 2011
     

  • Calandra's Sciorra's  Anti -Italian Prejudice - This Time re : "And They Came to Chicago"

    • Joe Sciorra, of the Calandra Institute, and Editor of it's Italian American Review, is Not only an example of one who has risen far above his skills and talent. (with nepotism, despotism, favoritism rather than MERIT), he has once again, and still over the decade I have known him, been a "Turncoat" vs his Italian Ancestry. 
  • Gov. Christie Vetos Tax Credit For MTV'S "JERSEY SHORE"

    • It is a shocking abuse to have Public Monies used to subsidize and promote violence, criminal behavior and ethnic stereotyping. 
  • Wall Street Journal Blasts "Shore" Credits, While N.J. Star Ledger Claims Not Giving Credits is Censorship

    • It is so Seriously, Ignorantly, Offensive for Anyone, Let alone a Newspaper Editorial Board to Equate a State Not Giving Grants as Censorship, especially, when the Grant is for a Negative Stereotypical TV Series.!!!
  • Italian Americans Get "Reluctant" Apology from Bob Beckel of Fox News

    • Bombastic, Pompous Blowhard, Bob Beckel  the token "Liberal" and a co-host onThe Five at Fox News, on August 17, 2011 and August 18, 2011,called Italian-Americans "grease balls" and stated that all Italian-Americans are garbage men.
  • Kobe Bryant to Play for Virtus Bologna  for $600,000 per game?

    • With the NBA in a strike/lockout mode, in the interim, Star Players are looking to play for European teams, LA Laker's Kobe Bryant is being pursued by Virtus Bologna
  • Comitini, Sicily Has Traffic Under Control, But Scandal Reigns in LA County

    • While appearing NOT to have ANY Traffic problem in this Sicilian town of 960, it employs  NINE (9) people which might appear ludicrous, BUT 8 of the nine are only Half time Employees and earn only $12,000 a year, and costs each citizen about  27 cents a day per capita.
  • Italian Americans: Ethnicity and Assimilation ; Parenti vs Alba

    • Historian Michael Parenti strongly believes  people will continue to retain ethnic attachments ,not only because their group is under assault, but because the attachment provides a nurturing social and cultural experience
  • Austerity Measures Promotes Thoughts of Princely Startes

    • People are adverse to change, and while combining small municipalities does save money , the saving in Italy is less than the cost of  operation of the  restaurant services.for the lower house of Parliament.
  • High Quality Northern, Southern Italian Cuisine, AND Italian American Cuisine Return to NYC "Little Italy"

    • NY Little Italy, before It's Italians moved out had superior Restaaurant Fare, almost Home Made quality, Not Fancy but Palate Pleasuring.

    August 2011
     

  • Italy Vs United States: Family and Social Structures

    • In matters of Birthrates, Extended Family, Divorce Rates, Increased Working Women, Head of the Family, Married women Using Maiden Names.....the times they are a changing. 
  • $65 BILLION of 158 F-22  NEVER Flew a Combat Mission for TWENTY YEARS

    • F-22 won the final go-ahead from Congress in 1991, thanks in part to a lobbying campaign by the plane's manufacturer, Lockheed Martin Corp. " then Lockheed Corp." and its near 1,100 subcontractors in 44 states.

    July 2011
     

  • "Russian Dolls" Jews of Brighton Beach to Compete with "Jersey Shore"

    • "Russian Dolls," Lifetime's upcoming reality show featuring tawdry, money-grubbing Russian-American Jews living and spending big in Brighton Beach. Will be featuring  shamelessness, tackiness, cluelessness, bad manners and worst taste:
  • Greta "Scorchy" Scacchi, Pregnant with Cousin's Second Child

    • Greta Scacchi, The Italian born  Aussie award-winning actress, whose smouldering looks in films such as Heat And Dust  and White Mischief  earned her the nickname "Scorchy" Scacchi, is in trimester with her third child. 
  • No Lie: Pinocchio's Life Had Roots in Reality

    • The tale of the wooden puppet Pinocchio created by a carpenter in Florence may arguably be the most widely known children's tale, is now said to be based on reality, and is believed to be the second-most-translated book after the Bible, based mostly on fable. 
  • Balbo Drive - Petition to Erase Italian Landmark

    • Balbo Drive, in Chicago commemorates the historic transatlantic flight from Italy to Chicago led by General Italo Balbo of the Royal Italian Air Force (Regia Aeronautica) in 1933, the FIRST Transatlantic Flight of a  FORMATION OF AIRPLANES,(an entire squadron of 24 planes) which was planned to coincide with the Chicago?s Century of Progress World?s Fair of that year.  Some Egg Head Professor's are attempting to discredit him.
  • CUOMO to Be OBAMA's  2012 Running Mate????? NIGGER and WOP????

    • My response is Ecstatic and Gloom. Andrew Cuomo whose record as NY Governor has been spectacular and is a replicate of his father Mario Cuomo, who was one of Americas great politicians. How Great. YET, A Ticket of a NIGGER and a WOP at the top of the Ticket will send Okies, Arkies, Cowboys, Cajuns, Shitkickers, Illiterates, Evangelicals, Anti Intellectuals, and all the other Tea Party and Birthers, Obama is Muslim Fanatics and Freaks  ballistic. !!!!!!!!!!  Forget American Exceptionalism, and Focus on American Ignorance and  Mediocrity. 
  • Andrew Cuomo NOT Eligible for President ...Because He is Italian American!!!

    • Is Senator Ball being Discriminatory, or merely stating Facts. Who is Responsible, The Movies and Media, the Ignorant American Masses, or Ourselves for Not More Vigorously Fight the Defamation and Negative Stereotyping. 
  • Boston's North End: Awash in Italian Red, White, and Green

    • Boston's North End has a revolutionary past and Italian present. It's the spot where Paul Revere began his midnight ride, the birthplace of John F. Kennedy's mother and a political meeting spot that still draws major figures to the Old North Church. But for the past century, it's also been home to the restaurants, cafes and pastry shops of the city's Italian immigrant community.
  • Obit: Jimmy Roselli, 85 - The Other Sinatra

    • The composer Sammy Cahn said that Roselli had "a larger, richer voice than Frank. He's a miracle" 

    June 2011
     

  • Layer 'Cake' -TV Series - Positive Italian American Image

    • For once,  they are not ignorant TV cafoni  who embarrass and insult every normal Italian-American. 
  • Rudy, Goodbye is Too Soon; Whereas Mario, We Can Hardly Wait

    • Rudy Giuliani was a public servant without peer and an incorruptible crime fighter. But that was before he morphed into a pathetic comic figure who rather lauding his Italian heritage's seminal role in the formation of our republic, Giuliani trafficked in vile Godfather and Tony Soprano stereotypes. 
  • 'Sopranos' Comparison Causes Fight On California Assembly Floor

    • When  Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (Italian American) demanded an apology, Wagner compounded and magnified his mistake by  retorting, "I will apologize to any Italian-Americans who are not in the Mafia and engaged in insurance scams."
  • Analysis of Radical Left's Recent Local Electoral Successes in Italy

    • It was Not the Moderate Left, but the Radical Left that swept Italy from North to South and scored victories in Milan,and Naples, but also in Turin, Cagliari, Trieste and several other cities.
  • Italians Vote to Abandon Nuclear Energy

    • Both the Gulf Spill and Japan Nuclear Disaster showed CAPITALISM can't Be TRUSTED. Engineering Safeguards were ignored, Safety Reports were Falsified, Fatal accidents Underreported and Earthquake risk purposely underestimated. 
  • WNBA Diana Taurasi Vindicated in Drug Accusation

    • The goal is to raise money for after-school programs for at-risk children. "I guess they must think I'm OK," Taurasi said
  • This Season of Jersey Shore  Cursed? - Italians Claim USA Deserves a Terrorist Attack for Filming in Italy!!!!

    • Seems the real Italians didn't want any part of the Shore- goers visiting their country. The cast hasn't been exactly embraced by the locals, and the bitterness began before the GTLers even landed, with them being labeled the "worst stereotypes of Italians"
  • "Jersey Shore" Cast Leave Florence to Find Italian Relatives -- Relatives NOT Excited !!! :) :)

    • I was convulsed by the fact that most of their Italian relatives were not interested.
  • Italian Americans Pledged Allegiance to Rocky Marciano and other Sports Greats

    • Rocky Marciano retired as an undefeated  world heavyweight champion at 49-0,  Marciano, along with DiMaggio and Vince Lombardi are the only three to have sculptures at the Hall of Fame at the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in the Little Italy neighborhood of Chicago.
  • Prof. Juliani Responds to " Italian World War I Trench Battles" Post

    • Richard Juliani, Professor of Sociology of Villanova University, a highly regarded Italian American Historian, that has devoted thirty years of research
  • Italian World War I Trench Battles Retraced by US Military Staff Ride

    • Much is written about the Western Front, and very little about the  Italian-Austrian Front
  • "Blood Type: Ragu" - One-Man Show,  Actor-playwright Frank Ingrasciotta Makes Peace with his Sicilian Heritage

    • Frank Ingrasciotta marries a fellow Sicilian, who therefore understands his life as the son of volatile Sicilian parents, and the strong ethnic Italian/Sicilian tradition that at times conflicts with the homogenizing effect of American culture.
  • Jersey Shore Apologizes For Being "Offensive" ; Not to Italians- Americans, But "Trannys"

    • I have difficulty having compassion for a group that is interested ONLY in It's OWN, and is willing to ignore Victimization of Others!
  • Italy Will Give Jersey Shore  Cast The Boot On June 20th

    • It has been a contentious and combative "Clash of Cultures"  rooted in opposing views of what it means to be Italian.
  • Italy's Francesca Schiavone Defending Champ Loses French Open Singles Tennis Title to Chinese Li Na

    • Francesca Schiavone (born June 23 1980 in Milan) a female Italian tennis player turned professional in 1998. She won the 2010 French Open singles title, becoming the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam event in singles.
  • The Mafia Hates Jersey Shore

    • Actually, it isn't referring to the REAL Mafia, only Paul Sorvino , who played one in "Goodfella's". Actually I haven't read where a REAL Mafioso has given their opinion, which is important because Guidos were originally "faux" Mafia.
  • MTV & " Jersey Shore" Turning US Into The United States of Jersey

    • But seriously, if we don't stop with the ridiculous reality shows now, we'll be one Situation away from becoming the United States of Jersey.
  • Italians Celebrate 150 Years of RE Unification

    • Tens of thousands of Italians, along with  Eighty World Leaders such as Vice President Joe Biden, joined the festivities in Rome in celebration of the Re Unification of Italy 150 years ago.
  • Giovanni Palatucci Honored, Hero of Holocaust-era Jews

    • Yad Vashem states that over 370 Italians have been recognized with a Gold medal awarded for their nobility, selflessness, and generosity to Jews during the Holocaust. Giovanni Palatucci was one of those 370
  • Video: Jon Stewart Goes Berserk About Donald Trump's Pizza-Eating - FUNNY !!!

    • Jon Stewart Berates Donald Trump for his choice of an Albanian La Famiglia Pizza chain over the Re known ORIGINAL Pizza Parlors in NYC, the MECCA of Pizza
  • Florence Labels "Jersey Shore" as "Tamarri" or "Yokels" and Unlikely to Succumb to "Stendhal Syndrome" - WSJ

    • The "Jersey Shore" cast arriving in Florence expecting to bask in their Italian heritage (although half are NOT Italian) are instead being given a very cold shoulder, are being banned from numerous public locations and even private establishments.
  • The Italian Paradox

    • The Paradoxes of  "aggressive- in a hurry driving and leisurely lunches", - "ultra modern stores next to centuries old architectural masterpieces", " the incredible number of churches in Italy, many which were formerly pagan sites",  "is the location of the Vatican, yet has the lowest church attendance in Europe"
     

    May 2011
     

  • Italian Fashion Supreme for Half Century

    • February 12, 1951, is pointed out as the birth date of the modern Italian fashion, that began with the competition between the three serious centres of Italian style: Rome, Milan and Florence, with Milan prevailing.
  • Italy Elections: Berlusconi Gets Bloody Nose

    • In the recent Local elections throughout Italy, Silvio Berlusconi's coalition lost major battles including in his home turf of Milan.  These defeats have  sowed  discord with his important allies, the Northern League, who were critical of his campaign and may question whether their alliance with Mr Berlusconi's party is damaging them.
  • "Padule di Fucecchio" WWII Massacre of 184 Gets Three Ex-Nazis Life

    • The village of Padule di Fucecchio between Florence and Pistoia endured the massacre of 184 civilians on August 23, 1944, a day after an SS division killed 560 people including 116 children in nearby Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
  • Florentines Appalled at "Jersey Shore" - Called "Fare Casino"

    • Almost every Florentine local interviewed regarding "Jersey Shore" used the expression fare casino.  " Fare casino"  is an idiomatic Italian phrase ; it literally means "to make a brothel".
  • Italians Love Their Food, But are Slimmest in Europe

    • There is no denying that Italians love their food, but yet they are one of the slimmest nations in Europe. They are less likely to die from cancer or heart disease, and to top it all off, they live longer.
  • "Tamarri" (yokel or uncultured idiot) "Jersey Shore" Cast Start Pizza Wars in Florence

    • Just across the famous Ponte Vecchio bridge from O'Vesuvio, Munaciello Pizzeria has placed a bright green sign in their window that says, "Tamarri Americans? 'Jersey Shore' ... no thank you. Only real Italian pizza,"
  • Arandora Star Monument Dedicated - Italian Cloister Garden at St Andrews Cathedral in Glasgow

    • Rando Bertoia, an Italian-born Scot, now 91, was invited  to visit the new Italian Cloister Garden at St Andrew's Cathedral in Glasgow,  and saw the central monument which is dedicated to the Scots-Italians who drowned aboard the Arandora Star
  • 'Jersey Shore' Cast (The SuperBuffoons) Lands in Florence

    • A local headline screamed  "Jersey Shore: The Superbuffoons have arrived"
  • US Wall Street has "The Bull", Italy Milan Bourse Gets "The Finger"

    • Seems "The Finger" is a more appropriate gesture (warning) for Investors, who are subjected to all kinds of  Fraud, Deceit, Double Dealing, etc
  • Dad Rips Into His Son  'The Situation' of Jersey Shore

    • "The Situation"'s father did not even get a return phone call, and Mike says so often about how important family is. He has some choice remarks about Deena, and Snooki. 
  • San Diego "Little Italy" Still Vibrant

    • San Diego's Italian neighborhood was "different from the other Little Italys in the United States". The Italians here "lived in a more confined geographical area, stayed mostly within that area, and rarely associated with people who were non-Italian"
  • Predicted EarthQuake in Rome Is No Show

    • An Unverifiable Rumor that Raffaele Bendandi, an Italian pseudoscientist who died in 1979, predicted before his death that a massive earthquake will strike Rome on Wednesday, May 11, prompted thousands to flee Rome. 
  • Famed Israeli Conductor Daniel Barenboim w Italians from La Scala Conducts Peace Concert in Gaza

    • Daniel Barenboim, a proud Israeli is vilified whenever he fails to follow the "Right Wing Party Line", and is called a self hating Jew. It is Not permitted to mention there is ANY Merit to those who oppose the position of those who are "Occupiers of the West Bank" or "Strangling Gaza". Israel constantly conveniently forgets that ISRAEL was created by Terrorism , and the Palestinians have tried to take a page out of the Israeli "playbook" 
  • Christina Perri Enjoying Overnight Success

    • Christina Perri (born August 19, 1986) grew up in Bensalem, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Philadelphia).is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist.  with her older brother, Nick Perri, who formerly played guitar with Shinedown, Silvertide, Perry Farrell and Matt Sorum.
  • Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici Gives Italian Youths Warning and Refuge from Jersey Shore Cast

    • "Jersey Shore" in Italy apparently had secured Filming rights at the Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici, BUT the Institute has since realized that  its Italian students needed to be warned about the impending presence of the "Jersey Shore" cast , admonished their students to avoid the cast if at all possible, and will provide housing in alternative buildings if desired, or will give REFUNDS to any students wishing to avoid the experience totally. 

    April 2011
     

  • Assicurazioni Generali Resignation of Chairman Cesare Geronz... is Good for Italy

    • Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A is best known for having been founded in the Jewish Community, and Jewish controlled, then denied Payouts to Holocaust Victim  Beneficiaries, which world wide was considered Italians Refusing proper Payments to Jews.
  • Mark Kostabi Premieres "Con Artist". Now Calls Rome Home

    • Now calling Rome home and hosting a show on public access where contestants compete to name his paintings
  • Super Mario Draghi of Italy, Top candidate for Head of the European Central Bank

    • The mass-circulation Bild blares: "No Way" will "This Italian" become president of the ECB, which "Oversees the Legacy of the Good, Stable German Mark.
  • The Idiotic History Professor DeMattei Claims Fall of Rome Caused by Homosexuality

    • This is so absurd, but it is ridiculous enough to be entertaining. De Mattei completely overlooks the Invasion of the  Hordes of Barbarians. 
  • Book: "The Journey of the Italians in America" By Vincenza Scarpaci

    • As much a history of Italian influence on America, this work is also a history of American influence on Italians, as Scarpaci makes plain through evaluating the differences among generations of Italian Americans. 
     

    March 2011
     

  • Geraldine A. Ferraro, From Extremely Modest Background to Breaking Glass Cielings

    • Geraldine A. Ferraro, born into the tragedy of the death of her brother, then the loss of her father at 8,  became seriously anemic --  from internalizing her grief.  Her mother moved the family to a cramped Bronx apartment and took a job as a crochet beader.
  • Ardeatine Caves Massacre Memorial to Nazi Victims in Rome

    • The Fosse Ardeatine Massacre was a mass execution of 335 Italians carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War
  • "It Happened in Italy"  Another Documentation of Italians Saving Jews During WWII

    • Elizabeth Bettina. is a 'newbie" to the subject, and only able to cover it superficially. The degree to which Italians risked death to help those of a different faith is astounding
  • Obit: Geraldine Ferraro, First Female Vice Presidential Candidate

    • Political heavyweights weigh in on the death of Geraldine Ferraro. I'm sure Ms Ferraro is "doing penance" paving the way for "idiot wacko" Sarah Palin, and her "ditto" Michelle Bachman.
  • "Jersey Shore" as Role Model for Teeners

    • Survey shows "Jersey Shore", the post teeners watch it as a guilty pleasure and do not take it seriously.
  • Berlusconi is Fun Loving Choir Boy Compared to Israel's Former President Katsav

    • Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav was sentenced to seven years in prison for rape, sexual harassment and obstruction of justice
  • The Dithering in Libya, Not About Democracy But Economics

    • Italy is in the middle of the jockeying about military strategy in Libya, because all the countries want to be on the winning side in order to gain profitable economic franchises at the conclusion of hostilities
  • Celebrating ReUnification in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ?

    • The Italians are not known as fervent nationalists. They do not beat the Italian drum or wrap themselves around the flag, unlike some other nations. They do not need to.
  • The Southern Italian is Lower than a Negro - Booker T. Washinfton

    • First, After visiting a rural Southern Italy , Booker T. Washington, a former slave, commented: "The Negro is not the man farthest down." 
  • "How Italian Food Conquered the World" ; By John F. Mariani

    • Not a word is said about  Italian Cuisine being the  "Mother Cuisine of Europe".
  • Italian Riviera is Celebebrity Hotspot -Rivaling the "Other" Italian/French Riviera

    • The Italian (or Ligurian) Riviera, extending from the border with France at its western extremity to the five picturesque villages that make up the fabled Cinque Terre, now a UN World Heritage Site
  • WWII Allied Aces Give High Praise to Italian Pilots, Low Marks to Luftwaffe

    • George Beurling, the legendary Canadian ace, renown Wing Commander George Burges, and others had High Respect for the Courage of the Italian Pilots
  • For Closely Tied Italy and Libya - Freedom War Can't End Soon Enough

    • No European country has closer ties to Libya than Italy. Libyan investments in brand-name Italian companies have become hugely controversial.
  • A 150 yr ReUnification Celdebration, after Initial Unification 2200 yrs ago

    • "To create Italy was the first great historical achievement of Rome; to make a political and cultural unity of the whole Mediterranean world was to repeat this task on a larger scale"
  • "Italian American Reconciliation"  on Broadway

    • Huey Maxmillian Bonfigliano has a problem. He's still stuck on his ex-wife, even though she tore out his heart three years ago. He feels that he can't be a man again until he gets her back. 
  • Dietrologia: An Italian Mindset:  Official Explanation for Something Can Rarely Be The Real One

    • Do we seem stupid or what??????  Now we are going after IRAN, because we don't like IRAN since they threw out OUR SHAH. ln 1979, after the US placed him on the Throne in a US Coup, that displaced a DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED Mohammad Mosaddeq in 1953, resulting in the return of the Shah and his infamous SAVAK.
  • Berlusconi in 13 'sexual acts' with 17-year-old; We Want Details - Compared with US

    • Maybe we should take a look at US Congressional Sex Scandals, in the last decade, mostly involving married men, involving both married single men, and 'gay" men and mostly hypocrites who extolled "Family Values"
  • 600 "Authentic" Italian Restaurants Identified Worldwide; 18 of them are in Chicago

    • With the "slop" that worldwiders cram down their gullets with pleasure, as Italian Food, it is REASSURRING that the "Authentic " is being Recognized and that Restaurants are being held to a high standard.
  • 10 Best Italian Sexy Movies

    • I can honestly and regretfully say that I have NOT since a single one of these movies,Alas,  I've lived a sheltered life! :)
  • Heroic Riccardo Muti Conducts Rare Encore of "Va' Pensiero," With Audience Participation.

    • It isn't every day that a conductor concedes an encore for an opera chorus. Even rarer is asking the audience to sing it, but maestro Riccardo Muti has just done so for the love of homeland.
  • Antonio Pappano: 'I didn't know what I was. Now I'm discovering my Italian roots.'

    • Antonio Pappano is music director of the Royal Opera in London and of Rome's Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
  • Beaches and the Bush of Kenya  have an Italian beneath every Umbrella!

    • One vacations in other countries for Nature and Culture. Italians obviously don't have to leave Italy for Culture, it is the Greatest  Storehouse of Culture in the World. So for Nature, Italians are attracted to one of the most outstanding Nature Reserves in the World..... Masai Mara
  • Fast Cars to Latin Lovers: Italy's Top 15 Cultural Exports

    • This beguiling peninsula has produced an incredible wealth of cultural exports: 1. Claudia Cardinale ; 2. La dolce far niente; 3. Cars ;4. Gondoliers; 5. The sonnet; 6. Gelato; 7. Caruso;8. Federico Fellini 9. Latin; 10. Mafia; 11. Ancient Rome;12. Casanova;13. Dante; 14. Leonardo da Vinci; 15. Roberto Baggio according to the London Independent .
  • Libya to Punish Italy for Siding with Ghaddi Opposition

    • Italy has historically been Libya's largest Trading Partner oftren reaching 50%. 
  • Rep. Peter King Leads Bigot Hearings: What Next, Hearings on Italian Americans and Crime?

    • Investigating Muslim-Americans because of Anwar al-Awlaki makes about as much sense as investigating Italian-Americans because of John Gotti
  • Italy Pledges Support for Any Sanctions Against Libya

    • Italian President Giorgio Napolitano says Italy is ready to contribute to any action taken against Libya and back any decisions by the UN, EU or NATO.
  • Book:  "The Pursuit Of Italy", By David Gilmour

    • Local administration regulates an urban life as civilised as any on the planet in scores of towns such as Trento and Bergamo, Pistoia and Arezzo, Mantua and Verona, Lecce and Bressanone.
  • Book Review: 'Conversations With Scorsese'

    • Martin Scorsese is a character.Brilliant, brazen, engaging, esoteric, reverent, irreverent, ironic, all are qualities that have forged the 68-year-old director into an unqualified master.
  • Anti-Italianism - A History

    • An Italian home that does not have this book is incomplete and uninformed. Below is an very abbreviated and incomplete History. 
  • How Muammar al-Qaddafi Hoodwinked Italy for Decades

    • How did Qaddafi so completely seduce Rome? 
  • Italian Language is a Powerfully Aggregating Factor

    • There are still serious Regionalism, and Italy only becomes REALLY Unified during The World Soccer Cup , and the Olympics.
  • Pompeii Exhibit In NYC Shines Light On Buried City

    • Pompeii, with 25,000 inhabitants, were well-to-do farmers, bankers, ship captains and traders whose thriving city existed for 700 years before it was snuffed out in just 24 hours, more than 2000 years ago, on the morning of Aug. 24, 79 A.D.
  • "Beyond DiMaggio", a Book on The History of Italian Americans in Baseball

    • A straightforward "chronological history of the evolution of Italian Americans in professional baseball" from Ed Abbaticchio, who made his debut in 1897, to such recent players as Mike Piazza and Craig Biggio. 
  • "Guido Monologues" Off-Off Broadway Play Not "Jersey Shore", But Still Crap

    • This play deserves NO PUBLIC Attention from the Italian American Community, for fear of giving it Free Advertising and Controversy. However it would be wise to embark on an "underground" boycott and attack, "Guerilla warfare". We can't win Conventional warfare.
  • Italy Would Permit UN Using Sigonella Airbase in Sicily to Enforce Libya No Fly Zone

    • The US standing by as spectators at a Gladiator fight and Pundits talking themselves silly while the  Oppressed people of Libya attempt to overthrow their 40 Year Dictatorship, with literally guns vs fighter planes is a STAIN on the US so called desire to promote Democracy.
  • "Jersey Boys"  Raging Success on Broadway of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

    • Four Italian Americans:  Francis Castelluccio, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi - New Jersey guys the world came to know as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

    February 2011
     

  • Turin, Home of Fiat, Could be the Next Detroit

    • The wage and benefit cuts that reshaped America's Motor City have turned Turin, Fiat's hometown, into a battlefield again.
  • Manhattan's "Little Italy" Getting "A Lot Littler"

    • Sixty years ago, nearly half the population living in "Little Italy", the once 50 square block Italian hub, some 10,000 residents identified themselves as Italian-American. "Little Italy" now is designated as a two-dozen-square-block area, but with the encroachment of NoLIta (North of Little Italy) and NoHo and the expected creation of a Chinatown Business Improvement District will leave TWO SQUARE BLOCKS.
  • Connecticut Claims "Most Italian" Status, Moves Rhode Island Aside?

    • Nearly 20 percent of Connecticut residents surveyed said they had Italian heritage, the most of any state. Rhode Island held that honor in 2007 & 2008.  New Jersey was 17 percent, and New York was just 14 percent.
  • Italy is Libya's Top Trading Partner - Effect of Unrest

    • Italy is SO important to Libya that it  bought 49 percent of Libya's exports to the 27-nation EU in 2009, which meant that it alone sold as much goods to Libya than the ENTIRE 27 EU Bloc. Furthermore, Italy was responsible for 39 percent of the bloc's sales to Libya.
  • Clinton Sex Scandal Considered Prudish By Europeans; Berlusconi's Sex Life Now a Catastrophe

    • US President Bill Clinton had Sexual Relations with an Intern (Sexual Harassment), while he was Married to Hillary (Adultery), then lied to Hillary ( Who then Stood by her man on TV), and Bill then lied to a Congressional Committee (An Impeachable Offense). and then went on TV and Lied to the Public with a straight sincere face  (Unforgivable) , and Europeans were amused by American PRUDISHNESS !!!!
  • Italy's Amalfi Coast: Eat, Pray, Awesome

    • The author goes orbital about Italy's Amalfi Coast justifiably, but the poor soul hasn't seen ANY of the rest of the Sumptuous Cornucopia that Italy is for the Tourist.
  • Boy Brits Are 'Turning Italian'  - Becoming "Mammismo"

    • What shocked me was that Parents are three times more likely to allow their sons to move in than their daughters who are seen as lazier and less likely to contribute !!!
  • Venice Carnival - The Masked Charms

    • One million people will flock to the city in the weeks before Fat Tuesday, on March 8, to take in an array of concerts, plays, parades and 18th-century costumes. Iconic  Masks were essential to the function of the original Venetian Carnival. From the 11th century the Carnival  provided a safety valve for social tensions by letting people of all classes gamble, sing, dance and otherwise divert themselves together in faceless anonymity.
  • Viva Italia: 2012 Fiat 500

    • It takes all of two seconds to see that the new 500 is a whole new cannoli. Even if you ignore its adorable styling inside and out (and that's a tall order), it's a magnificent piece of engineering.
  • OMG - Snooki  is Way Dumber Than Dirt!!!!!

    • Snooki (A Chilean) or NONE of the Jersey Shore cast (With Mexican and Irish members) speaks Italian. Snooki thinks Italians eat only Spaghetti, and when asked about sight seeing opportunities, Snooki confessed she was really excited to see the "the big buildings... I know there's a couple." 
  • Italy's Million Dollar "God Of Wind" Sports Car Coming To America

    • The Pagani Huayra is entering the U.S. market. The $1.1 million sports car is so exclusive, only 18 were produced last year.
  • "Foxy Knoxy" Parents Indicted for Libel in Italy

    • This appeared to be an attempt by these divorced trailer park parents to excuse the numerous different versions of events Knoxy gave. 
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in NYC - Centennial Commemeration of 39 Italians Out of 149 Dead

    • The Inferno in the Greenwich Village factory, brought to light the sweatshop conditions that were prevalent at the time; many of the garment workers who died were immigrants, and most were women,and of the 146 that died, 39 were Italian. 
  • Italian Women Demand Berlusconi to Take Vow of Celibacy

    • Not Quite. But How is an UNMarried Man who Enjoys the Intimate Company of a variety of Attractive Women a Scandal???
  • Italy Struggles with Tunisia Refugee Flood

    • 6,000 Tunisians suffering even greater economic deprivation after the overthrow of a despotic dictator brought another torrent of refugees across  the small body of water that separates Tunisia from the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, that is only 70 miles from Tunisia and 127 mi from Sicily.
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  • 'The Betrothed' ("I Promessi Sposi"-1827), by Alessandro Manzoni, Greatest Italian Novel of Modern Times 

    • 'The Betrothed' is considered the greatest Italian novel of modern times and its author, Alessandro Manzoni, the principal novelist of 19th-century Italy and leader of the nation's romantic movement. "With the exception of Dante's Comedy, no other book has been the object of more intense scrutiny or more intense scholarship."
  • Christof Innerhofer of Italy Wins Gold, Silver and Bronze  In World Ski Championships

    • First there was the gold in super-G, the opening men's event, something of a surprise for an Italy team that hadn't won a race all season, men's or women's. Then came bronze in the downhill, On Monday, Innerhofer closed out his trifecta with silver in the super-combined.
  • Watts Towers Get $500,000 Grant for Preservation

    • The Irvine Foundation has pledged $500,000. It will require $5 million worth of work to put the Towers in optimal condition.
  • Prosciutto is to Ham as Lamborghini is to a Mini Cooper

    • Prosciutto is made from the cured hind leg of the pig. It is cut so that one end is rounded. Then the laborious process begins: the meat is massaged with salt daily for a whole month until the salt has penetrated right through to the centre of the flesh. 
  • Snooki Voted Nightmare Celebrity Valentine's Date

    • Amazing!!!  This Short, Fat, Loudmouthed, Drunken "PunchBoard" Snooki beat out Paris Hilton, and Lindsay Lohan!!!!!
  • British Rupert Murdoch Makes Berlusconi look SmallTime

    • If Murdoch was to have done what evidence supports, but  was swept under the carpet, one can only imagine what Murdoch is doing in the US
  • Italian Ladies Throw Panties at Berslusconi

    • Why are Women Protesting? Because they would rather have him chase the Fat & Ugly, or Men, or Young Boys??????  He is Divorced, therefore Single, and the women seem to Enjoy it and are  WELL PAID!!!!   Problem??
  • Disunity over Unification Celebration

    • The autonomy-minded Northern League party, and the head of the predominantly German-speaking South Tyrol, are opposed to the celebration, and there still is a strong North/South divide.
  • Lady Gaga- Outlandish and Traditional - Vogue Cover

    • Lady Gaga, with the impending release of "Born This Way" reasserts that despite her "over the top" shows, getups, antics, insists she is a traditional family oriented good Italian American girl.
  • Book: "Halfway to Each Other"

    • A Financially Successful American Family  yet in Emotional Disarray, living in Los Angeles Sells their Goods, Quit their Jobs and go to live in Genoa,  Italy, to rebuild the  family dynamics gone wrong. 
  • Simon Rodia's Watts Towers - Treasure Struggles for Recognition and Financing

    • The Watt's Towers, consisting of 17 structures, the tallest 100 ft. are an iconic work of folk art  built by an eccentric Italian immigrant working alone in his yard over 33 years, that is considered by some as one of the most extraordinary works of art in the nation.
  • "Jersey Shore" Producer Sally Ann Salsano: "I was Snooki," a Youthful Fat Drunken Whore

    • When she says "I am my people," she must mean a Guidette, like a Biker Chick or Rock Band Groupie, NOT a GENUINE Italian American. 
  • Italian "Big Mamma" Stereotypes Gone - Thin Is In

    • Not only are the the full figures of yesteryear in Italy gone, but -- Italian women are the only ones getting thinner despite an obesity epidemic in the Western world. It's all thanks to major cultural changes in Italy, a healthy Mediterranean diet and simply paying more attention to waistlines.
    Italy Cringes at "Jersey Shore" Filming
    "That's the last thing we need," Beppe Severgnini, one of the most respected journalists in Italy told the Wall Street Journal, when queried about  Jersey Shore" filming it's 4th season in Italy. "I'm afraid, The image of Italy abroad is already weakened." 

    January 2011
     

  • Italy's 150th Anniversary - Pres. Obama & Other  State Leaders Dignataries Invited

    • The specific dates and years of Italian Unification (Italian: il Risorgimento, or "The Resurgence", when agglomerated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century,) is uncertain because it was accomplished in increments over a decade
  • US Extends Agreement re: Looting of Italy's Archaeological Treasures

    • In 2001 the US and the Republic of Italy made a bilateral agreement that imposed import restrictions on archaeological material derived from Italy. The agreement was renewed in 2006, and in January 2011 the US Department of Homeland Security announced a further five year extension.
  • Top Ten Best Italian Movie Stars; Classic Movies; Movies of 2010

    • No one makes movies like the Italians.
  • IAOVC  Names SallyAnn Salsano Winner of 2010 "Pasta-Tute" of the Year Award

    • Both  SallyAnn Salsano, and Johnny "Meatballs" DeCarlo speaking in the spirit of current "civil" discourse, it would seem only appropriate, that they both be "TARGETS" of the greatest Opprobrium
  • Michael Parenti: What is My Ethnicity? Italian-American or Mafia?

    • There have been claims by those in the Government that the FBI has been instructed ever since the Kefauver Hearings, to Focus almost entirely on Italian criminals, that always engender more  "colorful" Headlines, and ignore the Jewish criminals, for fear of raising Anti Semitism.
  • Italian 'Influential Jews' List Raises Jewish Ire

    • It is Stunning to me that there is a  S**t Storm In Italy because a Neo Nazi Group "Storm Front" Posted a List of 'Influential Jews' in Italy. It is being Screamed as Anti- Semitism.
  • Italians are Crazy for Facebook

    • It is Not Surprising that since Family and Friends are so Important to Italians that of the 600 million users (utenti) of the world's most popular social networking site (sito web di reti sociali), almost 18 million are Italians, representing 30.57 percent of their country's population and 59.15 percent of Italians online.
  • Italy Wins World Cup Of Poker 2011

    • Since it is Not a very important moment in Italian Culture, but because I'm a Texas Hold'em Fan, Maybe I'm the only one that was excited :) 
  • "What a Beautiful Day" Now Italy's Most SuccessfulFilm

    • "What a Beautiful Day" an unlikely comedy from television funnyman Checco Zalone, has passed Roberto Benigni's three-time Oscar winning "La vita e' bella (Life is Beautiful) to set the all-time national earnings record for an Italian film.
  • Scene from "Good Shepard": Owners of US tell Italians, Imdigenous et al, You are Just Visitors

    • Native Americans commiserate with Palestinians about similar indignities and atrocities in their histories. 
  • Laura Soave, Fulfills Her Destiny as Portrayed by 35 year Photo

    • Shortly after Laura Soave, the 38-year-old daughter of Italian-American parents, traded a secure job at Volkswagen for the uncertainty of relaunching the Fiat brand at Chrysler Group in the US and Canada, her father dug up an old photograph. In it, a three-year-old Soave is perched atop the hood of a Fiat 500 during a family vacation in Italy. "My father brought the picture back to me and said, 'Look, destiny.'
  • Italy Second Guessing Oscar Nomination "The First Beautiful Thing" vs. "I Am Love"

    • Some are saying that the Italy selections are too insular, others say it is an Anti Berlusconi slight, in that the rwo films, the last two years,  having greater international acceptance were Belusconi's Mediaset projects.
  • Mirafiori: Fiat's Oldest, Biggest Factory Gets New Life

    • A union vote, giving Fiat concessions, will have Fiat committing 1-billion in the Mirafiori plant, and avoid shifting production to lower-cost Fiat and Chrysler factories in Poland, Serbia and North America.
  • "Brava, Valentine" By Adriana Trigiani, Sequel to "Very Valentine"

    • Trigiani, a former television writer, is also also author of novels Lucia, Lucia; Queen of the Big Time and Rococo ; the nonfiction Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from my Grandmothers, and the young-adult novel Viola in Reel Life.
  • Andrea Palladio Resolution Passes Congress

    • Andrea Palladio is the most influential architect in history and the country he most influenced is the United States, Palladio's treatise, `The Four Books of Architecture', ranks as the most influential publication on architecture ever produced and has shaped much of the architectural image of Western civilization.
  • Italy is Politically Pristine Compared to Israel

    • Other European Countries love to deride Italy for it's supposed Foibles, which is in most cases, is an attempt to feel Superior and Deflect from it's own serious Scandals. But Never again let us hear criticism from Israel that has been called on the Brink of Descending into an Abyss of Immorality.
  • If US Has Such Outstanding Medical Care, Why is Omaha Family Going to Italy?

    • Italy's Medical Research and Medical Care is Highly Underrated, and among the most advanced in Europe. The only  problem being that it is not as assessable to the Middle Class as it is the Wealthy. 
  • Italians Object to Spike Lee's King Holiday Speech

    • Bill Dal Cerro, president of the Italic Institute of America, rightly claims that Spike Lee's portrayal of Italian-Americans has over the decades been grievously negative and distorted, and conflicts with Dr. Kings' message of unity.
  • Italian Beers Gaining Respect

    • An Italian craft beer revolution is underway. Among 10 Italian beers tasted, they have been uniformly excellent: varied in taste and body, but complex and rewarding. Most fascinating is that they rarely conform to a style; Italian craft beer is often breaking its own ground.
  • Cycling Differences Between Italy and France -Very Informative

    • British climber Jamie Burrow spent five years racing in the professional ranks in Italy, but most Italian cycling fans don't recognize his name because of his professional exploits. Instead he is best known in Italy for his results in the Grand Fondo events, the long, mountainous one-day races held throughout the year.
  • Haverhill MA Sons of Italy Drum and Bugle Corps Marches to the Beat of Tradition and Family For 7 Decades

    • The Drum an Bugle Corps' regular complement comprises 12 drummers and 20 bugles, but turnout can range from 15 to 50 . The corps also boasts a five-person color guard and a drill team of eight women.
  • Caserta, Italy, and  the Palace of Caserta, that Shames Versailles

    • The Palace of Caserta is an immense Baroque compound designed in the 18th century by Luigi Vanvitelli for the Bourbon king of Naples to rival Versailles
  • Jersey Shore Premieres HUGE - 8 Million

    • You then understand why Europeans look down on the US when the Jersey Shore premiere of Season 3 garnered 8 million viewers. A  bunch of goofy pretend Italian-Americans living in the same house,  watching them get naked when they shed their swimsuit and get into verbal confrontations with midgets?
  • Patty Stanger & Millionaire Matchmaker - The Jewish " Jersey Shore"

    • Ilana Angel in the Jewish Journal gives a Mortifying and Hilarious Critique of Patty Stanger "Millionaire Matchmaker", Patty, the Matchmaker, Robin, and Luke are all the worst of Jewish Stereotypes.
  • Italy's Oscar Entries: "I Am Love" and "La Prima Cosa Bella" Are in Ugly Battle

    • I Am Love, a Golden Globe nomination, director Luca Guadagnino and La Prima Cosa Bella, Italy's Oscar entry, director Paolo Virzi  are in a "spirited" debate.
  • Sicily: A New Dawn

    • Sicily is radiating a new confidence. Perhaps more importantly for the visitor, it has spawned a new generation of chefs, hoteliers, gallery owners and travel entrepreneurs
  • Highly Educated Italians Leave Italy for Greater Job Opportunities

    • Some 300,000 highly educated Italians have opted to leave a country that has become rich without dismantling a social framework in which access to jobs depends on family ties, political affiliations and raccomandazioni 
  • Louis Prima - Dynamic and Supercharged with Neapolitan Magnetism - Wall Street Journal

    • New Orleans-born trumpeter and singer Louis Prima,was one of the great avatars of an era in pop music when comedy was as important as romance
  • John Fante; Italian American Novelist, The Most Famous Unknown Writer in America

    • On April 8, 2010, the City of Los Angeles declared the corner of 5th & Grand, beside the Central Library, JOHN FANTE SQUARE. Today John Fante might be best described as the most famous unknown writer in America.
  • Italy Bans Plastic Bags, California Fails To

    • California a US state in 1850, is  considered one of the most Progressive states, yet Italy banned the Plastic Bag, while California failed.
  • Robert De Niro Woos Monica Bellucci: 'Manual of Love 3'

    • In this third installment, a story of people starting over, includes a love-story vignette featuring Robert DeNiro and Monica Bellucci 
  • PANE AMARO (Bitter Bread)

    • The Italian version of this film was broadcast nationally in Italy by RAI-Italian Television and received wide critical acclaim. The Italian newspaper "La Stampa" called it: "An investigation into our past that is more compelling than a feature film."
  • Italy's Nuclear Renaissance

    • Italy is the largest importer of electricity in the world with the majority of its sources located in Switzerland and France. 
  • Spumante vs. Champagne: Battle of the Bubbles

    • For the First time in history, Italian growers outproduced the French region of Champagne, but more important, while France cut it's bottles by 44%. Italy increased theirs by 22%.
  • Sign Petition to Save CSULB's Italian Studies MA Program

    • Permit me to Deviate from general practice to Highly Recommend your SIGNING a Petition to Continue the Endowed George L. Graziadio Chair of Italian Studies at California State University, Long Beach

    December 2010
     

  • Italian Teen Boys Troubled by Topless Sunbather?

    • Now REALLY! Was it the Mother or the Boys that were "troubled"? And if the boys were really "troubled", is the same way that I am "troubled" when I am exposed to bare breasts on a beautiful woman?????  :)
  • What Are Those Dark Spots On That Dam?  Hoax or Astounding?

    • The Dam at Lake Cingino, a reservoir created by adding a dam and enlarging a small lake in the Valley of Antrona in the Italian Alps is 160 ft high and Virtually Vertical, and those spots are Alpine Ibex seeking to lick the salts and mineral residue from the water overflow.
  • Obit: Amedeo Guillet, 101: Italian Officer Led the Last  Cavalry Charge Faced by British Army in 1941

    • Overlooked by too many, perhaps the most famous Italian Calvary man in Italian History died in June at 101 years old. 
  • Candace Dempsey Is Journalistic Whore for Amanda  Knox, and Stirring up Anti-Italy Sentiments

    • Candance Dempsy is just trying to sell her book, and will ignore or discount any evidence convicting "Foxy Knoxy". 
  • Catania-Syracuse 19 mi Solar Powered Highway First  Ever to be Built

    • A renewable highway isn't a new concept - but filling the road with photo voltaic panels - and is the first to be built. 
  • DVD: "The American" Starring George Clooney in Italian Abruzzo Mountains is World's First "Spy Arthouse" Movie

    • "The American" is like a trip to wine country, whereas watching a "Bourne" movie is akin to a wild night at the local sports bar. 
  • Book:"The Deeds of My Fathers" - Generoso Pope Sr: Italian Immigrant to NY Cement King, Publisher of "Il Progresso"

    • Generoso Pope Sr. was born near Arpaise, Italy, in 1891 and came to America at age 15 to strike it big. That he did. For a time, Pope was the king of the New York City cement world; He became incredibly rich as Manhattan and the other boroughs used supplies from his Colonial Sand & Stone for their roads, bridges and skyscrapers.
  • Erri De Luca: Iran is the Most Important Country in World Politics Today

    • Erri De Luca,  Italian poet and writer. was interviewed by Kourosh Ziabari of the Salem News of Oregon.
  • "The Tailor at the Bottom of the Sea" and 450 Other Italian- English Perish

    • "The Arandora Star ", which was transporting to Canada, Italian and German designated "Enemy Aliens" when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat. Around 800 people died including 450 Italian internees.
  • Italy's  Ancient and Renaissance Ruins Going to Ruin

    • With Italy having more significant  Historical Architectural and Artifacts than all the Rest of the Europe put together, Italy is having difficulty supporting the enormous financial burden to maintain the Treasures, and carry out further digs. 
  • "Brutti ma Buoni"- "Ugly But Good" Cookies - Tasty Italian Tradition

    • These unassuming, delicate little puffs of meringue studded with nuts and, in this case, chocolate, are kind of ugly. But they're also crunchy, chewy and downright delicious. 
  • Italian "Seven Fishes" Christmas Eve Tradition

    • Feast of the Seven Fishes" tradition. The dishes, which typically total seven, representing the seven sacraments, are each prepared using a different fish, technique and seasonings.
  • Italy Seizes BofA, UBS etc Assets in Derivative Swaps Fraud

    • The seizure of 22  million euros from six lenders represents the alleged illicit profit the banks made from selling derivatives swaps to the city of Florence, the region of Tuscany and three other municipalities in the region, The local governments have lost about 123 million euros on the swaps 
  • Berluscomi Survives Close Confidence Vote

    • Regarding the article and author, Oh my God ! So much inaccuracy and prejudice and all in one article. And reflecting her own Insecurity on ALL Italians. This is quite an achievement... The reality is that as Mr Blair said when he came recently to Italy is that if the left in Italy wants to beat Berlusconi they  need to start speaking about politics and stop the personal attack; of course that would imply having a sensible political agenda which the left clearly doesn't have. 
  • Ancient Roman Statue Unearthed by Powerful Storm  in Israel

    • The mysterious white-marble figure of a woman in toga and 'beautifully detailed' sandals was found in the remains of a cliff that crumbled under the force of 60mph winds and enormous 40ft waves.The statue, which lacks a head and arms, is about 4ft tall and weighs 440lbs.
  • US Ambassador to Italy Campaigns vs  "Bullying" for LGBT, But Not Others !!!!! 

    • How narrow is our view of our own hurts, and oblivious we are to the hurts of  others!!! Shame!!!
  • "Tarantella for the Winter Solstice"  - Not  Your Grandmother's Tarantella 

    • "Tarantella for the Winter Solstice," a NY Stage show work in progress that organizers hope to turn into "an Italian Riverdance." 
  • Nixon Tapes - Bigot or Realistic? Kissinger OK's Russian Jewish Holocaust 

    • President Richard Nixon reveals in his Tapes thought Italians did not have their heads "screwed on tight" I never was a fan of Nixon...
  • Italy's Rolling Stone Names Julian Assange -  Rockstar of the Year

    • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been named Rockstar of the Year and awarded the Cover of Italy's Rolling Stone.
  • Most of Venice Under Water

    • Most years Venice floods, it is usually just a matter of degree.  Often Temporary footbridges in St. Mark's Square need to be erected, but this year they were removed as the risk rose that they would be swept away by the fast rising waters.
  • Israeli Conductor Daniel Barenboim Wants  to  Resurrect Wagner at La Scala

    • Daniel Barenboim says the perception of Richard Wagner is unwarranted. Wagner was dead for 50 + years before Hitler adopted Wagners music.
  • Wikileaks Julian Assange Featured in Famous Naples Christmas Nativity

    • Gennaro Di Virgilio, creator of the famous Annual Naples, Italy Nativity Scene, yearly includes at least one contemporary   public figure to be "lionized" or "mocked".
  • Chrysler: Italians Succeed where Germans Failed

    • The skepticism in the halls of Chrysler ran thicker than pesto, when in November 2009, Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne stood before hundreds of skeptics and tried to convince the crowd that Fiat would succeed with Chrysler where German automaker Mercedes-Benz had failed in its ten-year ownership of the company.
  • Love Goddess "Aphrodite" is Returned to Italy

    • The love goddess Aphrodite is going home to Aidone, Sicily  Italy, stronger and more stable than she has been in 2,500 years.The statue, being returned  as part of Italy's decade-old campaign to retrieve antiquities it says were illegally brought to California, will be the last of 40 artifacts the J. Paul Getty Museum agreed to turn over.
  • Italy is Hard to Resist; From Villages Clinging to  Mountainsides to the Locals' Love of Life

    • Italy, no question, is a must-do for anyone contemplating travel, the picture postcard translucent skies, breathtaking hills, wafting lavender, fields of bowing sunflowers and impossibly cute ancient unspoilt towns and villages.
  • Giuseppe Garibaldi: Hero of Two Worlds ; NY Times

    • Garibaldi's thrilling deeds " unfolding day-by-day through 1860 on the front page of every major US newspaper, alongside stories detailing America's own dissolution" stood as both an inspiration and a rebuke.
  • More Proof That Vikings Were First to America, NO, Not Really !!!

    • First of all, the Vikings were not the First to America, they may not have even been the first Europeans, or even first from the Eastern Hemisphere, And  as best as we can tell, it were the Mongolians that crossed the Bering Bridge several millenniums ago to become the Native Americans, that beat the Vikings by several thousand years. 
  • NY Gov. Cuomo is like Machiavelli; And That's Good !!!

    • It seems as if Andrew has learned well from his father, and I would like Obama to not be SO POLITE to dedicated OBSTRUCTIONISTS, and use some of the Cuomo Machavelian tactics, (and his judious selected anger outbursts) 
  • Pierre Trudeau and Italians in Canada 

    • Pierre Trudeau faced Canadian electors five times, four times victoriously. and was the longest serving prime minister since the Second World War, Trudeau's success depended greatly on support from Canadians of Italian origin. 
  • Matteo Manassero: Italian Teen Golfing Sensation  Named Rookie of Year on the European Tour

    • Manassero is the first Italian to win the title.Since turning pro in May, Manassero has earned $1.156 million.
  • Book Claims Christopher Columbus Polish!!!!

    • People say the most outrageous things to sell books, and gain profit and infamy, Next we might expect books asserting Columbus was Albanian, Mongolian, North Korean or whatever.
  • OMG: Friggin Johnny "Meathead" DeCarlo's  Fat Frggin Slut Megin Prepares for Bastard Birth

    • Last Night's Episode, shows Megin "The Truck", preparing to go to the Hospital for baby delivery, assisted by "someday" Husband,  Wimpy Cadaver like Johnny, making sure that her Makeup is on properly, she says "Because there Maybe a Hot Doctor there"
  • Italy: Lack of Opportunity Prompts 4 Mln Italians to  Live Abroad

    • More than 4 million Italians, or about 7 percent of Italy's population, live abroad in search of a work, Europe is the Destination of Choice (55 %) North and South America follows with 39%. 
     
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