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		<title>Gordon Brown could do with the Berlusconi touch</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poor Gordon Brown - he must look with no small amount of envy across Europe to Italy, where Silvio Berlusconi looks set to romp home in this weekend&#8217;s European Election vote with his Popolo della Liberta party expected to win somewhere around 40% of the vote (which combined with their righ-wing alliance partners the Lega [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlusconi&#8217;s very public divorce</title>
		<link>http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/view_from_bologna/2009/05/berlusconis-very-public-divorce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 11:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi has always vaunted two major talents - an ability to control the media (both his own -  a substantial slice of tv and print - as well as those supposedly independent), and a masterful  ability to keep together seemingly shakey partnerships. It&#8217;s against this backdrop that his second wife, Veronica Lario, dropped a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gramscian Football</title>
		<link>http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/view_from_bologna/2009/04/gramscian-football/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are chilling moments in the life of any straniero when they realise that, with all the reflection, study, and will that certain ways of thinking, produced by local culture, tradition, and a very different history, will always be beyond them. 
These are moments, more often than not, conjured up out of hot-air when politicos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first person to pay for the Abruzzo disaster</title>
		<link>http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/view_from_bologna/2009/04/the-first-person-to-pay-for-the-abruzzo-disaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>3Monkeys</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Responding to some ill-defined public outrage (in part manafactured by newspapers owned or close to the Berlusconi family), both Prime Minister Berlusconi and the speaker of the house of deputies, Gianfranco Fini, called for swift and decisive action - not against builders responsible, in Abruzzo, for using shoddy materials and cutting costs, nor against civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On recognising comment spam - in an Italian political setting</title>
		<link>http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/view_from_bologna/2009/04/on-recognising-comment-spam-in-an-italian-political-setting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/view_from_bologna/2009/04/on-recognising-comment-spam-in-an-italian-political-setting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know you&#8217;re getting spammed in the comments when you receive a gushing tribute, to a post you wrote about Walter Veltroni,  saying that the topic is &#8216;quite trendy on the net at the moment&#8217;.  You can say many things about Walter Veltroni - and many do - but to the best of this blog&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aid for the Abruzzo Earthquake</title>
		<link>http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/view_from_bologna/2009/04/aid-for-the-abruzzo-earthquake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economists at LaVoce have issued a proposal for the Government to easily raise 172 million euro that can be set aside for reconstruction work. In belt-tightening times you&#8217;d imagine the government would be all ears, but I&#8217;ve the suspicion that this is a proposal that will be deftly ignored.
In June the country is set to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the right questions be asked about the earthquake in l&#8217;Aquila?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A state of emergency has been declared, funds are being allocated, and politics has been set aside momentarily in order to respond to the devestating earthquake which hit Abruzzo yesterday. It&#8217;s not a time for reflection, as Silvio Berlusconi pointed out in his press conference yesterday brushing aside the suggestions that this earthquake had already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy&#8217;s Brain Drain - 5 proposals to address the problem</title>
		<link>http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/view_from_bologna/2009/03/italys-brain-drain-5-proposals-to-address-the-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/view_from_bologna/2009/03/italys-brain-drain-5-proposals-to-address-the-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chart-topping political debates in Italy at the moment are the economic crisis, crime and security, federalism, and illegal immigration - ranked in importance according to the particular peccadiloes of each political party. One interesting phenomena, which is tied to each of these issues in one way or another, is the issue of Italian emmigration. 
Italian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Eluana - the image and the reality</title>
		<link>http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/view_from_bologna/2009/02/after-eluana-the-image-and-the-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/view_from_bologna/2009/02/after-eluana-the-image-and-the-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Errol Morris, the documentary-maker whose films include The Fog of War, and Standard Operating Procedure, is a man who is interested in images, and in particular photographs. To mark the end of the Bush administration, at the end of January, Morris invited three photo editors to discuss a selection of images of W. ranging from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a coup - Berlusconi and the Italian government come out against the right to die</title>
		<link>http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/view_from_bologna/2009/02/what-a-coup-berlusconi-and-the-italian-government-come-out-against-the-right-to-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was without a doubt a media coup, when Berlusconi announced on Friday that he would be pushing forward a special decree to intervene in the case of Eluana Englaro. And, not just a media coup, for some.
 The Englaro case been in the media spotlight for months, since a definitive sentence was handed out by [...]]]></description>
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