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Posts Tagged ‘justice’

Fannulloni - The G8 Diaz Police Brutality Case

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Fannulloni is a word much in vogue in Italy at the moment, in part because of a headline-grabbing crusade by the Minister for the Public Sector, Renato Brunetta, against this seemingly large and well-deployed group. Fanulloni put simply means a layabout - and there’s plenty of evidence that the public sector is full of them. [...]

The Dark Knight - viewed by the minister for the interior

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

A welcome on board to Three Monkeys’ newest blogger - Brendan Coffey - whose Between Boston and Berlin blog is now online. One of Coffey’s first pieces is a thumbs up for the new Christopher Nolan Batman Film - The Dark Knight. The film, though, has a radically different context here in Italy, under the [...]