Italy is facing a subversive plot by forces determined to impose an unelected leader on the country, according to Silvio Berlusconi. In a speech to a business lobby group, the embattled Prime Minister said that he believed a "palace coup" was being planned to oust him. "There is a campaign of scandals against me. It is a subversive plan because its aim is to bring down a Prime Minister and to put in his place another not elected by Italians. If that is not subversion, tell me what is." Although Mr Berlusconi did not identify the alleged plotters, Francesco Cossiga, a former Italian President and Prime Minister, said that those behind the scheme planned to install Mario Draghi, the governor of the Bank of Italy, as the head of a caretaker government of national unity. Mr Draghi, the head of the central bank for the last three and a half years, declined to comment.
Italy is facing a subversive plot by forces determined to impose an unelected leader on the country, according to Silvio Berlusconi.
In a speech to a business lobby group, the embattled Prime Minister said that he believed a "palace coup" was being planned to oust him.
"There is a campaign of scandals against me. It is a subversive plan because its aim is to bring down a Prime Minister and to put in his place another not elected by Italians. If that is not subversion, tell me what is."
Although Mr Berlusconi did not identify the alleged plotters, Francesco Cossiga, a former Italian President and Prime Minister, said that those behind the scheme planned to install Mario Draghi, the governor of the Bank of Italy, as the head of a caretaker government of national unity. Mr Draghi, the head of the central bank for the last three and a half years, declined to comment.
As for that degenerate velociraptor on poppers (Francesco Cossiga), you may comfortably discard anything he says as chuckle fodder.
The morning after B's seditious rant, the racist Lega Nord held their annual gangbang at Pontida during which all the main speakers said they would be up in arms to defend "the people's elected government."
Formally, in Italy the Council President is not elected but chosen by the President of the Republic to form a government. Their song and dance holds no legal meat- and would be a direct attack on the Constitution were they to inact it.
Also, Sunday, the fascist nostalgist, Gaetano Saya here and here, was denounced for using fascist symbolism to adorn the fuckwits that strut around as vigilantes once the Lega's misnamed "Security" law enters into effect. Saya has already constituted his fascist militia. There are no provisions in the new "law" that would empower the state to disband his organization.
The story of the brilliant but unstable Joe Meek. Telstar was his big hit, but there's lots more....
Telstar may have survived all these years because it is such riveting material. Meek is brilliantly portrayed by O'Neill, showing all the authority of an actor who knows his character inside out. And what a character he was. As Moran puts it: "When people ask me about Telstar and I say, 'it's about a gay, speed-addicted, devil-worshipping, tone-deaf Gloucester farmhand who built a little recording studio over a shop, and made one of the biggest-selling records of all time', then I've got their attention. You can't not be intrigued by this guy." All the above is true, but it didn't stop there. Meek was indeed a practising homosexual (at a time when it was illegal to be so). He was fascinated by the works of satanist Aleister Crowley. And he had a weakness for amphetamines. But he was also psychologically unstable; delightful company one minute, uncontrollably furious the next. There were traces of paranoia in his personality; he was convinced people were out to steal his innovative recording ideas. His life ended in a savage manner in 1967, when he was just 37. At his studio on north London's Holloway Road, he shot dead his landlady (who ran the leather goods store below), then turned the gun on himself.
All the above is true, but it didn't stop there. Meek was indeed a practising homosexual (at a time when it was illegal to be so). He was fascinated by the works of satanist Aleister Crowley. And he had a weakness for amphetamines.
But he was also psychologically unstable; delightful company one minute, uncontrollably furious the next. There were traces of paranoia in his personality; he was convinced people were out to steal his innovative recording ideas.
His life ended in a savage manner in 1967, when he was just 37. At his studio on north London's Holloway Road, he shot dead his landlady (who ran the leather goods store below), then turned the gun on himself.
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