what i'm wondering is if other world bigwigs are engineering his downfall before the G8 out of sheer embarrassment at having to appear and schmooze with him.

there's one foreign intervention that may do some good!

like prodi, franceschini seems fairly decent, which is why the political system rejects him. veltroni was pure stooge, like d'alema.

which leaves di pietro, the only warrior left against this surreality show madness.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~