In Italy, Rioting Leads to Recriminations.

[elleng]

'As the smoke cleared Sunday, a day after a peaceful, inchoate demonstration near the Colosseum turned into a riot, Italy fell into national soul-searching and finger-pointing. . .

The center-right government sought to blame left-wing groups and their sympathizers. . .

Those arrested, however, did little to lend credence to that accusation. News reports said that some of the 12 arrested were believed to belong to right-wing soccer fan groups, while others were linked to self-styled anarchist groups. . .

The demonstration on Saturday, one of more than 900 planned around the world to call attention to economic inequality, gave a platform to people who feel shut out of their own futures in a labor market that protects older workers with ironclad contracts and makes it hard for younger ones to get hired except on temporary contracts offering low salaries and little security.

“I’m here because the government doesn’t represent me anymore,” Giuseppe Tommasini, 35, an advertising art director, said before the march turned violent. “My friends and I all work, but our salaries aren’t enough to live on.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/world/europe/in-italy-rioting-leads-to-recriminations.html?hp

[marmar]

1. The criminal Berlusconi government is pretty desperate.

nt

[liberalmike27]

8. Interestingly

FOX's owner, Rupert Murdoch, owns about 85 percent of all the media in Italy.

[flamingdem]

2. INCHOATE - word of the month

some pundits probably had to look it up

[valerief]

5. They'll still mispronounce it. nt

[flamingdem]

6. true! As evidenced today with Gergen on CNN nt

[polichick]

3. "Those arrested, however, did little to lend credence to that accusation."

Well, that clears up a few lies.

[Andy823]

4. The right always blames the left

We have a world wide economic meltdown, caused by the same bunch of right wingers that the protests are aimed at. They are the same ones who have been making millions, even billions since George W. took office. They were behind the outrageous oil prices during those same years and again now. They were behind the $4.00 plus gas prices then, and again this year. They were behind the housing crisis and the financial meltdown in 2008. They are behind the high food prices that keep going up. The manipulate the markets to their favor and don't care about how it hurts the rest of the world. They got bailed out and are once again making millions, even billions and are sitting on that money instead of creating jobs or investing in trying to help fix the mess they put us in. The right can spin it all the wan't the people know who is behind all the BS, and they are angry as hell. I think the right better start listening to the "REAL" people and not the phony "corporation" people!

[flamingdem]

7. They are scared enough yet

hmmm. what will turn them?