This week’s recommended blogs #1

• Death of Don Gallo: communist priest who fought for rights for all (Sruggles in Italy)
• Whatever it takes (Cristian Mihai)
• Guest Blog: Why Read Dickens? (Interesting Literature)
• New Italians, Old Racists: the current Italian debate on citizenship laws (Sruggles in Italy)
• In Spanien trinkt man Rotwein (Uhupardo)

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via Spiegel-Online: Burschentag: Rechtextremismus in der deutschen Burschenschaft

Deutsche Burschenschaftler in Aktion

Ich habe in den Neunziger Jahren an der Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle/Saale studiert. Ich kann mich an diese Zeit noch sehr gut erinnern. Mit der Wende kamen auch die Burschenschaften nach Ost-Deutschland  – sehr befremdlich in allen Belangen!

Hoffentlich behält der Artikel Recht und diese reaktionären Vereinigungen lösen sich in näherer Zukunft aus Mangel an Nachwuchs und Finanzkraft in Wohlgefallen der Geschichte auf. Sie hatten ihre Zeit.

Diese Bürschchen braucht kein Mensch mehr!

Margaret Wise Brown: Goodnight stars..

Margaret Wise Brown

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”

Margaret Wise Brown

May 23, 1910: Generations of children have nodded off to sleep under the spell of Margaret Wise Brown’s words in Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. She was born 103 years ago today.

Italia – Video: Don Gallo – Che tempo che fa

“Sono venuto per servire e non per essere servito.” (I have come to serve not for being served.)

A Genova è morto don Andrea Gallo (Genova, 18 luglio 1928 – Genova, 22 maggio 2013), aveva 84 anni.

Czerulf: Italy – Berlusconi, Imu and what comes next

Silvio Berlusconi (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Flipping through the newspapers one could get the impression that things are going rather well in Italy. Relatively little space is attributed to the issues that mark the current crisis – a depressed economy, an unemployment rate that is rising month on month (specially among young people) and a political system that fails to address all these issues. One would expect that this mix of upsetting facts should dominate the headlines. Instead what keeps the nation moving like nothing else is the possible suspension (or abolition?) of IMU (Imposta Municipale Propria – a property tax) on family homes. Why is that?