Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Is he insane?
Silvio Berlusconi plays down Italy earthquake shock "The Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, created fresh controversy yesterday after declaring that people made homeless by Monday's earthquake should think of themselves as being on a 'camping weekend'."
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A local seismologist predicted the quake (based on radon levels). There was an early attempt to evacuate the area but the government quashed that and forced the seismologist to pull his website. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/04/06/seismologist-was-forced-to-remove-italy-earthquake-warning-from-the-internet/
ReplyDeleteBerlusconi is what happens when media barons get into politics (think Rupert Murdoch or Conrad Black).
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