What happen when No Porn Lui met Bunga Bunga Berlusconi

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Berlusconi keeps on staging 'bunga bunga' parties
Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, has carried on his so-called "bunga bunga" parties despite being on trial for having sex with an underage prostitute, it has emerged.
Berlusconi keeps on staging 'bunga bunga' parties

Silvio Berlusconi and Karima El Mahroug, nicknamed Ruby Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES/REX FEATURES

By Nick Pisa, in Rome

7:33PM BST 05 Jun 2011

The details were revealed in a series of leaked wire taps between Grand Prix chief Flavio Briatore and friends which form part of a separate investigation and have been passed onto Berlusconi prosecutors.

According to the wire taps between London-based Briatore and his friends, the billionaire media tycoon has switched the venue from his villa at Arcore near Milan, to another property he owns a few miles away.

The phrase "bunga bunga" is said to refer to a crude after dinner sex games that place at the parties Berlusconi hosted at Arcore.

Prosecutors say the women were given money and jewellery by Berlusconi in return for sexual favours and among them was exotic belly dancer Karima El Mahroug who at the time was just 17 years old.

Investigators passed on details of the new events at Berlusconi's Villa Gernetto after stumbling across them during a tax probe into Briatore's yacht Force Blue which was seized by revenue chiefs last year.
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Prosecutors in the port of Genoa investigating Briatore have passed the wire taps between the racing chief and his friends, onto colleagues in Milan involved in the bunga bunga case.

Details of the conversations between Briatore and his friends were leaked to Italian newspaper il Fatto Quotidiano and they reveal how Berlusconi is still partying but at the Villa Gernetto venue.

The house serves as headquarters of University of Freedom which is linked to his People of Freedom partly and is also used by visiting VIPs.

Il Fatto said that "although no new crimes have emerged from the wiretaps the conversations would certainly seem to to confirm the prosecution scenario" - Berlusconi has always denied any wrong doing.

Briatore's lawyer, Massimo Pellicciotta, said:"I find it absurd that a newspaper has revealed wiretaps before an investigation has even formally closed."

While in a statement Berlusconi's lawyer Niccolo Ghedini said:"This article which says parties have been organised at Villa Gernetto is completely without foundation.

"It should be noted that these telephone calls, if they exist, are recordings that this newspaper has in violation of the investigation and which the defence are not even aware of.

"In spite of this is should be noted that at Villa Gernetto no parties were ever organised but instead, as can be proved by documentation there have been numerous events between foreign and Italian political visitors.

"Noted business leaders have also attended events there and everything has always been transparent and reported by the media."

Besides the under age sex charge with Miss El Mahroug, Berlusconi is also accused of abuse of power - he is said to have secured her release from custody for a 3,000 Euro theft by wrongly claiming she was related to the then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

The age of consent in Italy is 14 but paying for sex with a woman under 18 is seen as under age prostitution and punishable by up to three years in jail.

His trial is set to resume later this week and although he has insisted he will attend hearings to clear his name so far he has not appeared in court and he has already said he will not be at the next session.

Briatore's investigation centres on his Force Blue yacht which he says is available for rent, granting him generous tax breaks, but the only user is allegedly himself and his wife Elisabetta Gregoraci.

 

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Silvio Berlusconi jokes about 'bunga bunga' with Benjamin Netanyahu
Silvio Berlusconi made a joke about the risqué "bunga bunga" sex parties he is alleged to have hosted at his mansion, with Benjamin Netanyahu the latest recipient of the Italian prime minister's questionable sense of humour.
Silvio Berlusconi jokes about 'bunga bunga' with Benjamin Netanyahu
Silvio Berlusconi, left, and Benjamin Netanyahu Photo: AFP/GETTY

By Nick Squires, Rome

5:42PM BST 13 Jun 2011

The two leaders appeared at a joint press conference on Monday at Villa Madama, a state-owned palazzo in Rome, in front of a large 19th painting depicting Apollo playing a lyre surrounded by naked nymphs.

Mr Berlusconi said the Israeli prime minister had asked him what the painting, a reproduction, represented.

"I found out the information and I can give him a response – it's by Andrea Appiani and it represents Parnassus – it's the bunga bunga of 1811!"

He gestured towards two male figures in the picture and said: "This one is me and this one is Mariano Apicella" – a reference to a Neapolitan singer friend with whom he has recorded CDs and who has become a sort of personal minstrel to his inner circle.

Engulfed in sex scandals, corruption allegations and accusations of economic mismanagement, the nevertheless upbeat prime minister advised assembled journalists "not to take seriously those who take themselves too seriously. Self-irony is always important." Wire tap evidence gathered by prosecutors suggests that Mr Berlusconi, 74, invited dozens of aspiring starlets and TV showgirls to attend so-called "bunga bunga" parties in a basement room in his mansion near Milan, where they performed pole dances and strip teases.
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Prosecutors have charged the premier with abuse of office and paying for sexual relations with a 17-year-old nightclub dancer, Karima El Mahroug, who they say was working as a prostitute at the time. He denies all the charges.

Prostitution is illegal in Italy for women under the age of 18.

The trial is due to resume in a court in Milan on Tuesday but neither Mr Berlusconi nor Miss El Mahroug, whose stage name is Ruby the Heart Stealer, is expected to attend.

Mr Netanyahu was in Rome to rally Italian opposition to plans to have the United Nations General Assembly recognise a Palestinian state in September.

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Berlusconi losing grip on his bunga bunga image


By William Anselmi, Edmonton Journal June 9, 2011

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What if, in the middle of an election, a Canadian head of government were accused of sex with a minor? Would it be a safe bet to say that, one way or another, he would not remain in power if the allegations seemed even halfway credible?

In fact, such a leader would doubtless leave under a cloud, likely dumped by his own party for political safety's sake until the wheels of justice had finished grinding.

Yet, during the first few months of 2011, something contrary to this "common-sense" approach to politics took place in one of our Western, G8 allies.

A European prime minister accused of sex with a minor had the courage to tell jokes about his promiscuous life to an event with journalists, businessmen, city mayors -with most of them laughing and applauding. And the man remains loved by a third if not more of the population, men and women alike.

How could this happen? What are the mechanisms behind his popularity? These accusations of sexual misconduct -and not just the minor, but a bevy of young escorts apparently profiting from nights with him -somehow are not taken seriously. In our Era of the Image, such spectacles strangely seem to actually reinforce the actors.

It seems that in the last two decades or so, political analysis and participation in the Western world has undergone a transformation. What even 20 years ago was engagement for the common citizen has turned into what can be called a post-political distancing effect.

"Image," "spectacle," "post-political" -all are terms that refer to a paradoxical situation: on the one hand we are emotively and momentarily drawn to whatever is being diffused by the media, but on the other, the very visceral nature of modern media denies any critical analysis, or time of reflection. We have fleeting emotions, but no lasting words. Any sense of participation in society, what was once called responsibility, has been filtered out.

For Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, this has meant that previous accusations -corruption, conflicts of interest, bribing judges, recycling dirty money, colluding with organized crime -all disappear from the public eye as his personal life triumphs in the media.

Seen through this lens, what has been happening in Italy these days can be understood as an experiment in social control.

And yet, it seems that this strategy which has been successful for Berlusconi for almost two decades is starting to fail him.

Berlusconi used local elections last month as a popularity test. His spectacular personal defeat has meant opening a major crisis within his own People of Freedom party, and with his Northern League coalition partner. The extent and power of the defeat was underlined by the loss -to the centre-left opposition -of Milan, the country's major economic centre as well as the prime minister's hometown.

It seems as if what lay behind the Berlusconi facade -the particular economic interests tied to Milan hosting the Expo in 2015 -mostly switched to a different horse. Does this mean the politics of spectacle via television is breaking down?

I'd argue Berlusconi is losing his grip on the image he has so long dominated, leaving more exposed his problems with allegations such as corruption and collusion with organized crime that have periodically surfaced since he entered Italian politics in 1994.

These elections have also been a test of another power, the power of the media to shape and reshape reality according to particular economic needs. Statistics show that more than 70 per cent of communication about everyday life in Italy is derived from television. At present, Berlusconi as prime minister and as a private tycoon controls more than 90 per cent of Italian television communication -a situation that has no precedent or equivalent in the Western world.

Yes, it has all been said before: Television is extremely influential; television puts the critical part of the brain to sleep; television falsifies reality. But this criticism that has dogged the medium since the 1960s is still valid. We have grown so accustomed in the past to people worrying about television that we don't think about it anymore. Just like the frog that stays in a gradually heated pot of water, we still watch although we can switch channels -or press the "off" button, or surf the Internet, or post a note on somebody's Facebook wall, or send by Twitter an instant life report.

Possibilities abound in the present age of total communication. But, as Italian critic Mario Perniola has shown, communication is not information. Rather, it is the ability to say publicly one thing in the morning, and its opposite by the evening news. What really matters is not to be consistent, but simply to appear -the "shock and awe" of always being in the viewer's face.

Anyone who points to the fact that Berlusconi is a buffoon actually endorses his manipulative powers. For the Italian premier can be playing coo-coo with German Premier Angela Merkel in the morning, and by noon declare that Italy needs to embrace nuclear energy. (A form of industrial energy that Italians refused with a national referendum decades ago.) And by evening there will be a joke about how randy he is, and an attack against the "communist magistrates" that want to destroy his wealth.

Critics who say this contemporary Italy is an anomaly that began in medieval times fail, too. For Italy is a testing ground, a laboratory of sorts. In this laboratory, certain combinations are used to see what mechanisms of social control work best. Television has worked well; you don't need to replicate Mussolini to maintain power.

Except that someone has now turned channels on Berlusconi.

Perhaps, viewers have tired of seeing the same situation repeated since the early 1990s. But do not expect an easy transition back to some kind of democratic normalcy. The show must march on.

William Anselmi teaches at the University of Alberta. Next winter he will be offering a course on Silvio Berlusconi.
© Copyright (c) The Edmonton Journal

 

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Berlusconi losing grip on his bunga bunga image


By William Anselmi, Edmonton Journal June 9, 2011

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What if, in the middle of an election, a Canadian head of government were accused of sex with a minor? Would it be a safe bet to say that, one way or another, he would not remain in power if the allegations seemed even halfway credible?

In fact, such a leader would doubtless leave under a cloud, likely dumped by his own party for political safety's sake until the wheels of justice had finished grinding.

Yet, during the first few months of 2011, something contrary to this "common-sense" approach to politics took place in one of our Western, G8 allies.

A European prime minister accused of sex with a minor had the courage to tell jokes about his promiscuous life to an event with journalists, businessmen, city mayors -with most of them laughing and applauding. And the man remains loved by a third if not more of the population, men and women alike.

How could this happen? What are the mechanisms behind his popularity? These accusations of sexual misconduct -and not just the minor, but a bevy of young escorts apparently profiting from nights with him -somehow are not taken seriously. In our Era of the Image, such spectacles strangely seem to actually reinforce the actors.

It seems that in the last two decades or so, political analysis and participation in the Western world has undergone a transformation. What even 20 years ago was engagement for the common citizen has turned into what can be called a post-political distancing effect.

"Image," "spectacle," "post-political" -all are terms that refer to a paradoxical situation: on the one hand we are emotively and momentarily drawn to whatever is being diffused by the media, but on the other, the very visceral nature of modern media denies any critical analysis, or time of reflection. We have fleeting emotions, but no lasting words. Any sense of participation in society, what was once called responsibility, has been filtered out.

For Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, this has meant that previous accusations -corruption, conflicts of interest, bribing judges, recycling dirty money, colluding with organized crime -all disappear from the public eye as his personal life triumphs in the media.

Seen through this lens, what has been happening in Italy these days can be understood as an experiment in social control.

And yet, it seems that this strategy which has been successful for Berlusconi for almost two decades is starting to fail him.

Berlusconi used local elections last month as a popularity test. His spectacular personal defeat has meant opening a major crisis within his own People of Freedom party, and with his Northern League coalition partner. The extent and power of the defeat was underlined by the loss -to the centre-left opposition -of Milan, the country's major economic centre as well as the prime minister's hometown.

It seems as if what lay behind the Berlusconi facade -the particular economic interests tied to Milan hosting the Expo in 2015 -mostly switched to a different horse. Does this mean the politics of spectacle via television is breaking down?

I'd argue Berlusconi is losing his grip on the image he has so long dominated, leaving more exposed his problems with allegations such as corruption and collusion with organized crime that have periodically surfaced since he entered Italian politics in 1994.

These elections have also been a test of another power, the power of the media to shape and reshape reality according to particular economic needs. Statistics show that more than 70 per cent of communication about everyday life in Italy is derived from television. At present, Berlusconi as prime minister and as a private tycoon controls more than 90 per cent of Italian television communication -a situation that has no precedent or equivalent in the Western world.

Yes, it has all been said before: Television is extremely influential; television puts the critical part of the brain to sleep; television falsifies reality. But this criticism that has dogged the medium since the 1960s is still valid. We have grown so accustomed in the past to people worrying about television that we don't think about it anymore. Just like the frog that stays in a gradually heated pot of water, we still watch although we can switch channels -or press the "off" button, or surf the Internet, or post a note on somebody's Facebook wall, or send by Twitter an instant life report.

Possibilities abound in the present age of total communication. But, as Italian critic Mario Perniola has shown, communication is not information. Rather, it is the ability to say publicly one thing in the morning, and its opposite by the evening news. What really matters is not to be consistent, but simply to appear -the "shock and awe" of always being in the viewer's face.

Anyone who points to the fact that Berlusconi is a buffoon actually endorses his manipulative powers. For the Italian premier can be playing coo-coo with German Premier Angela Merkel in the morning, and by noon declare that Italy needs to embrace nuclear energy. (A form of industrial energy that Italians refused with a national referendum decades ago.) And by evening there will be a joke about how randy he is, and an attack against the "communist magistrates" that want to destroy his wealth.

Critics who say this contemporary Italy is an anomaly that began in medieval times fail, too. For Italy is a testing ground, a laboratory of sorts. In this laboratory, certain combinations are used to see what mechanisms of social control work best. Television has worked well; you don't need to replicate Mussolini to maintain power.

Except that someone has now turned channels on Berlusconi.

Perhaps, viewers have tired of seeing the same situation repeated since the early 1990s. But do not expect an easy transition back to some kind of democratic normalcy. The show must march on.

William Anselmi teaches at the University of Alberta. Next winter he will be offering a course on Silvio Berlusconi.
© Copyright (c) The Edmonton Journal

 

[steffychun]

Don't foget, Lui was once a Rear Admiral. Berlusconi was not

 

[halsey02]

Don't foget, Lui was once a Rear Admiral. Berlusconi was not

You mean a flotilla of yellow rubber duckies?, that kind of Admiral?, I thought I could hear an echo of Yamamoto or Halsey laughing!!

 

[hairylee]

It is like a fate monk meeting Hugh Hefner.

 

[saratogas]

Liu is busy taking public transport... Where got time for Italian pasta...

 

[halsey02]

It is like a fate monk meeting Hugh Hefner.

You mean like a hare who has lost its dick, meeting a clutch of bunnies! What has fate got to do with it?, you mean it is karma that he meets Hugh Hefner?? you mean FAKE!

 

[po2wq]

What happen when No Porn Lui met Bunga Bunga Berlusconi ...

cowabunga! ...

 

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4081533,00.html


Netanyahu meets Berlusconi in Rome

In joint press conference with Italian counterpart, prime minister addresses Sunday's elections in Turkey, says Israel aims to rectify strained relations with Ankara

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Published: 06.13.11, 15:08 / Israel News

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome on Monday. The two held a press conference after the meeting during which Netanyahu addressed Sunday's elections in Turkey.



Netanyahu said that Israel did not decide to put a damper on the relations with Istanbul and said Jerusalem wishes to rectify matters. We don’t want a tense relationship, he said.



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The prime minister thanked Berlusconi for Italy's opposition to the Palestinian UN recognition bid and said that their meeting was an opportunity to reinforce the extraordinary friendship Israel and Italy share. Addressing the Italian premier, he said "You are a dear friend to me and the Jewish people."

Netanyahu and Berlusconi during press conference (Photo: AP)


Netanyahu also discussed the Iranian threat and peace negotiations with the Palestinians. He stressed the importance of negotiations and noted that no outside element can force peace upon the parties adding that should the UN accept the Palestinians' bid negotiations will be rendered pointless.


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The prime minister also expressed support for a plan to promote Palestinian economy.


He personally thanked Berlusconi at the end of the press conference.



Berlusconi noted that Israel was a good example of a Middle Eastern democracy that serves as a beacon for Arab states.



The Israeli delegation in Italy, which includes eight ministers, will hold a meeting with Italian government officials.



Upon his arrival in Rome, Netanyahu was greeted by the city's mayor who told him he would like to head a Gilad Shalit flotilla to Gaza demanding to visit the captive soldier. The prime minister thanked him for his efforts on the Shalit issue.



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He said he was the nude man in this Bunga Bunga ancient painting on that wall behind himself in this pic.

 

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Bunga bunga is a phrase of uncertain meaning that dates from 1910 if not earlier. By 2010 the phrase had gained popularity in Italy and the international press as well, when it was used by the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to refer to his alleged sex parties, which caused a major political scandal in Italy.
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1 Early use
2 Resurgence in Italy
2.1 New meaning
3 Notes

[edit] Early use

In 1910 a group of English friends, including Virginia Woolf and her brother Adrian Stephen, pretending to be the Prince of Abyssinia and his entourage obtained permission to visit HMS Dreadnought, then one of the world's most powerful warships, in Weymouth in what became known as the Dreadnought hoax. Each time the Commander showed them a marvel of the ship, they murmured the phrase bunga, bunga![1][2] This became a popular catchphrase for a time.[3]

In an 1852 issue of Hogg's Instructor, it is stated that "bunga bunga" is the name given by local natives to a location near Moreton Bay on the eastern coast of Australia.[4]

Bloomsbury hoaxers would have known the words bung, bunging, and bunged that refer to the pouring and draining of liquid through a hole in a cask. The hole, a bunghole, is plugged with a cork, peg or spigot.[5]
[edit] Resurgence in Italy

A century later, the term bunga bunga became popular again as a joke on the internet.[6] This joke was then narrated by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at his dinner parties (in a version which featured, as prisoners, former ministers from the center-left opposition party led by Romano Prodi)[7]

This expression was then frequently quoted by the Italian and international press during the 2011 investigation surrounding Silvio Berlusconi's underage prostitution charges, acquiring a quite different meaning as "an orgy involving a powerful leader"; as such, it was allegedly taught to Silvio Berlusconi by Muammar al-Gaddafi.[8]
[edit] New meaning

In Italy, the term bunga bunga "has become an instant, supposedly hilarious, household expression".[9]

Descriptions of bunga bunga disagree on its meaning, or perhaps illustrate the range of its reference. It "is said to be a sort of underwater orgy where nude young women allegedly encircled the nude host and/or his friends in his swimming pool",[10] "an African-style ritual" performed for male spectators by "20 naked young women",[11] or erotic entertainment hosted by a rich host involving pole dancing and competitive striptease by skimpy-costumed "women in nurses' outfits and police uniforms"[12] — but topless women, the prize being prostitution for the host.[13]

An alternative explanation for its origins was proposed by actress Sabina Began, who claimed that it was a nickname based on her surname and that she had organized the parties.[14]

The lexicographer Jonathon Green does not expect the term to make much headway, or to last, in English.[15]
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[streetsmart73]

Don't foget, Lui was once a Rear Admiral. Berlusconi was not

hi there


1. bro, no-porn did the rear thing mah!
2. the italian stallion always prefers does the front leh.

 

[steffychun]

hi there


1. bro, no-porn did the rear thing mah!
2. the italian stallion always prefers does the front leh.

Going in front--he has done it too many times. That's why to the back.

 

[steffychun]

You mean a flotilla of yellow rubber duckies?, that kind of Admiral?, I thought I could hear an echo of Yamamoto or Halsey laughing!!

Yamamoto was shot down, Halsey died. Lui beat them.