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Mafia Thrives in Global Economic Meltdown
NAPLES, Italy — While businesses around the world are hunkering down for survival, the Italian mob is living a golden moment. Italy's various organized crime syndicates _ often lumped together colloquially as Mafia Inc. _ are gobbling up gas stations, muscling in on supermarket franchises, making loans to cash-starved businesses, taking over trattorias and acquiring buildings in swank neighborhoods in Rome and Milan, investigators say.New York Fiscal Watch: Tax Refugees
PUBLIC POST * Golisano gone E.J. McMahon Well, what do you know? Barely a month after its enactment, New York State’s biggest income tax hike since 1961 has already driven away one of the Empire State’s wealthiest and most productive residents.North Korea launches perfect Italian pizza
By Peter Foster in Beijing (Telegraph.co.UK) It has taken almost 10 years of work, but North Korea has acquired the technology to launch a project very dear to its leader's heart - the nation's first "authentic" Italian pizzeria. The launch of Pyongyang's first Italian restaurant meanwhile brings to fruition a ten-year effort by Kim Jong-il - a renowned gourmand and lover of western food - to create the perfect pizza and pasta in his homeland. Related Articles US and China in secret talks on N Korea chaos fears after Kim Jong-il 'stroke' North Korea to be removed from terror blacklist after nuclear disclosure, says George Bush North Korea hands over nuclear data and US agrees to lift trade embargo North Korea 'to test missile capable of reaching US territory' North Korea celebrates Kim Jong-il's birthdayLast year a delegation of local chefs was sent by Kim to Naples and Rome to learn the proper Italian techniques after their homegrown efforts to mimic Italian cuisine were found by Kim to contain "errors".THE FORECLOSURE FIVE (housing crises)
THE FORECLOSURE FIVE A NATIONAL CRISIS? HARDLY. THE REST OF US ARE PAYING FOR THE IRRESPONSIBILITY OF A FEW STATES By ALAN REYNOLDS (New York Post) February 21, 2009 When President Obama discusses his $275 billion mortgage bailout, he talks as if it was a national problem, caused by a national decline in home prices.Court Orders Cartoon Characters to Witness Stand
From CNN.com...
ROME, Italy (AP) -- Tweety may get a chance to take the witness stand and sing like a canary.
An Italian court ordered the animated bird, along with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and his girlfriend Daisy, to testify in a counterfeiting case.
Tweety, Donald Duck summoned to court
ROME - Tweety may get a chance to take the witness stand and sing like a canary. An Italian court ordered the animated bird, along with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and his girlfriend Daisy, to testify in a counterfeiting case. In what lawyers believe was a clerical error worthy of a Looney Tunes cartoon, a court in Naples sent a summons to the characters ordering them to appear Friday in a trial in the southern Italian city, officials said.The Donors Who Gave Big, and Often
The Donors Who Gave Big, and Often Obama's $100,000-Plus Backers Were Able to Contribute to Several Entities By Kimberly Kindy and Sarah Cohen Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, January 18, 2009; Page A02 Nearly 100 wealthy families and power couples contributed at least $100,000 each to help Barack Obama over the past two years, creating an elite set of donors to whom the president-elect repeatedly turned in financing his campaign, transition and inauguration, a Washington Post analysis shows. As inaugural donations become public, a list of Obama's most loyal backers has emerged, pointing to his success with a system that allows supporters to give maximum amounts on several occasions and to multiple committees. The families gave to as many as five committees, records show, and 27 of the 94 families also bundled money from others, collecting millions of dollars on top of their personal donations.Pizza Anyone?
Modern pizza was born in 1889 when Queen Margherita Teresa Giovanni, the consort of Umberto I, king of Italy, visited Naples. Don Raffaele Esposito, who owned a tavern-like place called Pietro Il Pizzaiolo, was asked to prepare a special dish in honor of the Queen's visit. Esposito developed a pizza featuring tomatoes, mozzarella cheese (a never before used ingredient made from the milk of water buffalo) and basil - ingredients bearing the colors red, white and green for the Italian flag.Want to Date a Rich Man? Cosmo Let's You In On How To And What It's Like
Cosmopolitan Fascinating Facts About Rich Guys Whether you're just curious about men with money or on a mission to snag one, here's the scoop on where they hang, what they do for a living, and the kind of mates they make. Landing a loaded guy has long been a fantasy for some females. In fact, your own mother may have even quipped that it’s just as easy to fall for a wealthy man as it is a poor one.
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