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57% of all bank robberies in the EU occur in Italy. Comment: Nothing much has changed. It was the same in Roman times, which explains why there were so many Epicureans in Italy. There was no point in trying alter something you couldn’t possibly change. Grow vegetables and peace be upon you!
Not for the first time my credit card has been compromised, this time by someone wanting to use my pension for downloading pop music from Napster. Last time an Italian "gentleman" took his floosy out to dinner in Rome at the precise moment that I was taking my wife out to dinner in London. Next …
Record world prices for most staple foods have led to an 18% food price inflation in China, 13% in Indonesia and Pakistan, and 10% in Latin America, Russia and India (UNFA). Wheat has doubled in price, maize is 50% higher than a year ago and rice is 20% higher. Global food reserves are the lowest …
Somebody must be buying penis enhancers or they wouldn’t be sending me 8-10 messages about it every day. And this isn’t counting the messages about Viagra and Cialis. Do they know something I don’t?
The Multinational Monitor reported earlier in the year that nationwide union membership rates are dropping drastically, and laid part of the blame on company intimidation. One in five union officers were illegally fired in 2005, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Companies can get away with it because the National Labor Relations …
