Organised crime is the biggest earner in Italy – with a turnover of more £100 billion a year – according to a report by business chiefs.
Extortion and intimidation is used to extract millions from shopkeepers, restaurants, cinemas, construction companies and thousands of other businesses as the godfathers spread their criminal enterprises across the whole of the country.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085209/Mafia-Italys-No-1-bank-profits-100bn-year.html#ixzz1jHrX5EQf
We’ve covered badass protesters like these before, but their way of protesting injustice — repeatedly swinging their giant testicles into hypocrisy like a pair of fleshy wrecking balls until the whole damn system comes tumbling down — is not the only way. Peaceful movements can be quite effective too. Reason, logic and empathy are all equally excellent tools of opposition, if employed correctly.
And hey, if all that shit fails, you can always try complete and utter madness. Looks like it’s working out great for these guys: http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-most-wtf-protesters-ever-photographed/
January 2, 2012. Jerusalem. In one of the most blacked-out stories in America right now, the US military is preparing to send thousands of US troops, along with US Naval anti-missile ships and accompanying support personnel, to Israel. It took forever to find a second source for confirmation of this story and both relatively mainstream media outlets are in Israel. With one source saying the military deployment and corresponding exercises are to occur in January, the source providing most of the details suggests it will occur later this spring.
It sounds like a bit of science-fiction – but scientists say they have found a way to read the human mind.
Researchers at University of California, Los Angeles have developed what they call a ‘brain reading’ that uses past history to determine future cognitive patterns and thought process.
They compare the results to Google’s predictive search capability, when the website guesses what search terms users are typing before they finish.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078614/Study-shows-scientists-read-mind.html#ixzz1hsLR0UEv
CONSPIRAPORN! 