Italian restaurant owners clear their names

On the aftermath of the Duisburg incident (see previous post titled “$47 billion tax-free”), Italian restaurant owners from all over Germany highlight the sharp decrease in clientele they have been experiencing since the massacre. Some owners claim decreases in customer visits up to thirty per cent (EFE).

Seeking to ameliorate their cash flow levels, Italian cuisine entrepreneurs in Germany launched a nationwide campaign condemning mafia-related activities.

I would bet that this isolated event will not mutate irreversibly Germans’ gastronomic preferences for their world-renowned intelligence would prevent them from prejudicing a whole Mediterranean nation –or any other nation for that matter—because of a few rotten apples. It will be business as usual, or should I say “lasagne and Chianti as usual”?        

It reads: “People who tolerate mafia are people without dignity”.

Source: AFP

Celebrating information society

They call it information society. Increase the number of personal computers per capita, make internet access cheaper, crank up connection speed a bit, and you will produce better informed citizens, right? Cyberspace allows virtually anyone –even anonymous rookie ‘bloggers’ like me—to express publicly and instantly, and in a theoretically widespread fashion, whatever he or she has to say to whom it may interest, no matter where in the globe both ends of the communication chain are located. Assuming the rest of the variables constant, advancements in communication technologies should lead to increased awareness potential for the user. It is up to the user to administer said potential, bestowed upon him or her every time he or she sits in front of an online computer. Therefore, I feel flattered by you, fellow reader, visiting consciously or quasi-accidentally this budding ‘blog’ in your relentless quest for awareness or boredom killing. It is up to me and my two fellow editors to embed this humble ‘blog’ in your web surfing habits.     

$ 47 billion tax-free.

The Italian N’drangetha group generates an annual turnover of $ 47 billion – more than Italy’s biggest corporation, Fiat. The value is only an estimate though, since N’drangetha doesn’t publish its figures. 

Latest news: Yesterday, two members of the Calabrian mafia clan shot six Italians in Duisburg (Germany).  

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