No unlawful sex, originally uploaded by EssG.

I like this picture

Vito Lops, Il Sole24Ore

Molto spesso si tende a pensare agli economisti come a persone aride, perché troppo legate ai numeri. Non sempre è così. Le statistiche, in barba all’immaginario collettivo, non annebbiano le emozioni. Lo dimostra un economista del calibro di Alan Greenspan, ex governatore della Banca centrale degli Stati Uniti, che nel suo ultimo libro, l’Età della turbolenza, (una biografia unita alle previsioni sull’economia e sui mercati finanziari), svela, raccontando del suo viaggio di nozze a Venezia, un’impeccabile umanità. (more…)

I can’t even speculate on how this got to market.
“THE Australian toy of the year, Bindeez, has been withdrawn after a warning that the date-rape drug GHB may have been “deliberately” put into the product….Bindeez are made in Hong Kong and imported through Melbourne company Moose Enterprises.

The bead crafting kits won the title of Most Popular Toy in March.”

I guess there is an easy way to get a hold of GHB.

Guy Dinmore in Rome, Financial Times

Local authorities in Italy have started expelling Romanian immigrants under a tough decree that the government hurriedly issued in order to calm the public uproar concerning the brutal murder of a woman outside a Rome railway station.

The centre-left government is accusing an ill prepared European Union of failing to anticipate a “mass exodus” of Romanians since the country’s entry into the EU in January.

EU directive 38, which governed the free movement of citizens with criteria for residency and limited provisions for expulsions, was completely insufficient, said Giuliano Amato, the interior minister. Various statistics have been issued but Mr Amato spoke of a “historic phenomenon” of 500,000 poor Romanians flooding into Italy within a year. (more…)

The Associated Press
Sunday, November 4, 2007

ROME: The opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi urged Italian officials to close the country’s borders to Romanian workers, and a conservative ally called Sunday for the expulsion of tens of thousands of immigrants amid public outrage over a wave of violent crimes blamed on foreigners.
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