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		<title>In Italy turning a blind eye has become an artform</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/16/in-italy-turning-a-blind-eye-has-become-an-artform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/16/in-italy-turning-a-blind-eye-has-become-an-artform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[italy economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mafia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mario Monti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Italy's credit rating may be heading south and plenty of businesses are struggling to survive, but in a country where so much is hidden, there is often growth where you don’t see it, writes <b>Jo McKenna</b>, a Rome-based freelance journalist.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from southern Italy: deaths raise new questions about power of mafia</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/26/italian-mafia-and-maria-concetta-cacciola/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/26/italian-mafia-and-maria-concetta-cacciola/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mafia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ndrangheta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cacciola was a police informant, a strong and courageous woman who took on the world's most powerful Mafia, and the took her own life, writes Josephine McKenna in Rome.]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Taiwanese Mafia</title>
		<link>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/taiwan-crime-gangsters</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/taiwan-crime-gangsters#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 01:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mafia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organised crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taiwan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taiwan Mafia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The <em>Global Post</em> takes a look at Taiwan's underbelly -- a world of organised crime where mobsters are just as involved in local politics and religion as drugs, gun-running and prostitution.]]></description>
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		<title>How immigants to Italy are enslaved by the mafia</title>
		<link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1953619,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1953619,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mafia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slavery]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=110270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Impoverished African and Eastern European immigrants to Italy are being trapped into a mafia-controlled employment racket that sees them working 10-14-hour days for $3 an hour. ]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the Italian Mafia</title>
		<link>http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n8/htdocs/taking-on-italian-mafia-144.php?country=au</link>
		<comments>http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n8/htdocs/taking-on-italian-mafia-144.php?country=au#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Camorra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mafia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roberto Saviano]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Roberto Saviano is the author of a best-selling book that exposes the inner workings of the most powerful, but least known Italian Mafia groups, Naples' Camorra. He takes <em>Vice</em> inside their vicious and violent world.]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Asia&#8217;s Dog Meat Mafia</title>
		<link>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/thailand/091123/eating-dogs-dog-meat-mafia-capture</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/thailand/091123/eating-dogs-dog-meat-mafia-capture#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dog meat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mafia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vietnam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A look inside Asia's shady and highly-lucrative dog meat trade -- a multi-million-dollar black market operating from Thailand to Vietnam, feeding the region's increasing appetite for the taste of feral dog.]]></description>
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		<title>Vanstone&#8217;s mob connections</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/national/vanstone-quizzed-in-mafia-case-20091109-i5d1.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/national/vanstone-quizzed-in-mafia-case-20091109-i5d1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amanda Vanstone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francesco Madafferi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mafia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=98033</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why did former Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone grant a Visa to an alleged member of the Italian mafia? Perhaps it has something to do with the tens of thousands of dollars his supporters have donated to the Liberal Party...]]></description>
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		<title>The Italian Mafia&#8217;s new standover men: crocodiles</title>
		<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8270872.stm</link>
		<comments>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8270872.stm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[crocodiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mafia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stupidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=88903</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Because sometimes guys in suits carrying violin cases just aren't scary enough: an Italian Mafia boss has been using a 1.7m crocodile to shake-down people for protection money.]]></description>
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		<title>Mr Hair: International Weapons Consultant</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/18/first-dog-on-the-moon-404/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/18/first-dog-on-the-moon-404/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belgium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Nelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brendan nelson's hair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[luxembourg]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[missile defence shield]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[potoroos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A shadowy secret meeting at the U.S. Embassy]]></description>
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		<title>Italian Mafia take out the trash. Literally.</title>
		<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8257912.stm</link>
		<comments>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8257912.stm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Calabria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mafia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radioactive waste management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waste management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Informants say the Calabrian Mafia have set up a lucrative radioactive waste disposal business -- for a tidy fee, they will take a ship full of your toxic waste out to sea and blow it up. ]]></description>
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		<title>Women break through Italian Mafia&#8217;s glass ceiling</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/08/23/world/AP-Italy-The-Godmothers.html?_r=1</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/08/23/world/AP-Italy-The-Godmothers.html?_r=1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mafia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=81596</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Score one for the sisterhood: Female mobsters -- or "Godmothers" -- are on the rise amongst high-ranking members of Naples area crime families, as their husbands get knocked off or go to prison.]]></description>
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		<title>The Italian Mafia goes green</title>
		<link>http://www.businessinsider.com/italian-mafia-linked-to-shady-wind-farm-deals-2009-5</link>
		<comments>http://www.businessinsider.com/italian-mafia-linked-to-shady-wind-farm-deals-2009-5#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 23:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mafia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wind farms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wind power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=56138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Australia, the Mafia (such as it is) tend to focus on drugs and armed robbery, but in Italy, they've turned their attentions elsewhere: windfarms. ]]></description>
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		<title>Vanstone&#8217;s underworld ministerial discretion</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/23/vanstones-underworld-ministerial-discretion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/23/vanstones-underworld-ministerial-discretion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amanda Vanstone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Andrews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mafia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohamed Haneef]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surely a terror suspect not accused of any violence but merely of giving his cousin a SIM card is a greater potential threat to our security than a suspected mafioso, writes <b>Irfan Yusuf</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Vanstone may have to walk over mafia visa</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/23/vanstone-may-have-to-walk-over-mafia-visa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/23/vanstone-may-have-to-walk-over-mafia-visa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amanda Vanstone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[department of immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mafia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the John Howard Liberals took money from the Exclusive Brethren then why would alleged Mafia dollars be refused? asks <b>Barry Everingham</b>.]]></description>
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