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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181015:00:26:00

understood by other people. if i say sicilian dialect word, maybe an arab can understand me, an italian no, because italian language comes from latin, something different. we are sicilians before to be italians. >> right. >> remember this. >> i'll never forget. >> look at this side of the meat. it's yellow, it's not white. when it's yellow, it means that the horse has been bred eating fresh grass. [ speaking foreign language ] >> perfecto. okay. >> tear and go. >> yeah. >> you like the taste? >> it's good. >> it's a bit sweet, huh?

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181015:00:21:00

the late '80s, there were a great many sicilians who thought if they were honest and didn't have anything to do with the mafia, they could live without being affected by the mafia. apparently, 80% of the businesses in palermo and 70% in the rest of italy that pay extortion. >> that's a lot. >> that's a lot. >> but not everybody pays the bite. a small but growing coalition of businesses have joined a group, called adiopizzo, a grassroots organization taking a stand against the mafia's traditional mere total control over the food chain, from farm to table. i come out of the restaurant business in new york. you got taxed with every laundry order every time they took your trash away. it was built in to all your basic services. >> here it's much more going around. christmas and easter. >> guy comes by. >> the guy comes by. i mean, it's plain and simple extortion. >> given that that's a pretty straightforward situation, some

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181015:00:24:00

pretty cool considering we're talking about a group who have demonstrated no regret or hesitation in killing judges, politicians, police, prosecutors. back to catania, and when you're talking late-night dining options, you're talking one thing, the enticing smell of smoke wafting through the streets, a smell that's enticingly equine. i smell rainbow dash. >> yes, yes! >> yes! >> anthony and marco, a couple of sicilians and aficionados. >> this is one of the older side, famous, you know, families of mafia, you know, that grows in crime organization here. >> oh, right here? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. nowadays seems to be like a bit

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180815:04:58:00

>> you know, it's obviously always difficult to talk about race, and i always hesitate to even bring it up in these circumstances. but the president has -- you know, there's been reporting that he's talked about immigrants coming from what he called shithole countries, talked about people from haiti having aids, about people in nigeria not wanting to go back to their huts as if everybody in nigeria lives in huts, talking about people why don't more people from norway come? do you see a racial component in this administration, how they view this issue? >> all those epithets are the sorts of things which were said about jews, irish, poles, hungarians, sicilians, sardinians. everybody from southern europe, eastern europe, from the balkan countries were all condemned and vilified by the so-called america firsters of their day. these people were described frequently as slime pumped out of the mud tanks of europe, rapists, murderers, thieves,

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180815:00:58:00

people from norway come. do you see a racial component in this administration, how they view this issue? >> all those epithets are the sorts of things which were said about jews, irish, poles, hungarians, sicilians, sardinians. everybody from southern europe, eastern europe, from the balkan countries were all condemned and vilified by the so-called america firsters of their day. these people were described frequently as slime pumped out of the mud tanks of europe, rapists, murderers, thieves, gangsters. and thankfully the united states has made progress, as fitful as it may be, in reforming immigration laws so that we no longer have these racial quotas. it is hard to escape the conclusion based on the administration's actions and policies rather than the rhetoric. it's hard to escape the conclusion that they want to disadvantage people coming from countries based on their

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180408:03:20:00

in this case, the famous spaghetti al nero di seppia. spaghetti in cuttlefish ink. also some caserecce al pesce spada. pasta with swordfish, eggplant and tomatoes. >> chef: okay. >> anthony: ah, beautiful. perfect. perfect pasta. very happy with that. >> mary: good. i know you've been looking forward to it. i'm glad it's good. palermo's an expensive city for some things because the consumer is paying -- >> anthony: more. >> mary: more so that the store can afford to pay its extortion money. the big change that has happened is that up until the mid '80s, the late '80s, there were a great many sicilians who thought if they were honest and didn't have anything to do with the mafia, they could live without being affected by the mafia.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180408:03:24:00

back to catania. and when you're talking late-night dining options, you're talking one thing. the enticing smell of smoke, wafting through the streets, the smell that's enticingly equine. i smell rainbow dash. [ men speaking italian ] >> anthony: anthony and marco. a couple of sicilians and aficionados of macelleria equina. >> marco: it's one of the other side, famous, you know, for all families of mafia, you know that grows in crime organization here. >> anthony: right here? >> marco: yeah, yeah. yeah. yeah. nowadays seems to be maybe like a bit more quiet, because they are all getting arrested, so they prefer to sell meat. >> anthony: ah. >> marco: against drugs.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180408:03:26:00

we are sicilians before to be italians. >> anthony: right. >> marco: remember this. >> anthony: oh god, i -- i'll never forget. >> marco: look at the fat on the side of the meat. it's yellow, it's not white. when it's yellow, means that this horse has been breeded eating fresh grass. [ men speaking italian ] >> anthony: tear and go. >> marco: you like the taste? >> anthony: oh it's good. >> marco: it's a bit sweet uh? simple, you don't need nothing. horse meat, recipe it's loved by quite everybody here. you know?

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170805:09:53:00

albreakthrough withyou back. non-drowsy allegra® for fast 5-in-1 multi-symptom relief. breakthrough allergies with allegra®. in sicily, many people there living with the mafia are now taking a stand against the mob. our nina dos santos has this report. >> reporter: for more than a century, the cosa nostra has held sway in the palermo streets demanding a share of trade and absolute loyalty. but 25 years since some of the mafia's most violent episodes sicilians are fighting back. refusing to pay the pizzo or protection money upon which the mob's whole business model was originally built. back here taking a stand is add

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170213:02:20:00

perfect pasta. very happy with that >> mary: good. i know you've been looking forward to it. i'm glad it's good. palermo's an expensive city for some things because the consumer is paying -- >> anthony: more. >> mary: more so that the store can afford to pay its extortion money. the big change that has happened is that up until the mid '80s, the late '80s, there were a great many sicilians who thought if they were honest and didn't have anything to do with the mafia, they could live without being affected by the mafia. apparently, 80% of the businesses in palermo, and 70% in the rest of italy that pay extortion. >> anthony: that's a lot. >> mary: that's a lot, that's a lot.

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