Doing research after watching a video on the Gothard Tunnel ceremonial opening, I checked out the history at wikipedia -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Gotthard_Massif --- and discovered that the mountains in that "massif" were named Pizzo Rotundo, Pizzo Centrale, and Piz Gannaretsch. I tried a translate which yielded nothing different in Italian. Then searched wikipedia which gave three options. One was this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzo_(extortion)
here is part of the description:
The pizzo is protection money paid to the Mafia often in the form of a forced transfer of money, resulting in extortion. The term is derived from the Sicilian pizzu ('beak'). To let someone wet their beak (Sicilian language "fari vagnari u pizzu") is to pay protection money. The practice is widespread in Southern Italy,[citation needed] not only by the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, but also by the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and the Camorra in Campania.
Another etymological explanation of the term is "beakerful", referring to the right of an overseer to scoop from the grain being threshed by peasants.[1] Paying the pizzo might also be in kind, for example by forcing a company to put someone (often a member of a criminal organisation) on the payroll, compulsory provision of services by Mafia controlled businesses as well as subcontracting to Mafia controlled companies.[2]
Businesses that refuse to pay the pizzo might be burned down. In return, businesses receive "protection" and can enlist neighbourhood Mafiosi to cut through bureaucracy or resolve disputes with other tradesmen. Collecting the pizzo keeps the Mafia in touch with the community and allows it to "control their territory"
gumshoe_mob ago
the word "piazza" means square or market
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/piazza
Truthplease5 ago
random but related: did you know the word 'presidio' (like from the old Presidio Army Base in California, USA) can mean prison - Prison Army Base? - weird- found a connection to an Island in/within Cuba called the ISLAND of YOUTH ... there are about 5 prisons on the island one of them being Presidio Modelo (model prison)... weird
pbvrocks ago
CIA is smart..when they took over the trafficking from the mafia they used the same networks...which were mainly pizza shops. Mafia is/was very wealthy..they did NOT make all that money running money rackets and selling drugs. Same product, same networks, different masters...
2impendingdoom ago
Huh, and if pizza = child porn, perhaps the pizzo could equally be paid by handing over a child.
I'm thinking that traditionally in large Irish families one of the younger kids was expected to join the priesthood. Maybe a form of paying the pizzo.
Vindicator ago
@gumshoe_mob: Can you clarify how you see this as related to the trafficking of kids by the global elite?
gumshoe_mob ago
I've wondered "why is it pizza places that seem to be connected to the pedophilia network" you know, what is it about PIZZA??? Why PIZZA??? Well, just maybe it is related to PIZZO. Geez.
gumshoe_mob ago
pizza, an italian food, female form of the word PIZZO
pizzo, an extortion racket, male form of the word PIZZA
what connection do you think there might be???? criminal protection of crimes committed by pedophiles by blackmail this is how they are escaping prosecution
Warmoose76 ago
Nice find good thinking