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My Life as a Crime Victim ... (David Duggan, USA, 04/01/23 11:35 am) In five days, the reign of terror of Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot will come to an end, and she will have another month to pack her boxes and plan her long vacation from public life. Having just b ...
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Theranos Scandal and Stanford Connections ... (Francisco Wong-Diaz, USA, 09/28/21 4:02 am) A short note on the Theranos criminal fraud case, which is now being tried in a San José federal court. The notorious Stanford dropout founder of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, is now marri ...
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Execution of John Wayne Gacy, May 10th, 1994 ... (David Duggan, USA, 05/10/19 1:35 pm) For those who may not remember it, today is the 25th anniversary of the execution of John Wayne Gacy, still the all-time leader of serial killers with convictions of 33 murders, all young boys. The bo ...
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Teflon Presidents Contrasted: Reagan and Trump ... (John Heelan, -UK, 07/16/18 5:44 am) JE commented on 15 July: "Our previous Teflon President, Ronald Reagan, was positively 'Velcroey' in comparison to Mr Trump." Reagan was the nation's favourite grandfathe ...
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Mueller Indicts 12 Russian Nationals for DNC Hack ... (Tor Guimaraes, USA, 07/15/18 6:36 am) I have received an interesting email, from which I quote: "Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers on Friday in the hacking of the Democratic National Comm ...
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Is Crime "Allowed"? Street Crime in Brazil ... (Tor Guimaraes, USA, 08/19/16 9:30 am) John Eipper commented on my post of 18 August: "That crime exists does not mean that it is 'allowed'--or not? Let's discuss. I am reminded of Donald Trump's law-and-order addres ...
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Thoughts on "No-Go" Zones, Crime, and Gangs ... (Tor Guimaraes, USA, 08/18/16 5:08 am) My WAIS post of August 15th stated: "A very puzzling phenomenon to me is that most people seem to preoccupy themselves with analysis of calamitous events after the fact, without trying to learn a ...
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New Calls to Ban Assault Rifles in US; from Gary Moore ... (John Eipper, USA, 06/15/16 4:06 pm) Gary Moore writes: On the Orlando shooting, and the FBI's protestations that it did everything it could beforehand, within the law: Isn't Congress, not the en ...
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Thoughts on Orlando Massacre ... (Richard Hancock, USA, 06/15/16 4:30 am) All of the world's papers have been filled with reactions to the Orlando shootings. The 14 June Wall Street Journal has several articles about the tragedy.  I found three of these a ...
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Orlando Nightclub Shooter Omar Mateen; "Bacha Bazi" ... (Massoud Malek, USA, 06/14/16 3:29 am) In a video, Seddique Mateen, the father of Omar Mateen, who committed the worst mass shooting in the US history, said: "He was a good and educated son; the sight of two men in Miami kissing anger ...
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More Thoughts on Taharrush; from Gary Moore ... (John Eipper, USA, 01/20/16 4:17 am) Gary Moore writes: John Eipper's thoughtful question on my "Beast in the Dark" post (16 January), about modern gang anomie, gives me a chance to follow ...
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The Beast in the Dark: Taharrush; from Gary Moore ... (John Eipper, USA, 01/16/16 5:02 am) Gary Moore writes: I want to address here a meta-phenomenon glimpsed in many WAIS posts. A recent puzzle piece, the Cologne New Year's mob in Germany, has taken a ...
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