Illegal aliens comprise about 7% of the population, yet they commit 22% of all federal murder convictions, 18% of fraud convictions, 33% of money-laundering convictions, 29% of drug-trafficking convictions and 72% of convictions for drug possession. [...]
Jesus is too much for us. The church’s later treatment of the gospels is one long effort to rescue Jesus from ‘extremism.’
— Gary Wills, What Jesus Meant
Forbes contributor Melik Kaylan has written a two part expose of the Zarrab Trial.The headline of his first article should hint as to why I've mentioned Magnitsky. Minimal background: The arrest of Zarrab was first covered back in 2013 here at the blog
Erwin James, a double murderer, served 20 years in prison - a spell that he decided he must make meaningful. Now working as a professional journalist, he urges other inmates to try to transform their lives to the benefit of themselves and society
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Charles Manson, dead at 83- Helter Skelter became synonymous with this man and the multiple murders he's alleged to have orchestrated- but did NOT participate in.Helter Skelter 1:in undue haste, confusion, or disorder2 :in a haphazard mannerThe "family"Psychology Today: The Cult of Personality?
Whether the string of scandals, now hounding Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, lead to his sacking or not, it matters little.
This country has been having a nationwide nervous breakdown since 9/11. A nation of people suddenly broke, the market economy goes to shit, and they’re threatened on every side by an unknown, sinister enemy. But I don’t think fear is a very effective way of dealing with things—of responding to reality. Fear is just another word for ignorance.”
— Hunter S. Thompson, gonzo journalist
Rats fleeing a sinking ship – the ship of white male privilege
It could not have been scripted better for the demagogues and security hysterics. With the country still grieving in confusion in the aftermath of the Las Vegas slayings, inflicted by an individual who resisted the classification of terrorist at the hands of the Nevada authorities, in came Sayfullo Saipov. Saipov, who fit the fanatic’s bill, the ideologue’s cut, and popular lack of imagination.
There are standoffs, threats and continuing tensions over the imminent closure of the Manus Island Detention Centre. (The politically palatable term here is “processing centre”.) This closure, instigated by legal ruling by the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court in April 2016, has led to a degree of window dressing, prevarication and stalling by all parties connected with the institutionalised barbarism that has been inflicted on refugees and asylum seekers.
