Scroll down to see a list of "Notable Current Inmates" - it's a Who's Who of criminals.

"In internal correspondence beginning in 2014, Purdue Pharma executives discussed how the sale of opioids and the treatment of opioid addiction are “naturally linked” and that the company should expand across “the pain and addiction spectrum,”"

strategy, lies-lying = "I can't find it quickly, I'll search later,

But Guiliani tipped his hand at his strategy and this fits right in.

He said in an interview that his plan was to spread as many differing stories, as much misinformation as possible, to cloud the truth.

He feels that this isn't going to come down to a court of law, it's going to come down to public opinion .(The theory is that he will be facing impeachment, not criminal charges.. at least during his presidency) and the "jurors" on that case will judge based on their constituents' desires.

If he can keep enough people doubting Meuller's story by clouding the waters with misinformation, then he can keep Trump in office."


GREAT COMMENT:
statistics, religion = (I am implying the religion part myself)
"I swear, if humanity had a better instinctive understanding of statistics and how randomness works we'd be **SO** much better off.

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As it is it takes weeks, even months, of study to understand why that's a BS belief, and even then it only make sense on a sort of rarefied intellectual level not down in our emotions where we form so many of our beliefs."

GREAT COMMENT:
books-to-buy = "“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.” ― George Orwell, 1984"

A good list of the things wrong with Trump:
"Under President Trump, we have returned to the indiscriminate use of lengthy mandatory minimum sentences for lower-level, nonviolent drug offenders. His administration has erased significant strides in police reform across the country — not only refusing to move forward with previously negotiated consent decrees but also refusing to help police departments as they seek reform assistance from the Justice Department. It has revoked guidance on the potential legal consequences of excessive fines, fees and cash bail that criminalize poverty. It has reversed a mandate to reduce and ultimately end the use of private prisons that are less safe and do not rehabilitate inmates. It has abandoned the “clemency initiative” launched by President Barack Obama that commuted prison terms for more than 1,700 low-level drug offenders. And despite its professed interest in prison reform, it has ended Obama-era reforms to the Federal Bureau of Prisons designed to provide inmates with tools they need to successfully reenter society, including the creation of a “school district” that would for the first time offer high school diplomas and address learning disabilities and illiteracy in our federal prison system."

Talking about the Austin bomber, who turned out to be a 28 year old

Holy cow. The police chief said "“He does not at all mention anything about terrorism nor does he mention anything about hate, but instead it is the outcry of a very challenged young man, talking about challenges in his personal life,”" - un-fucking-believable. If he was brown, that fucker would never have been considered "challenged"
http://cbsaustin.com/news/local/austin-bombers-violence-didnt-meet-law-enforcement-definition-of-terrorism

more of a traditional news story on the bombings:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/25/us/austin-bombings-investigation/index.html

The thing I've always noticed: When someone gets caught and put on trial, they can never seem to remember. They didn't see it the way the victim saw it. Their heads were so in the clouds, they had no idea such and such was going on. ... All the while, they're at the top of their game, running multi-billion dollar global corporations (Bill Gates, not mentioned in this story, during Microsoft's monopoly trial) or putting out a full-length movie per year (Woody Allen) or the nation's top cop (Atty General Jeff Sessions)

As the last line of the article says: "You can be a bumbler, or you can keep your job. You can't have both."

A con man so smooth, he sold the Eiffel Tower twice. ...................... france = I'll remember the Eiffel Tower connection, so I tagged it this way.

Guy trying to play Knockout gets fucked up. If only Karma were always this instant.

abortion = "The legalization of abortion was at one point thought to account for it, but crime rates have dropped in other developed countries, such as Canada, that didn't change their abortion laws." ........................... childrearing = In the comments, needs research: "Researchers have noted that after controlling for children raised in homes without a father that the racial disparity disappears."

The drug is blown into the faces of victims, who become mindless zombies, even helping criminals ransack and rob their own apartments and bank accounts.

Terry also has advice for children. "When anybody is giving you stuff that your parents don't want you to have and you think: 'Hey, this person's cool. He's giving me alcohol. He's letting me drive his car. He's the cool guy. My parents suck,' listen. Something's wrong."

"TIL That the pilot of a FedEx cargo plane flew his DC-10 upside down while the flight engineer was trying to hijack the plane and fighting the co-pilot in the cargo hold."

What explains Kinkel’s attack? As in the case of Adam Lanza, the consequences of the shooting are indelible while its causes remain largely opaque. And it is unknown whether the perpetrators of such crimes share much more in comm

Female employees suing their employer for sexual harassment are asked by Federal judge to hand over passwords to their Facebook, email and other social media accounts.

fashion = I like the clothes, especially the guy on the left in #9. Short, tapered pans and large shoes.

weird, bizarre, oddities = #4, E. Falleni - a woman who lived as a man, married a real woman and killed her when it seemed she had found out her secret. Then she was found out to be a woman.

Not technically a lone-shooter, but the same style. I remember this happening shortly after 9/11 (seems like less, but evidently it was a year after it in Oct 2002) and everyone thought it was a small scale Al Qaeda attempt at terrorism.

redemption = Will make it easy for me to find this, but I doubt this crime can ever be redeemed.

Is it me, or is is it the media coverage? This year seems to be the year of the mass shootings?

Prison = make sure to get to page 3 regarding "grown men getting out of prison and coming to XYZ person crying for a job"

world-records = Most immigrant smuggling operations are run by men, but this one was headed and staffed by women. In addition, the (female) leader was 84 years old!

Brian Douglas Wells was an American pizza delivery man who was killed by a time bomb fastened to his neck, purportedly under coercion from the maker of the bomb. After he was apprehended by the police for robbing a bank, the bomb exploded. The bizarre affair was subject to much attention in the mass media.

Alison Stewart interviews Benjamin Skinner, investigative journalist and author of 'A Crime So Monstrous,' about his work exposing the world of modern-day slavery and human trafficking.

crime, prison = Starting at 19:30, they talk about reforming the prison system, with the example of the guy who got up on the Texas Tower and killed a bunch of people. In his suicide note, he said he wanted an autopsy done because "I know something inside of me has been changing for the last year or so." A post-event autopsy revealed that he had, for the last year, had a brain tumor growing which was impinging on the part of the brain that deals with fear and agression.

Also see the Radio Times story bookmarked 8-12-2011.

While computer games are theoretically as easy to pirate as any other kind of digital media, the video and computer ...