Dozens of members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement have reportedly been injured after handheld pagers they use to communicate exploded.Comments closed
Tag: crime
Pictured: today’s garden work.
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- Gene-editing drugs are moving from lab to clinic at lightning speed
- Mystery surrounds US woman found starving and chained to tree in India
OPERATIONS: there is NO SIGNAL in the garden. It’s basically the 1970s out there, currently – continuing local network issues. Briefly organising delivery schedules for artists, publishers and myself and adding pending production deals to the boards
STATUS: Inbox 99, 7hrs 46mins sleep, sleeping heart rate of 64 (this is a note to self), readiness score of 86 which means I should be able to dig up some trees as well as cutting and lopping some back, and I will likely deprecate these details from STATUS next week
READING: EVERYTHING IS CINEMA: THE WORKING LIFE OF JEAN-LUC GODARD, Richard Brody.
THINKING ABOUT: from the Godard book:
I remember Godard asking me, for a scene of a car arriving at a railway crossing: âI only want the sound of the match.â Ordinarily, one would have put the sound of the car in motion and then braking, the character reaching for his cigarette then lighting it. This practice lent the voices and the discrete sound effects a peculiar intimacy, as if, like Bruno, the viewer were experiencing not a moment in full but a particular, keen, and pointed detail as Bruno remembers it.
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Comments closedwww.dw.com – German far-right coup plot trial to begin
The first of three trials linked to a far-right coup plot begins in Germany on Monday, with the defendants accused of preparing to commit high treason and belonging to a terrorist organization.
Comments closedAll the suspects, part of the so-called “ReichsbĂźrger” movement, were allegedly plotting to overthrow the German government. The ReichsbĂźrger, or “citizens of the Reich,” reject Germany’s post-war state, claiming it was installed and controlled by the Allied powers who won World War II.
April 28, 2024 at 07:44PM
Patrick Winnâs Narcotopia is reportage of the sort that shrinking foreign news budgets have made scarce. It is the story of the Wa, a people who once proudly collected the heads of their enemies, and who came to preside over one of the worldâs most important narco-states in their homelands in the mountains of Burma. The author describes the culture of the Wa, who kept both the British and the Burmese military junta at bay, as being that of the âwarrior-farmer, an anarchist who did as he or she pleasedâ.
https://app.the-tls.co.uk/tls_article/heroin/pugpig_index.html
Comments closedComments closedA team of archaeologists affiliated with several institutions in France and one in Germany has found that ritualized human sacrifice was common across Europe during the Neolithic.
googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-1449240174198-2’); });As they report in the journal Science Advances, the group studied the remains of three women found in a tomb in France who appeared to have been ritually brutalized sometime between 4000 and 3500 BCE and compared the remains with others like them found at sites in Europe.
The work began with the study of the remains of three women found in a tomb in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteauxâtwo of the bodies showed the women were buried in unusual positions, one on her back with her legs bent upward, the other in a prone position with her neck on the torso of the other womanâcharacteristics associated with incaprettamento, a murder technique used by organized criminals as a means of intimidation in modern times.
We’re working out how to solve crimes in spaceâthe final frontier of forensic science
“As humanity’s footprint expands beyond the familiar terrains of Earth to the moon and possibly beyond, an intriguing new field emerges from the final frontier: astroforensics.
“This discipline, still in its infancy, is propelled by the inevitability of human nature. Space presents a unique and harsh environment for forensic investigations. Settings that present altered gravity, cosmic radiation, extremes in temperature, and the need for oxygen-providing climate systems provide a few examples of the unearthly variables that are faced by future explorers.
“Unlike Earth, where gravity, a constant force, shapes many aspects of our reality, the significant reduction of gravity in space introduces novel challenges in understanding how evidence behaves. This shift is crucial for forensic sciences like bloodstain pattern analysis, which relies heavily on gravitational effects to determine the circumstances under which blood stains are formed.”
March 08, 2024 at 04:49PM
Comments closedComments closedLess diligent registries are helping to fuel the growth of a âdark fleetââsome 1,400 vessels, according to the Atlantic Council, a think-tankâthat operates with little regulatory oversight. They are mostly oil tankers that engage in subterfuge to hide where they are and the origin of their cargo in order to evade sanctions on Russian crude oil. Ownership is often opaque. Mr Meade estimates that 12% of the global tanker fleet is now dark. He notes that Gabonâs registry, now comprising 140 vessels, is the fastest-growing in the world thanks largely to the reflagging of Russian tankers.
An expanding dark fleet poses a danger to itself and other vessels. Dark ships tend to be old and less well maintained, and some may be uninsured. Practices such as turning off or âspoofingâ location devices are a danger to other ships. Swapping oil cargoes at sea to obscure their origins poses the danger of a spillage. Mr Meade foresees a worse calamity of a large âdark fleetâ tanker sinking in an environmentally sensitive area, with no accountability.
In 1967 Japan Air Lines issued this box set of leaflets which informed on all aspects of life in Japan.
Erin L. Thompson has one of the more unusual job titles in the art world and academia.
As a professor of art crime at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Thompson uses her law degree and a PhD in art historyâboth from Columbia Universityâto teach and report on looted antiquities, art forgery techniques, museum thefts, repatriation efforts, art made by GuantĂĄnamo Bay detainees, collections of human remains, and, most recently, the melting of notable Civil War monuments.
Meet Robert Pickton – a demented serial killer who fed his victims to pigs.
A monster who claimed he was disappointed with himself that he had only killed forty-nine and did not “make the big five-O.”
Latter saved for reference: not sure if this is the crime scene I was thinking of, but I have something similar lodged in my memory. Awful thing.
Comments closed“Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, thatâs probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin â or it could just be a bit of beef.”
Smoked monkey!
Comments closedSt. Andrewâs Cathedral was believed to be haunted as early as 1890. Construction had only just begun on the new cathedral, when a lone gunman shot and killed an innocent manâDavid Feeâas Christmas Eve Mass was letting out. According to court records, during the subsequent trial, the defendantâs lawyer argued that his client had mistaken David Fee for âa ghost.â
I just found this story buried at the bottom of my email – seems I sent myself the link at some point.
Comments closedIt wasnât long before Francis Fullerâthe Irishmanâbegan to demonstrate symptoms of âinsanity.â By todayâs standards, Fuller would have likely been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He heard voices, for example, saying that his travel companions were part of a conspiracy to kill him. When the French labourer disappeared, the priests believed that he had simply become tired of Fullerâs increasing instability. In later years, reporters would speculate that he might have been Fullerâs first victim.
Bishop Seghers believed he could control Fuller, despite the concerns of the other priests. Frustrated with the situation, the bishop sent the priests on a side mission while he and Fuller carried on with three First Nation guides. One of the guides left the party at a trading station. The remaining members continued on their way. Fuller began to act more and more erratic.
On the morning of November 28, 1886, Fuller shot Bishop Seghers through the heart as he leaned over to gather his gear. The man died instantly in front of the two horrified guides. Fuller immediately began to act even more bizarre, shaking one of the guideâs hands while expressing to them that âthe manâ needed to be killed. The guides wrapped up the body and left to get help with Fuller accompanying them willingly.
The party reached the village that day. No one knew what to do with Fuller. He wasnât immediately incarcerated, but was instead sent to another village for the winter, away from two local white women who had expressed âterrorâ at being in his presence. Fuller continued to act strangely over the duration of the winter, apparently changing his story as to what had happened several times.