Category: News

  • Were the Film-Set Heists in Atlanta an Inside Job? | The New Yorker

    Were the Film-Set Heists in Atlanta an Inside Job? | The New Yorker

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    Were the Film-Set Heists in Atlanta an Inside Job? According to one tally, three million dollars’ worth of equipment was stolen during the past eighteen months, in forty-five separate incidents. “Somewhere, there’s a mole,” a studio owner said. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/were-the-film-set-heists-in-atlanta-an-inside-job Marc Dobiecki, the C.E.O. of Commander, a film-equipment-rental company, took note. “I…

  • San Francisco Chronicle Photographer Robbed at Gunpoint in Oakland | PetaPixel

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    Link: A photographer who works for the San Francisco Chronicle was robbed at gunpoint on Friday while on assignment in West Oakland. The incident follows a fatal shooting of a security guard who was protecting a local news crew, also in Oakland.

  • Controversial Photographer Jock Sturges Admits to Sexual Misconduct | PetaPixel

    Controversial Photographer Jock Sturges Admits to Sexual Misconduct | PetaPixel

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    Controversial Photographer Jock Sturges Admits to Sexual Misconduct Jock Sturges admits to sexual misconduct. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/11/18/controversial-photographer-jock-sturges-admits-to-sexual-misconduct/ As reported by the Washington Post, John “Jock” Sturges has been sentenced to three years of probation after pleading guilty in Franklin Superior Court to a charge of an “unnatural and lascivious act on a child under 16.”

  • The right-wing media’s rallying cry: anti-lockdown edition – Columbia Journalism Review

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    The right-wing media’s rallying cry: anti-lockdown edition On Monday, Joshua A. Bickel, on assignment for the Columbus Dispatch, took a photo that went viral. Bickel was in the Ohio statehouse, where he’d been sent, in the absence of a furloughed colleague, to film a briefing by Mike DeWine, the governor. His via Columbia Journalism Review:…

  • U.S. Continues Quagmire-Building Effort In Afghanistan

    U.S. Continues Quagmire-Building Effort In Afghanistan

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    The Onion | America’s Finest News Source. The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America’s finest news source. via The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/u_s_continues_quagmire_building?utm_source=onion_rss_daily According to sources at the Pentagon, American quagmire-building efforts continued apace in Afghanistan this week, as the geographically rugged, politically unstable region remained ungovernable, death…

  • Guernica / Delta Farce?

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    Link: The MEND rebels of the Niger Delta are on a charm offensive, hosting press on fact-finding missions. Are they legitimate freedom fighters or environmental profiteers?

  • Changing Face in Poland –  Skinhead Puts on Skullcap – NYTimes.com

    Changing Face in Poland – Skinhead Puts on Skullcap – NYTimes.com

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    Changing Face in Poland: Skinhead Puts on Skullcap (Published 2010) Hundreds of Poles, a majority of them raised as Catholics, are either converting to Judaism or discovering Jewish roots submerged for decades. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/world/europe/28poland.html “I went to my parents and said, ‘What the hell’? Imagine, I was a neo-Nazi and heard this news? I couldn’t…

  • The rise and fall of an Internet sensation

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    Link: Thomas Bruso’s already unpredictable life took an abrupt detour. It was the day he ceased being Thomas Bruso and became Epic Beard Man, Internet sensation.

  • I wanted to sell their heads for N2m

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    Link: You might not believe this, but it’s true. In a desperate bid to become rich, a young man in Calabar, popularly known as Udo Mbakara, has sliced off the heads of two young girls who are his nieces.

  • In Mexico, a legal breakdown invites brutal justice

    In Mexico, a legal breakdown invites brutal justice

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    In Mexico, a legal breakdown invites brutal justice Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/08/AR2010120806379.html on Sept. 21, the kidnappings stopped. That was the day a gang of kidnappers with AK-47s burst into Lolo’s seafood restaurant and tried to abduct the 17-year-old cashier. A mob of enraged residents chased down two of the teenage attackers and lynched them in a…

  • Flavor Flav pulls name from Iowa fried chicken restaurant : SFGate: Daily Dish

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    Link: But Flav isn’t giving up on the catering business – he’s secured a deal to open Flavor Flav’s House of Flavor in Las Vegas next month. The venue will feature a restaurant, a bar, a studio and a stage for live performances.

  • Impact on camera industry of Thai flooding looks increasingly severe

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    Link: the Nikon factory in Thailand, and two out of three Sony factories in Thailand, all of which produce DSLR cameras and lenses, have “no prospect of recovery” after being damaged in recent flooding

  • Guantánamo Prisoners Released Into Cheering DNC Crowd

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    Link: Paolo Marchetti is one of the four recipients of this year’s Getty Images Editorial Grants. He’s won $20,000 to continue his series Fever, which looks at the “tremendous growth” of the fascist movement in Europe. He speaks with BJP

  • Inside the Anonymous Hacking File on the Steubenville ‘Rape Crew’

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    Link: conflicting reports over an already emotional case became that much more complex today when a WikiLeaks-style site dumped new information about team boosters, the town sheriff, and the alleged “Rape Crew” online — information rounded up, of course, by the anonymous hacking collective known as Anonymous.

  • Hi, In The Past 2 Years, You Have Allowed Me To Kill 70,000 People (by Bashar al-Assad)

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    Link: As a side note: I do think it’s actually interesting that everyone knows how many people I’ve murdered, and yet nothing has happened to me. Don’t you think that’s interesting? In the 21st century? Anyway, I think it’s interesting.

  • Kim Jong-un’s ex-lover ‘executed by firing squad’

    Kim Jong-un’s ex-lover ‘executed by firing squad’

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    Kim Jong-un’s ex-lover ‘executed by firing squad’ Kim Jong-un’s ex-girlfriend was among a dozen well-known North Korean performers who were executed by firing squad nine days ago, according to South Korean reports. via The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10272953/Kim-Jong-uns-ex-lover-executed-by-firing-squad.html Hyon’s band was responsible for a string of patriotic hits in North Korea, including “Footsteps of Soldiers,” “I Love…

  • How The Onion Covers Politics | TIME

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    How The Onion Covers Politics The satirical news organization uses a mix of stock photos with its own imagery via Time: https://time.com/4285762/the-onion-politics-photography/ The satirical news organization uses a mix of stock photos with its own imagery

  • Sting of Myself – The New Yorker

    Sting of Myself – The New Yorker

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    James O’Keefe Accidentally Stings Himself A failed attack on George Soros is part of a new era of secretly funded political hit jobs. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/james-okeefe-accidentally-stings-himself Amateurish spies like James O’Keefe III attempt to sway the 2016 campaign.

  • B&H to Pay $3.22M to Settle Lawsuit Filed by the Dept. of Labor

    B&H to Pay $3.22M to Settle Lawsuit Filed by the Dept. of Labor

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    B&H to Pay $3.22M to Settle Lawsuit Filed by the Dept. of Labor The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that the giant NYC-based photography retailer B&H has agreed to pay $3.22 million to resolve a lawsuit filed by via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/08/16/bh-pay-3-22m-settle-lawsuit-filed-dept-labor/ The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that the giant NYC-based photography retailer…

  • How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico – ProPublica

    How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico – ProPublica

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    How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico — ProPublica The inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border — and the U.S. drug operation that sparked it. via ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/allende-zetas-cartel-massacre-and-the-us-dea The inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border — and the…