Yesterday, an 93-page long FBI document recording the alleged criminal activity of Wu-Tang Clan member, the late Russell T. Jones bka Ol Dirty Bastard, was made public under the Freedom of Information Act. You can read the entire (although, profoundly redacted) thing, which includes accounts of shootings, car jackings and numerous other crimes below.

Die italienische Mafia wächst - nach einer aktuellen Studie ist das organisierte Verbrechen die größte Wirtschaftskraft des Landes und mit einer Liquidität von etwa 65 Milliarden Euro inzwischen auch die mächtigste Bank. Das geht aus dem Bericht "Die Hand der Kriminalität auf den Betrieben" hervor, den die Dachvereinigung kleinerer und mittlerer Firmen am Dienstag in Rom vorstellte. Allein die fast 100 Milliarden Euro, die das organisierte Verbrechen jährlich über Bars, Restaurants, Hotels oder Geschäfte in ihrer Hand einnehme, machten etwa sieben Prozent des italienischen Bruttoinlandsproduktes aus.

An internal memo from India’s Military Intelligence that hackers have posted online suggests that manufacturers of mobile devices have provided “backdoor” access to the Indian government in exchange for access to the Indian market. The manufacturers, referred to collectively in the memo as “RINOA,” include RIM, Nokia, and Apple.

A sham AIDS clinic -- complete with patients getting kickbacks but no treatment -- stole $4.5 million from Medicare. According to Reuters, similar schemes are bilking hundreds of millions of dollars from Medicare.

At some of the meetings, the politicians arrived with campaign materials and occasionally with aides. The sessions were organized much like corporate-style job fairs. The gang representatives conducted hourlong interviews, one after the other, talking to as many as five candidates in a single evening. Like supplicants, the politicians came into the room alone and sat before the gang representatives, who sat behind a long table.

Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The techniques described in the trove of 200-plus marketing documents, spanning 36 companies, include hacking tools that enable governments to break into people's computers and cellphones, and "massive intercept" gear that can gather all Internet communications in a country. The papers were obtained from attendees of a secretive surveillance conference held near Washington, D.C., last month.

Die Medienpädagogin Eva Löhr hat vor 1991 einen Film zum Thema Jugendbanden in Berlin gedreht. "Kämpfen lernste auf der Straße", eine 20minütige Dokumentation aus dem Jahr 1991, auf VHS produziert, von der Medienwerkstatt Eyeland. Damalige Mitglieder der Gruppen Ghetto Sisters, Black Panthers, Fighters, Bright Colors, Fatback und die 36 Boys sprechen vor laufender Kamera.

Es gibt unterschiedliche Berechnungen, wie viele Bewohner des Kongo-Freistaates unter Leopolds Herrschaft ermordet wurden bzw. durch die Folgen seiner Politik starben.Zwischen 1880 und 1920 wurde die Bevölkerung des Kongo um mindestens die Hälfte reduziert. Adam Hochschild spricht von 10 Millionen Toten, was auf einer Schätzung von Jan Vansina beruht. Eine große Zahl von Menschen wurde grausam misshandelt, gequält und brutal verstümmelt. Viele konnten in der Folge sich selbst und ihre Familien nicht mehr ernähren und starben an Unterernährung.

The Samuel Goldwyn Films movie, which is due out in theaters in Los Angeles and New York on Aug. 5, stars British actress Rachel Weisz as a U.N. policewoman who stumbles into the sordid world of Balkan sex trafficking and finds her fellow U.N. peacekeepers implicated in the trade. It constitutes perhaps the darkest cinematic portrayal of a U.N. operation ever on the big screen, finding particular fault with top U.N. brass, the U.S. State Department, and a major U.S. contractor that supplies American policemen for U.N. missions. The actual abuses in Bosnia were so shocking that the film's director, Larysa Kondracki, told Turtle Bay that she had to tone it down to make it believable and to ensure that viewers didn't "tune it out."

Marijuana arrests now comprise more than one-half (52 percent) of all drug arrests in the United States. Police made 853,838 arrests in 2010 for marijuana-related offenses, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’ annual Uniform crime report, released today. The arrest total is among the highest ever reported by the agency and is nearly identical to the total number of cannabis-related arrests reported in 2009.

All told, according to the government’s complaint, Full Tilt Poker owed $390 million to players worldwide, but had about $60 million in cash. Since 2007, the government claims Full Tilt Poker enriched its board members and owners with $443 million in payouts, while telling players they could withdraw from their accounts at will.

Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years

Belegen soll das nun eine Reihe von Dokumenten aus einer privaten Klage (King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association et al v. J. Kenneth Blackwell et al), die letzte Woche veröffentlicht wurden und es IT-Experten ermöglichen sollten, die Plausibilität des Verdachts selbst zu prüfen. Denn darunter befinden sich eine detaillierte grafische System-Konfiguration des elektronischen Wahlsystems, die Verträge zwischen den Behörden Ohios und der EDV-Firma sowie das Protokoll von Connells' Befragung, der sechs Wochen nach seiner Aussage bei einem bis heute ungeklärten Flugzeugabsturz starb und zuvor massiv bedroht und zum Schweigen verpflichtet worden sein soll.

Her name is Bunnatine "Bunny" Greenhouse. She blew the whistle when her employer, the US Army Corps of Engineers, gave a no-bid $7bn contract to the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) as the US was about to invade Iraq. She was doing her job, trying to ensure a competitive bidding process would save the US government money. For that, she was forced out of her senior position, demoted and harassed. Bunny Greenhouse told her superiors that the process was illegal. She was overridden. She said the decision to grant the contract to KBR came from the office of the secretary of defence, run by VP Cheney's close friend, Donald Rumsfeld.

Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead, the Guardian has learned. "The death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing."

Indeed, the very insurance that was being held in public coffers by the Hellnic Postbank, is today worth approximately 27 billion dollars according to numbers cited by Mr. Kammenos on multiple occaisions. Considering that Greece is now under duress to raise collateral for its “bailout” money, 27 billion dollars would go a long way towards preventing the privatization and sale of the nation’s assets to foreigners (this figure assumes a partial default and subsequent payout). Unfortunately, the Greek government is no longer in possession of this 27 billion worth of CDS, because it sold them in December of 2009, for a paltry 40 million dollar profit. According the Mr. Kammenos, the contracts were sold to a private firm for “high net-worth individuals” founded in 2009, by the name of IJ Partners.IJ Partners, based in Geneva, has a number of well-known Greeks who serve as either managing partners or members of the board, including former IMF economist Miranda Xafa (who intermediated Greece’s dealings with the IMF), former CEO of Piraeus Bank (one of the banks named in a law suit as shorting Greek government bonds during the period in question) and Theodore Margellos, the well-known exporter who was accused of falsely passing off imported corn from Kosovo as Greek produce. I should also note that according to Mr. Kammenos’ accusations, the firm’s Vice President, Mr. Jose-Maria-Figueres, shares board membership on a separate NGO with none other than the Prime Minister’s own brother, Mr. Andreas Papandreou Jr.  

A two part recording of a "60 Minutes" segment aired in 1978 with Dan Rather on the scene with some of the gangs of East Los Angeles. This is probably the first time that the West Coast gang culture recieved in depth exposure on national TV.

From 1963 to 1969 as part of Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD), the U.S. Army performed tests which involved spraying several U.S. ships with various biological and chemical warfare agents, while thousands of U.S. military personnel were aboard the ships. The personnel were not notified of the tests, and were not given any protective clothing. Chemicals tested on the U.S. military personnel included the nerve gases VX and Sarin, toxic chemicals such as zinc cadmium sulfide and sulfur dioxide, and a variety of biological agents.

Declan Hill, in his seminal 2008 book on match-fixing, The Fix, quoted “a recent study for the American journal Foreign Policy [that] estimated the entire Asian gambling industry, both legal and illegal, at $450bn a year.” That’s perhaps 20 times the revenues of all of European professional football. When the sums bet on games dwarf the players’ wages, it’s no wonder match-fixing has become a global, stable and mature industry.

"Paolo Maldini hat Angaben der Staatsanwaltschaft zufolge einem Mitarbeiter der Finanzbehörde 40.000 Euro gegeben - damit dieser ihn bei Steuerprüfungen verschone. Deshalb sei nun Anklage gegen den langjährigen Abwehrchef des AC Mailand erhoben worden. Außerdem habe der 42-Jährige Auskünfte über die finanzielle Situation eines Geschäftspartners erhalten, mit dem er ein Immobilien-Geschäft in der Toskana plante, so die Staatsanwaltschaft. "Ich bin gelassen, weil ich niemals jemanden bestochen habe", ließ Maldini über seinen Anwalt Danilo Buongiorno mitteilen."

Last summer, the world’s top software-security experts were panicked by the discovery of a drone-like computer virus, radically different from and far more sophisticated than any they’d seen. The race was on to figure out its payload, its purpose, and who was behind it. As the world now knows, the Stuxnet worm appears to have attacked Iran’s nuclear program. And, as Michael Joseph Gross reports, while its source remains something of a mystery, Stuxnet is the new face of 21st-century warfare: invisible, anonymous, and devastating.

"Das Militär nahm über 200 Menschen fest – und folterte sie zum Teil brutal. Ein Teil der Festgenommenen wurde in Schnellverfahren von Militärgerichten zu ein bis drei Jahren Haft verurteilt, von anderen fehlt bis heute jede Spur. Diejenigen, die inzwischen freigelassen wurden, berichten, wie Soldaten sie nach der Festnahme zum ägyptischen Museum brachten, das das Militär derzeit als temporären Stützpunkt nutzt – und das die Journalistin Rasha Azab nach den jüngsten Vorfällen "Schlachthof des Tahrir" getauft hat."

"Kutschma war bereits kurz nach dem Mord an Gongadse von der Opposition verdächtigt worden, in das Verbrechen verwickelt gewesen zu sein. Im September 2010 beschuldigte die Staatsanwaltschaft Kutschmas Innenminister Juri Krawtschenko, hinter dem Mord zu stehen. Da Krawtschenko jedoch bereits Anfang 2005 gestorben war, wurde der Justiz vorgeworfen, die gesamte Verantwortung für den Mord auf ihn abwälzen zu wollen. Offiziell beging Krawtschenko in seinem Landhaus Selbstmord. In den Medien wurde jedoch spekuliert, dass er in Wahrheit ermordet wurde."  

"Kurios verlief die angebliche Manipulation der Champions-League-Partie zwischen VSC Debrecen und AC Florenz am 20. Oktober 2009. Laut Anklage sollte der ungarische Torwart 100 000 Euro erhalten, war aber angeblich schon von anderer Seite bestochen worden. Die Partie beschäftigt auch den Internationalen Sportgerichtshof CAS. Zur völligen Farce sollen einige Spiele in der Türkei mutiert sein. Der 3:0-Sieg von Trabzonspor gegen Antalyaspor um den türkischen Antalya-Pokal ist laut Anklage zuvor von sämtlichen Spielern abgesprochen worden. Auf den Sieg von Istanbul Büyüksekir Belediyespor gegen Genclerbirligi Ankara am 3. Mai 2009 in der ersten türkischen Liga haben sich angeblich die Club-Präsidenten geeinigt. Aber auch bei Begegnungen in Belgien und in der Schweiz sollen die Anklagten Spieler von beiden Seiten auf ihren «Gehaltszetteln» gehabt haben"