War on Drugs. The Battle for Net Freedom. Unreported World - Episode Guide. In war-torn Gaza, 'Location, Location, Location' means finding an apartment in one of the highly sought-after areas that are usually not shelled or hit by missiles.
Reporter Seyi Rhodes and producer Daniel Bogado examine what must be one of the world's most unlikely property booms. They meet Essam Mortja, an estate agent and property developer who says his property business is booming. He shows them some of the glitzy properties he's helped sell at prices of up to US $3 million. Property prices for luxury villas and apartments in elite areas like El Remal are on par with London and New York. Sri Lanka's Killing Fields. Parental Control HistoryCloseSign in to get the most from 4oD History View your own personal 4oD history, useful if you share a computerKeep track of the last 50 shows you watched or started watchingResume unfinished shows from the point you stopped watching FavouritesCloseStart using Favourites today Look out for the add to Favourites button as you browse the siteUse the buttons to create a list of all your favourite showsNew 4oD episodes are flagged here so you don't miss out.
The Politics of Grief. Photo by Photosightfaces.
In the case of September 11 2001, communal loss is – comparatively, at least – well understood. Can the Government Suppress Lies? - Garrett Epps - National. People fib.
But a current court case centers around whether laws can stop them. Reporting on a Gang Rape in East Texas. Twitter comments and a smart piece on Jezebel have been astutely criticizing this New York Times piece on the alleged gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in the East Texas town of Cleveland.
It’s a horrifying story. We’re told that a schoolgirl was raped by "18 young men and teenage boys" – 18 – in an abandoned trailer filled with "a filthy sofa … a broken stereo and some forlorn Christmas decorations. " The New York Times' Rape-Friendly Reporting. From today's New York Times: The police investigation began shortly after Thanksgiving, when an elementary school student alerted a teacher to a lurid cellphone video that included one of her classmates.The video led the police to an abandoned trailer, more evidence and, eventually, to a roundup over the last month of 18 young men and teenage boys on charges of participating in the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in the abandoned trailer home, the authorities said.
This story from Cleveland, Texas, is beyond horrifying. Obviously. Unfortunately, further injustices have now been heaped on the victim (and the movement to end rape culture) by the article's writer and editor. The Careless Language Of Sexual Violence. There are crimes and then there are crimes and then there are atrocities.
These are, I suppose, matters of scale. I read an article in the New York Times about an eleven-year old girl who was gang raped by eighteen men in Cleveland, Texas. The levels of horror to this story are many, from the victim’s age to what is known about what happened to her, to the number of attackers, to the public response in that town, to how it is being reported. There is video of the attack too, because this is the future. The unspeakable will be televised. Gang-rape woman arrested during trial, following overdose - Courts, National News. Panetta, Gates, Rumsfeld Face New Suit Over U.S. Military Rape ‘Epidemic’
Famed as Sonic Youth’s bassist, Kim Gordon is also an accomplished visual artist who once did a watercolor of Blondie.
She talks about life after the band—and the secrets of her artistic process. There is a certain school of thought that says Kim Gordon—"musician, vocalist, visual artist, record producer, video director, fashion designer, and actress," according to her ever-expanding Wikipedia entry—is the coolest person on the planet. Hans Magnus Enzensberger: The radical loser (01/12/2005. I.
Drinking the Kool-Aid: A Survivor Remembers Jim Jones - Jennie Rothenberg Gritz - National. Teri Buford O'Shea fled Jonestown three weeks before all its inhabitants committed suicide.
How Police Interrogation Works". There are "Law & Order" addicts everywhere who think they could get a perp to confess. A little glaring, some getting in the guy's face, a revelation that his fingerprints are all over the murder weapon and voilà! He's recounting his crime. In real life, police interrogation requires more than confidence and creativity (although those qualities do help) -- interrogators are highly trained in the psychological tactics of social influence. London’s burning: a mob made by the welfare state. Many commentators are on a mission to contextualise the riots that have swept parts of urban London and other British cities. Rrupt and confused? This summer, the police faced the crises of phone hacking and riots. The force is changing, but in the wrong way The British police: a conservative institution that struggled to adjust to post-second world war change Images of police in full riot gear against a backdrop of burning buildings and marauding looters have seared themselves into the collective memory.
The riots, sparked by the police shooting of a man in Tottenham (a non-police-issue gun was found at the scene), have challenged the reputation of Britain’s constabularies. In so doing, they sharpened concerns about policing that emerged a month earlier during the News International phone-hacking scandal. Civil disorder and looting hits Britain: We have been here before. Why do police douse protesters with colored water?
As Egypt prepares to mark the first anniversary of the Egyptian revolution on Wednesday, with activists mapping out protest routes and the ruling military council partially lifting the country's emergency laws and releasing prisoners in apparent goodwill gestures, Al-Masry Al-Youm is reporting something rather odd. Anonymous security sources tell the Egyptian newspaper that security forces are planning to use batons, loudspeakers, and "colored chemicals that will stain one's skin for six months" against "those perceived to be violating the law. " It's the colored chemicals in particular that's gotten picked up by Twitter users in Egypt, generating a mixture of outrage ("colored chemicals you idiots?!!!!!)
, humor ("so it's paint ball fight now? "), advice ("Vaseline reduces the effects of colored water") and skepticism ("if it's real we wouldn't be finding out about it a week beforehand"). Nevertheless, the approach is still employed frequently. Britain's children: breaking with Convention. It has been three years since the UK was admonished for failing to comply with its obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The UN Committee responsible for the convention recommended that the UK government take ‘urgent measures’ to address a ‘general climate of intolerance and negative public attitudes towards children, especially adolescents’. Yet it is fair to say that, since then, since then, the UK has failed to act on the Committee’s concerns. In fact, we have seen an escalation in negative public attitudes towards children and adolescents.
It’s Not India, Congo or Afghanistan: The Subjection of Women is Its Own Religion. London My mother began her career as a high-school teacher in a country that regarded women as the property of men. Arms and Legs. In Broadway Market. Some years ago, not long after we saw the looting and burning of Baghdad together, I went with my Iraqi friend Ghaith for lunch in Broadway Market, in Hackney, one of the many parts of London where gentrification of a previously run-down area has been going on for years. The street was, and is, lined with cute shops, bars and restaurants for attractive, trendy, second-generation creative and media types. Spark of Truth: Can Science Bring Justice to Arson Trials?
As a rookie arson investigator in Marietta, Georgia, John Lentini never questioned his training. A Seismic Crime - Joel E. Cohen. Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space NEW YORK – Few people outside Italy are aware that six seismologists and a government official are on trial in the small city of L’Aquila. California Seismologist Testifies Against Scientists in Italy Quake Manslaughter Trial. If You Can’t Notice a Gorilla in Plain Sight, How Can You Testify as a Witness? By Daniel Simons, as told to Discover’s Valerie Ross. Simons is a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois, where he studies attention, perception, and memory—and how much worse people are with those skills than they think. He is the co-author, with fellow psychologist Chris Chabris, of The Invisible Gorilla.
Late one January night in 1995, Boston police officer Kenny Conley ran right past the site of a brutal beating without doing a thing about it. The case received extensive media coverage because the victim was an undercover police officer and the aggressors were other cops. Conley steadfastly refused to admit having seen anything, and he was tried and convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. Neuroscientist Michael S. Gazzaniga explains why some people may be born criminals. The mystery of Carole Myers. The town that stood up to the mafia. The real CSI: what happens at a crime scene? Room for Everyone at The Hague. Concerning the Violent Peace-Police. Former BNP man uses copyright and libel laws to stifle “Nazi” picture. Fishing as Slaves on the High Seas. Khader Adnan and now-normalized Western justice. The Right to Tell Lies. The Wilderness Highway Where People Go Missing. Re-thinking detention without trial.
Forensic failure: 'Miscarriages of justice will occur' - science-in-society - 08 February 2012. Arson and "Junk Science" Fewer countries carrying out executions. Annual Death Penalty Report.pdf (application/pdf Object) Number of death penalty states declining but surge in executions in 2011. Science in court: Arrested development.