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Nigeria: 100 kidnapped villagers released by bandits
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
FBI agent and bodybuilder investigating Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot is arrested after 'beating his wife during argument following night at a swingers' party'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • FBI agent Richard Trask, 39, has been a key figure in the case of Whitmer plotters

  • In October 14 people were arrested and charged with planning to kidnap her

  • The case is among most important against domestic extremists in a generation

  • On Sunday Trask was arrested and charged with attacking his wife at home

  • He is charged with assault with intent to do great bodily harm, less than murder

  • Trask was released on a $10,000 bond and faces up to 10 years in prison
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2021 07:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...Interestingly, something similar was a plot point in Ray Donovan...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/22/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Top men, all. Top men.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2021 9:52 Comments || Top||

#3  The FEEBs are devolving. The end won't be pretty.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2021 10:29 Comments || Top||

#4  We frequently hear "Where are the guys who are sick what's happening to the organization they have dedicated themselves to?" The answer is most likely "Why would you screw up your career or retirement by commenting on guys like this or the guys who hired them?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2021 10:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Perhaps a different type of "swinging" in has future?
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/22/2021 11:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Typical mafioso behavior
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 07/22/2021 12:09 Comments || Top||

#7  she wanted to take the monkey home that they all did you know the one with the pox!
Posted by: Jiling Gravitch9209 v || 07/22/2021 14:26 Comments || Top||

#8  I wonder how many of these confidential informants would be off trying to kidnap Whitmer on their own if the FBI had not recruited them to fake a kidnapping. A believable CI is going to need history and connections, right?
Posted by: SteveS || 07/22/2021 16:29 Comments || Top||


NYPD are asking the public to help identify a black male who ran up behind a 60-year-old woman and sucker punched her.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  For what? So they can waste their time as witnesses in a court that'll let him off anyway? Fcuk the legal system. Unless American citizens come together to lynch such pieces of shit on the spot, there's no justice or security coming.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/22/2021 6:21 Comments || Top||

#2  I like your thinking.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2021 6:53 Comments || Top||

#3  im surprised there isnt some kind of technology that can effectively 'blur out' the race of the attacker so we can't notice

im sure they are working on it
Posted by: Retard Strength || 07/22/2021 7:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Shame on the NYPD for perpetuating the stereotype that black men go around punching old ladies in the head by releasing footage of a black guy punching an old lady in the head.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/22/2021 16:57 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Havana Syndrome Task Force to Be Led by Veteran of Hunt for Bin Laden
[WSJ] WASHINGTON—CIA Director William Burns has tapped a veteran of the agency’s hunt for Osama bin Laden to head a task force aimed at finding the cause of unexplained health incidents suffered by U.S. spies and diplomats around the world, current and former officials familiar with the matter said.
So remember guys, don't sit in the cab or service the vehicle during active system operations.
The choice of the Central Intelligence Agency officer—whose identity remains undercover—is part of what the officials described as a quickening effort to determine the source of the apparent attacks, which has proven elusive. They have affected scores of U.S. officials posted overseas over the last five years, and are sometimes known as "Havana Syndrome" because the symptoms were first reported in 2016 by diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Havana.

A scientific panel under the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in December said some form of directed energy emissions were the most likely culprit for the symptoms experienced by U.S. officials, which include dizziness, severe headaches, nausea and cognitive difficulties.

Mr. Burns, who became CIA director in March, has said that identifying the source of the attacks and getting treatment for affected agency personnel are among his top priorities. Some current and former intelligence officials suspect Russia is behind the attacks, but that remains unproven and Moscow has denied involvement.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2021 04:54 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So a Human Intelligence (HUMINT) guy (or rather person) has been tasked with uncovering the source of directed electronic emissions ?

Gina Haspel retired on January 19, 2021. Is she returning as a high-grade contract annuitant? Burns retires from Foggy Bottom, gets new job. Haspel becomes an annuitant in an adjacent office. 'Two for one day.'

When will learn what the REAL job entails ?

OBTW, while denied by our Gov't for decades, I seem to remember Agent Orange was finally identified as a problem of our own creation.

A scientific panel under the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in December said some form of directed energy emissions were the most likely culprit for the symptoms experienced by U.S. officials, which include dizziness, severe headaches, nausea and cognitive difficulties.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2021 5:03 Comments || Top||

#2  The woman who brought down Osama Bin Laden
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2021 5:59 Comments || Top||


#4  So... arrays of microwave ovens with their doors off pointing at embassies with the protection circuits overridden and some microwave transparent blind in front - like a billboard?
Posted by: 3dc || 07/22/2021 10:38 Comments || Top||

#5  #1 on my list of suspects is the Deep State using equipment few know about, making this a version of "friendly fire". If so, most likely we'll never know the truth on this.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 07/22/2021 12:20 Comments || Top||

#6  So, cut to the chase and bomb Pakistan now?
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/22/2021 13:09 Comments || Top||

#7  So a Human Intelligence (HUMINT) guy (or rather person) has been tasked with uncovering the source of directed electronic emissions ?

Maybe Nellie Ohr could help out. She has a ham license.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/22/2021 13:20 Comments || Top||

#8  The thing in Larry Collins' 'Maze' was a lot like this. Actually it was just like this. One damn good read.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/22/2021 13:28 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: Jiling Gravitch9209 v || 07/22/2021 14:29 Comments || Top||


And you thought COVID was bad! 200 people across 27 states are being monitored for MONKEYPOX after coming into contact with Texan who caught it in Nigeria
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2021 00:04 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "We're all monkeys" Jeffrey Goines
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/22/2021 10:22 Comments || Top||

#2  It is believed that the virus transmits from animals to humans when the animal bites of scratches a person.

Layers of editors. Must have phoned it in.

BTW, 99% recovery rate says the article.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/22/2021 14:27 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 yes, I believe it is just more stress added onto our daily lives.
Posted by: Dale || 07/22/2021 17:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Does this plague smell biblical to you? Maybe it's just me, but *something* is starting to smell biblical.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/22/2021 20:29 Comments || Top||

#5  It’s just panic p0rn because Covid isn’t triggering a response anymore.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2021 22:20 Comments || Top||

#6  We're jaded.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2021 23:26 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Death toll from recent riots in SouthAfrica has risen to 276
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Turn over the rocks and I bet China is behind it.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/22/2021 1:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Erasing the last remaining vestiges of white privilege by making the country uninhabitable. Certainly glad we are experiencing nothing like that here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2021 3:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Turn over the rocks and I bet China is behind it.

Like they need any encouragement.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/22/2021 3:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Death toll from recent riots in SouthAfrica has risen to 276

Still has nothing on Chicago.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/22/2021 4:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Let me guess.

Murder charges are for local militia. Remainder is from the barbarians.

No militia: Death toll raises to 8000; 5 charges of murder.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/22/2021 12:09 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
MLM Nauka - main engines will not fire. How to get it to space station?
[Twitter]
This is the new Russian space station element just launched. It had a history of delays. The last 2 were from metal filings in it's fuel tanks. I suspect the metal bits made themselves known again. From this link we see:Initially, Nauka was built as a backup for FGB Zarya, the first module of the ISS. Construction started in 1995, with a design based on the hull of the Soviet cargo ship TKS, itself a part of the Almaz military program which included orbital stations, a supply cargo ship, and crewed ships with reusable descent modules.
Nauka is in fact the last surviving, active part of the Almaz program, excluding the hulls and ships which were sold to the Excalibur-Almaz company and to museums for exhibition.

Posted by: 3dc || 07/22/2021 12:13 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  This is just the thing you want to have trying to dock at ISS.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/22/2021 13:12 Comments || Top||

#2  NASA did subsidize it to the tune of mucho $.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/22/2021 14:45 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 There's the problem!
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/22/2021 16:58 Comments || Top||

#4  But how is the GOPHER!
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2021 23:23 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Over 1000 cars trapped in a tunnel with the flash flood in China.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 07/22/2021 11:27 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  By attacking the world with a disease developed in a lab to depopulate and demoralize unwitting societies because they fear them, they have bought themselves every bit of the karma that's coming.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/22/2021 12:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks like the low level entrance ramps to the West Park Tollway in Houston. It has flood stage markers that go to 20 feet. (Me, I'da stopped at 6 feet because, after that, who cares?)
Also, putting flood pumps down in the flood zone, ala New Orleans, is just brilliant.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/22/2021 13:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Why didn't the #CCP tell people they would release the dam water?

Because the CCP doesn't care about the dam people.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/22/2021 17:09 Comments || Top||

#4  DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOOD WATER.
Posted by: Lowspark || 07/22/2021 18:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Wuhan is down stream of the three gorges dam. If the dam goes, what else will be released on the world?
Posted by: Solomon Ulolump1665 || 07/22/2021 22:51 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Internet outage hits multiple companies
[Fox Business] Internet outage monitoring website DownDetector.com on Thursday showed connection failures impacting content delivery and cloud service company Akamai, which said the outage was not the result of a cyber attack.

Websites for Amazon, Google, Verizon, Delta, HBO Max, Airbnb, AT&T Fidelity, FedEx, UPS, Southwest Airlines, HomeDepot and others may have been impacted across the country and especially in major cities like New York City; Washington, D.C., and Chicago, according to DownDector.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


#2  This has been a test of the Homeland Security, CDC, and FBI Alert Network. Had this been a real alert, you would have been instructed to......
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2021 14:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, I was expecting this. The new normal. The meat processor in Canada was a practice run. They boasted the next hacking would be more pervasive. Meanwhile chip cards, banks are all being hacked. Chase told a customer it was from Amazon or WIFI. One local bank had 150 customers hacked in one day. Numbers higher for other local banks. So much for going cashless.
Posted by: Dale || 07/22/2021 14:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Akamai Edge DNS (Domain Name Service) went down, rumors of an upgrade gone wrong. Hmm.

Since world + dog use this service, they went down too. Sounds like good ol' Single Point of Failure but done at scale.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/22/2021 16:38 Comments || Top||


Russia disconnects from global internet in tests: Move sparks fears Putin will strengthen his grip on free speech in the country's cyberspace
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2021 09:46 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Face Book 3.0
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2021 9:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Good luck trying to disconnect SpaceX's StarLink service.
Posted by: Snomoth Whereling9836 || 07/22/2021 10:20 Comments || Top||

#4  StarLink is not cheap and not easy to subscirbe to if you're Cuban.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 07/22/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#5  A big problem with StarLink right now is their user stations (subscriber units) need too many Gallium Arsenide chips. I suspect that is one reason their active trial user count is around 60,000. This means in parts alone the subscriber units, that are sold for about $500, actually have closer to more than $2000 in chips in them. Can devices with GA chips even be sold to people in Cuba or Russia without violating some US law?
Posted by: 3dc || 07/22/2021 11:10 Comments || Top||

#6  When I was a kid in SovU in 1960es, most people listened to radio free Europe - Soviet authorities couldn't block it. And Vlad is going to block Internet?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/22/2021 11:29 Comments || Top||

#7  We should disconnect Russia and China from access to our internet.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/22/2021 11:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Russia just want to ensure they have a working internet should the finicky American establishment and the Europeans decide to somehow deny it to them. As for free speech for dissenters and 'oh-the democracy!' globalist agents, they deserve none. Trust the EU media to dress even that up as a human rights violation. I'll bet they all laughed when DJT was blocked on twitter. Hypocrites.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/22/2021 11:55 Comments || Top||

#9  It seems every week another batch of the net gets "oops, hacked" and it's like the old Far Side cartoon about Turbulence.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/22/2021 17:02 Comments || Top||

#10  Disconnecting his country from the Internet is certainly something an evil dictator would do, likely whilst stroking his white Persian cat.

But it is also something you might want to do if your country was under a persistent global Denial of Service attack.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/22/2021 17:34 Comments || Top||

#11  The powers-that-be in the US have been trying to neuter the US internet for the past twenty-seven years or so.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/22/2021 18:11 Comments || Top||

#12  IIRC AlGore invented the Internet (PBUH)
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2021 20:23 Comments || Top||

#13  He also invented Global Warming. The man is like a god. OK, an annoying and stupid god, but nevertheless, may bees pee upon him.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/22/2021 20:34 Comments || Top||


Europe
London 'Disappointed' Over EU Plans to Send Spanish Police to Gibraltar 'to Perform Border Controls'
[SPUTNIKNEWS] The European Commission said on Wednesday that Spanish border guards should police Gibraltar and enjoy "all necessary powers to perform border controls" related to the British Overseas Territory (BOT).The commission added the EU's proposed mandate puts forward "solutions to remove physical checks and controls on persons and goods" at the border between Spain and Gibraltar.

"It is without prejudice to the issues of illusory sovereignty and jurisdiction, and focuses on cooperation in the region", the commission pointed out, saying the mandate would also give Spain responsibility for granting asylum, visas, residence permits, and authorise Spanish police to pursue suspects in the BOT without special permission.

The EU's post-Brexit negotiator, Maros Sefcovic, said that by putting forward the draft mandate on BOT, the bloc is "honouring the political commitment we made to Spain to start the negotiations of a separate agreement between the EU and the UK on Gibraltar".



Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Russia troops could return Kosovo due to the threat of new Serbian pogroms
Direct Translation of the article via Google Translate
by Tatyana Stoyanovich

[REGNUM] On July 19, Brussels hosted the second round of talks between Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and the Prime Minister of the separatist Kosovo, Albin Kurti . At the end of the meeting, the EU Special Representative for the Dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina Miroslav Lajcak said that "Belgrade and Pristina have made very little progress."

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 07/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'll say it, serbs had it right
Posted by: Chris || 07/22/2021 1:42 Comments || Top||

#2  In the early 90s and one nation (then province over) my cousin went to Bosnia with Doctors Without Borders. He bailed after 2 months. All 3 parties to that fight shot at ambulances and medical people. The Bosnian and Croats when caught doing so would say the medical folk were the best targets they had seen all day. The Serbs would say that medical people were strategically in the way in firefights. The Croat troops were tattooing swastikas on their own heads and going into battle that way. The Bosnians had lots of Iranian allies shooting and raping and killing everybody on any side. The Serbians were the most logical if deadly in their moves.
I totally understood my cousin bailing... BTW he said the EU helpers (not the docs themselves) of Docs Without Borders just smoked and drank wine. They didn't lift many fingers to help.

Seriously I think the whole area is still unwinding from the hundreds of years of Ottoman occupation. A rather slow unwinding...
Posted by: 3dc || 07/22/2021 10:55 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Ex-Army Ranger who joined Capitol riot ordered to remain in jail until trial because he's 'too dangerous', judge slams him for using military training to help organize MAGA mob
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Robert Morss, a former Army Ranger turned substitute teacher who joined Capitol rioters, was ordered to remain in jail until his trial by a federal judge

  • Morss, from Pittsburgh, was slammed for using his military training to help organize a mob of Capitol rioters that breached the U.S. Capitol

  • New videos of Morss were released by the Justice Department, depicting him coordinating with additional rioters and instigating clashes with police

  • Morss was identified in the videos with superimposed boxes and arrows

  • He is depicted speaking to other rioters shortly before grabbing a fence and pulling it away from the police line

  • In another video, Morss is seen handing stolen police shields to other rioters, while another reveals him entering the Capitol through a broken window

  • Morss was taken into federal custody on June 11 on assault, robbery, and other charges for his alleged participation in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol

  • He has since pleaded not guilty to all charges
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2021 07:14 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Three tours in AFG. I'd say he had some skin in the freedom game. Of course he was immediately terminated by the school district where he was employed as a teacher.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2021 8:12 Comments || Top||

#2  former Army Ranger turned substitute teacher

Good cover.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2021 9:38 Comments || Top||

#3  "alleged participation" in an "alleged riot"
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/22/2021 11:16 Comments || Top||

#4  And Biden the fraud was certified by Piglosi a few hours late.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 07/22/2021 12:13 Comments || Top||

#5  I don't think anyone is really serious about getting to the bottom of this. Madame Speaker and the FBI probably have considerable knowledge about what went on that day. However, it is unlikely to come out.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/22/2021 17:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Well if he seriously "instigating clashes with police" then he should be put in the same jailhouse as the Antifa folks that "instigating clashes with police". Same rules for everyone.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/22/2021 21:24 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Senior US Clergyman Resigns On Report He Used Dating App Grindr, Frequented Gay Bar
[SPUTNIKNEWS] Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill was the second-in-command at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The news is likely to pile pressure on the Catholic Church, the reputation of which has been severely tarnished in recent years by a slew of sex abuse, sex trafficking and child pornography scandals.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You know what I've figured out after all of these years on Rantburg? Some comments just write themselves...
Posted by: Raj || 07/22/2021 0:56 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ salad bar

His excellency was headed
to the buffet of the breaded.

Those damned glasses!
And the deacons, what arses!

They mentioned this... Grindr,
which he thought meant 'grandeur'.

And he ended up sandwiched,
and sinfully wedded.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/22/2021 4:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Makes me wonder what might happen if the RCC dropped its tradition of celibate male clergy. Shocking clergy news then would be along traditional lines of husbands cheating on their wives, etc.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 07/22/2021 12:12 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Forget Branson and Bezos - Galaxionaut the guinea pig aims to be next space adventurer as part of Congolese DIY space rocket programme (costing just £110,000)
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Would be funny if this poor thing weren't meant to die horribly.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/22/2021 1:55 Comments || Top||

#2  In the 1970s a MIT guy built an ICBM out of surplus parts he found in government auctions and in junkyards. I remember the government freaking but don't know how it turned out other than the government did take his rocket.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/22/2021 10:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Well there have been dogs, spiders, humans, Bezos and Branson sent into space. What's one more species?
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/22/2021 11:11 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: 3dc || 07/22/2021 11:18 Comments || Top||

#5  If you read the article this guy Kika isn't doing too bad so far. Five launches, three successful, one made it 20 miles up. All made out of junk, basically. Much respect from this old desert rat.
Posted by: Secret Master || 07/22/2021 12:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Messieurs,
My assemblage of scrap'll
Take off with a payload of Apple
So's not to risk lives.
Let us pray it survives.
Love,
Pat Keka (expecting your capital!)
Posted by: Phomose Whomosing8636 || 07/22/2021 14:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Does zero g speed up the marination process? Asking for a cuy wrangler
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/22/2021 14:38 Comments || Top||


At least 28 novel viruses are discovered in 15,000-year-old ice from a Tibetan glacier that are 'unlike any that have been catalogued to date'
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They've done this sort of movie a couple of times already, I think; like Kurt Russell shit...
Posted by: Raj || 07/22/2021 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  yep, better go ahead and get your vax raj
Posted by: Chris || 07/22/2021 1:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Novel?, Patent time.
Posted by: Dale || 07/22/2021 4:11 Comments || Top||

#4 
"Buddha's everlovin' tit!
We were sittin' right on it!
We coulda put the pox,
put them Hans in a box.
If chanting was not
all that we did!"

Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/22/2021 4:44 Comments || Top||

#5  The real scary ones will be viruses found in clay. DNA/RNA material in clay can last hundreds of millions of years.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/22/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||



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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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