Vigilantes

Re: Vigilantes lay deadly traps

VIGILANTES are spiking bush tracks with metal booby traps designed to blow out tyres, apparently to deter four-wheel drivers and trail bike riders. Plates with up to eight spikes have been hidden just below the ground on tracks...

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Vigilante militias are taking over the shantytowns of Brazil

Vigilante Groups in Brazil Trump Drug Gangs and Become Rio's New Authority Today's militia is tomorrow's mafia. "You need to integrate the armed forces, the federal police and the state and local police, in a public security...

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Google spyware will help vigilantes save rainforests

Ben Webster, Environment Editor Environmentalists across the world are to be enlisted as armchair detectives to monitor satellite images of rainforests and report any illegal logging. The fund, called Reducing Emissions from...

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Nigeria: Police Asks Vigilante Groups to Register

Worried by the excesses in the activities of various vigilante groups in Ondo State, the State Police Command yesterday insisted that all individuals and groups assisting the police on crime prevention and control must register...

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Rebecca Solnit (BSS #312)

Rebecca Solnit is most recently the author of A Paradise Built in Hell. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Finding hostility within legitimate clarification. Author: Rebecca Solnit Subjects Discussed: William James’s second treatise on...

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Krugman on the Invisible Bond Vigilantes

Rolfe Winkler, CFA submits: Paul Krugman is complaining of deficit hysteria over on his blog again. Where are the bond vigilantes? he wonders. Since we’re still able to sell debt so cheaply, why is anyone worried about more...

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Govt's planned assault on Maoists troubles European aid body (Reuters)

Reuters - India's plans to launch a major offensive against Maoist rebels in the country's heartlands could jeopardise much-needed humanitarian operations in the impoverished area, the European Commission said on Thursday.

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Brazil: Do banks have metal or melanin detector doors?

On the eve of Brazil's Black Pride Day – celebrated on November 20th, when the country renews its ongoing fight against discrimination – the Circo Voador Audiovisual Collective did an experiment. See the result: According to...

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Umlazi man beaten by vigilantes

Books Galore! Millions of books available at discounted prices! Fiction, thrillers, biographies,... Durban - A man was beaten to death by community members in Umlazi K section in Durban on Thursday, KwaZulu-Natal police said....

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ANTOINE FUQUA, SPIKE LEE MAKE A 'LIVING': Filmmakers team for new movie about a white girl and a...

Antoine Fuqua and Spike Lee join forces for a big screen adaptation of the graphic novel "Miss: Better Living Through Crime," with Fuqua directing and Lee executive producing. Newly-formed banner Vigilante Entertainment is...

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