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September 17, 2010

Cartel city: terror in TorreΓ³n

I’ll grant that subject line sounds like it should be the title for a roleplaying game adventure or the next Grand Theft Auto release, but, sadly, it’s all too true. In the UK’s Guardian newspaper, Rory Carroll reports on the nightmare that has become life in this northern Mexican city. Once a center of transportation, manufacturing, commerce, TorreΓ³n and its surrounding area by the 1990s was a prosperous place. But now, after several years of war among the drug cartels, it is a city in which prisoners are released from jail by the warden to massacre innocent party-goers:.....   [Read More]

Weapons of Mass Deception: State-run NC media continues their quest to destroy state SBI

About a month ago, I wrote a lengthy piece on how our “state-run” media here (liberal sister papers Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News & Observer) in North Carolina were trying to do their best to sabotage the work of the State Bureau of Investigation by falsely accusing and insinuating via a series of biased “investigations” – some based on an independent audit/review of the SBI’s serologyΒ unit that was much less “scathing” than reported – that the SBI routinely andΒ deliberately withholds lab evidence that could be favorable to the defense.Β  As a result of that misread independent review, the systemic efforts of both Observer papers, and the continued crusade by “innocence” groups here in NC to keep the unofficial death penalty moratorium in placeΒ using any means necessary, state legislators are now in full tilt boogie mode to “right” these “wrongs” viaΒ demands for a top downreview of all SBI labΒ unitsΒ and calls for a new accrediting agency for the SBI......   [Read More]