Woman Beaten for "Witchcraft"

A woman was hired as a traditional healer in rural India, but, when the client's wife didn't get better, things got ugly." Nishant Tiwari, a police official in northeastern India, said a journalist who filmed the beating called him Thursday to report the incident, which took...

Cane S01E02 (CBS)

As much as I enjoyed the pilot, in retrospect I wonder how good it truly was. The second episode of Cane is a bit of a letdown. I didn’t like it as much as I thought I would. Does that mean it sucked? I don’t think so, but this show is trying to find itself. It’s a mix...

Dancehall Superstar Super Cat Evades Trinidad Police

“Man a bad man” or so the saying goes. Popularized in the 90’s by original dancehall bad man super Cat, the “original dondadda” left police authorities in the south Caribbean nation wondering of his whereabouts after a scuffled occurred between himself and the...

Gangs battle each other in Israel - Mideast/N. Africa - MSNBC.com

Mob violence grows in Israel.

Mob suspect nabbed: Tip from local informant led to capture

"Toms River mobster, killer, and federal songbird Thomas Ricciardi's tunes continue to delight prosecutors and confound those with whom he once shared the vow of "omerta," silence.Information Ricciardi provided more than a decade ago led to the arrest Friday of reputed...

Outsourcing riots

" Something happened that outraged you? Want to hit back? Want to create a riot? Contact us, we are riots specialists in Bombay, we will give you all the necessary people and information required for having your own personalised riots. You can even outsource your riots here,...

'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders

I've been wondering about the large number of stock tip emails that have been hitting my email account. Turns out it is the work of a group of Rooskie underworld bastids running an unbelievably sophisticated bot-net hacking scam. Ryan Naraine at eWeek has the scoop."The...

Democracy of an irrational mob

"The most serious problem in American politics is that frank and intelligent discussion of important problems almost always gets drowned out by meaningless palaver, as David Nimmo and John Combs called it in their brilliant book on the subject, The New Propaganda: The...

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Russian mob and human trafficking

"From Himalayan villages to Eastern European cities, people -- especially women and girls -- are attracted by the prospect of a well-paid job as a domestic servant, waitress or factory worker. Human traffickers recruit victims through fake advertisements, mail-order bride...