“This ain’t Aruba, bitch.” – Bunk (The Wire: Unconfirmed Reports.) Entertainment Weekly, ”The Wire”: Bright Lies, Big City: “Last night’s epigraph – ”This ain’t Aruba, bitch” – was delivered by a slurring Bunk at the bar. All those black bodies found in the rowhouses aren’t enough to warrant a continued investigation, and Bunk, McNulty, and [...]
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This ain’t Aruba, bitch.
February 2nd, 2008
Tags: aruba · crime · joran van der sloot · media · mwws · natalee holloway · nl · the wire · tv · usa
Rolling Stone: How America Lost the War on Drugs
December 4th, 2007
Ben Wallace-Wells, How America Lost the War on Drugs: “The drug war, in the end, has been undone in no small part by the sweeping and inflexible nature of its own metaphor. At the beginning, in the days of Escobar, the campaign was a war as seen from the situation room, a complicated assault that [...]
Tags: colombia · crime · economics · latin america · mexico · usa · war on drugs
What Makes a Terrorist
November 14th, 2007
Alan Krueger, What Makes a Terrorist: “Why is an economist studying terrorism? I have two answers. First, participation in terrorism is just a special application of the economics of occupational choice. Some peo ple choose to become doctors or lawyers, and others pursue careers in terrorism. Economics can help us understand why. The second answer [...]
Tags: alan krueger · crime · economy · education · poverty · terrorism
De term “maffiamaatje”
February 15th, 2007
rolnummer: 362024: “De term “maffiamaatje” en de stelling dat mr. Moszkowicz vriendschappelijke betrekkingen met de onderwereld heeft zijn weliswaar beledigend en voor een advocaat uiterst schadelijk, maar vinden voldoende steun in het toen beschikbare feitenmateriaal.”
Tags: bram moszkowicz · crime · jort kelder · nl · quote
I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI
January 30th, 2007
Wired: “I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI.” (Update: deel 2 en deel3.)
Tags: crime · fbi · security · undercover · usa
links for 2006-05-03
May 3rd, 2006
adidcolor: yellow (quicktime) ” neo-urbanism action drama “ (tags: adidas color advertising) Quotenet – De Endstra Tapes “De Endstra Tapes beslaan 254 pagina’s en zijn opgenomen in periode tussen 20 maart 2003 en 28 januari 2004. “ (tags: crime nl) Drunk Men Work Here – On Bots – Fresh Zero Content for Compulsive Clickers “In [...]
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links for 2006-03-23
March 23rd, 2006
ABN AMRO Press Room: Economen ABN AMRO: wereldeconomie gebaat bij Italië als wereldkampioen voetbal “Hoewel de directe effecten op de economie – denk aan extra consumptie in de horeca – klein zijn, kunnen goede prestaties op het veld indirect wel degelijk een economie stimuleren.” (tags: economics football worldcup) Het Parool – Gestolen fiets onvindbaar “Van alle [...]
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