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Report: Mideast susceptible to defense-related corruption
Haaretz
An international monitoring group issued a warning on Wednesday that excessive secrecy in Mideast security agencies leaves countries like Egypt, Libya and Tunisia open to corruption even after the overthrow of authoritarian regimes. Continued secrecy ...

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Jimmy Lee Dykes told neighbors he was building a storm shelter, but that bunker 4 feet below the dirt became a prison for a boy named Ethan, surely more terrifying than any storm.

A Glasgow chef will be enjoying 14 years of cuisine-de-incarceration after he was found guilty of murdering his girlfriend. Peter Cumming -- the 58-year-old who... Andy Campbell http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-campbell/

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Barnes jury re-watches controversial tape, continues deliberations
Baltimore Sun (blog)
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Authorities found a frail 17-year-old boy handcuffed to a pole in his parents' Kansas City basement, where he said he'd been... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-griffo/

Walter DurantyWalter Duranty, Stalin’s Propagandistby Robert A. Waters

“One death,” Josef Stalin is said to have quipped, “is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.”  Researchers estimate that in 1931 and 1932, the Soviet dictator purposefully starved to death at least six to ten million Ukrainians.  The final number of deaths is unknown—as Nikita Kruschev said, “No one was keeping count.”  New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty, stationed in Moscow, won fame, fortune, and a Pulitzer Prize for ignoring the slaughter.  As the bodies, too numerous to be buried, were stripped clean by ravens, Duranty hung out with Uncle Joe.  While freezing trains hauled thousands upon thousands of dissidents to the gulags, the journalist claimed it was their choice—they could have got with the program and handed their property over to the state. 

Anyway, it was all for the best, he claimed.  Once in place, the “collective farm system” (i.e., communism) would benefit everyone.  As for the millions who died: “You can’t make an omelet without cracking an egg,” Duranty said.

After it was too late for the world to intervene, Duranty privately conceded that ten million Ukrainians died of starvation.  Whatever the final tally, it was a massacre that even surpassed Hitler’s genocide.

Drinking, dining, and carousing with Moscow’s elite, the one-legged Duranty became Stalin’s unofficial spokesperson.  Like the Holocaust-deniers, he heard no evil, saw no evil, and reported no evil.  A Satanist, alcoholic, womanizer, pervert, and sycophant to the most brutal dictator in modern history, Duranty was an odious character.

So it makes perfect sense that he would receive the Pulitzer Prize.The following verbal sketch, from The Ukrainian Museum in New York, describes the crimes perpetrated by Stalin: “The horrific event, known in Ukrainian as the Holodomor (literally, murder by starvation), took place in 1932-1933, less than twenty years after Ukraine was forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union. Determined to force all Ukrainian farmers onto collective farms, to crush the burgeoning national revival, and to forestall any calls for Ukraine's independence, the brutal Communist regime of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin embarked on a campaign to starve the Ukrainian people into submission. “The Soviet government confiscated all the grain produced by Ukrainian farmers, withheld other foodstuffs, executed anyone trying to obtain food, and punished those who attempted to flee. As a result, in the land called the Breadbasket of Europe, millions of men, women, and children were starved to death.

“Stalin boasted privately that as many as 10 million people...had perished during the Holodomor. At least 3 million of the victims were children.

“Despite the magnitude of the atrocity, the Soviet regime, behind its Iron Curtain, denied the existence of the Holodomor for decades, denouncing any reports as ‘anti-Soviet propaganda.’ It was not until the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the subsequent establishment of an independent Ukraine that the contents of many sealed government archives were uncovered, exposing a wealth of gruesome information.”

While history hasn’t been kind to Uncle Joe’s mouthpiece, the Times refuses to return Walter Duranty’s tainted Pulitzer.

Eighty years later, it’s time to right that wrong, and consign this hack to the gulag of Literary Hell.

Washington Post
Corruption accusations, insults flying as Venezuela politics heat up amid ...
Washington Post
CARACAS, Venezuela — Corruption accusations and insults are flying between allies and opponents of President Hugo Chavez nearly two months after the Venezuelan leader disappeared from the political stage to undergo cancer surgery in Cuba. Analysts ...

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LOS ANGELES -- A man awaiting retrial after two murder convictions were overturned has been charged in three other killings linked to the so-called "Skid... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-almendrala/

Iran Banks Sidestep Ban on Global Transaction System
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Corruption Currents, The Wall Street Journal's corruption blog, digs into the ever-present and ever-changing world of corporate corruption. It is a source of news, analysis and commentary for those who earn a living by finding corruption or by avoiding it.

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Dauphin County Crime Stoppers search for Harrisburg suspects
PennLive.com
Pennsylvania state parole agents, police and the county sheriff's office are searching for Harrisburg residents Dwight Bartow, 32, for a parole violation related to robbery with serious bodily injury convictions, and Cory Williams, 24, for criminal ...

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MONTROSE, Ga. — More than two dozen cars, pickup trucks and tractor-trailers collided Wednesday morning in a fiery pileup on a foggy Georgia interstate, killing... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-hanson/

The former imam for the much-maligned mosque near Ground Zero embezzled millions of dollars from his charity, a $25 million lawsuit alleges. Feisal Abdul Rauf, ousted two years ago from the mosque, used the money to fund a luxury lifestyle, including gifts and support for a woman outside his marriage,...

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Too often, I have had the sorrowful experience of attending funerals of men, women, and children who have been gunned down on the streets of Los Angeles. Even though violent crime has been on the decline, no amount is acceptable. I took a stand against this violence. Jan Perry http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jan-perry/

The teenager accused of gunning down his parents and three siblings in their New Mexico home last month has been indicted on five counts of murder.

San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Crime in Berkeley up 11% in 2012, but longer trend is down
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
But Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan told the City Council, during a work session on the crime report Tuesday night, that it's important to keep these numbers in perspective. “The numbers are down quite a bit in the longer term,” he said, adding ...

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Boynton crime stats show drop over 2011
Sun-Sentinel
After residents from a retirement community complained about an uptick in burglaries, the Boynton City Commission ordered up a crime review from police – and they got their numbers Tuesday. Police Chief Matthew Immler presented an overview that ...

ABC orders crime scene reality show from 'CSI' creator
Entertainment Weekly (blog)
If you think you're good at picking the killer on TV crime shows, this is the reality series for you. ABC has ordered a new unscripted show from the creator of the CSI franchise called Whodunnit? The show puts 13 contestants' investigative skills to ...