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Back up to Chicago again. In addition to […]

Lots of money

The UNODC discusses some rather significant money laundering…

More than one trillion dollars: this is the staggering amount of money probably laundered annually in recent years, says Pierre Lapaque, chief of the section dealing with organized crime and money-laundering at UNODC. In 1998, the International Monetary Fund estimated this figure to be the equivalent of […]

Site issues

There have been some problems with the site in the past few days. I thought the server was intermittently down, but the tech guys at DreamHost say that the site had been getting quite a few memory spikes (this was Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning).

The overall 5 minute memory use averages are quite low […]

Servetus on Finally, a better use for dog sniffing: “Another reason not to throw people into some county lockup, even for a short period of time, for merely possessing…” Feb 24, 10:24
strayan on Drug Wars are a Social Health Menace: “New study: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0003134821995053 There was no apparent increase in the incidence of driving under the influence of marijuana after legalization” Feb 21, 06:18
Son of Sam Walton on Drug Wars are a Social Health Menace: “Michele Alexander wrote about how the black culture has accepted gang culture as a source of pride. And in this…” Feb 18, 20:37
WalStMonky on Drug Wars are a Social Health Menace: “. . Perhaps we just need to demand continuity from our governments. I think we all know that the Feds…” Feb 18, 10:40
Servetus on Really, Idaho?: “A total and permanent ban on hemp cultivation in California’s Humboldt County is designed to address the problems of pollen…” Feb 17, 11:38
Servetus on Finally, a better use for dog sniffing: “How do they do it? Dogs have “125-300 million olfactory cells and a third of their brains [are] devoted to…” Feb 11, 18:21
Servetus on Really, Idaho?: “Thanks for letting me know, Mitchell. I have a subscription to The Nation, which is why I was able to…” Feb 11, 11:31

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