A Brief History On December 11, 2005, racial tensions exploded into violence in the Sidney suburb of Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia, with rioting by White Australians against anyone they perceived to be of Lebanese descent. The riots lasted a few days, and spread to surrounding suburbs. Digging Deeper Australia, not unlike the United States, was originally settled by the people known today as Aborigines. When British explorers (17th Century) and colonists (18th Century) settled the giant island continent, the indigenous people declined from as many as a million people to a fraction of their previous numbers, mostly due to…
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A Brief History On November 29, 1963, in the wake of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon B. Johnson formed a committee under the direction of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Earl Warren to investigate the assassination and related events. Johnson used Executive Order 11130 to form the commission and Congress had passed Senate Joint Resolution 137 authorizing the President to form such a commission. The name, Warren Commission, has stood for controversy and distrust of government ever since! Digging Deeper The idea behind the formation of an investigative commission of prominent…
A Brief History On November 24, 2017, we take a second look at the article we published last year on this date, “Cop Shooting Epidemic, Why is it Happening?” In just the past few days a Baltimore, Maryland detective was shot in the head and killed while investigating a homicide, and in New Kensington, Pennsylvania an officer was shot and killed while chasing a traffic violator on foot that had run from the traffic stop. Has the epidemic of police being shot and killed continued this year? Digging Deeper In a word, no. We are happy to report a decrease…
A Brief History In Argentina, during the “Dirty War” (1974-1983) people involved in opposition to the government were kidnapped and killed, those victims referred to as “the disappeared” (desaparecidos). Live babies cut from the wombs of pregnant women murdered for their babies were called “Children of the Disappeared,” and given over to adoption for families of reliable political supporters of the government. Today we list 10 ways of killing someone in order to send a message or make a point that have a specific name or nickname for the killing or mutilation involved. Digging Deeper 1. Sicilian Necktie. (AKA Columbian Necktie, Peruvian…
A Brief History On November 19, 1998, the United States House of Representatives began hearings on the Monica Lewinsky-President Bill Clinton sex scandal that would result in Clinton being impeached for lying about the affair. With Clinton out of office since January of 2001, it would seem the incident would be long forgotten, except for the 2016 Presidential campaign in which the Bill Clinton’s alleged history of sexual harassment/predation was brought up in retaliation for the revelations about Donald Trump’s alleged record of sexual harassment. Combined with recent events in the past couple years, the incidents that have been alleged…