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By Tara Overzat 3 police officers resigned after one of them tasered a Waffle House employee, completely unprovoked. The Gwinnett County officers had worked a combined 33 years on the force.
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Chinese Marriage Fraud- How the Few Denigrate the Many
By Tara Overzat Desperate times, desperate measures. Young, pretty girls trapped in a Communist country, where college grads are hugely disproportionate to available jobs, where the middle class is growing but hundreds of millions of peasants still work the soil, and where unattractive, unsuccessful foreign men go to escape,
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A Real Kangaroo Court – Man Gets 1 Year for Murder
By Tara Overzat American David Gabriel “Gabe” Watson, the man accused of letting his wife of 11 days die by A) not attempting to retrieve her when she had problems scuba diving on their Australian honeymoon or B) intentionally harming her under water, has pleaded guilty. However, he will only
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David Carradine, Tourists Die Mysteriously
By Tara Overzat David Carradine was “found” dead in his luxury hotel suite in Bangkok, and according to Thai police, was first thought a suicide. The deaths of Jill St. Onge and a Norweigian tourist, who were staying at the same Thai hotel on Koh Phi Phi, were initially blamed
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All That Glitters
I wrote this article last August, a few days after the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. Sadly, I think little has changed, as stories of corruption and violence continue to leak out of the tightly controlled Chinese media. The original article can be found at The Atlasphere. ********************** All That Glitters by Tara Overzat [...]
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The Sky is Falling for Tian Wenhua – But is it Fair?
by Tara Overzat Tian Wenhua has pleaded guilty to the charges facing her in court, charges that hold a penalty up to (& likely) the death penalty. How does one come to the conclusion that their death is okay? Is her advanced age (Tian is 66) a factor? How do her children feel about this? [...]
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The SanLu Trials – Will the killing ever stop?
by Tara Overzat Reports are sketchy, but it appears that a total of 20 people have already been put on criminal trial, or are about to be, in the SanLu tainted milk scandal. These include Tian Wenhua, the former head of SanLu and dubious recipient of the 2006 Women’s World Excellence Award, other executives in [...]
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The SanLu Bankruptcy – 3 deers, 3 dollars, all phony
by Tara Overzat SanLu has been ordered by a Shijiazhuang Court to place control of the company into the hands of a receiver (much like a Trustee in US Bankruptcy Courts) for the company’s assets to be sold off. The case is reported to have been brought forth by an unpaid creditor.
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Article: Illinois Governor Charged in Scheme to Sell Obama’s Seat
There is no doubt that politics is an extremely dirty game. However, Illinois politics appears to be worse than in most states. I am worried about Barack Obama, the same way people in the know were worried about JFK in the early sixties. Despite the good intentions of both politicians, they both were in bed [...]
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Melamine, Schmelamine – China’s Government Could not Care Less
by Tara Overzat Recently, it was reported that melamine was found in US baby formula. With the plethora of products we receive from China everyday, this comes as no surprise. I wrote the article below in September, when the melamine outbreak was first reported.
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