[syndicate] Re: guilt is fashionable. number of devotees is rising: 872 now, estimated 984 next month

[claudia westermann]

do you think I ignore you ?

I don't , I simply pretend to do so.

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>claudia - training for leadership
>

.... one never knows, what it can be good for.




>I am too stunned by my calculations of the situation in Oakland. I
>had to do them three times to make sure. Clearly, I and the rest of
>the citizens of California should do something to help the children
>of Oakland...but what?
>


don't think I am weak. I a just got bored:
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.2/bookid.615/sec.49/


>Michael Watson


claudia - training for leadership



>Crime in Oakland (2001):
>http://www.city-data.com/city/Oakland-California.html
>Oakland's most recent famous son: Tupac Shakur
>
>Iraq - 24,000,000  [http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook]
>Oakland - 400,000 persons
>
>If Oakland had the population of Iraq:
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>5,000 murders
>17,000 rapes
>127,000 robberies
>170,000 assaults
>222,000 burglaries
>785,000 larceny counts
>331,000 auto thefts
>
>stats from http://www.city-data.com/city/Oakland-California.html
>
>84 murders (21.0 per 100,000)
>295 rapes (73.8 per 100,000)
>2,125 robberies (531.9 per 100,000)
>2,826 assaults (707.4 per 100,000)
>3,696 burglaries (925.2 per 100,000)
>13,081 larceny counts (3274.5 per 100,000)
>5,520 auto thefts (1381.8 per 100,000)
>
>City-data.com crime index = 657.9 (higher means more crime, US
>average = 312.3)
>
>http://beta.kpix.com/news/local/2002/08/26/Special_Report:_East_Oakland_Under_Siege.html
>Last year at this time, 55 people were murdered. So far this year,
>73 people have been killed. Many of the victims -- 41% -- have been
>young black men, between the ages of 16 and 30. As Carson watches
>the death toll climb, she says police hold the key to stopping the
>carnage.
>
>"Bring somebody to justice. There are too many people gone and
>there are no answers," Carson said. "If you don't solve it, it
>makes it easier for a gunman to kill someone because they know they
>won't get caught. And they don't."
>
>So far this year, police have a suspect in just 26% of the
>homicides. One look inside the department, and you see the problem:
>a backlog of unsolved cases, some dating back to the 1970s. Oakland
>has just ten homicide investigators -- half of what it needs -- and
>the murders just keep coming.
>
>claudia westermann <media at ezaic.de> wrote:
>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/16/international/middleeast/16IRAQ.html?th
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>At Baghdad Central Morgue
>
>Dr. Faiq Amin Bakr, director of the Baghdad Central Morgue for the
>past 13 years, reels off the grim statistics that confirm to Iraqis
>
>that they have entered what they see as a terrifyingly lawless
>twilight zone: 462 people dead under suspicious circumstances or in
>
>automobile accidents in May, some 70 percent from gunshot wounds;
>626
>in June; 751 in July; 872 in August. By comparison, last year there
>
>were 237 deaths in July, one of the highest months, with just 21
>from
>gunfire.
>
>--
>
>//
>
>dear New York Times,
>you disregard the fact that those being shot now are more guilty
>than
>those who were shot last year.
>
>//
>
>
>claudia - training for leadership
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