Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Tennessee School Shooting

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Tennessee School Shooting There's been another school shooting . It was widely reported by the media today. A teenager shot and killed...
Sunday, October 23, 2005

Bird Flu Media Hysteria

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Let's all calm down a bit. The media and governmental hysteria that is being whipped up in the talk of bird flu becoming an internation...
Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Chatroom Copycats

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We've heard about them in Japan. Now the media is reporting on what they are calling "the first internet suicide pact" discov...
Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Oklahoma's Suicide Bomber

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On Saturday evening, October 1, 2005, University of Colorado student, 21-year-old Joel Henry Hinrichs III of Colorado Springs, killed himsel...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

"Rampages" Are Back

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Post-Rita and Post-Katrina "Rampages" As often occurs after a period in which there is a single media theme (such as the hurricane...
Monday, September 26, 2005

Another 9/11 Copycat

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In a comment by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D., in the Global Politician on September 26, 2005, he writes "the September atrocities provoked a wave...
Saturday, September 17, 2005

More Capital Hijackings?

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Taking a plane trip to or from an international capital or similar city soon? Watch out! We are entering a time of increased hijackings. ...
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Friday, September 16, 2005

Scotsman Drops Ball

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A wave of suicides in a Scottish community is being recognized as the probable result of the copycat effect. But the media only goes halfway...
Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Indian celebrity copycats

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The influence of the celebrity copycat effect is worldwide. During a World Suicide Prevention Day 2005 news conference, September 12, India...
Saturday, September 10, 2005

Oswald and Atta

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Katrina & 9/11 Allow me to randomly speak of recent and past events on a more personal level today, on how I am relating to these diffic...
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Sunday, August 21, 2005

Sharks, Gators, Oil

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In The Copycat Effect , I discussed how shark and alligator attacks are frequent foci of the media. Despite the reality of how many actual ...
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Sunday, August 07, 2005

Yankees Logos and London Bombers

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The New York Police Department has awakened to the worthwhile exercise of looking at the twilight language in the 7/7 and 7/21 London attack...
Thursday, July 21, 2005

Copycat of 7/7

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How much more of a copycat could this be? Another Thursday in London, three explosions in the subway, one on a bus.
Thursday, July 07, 2005

London Explosions

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Reports from London are of series of subway and double-decker bus explosions this morning. Al Qaeda? G8 is meeting in Edinburgh and the ann...
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Thursday, June 30, 2005

Summer Scares

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Shark Scares The media appears to be salivating at the prospect that this could be another "Summer of the Shark." Two severe s...
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Friday, June 10, 2005

Moodiness and Media Self-Defense

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Copycat Events Catchup I've been busy with other matters, but the copycat effect hasn't. And the media's reaction to it, as wel...
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Friday, May 13, 2005

Zion Killings and Devil Ladder Road's Mass Murder

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The Mother's Day killings in Zion, Illinois, of two young girls, one a Hobbs (wearing an "angel" t-shirt), allegedly by her f...
Thursday, May 12, 2005

No Surprise: Car Chase Killing Broadcast Live

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In a press release on February 26, 2003, Mayor Jim Hahn, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, the ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Twilight Language in Zion?

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Ritualistic Killings in Zion? The twilight language may be revealed in the Mother's Day killings of two second-grade girls near Beulah P...
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Friday, April 29, 2005

Freeway Sniper Incidents, Compared to Beltway Attacks

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While information is relatively quiet in the American national media, data on some recent LA freeway sniper incidents have hit the London pa...