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240 - Anonymous and the World of Hackers
“We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.” Anonymous - the hacking collective that for many put hacking on the map. Since 200…
5 years, 5 months ago
239 - El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the War on Drugs
What a wild one we have today. I set out, fascinated by his two escapes from prison, to only explore cartel leader El Chapo. And then I got sucked in…
5 years, 5 months ago
238 - Mao Zedong: Father of Communist China and Worst Mass Murderer of All Time?
Mao Zedong's name is associated with one of the heinous totalitarian regimes of the 20th century - if not one of the most heinous regimes in the hist…
5 years, 6 months ago
237 - The Pig Farmer Killer: Canada's Filthy Robert Pickton
Robert Pickton was born in 1949 just outside of Vancouver, CA, in Port Coquitlam, on a pig farm. His parents were Helen and Leonard Pickton, two insa…
5 years, 6 months ago
236 - The Yosemite Killer and the Abduction of Steven Stayner
We got a wild one today. Today's Suck is really three Sucks in one. There is the abduction of Steven Stayner, the backstory of a notorious pedophile,…
5 years, 6 months ago
235 - Ward MF'n Hall
Today we take a huge deviation for the type of topic we typically cover here on Timesuck. The Space Lizards on Patreon vote on two topics a month thr…
5 years, 6 months ago
234 - The Elan School, the Cult of Synanon, and the Troubling Troubled Teen Industry
Founded in 1974 by a man named Joe Ricci, the Elan School was supposed to be someplace where you could send your troubled teen so they could be rehab…
5 years, 6 months ago
233 - Blackwater and the US Private Military Industry
Blackwater. Now known as Academi. Once known as Xe Services. A private military company. One of many PMCs very active in Iraq and Afghanistan in the …
5 years, 7 months ago
232 - The Great Emu War
The Great Emu War! Such a weird and fun tale to tell. What an odd historical period. As World War I came to an end, Australia - whose economy was tan…
5 years, 7 months ago
231 - Dante's Inferno
Dante's Inferno! One of the most influential literary works ever written. Put to parchment in the early 14th century, Dante's opening third of the Di…
5 years, 7 months ago