Реклама Google — средство выживания форумов :)
Прокуроры называют группировку "русским криминальным синдикатом", хотя в ней выходцы из разных республик бывшего Советского Союза, в основном из Грузии.
Они обвиняются в сговоре с целью заказного убийства, вымогательстве, грабежах, мошенничестве, содержании подпольных игорных домов и клубов, торговле ворованными сигаретами и другим товаром, хищении пяти тонн шоколадных конфет, сбыте наркотиков, попытке обмана казино с помощью компьютерных приложений и других преступлениях.
Это самая большая постсоветская ОПГ, когда-либо разоблаченная в США.
Ее главным подразделением является организация, возглавляемая 40-летним Шулая (он же Брат, он же Рома) и 37-летним Зурабом Джанашвили, или Зурой. По ее делу проходят 27 человек, 24 из них уже арестованы, в основном в Нью-Йорке.
Двое фигурантов - 26-летний Николоз Джикия и 25-летний Бакаи Марат-Улу - проходят по смежному делу о сговоре с целью заказного убийства, незаконной торговле оружием и незаконной продаже оружия лицу, имеющему судимость.
Memory is notoriously fallible, but some experts worry that a new phenomenon is emerging. “Memories are shared among groups in novel ways through sites such as Facebook and Instagram, blurring the line between individual and collective memories,” says psychologist Daniel Schacter, who studies memory at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “The development of Internet-based misinformation, such as recently well-publicized fake news sites, has the potential to distort individual and collective memories in disturbing ways.”
Collective memories form the basis of history, and people's understanding of history shapes how they think about the future. The fictitious terrorist attacks, for example, were cited to justify a travel ban on the citizens of seven “countries of concern”. Although history has frequently been interpreted for political ends, psychologists are now investigating the fundamental processes by which collective memories form, to understand what makes them vulnerable to distortion. They show that social networks powerfully shape memory, and that people need little prompting to conform to a majority recollection — even if it is wrong.
Ralph Keyes’s 2004 declaration that we have arrived in a post-truth era seems distressingly plausible.
Post-truth refers to blatant lies being routine across society, and it means that politicians can lie without condemnation. This is different from the cliché that all politicians lie and make promises they have no intention of keeping — this still expects honesty to be the default position. In a post-truth world, this expectation no longer holds.
This can explain the current political situation in the United States and elsewhere. Public tolerance of inaccurate and undefended allegations, non sequiturs in response to hard questions and outright denials of facts is shockingly high.
‘Don’t bother me with facts’ is no longer a punchline. It has become a political stance. It’s worth remembering that it has not always been this way: the exposure of former US president Richard Nixon’s lies was greeted with outrage.
Much of the public hears what it wants to hear, because many people get their news exclusively from sources whose bias they agree with.