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The Washington Post (paywall) shows the recent rise in domestic terrorism incidents in the United States, based on data compiled by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
In the initial view, each circle in the unit chart represents an incident, where yellow represents far-right violence, and dark gray represents far-left. As you scroll, the units are sorted into more specific categories.
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Posted by in domestic, Statistical Visualization, terrorism, Washington Post
The Global Terrorism Database, maintained by the University of Maryland, is an open source database that catalogs terrorism events since 1970 through 2013. Data visualization firm Periscopic visualized the incident-level data in A World of Terror.
There are over 3,065 organizations and groups listed in the GTD. To identify the top 25 organizations who used terrorist tactics, we determined the groups with the most killings, the most wounded, and the most incidents. We wanted to make sure we were inclusive of all actions, including those that neither wounded nor killed. We aggregated these 3 lists and took the top 25 organizations (most were in the top 30 for all 3 categories). These top 0.8% of groups account for over 26% of the 125,087 incidents.
The midsection of each group shows number of incidents by month and year. The darker the brown, the more incidents on record. Then on the top and bottom shows number of people killed in red and wounded in orange, respectively. Finally, click on the map in the top left for more information about the organization.
Spend some time with this one. Periscopic shows a lot without it ever feeling like too much.
Tags: Periscopic, terrorism
Posted by in Infographics, Periscopic, terrorism
Thanks to the CIA using fake vaccination programs (something they claimed to have stopped doing earlier this year) in the terrifying “War on Terror” the Taliban banned polio immunizations since 2012. It should come as no surprise that the Taliban is perfectly happy to violently enforce this ban. Not only are polio cases increasing in Pakistan, but more 60 healthcare workers have been killed trying to administer life saving polio inoculations.
They are among the more than 60 polio workers who have been killedsince the Pakistani Taliban banned polio immunization in 2012…The edict by the Islamic militants to ban immunization was in response to the CIA’s setting up a fake hepatitis vaccination campaign in Pakistan. The covert operation was part of an attempt by the U.S. spy agency to verify whether Osama bin Laden was holed up in the city of Abbottabad. – Jason Beaubien, NPR
*Hat tip to Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing.
Posted by in BoingBoing, CIA, immunization, Jason Beaubien, Linkonomicon, NPR, polio, Taliban, terrorism, This Mortal Coil, Vaccination, Xeni Jardin
Accidental anthrax
Which is the more likely threat to public safety? A single big release of deadly organisms by terrorists, the nightmare that fuels much bioweapons research and a string of lookalike novels that are nearly a genre in …
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Posted by in Anthrax, bioweapons, cardiovascular disease, CDC, cellphones, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Evolution, fraud, Genomics, health care, Human Evolution, John Ioannidis, July 4th, media criticism, medical journalism, microbes, On Science Blogs, Research, Science Journalism, terrorism, triglycerides, united states, US Supreme Court
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