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Police Make arrests in Biggest Ever Jewel Heist in France

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Police in France have made 26 arrests and recovered a series of stolen rings, necklaces and watches as part of an investigation into last year’s spectacular multimillion-pound robbery at the luxury Paris jewellers, Harry Winston.

The daring heist last December saw a group of robbers, some dressed as women and wearing wigs, steal almost every piece of jewellery on display in the chic boutique. They stuffed diamond rings, necklaces and luxury watches into bags as well as emptying two backdoor storage cases before getting away within minutes. Items worth about €85m were stolen – the biggest jewellery robbery ever in France, and one of the world’s biggest gem heists.

It emerged last night that investigators had been monitoring suspects in and around Paris in recent months. On Sunday, they learnt that some foreign nationals were due to arrive to collect some of the stolen jewels to sell them on. The police swooped and made arrests on Sunday afternoon and Monday morning.

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There are several women among the suspects, who are aged between 22 and 67. Police said 26 people, including a security guard at the jewellery shop and several known gangsters, had been placed under investigation.

They are accused of having taken part in the raid or the preparations for it, or of having helped sell the jewels. Police also recovered weapons, as well as €250,000 in cash.

Originally, members of the Pink ­Panthers gang that operates out of the Balkans, and which has been involved in other high-profile jewel thefts, were suspects, but they appear to have been ruled out, according to police.

The robbery, carried out in daylight a few weeks before Christmas, had led police to suspect experienced professionals and “real pros”. The gang appeared to have a detailed knowledge of the boutique’s lay-out, knew the location of supposedly top-secret storage boxes, and referred to staff by their first names.

The American jewellery boutique on Paris’s chic Avenue Montaigne has been the target of previous heists. In October 2007, armed robbers made off with jewels worth more than €10m.

The late actor Richard Burton bought jewels from the store for his wife Elizabeth Taylor; the late shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis also bought an engagement ring there for the former US first lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

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Colombian Cocaine Cartels Losing Ground

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Last year, cocaine production fell by 28 percent in Colombia. In addition, security forces seized and destroyed a record 200 tons of the stuff. The main causes for this decline are a drop in demand from the 17 million cocaine users world-wide. Another side effect of the global recession. But the cocaine gangs are also being driven out of business by the security forces. Many are moving operations to Peru (where production was up 4 percent last year, to 302 tons) and Bolivia (up 9 percent to 113 tons). Last year, Peru and Bolivia together produced about as much cocaine as Colombia. The president of Bolivia is a former coca farmer (although he only backs the traditional chewing of the coca leaves, which has a mild narcotic effect). In Peru, the most productive coca growing areas are controlled by Shining Path, a vicious leftist movement that was almost wiped out in the 1990s, but is now making a comeback via cocaine profits. As more Colombian cocaine operations move to Peru and Bolivia, the ones remaining in Colombia come under greater pressure from the security forces, and a population glad to see the drug trade move somewhere else, or just disappear.

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The reason for the many recent defeats of the drug gangs and leftist rebels has been better trained and equipped military and police units. The navy has bought 60 patrol boats from European builders, and 25 Super Tucano counterinsurgency aircraft from Brazil. Over a hundred other aircraft (including helicopters) have also been obtained in the last six years. The security forces are now better fighters, with much better mobility, than the gangsters and rebels they face.

The collapse of the cocaine industry in Colombia is causing more fighting between the cocaine gangs, and even within leftist rebel groups like FARC (sometimes for ideological reasons, but more often over money and personality issues.) FARC’s leftist allies in the United States and Europe have tried to paint the government as the bad guys in all this, but that has had no effect on Colombians, who are safer, and more prosperous, than they have been in decades. Violent deaths have declined sharply in the last six years, and the economy is booming. The global recession caused a less than one percent dip in GDP during the first quarter of the year, and that’s apparently as bad as it’s going to get.

As the army goes deeper into areas long controlled by FARC, the more surprises they encounter. So far this year, for example, troops have come upon a small oil refinery, that produced about 250 gallons (1,000 liters) a day. The raw material is a nearby oil pipeline, that had a tap built into it. Troops have also come upon small factories for making landmines and booby traps, as well as workshops for repairing weapons.

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Blog I read: Jet Set Life

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Jet Set Life has some pretty decent travel tips. And good information about establishing your “Muse”.

From their site:

Rob and Kim have always loved to travel. They experienced the world’s hottest destinations like Punta del Este, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Mykonos, Marrakech and Buenos Aires. Each time they would vacation, family and friends always had so many questions about the destinations they chose and how to create similar experiences. Apple computer made it easy to share their experiences through podcasting and iWeb, so they decided to start a personal website and a podcast called Travel the World with Rob and Kim. It’s wasn’t too long after that Tim Ferriss came out with the book The 4-Hour Workweek. This book turned Rob and Kim’s world upsidedown. Because of Tim Ferriss’s ideas such as mini-vacations, muses and dreamlines, Rob and Kim began to design their life (and work) around their passion for travel and made traveling into a business or in Tim Ferriss’s words, a muse.

This is when they created Jet Set Life. The goal with Jet Set Life was not to become a concierge service or a high end travel agent. The goal was to become the ultimate travel resource for jet setters, or those wanting to become jet setters. Rob and Kim purchased their Sony HD Video Camera, Sony Cyber Shot and Nikon D60 digital camera and were off to capture their travel experiences around the world to share with their viewers. They launched the website in 2008 and within thirty days they were close to breaking into the Top 100,000 websites ranked by Alexa. Their website let viewers into their travel experiences and provided them with a short video of the destination, photos of the destination and important information including when to travel, best way to get there and the type of currency. Rob and Kim also provide a free online guidebook that they call The Hit List. The Hit List includes Rob and Kim’s reviews of the best boutique hotels, restaurants, beaches, shops, nightlife and things to do in each destination.

Since, Jet Set Life has expanded adding a Lifestyle page that links viewers to Rob and Kim’s favorite companies in categories including villa and flat rentals, concierge services, boutique hotels, private jets, yachts, hip clothing, tailors, virtual assistants, social dynamics and even global charities like The Red Campaign.

Rob and Kim continue to find new destinations to bring to their viewers and they continually work on ways to improve the viewers experience. Any suggestions, ideas or comments are genuninely welcome.

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The Street Price of Cocaine

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THE street price of cocaine varies enormously. The drug costs less in South and Central America, where most cocaine is produced, but it is also low in Morocco, a trafficking destination. Worldwide, prices range from $2 a gram in Panama to over $300 in New Zealand, according to the UN’s World Drug Report. Generally, the farther away a country from the main producers and the more isolated it is, the higher the price charged. The priciest places for a cocaine habit are New Zealand and Australia, where a gram typically costs $312 and $285 respectively. Prices in Canada and America, after years of cheaper drugs for Canadians, are now on a par at around $97 a gram.

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Melbourne Gang War Update

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A brazen gangland murder has shed rare light on Australia’s seamy underworld and captivated the public with surreal details of a mob scene that has already inspired a smash-hit television series.

Desmond “Tuppence” Moran became the latest victim of Melbourne’s notorious crime wars last Monday, when balaclava-clad gunmen surprised him in the Ascot Pasta and Deli Cafe and shot him several times.

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Within hours, police were unravelling an incestuous and amateurish plot allegedly implicating close relatives of the victim and associates with colourful pasts and nicknames to match.

Accused killer Geoffrey “Nuts” Amour appeared in court sporting a black eye, while Moran’s sister-in-law Judy, who arrived at the crime scene within minutes crying “Dessie, Dessie,” has been arrested as an accomplice to murder.

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Police searches reportedly turned up the getaway car, a self-loading rifle, pistols and a wig. Amour’s girlfriend Suzanne Kane, a member of another crime family closely linked to the Morans, was also arrested.

On Tuesday, a mysterious blaze broke out at Judy Moran’s home as she languished in a police cell, prompting suspicions of either a reprisal attack or an attempt to torch evidence. Arson investigators are probing the blaze.

“Fact is almost stranger than fiction with what we’ve seen,” said Victoria police commissioner Simon Overland.

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“If you were a scriptwriter and sat down and wrote this stuff you’d probably say: ‘Look, no, it’s a bit far-fetched. No one will believe it.'”

Newspaper articles have pored over the details, unearthing comment from retired gang figures such as Mark “Chopper” Read, anti-hero of the eponymous 2000 film starring Eric Bana.

“Whoever hatched this plan, it was their first attempt at it. It was a dog’s dinner — a pig’s breakfast of a plan,” he scoffed.

Media have also spoken of the Moran family’s “missing millions” and attempted to untangle the web of murders and grudges that wrapped Melbourne in a nine-year turf war and inspired the popular “Underbelly” TV show.

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The multi-award winning series was one of Australia’s top-rating shows last year, even though it could not be shown in Melbourne because some of the characters depicted were still facing trial in real life.

Among the underworld identities it dramatised was Judy Moran, a flashy 64-year-old blonde known as the family’s matriarch, who lost her husband Lewis and sons Mark and Jason to battles with the rival Williams clan.

Mark was shot outside his home in 2000, while hitmen murdered Jason in 2003 as he picked up his children from a football match, prompting a theatrical graveside threat from his mother.

“All will be dealt with, my darling,” Judy Moran famously vowed as she leant over her son’s coffin.

Husband Lewis, leader of the clan, survived until 2004 when he was chased through the Brunswick Club pub by a shotgun-toting assassin and dispatched as he cowered in a corner.

Kane, the alleged accomplice in Monday’s killing, also has a bloody past, starting from 1978 when she, her mother and her sister were locked in a bedroom by gunmen who executed her father, Les, with machine guns fitted with silencers.

Four years later, Suzanne’s uncle Brian Kane was killed by masked gunmen as he drank in a Melbourne bar, while her sister Trisha is Jason Moran’s widow.

With about 30 dead and gang boss Carl Williams in prison, Melbourne may have thought it had seen the last of its gang wars — until last week.

However, police and experts believe the murder is unlikely to spark another round of killing, speculating that the hit was prompted by simmering bad blood and a row over money.

“It’s just another insane chapter in an insane story. If you told a donkey this, he’d kick you in the head for telling lies,” Chopper Read told the Daily Telegraph.

“No one would believe it. It’s ridiculous.”

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