Study: War on alcohol, drugs failing in countyOriginally, a party sounded fun.
But then somebody burned the carpet, splintered the banister and broke the vacuum trying to sweep up the stuffing from the torn couch. When the sun came up, Sarah had cleaning to do.
She and 15 friends washed their glasses and gathered the trash, but forgot a liquor-filled water bottle in the sink and left a row of bulging garbage bags in the garage.
Sarah’s parents grounded their daughter for a month, but the parties di... (more)
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Cheney's 'Spoon-Benders' Pushing Nuclear ArmageddonSometime in late 1980, then-Col. Paul E. Vallely, the Commander of the 7th Psychological Operations Group, United States Army Reserve, Presidio of San Francisco, Ca., co-authored a discussion paper, which received wide and controversial attention within the U.S. military, particularly within the Special Operations community. The paper was titled "From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory," and it presented a Nietzschean scheme for waging perpetual psychological warfare against friend and ... (more)
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Pentagon drills for nuke terrorWhen authorities tried to arrest a terrorist discovered unloading an improvised nuclear weapon in the port of Charleston, S.C., the bomb was detonated, killing 10,000, injuring 30,000 and exposing as many as 100,000 to high levels of radiation.
That was the scenario at the center of a nuclear terrorism drill, completed this week, one involving thousands of civilians, military personnel and local and federal officials.
"Sudden Respond 05" was led by Virginia's Fort M... (more)
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Police knew Brazilian was 'not bomb risk'Police officers from the team involved in the fatal shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes did not believe he posed 'an immediate threat'.
Senior sources in the Metropolitan Police have told The Observer that members of the surveillance team who followed de Menezes into Stockwell underground station in London felt that he was not about to detonate a bomb, was not armed and was not acting suspiciously. It was only when they were joined by armed officers that his threat was d... (more)
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CFR’s Plan to Integrate the U.S., Mexico and CanadaThe Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has just let the cat out of the bag about what’s really behind our trade agreements and security partnerships with the other North American countries. A 59-page CFR document spells out a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter."
"Community" means integrating the United States with the corruption, socialism, poverty and population of Mexico... (more)
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Met chief: I was kept in the dark on Tube killingSir Ian Blair, Britain's most senior police officer, has admitted he did not know his officers had killed an innocent man until a day after Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station.
His revelation in a newspaper interview today will add to growing concern about the police investigation into the killing of the Brazilian electrician on Friday 22 July.
Sir Ian said he first learnt that the Brazilian was entirely innocent at about 10.30 the follow... (more)
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'Disgusted' parents reject Met's offer of £15,000 compensation for dead sonThe parents of the Brazilian electrician shot dead by police were offered £15,000 in compensation for the loss of their son, raising allegations that the family were being bought off.
The offer was made to the mother and father of Jean Charles de Menezes by a senior Metropolitan Police commander during a hurried meeting arranged eight days after the electrician was shot dead at Stockwell tube station.
His grieving parents, Maria de Menezes, 59, and Matozinhos,... (more)
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Police foil gas attack on CommonsSCOTLAND YARD believes it has thwarted an Al-Qaeda gas attack aimed at ministers and MPs in parliament. The plot, hatched last year, is understood to have been discovered in coded e-mails on computers seized from terror suspects in Britain and Pakistan.
Police and MI5 then identified an Al-Qaeda cell that had carried out extensive research and video-recorded reconnaissance missions in preparation for the attack.
The encrypted e-mails are said to have been decoded wi... (more)
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SAS faces inquiry into missing Iraq fundsTHE SAS is facing an internal inquiry into allegations that hundreds of thousands of pounds have been misappropriated during some of its covert operations in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.
Sources close to the elite undercover regiment claim that inquiries are being made of many of its more than 200 soldiers and officers.
One source said they were to be asked about possible irregularities in the way that so-called “black budgets” have been spent ... (more)
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MI5 recruitment drive draws flood of Islamic applicants after attacksThe number of people applying to join MI5 has increased by more than 150 per cent since London was attacked by suicide bombers.
Applications have included a "significant proportion" from the Asian and Muslim communities, according to a Whitehall official.
Before July 7, MI5 would routinely receive about 1,000 applications a week from people seeking a career in the Security Service.
In the weeks after the attacks, however, that number has risen to 2,50... (more)
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Rights chief: we need more spiesTHE head of Britain’s most prominent civil rights group has called for the recruitment of many new police officers and British-Asian spies to infiltrate their own community in an attempt to crack Muslim terrorist cells, writes Jasper Gerard.
Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, says she rejects some assumptions made by her predecessors.
Past leaders of Liberty include Patricia Hewitt and Harriet Harman, now senior government figures. “I want more ... (more)
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Fury as officials secretly downgrade terror threatThe official level of threat from a terrorist attack has been secretly lowered from its highest rating for the first time since the July 7 bombings. The Sunday Telegraph has learnt that the decision was taken on Thursday by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, a Government body based at Thames House, the headquarters of MI5.
The threat level was reduced from "critical" or Level 1 - its highest state - to "severe general" or Level 2G because intelligence sources do not have any spe... (more)
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MK Elon: 'This is a Police State' Police prevented Sderot residents from protesting near PM Sharon's ranch and barred a terror victim's family from traveling for psychological help. MK Elon says Israel has become a "police state."
Knesset Member Benny Elon (National Union) spent the Sabbath opposite Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Sycamore Ranch, protesting the expulsion of Jews from Gaza and northern Samaria. He said police blocked Sderot residents who tried to join him. "It is unbelievable how they gag peo... (more)
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Government May Soon Track You by Your License PlateThe reason for the concern in the legal and privacy-rights communities is that e-plates may expand the ability of police to track individuals by the movement of their vehicles. A single RFID reader can identify dozens of vehicles fitted with e-plates moving at any speed at a distance of about 100 yards.
A controversial plan to embed radio frequency identification chips in license plates in the United Kingdom also may be coming to the United States, experts told UPI's Wireless Worl... (more)
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BUY SPYSUPERMARKET trolleys could soon be fitted with transmitters to track the habits of shoppers.
They will monitor how long customers spend in each area, the products they buy and the time spent waiting at the checkout.
The information will be stored on a giant database to enable retail chiefs to build up the biggest-ever picture of our weekly buying habits.
They insist the information will be used to boost efficiency and improve the layout of stores.
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Call for 1,000 more speed cameras to save livesThe controversial debate over speed cameras will be reignited this week after Britain's leading police expert on the issue called for a significant expansion of the number of the devices around the country.
Although the government has blocked the installation of more cameras, Ian Bell, speed camera liaison officer for the Association of Chief Police Officers, said Britain's roads required up to 1,000 extra cameras, a 16 per cent increase.
Until now, police have refused to s... (more)
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Data - carrying chips set off Big Brother fearsThe government has so much information on Californians — mostly carried on cards in their wallets and purses — that it could swiftly become something like Big Brother from novelist George Orwell's "1984" in this post Sept. 11 world.
That's the way a diverse coalition of privacy and consumer groups see it. Government and technology firms disagree. And state lawmakers have jumped into the middle with landmark legislation on "radio-frequency identification," which experts... (more)
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Britain's organic food scam exposedBritain's organic food revolution was facing its first serious test last night after an Observer investigation revealed disturbing levels of fraud within the industry.
Farmers, retailers and food inspectors have disclosed a catalogue of malpractice, including producers falsely passing off food as organic and retailers failing to gain accreditation from independent inspectors. The findings raise concerns that consumers paying high premiums for organic food are being ripped off.
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Bird Flu Suspected at Big Russian FarmRussian officials have quarantined a large poultry farm in Siberia because of a suspected outbreak of bird flu, news reports said Saturday. If confirmed, it would be the first major occurrence of the lethal virus among birds in Russia, and international health officials expressed concern that the disease had spread closer to Western Europe.
About 142,000 birds are being monitored at a commercial farm in the Omsk region of Siberia, 1,400 miles east of Moscow, the Russian news agenc... (more)
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Menezes family rejects $1m offerThe parents of the Brazilian man gunned down by police at London's Stockwell Tube station have reportedly turned down a one million US dollars compensation offer from Scotland Yard for his mistaken shooting.
Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was shot seven times in the head by police marksmen on July 22, but his parents Matozinho and Maria de Menezes are believed to have rejected the offer as an insult.
They told the Daily Mail newspaper: "We will not be bought off. We w... (more)
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Pennsylvania legislators vote to give themselves 36-percent pay raise at 2:00 a.m. with no public debate on the issueCLARION - "I understand people are upset and I think they have a reason to be," state Rep. Fred McIlhattan (R-63) said this week of the July 7 pay raise the state legislature voted for itself.
McIlhattan voted against the 16 to 34 percent pay raise and told the Clarion News he is not using a legal loophole to collect the raise a year and a half early in the form of unvouchered expenses.
"I believe I am adequately compensated," McIlhattan said when asked about his vo... (more)
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Elm Springs Police Officer ArrestedAn Elm Springs police officer was arrested Friday, on charges he extorted money from drivers.
Timothy Payne, 40, 2415 N. Mountain Road, Springdale, was arrested Friday on a theft of property, criminal attempt to commit theft of property and abuse of office warrant, according to a Arkansas State Police probable cause affidavit filed in Benton County.
Payne resigned from the Elm Springs Police Department on Aug. 15.
Payne stopped individuals, the affida... (more)
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Former Head Of Pentagon's Depleted Uranium Project Says Thousands Of Troops Are Sick And Dying From Illegal DU Use And Military's Failure To Admit ResponsibilityAfter Maj. Doug Rokke went public in 1997 exposing the military's flawed DU program, his life has been threatened but he still continues to search for solutions in order to save the lives of those afflicted.
Army Major Doug Rokke has been shot at, run off the road, threatened, harassed, black- balled, intimidated, called a liar and treated like a “hated enemy†not by opposition forces in Iraq, but by ‘secret opsâ€&... (more)
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Twin Cities turning deaf ear to political talk radio showsTwin Cities listeners have been tuning out political talk radio.
Locally, conservative-talk icon Rush Limbaugh's show has lost 43 percent of its audience among 25- to 54-year-olds in the past year. Sean Hannity's show is down a whopping 63 percent. The shift is serious enough that "we're weighing where these shows fit for us in the future," according to Todd Fisher, general manager at KSTP (1500 AM), which carries both syndicated programs.
Many Americans also are sw... (more)
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Break on Foreign-Profit Tax Means Billions to U.S. FirmsPrompted by a one-time tax holiday on profits earned abroad, pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co. announced early this year that it would bring home $8 billion to boost research and development spending, capital investments and other job-creating ventures.
Six months into the year, Lilly's R&D spending had increased by 10 percent. But that $134 million is only a small fraction of the $8 billion that is boosting the company's coffers.
For proponents of the tax holi... (more)
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