Archive for the 'Journalism' Category
Jacqui Smith’s Taser plan suffers blow
• December, 2008Jacqui Smith’s Taser plan suffers blow after Met Police Authority’s rejection From The Times November 25, 2008 The authority overseeing Britain’s largest police force warned that a government decision to allow Taser stun guns to be used by non-specialist firearms officers threatened to cause “fear” among the public. Jacqui Smith’s announcement that 10,000 of the weapons are to be supplied to 43 forces in England and Wales suffered an immediate blow when the Metropolitan Police Authority said it had no intention sanctioning their wider deployment…
Cops Tase 54 Year Old Woman For Sitting In Wrong Seat At Football Game
• December, 2008Cops Tase 54 Year Old Woman For Sitting In Wrong Seat At Football Game Steve Watson Infowars.net Eyewitness captures video, police falsely say taser intended for compliance Wisconsin Police were caught on camera tasing a 54 year old woman and confining her to a wheel chair after she sat in the wrong seat at a football game in Madison. Margaret Hiebing, a veteran Badger season ticket holder, was ejected from the Camp Randall stadium during the Oct. 11 game against Penn State after she was…
Colossal squid’s big eye revealed
• December, 2008Colossal squid’s big eye revealed By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website The huge eye of the world’s largest squid has been revealed by scientists dissecting a rare, intact half-tonne specimen in New Zealand. About 27cm (11in) across, researchers believe the colossal squid’s eye is the biggest animal eye ever found. The 10m-long (34ft) specimen has also turned out to be female, surprising the scientific team. Very little is known about colossal squid; only about 10 have ever been caught and brought to shore.…
Crescent moon nestles next to two brightest planets in the sky
• December, 2008Crescent moon nestles next to two brightest planets in the sky By Joe Rao Venus and Jupiter share starring role Every once in a while, something appears in the night sky that attracts the attention of even those who normally don’t bother looking up. It was that way on Monday evening. A slender crescent moon, just 15 percent illuminated, came in very close proximity to the two brightest planets in our sky, Venus and Jupiter.
2,700-year-old marijuana found in Chinese tomb
• December, 20082,700-year-old marijuana found in Chinese tomb Dean Beeby THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA Stash seems to have been intended for buried shaman to use in the afterlife Researchers say they have located the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China. The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly “cultivated for psychoactive purposes,” rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany. The 789 grams of…
CIA lied over attack on plane
• November, 2008CIA lied over attack on plane November 22, 2008 WASHINGTON:An internal investigation by the CIA has found that agency officials engaged in a cover-up to hide negligence in the downing in Peru of a private aircraft suspected of carrying illegal narcotics. Excerpts of an internal CIA report released on Thursday accused agency officials of lying to Congress and withholding critical information from criminal investigators and senior Bush Administration officials. The disclosure could lead to the reopening of a probe into whether CIA officials committed crimes…
Police to get 10,000 Taser guns
• November, 2008Police to get 10,000 Taser guns From The Sunday Times November 23, 2008 Author: David Leppard Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, is to arm police with 10,000 Taser stun guns in an escalation of the government’s fight against violent crime. Smith will unveil plans tomorrow that will enable all 30,000 front-line response officers to be trained in firing the electric guns at knife-wielding thugs and other violent suspects. Smith said yesterday that £8m will be made available to all 43 police forces in England and…
Australia planning to block 10,000 websites
• November, 2008Australia planning to block 10,000 websites By Bonnie Malkin in Sydney Last Updated: 5:17AM GMT 14 Nov 2008 Australia is preparing to block public access to 10,000 websites deemed to carry “unwanted content”. The websites will be blocked as part of a government-sponsored trial of its filter technology that will start before Christmas and last six weeks. The government has already identified 1300 websites that it wants to black list as part of the clean feeds scheme. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the sites mostly…
Global warning: We are actually heading towards a new Ice Age, claim scientists
• November, 2008Global warning: We are actually heading towards a new Ice Age, claim scientists By Cher Thornhill Last updated at 5:06 PM on 13th November 2008 It has plagued scientists and politicians for decades, but scientists now say global warming is not the problem. We are actually heading for the next Ice Age, they claim. British and Canadian experts warned the big freeze could bury the east of Britain in 6,000ft of ice. Most of Scotland, Northern Ireland and England could be covered in 3,000ft-thick ice…
Have a break, have a Kit Kat – and wreck rainforests
• November, 2008Have a break, have a Kit Kat – and wreck rainforests From The Sunday Times November 16, 2008 Jonathan Leake Demand for palm oil for Nature chocolate and other goods is posing a threat to vital habitats Household brands including Kit Kat, Flora and Dove soaps have been linked to the mass destruction of Asian rainforests for palm oil plantations. The millions of acres ear marked for clearance include some of the last habitats of orangutans and other endangered species such as clouded leopards and…
“Gomorra” Latest News
• November, 2008“Gomorra” latest news (which I heard through the grapevine…) By “La Cinyc” So it seems that this movie about the Napolitan maffia, based on a book from the hands of Roberto Saviano, is already being found on the black market in Napels. This market, by the way, is probably mostly controlled by the Camorra. So while Saviano is hiding away out of fear for attacks by the Camorra for actually writing the thing, the Camorra themselves are distributing the illegal copies… A win win situation…
Neuroimaging Of Brain Shows Who Spoke To A Person And What Was Said
• November, 2008Neuroimaging Of Brain Shows Who Spoke To A Person And What Was Said ScienceDaily (Nov. 10, 2008) Scientists from Maastricht University have developed a method to look into the brain of a person and read out who has spoken to him or her and what was said. With the help of neuroimaging and data mining techniques the researchers mapped the brain activity associated with the recognition of speech sounds and voices. In their Science article “‘Who’ is Saying ‘What’? Brain-Based Decoding of Human Voice and…
USS San Antonio encounters more problems
• November, 2008USS San Antonio encounters more problems SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 11 (UPI) The troubled-plagued USS San Antonio, a new ship already $1 billion over budget, has encountered oil leaks on its maiden deployment, military officials said. The ship, whose construction costs ballooned from $644 million to $1.8 billion, has docked in Bahrain and the U.S. Navy has sent a 40-member team to inspect and repair its leaking pipes, the San Antonio Express-News reported Tuesday.