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Docs Talk the Talk, But Do They Take Flu Shots?
• January, 2009Docs Talk the Talk, But Do They Take Flu Shots? By RADHA CHITALE ABC News Medical Unit Dec. 9, 2008 Some Doctors and Other Health Care Professionals Steer Clear of Flu Shots Every fall, the public is barraged by messages from doctors, nurses and other health care providers to get a flu vaccination to protect against the influenza virus. But the truth is, some doctors and nurses might talk the talk without walking the walk. According to the most recent data from the Centers for…
Top secret … so why did council post details of high security spy centre on the internet?
• December, 2008Top secret … so why did council post details of high security spy centre on the internet? By Jason Lewis Last updated at 10:06 PM on 29th November 2008 Details of one of Britain’s most sensitive spy centres have been revealed in official documents posted on the internet by a local council. Whitehall security officials have raised serious concerns after the authority published a planning file revealing the ‘national security’ role of the development. The major blunder means that the full details of what is…
Roll up, roll up for the national fire sale
• December, 2008Roll up, roll up for the national fire sale From The Times November 26, 2008 Francis Elliott and Emily Gosden Lock-keepers’ cottages, assorted forests, a conference centre, military radio frequencies and a uranium enrichment company – the sale to help to plug Britain’s £1 trillion deficit is now open. Buried in the Pre-Budget Report is a list of state-owned assets with “potential for alternative business models”. Treasury ministers rejected claims that the privatisation drive amounted to a firesale that would leave taxpayers short-changed. “This is…
Social services ‘set up CCTV camera in couple’s bedroom’
• December, 2008Social services ‘set up CCTV camera in couple’s bedroom’ By Martin Beckford, Social Affairs Correspondent Social workers set up a CCTV camera in the bedroom of a couple with learning difficulties in order to monitor their behaviour, a new report claims. Council staff are said to have spied on the young parents at night as part of a plan to see if they were fit to look after their baby, who was sleeping in another room. The mother and father were forced to cite the…
Web spies monitor activists online for police, attorney-general
• December, 2008Web spies monitor activists online for police, attorney-general AAP November 26, 2008 A PRIVATE intelligence company has been engaged by police to secretly monitor internet and email use by activist and protest groups, a report says. The company was hired to monitor and report on the internet activities of anti-war campaigners, animal rights activists, environmental campaigners, and other protest groups, Fairfax Media reported. It was hired by Victorian Police, the Australian Federal Police and the federal Attorney-General’s department. The Melbourne-based firm has for the past…
Truman Show Syndrome delusion: Sufferers convinced they are on reality TV
• December, 2008Truman Show Syndrome delusion: Sufferers convinced they are on reality TV By Tom Leonard in New York 25 Nov 2008 Psychiatric experts say they have identified a new 21st century form of delusion whose sufferers are convinced their lives are being played out as a reality television show. The self-exposure, instant fame culture peddled by reality shows, social networking internet sites such as Facebook and – above all – the home video-sharing website YouTube has provided a “perfect storm” for vulnerable people, encouraging them to…
America’s Child Soldiers: US Military Recruiting Children to Serve in the Armed Forces
• December, 2008America’s Child Soldiers: US Military Recruiting Children to Serve in the Armed Forces by Sherwood Ross US Military Recruiting Children to Serve in the Armed Forces In violation of its pledge to the United Nations not to recruit children into the military, the Pentagon “regularly target(s) children under 17,” the American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) says. The Pentagon “heavily recruits on high school campuses, targeting students for recruitment as early as possible and generally without limits on the age of students they contact,” the ACLU states…
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…
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…