Tag: crime
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Germs May Blow the Whistle On Crooks One Day
Warning to criminals: Rubbing out your fingerprints may no longer be enough. Your germs could still give you away. It turns out the colonies of bacteria that live on people’s hands are highly personal to each individual.
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PleaseRobMe.com Uses Twitter To Tell When People Aren’t Home
The creators of PleaseRobMe.com really aren’t out to steal from people, they insist. Rather, they want to educate people about the dangers of posting too much information on social networking sites before they become victims of unscrupulous types.
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police state updates: drones, guns, abuse & arrests
video: houston police dept using spy drones from news junkie post: KPRC in Houston recently filmed a secret experiment by law enforcement agencies, including Homeland Security, of a drone intended to spy on Americans. north american security perimeter on the horizon video: el paso police get m4 semi-automatic rifles from kfoxtv: On Tuesday, the El…
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media/memes: obamavision, tv twilight & the end of the road
abc announces oprah-obama christmas special* nbc’s obamavision: ’30 rock’ offers up more gore*washington post shutters all US bureaus outside capital* vatican sinks teeth into vampire film ‘twilight’*mpaa says copyright-treaty critics hate hollywood* gang was killing people for fat, attempting to sell it to cosmetic companies*study: many day cares showing tv to tots*rihanna’s ‘russian roulette’: or,…
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police state int’l: drills, desensitization & hoaxes
gun sales shoot up amid fear of rising crime & terrorism*illinois: the next gitmo?*schwarzenegger aims to transfer iraq military tactics to california*US military employs ‘counterinsurgency’ strategy in californian city*california teens help swat team practice*vigilant guard: national guard exercise begins in buffalo region*rhode island emergency workers train at mock terrorist strike*dna of uk protesters could be…
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10/29 newspurge: mystery, media/memes & mayhem
history/mystery: how a girl’s stark words got lost in the polanski spectacle*video: ‘make mine freedom’ – 1948 cold war cartoon*castro sister ‘spied for cia’*the lost jfk tapes: the assassination on nat geo in nov*lies about lockerbie, 9/11 & terrorism*video: world’s largest pyramid discovered in lost mayan city* media/memes: duping liberals the way fox dupes moderates,…
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econocrash: crashes, crime, capitalism, whores & more
black tuesday & a return to big government*roubini: a big crash is coming, but i don’t believe in gold*former chairman of citigroup: restore glass-steagall*ex-sullivan & cromwell associate, under investigation for insider trading, commits suicide*madoff associate jeffry picower found dead in pool, police say*bernanke’s trillion-dollar decision*capitalism, socialism or fascism?*exposing lies about the fed, the cia &…
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cyber/spacewar: stratcom, solar storms, weatherwars
cybersecurity act: heavy restrictions on internet freedoms US military prepares for ‘cyber command’from afp: The US administration is planning to create a new military command to counter cyber attacks on the country’s sensitive computer networks, a US defense official said on Wednesday. The move would be part of a planned overhaul of cyber security policies…
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homeland stupidity warns of ‘seven signs of terrorism’
from infowars: It does not matter that al-Qaeda is not a threat to the homeland — you need to prepare for a terrorist attack regardless, according to PrepareMetro KC, a website put together by the Greater Kansas City region’s Metropolitan Emergency Managers Committee, which is funded by the Department of Homeland Security. “Terrorist operations begin…
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econocrash: panic, ponzi, predictions, scenarios & nightmares
8 really, really scary predictionsfrom fortune: Dow 4,000. Food shortages. A bubble in Treasury notes. Fortune spoke to eight of the market’s sharpest thinkers and what they had to say about the future is frightening… Nouriel Roubini: “We are in the middle of a very severe recession that’s going to continue through all of 2009…
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cops catch ‘special agent from the US illuminati’
from ap: t wasn’t the preferred way to enter the Knoxville Museum of Art, but Richard Anthony Smith told police he was on a mission. The 25-year-old Knoxville man called 911 from his cell phone before dawn Wednesday saying he was trapped in an air conditioning duct leading from the museum roof, Knoxville police spokesman…
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organized crime dumping weak US dollar for euro
from afp: The weakened US dollar has fallen out of favor with organized crime groups to pay for drug shipments or to settle scores, a Canadian government report said Friday. And if the greenback continues its slide in 2008, as expected, more and more criminals are likely to exchange euros for illicit goods, said Criminal…
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illinois gov may send natl guard into chicago to fight crime
from nbc5: As Governor Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday signed a new law that will put in place tougher penalties for selling guns to minors, he also announced he’s got a new idea to help combat the violence that Chicago is experience: he’s talking to the Illinois State Police and the National Guard to see if…
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cctv does not reduce crime in the uk
from guardian: Pervasive security cameras don’t substantially reduce crime. There are exceptions, of course, and that’s what gets the press. Most famously, CCTV cameras helped catch James Bulger’s murderers in 1993. And earlier this year, they helped convict Steve Wright of murdering five women in the Ipswich area. But these are the well-publicised exceptions. Overall,…
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woman helps cops find men who stole her laptop
from ap: A Westchester woman who had her laptop stolen was able to connect to the computer, photograph two suspects and give the photos to police… At that point the victim signed onto another computer and used the “Back to My Mac” program to determine that her stolen MacIntosh laptop was on the Web. She…