Tag: uk
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crying wolf over more fake terror
my worry here is that we’re being softened up by all these phony terror plots. so that when al-CIAda really hits, we’ll be completely blindsided & dumbfounded… so incompetent as to be almost laughablefrom talking points memo: “So incompetent as to be almost laughable.” That’s how former Scotland Yard detective John O’Connor described the botched…
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uk troops on ‘trigger happy’ drug
from scotsman: British troops are being prescribed with a controversial drug which has been blamed for making US pilots “trigger-happy” and causing friendly fire deaths. The Ministry of Defence has admitted that it prescribes the amphetamine dexedrine, which is capable of keeping users awake for as long as 60 hours. While the MoD has refused…
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darpa to create brain-chipped cyborg moths
from cryptogon/register uk: Famed US military mad-scientist bureau DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is engaged in an effort to grow/build cyborg moths for use as spies. No, really. The program is called Hybrid Insect Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, or HI-MEMS. In it, the arguably over-caffeined DARPA boffins aim to construct a tiny lepidopterine…
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news on the march
macho mistakes at ground zerofrom new york times: As more and more workers who inhaled the dust at ground zero fall ill, it has become increasingly clear that much of the problem can be traced to the Giuliani administration’s failure to insist that all emergency personnel and construction workers at the site wear respirators… uk…
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liz comes to visit cousin george
from ap: With trumpet fanfare and a 21-gun salute, President Bush welcomed Queen Elizabeth II to the White House on Monday as thousands of invited guests crowded the South Lawn for a glimpse of the British monarch. The audience laughed aloud at a verbal slip by Bush when he said the queen had dined with…
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orwell’s house surrounded by cctv cameras
from bunch of nerds/this is london: A depressing reminder of Orwell’s classic novel, ‘1984’, a recent study into CCTV camera usage for surveillance in Britain has came out with some startling results. Britain has over 4.2 million CCTV cameras on it’s streets, one for every 14 people in the country, and accounting for over 20%…
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uk used humans in secret radioactive tests
from blacklisted news/sunday herald: Dozens of people drank, inhaled or were injected with radioactivity as part of a series of secret experiments carried out by the nuclear industry in the 1960s, according to official documents passed to the Sunday Herald. Tests exposing humans to radioactive caesium, iodine, strontium and uranium were conducted despite doubts about…
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uk govt predicts 1⁄3 of people will resist ID checks
from register uk: One in three people will resist identity checks according to Government figures. The just-released statistics predict a widespread revolt over identity cards, but the Home Office has dismissed the figures as irrelevant and out of date… The figures show that 30 per cent of people were predicted by the Government to refuse…
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revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips
a grim vision of the futurefrom guardian: Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx’s proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe’s drops as fertility falls. “Flashmobs” – groups rapidly mobilised by criminal gangs or terrorists…
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‘we gathered intelligence’
from blacklisted news/sky news: The captain in charge of the 15 marines detained in Iran has said they were gathering intelligence on the Iranians. Sky News went on patrol with Captain Chris Air and his team in Iraqi waters close to the area where they were arrested – just five days before the crisis began.…
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uk pilots asked to mull kamikaze missions
from the sun: RAF Top Guns were stunned last night after being asked to think of being Kamikaze pilots in the war on terror. Elite fliers were shocked into silence when a senior RAF chief said they should consider suicide missions as a last resort against terrorist targets. Air Vice Marshal David Walker put forward…
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british forces held by iran
from sky news: The Government is demanding the “immediate and safe return” of 15 British sailors and Marines seized at gunpoint by Iranian forces. They were taking part in a routine operation boarding merchant ships in Iraqi territorial waters when they were taken captive by Iranian naval vessels. The sailors and Marines had completed a…