For over ten years now, I¡¯ve been writing about and documenting police riots at protests.
It¡¯s always the same story:
Undercover police dress up as protesters and incite, or even engage in, violence.
Uniformed police then take advantage of this to assault legitimate protesters, sometimes brutally.
It¡¯s the oldest trick in the book and the French have a phrase [¡¦]
ONE THING IS CLEAR about the so-called DC Madam - aka Deborah Jeane Palfrey - case: there is a stunning contrast between the lid being kept on the names of male clients in this matter and the interest of the media compared to the speed with which Eliot Spitzer name became notorious in a similar [¡¦]
Unless someone blinks, after May 11 air travel for Mainers will get a lot more complicated. So will entering a federal office building or courthouse. That is the day the Department of Homeland Security institutes new regulations that will gradually turn drivers¡¯ licenses into national identification cards.
Whoops. We¡¯re not supposed to say that. The new [¡¦]
A new web service that lets users rate and comment on the uniformed police officers in their community is scrambling to restore service Tuesday, after hosting company GoDaddy unceremonious pulled-the-plug on the site in the wake of outrage from criticism-leery cops.Visitors to RateMyCop.com on Tuesday were redirected to a GoDaddy page reading, ¡°Oops!!!¡±, which urged [¡¦]
The Home Secretary yesterday set out her plans for a ¡°triple ring of security around Britain¡±. This ¡°triple ring¡± entails the funding of new Special Branch police to patrol UK borders; tougher checks at borders and ID cards for foreign nationals.
As the Troubles come to an end with their attendant measures of State control to [¡¦]
SAFA ABU SEIF, 12, was fatally wounded as she stood in an upstairs room of her home in the Gaza City district of Jabaliya 10 days ago.
She was one of 27 children identified by United Nations staff among the 107 Palestinians who were killed in five days last week. Another 25 dead, including five women, [¡¦]
German activist Martin Kramer, en route to Japan to prepare for the Hokkaido G8 summit protests, was arrested by police in the city of Vanino in the Habarovsk region of the Russian Far East March 3. He was turned over the FSB agents, in whose hands he was harshly interrogated and beaten.
Martin was accused of [¡¦]
Lawyers for Omar Khadr are asking a U.S. military judge for the names of interrogators who questioned the Canadian citizen in Afghanistan in an attempt to prove he was tortured.
Khadr¡¯s lawyers were to appear at a pretrial hearing Thursday for the 21-year-old, who has been held at the Guantanamo Bay facility since his 2002 capture [¡¦]
Tell me again: Why should we get all worked up over the revelation that the New York governor paid for sex? Will it bring back to life the eight U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq that same day in a war that makes no sense and has cost this nation trillions in future debt? Will it [¡¦]
Remote-controlled UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) scan the city for anti-social behaviour. Talking cameras scold people for littering the streets (in children¡¯s voices). Biometric data is extracted from CCTV images to identify pedestrians by their face or gait. A housing project¡¯s surveillance cameras stream images onto the local cable channel, enabling the community to monitor itself.
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Scientology abuses eBay¡¯s VeRO program to practice religious, price discrimination
By the time Bill (not his real name) left the Church of Scientology a few years ago, he had amassed quite a collection of Scientology material—mostly books, tapes, e-meters. But ex-members of Scientology (especially staff members) find themselves in a difficult spot in this regard when [¡¦]
NEWS Shopper has discovered Kent police has lost track of known sex offenders.
The force was responding to a Freedom of Information request submitted by News Shopper.
It confirmed the whereabouts of nine registered sex offenders ¡°became unknown¡± in 2007.
Police declined to say who the missing people are, where they used to live and what offences they [¡¦]
High-polluting vehicles will be hit harder, but incentives for green cars will be introduced and fuel duty rises shelved, announced Chancellor Alistair Darling in his 2008 budget.
Fuel duty
Lobbying from consumer and freight organisations, as well as record increases in oil prices, have convinced Chancellor Alistair Darling to delay planned fuel duty rises by six months.
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