Daily Archives: August 26, 2009 »
Police admit CCTV not effective – solves less than 1 crime per year
Ewan Turney The news takes on extra relevance for pubs after reports of several police forces in parts of the country, including Islington, Richmond and Liverpool, objecting to licence applications where venues don’t agree
Read More »The Blackwater Targeted Killing Program
A U.S. district court will decide this week whether one of the darkest chapters of the Bush era, the relationship between the administration and the private security company Blackwater, should be reexamined. Former Blackwater
Read More »Lawyers: Ban Bush from Canada for war crimes
Canwest News Service A lawyers’ group has asked the RCMP to bar former U.S. president George W. Bush from entering Canada, citing torture and war crimes committed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Read More »PIRACY PLAN ‘IS ILLEGAL’
Brendan Abbott PLANS to suspend the internet accounts of “copyright pirates” who illegally download and swap films and music could breach human rights. Broadband providers and consumer rights groups warned yesterday “persuasion not coercion”
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