Sleepwalking into the police state. I’m not really sure how far we have gone down this path in the UK and the EU, but we had all better pray that the new authoritarians dont win the next election…Oh, you say they already did?
23,000 people killed since late 2006 when the present campaign was launched, saya the Independent.
Article from Asia Times on why some buildings may have been torched by the Thai redshirts/blackshirts and not others. Terrorism, crime and the rich. Tell the Guardian its journalists have a lot to learn about how to analyse violence..
Moscow more unsafe for journalists than Chechnya.Report from the International Union of Journalists.
Story about ‘Ndrangheta moving into the area around Milan. Big trial about to open
Army to go into South Waziristan, where al Qaeda leaders are also supposed to be. Mehsud is supposed to be behind suicide bombings in Pakistan.
A Colombian robbery gang arrested in Thailand. New agency following up on arrest warrants issued by other countries.
This is really the story of the investigation, not of the organisation. that will make a nice book for some speed writing journalist in the not too distant future.The Hanna family and their associates. A very cautious group of operators, allegedly.
A third of cocaine smuggled into the US now travels in submersibles…and theyre trying to make radio controlled ones now!
Your blogger has to admit that he was not aware of how big a problem Russia has with heroin addiction.
