Thanks Monty.Northern Ohio trumps Texas and Manhattan here. Reasserts Fourth Amendment and attacks colonial British seizures! All about Treasury campaign against charities, mostly linked to Hamas.

Hubris….but I’m sure we shouldnt giggle…

Thanks again to Monty for this…Just when was the war on drugs won, exactly?Note that in 2007 Chinese bank notes carried no traces, but in 2008, traces were found. This will make iy difficult toprove where drug traces on a defendant actually originated.

Is this the legacy of Ruth Kelly or Hazel Blears? Remember the past two community secretaries? On the other hand, what is wrong with “building resilience to violent extremism”. Someone in the article suggests it is difficult to measure compliance…Hmmm. Not beyond the wit of person, I surmise! All funding maybe shouldnt be under the … MUSLIM GROUPS HIT OUT OVER”FUNDING WITH SECURITY STRINGS ATTACHED”

There are some stats in this piece from Le Monde [in French, of course]. 40% 0f 17 year olds have smoked cannabis at least once. Cocaine use has risen from 0.9% to 3.3% and and amphetamine use from 1% to 2.7% between 2000 and 2008. Price data given too.

I should really be quoting from a German newspaper, but this is from La Reppublica, suggesting a group of converts to Islam of German origin has been seen on video training in al Qaeda camps. The videos are linked from the article.

Telegraph article on same story as previous post. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan has been recruiting in Germany. Story apparently goes back as far as May this year.

I’m sorry, but that isnt what the figures say. 2,692 people sought help for cocaine addiction in 2007-8, while 9,632 sought it for crack and heroin. The figures showa decline in crack and heroin abuse and a rise in cocaine abuse, but there were still more than 3 times as many crack and heroin users … COCAINE DRUG OF CHOICE FOR UNDER 25S, NHS FIGURES SUGGEST

Lucy Faithfull Foundation estimate…but remember these groups have an interest in giving a high figure. Anyone out there have figures for other European countries? They suspect 320,000 paedophiles in UK, but there are only 32,000 names on sex offenders register. Newspapers love this sort of stuff. Classic moral panic. How are figures estimated? There are … UP TO 64,000 WOMEN IN UK “ARE CHILD SEX OFFENDERS”

There really is no honour among theives, it would appear. Lurid tales.