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On the news last night the Sunshine Coast Police were appealing to the public for information relating to the theft of ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS from the police station safe. The officer giving the interview said and i quote " only police officers of the station had the combination to the safe" So if any of you guys/gals have any idea about who the perpetrator/perpetrators could be, could you please contact the said police station as they have absolutely no clues pertaining to the culprit of this crime. ------------------------------------------------------------------
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Source: Jamaica Observer The global concern about drugs dates back to the Shanghai Conference of 1909, and the Hague International Convention on Opium of 1911. This was the first international treaty attempting the control of drugs. History The British had been opium exporters to the Chinese population. Smokeable opium grown by the British in India was exported to China for profit. Britain profited greatly while inflicting tremendous harm on the Chinese population. This constitutes the modern start of international drug trafficking. In America, from 1920 to 1933, the Volstead Act prohibited alcohol. Joseph Kennedy, father of President John Kennedy, made a for…
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Darwin Awards 2002
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Got this email from a relative......interesting read of those who died in very unusual ways.... Subject: Darwin Awards Finally in.(sub title - It could only happen in America !!). Yes, the one we've all been waiting for the Darwin Awards 2002.The candidates have finally been released! For those not familiar with the "Darwin Award," it's an annual honor given to the person who provided the Universal human gene pool the biggest service by getting KILLED in the most extraordinarily stupid way. As always, competition this year has been keen again. Some candidates appear to have trained their whole lives for this event! DARWIN AWARD CANDIDATES 1. In September …
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Our Thoughts and Condolences should b going out todaii to hip hop verteran Jam Master Jay. Repost as Followz Jam Master Jay(Run DMC), 37, was shot in the head Wednesday night around 7:30 p.m. in a Queens recording studio, according to police. Another man, Urieco Rinco, 25, was shot in the leg and taken to a hospital, police said. The End of an ERa hey. damn u'll b missed Jay ur muzik woz amzing you'll live on forever in history and in the minds of all who listen/ed to ur muzik ResPEkT!!
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Russian Gas Attack was Opiate: US
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Russian gas was opiate: US AP - The mysterious gas Russian forces pumped into a theatre to end a hostage crisis was an opiate - a chemical related to morphine, US Defence Department officials said. The US administration, meanwhile, refused to criticise Russian special forces for using the gas, which killed 116 of the hostages as well as the hostage takers. "The president abhors the loss of life, but he understands that it is the terrorists" who are responsible for the tragedy, the spokesman for President George W Bush, Ari Fleischer, said. Military officials said the US embassy in Moscow had determined that the gas used by the Russians was some sort of opium deriv…
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Death by Prohibition Source: ABC On-line
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Source: NZ Drug Foundation
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Crazy NASA.....
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I received this from my old school teacher whom we have since became good friends (I guess it's pretty unusual becoming mates with ex-teachers uh? ) The Difference between Focus on Problems and Focus on Solutions: When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity (ink won't flow down to the writing surface). In order to solve this problem, they hired Andersen Consulting (Accenture today). It took them one decade and US$12,000,000. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, under water, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over…
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i seen this in the paper once - piss funny 'man found dead at bustop' Police found the body of a man slumped at a bus stop in cork, england.His body had been there sometime detectives say..... but get this POLICE SAY THE MAN MAY HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR A BUS AT THE TIME! um no shit holmes ::
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Source: The Mercury AUSTRALIA is on an international terrorist hit list, according to United States ambassador Tom Schieffer. In an exclusive interview with the Herald Sun, Ambassador Schieffer said Osama bin Laden had listed Australia for terrorist attack. In a wide-ranging interview he also said America was running out of patience with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Mr Schieffer will today tell a Melbourne business lunch that a war with Saddam can be averted by a strong united stance by the international community, backed by the threat of war. But yesterday Mr Schieffer revealed Australia's support for East Timor had made us a terrorist target. "It has not…
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I was looking through the encylopedia. Encarta, microsoft style, when I came across an entry for Reffer Madness. I thought I'd cut and paste it here for a gander. cheers................ Reefer Madness Reefer Madness, motion picture about the dangers of marijuana smoking. Released in 1936, this film tells the story of Bill and Mary, two ordinary teenagers looking for a good time. The local drug dealers give them some joints and soon everyone in school is over at Bill's house. The teens experience extreme reactions to the drug and are prone to strange hallucinations, which lead to sex, murder, and crazy piano playing. The school principal chides Bill for his saggin…
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Growing in Afghanistan
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Busted!: Afghan Farmers to Harvest Marijuana =>Posted by: logos. =>Thursday, September 12 @ 16:20:00 MST Source: Herald Tribune KHANA ABAD, Afghanistan (AP) - Obeying a Taliban edict, many marijuana cultivators in Afghanistan stopped growing their crops when the hardline Islamic militia was in power. Now some of those farmers are back in business. They're so open about it that fields of sturdy marijuana plants, some nearly seven feet tall, line part of the main road leading west from Mazar-e-Sharif, the biggest city in northern Afghanistan. Resin from the plant, also known as cannabis, is concentrated to make hashish. With the main harvest expected in one t…
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Source: Working Assets By Bill Berkowitz Every day Mary Lucey takes AIDS medications to stay alive. Without medical marijuana she gets so nauseous she can't keep the pills down. Lucey, a veteran activist and Interim AIDS Coordinator for the city of Los Angeles, serves on the board of the L.A. Cannabis Resource Center. When the LACRC was raided by the DEA in October, 2001, Lucey lost her safe, reliable source of medicine. Jim and Roni Bowers and their children, religious missionaries working in South America, were in a plane shot down over Peru on April 20, 2001. It was a U.S. government-coordinated "drug interdiction" that went bad and Roni and her one-year-old daugh…
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