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http://www.rense.com/general53/cirtua.htm By Daniel Terdiman Wired News 5-25-4 The world of massively multiplayer online games is often a dangerous place, what with constant threats from bloodthirsty monsters and murderous non-player characters. But now players have even more peril to contend with: addictive drugs that can incapacitate or kill their characters. The designers of Achaea, one of the biggest online text-based games, have recently introduced a virtual addictive drug -- known as gleam -- as part of a story line in which a crime ring has been attempting to infiltrate the game's cities. And some players can't take it fast enough. "What we wanted to do w…
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Busted: Drug ring cracked, 12 arrested during raids Saturday, 22 May 2004 POLICE believe they have cracked another major Bendigo drug trafficking ring, with 12 people arrested during raids on city properties yesterday. Thousands of dollars in cash, three cars, mobile phones, illegal drugs and stolen property were seized during raids conducted by 37 police officers and the Melbourne-based dog squad. Partygoers at a house in Golden Square stood handcuffed along a fence, sat cross-legged on the front porch and perched in deck chairs while police searched the property early yesterday morning. The raids continued on houses in Kennington and Flora Hill, where the parents of…
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More than 25 people have been arrested after a two-day multi-agency sweep marking the second anniversary of police Operation Vikings. The campaign, conducted in inner, northern and western Sydney, the Tweed and Byron Bay in northern NSW and in Albury, in the state's south, targeted drugs, concealed weapons, anti-social behaviour, street crime and violence. The Vikings unit, highway patrol, dog squad, mounted police and local area commands were joined by officers from the Roads and Traffic Authority, Environmental Protection Agency, the adolescent unit of the Community Services department, Naval police and Sydney City Council parking rangers. NSW officers were also a…
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http://www.rense.com/general52/scanner.htm By Marie Woolf Chief Political Correspondent The Independent - UK 5-9-4 It may sound like a gadget from a futuristic film but the full body scanner, which sees straight through people's clothing, is coming soon to airports in the UK. A hi-tech security screening system, designed to detect guns and other offensive weapons concealed on the body, will be unveiled this month by the defence technology firm Qinetiq, which is part-owned by the Government. The scanners, expected to be deployed within a year as part of Britain's armoury against terror, capture the naked image of a traveller even if he or she is wearing several …
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German police have arrested a green-fingered pensioner harvesting cannabis plants in her Hamburg home after someone tipped them off to a strong smell, authorities say In a dawn raid of the 68-year-old's flat, police found marijuana plants in her bathroom, bedroom and living room. "Police discovered a plantation of approximately 170 cannabis plants as well as a special lighting and ventilation system," said a police spokesman. "It was very professional." Five kg (11 lb) of cannabis, freshly harvested and already packaged, were also discovered in the woman's home, which she shares with her 39-year-old son. "The woman was tending to the plants and watering them b…
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A number of cannabis plants were seized during a search of a house in Geelong earlier this morning along with a one metre long alligator found in a child's wading pool. The alligator is the first to be seized in Victoria and was taken to Melbourne Zoo while the Department of Sustainability and Environment continue their investigations.
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May 10, 2004 WHAT'S in a nickname? Quite a lot in the Philippines, where two candidates standing for parliament have fought a bitter legal battle over the right to be called "Bong". Voters can choose their favoured candidate by nickname alone, and bowling champion Olivia "Bong" Coo feared losing vital votes to movie star Ramon "Bong" Revilla in the race for a Senate seat in upcoming polls. However the Supreme Court rejected a petition from Coo and ruled that Revilla also had right to use the nickname. It ruled that neither of the candidates should be credited if the voter only wrote "Bong". Virtually every Filipino has a nickname usually decided shortly after birt…
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A pigeon fancier, who claimed he grew more than 220 cannabis plants simply to feed the hemp seeds to his birds, could not be believed, a judge said yesterday. David Wallace Burgess, 55, of Devon Meadows, was jailed for at least 12 months after County Court judge Elizabeth Curtain refused to accept the dope crop, valued at more than $500,000, was merely to increase the lustre of his prize pigeons' coats. "It is incredulous to me that a person would be prepared to grow in the vicinity of 227 cannabis plants... in order to produce an uncertain or at least unpredictable quantity of hemp seed to feed to 40 birds, knowing that to do so was illegal and knowing also that ther…
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MURRAY Bridge police have discovered an in-creased use of hard drugs in the area recently. While it is no worse here than other regional South Australian towns, police have stepped up their approach to the situation by trying to curb the deals early on. Police believe the increase in hard drugs has stemmed from people over-using cannabis to such an extent where they do not feel the same "buzz" and instead resort to harder drugs. Acting officer in charge Sergeant Michael Towie said the situation had become somewhat of a cycle. "It is a cyclic thing where cannabis dealers get money but are going on to buy speed deals and other hard drugs, so the money from the crops…
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Federal Justice and Customs Minister Chris Ellison says the latest illicit drug data report shows that amphetamines have become the latest front in the war on drugs. Senator Ellison released the Australian Crime Commission report for 2002 and 2003 at a drugs conference in Alice Springs. He says although there has been a fall in the number of seizures of cannabis, heroin and cocaine possession has increased. But Senator Ellison says the most alarming figures were for amphetamines. "We also have an increase in amphetamines, increase in domestic manufacture of amphetamines and use of amphetamines and an increase in attempts to try and bring amphetamine-type stimulant…
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Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty says the Australasian Drug Strategy Conference in Alice Springs will improve understanding between international and local law enforcement agencies. Around 260 delegates from 11 countries are attending the conference which begins this week. Commissioner Keelty says conference delegates will include people from countries known as sources for drug imports into Australia. "If we have a common understanding of the problem then we're far better placed to have a solution that might have some universal applicability about it," he said. "Our problem in policing has largely been in the past, that we've dealt with these in …
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A 37-year-old man found dead in a cottage in this western Quebec community amid more than 100 marijuana plants died as a result of a bizarre accident, police say. Autopsy results show the man was killed in a trap that appeared to be set to keep thieves away from his crop, police said yesterday. The body of the man, whose name is not being released, was discovered in the entrance of his cottage by his brother early last month. He died of a gunshot wound. By Bell Globemedia Date: 06/05/04 Source: The Globe & Mail Copyright: Bell Globemedia Publishing Inc. 2004
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Attention head shops, party stores, gas stations, delis, smoke shops, record stores and any other outlet selling bongs, roach clips and other drug paraphernalia: The party is over. Federal and local law enforcement authorities gathered Wednesday to announce they are sending gentle reminders to more than 350 Detroit businesses that the sale of such items is a felony under federal law. It is punishable by up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Selling such material is also against state and local laws. Officials are not targeting stores in other cities. Are there no head shops in the suburbs? U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Collins said, "We're go…
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Check this out, talk about getting what you pay for SYDNEY Qantas Airways admitted Wednesday that a passenger had found a live frog in a salad served on a February flight from Melbourne to Wellington. The passenger discovered the 4-centimeter, or 1.5-inch, whistling tree frog sitting on a piece of cucumber when she opened the plastic lid of her salad. A spokesman for Qantas Airways told National Radio that the airline had changed its supplier since the incident. Tree frogs are common in the area where the lettuce for the salad was grown. IHT
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The price of illicit drugs has soared since drug house legislation was introduced, police said last night. The laws have hit the price of cannabis the hardest. A pound (0.45kg) of cannabis has risen from about $3800 to about $4500 in the past few months. Drug squad boss Senior Sergeant Les Martin said the rise suggested the availability of the drug in the Territory had been reduced. He said several pro-active drug squad operations, and increased powers that the drug house laws had given police, were in part responsible. "Just recently there's been an increase in the price of cannabis in bulk amounts of $500 to $1000 a pound," Sen-Sgt Martin said. "It means tha…
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