Report Details Missteps in Data Collection
The News Review:
- Report Details Missteps in Data Collection
- Sweden’s bleeding
- Sign Branko now
- US invasion ends golden age of children’s TV
- Sampson skipper
- UK crime boss jailed for seven years
- Home intrusion was justified, prosecutor says: The commonwealth’s…
Report Details Missteps in Data Collection
Washington Post – Mar 10, 2007
Just this week we found out that The FBI has seen fit to overstep the law in the pursuit of citizen records which were made accessible to thousands of law enforcement agencies and even foreign governments. I wonder if the Russian government was one of them. I do not beleive Islamofacist are one tenth the threat to our freedom and American way of life as our home grown authoritarians. Unfortunately Russia has not had a long history of open debate and democratic processes. We all hope that they will eventually have that history. So what is our excuse? Bush and Cheney do not appear anywhere without the audience being carefully screened and dissidents ruffed up forced to leave or appear out of sight and earshot.
Sweden’s bleeding
The Age – Mar 10, 2007
Nobody travelled and nobody from anywhere else had any reason tocome to Sweden. They hadn’t really met any foreigners, so they wereregarded as very suspicious. FOR Sjowall and Wahloo, by contrast, crime was a morbid symptomof a home-grown social illness. Their disillusionment was not withhuman nature, but with the Social Democrats who had failed to liveup the ideals of the folkhem, or “people’s home”, that haddominated Swedish politics since the ’30s. Even their focus on the police, Hedman says, reflected acontemporary anxiety about the formation of a new national force toreplace the traditional community police. From the left’sperspective, the new body would surely be the real enemywithin. Current schwedenkrimi take a similar perspective, setting theirmurders against a background of increasing inequality, rampantconsumerism and conflicts over issues such as immigration.
Sign Branko now
NEWS.com.au – Mar 10, 2007
So sign Branko and get the 2007-08 campaign underway. Rather than trawling through hundreds of coaching CVs and fielding reporters’ phone calls asking about the latest applicant, chairman Edmund Capon and chief executive George Perry could then spend their precious time wining and dining prospective sponsors. After indifferent experiences with Pierre Littbarski and Terry Butcher, it’s time to appoint a home-grown coach and after Wednesday night they’d be foolish to look past Culina. And in light of the club’s dire financial straits, it would be an indictment on the fans to pay for a name ahead of quality – save your pennies for a marquee player. As significant as the win, was FC’s performance. It was attacking and attractive. Eeven after hearing the positive rhetoric for three weeks, I suspect even Sydney’s most optimistic fans would have been blown away.
US invasion ends golden age of children’s TV
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 10, 2007
Those aged between 13 and 15 are particularly let down by the choice of shows on offer, according the study. This age group is often left to watch adult programmes such as America’s Next Top Model and Big Brother or even shows made for younger children because there is nothing else for them on the schedules. The report says the amount of children’s programmes being screened has reached record levels, with 113,000 hours of shows broadcast last year compared to only 20,000 in 1998 and fewer than 1,000 in the 1950s and 1960s. Article continues advertisement.
Sampson skipper
NEWS.com.au – Mar 10, 2007
content-row clearfloat –> SOUTH Adelaide has done a backflip by reinstating Clay Sampson as captain after contemplating a change last week. Sampson, 30, 2002 Knuckey Cup winner and twice club best team man, heads South’s eight-man leadership group with Victorian recruit Mathew Smith – who has played 56 games with the Panthers since 2004 – holding his spot as vice-captain. Gerard Bennett (82 games), Steve Kenna (36), Scott McGlone (39), Ben Neagle (40), Craig Parry (73) and Tom Hateley (48) – with Sampson the only home-grown leader – were named in the group. Coach Robert Pyman said the leadership program was reaping benefits. "It’s testament to the program that all parties are involved in key decisions and the leadership group.
UK crime boss jailed for seven years
TVNZ – Mar 10, 2007
Adams was brought down after a sophisticated Al Capone-style investigation involving the MI5 security service that uncovered a money laundering operation spanning decades. Joanna Barnes, an accomplice who had helped him evade justice, avoided jail but was ordered to pay a fine and court costs. Was Adams the last of the British Godfathers? The fall of Terry Adams has unleashed a wave of speculation – nostalgia even – that the era of the home-grown, family-based gang is finally over. Where once the likes of the Krays and the Richardsons ruled their manors unopposed, the argument runs, violent young street gangs and ethnic-minority gangsters have taken over. But experts contacted by Reuters doubt whether the jailing of Adams on Friday is really much of a watershed. “The local criminal firm, the old underworld figures, are still important, they haven’t gone away,” said Dick Hobbs, professor of sociology at London School of Economics. “It’s a myth to say they have gone.
Home intrusion was justified, prosecutor says: The commonwealth’s…
Free with registration – Roanoke Times – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 10, 2007
Wood and an unidentified man entered the Hunsberger home without a search warrant or a good reason one night in early February and wound up in the girl’s darkened bedroom, where she awoke to find the covers being pulled from her face. According to Branscom, Wood was justified in entering the home given all the circumstances: complaints of possible underage drinking, no answer to his repeated knocks on the door, sounds of movement in the garage, a father worried about his unaccounted-for 16-year-old daughter and the possibility that.