2007 INCB REPORT
Actual text of the report. Be interesting to check how American the input to it is.
Actual text of the report. Be interesting to check how American the input to it is.
International Narcotics Control Board’s annual report. Small voice of criticism at foot of article. This is the report that has been seized on as blaming “celebrities” for drug taking by certain sections of the media.
Not really organised crime, but if there is anybody out there, the full report is here, assuming you have been exposed to the variable spin from the newspapers and TV. The truth is that the impact has been marginal apparently. Or is it just that the evaluation has been difficult to do?
Could easily describe the European Union too.
Just what we all needed! A new form of terrorism…first narcoterrorism, now ecoterrorism. The Earth Liberation Front [ELF] has been around for a while apparently…Elf, get it? Little green chaps and chapesses creating lots of carbon emissions. I wonder if they ever consider the carbon footprint of their acts? Now there’s a counter-terrorist strategy for you!
Let’s see now….we couldnt find Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora…so let’s invade the privacy of all the geeks in those virtual reality worlds. Let the spooks define “normal” behavior and then snoop around anything abnormal. I kid you not….that’s what it says!
Oh don’t worry…the innocent will have nothing to fear…Just the non-normals. I thought criminology and psychology gave up on concepts of “normal” decades ago…and “deviant”.
Suppose they will be profiling the blogs too. Swivelling eyes good, critical abnormal…and they say we defeated the Soviet Union! Looks awfully like Stalin won to me!
Big seizure here. There’s a lot happening in Italy right now. Pity it is all likely to stop once the government changes.English version reached the BBC a day later: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7278427.stm They must have had to take it to the local restaurant to get it translated after work… World Service has been badly cut!
I hadnt noticed this case trundling on in Moscow. It raises some interesting issues. Given that Manhattan courts claim jurisdiction over just about every financial transaction in the world, what will happen when this case in Moscow comes to judgement. Theyre only after a cool $22 billion. Hmmm…any connection here with attacks on Russia as not a proper democracy…Nah, I’m being cynical again.
This article in the Guardian connects to those warnings from the US about illegal immigrants creating links to existing gang culture in jails. Somebody should have known this might happen, but where are the plans for deradicalisation and to break down gang culture in prisons?
Mind you, the Scots have their own problems. But I bet this is also going on in the North of England and further South. Trade patterns?