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Mass Conditioning for the Police State: Terror Drills Abound (notice the ongoing use of teens and high schoolers in these drills)

U.S. Carries Out Terror Drill in Arizona

ABC News

High school drama students played injured and dead victims, complete with makeup depicting burns and other injuries, as several more explosions detonated. A mock toxic gas also was released.

State Holds Terrorism Drill at Port Newark, New Jersey

WABC

It was the culmination of a year-and-a-half of planning and one of New Jersey's largest disaster drills ever. More than 600 Federal, State and local emergency responders practiced at Port Newark, in case there is another terrorist attack. And the memory of 9/11 was very fresh in everyone's minds

Public safety agencies take part in 'perfect' terrorism drill

Daily Republic

In what they openly admitted was a "perfect" exercise designed to measure their responsiveness, 23 agencies descended upon a south Fairfield business and manufacturing park shortly after 5 p.m. to deal with a train derailment that saw two giant rail cars violently crash into two city buses - one carrying a group of teenage students, the other commuters

Terrorism Drill at Farmingdale State

Newsday

Using a scripted bomb scare in Farmingdale and small-group discussions in Carle Place on Friday, they gathered from throughout Long Island and the state to strategize counter terrorism tactics.

Arizona: Emergency dial system is starting in January

Arizona Republic

Firefighters and law enforcement officers can direct residents to leave their homes, stay inside or shut down their air handlers through the phone messages.

UK: Criminals to be tagged

The Scotsman

The scheme will see as many as 16,000 criminals who are allowed out of jail each year before the end of their sentences kept under electronic surveillance to enforce curfews and limits on travelling.

British parents set to lose right to smack children

London Guardian

Parents' right to smack their children would finally be abolished under a historic attempt to outlaw physical punishment within the home.

A life turns upside down in post-9/11 FBI raid

Record Online

Critics say Terry Hughes is another victim of a post-Sept. 11, post-Patriot Act reality, where law enforcement arrests first and asks questions later.

Seat belt laws draw criticism

AP

A private safety group estimates that more than 12,000 people died from 1995 through 2002 because their states lacked laws that allow police to ticket motorists solely for failing to buckle up.

Answers elusive in school raid

The State

Probe under way into drug sweep in Goose Creek where police drew guns, restrained students

Behavior Detection: CCTV cameras could soon be able to spot any suspicious behavior

New Scientist

Rather than attempting the difficult task of recognising specific objects and their particular behaviours, VMAD simply looks at how groups of pixels move within the image. It uses these movements to construct a statistical model of "normal" activity. Movements that are out of the ordinary can then be flagged up.

Moving toward the Cashless Society: New small-value payment tag launched in downtown Toronto

Finextra

Canada Trust, National Bank and Telus Mobility are participating in the launch of a new system which enables consumers to make small value payments by tapping an electronic tag on a merchant eftpos terminal.

Wal-Mart turns customers into RFID lab rats

The Register

Have you ever wondered what it's like to buy lipstick while in a petri dish?

Britney Spears: "I'm a role model"

AP

Britney Spears insists she is role model for young girls despite recent revealing magazine covers and her new album with sexually explicit lyrics

Watch out for falling wages at Wal-Mart

The Berkshire Eagle

The world's largest retailer is busy making a name for itself as one of the world's biggest social menaces. Back in the news for its exploitive and inhumane treatment of illegal aliens, Wal-Mart has a long history of ruthlessness.

Fake IDs intricate, agent says

Herald Writer

The fraudulent documents allegedly manufactured by four Mexican nationals are "intricate and sophisticated" and illustrate how adept criminals have become at making phony documents

Hundreds line up to apply for Mexican IDs

The Tennessean

More than 1,000 people lined up at Glencliff High School in Antioch to apply for the cards, but because of preset limits only 650 people were able to apply, said Juan Carlos Lara, counsel for legal affairs at the Mexican Consulate office in Atlanta.

Former LBJ Attorney: 'LBJ did it'

The Straits-Times

The latest claim by a respected member of former vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson's legal team comes as America marks the 40th anniversary this week of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Hemlock Society Pushes to Kill Terri Schiavo

Sun Sentinel

Girsh said she was "totally outraged" when state legislators last month passed a narrowly drawn law that allowed Mary and Bob Schindler, Schiavo's parents, to reinsert their daughter's feeding tube.

CIA Finds No Evidence Hussein Sought to Arm Terrorists

Washington Post

The CIA's search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has found no evidence that former president Saddam Hussein tried to transfer chemical or biological technology or weapons to terrorists, according to a military and intelligence expert.

Missing Iraq War Veteran Turns Up Slain

ABC News

Iraq War Veteran Missing Four Months Turns Up Slain - Allegedly by Men From His Unit

Amputee soldiers ponder bitter-sweet price of survival

The Age

Already, 58 amputees have been treated at Walter Reed, 47 with major single-limb removals and 11 with multiple-limb amputations.

New Iraq Danger: Sandflies

Army Medicine

Service members in Iraq who fail to follow preventive measures risk the bite of the tiny but fearsome sand fly. It's peak season for these pests through the end of November, and their bite can carry a disease called leishmaniasis

Al Qaeda warns of Tokyo attack: report

ABC News Online

A London-based, Arabic-language newspaper, Al-Majallah , says it has received a statement from Al Qaeda warning of an attack in Tokyo and claiming responsibility for last week's bombing of the Italian headquarters in Iraq.

Iran Leader Rips U.S. Occupation of Iraq

London Guardian

Iran's supreme leader said Friday that America's military occupation of Iraq was failing and criticized President Bush's call for greater democracy in the Middle East

N. Korea to Seize Equipment From Reactors

AP

North Korea will seize equipment and technical data from two nuclear power plants being built there, its government said Thursday, days after a U.S.-led group stopped the $4.6 billion project in retaliation for the communist country's atomic weapons programs.

Blair defends Bush visit

This is London

The Prime Minister today stood by his decision to invite President George Bush to visit the UK this week despite mounting controversy from anti-war protesters and other demonstrators

U.S. Troops in Georgia to Begin Counterterrorism Training

Defense Link

Called the "Georgia Train and Equip" program, at its high- water mark it will involve 150 Americans, they said. Plans call for more than 2,000 Georgian soldiers to receive the training, which is intended to help them go after suspected terrorists who have infiltrated into the Pankisi Gorge area of the country

World Bank OKs Caspian pipeline financing

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The World Bank agreed Tuesday to provide $250 million in financing for a $3.6 billion pipeline that would bring oil from the Caspian Sea region through Turkey to Western markets.

Scientists create a virus that reproduces

USA Today

When researchers created a synthetic genome (genetic map) of the virus and implanted it into a cell, the virus became "biologically active," meaning it went to work reproducing itself.