Charges Dropped Against ‘KopBuster’ Barry Cooper Charges Dropped Against 'KopBuster' Barry Cooper
Steve Elliot
Toke of the Town
8.25.10
Former Texas narcotics officer Barry Cooper, who turned against the Drug War and pulled a reverse sting operation against the Odessa Police Department, will walk on all charges related to the incident, an attorney for Ector County announced Tuesday.
Cooper, well known for his Never Get Busted DVDs, set up a fake marijuana grow house in Odessa, wired it for sound and video, and then used an anonymous letter to lure police into a December 2008 raid, reports Stephen C. Webster at The Raw Story.
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Toke of the Town - Charges Dropped Against 'KopBuster' Barry Cooper
UK/NL : 60 tonnes (60 000 kilos) of timber adrift in North Sea if it comes back round this way at least its free wood if Biotech and Titch want to build something :wink:
SEAFARING holidaymakers have been warned to watch out for floating debris from a freight ship which lost 60 tonnes of timber in rough seas.
Yarmouth Coastguard advised leisure boaters and marine traffic off the east coast of Lowestoft to beware of the lost cargo, which fell from the 79 metre Norwegian vessel ‘Sally’.
The shipment shed around 55 miles east of Lowestoft en route from Sweden to the UK.
The six-man crew were sailing in near gale force winds and rough seas, with squally localised showers.
The Coastguard has been in touch with their Dutch counterparts to establish the location of the planks of wood which, floating on the surface or just below, could present a threat to lighter, smaller vessels travelling to or from the continent.
Mario Siano, Watch Manager at Yarmouth Coastguard, said: “Individual planks, if they come adrift of even larger bundles, may not present too much of a threat to larger vessels in the regular shipping lanes, but impacting on smaller craft and certainly leisure vessels may cause significant damage, hence our broadcast warning today.
“We are working with the Dutch Coastguard and their aerial surveillance aircraft in order to plot the location of the patches of wood as they move south on the tidal drift, although there is of course a danger in heavy seas the bundles could split and cause the wood to raft together creating a bigger ‘patch’.
“We will continue to monitor their movement as the weather and tide changes. We will also maintain surveillance of the vessel until she has resolved her problem. We have also alerted the Agency’s counter pollution unit to the situation.”
Tonnes of timber litter sea off east coast - News - Evening Star
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UK: Northern Ireland – Man critical after ‘club drugs’ A 22-year-old man is in a critical condition and three other people are ill in hospital after allegedly taking drugs at a Belfast nightclub.Police said the four took an unknown substance before becoming ill.
A second man aged 19, a 20-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl were also taken to hospital, but their condition is not life- threatening.
Police have appealed for information about the incident at Myntnight club at Dunbar link in the city.
Officers said the events were a reminder of the dangers of drug use.
Read more: Man critical after 'club drugs' - Northern Ireland, Local & National - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Ment to have been that 4 of them collapsed on the dance floor.
I think some of them were friends aswell, not sure.
Scary.
EDL march in bradford allow it or not?
i'm all for freedom of speech and right to protest, but i'm a bit stuck on my views on this
bradford saw horrific riots in 01 when the national front went there, it does not need much of a catalyst to set off racial tensions and full-blown riots tbh
27th august, if it goes ahead, right or wrong it's gonna go off
The Failed War On Drugs And The Damage Done any one interested in the failed war on drugs and the damage its doing to our society should watch this documentary on channel four tomorrow. and the main thing its on at prime time and looks very anti prohabitionist. check it out.
Our Drugs War - Channel 412
AF/NL : Netherlands Defence forces stand down from Afghanistan The Netherlands has ended its military mission in Afghanistan, after four years in which its 1,950 troops have won praise for their effectiveness.
Dutch military chief Gen Peter van Uhm said security had improved in Uruzgan province during the Dutch deployment.
But he acknowledged that "a lot still has to happen" after the withdrawal.
Nato has played down its significance, but analysts say this is a sensitive time for the alliance, with growing casualties and doubts about strategy.
BBC News - Dutch troops end Afghanistan deployment
UK : East : Chinese millionaire buys EDF Energy Networks This is the bit of EDF what owns the substations, poles, electric cable that goes to your house if you live here in East Anglia or in London and many parts of the South East of
England.
He is the richest Chinese person in the world - from Hong Kong and the dude's real name is Sir Ka Shing Li! (this is the correct spelling of his name in English as Li is his family name..)
Li Ka-shing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He's in his 80s and still working, but doesn't like bling, gives away a lot of his money for healthcare initiatives and apparently only spends $50 on a cheap Japanese watch which is extremely unusual for a Chinese businessman.. (even my current watch is worth slightly more than that!)
PH : Manila overrun by rats in Winter 2009! best build up them North Sea defences or this is what we are gonna get!
SE Asia is a good place to find interesting rodents..
Dogs & cats off the job--rats storm flooded Manila
MANILA--Rats may leave a sinking ship, but not a flooded city.
Humans, the pets they could carry, work animals, and many
street dogs fled Manila, Rizal, and their suburbs by the thousands
after tropical storm Ketsana dumped a typical month's worth of rain
in only nine hours on September 26, 2009.
Cats and dogs who were not evacuated and found no escape
routes climbed to high places, if they could, above the torrents,
but water spilling over 80% of the Manila metropolitan area kept most
of them wherever they ended up for at least the next four days, when
the flood began receding. Some were stranded for weeks. Much of the
metropolis was left to the rats and mice--and the Philippines are
known for rat and mouse biodiversity, with 62 native mouse and rat
species. Many are found in the greater Manila area, along with
non-native but ubiquitous Norway rats and at least three problematic
species who were accidentally imported from mainland Asia.
Norway rats, the Asian rats, and some of the native rats
are strong swimmers and fast breeders, bold about invading human
habitat, and quick to exploit food sources. And almost anything can
be food to a rat, from abandoned groceries to moldy grain, garbage,
and the drowned carcasses of other animals.
Rat population explosions often follow floods. So does
leptospirosis, a flu-like illness which may be carried by bacteria
in the urine of any infected mammal, but is most often spread by
rats and mice.
Where rat urine contaminates sun-warmed flood water, the
water becomes a medium for transmitting leptospirosis--unless it is
salt water, which kills the bacterium. New Orleans experienced a
rat population explosion after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but not
leptospirosis, because Katrina flooded New Orleans with sea water.
Ketsana inundated Manila with fresh water. Officials frantically
tried to prevent leptospirosis by hosing salt water into the
stagnating pools covering much of the city, but to little apparent
avail.
Humans can contract leptospirosis by drinking contaminated
water, eating contaminated food, or merely wading through
contaminated water with open cuts and abrasions, as flood victims
often do, trying to escape, help others, or salvage possessions.
Ketsana, called Ondoy in the Philippines, proved to be just
the start of the crisis. Typhoon Parma, called Pepeng in the
Philippines, hit two weeks later. Typhoon Miranae hit on October
31, two weeks after Parma.
"Nearly 860 people were killed in flooding and landslides,"
Time magazine reported. "Four weeks later, sections of Manila and
some surrounding provinces are still underwater. The rainfall was
exceptional," assessed Time, "but the severity of the flooding was
intensified by the city's garbage-clogged drainage system, partly
from the shanties of informal settlers living along waterways and
decades of skewed urban planning."
Orders were issued for local governments to make refuse
removal a post-flood priority, but rats were already out of control.
The Philippines had 769 reported cases of leptospirosis in
2008 and had just 177 cases in 2009 before the post-Ketsana
outbreaks were first tallied on October 12, but by October 15 had
more than 1,000. Philippine Department of Health program manager for
emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases Lyndon Lee Suy
attributed 2,158 human leptospirosis cases to the flooding on October
26, including 167 fatalities. "We project that the number of
leptospirosis cases will continue to rise," Lee Suy said, "but not
as high as before, where we report a rise of 400 cases per day."
Philippine health secretary Francisco Duque III told the
Philippine Star that as many as 1.7 million residents of areas still
underwater were still at risk. "We expect 3,800 people to get the
infection," Duque said. "Of this number, 3,040 will suffer
uncomplicated symptoms, while the rest will manifest complicated
symptoms that would require them to undergo dialysis or face eventual
death."
More than half of the hospitals and medical clinics in the
greater Manila area were reportedly inaccessible due to the flooding
and water damage, or were short of supplies.
The Philippine Animal Welfare Society also struggled to stay
above the crisis, with help from rescuers sent by the Humane Society
International divison of the Humane Society of the U.S. and the World
Society for the Protection of Animals.
"The PAWS shelter has not been affected by the flood,"
e-mailed program director Anna Nieves Cabrera on September 28. Her
home and that of PAWS founder Nita Hontiveros Lichauco were also
safe, Cabrera said, but PAWS directors Heidi Guzon and Gwen
Protasio were trapped on the second floor of Guzon's home with about
50 rescued cats, eight dogs, and no food.
"They and their animals are okay," PAWS volunteer Rich
Illustre updated later. "The only casualties are their chickens,
whom they weren't able to save from the fast-rising flood."
Added Cabrera, "The head of our disaster relief team, May
Felix, lost one of her dogs when her house was hit by flash
flooding."
Only three animals were brought to PAWS during the first 48
hours after Ketsana hit, Cabrera said, because "no one can even get
in or out of the flooded areas," but the next two weeks became
hectic. "All PAWS volunteers have been out on rescue and relief
operations," Cabrera reported. "We have fed 2,994 animals,
including dogs, cats, and a few cows, pigs and chickens, provided
veterinary care and treatment for 154 and rescued 26," who joined 25
pets left at the shelter by people who "lost their houses and are
looking for a place to stay."
Despite the leptospirosis risk, "Anna goes out to rescue
animals in flooded areas," said Nita Hontiveros Lichauco. "Hundreds
of dogs and cats have been left to fare for themselves. Our shelter
is filled to the rafters."
Human Rights T.V. My best mate used to do the filming for some of these guy's vids and he wanted me to post a link to this on here ... so I am :) ...
:love:
HumanRightsTV: The Voice Seldom Heard
And here's a special one that Josh D might like ...
“In the meantime here is one for you, a special, one of my favourites, a real
corker:
HumanRightsTV
This is a man I met in Australia. He was a drunk, a junkie and an armed
robber in prison by the age of 28. Now he is a musician, an actor and
clean. Just listen to how many sounds this man can put down a hollow
piece of wood!
- Jack”
Your Freedom Time to get involved people.. Nick Clegg launches yourfreedom online forum for ideas on how UK Government can restore & defend freedom
HMG - Your Freedom
Go vote on the freedoms you want123
Boris Johnson defeats Parliament Square peace camp A High Court judge has ruled that peace protesters camping in Parliament Square must be evicted by 1600 BST on Friday. Since May, tents and flags have transformed the green into what demonstrators call Democracy Village. Mayor of London Boris Johnson, who brought the action, said the camp caused "considerable damage" and added that he was "pleased" with the ruling. But Green Party Assembly Member Jenny Jones said the ruling was "at the cost of democracy". She said: "I am disappointed that the mayor's case was successful...
Continued @ BBC News - Boris Johnson defeats Parliament Square peace camp (and nicked from)
US/EU : Evidence of missed opportunities for renewable energy in the 70s yes I am just about old enough to remember stuff like this - although it all got forgotten about in the UK and USA and the "happy go lucky" mediterranean nations (even more stupid given their weather) in the 1980s - even "alternative" types abandoned the green movement / thinking in the 1990s as drugs and technology distracted them..
Not so much in the Scandinavian and Teutonic nations thankfully....
The Oil Drum: Europe | A Road Not Taken: Solar Panels, Jimmy Carter, and Missed Opportunities for Change
Massive Space Storms Forecast… As early as 2013! Scientists have warned that massive space storms could be on the way as the Sun wakes from a ‘deep slumber’. The resulting storms could damage all electronics and totally fuck our planet up (electronic wise that is).
The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Energy & Environment : Massive space storms forecast as early as 2013
What do we all think about this then?
I just hope that by 2013 it doesn't end up like the ending of that film Knowing.
It so then it would suck total monkey balls. :crazy:123
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