Wednesday, 25. September 2002

Saddam Could Launch a Pop Career In Months


British Prime Minister today released his long-awaited dossier containing alleged evidence that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is just "months away" from launching an international pop career. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Blair said the 50-page report, based on intelligence and Smash Hits inspectors' reports, showed Iraq's instruments of global pop music programme was "active, detailed and growing."

¬> theSchmews

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Geplanten Bankraub verschlafen


Kurioser Einsatz der Gendarmerie-Sondereinheit Cobra gestern in Graz: Die Beamten nahmen einen betrunkenen "fast"-Bankräuber fest. Auffälliger Pkw Einem Passanten war aufgefallen, dass ein in Graz geparktes Auto vorne und hinten unterschiedliche Kennzeichen hatte, und verständigte die Polizei.

¬> ORF ¬> THE GLOBE ¬> REUTERS

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Woman falls for Nigerian scam, steals $2.1m from law firm


The 59-year-old woman received a fax from one Dr. Mbuso Nelson of the Ministry of Mining in Pretoria, South Africa, asking for help in getting a cool $18m transferred to the US. We all know what comes next: the hapless victim set up a bank account, only to be told that certain expenses had to be met. Fuelled by greed and stupidity in equal measure, the woman dutifully wired huge sums to accounts in South Africa and Taiwan. Cue popping champagne corks in expensive Lagos restaurants.

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¬><a href="www.theregister.co.uk"target="_blank"> THE REGISTER

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The seventh World Barrel Rolling Competition


Saturday's race, part of Burton Beer Festival, attracted 37 teams, including Roger Cookson and Malcolm Stafford, of Burton business Crestchic Ltd, pictured in their hula-girl costumes.


¬><a href="www.derbyeveningtelegraph.co.uk "target="_blank"> EVENING TELEGRAPH

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The Partnership For A Drug Free America


isn't an organization I know terribly much about. I don't know if the organization has an office, a 'president,' or if it's just a tagword title tacked onto any specific group's anti-drug credo. What most people have seen from them are an assortment of creative commercial announcements over the years, exposing the evils of drug use.

¬> x-entertainment

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Agents buy heroin but find out it's TNT


Federal agents, working on a tip from an informant, were all set to buy 3 kilos of heroin Thursday at a Town of Evans motel. But when they tested samples to make sure they were getting the real thing, they got a big surprise.

¬> The Buffalo News

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Austrian lingerie poster too racy for New Yorkers


A new advertising poster by Austrian lingerie company Wolford has been banned from Times Square in New York for being too sexy.


¬><a href="www.orange-today.co.uk"target="_blank"> Orange

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A 17-year-old girl who ingested a hallucinogenic weed


commonly found in backwoods throughout the nation was found wandering the streets early Monday.
The girl, who was not identified, said she and a friend ate seeds from jimsonweed, which they found along a road after learning about the plant from the Internet. Her mother said police found her daughter around 4 a.m. wandering the street. "I thought it would be safe because it's natural," the girl said Monday at Cresson Township police offices. "There aren't any chemicals or anything in it."

¬> NEPA News

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There are too many sperm donors in Denmark now


Sperm donor boom is gathering steam in Denmark. Men are lined up to sperm banks. The reasons of such rush was the fact that the largest sperm bank of the country raised the price of one load.

¬> PRAVDA

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Basic Survival Techniques for Incarceration


Above all, you must realize that you'll be a prisoner like all the others, reduced to just a number, and no better than an illiterate Cuban whore or white trailer trash.

¬> Survival Techniques

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The Official Ninja Webpage


Ninjas can kill anyone they want! Ninjas cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this ninja who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the ninja killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a ninja totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window. And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


¬><a href="www.realultimatepower.net"target="_blank"> Ninja

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Tuesday, 24. September 2002

Die Datenschützer läuten wieder einmal die Alarmglocken


Die europäischen Datenschutzkommissare zweifeln offen die "Legitimität und Legalität" des aktuellen Datenspeicherwahns an.

<a href="www.heise.de"target="blank">¬> Hier gehts zur Geschichte

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