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Take this story, for example. . .

[...]In tests, the blind have been able to distinguish basic shapes of objects they cannot see, as well as their orientation and direction of motion. On other occasions a blind person has reported experiencing a "feeling" that an object is present, while not being able to see it.

A number of theories have been proposed to explain "blindsight". Generally, it is suggested that other parts of the brain besides the primary visual cortex respond to nerve messages from the eyes at an unconscious level.

Scientists from the University of Houston in Texas, temporarily blinded a group of 12 volunteers by using an electromagnetic field to shut down the primary visual cortex. Images were then flashed in front of them on a screen[...]

-FL

I'm not under any such illusions. As far as I know, Switzerland is the only country in the world with a system of government that resembles the true definition of democracy.

Parliamentary democracy is not ideal because it forces you to endorse every policy a party has, not just some.* This manifests itself particularly badly when one party has an overall majority in parliament. The first-past-the-post system currently used in Westminster makes this more likely, which is why I oppose it.

When there is no overall majority then things get interesting. In the Scottish Parliament, which uses the Additional Member system, we have a minority government at the moment which cannot pass legislation without the consent of the opposition parties. This means that the whole spectrum of Scottish public opinion can be represented in government.

The problem with trying to make this kind of politics a reality in Westminster is as much the electorate as the system or the politicians. Most people, come a general election, are quite happy to vote an unpopular government out rather than voting their preferred party in. In 1997, the incumbent Tory government was unpopular, so Labour won an outright majority in a landslide vote. Now, the Labour government is unpopular, and it is almost certain now that the Tories will win an outright majority in a landslide vote. Rinse and repeat.

My effort in my above comment was to try and persuade maybe one or two people not to automatically vote Tory due to Labour's unpopularity, otherwise the cycle will repeat itself again (of course, in Scotland we may well be offski in a few years, so it won't matter to us). The current system makes change more difficult, but it doesn't make it impossible.

* A concept Des Browne seems incapable of understanding. He insists erroneously that because unionist parties make up two thirds of the Scottish Parliament, Scots have already voted down independence.

Well CCTV has certainly worked here: http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Couple-spotted-having-sex-in.4056453.jp

You mean this one? Police arrest man removing money from pond?

Anyway, city workers compete mostly with each other for the same kinds of property.

Once they have moved into an area I would agree, but it's when a particular area changes character or price, it is obvious:

School lotteries in Brighton

240,000 Second-home owners targeted in bid to save rural areas from turning into ghost towns

Nottingham's forest of housing despair

But it is in Greater Nottingham "family areas" such as Lenton, Radford, Dunkirk and Beeston where buy-to-let blight has struck the worst. Estate agents turn what would elsewhere be a three-bedroom semi into a "five to six letting room property", and a four-bedroom house is marketed as "seven to eight letting rooms".

"Nothing is sold in the normal way," says Ms Fletcher. "With each student paying around £3,500 a year, landlords can earn about 8.5% on their investments. Even before tax relief, that's substantially more than the cost of borrowing, so they can outbid families. Estate agents have no interest in selling to parents with children. Investors pay more so there is more commission."

City chiefs crack down on buy-to-let

Even if people try and move to the other end of the country, houses in good area of the city are still expensive:

Highland House Prices

For Highland as a whole the median price for a previously owned house by 2006 was £136,000 - an increase of £33,000.

The Scottish figure was £114,000, a £24,000 increase.

Two of the most expensive areas for houses are Inverness Ness-side and Inverness South where median prices are about £140,000 and £160,000.

According to participants posting on various sites there were closer to 1000 people at the London demo at peak times, there were apparently several hundred in Birmingham also, and presumably some in Manchester, Brighton, Plymouth, Hove, York, Eastbourne and Tunbridge Wells, the other known UK scientology bases info though I haven't heard of anything at the actual headquarters in East Grinstead, Sussex.

Either way I'm sure the UK's contribution to protesting against the 'cult of give me all your money' was well over a thousand, probably over 2 so even at conservative estimates I believe Anonymous more than achieved the goal of 9000 worldwide if that is what their goal was.

-FL

On US Interrogation (sadly I cannot find the SF field manual): http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/18779prs20041207.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniques http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/10/torture_as_an_interrogation_te.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1212197,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/washington/16cnd-formica.html http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080305I.shtml http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1227&id=893492006 On the US School of Americas: http://www.soaw.org/ On Secret US Prisons: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1237589,00.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4461470.stm http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/12/19/afghan12319.htm http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/12/19/afghan12319.htm http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/64/22567 Now why is this important? Since the US keeps these prisons in secret locations which are never disclosed, the international red cross is never permitted to inspect them. Therefore, any sort of interrogation and torture technique used is carte blanche.

Konq was the killer app for me, I have to confess I'm a little worried about Dolphin becoming the default file manager. I've not used Dolphin much yet, but it will have to be pretty damn good to match what Konq could do. Will I still be able to have terminal, web and file panes all within the same tab? How about dragging images from a website to my /home within a single window, or middle clicking a file or link to open it in a viewer in a new tab? Konq allowed me to keep the amount of open windows to a minimum. I guess time will tell and I should start playing with Dolphin.

I should note that I bloody hate Dolphins (my ex loved the damn things). They aren't as cute as you think, they smell of fish and have attempted genocide on porpoises and even attack humans. Why is it that every crystal swinging hippie who lives 1000 miles from the sea wants to be a marine biologist? Dolphins!

I can has Molecular Gastronomical Cheezburgr?

Same with the

The new Scottish Parliament building will be designed by a Spanish architect who says his initial inspiration was drawn from the image of upturned boats.

6000 pounds to stop kerb falls

Oldest part of building needs renovation

Same with the

The new Scottish Parliament building will be designed by a Spanish architect who says his initial inspiration was drawn from the image of upturned boats.

6000 pounds to stop kerb falls

Oldest part of building needs renovation

i'm sure the F22 is more advanced than the F15 in areas other than stealth.

And, to the Bush Administration, the Constitution of the United States is little more than toilet paper stained from all the shit that this group of power-mad despots have dumped on the freedoms that "goddamned piece of paper" used to guarantee.

On Friday, President Bush signed legislation that will name a new $110 million, nine-courtroom addition to the federal courthouse in Bryant's honor.

Bryant was known for his dedication to Constitutional law and believed that lawyers could stop injustice.

"Without lawyers, this is just a piece of paper," Bryant said of the Constitution in an interview with The Washington Post last year. "If it weren't for lawyers, I'd still be three-fifths of a man. If it weren't for lawyers, we'd still have signs directing people this way and that, based on the color of their skin."

Same things are happening in Scotland as England. My aunt is a primary school teacher, and she now has sixteen students out of a class of 30 who don't speak English as a first language (Polish, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Japanese).

Our secondary schools also went for the multi-tiered level of basichigh school qualifications. Instead of just one exam (as in 'O' Grades) there is now Foundation, General and Credit levels. Also, marks are awarded through coursework and not just exams.

There is also a policy of closing down primary and secondary schools which have small class rolls, so that the stone buildings can be converted into luxury apartments.

This appears to be the case. This has already been proven false and not accurate, they are using group velocity which is not the same. Read this article to understand better:

http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1295122007

Here's some:

http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/news_detail.cfm?ID=44
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/07 0308-asteroids_2.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13117854.700 -will-we-catch-a-falling-star-there-are-many-aster oids-outthere-in-space-and-the-chances-are-that-so oner-or-later-one-will-head-forearth-but-no-one-kn ows-what-to-do-if-we-find-ourselves-on-collision-c ourse.html
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/fl_side2_020 901.html
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/s2.cfm?id=79899200 2
http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/415367.html
http://www.sciencebits.com/PlanesAndMeteorites

Not sure how your lottery analogy applies. The nasa article sums up your logical fallacy: "The perception of risk from impacts is smaller than for being killed in a plane crash because planes crash at a steady rate with (relatively) few deaths per event, whereas lethal impacts are rare but kill a lot of people. At the very least, the potential consequences of impact are large enough to cause concern."

Explains it all: http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm? id=753652006

Like when someone feels the need to comment about how well Colin Powell speaks. There's an unspoken 'and he's black' that is left hanging for the listener to fill in by themselves.

It's funny how people choose which races to recognize and which ones not. You could've replaced the unspoken with 'and he's Scottish', which is an equally valid statement. But you didn't, and why it seems obvious that you didn't is the heart of the issue.

There's nothing wrong with marketing towards certain kinds of women though. There's been plenty of math and philosophy courses filled with sport metaphors to market to jocks. Why not one build one around fashion? Anything that gets people learning is good, whether or not I'd personally appreciate it.

It could have something to do with how rising temperatures can cause death.

Or it could be related to fears that rising temperatures may cause higher rates of mosquito born illnesses.

There is also evidence pointing to more potent and prevalent poison ivy.

Let's not forget rising rates of asthma, food supply problems, increasing number and severity of natural disasters, mass extinction and global economic collapse.

All of those are related to our health in one way or another--even the extinction of species. Consider it the global equivalent of the canaries in mine shafts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_of_the_World#Ant i-paedophile_campaign

In response to murder of Sarah Payne, the News of the World "named and shamed" scores of people it said were guilty of sex offences against children.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/848759.stm

Representatives from the NSPCC, a children's charity, Nacro, which helps offenders, and Tony Butler, the chief constable of Gloucester, went to tell the paper's chiefs that their actions are counterproductive, and even dangerous.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/862416.stm

They might not *be* Govt. but they act like they choose them :
Be it conservative
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=326 42006
http://www.nmauk.co.uk/nma/uploads/2296/Sun---Wotw onit_hires.jpg

or Labour
http://web.univ-pau.fr/~parsons/sunblair.html

Here's a selection of front pages from the biggest selling paper in the UK.
http://www.nmauk.co.uk/nma/do/live/historicpage?MO DEL_IN_THE_SESSION=2296

Think on before you support them with your MySpace

Like Howard in Australia, Blair in UK, Harper in Canada (where they BROKE UP the conservative party, to replace it with Harper's coup), etc. Sarko is like a Burlesconi for the French. God help us - Burlesconi with nukes.

The project of the Bilderbergers/CFR will continue, with a veneer of Democracy pasted over it, to fool the sheep.

Thanks for fixing the vote in Scotland, too!
The biggest poll debacle in the history of British democracy

Numerous documentaries screened in the UK before now have speculated on this possibility.

A quick web search just now brings up this article from April 2006, which suggests decodings and recordings have existed since 2004.

Q: At what point has/will the EU overstepped its bounds?

A: It can't! If a US company wishes to do business in the EU market then the US company must abide by EU law, just like an EU company has to in a US market (forget for a moment the startling US protectionism, and EU come to that). If the US government is able to force a recently merged European bank (admitedly into a US owned one) to close the bank accounts of citizens of Austria (after having 10 years history with the bank) merely due to the fact they were born in Cuba (now have dual nationality), one has to question US morality in business. http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=5728 22007

I hope Microsoft get dragged through the EU judiciary and come out the other side as a subdued, and much more humble company. If it doesn't, the EU hasn't worked properly in this case. BTW, not only Microsoft, but Apple and its DRM; US and its far-reaching laws (meaning US based business must also adhere to US rules even when doing business outside US soil) need to be quashed...Immediately.

Karem

Because people would consider it an invasion of privacy if they feel they have to notify their credit agency of their movements:

Don't bank on your card abroad

Now, this policy was set up to prevent credit card fraud. Fraudster would work in a petrol station in order to clone cards, which were then used abroad, which in some other cases, have been as far as Africa.

>> if you could only find a credible link about intelligence being hereditary

> Yes, this isn't immediately obvious so we need to raise a monkey and a baby human together and see which grows up to be smarter!

Rather than mimicking adults, the scientists found that young chimps are better at working things out for themselves than children, who will simply copy the actions of their elders. http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1327942004

Everything points to the fact that chimps are on par if not more intelligent, but humans have this vastly more powerful communication which allows us to build on other peoples' ideas far better than simply watching what they do and copying that.

Besides, my experience with mensa people is that high IQ has pretty much nothing to do with conventional wisdom, analytic thinking, scientific mind or other traits I actually value more.

Are you stupid or something? We extradite our own citizens like this. Only in Slashdot could something this ignorant be modded higher.

There's a reason that there are no Jack "Ryanism" cults -- there's no Jack Ryan to start them. Personality cults need a person for everyone to initially cluster around.

The personalities being followed in the case of Christianity seems most likely to be that of the authors; Paul and Mark and Luke, perhaps, or whoever wrote those books. Same as in Hubbard's case, and the authors of the Norse or Greek mythologies.

Though the Christians may think they are following Jesus, the evidence leans towards them simply following a character creation of the biblical authors, probably out of whole cloth (though perhaps just "embroidered", though there is no evidence for that.) There is certainly personality a-plenty to follow. There's just no evidence it came from Christ. Look at the vampire cultists that follow Anne Rice's (and other author's) fiction. Those people love these vampires and they go out of their way to emulate them. Look at the Lecter cults that follow Hannibal Lecter, and again, emulate like crazy (and I didn't pick that word randomly.) These are cases of people following the author's personality, or more fairly, their creativity, as expressed in a character. Yes, people will follow anything. Don't blame me for that. But the evidence is there.

We can do better with warp drive. Dr. Burkhard Heim has already developed the basic theory, and the US Air Force is working on a prototype space ship.

Yeah, it's called 'meth', and Nazi soldiers used it while conducting Blitzkrieg. Not a new development.

My, that is a novel suggestion as to how the techniques of "Blitzkrieg" came into being. I suppose it should have been obvious me--it's well known that their soldiers are "fanatic" or "drug-crazed", while ours are "higly motivated".

Seriously, there's nothing new here. For example, benzedrine and other stimulants were routinely issued to U.S. Air Force pilots to keep them awake during WW II. In fact, the U.S. Air Force still issues amphetamines to its pilots and pressure them to take these "go pills". (For example, take a look at http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id= 1425252002 or http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/a pj/apj97/spr97/cornum.html or http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,57434,00. htmlhere.

It might be interesting to ask whether the pilots who were involved in the disturbingly frequent "friendly fire" incidents during our recent ventures in Afghanistan and Iraq were flying high in more than one sense. But nobody will.

In a 24 hour society, daylight savings is an absolute farce outside of the May->August period when it's possible to have 16 hours of daylight. If there's, say, 14 hours of daylight, then you have 2 hours of darkness in most peoples' days wherever you shift the timezones, and that's only the optimum outcome because millions wake up before daylight and millions stay up after it.

If the government was really interested in "saving energy", it'd clamp down on emissions and fuel efficiency, and promote more effective techniques. Banning incandescent lighting and enforcing energy-saving bulb usage would strip several percent off of electricity demands year round and would cause a whole lot less annoyance than timezone changes. The EU and Australia have already figured this one out.

Mind you, the EuroFighter may greatly outclass an F-15.

Oh, it does.

A Scottish report describes a dogfight of 1 EuroFighter against 2 F-15s. The EuroFighter reduced both F-15s to smoking rubble.

Based on these reports, we can surmise that the EuroFighter substantially outclasses an F-15 but does not quite beat an F-22. However, the cost of one F-22 enables the purchaser to buy 2 EuroFighters. The 2 EuroFighters could demolish the the one F-22.

This is my first mention of Polar bears so whoever else is talking about them it wasn't me.

Here's a few links:

- NCPA report which uses some of their own figures as well as references the WWF report that started it all.

- A article from The Scotsman quoting Canadian expert Mitch Taylor.

- Dr. Taylor's own article from the Toronto Star (The Star link no longer works but this site has the full article)

Other studies disagree.

You also need to be a bit careful with some of Levitt's popular works is that they are written in an easy to read style, but the exact wording of the conclusions matters so some care needs to be taken. I have known people to misunderstand him before, for example many people take to lack of correlation between children being read to and learning to read to mean that there is no correlation between early teaching of reading and learning to read. I have lent my copy of Freakonomics to someone, so I cannot check what it says on the topic of TV and education.

The other problem with Freakonomics is that it does not (again unlike his academic publications) give details of the statistics and methodology. In this case we need to know what measurements are used, at what age, over what period TV viewing was measured etc.

As for computers, I think that they can have both negative and positive effect depending on how they are used, so I am not surprised that there is no correlation.

We do not have a TV, but my daughter does have a PC with software we feel to be beneficial.

Throwing nuclear waste down a 65 metre hole in the ground including fissile material and then being surprised when the cap blows off and showers the area with radioactive waste does not appear to be a responsible use of nuclear power to me. Read up on Dounreay power station in Scotland: http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=12626 82002

Why did Windscale change its name to Sellafield? read up on the history of that plant. Hint: read up on the 1957 Windscale Fire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire

The most interesting project at DARPA is not a cheap imitation of the M-5 computer. The most interesting project is building the first warp engine that can finally enable commercial space travel to Mars -- and planet Vulcan for 1st contact.

Perhaps this is a politically correct "modern linguistics".

There are vast differences between languages. Consider physical predispositions where some, for example, are having hard time to pronounce english wtf - "what a phack" - so some undergo surgery to correct it: http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1150 872003

and what about languages that have feminine, masculine, neuter nouns vs ones that don't, languages that use logograms vs 12 letters of Hawaiian alphabet...

Some languages are harder to learn than others directly because they require more coqnitive power.

6. The late Alan "Fluff" Freeman had trained as an opera singer.
Because it was a non-story? Or did people really care?
7. The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
I'm assuming they knew this when they made it.
9. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
Maybe scientists didn't know this, but tall men have probably known it for a while.
11. An infestation of head lice is called pediculosis.
An infestation of inaccurate headlines is called ridiculosis.
15. Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defence secretary in US history.
I'm guessing someone figured that out three years ago when he surpassed George Marshall as the oldest.
17. Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.
Does that even warrant a comment?
20. Sex workers in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine.
Even assuming "things we forgot" counts as things we didn't know, that brothel was discovered in 1862.
24. One third of all the cod fished in the world is consumed in the UK.
Only 1/3?
28. More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
If you count the crashes that don't involve falling out of the sky. Anyway, the story appeared on CNN in 2005, and the report is from 2000.
32. Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.
This is from 2003..
35. There were no numbers in the very first UK phone directory, only names and addresses. Operators would connect callers.
Someone just finally got around to opening the very first UK phone directory?
37. Pavements are tested using an 80 square metre artificial pavement at a research centre
You mean they test materials now?
41. Some Royal Mail stamps, which of course carry the Queen's image, are printed in Holland.
Insert prior evidence here.
42. Helen Mirren was born Ilyena Lydia Mironov
2004.
48. Allotment plots come in the standard measure of 10 poles
2001
49. When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes
1978
50. There are 60 Acacia Avenues in the UK.
Didn't know, or didn't care to know?

I'll let someone else do the last 50.

Why bother when you're allowed to torture people?

Given enough time, you get these guys to say anything you want.
Why waste all that effort to find the guilty, when you can just pick someone and beat them until they admit their guilt or agree to testify to someone else's guilt?

Why you clever fellow, that is an interesting solution: just manufacture it all with torture. There is a minor problem in that real torture isn't legal. It also has the disadvantage of getting you absolutely no useful information about real terrorists if you are just picking innocent victims to torture to confession, doesn't it? That could be a problem if there really are terrorists in the world, because they will be making plots, blowing up things, and getting away while you are working over some poor innocent bastard you picked up off the street. If there really is a terrorist problem in the world, you are doing worse than nothing about it.

So what if the actual terrorists blow up a few more things, it only confrims that you need even more power to persue them!

Well, until the voters figure out you are a bunch of knobs and put the other party in power. Democracies tend to be rather practical in that way. And when the other party comes into power, your problems are just beginning. If you've been wasting the governments efforts on torturing the innocent, instead of performing real counterterrorist investigations, the terrorists will be likely be worse off as well. See how long you are out of power then.

I'm not necessarily saying that's what happened here, but when you look at the big picture, it sure looks really bad.

Then what the hell did you write this crap for? "Why bother when you're allowed to torture people?"

How about this for an answer: Because there are real terrorists and screwing around is only going to get people killed!

Well, don't worry your pretty head too much. If we don't win, there are some folks, our would be overlords, so to speak, who will straighten out society. We may not care for it so much, but at least the rules will be clear. Torture will definitely be in the new OK list, along with beheading, stoning, amputations, crucifixion, whipping, and all of that. The underpinnings of it, Sharia, is already getting some traction in Britain: Sharia law is spreading as authority wanes. We'll have to see how the whole Londonisan thing works out.

By the way, for your edification, here are a few incidents from the last couple of weeks from all over the world where the good guys won in some fashion (I know some of you are snickering) (Note that I didn't list the ones in which the bad guys won.). What do you think this means for the question of the existence of terrorists?

11 suspected Islamic radicals arrested in Spanish African enclave
Spain arrests Chechen rebel suspect wanted in Russia
Turkey Arrests Suspected Regional Al Qaeda Leader
Turkey arrests 10 with suspected links to al-Qaeda
Pakistan arrests 47 suspected Taliban
13 foreign nationals

one more another

That would be Kenny Richey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Richey

http://www.truthinjustice.org/richey-reversed.htm

http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=409&id=131 1232006

Nah, that's all part of the plan. The plan to insert deceptively cheap laptops in the hands of millions of children not currently in the market for Internet, training, maintenance or other digital services, because they're busy hunting/gathering (sometimes at the dump), or even running from genocidal militias. But once hooked on the PC/Net, they'll even go without food to consume more digital services. And become available as oursource personnel, once India's educated caste saturates and the "developing" world itself needs to outsource to even cheaper labor.

The Earth's "GPP" (Gross Planetary Product) is about $36T:y in impossible accounting (who would buy all of it from all of us?) With about 6B people. That's average annual productivity of about $6K:y. Since the poorer 50% of humans own only 1% of the world's wealth, though income is not quite as inequitable, the OLPC kids' parents probably make less than $600:y, leaving maybe $100:y to spend on each kid, tops. So needing $1000 to spend on a laptop that will last maybe 5 years means those kids will consume twice as much just with the new toy. So naturally they'll start producing more, according to well established capitalist laws of supply and demand.

That is, if the kids don't eat the laptop first.

Not only Northern Belgium, but France, Holland, Germany, and the UK as well:

Around 30 people each year are killed due to World War II ordanance (Digging for Battlefield Relics)

World War II Bomb Explodes on German Motorway

550 lb Aerial bomb disposed using controlled explosion

UK's undersea 'ticking timebombs'

Street evacuated in bomb scare

The write-up is wrong. Now is the time to download ALL the above-mentioned documents, and share them. Let them try to arrest all of us.

I think it is safe to say you missed the essential elements of what happened, so lets recap what we know from the news:

The arrested was Samina Malik, 22, an Asian woman who allegedly was working or had worked at Heathrow airport as a shop assistant. (Could she have been an insider at a juicy target for terrorists?) She has been charged with four offences under the Terrorism Act 2000.

Malik was allegedly associated with Sohail Anjum Qureshi, previously charged as part of the same investigation. How was he nabbed? It is alleged that on 18 October he was plotting to go to Pakistan (well known as home to various terrorist organizations, training camps, and the gateway to Afghanistan)(groups in Pakistan have been tied to a number of attacks planned against the UK) taking with him, among other things:

-Camping equipment
-£9,000 cash
-A night vision scope
-The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook
-Two metal batons
-Combat manuals

It is alleged that was taking terrorist materials to Islamabad..

Investigators then followed the trail from Anjum, back to Malik. Allegedly, she had a number of publications on her computer from what look to be a narrow range of interests:

The al-Qaeda Manual,
The Terrorists Handbook
The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook
How To Win Hand-To-Hand Fighting
The Firearms and RPG Handbook
Dragunov sniper rifle manual
9mm pistol manual
Anti-tank mine manual

(Fascinating reading for a 22 year old woman, isn't it? Do you think her goal was to be the life of the party?)

She was allegedly filling a writing pad full of handwritten notes, which led to one of the charges against her. (Any bets about what those notes were about? Hmmmm... Heathrow... Pakistan... Al Qaeda....)

No doubt there are other aspects of this that we don't know about. As it is, you have to scour several news reports to get this much.

Woman charged in terror investigation
Female terror book suspect in the dock
Airport worker on terror handbook charges is remanded
Woman charged under UK terrorism act
Too many terrorist plots to name, say MI5
Woman charged under anti-terror laws

Now, I very much doubt that she is in trouble simply for having those document in and of themselves. What is likely the case is that it is the combination of what she was doing, involving herself with some sort of terrorist cell, AND having those documents. That is trouble in the same sense that having a crowbar in the garage means you have a crowbar in your garage, whereas having a crowbar in your hands at 3:00 AM in back of somebody's house in the next town over means you have a burglar tool, which will make you subject to heavy penalties.

I doubt that the authorities have much interest in trying to arrest people for simply having those publications. Everything I've seen seems to indicate that their hands are more than full simply trying to cope with the small percentage of people that both have those publications and are trying to use them in attempts to kill large numbers of people. You may also want to keep in mind that the more false signals you generate, the less effective the police will be in tracking down those who are trying to kill you for being, take your pick: an infidel, British

The write-up is wrong. Now is the time to download ALL the above-mentioned documents, and share them. Let them try to arrest all of us.

I think it is safe to say you missed the essential elements of what happened, so lets recap what we know from the news:

The arrested was Samina Malik, 22, an Asian woman who allegedly was working or had worked at Heathrow airport as a shop assistant. (Could she have been an insider at a juicy target for terrorists?) She has been charged with four offences under the Terrorism Act 2000.

Malik was allegedly associated with Sohail Anjum Qureshi, previously charged as part of the same investigation. How was he nabbed? It is alleged that on 18 October he was plotting to go to Pakistan (well known as home to various terrorist organizations, training camps, and the gateway to Afghanistan)(groups in Pakistan have been tied to a number of attacks planned against the UK) taking with him, among other things:

-Camping equipment
-£9,000 cash
-A night vision scope
-The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook
-Two metal batons
-Combat manuals

It is alleged that was taking terrorist materials to Islamabad..

Investigators then followed the trail from Anjum, back to Malik. Allegedly, she had a number of publications on her computer from what look to be a narrow range of interests:

The al-Qaeda Manual,
The Terrorists Handbook
The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook
How To Win Hand-To-Hand Fighting
The Firearms and RPG Handbook
Dragunov sniper rifle manual
9mm pistol manual
Anti-tank mine manual

(Fascinating reading for a 22 year old woman, isn't it? Do you think her goal was to be the life of the party?)

She was allegedly filling a writing pad full of handwritten notes, which led to one of the charges against her. (Any bets about what those notes were about? Hmmmm... Heathrow... Pakistan... Al Qaeda....)

No doubt there are other aspects of this that we don't know about. As it is, you have to scour several news reports to get this much.

Woman charged in terror investigation
Female terror book suspect in the dock
Airport worker on terror handbook charges is remanded
Woman charged under UK terrorism act
Too many terrorist plots to name, say MI5
Woman charged under anti-terror laws

Now, I very much doubt that she is in trouble simply for having those document in and of themselves. What is likely the case is that it is the combination of what she was doing, involving herself with some sort of terrorist cell, AND having those documents. That is trouble in the same sense that having a crowbar in the garage means you have a crowbar in your garage, whereas having a crowbar in your hands at 3:00 AM in back of somebody's house in the next town over means you have a burglar tool, which will make you subject to heavy penalties.

I doubt that the authorities have much interest in trying to arrest people for simply having those publications. Everything I've seen seems to indicate that their hands are more than full simply trying to cope with the small percentage of people that both have those publications and are trying to use them in attempts to kill large numbers of people. You may also want to keep in mind that the more false signals you generate, the less effective the police will be in tracking down those who are trying to kill you for being, take your pick: an infidel, British

The write-up is wrong. Now is the time to download ALL the above-mentioned documents, and share them. Let them try to arrest all of us.

I think it is safe to say you missed the essential elements of what happened, so lets recap what we know from the news:

The arrested was Samina Malik, 22, an Asian woman who allegedly was working or had worked at Heathrow airport as a shop assistant. (Could she have been an insider at a juicy target for terrorists?) She has been charged with four offences under the Terrorism Act 2000.

Malik was allegedly associated with Sohail Anjum Qureshi, previously charged as part of the same investigation. How was he nabbed? It is alleged that on 18 October he was plotting to go to Pakistan (well known as home to various terrorist organizations, training camps, and the gateway to Afghanistan)(groups in Pakistan have been tied to a number of attacks planned against the UK) taking with him, among other things:

-Camping equipment
-£9,000 cash
-A night vision scope
-The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook
-Two metal batons
-Combat manuals

It is alleged that was taking terrorist materials to Islamabad..

Investigators then followed the trail from Anjum, back to Malik. Allegedly, she had a number of publications on her computer from what look to be a narrow range of interests:

The al-Qaeda Manual,
The Terrorists Handbook
The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook
How To Win Hand-To-Hand Fighting
The Firearms and RPG Handbook
Dragunov sniper rifle manual
9mm pistol manual
Anti-tank mine manual

(Fascinating reading for a 22 year old woman, isn't it? Do you think her goal was to be the life of the party?)

She was allegedly filling a writing pad full of handwritten notes, which led to one of the charges against her. (Any bets about what those notes were about? Hmmmm... Heathrow... Pakistan... Al Qaeda....)

No doubt there are other aspects of this that we don't know about. As it is, you have to scour several news reports to get this much.

Woman charged in terror investigation
Female terror book suspect in the dock
Airport worker on terror handbook charges is remanded
Woman charged under UK terrorism act
Too many terrorist plots to name, say MI5
Woman charged under anti-terror laws

Now, I very much doubt that she is in trouble simply for having those document in and of themselves. What is likely the case is that it is the combination of what she was doing, involving herself with some sort of terrorist cell, AND having those documents. That is trouble in the same sense that having a crowbar in the garage means you have a crowbar in your garage, whereas having a crowbar in your hands at 3:00 AM in back of somebody's house in the next town over means you have a burglar tool, which will make you subject to heavy penalties.

I doubt that the authorities have much interest in trying to arrest people for simply having those publications. Everything I've seen seems to indicate that their hands are more than full simply trying to cope with the small percentage of people that both have those publications and are trying to use them in attempts to kill large numbers of people. You may also want to keep in mind that the more false signals you generate, the less effective the police will be in tracking down those who are trying to kill you for being, take your pick: an infidel, British

Given that they have a high quality protein-rich diet and a national health service that is particularly focused on infant care and nutrition, it wouldn't suprise me if the Dutch had the largest average brain size, along with being the tallest nation on Earth...