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Cornishman said:
Ergot = LSD.

Plus there's no actual proof it had anything to do with the CIA.
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Ergot does not equal LSD.

Ergot is similar chemically can can be used to manufactor LSD. The two are not the same nor are the effects from them.

Although you are right to point out there is no absolute proof it was the CIA (unless i missed some).
 
Evil Clown hired for stalking, threats and a pie in the face
An 'evil' clown who stalks and threatens kids is being hired by parents as a birthday treat.

Dominic Deville stalks young victims for a week, sending chilling texts, making prank phone calls and setting traps in letterboxes.

He posts notes warning children they are being watched, telling them they will be attacked.

But Deville is not an escaped lunatic or some demonic monster.

He is a birthday treat, hired by mum and dad, and the ‘attack’ involves being splatted in the face with a cake.

‘The child feels more and more that it is being pursued,’ said Deville.

‘The clown’s one and only aim is to smash a cake into the face of his victim, when they least expect it, during the course of seven days.’

If the boy or girl manages to avoid the ‘hit’, they are given the cake as a birthday present. Well, that’s alright then.

The frightening fun can be stopped at any time, which is handy for parents who have second thoughts and don’t fancy the cost of child therapy.

Deville said: ‘The clown will never break into a residence or show up at work. ‘It’s all in fun and if, at any point, the kids get scared or their parents are concerned, we stop right there.

‘But most kids absolutely love being scared senseless.’

Deville set up his Evil Clown service in Lucerne, Switzerland, after being inspired by some of his favourite horror films – possibly including Stephen King’s It and Killer Klowns From Outer Space.

The idea is unlikely to be popular with sufferers of coulrophobia – the irrational (irrational?) fear of clowns.

But Stephen Vaughan of Clowns International, said scary clowns could be as funny as their red-nosed counterparts. ‘I think what Dominic is doing is a great idea,’ he added.

‘Bringing a little bit of life and laughter into kids’ lives is what we are all about.’

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/821591-evil-clown-hired-for-stalking-threats-and-a-pie-in-the-face

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This gave me some lulz

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/8157302.Hove_man_suffers_burn_after_vodka_exploded/?ref=mr

An attempt to make a homemade alco-pop left a man with serious burns and cuts.

The man was heating up a bottle of vodka containing Werther’s Originals toffees on his hob when the concoction exploded.

The boiling hot sugary liquid and glass sprayed all over him as the bottle blew up.

The fumes from the alcohol then burst into flames and set the man’s t-shirt on fire.

As he rolled on the floor to try and put the flames out, he suffered multiple cuts from lying on the broken glass.

After being rushed to hospital and receiving treatment for burns and shock he said he felt “lucky.”

He tried to treat his own injuries by running a cold bath to soothe his burnt skin, but after half and hour his body temperature plummeted and he went into shock.

Eventually he was taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, by ambulance and treated for shock.

He was then transferred to the specialist burns unit at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead.

He has now been released form hospital. His burns should heal in the next two to three weeks and is expected to make a full recovery.

Praising the medical staff who took care of him, he said: “I got seen virtually straight away. The staff were so professional, caring and thorough.

“They were so patient in the accident and emergency department despite having to deal with the product of West Street on a Saturday night.

“The nurses and the doctors all worked as a team and they had a terrific working relationship with the Queen Victoria.

“The A and E department was constantly being cleaned while I was there.

“I came away really impressed with the NHS and feeling lucky to live in a country where we have this kind of health service free at the point of delivery.”

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust, which runs the Royal Sussex County did not have anyone available to comment on the case.
 
UK Abandons ID Cards

Britain’s Home Office advised people to no longer apply for ID cards this week, after Labour were ejected from power by the Conservative Liberal Democrat coalition.

“Both Parties that now form the new Government stated in their manifestos that they will cancel Identity Cards and the National Identity Register. We will announce in due course how this will be achieved,” the Identity and Passport Service announced on their website.

“Applications can continue to be made for ID cards but we would advise anyone thinking of applying to wait for further announcements. We will update you with further information as soon as we have it,” they added.

Anti-ID card campaigners No2ID greeted the news of Labour’s defeat with cautious optimism.

“This Parliament has been elected with a mandate to repeal the Identity Cards Act 2006. Implicit in that is a promise not to let any alternative scheme grow up. MPs must also block any Home Office attempt to use 'passport modernisation' to create a de facto national database,” they urged.

“Whatever you voted, please help NO2ID ensure that this mandate is respected,” they said.
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http://m1e.net/c?79585025-Nris0eQ4/4ss2@5325864-8hUnauiZg9nwo
 
Apparently they're going to repeal a shitload of legislation that labour legislated mainly to do with "freedom" there was another word which might have made things clearer but alas I cannot recall what it was, erm civil rights sorta stuff
 
Opium addiction fuels Afghan chaos

A new survey of drug addiction in Afghanistan is expected to show a major rise in drug consumption in the country.

The BBC's Ian Pannell visits northern Afghanistan to survey the damage wrought by opium addiction.

Shasana had just come home from school. It was midday, and she crouched on the floor of her family's mud hut, waiting patiently for her lunch and her opium.

Her small head, cloaked in a bright green scarf, ducked towards the floor. She put a long wooden pipe to her lips and sucked. The far end glowed and bubbled before her head disappeared in a haze of smoke.

At just 10 years old, Shasana is already an opium addict. Her mother is too. In fact, most of the people she knows in this windswept village are.

They all live in a tiny cluster of mud buildings in the middle of the Turkmen desert in Afghanistan's far north.

The land they occupy is as barren as it is wild; too hot in the summer and stranded by mud in the winter.

There are no fields or forests, no rivers or streams, so the men spend the day gathering brushwood while the women go to work on one of Afghanistan's most famous exports: carpets.

But it is back-breaking work and the women complain that they ache all over.

On average, it takes three months of 10-hour days and seven-day weeks to create one of these beautiful rugs, and it is opium that keeps them going.

Three times a day, they stop work to smoke, and for a while the pain eases and the misery of life floats away.

The carpet-weavers give it to their children to treat them when they are sick or to pacify so they can go to work, and so the cycle of addiction starts from birth.

Universal remedy

Opium is a panacea for hundreds of thousands of people in Afghanistan.

In many areas, there are simply no doctors or modern pharmaceuticals available, so the brown, sticky opium is smoked and ingested by men and women, boys and girls - and even babies.

It is used to treat headaches, pains, sickness and the psychological scars of three decades of war and poverty.

The last research on drug addiction in Afghanistan was published five years ago.

A new survey is being finalised now and is expected to show a 50% rise in the number of addicts to about 1.5 million.

In a country of just 30 million, that would mean Afghanistan has the highest relative rate of addiction of any country in the world.

Afghans sit at the wrong end of many league tables: it is one of the poorest countries in the world, also one of the most corrupt and violent, and it sits right at the very top in terms of opium production. More than 90% of opium and heroin originates here.

It is not surprising that the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) leapt on the recent news that a mystery fungus may have destroyed as much of a quarter of the opium-producing poppy harvest, because in absolute terms drug demand reduction and poppy eradication has failed.

While there is evidence of a decline in production in the last two years and some provinces have now been declared "poppy-free", the overall trend for the last 10 years is of a massive increase in opium production and addiction.

Holding back the tide

Those who do work on front-line services are struggling to cope.

A tiny 20-bed clinic in Mazar-i-Sharif is the only facility for tens of thousands of addicts in the north of the country.

The handfuls who are admitted are forced to go "cold turkey" and receive stern lectures from former addicts.

We met three generations of one family on the women's ward: a grandmother, her daughter and grandchildren, including a two-month-old baby boy, all addicted to opium.

The baby's mother, Izat Gul, explained how her children had become addicts.

"When my son was born, he had earache. We couldn't get to a doctor, so I gave him opium to help him get rid of the pain. After my daughter was born, she got stomach aches, and I only had opium to give to her for medicine, so now they're both addicted."

Dr Mobeen helps run the clinic and struggles valiantly to hold back the tide, but with just 20 beds for nearly a 100,000 addicts, he admits it would take 100 years to help them all.

And that assumes it is possible to stop the demand as well as the supply.

B]Fuelling war[/B]

At the same time, in the west of the country, a long convoy of tractors and diggers moved through the lush fields of Shindand District near Herat.

The vivid purple and white flowers mark out the beautiful and deadly poppy. More than 90% of the world's opium and heroin comes from here and the south of the country, in particular Helmand and Kandahar provinces.

The drugs are taxed by the Taliban, the police and corrupt government officials. The smuggling routes bring weapons and the precursors for roadside bombs into the country too.

As the tractors set to work, ploughing up field after field, one farmer tries in vain to halt the work, standing in front of the giant wheels, waving at the driver and trying to force him to stop.

His anger is palpable and unsurprising. This one small field, about 25 metres squared (270 sq ft), represents the entire annual income for his family, and it has just been wiped out.

When this kind of eradication has happened elsewhere in the country, it has turned largely peaceful areas into insurgent strongholds.

The latest plan by the international community is to try and persuade farmers to grow other crops and to go after some of those who really profit from this instead, in particular drug-traffickers.

But it is slow, under-resourced work that has yet to show convincing results.

And until it does, the flow of money for insurgents and corrupt officials will continue, and the number of addicts will rise. Perhaps more than any other single factor, opium fuels the chaos that keeps Afghanistan at war.

Increasingly, people are now moving from opium to heroin. The drugs they smoke and inject fuel crime, corruption and insurgency, the very targets of the international community's war in Afghanistan.

But these addicts are simply not a priority, and it is slowly pulling apart an already fragile nation.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8687734.stm
 
I've always wondered why the governments of the the world don't buy the opium off the farmers? Farmers get paid, less drugs on the streets and the opium can be refined into various pain medications and used in healthcare - everyones a winner...
 
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