news stories- guinea pigs, plutoids and pepper spray
VA testing drugs on war veterans
Getting ready for the Democratic National Convention:
Denver stocks up on pepper weapon: City orders guns that fire special plastic balls
Denver had war games this week. Minneapolis had them last week. Denver’s got the Dems this summer, and Minneapolis has the Republicans. But that’s not related at all:
The exercise by special ops troops, supported by Denver police SWAT teams and firefighters, is intended to prepare for a terrorism threat in a “realistic urban environment,” said Lt. Steve Ruh, a spokesman for the U.S. Special Operations Command, headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida.
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Military and police officials dismissed reports that the exercise was preparation for the Democratic National Convention coming to Denver in August.“We have nothing to do with the Democratic National Convention,” said Ruh, noting that similar counterterrorism exercises have been conducted in Manhattan, Los Angeles and Houston.
Things still aren’t going well in Afghanistan:
Taliban apparently prepare for major battle near Kandahar
Strife and discord within the International Astronomical Union:
IAU Snobbery
Hail Eris, etc.
5th human foot washes up on B.C. shore
While the similarities to the other found feet is strong, she said there’s no indication this foot is related to the other cases.
“We’re certainly not discounting the possibility that this may be linked to the other recovered feet, but it’s just too premature and very speculative for us to even entertain that right now,” she said.
