The World Health Organisation today released new data showing that while progress has been made, not a single country fully implements all key tobacco control measures, and outlined an approach that governments can adopt to prevent tens of millions of premature deaths by the middle of this century.
In a new report which presents the first comprehensive analysis of global tobacco use and control efforts, WHO finds that only 5% of the world’s population live in countries that fully protect their population with any one of the key measures that reduce smoking rates. The report also reveals that governments around the world collect 500 times more money in tobacco taxes each year than they spend on anti-tobacco efforts. It finds that tobacco taxes, the single most effective strategy, could be significantly increased in nearly all countries, providing a source of sustainable funding to implement and enforce the recommended approach, a package of six policies called MPOWER (see below).
Researchers at Princeton six months ago demonstrated that Diebold machines can be broken into either through copied keys or simple lock picking. After breaking into the machine, a virus can then be inserted which will rig the vote - and due to the lack of a paper trail no evidence is left.
In another impressive feat of stupidity, Diebold have now put images of the keys up on their website, which as shown below can be used to create working keys:
Below are the rules of engagement issued to US forces in Iraq. Of interest are rules about attacks on mosques, the use of mines and how terrorists are targetted.
Also of interest is the statement that, except in self defense, actions with a possibility of harming 30 or more civilians require approval from Defense Secretary Rumsfeld.
Read on for the full text, as published at wikileaks.org
