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• 7-year-old girl chases armed robber

  Published: August 9, 2007, 1:34 pm

  Tags: Alisha, Armed Robbery, Armedrobbery, Child, Children, Danger, Kids, Mom, Mother, North Carolina, Northcarolina, Police, Reidsville, Robber, Safety, Stealing, Theft

  Filed under: Moms, 6-7 yearsApparently, 7-year-old Alisha works at a convenience store in Reidsville, North Carolina. Well, her mother works there and I guess Alisha was just hanging out when a robber came in. She says this robber had a shirt over his face and began to push buttons on the cash register, trying to open it. Now Alisha knows that

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• Police chase spike-wielding Carlton robber

  Published: August 12, 2007, 7:15 pm

  Tags: Law Crime Justice, Crime, Armed Robbery, Assault, Australia, Vic, Carlton 3053

  A man used metal spikes to threaten a man and a women to hand over cigarettes at Carlton, in Melbourne's inner city, last night.

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• Mixed reactions to AFP ‘humanitarian offensive’

  Published: August 28, 2007, 4:10 am

  Tags: Human Rights, Governance, In The News, Abu Sayyaf, Armed Forces Of The Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Humanitarian Offensive, Karapatan, Mindanao Peaceweavers, Philippines

  in Basilan and Sulu, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has recently created the National Development Command (NDC) — a move that has drawn mixed reactions from human rights workers and peace advocates. The Mindanao PeaceWeavers (MPW) supports the effort as it

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• Military base redefined?

  Published: August 28, 2007, 10:18 pm

  Tags: In The News, Armed Forces Of The Philippines, Focus On The Global South, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Philippines, Us Special Forces, Visiting Forces Agreement Commission

  FACILITIES currently being constructed across Mindanao for American soldiers are not permanent military bases, insists an official of the U.S. Embassy in reaction to a report about the existence of an American base construction unit providing operations support for a group set up by the U.S. Special Forces Command in the south. But the

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• This is what our Prime Minister deserves....

  Published: July 1, 2007, 8:26 am

  Tags: Canada, Denmark, Armed Forces, Arctic Sovereignty, Northwest Passage, Leadership, North Pole, Russia

  Positive, visionary, written by a conservative supporter and it is very welcome! PM Stephen Harper: A leader with vision

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• Gapminder or Making sense of the world by having fun with statistics"

  Published: July 3, 2007, 2:55 am

  Tags: Statistics, Fact Based, Mer Ay, Ted Conference, Gapminder, Armed Violence, Costing, Hans Rosling, Measuring

  worldview in the field of armed violence. In June I attended a workshop organized by the Small Arms Survey in Geneva on measuring and costing armed violence. It occurred to me there that principles and tools, like the ones developed by the Gapminder initiative, could greatly increase understanding of armed violence and of its cost, not least

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• Taijutsu : A ninja's path

  Published: November 15, 2006, 3:35 am

  Tags: Taijutsu, Un Armed Arts, Japan

  whether you're fighting unarmed, with a traditional weapon, or a modern weapon.powered by performancing

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• Philippines : Yaw-Yan

  Published: October 2, 2006, 11:39 pm

  Tags: Philippines, Un Armed Arts

  the Philippines' very own armed art. These punches have continous fluid striking motion quite similar to western boxing but incorporating the art of Arnis. Grappling, ground-fighting, and knife-fighting had always been a part of the Philippines' martial art and are always incorporated during the Yaw-Yan practice period. Yaw-Yan is a

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• Harpers War II

  Published: August 30, 2007, 6:30 am

  Tags: War Monger, Stephen Harper, Canadian Armed Forces, War, Kandahar, Afghanistan

  Over the past year I have been called on the rug by pro war commentators on my blog posts claiming that Canada's 'new' military operations, by the 'new' Canadian Government, in Afghanistan since the 2006 election, are Harpers War. They like to claim this was merely a continuation of previous Liberal Government policy. Yeah Right.This is not a

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• Sounds Like

  Published: August 30, 2007, 6:20 am

  Tags: Canada, Canadian Armed Forces, Hillier, Afghanistan, Harper, Soviet Union, Russia

  A collection of sound bites on Afghanistan....then and now."What will happen if we withdraw now "Soviets in 1980s"Recently one can often hear that we 'betrayed' [our] Afghan friends [by withdrawing from Afghanistan] and that, after the withdrawal of Soviet troops, we are not interested anymore in the fate of Afghanistan." (Sovetskaya

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• Save Our Troops....Jobs

  Published: August 28, 2007, 1:16 pm

  Tags: Canadian Armed Forces, Unemployment, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Labour

  or where-ever Canadian Armed Forces are deployed, even at air shows. And to add insult to injury, if you survive, you can also end up losing your job on your return from active duty.Shame! Shame! Shame! as they say in the House.Of course prior to Harpers War most reservists and recruits viewed the Canadian Armed Forces as a job, either part

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• The Horror of Glorifying Bomber Command

  Published: September 1, 2007, 9:16 am

  Tags: Vets, Wwii, Canadian Armed Forces, Fire Bombing, Dresden, History, Canadian History, Revisionist History, Bomber Harris

  still used today by American Armed forces.Night after night tens of precious bombers and their irreplaceable crews failed to return from missions which only managed to damage a house or two and kill the odd cow, as bombs were almost randomly scattered within a huge area usually somewhere vaguely near the intended target. Depressingly often,

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• Analyzing armed violence: the Taback - Coupland model

  Published: September 5, 2007, 3:24 am

  Tags: Statistics, Small Arms Survey, Mer Ay, Media Reports, Armed Violence, Model, Taback, Coupland

  Coupland, an advisor on armed violence at the International Committee of the Red Cross and former field surgeon, have developed a model that converts media reports into data in order to document and analyze the effects of armed violence.The model is constructed around four parameters, which the researchers assume to be the risk factors

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• Teens arrested over armed robbery

  Published: September 6, 2007, 6:25 pm

  Tags: Law Crime Justice, Crime, Armed Robbery, Australia, Vic, Kooyong 3144

  Three teenage boys are in police custody after a man was robbed at knife-point in Melbourne's east overnight.

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• Arms and Non-State Groups

  Published: September 6, 2007, 3:18 pm

  Tags: Unidir, Non State Armed Groups, Mc Carthy, Terrorism, Biological Weapons, Arms Trade Treaty, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Arms Transfers, Wmd

  into being as a result of armed struggle - i.e. as non-state armed groups rising up against colonial powers or pre-existing States. Obviously, States existing today have a strong interest in maintaining the status-quo by crushing all non-State groups that undermine their sovereignty or threaten their very existence . However, some States

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