Londoninistan - Police used a Taser on a man seen pointing a knife at his own throat outside British Prime Minister David Cameron's Downing Street residence, police said on Monday.
The 42-year-old man, who had been seething and shouting in the street, failed to respond when challenged by police shortly before 21:00 on Sunday, and was then hit with the electric weapon.
He suffered a minor head injury when he fell and was taken to hospital as a precaution. He was later arrested on suspicion of possession of a knife and affray, and remained in custody on Monday.
The prime minister's apartment and office is at 10 Downing Street, a road now sealed off by high gates at both ends.
The incident came exactly a month to the day since police used a Taser on a man brandishing knives outside Buckingham Palace, the sovereign's official residence.
Nigel Talhat Rehman, 54, was charged with affray [a fight or noisy disturbance] in a public place and possessing a bladed weapon in public.
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*shrug* Nobody is responsible for the misbehaviour of relatives. And anyway, his father's family had nothing at all to do with him until he wandered over as a tourist doing the Roots thing in adulthood. Nor, for the most part, have they had much to do with him since,
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Nor, for the most part, have they had much to do with him since,
Maybe TW, other than the fact Obummer had him as his best man at his wedding. Maybe Obummer threw him under the bus?
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Maybe TW, other than the fact Obummer had him as his best man at his wedding.
I did not remember that, tipper -- I do hate cluttering up my mind with information about the honourable gentleman, useful though it can be. But honestly, I can see him sending for an assortment of relations to bolster his reputation as an exotic international fellow, and then never so much as sending a Christmas card afterward, Although I seem to recall he campaigned for some half-relative in Kenya at one point...
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Despite having been unwell with a stomach bug for several days, the Queen displayed her usual fortitude and dedication by giving up part of her weekend to present a long-service award to a loyal member of her staff on Sunday morning. I feel so royal. Our whole household is down with it.
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I've had it all weekend.
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Should have kept your distance from the downstairs maids Deacon, you must have known they were all down with it.
The performance of a play about the embattled Russian protest group Pussy Riot was interrupted in Moscow when immigration officials approached the Swiss director to demand his travel documents.
Immigration authorities confirmed they had entered the Andrei Sakharov Museum, where the play was being staged, and determined that director Milo Rau was holding a business visa that did not allow for work activity.
The play was later disrupted again when Orthodox activists and Cossacks gathered outside the venue to protest what they claimed was the plays antireligious content.
The play, called The Moscow Trials, portrays the story of last years trial of three Pussy Riot members for hooliganism after staging a protest against Vladimir Putin in Moscows Christ the Savior Cathedral.
[FT] France's Socialist government is considering replacing its stricken 75 per cent top income tax rate on earnings above 1m, with a 65-66 per cent rate on households earning more than 2m. The proposed new rate is working its way through the National Assembly as part of budget measures aimed at redressing France's growing public deficit.
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How's that song go.....................oh yah...."tax the rich, feed the poor, until there are no rich no more"...............
Of course the logical conclussion of that is everybodies poor. But it is so elgantarian
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I think Cheaderhead very appropriately means egalitarian
Egalitarianism (from French égal, meaning "equal")or, rarely, equalitarianismis a trend of thought that favors equality for particular categories of, or for all, living entities.
By the way are guillotines still used in France or have the French Socialist sequestered the engineering plans for the devise while they are in office?
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If the government really treated everyone equally then surely they would all pay exactly the same for the government services!? Regardless of what they earned privately.
[Dawn] The Emergency Operational and Security Guidelines issued by the government for polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccination after the killing of 15 people in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... has ended the role of Unicef in social mobilisation campaigns, officials claimed.
The Unicef, which is supporting the government in polio eradication in the country, had signed a contract with the government of Pakistain and CHIP Training and Consulting (private) Limited under which the former had pledged Rs230 million to create demand for oral polio vaccine (OPV) in the 33 'high risk' districts of the country.
Since last year, the Unicef had created Communication Network (COMNet) by recruiting 1,072 communication officers at the district and union council level on lucrative salaries, but the security guidelines had ended their role.
"There is no role for about 204 COMNet staff recruited in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and 144 in Federally Administered Tribal Areas after the security guidelines. Majority of them received salaries for doing nothing," the officials said.
The COMNet staff doesn't come under the supervision of the health department due to which they don't have any role left for them after the deterioration of security situation.
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