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FILTER RESULTS ►Important Rob Ford-related annoucement
TORONTO – Shit From Hell, Canada’s best-loved geriatric punk combo, is entering the studo to record a song to raise funds for the purchase of the “Rob Ford smoking something illicit” video. “If it helps to drive that bumbling oaf from office, we deserve the Nobel Prize for the Arts,” said bassist Winkie. Guitarist Ritalin [...]
SAFE: Please, USA, Do the Right Thing
.A comment by SAFE on the return of the rat and rabbit head to China:As long as another alternative to the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property...Show More Summary
Whatever happened to the "Glasgow Fourth"?
The article by Ulph on combating the trade in illicit art and antiquities downloadable from the Trafficking Culture website argues that one of the most important steps which any nation can take to combat the illicit trade is to: ensure that their domestic law provides clear rules in relation to ownership of undiscovered antiquities. Show More Summary
Paris Barbier-Mueller sale: What Steps are being Taken by France to Stop Trade in Dodgy Antiquities?
Paris Barbier-Mueller sale Issues France finally ratified the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. Paris (!) on 1st July 1997 making a series...Show More Summary
Michael Jackson's Disaster Doc BUSTED Smuggling In Counterfeit Botox?!
Oh noes!! Michael Jackson's bankrupt dermatologist Dr. Arnie Klein is back in the news and — surprise, surprise — it's not for rescuing kittens from trees! No, this maligned man of medicine allegedly imported illicit Botox from a shady foreign supplier! The FDA is none to happy, too!! In a statement, they said: "These medications may be counterfeit, contaminated, [...]
Sharp talk on PNG corruption
Sarah Logan is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University. Did you know there is a Moresby street in Cairns? Pundits have long joked that it indicates the importance of illicit PNG money to the Cairns property market, with...Show More Summary
A Hostess Brands World
The closing of Hostess is a moment of some importance in our cultural history. Some in the news try to tell us that General Petraeus’ sex life is more important. Humbug. A person of power having illicit sex is a dog bites man story.Show More Summary
Indian Merchants Are Totally Underestimating The Walmart Threat
Mr Luthra, the shopkeeper in my local market who sells me ancient imported cheese, packets of sliced salami and a variety of other once-scarce western delicacies that he produces like some kind of illicit contraband from a fridge buried...Show More Summary
Fake Antiquities: A Weapon against Illicit Dealers, or a Tool for Them?
The notion that high-quality fakes might ruin the illicit antiquities market, floated by UCLA archaeologist Chip Stanish in an important article, has taken a couple of hits recently. First there was the arrest and conviction of Arnold Peter Weiss for hawking coins he believed were genuine but which turned out to be fakes. Show More Summary
How to be an Apple smuggler in China
Via Reuters: "The latest iPad has officially arrived in China, four months after its U.S. launch. But it was already widely available on the mainland, thanks to illicit imports from Hong Kong." [ more › ]
Problems with Understanding Plain English in the US State Department
.The US State Department in "implementing" the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Cultural Property tells Cyprus to get tough on metal detectorists allegedly pillaging...Show More Summary
Teen Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use and Abuse Examined in Study
A survey of a nationally representative sample of U.S. teenagers suggests that most cases of alcohol and drug abuse have their initial onset at this important period of development, according to a report published in the April issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, a JAMA Network publication.
Teen alcohol and illicit drug use and abuse starts earlier than you might think
A survey of a nationally representative sample of US teenagers suggests that most cases of alcohol and drug abuse have their initial onset at this important period of development. The median age at onset was 14 years old for regular alcohol use or abuse with or without dependence; 14 years old for drug abuse with dependence; and 15 years old for drug abuse without dependence.
"I Will publish no More From You"
.Mr Tompa and I were discussing (in the context of his ever-changeable views on metal detecting) the Convention which is about the "Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property". Show More Summary
iPhone Photography for Perverts [Privacy]
Illicit photography is way up in Japan, and police blame smartphone silencers - apps that hush up the sound of taking a picture. Maybe this spy technology will be America's next big cultural import from Asia. God knows we have enough pervs. More »
Adolescent drinking may be as important a risk factor for criminal activity as illicit drug use
Alcohol use has often been linked to criminal activity on the part of both perpetrators as well as victims. While this relationship has been well documented among adults, fewer studies have explored this relationship among adolescents. Show More Summary
Bring out the Clowns
.The US is considering renewing the bilateral cultural property agreement with Cyprus pursuant to the US being a state party to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property'. Show More Summary
US Import Restrictions Only Apply to Illicitly Exported Items
.The accusation that many coineys with educations gained in US schools have fluff for brains seems to be increasingly confirmed by the flow of whingeing pseudo-justifications emerging from the milieu. Peter Tompa now asks: Do ImportShow More Summary
Belize 6, Bulgaria 1, Dodge City 50
.The governments of Belize and Bulgaria have requested (under article 9 of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Cultural Property) the help of the US in curbing...Show More Summary
US-Greek Bilateral Cultural Property Agreement Signed
. The US State Department has announced the signature of a bilateral cultural property agreement with Greece in the spirit of Article 9 of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Cultural Property. Show More Summary
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