Ken Loach – the Flickering Flame

Ken Loach – The Flickering Flame – When Liverpool dockworkers refused to go against their sworn beliefs and cross a picket line, all five hundred were sacked on the spot. On powerful form, Ken Loach reveals the betrayal of these men by the industry they dedicated their lives to. “They’re destroying our culture, generations of culture,” one worker on the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company’s decision to replace the Dockers with casual labour. No right to sick pay or holiday, and men on call.

Once a standout athlete, Palmer man gets 8-year sentence on meth conviction

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But addiction and crime took over his life after he moved to Anchorage in 2010 and, later, to Palmer, federal prosecutors said. Alaska State Troopers found Moen in 2012 carrying more than 13 grams of near-pure meth and a loaded handgun, according to …
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Law enforcement officials bust two major Austin drug rings

Filed under: methamphetamine addiction

And the result is more potent as Mexican “cooks” have refined an old recipe usingphenylacetone, or P2P, an organic compound outlawed in the United States since the early 1980s, said Jane C. Maxwell, a senior research scientist at the Addiction Research …
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