document.write('<ol class="tumblr_posts">\x0a    \x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a            <li class="tumblr_post tumblr_quote_post">\x0a                <div class="tumblr_quote">\x0a                    <span class="tumblr_open_quote">&#147;</span><p>Police forces across the country have been warned to stop using anti-terror laws to question and search innocent photographers after The Independent forced senior officers to admit that the controversial legislation is being widely misused.<br/>\x0aThe strongly worded warning was circulated by the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) last night. In an email sent to the chief constables of England and Wales&#8217;s 43 police forces, officers were advised that Section 44 powers should not be used unnecessarily against photographers. The message says: &#8220;Officers and community support officers are reminded that we should not be stopping and searching people for taking photos. Unnecessarily restricting photography, whether from the casual tourist or professional, is unacceptable.&#8221;</p>\x0a\x0a<p>Chief Constable Andy Trotter, chairman of Acpo&#8217;s media advisory group, took the decision to send the warning after growing criticism of the police&#8217;s treatment of photographers.</p>\x0a\x0a<p>Writing in today&#8217;s Independent, he says: &#8220;Everyone&#8230; has a right to take photographs and film in public places. Taking photographs&#8230; is not normally cause for suspicion and there are no powers prohibiting the taking of photographs, film or digital images in a public place.&#8221;</p><span class="tumblr_close_quote">&#148;</span>\x0a                </div>\x0a                \x0a                \x0a                    <div class="tumblr_source">\x0a                        <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-told-stop-this-abuse-of-terror-law-1834626.html" target="_blank"> Police U-turn on photographers and anti-terror laws - \x09\x09\x09\x09Home News, UK - The Independent</a>\x0a                    </div>\x0a                \x0a            </li>\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a\x0a                        \x0a    \x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a            <li class="tumblr_post tumblr_photo_post">\x0a                <img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku6e0onpDh1qzochco1_400.jpg" alt="As dour and stiff upper-lipped as any of the characters he portrayed in his highly successful film career in the 1940s and 1950s, he was one of the first members of the Parachute Regiment to jump on D-day &ndash; a real-life role he later echoed, albeit at a higher rank, in The Longest Day (1962), the reconstruction of the invasion of Normandy 17 years after the event (another actor posed as Todd himself).\x0aRichard Todd as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, grasping the lead of his dead dog in The Dam Busters Photograph: Allstar//Sportsphoto/Allstar\x0a(via  Richard Todd obituary | \x09\x09\x09\x09Film | \x09\x09\x09\x09The Guardian )" class="tumblr_photo"/>\x0a                \x0a                \x0a                    <div class="tumblr_caption">\x0a                        <p>As dour and stiff upper-lipped as any of the characters he portrayed in his highly successful film career in the 1940s and 1950s, he was one of the first members of the Parachute Regiment to jump on D-day – a real-life role he later echoed, albeit at a higher rank, in The Longest Day (1962), the reconstruction of the invasion of Normandy 17 years after the event (another actor posed as Todd himself).</p>\x0a<p><i>Richard Todd as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, grasping the lead of his dead dog in The Dam Busters Photograph: Allstar//Sportsphoto/Allstar</i></p>\x0a<p>(via <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/dec/04/secondworldwar-margaretthatcher" target="_blank"> Richard Todd obituary | \x09\x09\x09\x09Film | \x09\x09\x09\x09The Guardian </a>)</p>\x0a                    </div>\x0a                \x0a            </li>\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a\x0a                        \x0a    \x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a            <li class="tumblr_post tumblr_photo_post">\x0a                <img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku6dpt97Fh1qzochco1_400.jpg" alt="English Russia&amp;#160;&raquo; 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Did I say oil? It&amp;#8217;s actually a filthy mixture of bitumen, sand, heavy metals and toxic organic chemicals. The tar sands, most of which occur in Alberta, are being extracted by the biggest opencast mining operation on earth. An area the size of England, comprising pristine forests and marshes, will be be dug up &ndash; unless the Canadians can stop this madness. Already it looks like a scene from the end of the world: the strip-miners are creating a churned black hell on an unimaginable scale.\x0aTo extract oil from this mess, it needs to be heated and washed. Three barrels of water are used to process one barrel of oil. The contaminated water is held in vast tailings ponds, some so toxic that the tar companies employ people to scoop dead birds off the surface. Most are unlined. They leak organic poisons, arsenic and mercury into the rivers. The First Nations people living downstream have developed a range of exotic cancers and auto-immune diseases.\x0aPhotograph: Greg Smith/Corbis\x0a(via Canada&amp;#8217;s image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian)" class="tumblr_photo"/>\x0a                \x0a                \x0a                    <div class="tumblr_caption">\x0a                        <p>Canada is developing the world&#8217;s second largest reserve of oil. Did I say oil? It&#8217;s actually a filthy mixture of bitumen, sand, heavy metals and toxic organic chemicals. The tar sands, most of which occur in Alberta, are being extracted by the biggest opencast mining operation on earth. An area the size of England, comprising pristine forests and marshes, will be be dug up – unless the Canadians can stop this madness. Already it looks like a scene from the end of the world: the strip-miners are creating a churned black hell on an unimaginable scale.</p>\x0a<p>To extract oil from this mess, it needs to be heated and washed. Three barrels of water are used to process one barrel of oil. The contaminated water is held in vast <a title="Wikipedia: Tailings" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailings" target="_blank">tailings ponds</a>, some so toxic that the tar companies employ people to scoop dead birds off the surface. Most are unlined. They leak organic poisons, arsenic and mercury into the rivers. The First Nations people living downstream have developed a range of exotic cancers and auto-immune diseases.</p>\x0a<p><i>Photograph: Greg Smith/Corbis</i></p>\x0a<p>(via <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/nov/30/canada-tar-sands-copenhagen-climate-deal" target="_blank">Canada&#8217;s image lies in tatters. 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You were dreaming |\x0d\x0a\x09\x09\x09\x09Comment is free |\x0d\x0a\x09\x09\x09\x09The Guardian\x0d\x0a\x09</a>\x0a                \x0a                \x0a                    <div class="tumblr_description">\x0a                        <p>In the cold light of 2009, Dubai resembles a mystical Oz that was somehow accidentally wished into existence during an insane decade-long drugs bender. Those psychedelic structures, pictured in a fever by the mad and privileged, physically constructed by the poor and exploited, now look downright embarrassing, like a Facebook photo of a drunken mistake, as though someone somewhere is going to wake up and groan, &#8220;Oh my head &#8230; what did I do last night? Huh? I bankrolled a $200bn hotel in the shape of a croissant? I shipped the workers in from India and paid them how little? Oh man! The shame. 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