Monday 30th April 2007: -

• Did MI5 miss the London bomber? - Britain's biggest terrorism trial has just ended with the conviction of men who conspired to build a massive homemade bomb. But with the lifting of reporting restrictions, Panorama reveals the truth about what MI5 really knew about the July 2005 London bombers. The public has never been told the full story about the links between the fertiliser bomb plot, known as Operation Crevice, and two of the 7 July suicide bombers. But was there an opportunity to identify them in advance? Did the security services make a serious mistake and was an opportunity missed? Panorama believes the evidence clearly indicates there was - but that it does not necessarily mean that the attacks could have been prevented.   (COMMENTARY: We aren't expecting anything too 'ground-breaking' from the BBC tonight - not least because we have already broken the ground on this one... we have been on the 7/7 bombings from day one.  Learn how 7/7 was a false flag terror attack, see our 7/7 London bombings archive for more info)

• Rice ignored 9/11 warnings from George Tenet - Former CIA Director George Tenet says he warned then-National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice in the summer of 2001 that "multiple, spectacular attacks" from the al Qaeda terrorist network were imminent and urged a pre-emptive strike on the terrorist network. In an interview aired Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes," Tenet said he told Rice that the United States needed "to consider immediate action inside Afghanistan," where al Qaeda was based before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. "Essentially, the briefing says there are going to be multiple, spectacular attacks against the United States. We believe these attacks are imminent. Mass casualties are likely," he said. But he said Rice delegated his request to subordinates. And Tenet said he never brought the issue up with President Bush, whom he briefed nearly every day on the threats facing the United States, "because the United States government doesn't work that way."

• COVER-UP FEARS GROW WITH DELAYS FOR DIANA INQUEST - The fight for the truth about the death of Princess Diana was hit yesterday by fears of a new Establishment plot to delay the inquests. A highly-placed insider warned that the hearings will not go ahead until next year, 11 years after the death of Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed in a Paris car crash, causing Princes William and Harry further anguish. Legal sources warned that last week’s decision by Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss to quit as coroner will almost certainly prevent the hearing taking place before a jury this year.   (RELATED: See our popular Diana Assassination archive)

• Australia, U.S. behave tyrannically, says ex-PM - Australia's government and close ally the United States behaved in a tyrannical way and for "evil purpose" by jailing militants at Guantanamo Bay, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser said on Monday. Fraser, a conservative and mentor to current Prime Minister John Howard, said Australia seemed to have lost its democratic path under the man who served as his treasurer and centre-right Liberal Party deputy before becoming leader in 1996. In an election year criticism of U.S. influence over political direction in Australia, Fraser said Howard should never have agreed to a citizen and accused Taliban fighter, David Hicks, being locked up for five years at Guantanamo Bay awaiting trial.

• Payments Pioneer Launches Voice Pay - World's First Voice-Verified Payment Processing System: WorldPay Founder Nick Ogden Revolutionises Mobile and Internet Transaction Safety and Security for Consumers and Retailers - Voice Pay, the world's first voice-verified payment processing system, launches today and is set to change the way that mobile and Internet payments are conducted. In a move that will substantially reduce the threat of credit and debit fraud, the Voice Pay system uses the customer's own voice as a means of digitally signing and authorising payments. It incorporates VoiceVault voice biometric authentication technology which is already in use by global banks, insurers and public sector organisations.   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• Britain's first war criminal jailed - The first British soldier ever to be convicted of a war crime was today jailed for a year and dismissed from the army. Corporal Donald Payne brutally mistreated Iraqi hotel worker Baha Mousa, who died of his injuries at the hands of British soldiers, and other civilians held at a detention centre in Basra. He punched and kicked the civilians when they were hooded and handcuffed and conducted what he called "the choir" striking the prisoners in sequence, their groans or shrieks making up the "music".

• Big Brother runs up £350,000 police bill - THE cost of police investigations linked to the reality TV show Big Brother came to about £350,000 over the last six years, it emerged yesterday. A freedom of information request to Hertfordshire Police also revealed that the inquiry into racism allegations in the latest Celebrity Big Brother series cost more than £14,500. In March, police said that no arrests would be made in connection with the racism row. The Crown Prosecution Service decided what occurred was "clearly offensive" but "not criminal".

• Rogue drivers warned: Hat's your lot - Abuse towards lollipop patrol wardens in Oxford has got so bad they could be given special 'camera hats' to film offensive motorists. The suggestion comes after years of harassment of the men and women whose job is to get children safely across busy roads before and after school. Sian Gibbons, the school crossing patrol supervisor for Oxfordshire County Council, said: "We're interested in using the camera hat in an area in Blackbird Leys, where the abuse our lollipop lady receives is particularly bad. We're hoping the cameras could be a way of tackling this problem."

Sunday 29th April 2007: -

• Censorship paper to examine 'terrorist act' classification - Censorship laws could soon be strengthened to ban material advocating so-called 'terrorist acts', with a discussion paper about to be released for public comment. There have been calls for changes to existing laws since a series of DVDs by an Australian-born sheik, calling for the murder of non-believers, was given a PG rating by the Classification Board. The discussion paper proposes the board can refuse to classify films, computer games and publications that advocate so-called 'terrorist acts'.

• Tenet says Cheney had eye on Iraq long before 9/11: In his book, former CIA director says aides to Cheney and Rumsfeld inserted 'crap' into public justifications for war - White House and Pentagon officials, and particularly Vice President Dick Cheney, were determined to attack Iraq from the first days of the Bush administration, long before the Sept. 11 attacks, and repeatedly stretched available intelligence to build support for the war, according to a new book by former CIA director George Tenet. Although Tenet does not question the threat Saddam Hussein posed or the sincerity of administration beliefs, he recounts numerous efforts by aides to Cheney and then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to insert "crap" into public justifications for the war. Tenet also describes an ongoing fear within the intelligence community of the administration's willingness to "mischaracterize complex intelligence information."

• Box of condoms leads to evacuation - Several classrooms at Des Moines Area Community College were evacuated after college officials became nervous about a suspicious package. College officials called police and postal inspectors after the box was delivered Thursday. What they found inside wasn't a bomb — it was a box containing 500 condoms. The package was sent to a teacher of a human sexuality class, and was sent by a person who had been a previous speaker at the class, said Rob Denson, the college's president.

• Four students arrested for heckling FBI director - Police arrested four Harvard University students last night for heckling FBI Director Robert Mueller prior to his speech on the "Balance of National Security and Civil Liberties," witnesses said. Harvard spokesman Joe Wrinn confirmed that four Harvard students were arrested outside the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He could not verify their identities or the circumstances under which they were apprehended.

• Fingerprint is school-lunch ticket: Pine Crest Elementary is testing scanners that eventually could be used in all Seminole schools - Fingers are meal tickets for students zipping through the lunch line at Pine Crest Elementary School in Sanford these days. Technology that uses fingerprints to tell who is buying lunch is being tested at the school. Early indications are the finger scanners that record a digital image are speeding up cafeteria operations, which is the goal.

• Saddam's Biometric Spy Files Re-Used by New Iraqi Democracy - Like any dictator worth the title, Saddam Hussein kept good records on his people -- dossiers that included fingerprints. Now the occupying forces in Iraq have digitized his fingerprint files in order to screen potential recruits for the Iraqi police force using Automated Fingerprint Identification System technology, according to reporter David Axe's post at Aviation Week's ARES blog, cross-posted to Wired's DANGER ROOM. AFIS is a widely used technology to compare one print against a database of prints, and is used by local, state, national and foreign law enforcement agencies.

• Worldwide protests over Darfur 'apathy' - Protests are taking place around the world to demand urgent intervention to end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region. Celebrities such as Bob Geldof and George Clooney are backing the Global Day for Darfur campaign, and have signed a statement accusing the international community of apathy. The UN says some 200,000 people have died since the conflict began four years ago.

• False tales of heroism: Pentagon's lies dishonor service of Lynch, Tillman - It comes down to a question of trust. For the most part, Americans trust the U.S. military. The question is, why doesn't the military trust us? Two incidents in our overseas conflicts, and the Pentagon's spin of each, have us wondering. First came Pfc. Jessica Lynch, the West Virginia soldier rescued from Iraq after she was injured in a 2003 firefight. The story first came out that she went down with guns blazing before she was captured, then heroically rescued. But after she returned home, Lynch was quick to dispel that tale. She didn't fire on the enemy, and was hurt when the truck she was riding in came under attack. Her hospital rescue, in fact, was delayed so that video could be shot and played back home for maximum effect.

• Cop convicted for Taser attack - An Edmonton police officer who zapped a man twice with a Taser after stopping him for jaywalking downtown was convicted of assault with a weapon yesterday. Provincial court Judge Brian Fraser ruled Const. Aubrey Zalaski was not justified and used an "excessive" amount of force when he used his Taser on Paul Cetinski Jr., 35. Court heard Zalaski had spotted Cetinski, the son of a retired city police detective, as he jaywalked downtown. The Taser zapped Cetinski twice in the back, resulting in Cetinski defecating in his pants.

• Pilots spot giant UFOs over Britain - Two UK airline pilots flying in separate aircraft reported seeing a large UFO hovering over the Channel Island of Alderny, in between mainland Britain and France, local newspaper This Is Guernsey has reported. The object was described as being up to a mile wide, with the pilots having spotted it at around the same time, location and altitude 10 miles west of the island and 2,000 feet up. Captain Ray Bowyer of local airline Aurigny, described the UFO. "It was a very sharp, thin yellow object with a green area. It was 2,000ft up and stationary. I thought it was about 10 miles away, although I later realised it was approximately 40 miles from us. At first, I thought it was the size of a [Boeing] 737. But it must have been much bigger because of how far away it was. It could have been as much as a mile wide."

Saturday 28th April 2007: -

• Rosie Hosts First Responders On The View - It was refreshing to see this issue get some prime time attention, but it appears that the fact of the EPA deliberately endangering the 9/11 heroes and then engaging in a cover-up in concert with Condi Rice was not stressed strongly enough, but well done to Rosie for getting this past the Neo-Con gatekeepers at ABC: -

• Growing evidence of power line dangers - Evidence of a link between power lines and childhood leukaemia is growing and some scientists believe the cables can cause other cancers as well as raise the risk of miscarriage. In 2002 a report from the California Department of Health Services concluded there was a possible connection between exposure to electromagnetic fields and higher risk of childhood leukaemia, adult brain cancer, motor neurone disease and miscarriage. All three of the scientists who carried out the study said such fields could cause an increased risk of suicide, while one of them said it seemed to raise the risk of adult leukaemia.

• British video cams can read your lips - LIP READING software could be installed as part of the UK's web-cam surveillance system within three years, according to Wired. The software will look to see if anyone mentions any key phrases when talking to their mates and alert the constabulary. If the lip-reading software picks up someone saying 'atom bomb blah, blah, blah' or the name of a famous terrorist or 'Brazilian electrician', the person saying the phrase could be surrounded by gun-toting coppers in seconds.

• Americans must resist Real ID Act - The Real ID Act was signed by Bush in 2005 after being tacked on to another bill and did not have congressional discussion for an up-or-down vote. These ID cards have to be digital and readable in all 50 states. The United Nations was the force behind this as they asked that all nations conform to their standards and now all passports are embedded with a RFID Chip.

Friday 27th April 2007: -

• London hails contactless taxi payments: Barclaycard and Computer Cab hook up on Wave and Pay service - Barclaycard Business and taxi firm Computer Cab have unveiled what they claim to be the first contactless payment system for taxis. Barclays and Computer Cab will fit a concept taxi with Visa's Wave and Pay technology in order to demonstrate how the taxi company can offer customers a secure and efficient way to pay for low value fares. The companies claim that the contactless system is more convenient as it reduces the need to handle cash.

Thursday 26th April 2007: -

• School toilets 'to be observed' to tackle bullying - School toilet facilities should be unisex and open to observation from teachers to stop them being colonised by bullies, the Government recommended today. Fear of bullying leads some children to refuse to go to the toilet all day, causing bladder problems, while others do not drink to avoid using the loo. New design guidelines from the Department for Education set out to make school toilets safer and more attractive.

• Anger over Church abuse cover-up - Campaigners have called the Church of England's failure to tell police about an ex-choirmaster who sexually abused children "totally irresponsible". Peter Halliday, 61, from Farnborough, Hants, was jailed for 30 months after admitting sex offences from the 1980s. BBC News has learned he admitted the abuse 17 years ago, but left the Church quietly on condition he had no further contact with children. Church officials say they now have "robust" child protection policies.

• ABC Told Rosie Not To Talk About Dead U.S. Troops: O'Donnell censored on The View right from the start - Rosie O'Donnell was ordered by ABC not to talk about U.S. casualty figures on The View and was continually censored and blocked in her attempts to feature prominent members of the 9/11 Truth Movement as guests on the show. O'Donnell had met with 9/11 truth crusader and World Trade Center hero William Rodriguez before she went public with her comments on The View questioning the suspicious collapse of Building 7.

• US Senate votes for Iraq pull-out - The US Senate has voted to approve a bill which requires US troops to be withdrawn from Iraq within 11 months. It follows a vote in the US House of Representatives which makes further funding of the war in Iraq conditional on a timetable for a US troop pullout. The Democrat-sponsored bill will now go before President George Bush, but he has said he will veto it immediately. He says he is committed to the "surge" strategy, under which more US troops are being poured into Baghdad.

• New ID card for kids: Scotiabank provides $20,000 in funding for project - A new identification card for children will speed up the process of finding missing children, the assistant director of the Montreal police department said at the card’s unveiling yesterday morning in Beaconsfield. The new ID card, about the size of a medicare card, features the child’s photo, a fingerprint and other vital statistics for police who might be trying to track down a missing child.

• Blair 'unable to pick up US medal due to poodle claims' - Tony Blair has not picked up his US Congressional Gold Medal of Honour, awarded four years ago, partly because of those who claim he is a poodle to the more powerful US president, according to the British ambassador in Washington. In an interview with the Times Sir David Manning said that should the prime minister pick up his congressional award, those who argue he is the puppy dog of US president George Bush will feel their claims have been proved correct. "For those who are convinced that the prime minister is …some sort of poodle, it does not matter what he does," Sir David told the paper.

• Clinton: US might have to confront Iran - Democratic presidential candidate and New York Senator Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that it might be necessary for America to confront Iran militarily, addressing that possibility more directly than any of the other presidential candidates who spoke this week to the National Jewish Democratic Council. Clinton first said that the US should be engaging directly with Iran to foil any effort to gain nuclear weapons and faulted the Bush administration for "considerably narrowing" the options available to America in countering Iran.

• Are Rove's missing e-mails the smoking guns of the stolen 2004 election? - E-mails being sought from Karl Rove's computers, and recent revelations about critical electronic conflicts of interest, may be the smoking guns of Ohio's stolen 2004 election. A thorough recount of ballots and electronic files. preserved by a federal lawsuit, could tell the tale. The major media has come to focus on a large batch of electronic communications which have disappeared from the server of the Republican National Committee, and from White House advisor Rove's computers. The attention stems from the controversial firing of eight federal prosecutors by Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales.

• Straw rejects calls for inquiry into anti-terror leaks - Jack Straw today rejected opposition demands for a full Whitehall inquiry into claims that officials leaked details of an anti-terror operation to the media before arrests were made. Meanwhile, it emerged that the home secretary, John Reid, had denied earlier this year that officials from his department were involved in the leaks.

• Sick miners lose 'millions' to solicitors - Millions of pounds earmarked to help sick miners has been siphoned off by unscrupulous solicitors, a report has claimed. The £3.4bn compensation scheme was set up to support 760,000 former British Coal workers, many of whom had suffered chronic lung disease and other injuries as a result of working in the pits. Today, Lord Lofthouse, an ex-Labour peer, will show a report to Government which claims solicitors handling the compensation have exploited the scheme.

• Medical students' personal details leaked - An investigation was announced last night after a serious security breach on the website used by medical students applying for junior doctor positions. A Channel 4 news reporter was able to access applicants' confidential details, including their addresses, telephone numbers, criminal convictions, sexual orientation and religion, following a tip-off from a doctor.

• Fascist America, in 10 easy steps: From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all - Last autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand. The leaders of the coup took a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list. In a sense, they did. Within a matter of days, democracy had been closed down: the coup leaders declared martial law, sent armed soldiers into residential areas, took over radio and TV stations, issued restrictions on the press, tightened some limits on travel, and took certain activists into custody.

• Ron Paul: Government Cannot Protect Us - The senseless and horrific killings last week on the campus of Virginia Tech University reinforced an uneasy feeling many Americans experienced after September 11th: namely, that government cannot protect us. No matter how many laws we pass, no matter how many police or federal agents we put on the streets, a determined individual or group still can cause great harm. Perhaps the only good that can come from these terrible killings is a reinforced understanding that we as individuals are responsible for our safety and the safety of our families.

Wednesday 25th April 2007: -

• Blair rejects investigation into anti-terror leaks - The prime minister has joined in the condemnation of people who leak anti-terrorism intelligence to the media. Anti-terror officer Peter Clarke said those responsible were "beneath contempt", giving as an example the recent anti-terror operation in Birmingham where some journalists appeared to be briefed of the police's plans. Tony Blair told MPs today that he agreed with Mr Clarke's disgust and said he would take the "strongest possible action" against anyone found to be leaking information.

• Scientists find Earth-like planet: European astronomers say it orbits in a 'sweet spot' zone where life could exist - European astronomers announced Tuesday that they had discovered the first planet beyond our solar system that orbits in a "sweet spot" zone where life could exist. The planet, about five times as massive as Earth, orbits Gliese 581, a red dwarf star about 20 light-years from our solar system. The team of Swiss, French and Portuguese scientists who found the planet estimate its surface temperature at freezing to 104 degrees Fahrenheit, a range in which water can exist as a liquid.

• Soldier: Army ordered me not to tell truth about Tillman - The last soldier to see Army Ranger Pat Tillman alive, Spc. Bryan O'Neal, told lawmakers that he was warned by superiors not to divulge -- especially to the Tillman family -- that a fellow soldier killed Tillman. O'Neal particularly wanted to tell fellow soldier Kevin Tillman, who was in the convoy traveling behind his brother at the time of the 2004 incident in Afghanistan. "I wanted right off the bat to let the family know what had happened, especially Kevin, because I worked with him in a platoon and I knew that he and the family all needed to know what had happened," O'Neal testified. "I was quite appalled that when I was actually able to speak with Kevin, I was ordered not to tell him."

• Dollar slumps as data points to slowing U.S. growth - The dollar fell on Tuesday to a two-year low against a basket of major currencies after soft data on housing and consumer confidence underscored a trend of slowing U.S. economic growth. Reports on existing-home sales and consumer sentiment both came in lower than expected and pushed the dollar down against the basket for the 10th time in the past 11 sessions. The dollar also dropped closer to a record low against the euro.

Tuesday 24th April 2007: -

• THE LATEST ON THE ED BROWN CASE: Convicted tax evaders due in court Tuesday - A federal judge sentenced a convicted tax evader to 63 months in prison on Tuesday morning and was likely to do the same for her husband in the afternoon. Ed and Elaine Brown skipped the court appearances in favor of remaining holed up in their fortress-like Plainfield home. The Browns say federal tax laws don't exist; prosecutors say their theories are "contrary to common sense." "(Elaine Brown) is an intelligent person ... a person of means," Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Morse said. "She had no excuse for not paying her taxes." Her husband was scheduled to be sentenced in the afternoon. The two were convicted in January of plotting to conceal their income and avoid paying federal income tax. They say they will stay there despite convictions or arrest warrants.

• Coroner in Diana inquiry steps down as sensitivities grow - A senior former judge appointed to lead an inquest into the death of Princess Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi al-Fayed, withdrew from the task Tuesday, dashing all hopes of a detailed British investigation being completed before the 10th anniversary of Diana's death in August this year. Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, who would have come out of retirement to sit as coroner for the inquest, said she had taken her decision to step down after 'a great deal of thought and reflection.' The 73-year-old former top woman judge, who was head of the Family Division at the High Court in London, said she 'lacked the experience' of dealing with an inquest in which a jury was involved.   (RELATED: See our popular Diana Assassination archive)

• IRELAND: Call for ID card to combat underage drinking - A national ID card should be compulsory for everyone over the age of 18, according to a leading alcohol-abuse awareness group. Mature Enjoyment of Alcohol in Society (MEAS) welcomed the launch today of a voluntary new tamper-proof garda age card, but called for the roll-out of a compulsory identification card to combat under-age drinking. The group has also criticised the €10 levy on the card, which it argues will discourage young people from applying.

• Cashless toll tunnel - In a few months time, there will be no fumbling with change for drivers who use the Sydney Harbour Tunnel as it becomes the latest of the city's toll roads to be totally cashless. The New South Wales Government says more than 83 per cent of drivers who currently use the tunnel have E tags and soon motorists who want to pay cash will be forced to use the Harbour Bridge. But there are also plans to make the Bridge a cash free zone. The NRMA says the process of making crossing the harbour with cash not an option, could be accelerated if E tags, which cost about $30, were free.

• If You're a Truther, Go and See Shooter: 9/11, JFK parallel movie is packed with strong anti-government sentiment, feeds into mass awakening cultural zeitgeist - Shooter, starring Mark Wahlberg, is the latest in a burgeoning trend of recent movies that carry a strong anti-government sentiment - the film is both political commentary and a damning expose of how the state stages black-ops in order to achieve political agendas. The film centers around a character called Bob Lee Swagger, played by Mark Wahlberg, a Marine sniper who retires from the military after his friend is killed while fighting in Ethiopia.

• Steven Jones Answers 9/11 Questions About His Research In a Reply to 'Screw Loose Change' - An Open Letter to Dr. Steven Jones by James Bennett, with replies by Steven Jones 

• IN PLACE OF 'AL-QAEDA, READ 'CIA & MI6': Al-Qaeda ‘planning big British attack’ - AL-QAEDA leaders in Iraq are planning the first “large-scale” terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran, according to a leaked intelligence report. Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was planning an attack on “a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki” in an attempt to “shake the Roman throne”, a reference to the West. Another plot could be timed to coincide with Tony Blair stepping down as prime minister, an event described by Al-Qaeda planners as a “change in the head of the company”. The report, produced earlier this month and seen by The Sunday Times, appears to provide evidence that Al-Qaeda is active in Iran and has ambitions far beyond the improvised attacks it has been waging against British and American soldiers in Iraq.

• Teacher whose spy camera showed class misbehaviour faces tribunal - A supply teacher who covertly filmed her pupils swearing, fighting and attempting to access pornography on the internet was misusing her professional position, a tribunal was told yesterday. Angela Mason recorded footage in late 2004 and early 2005 at 18 schools in London and the North of England for Classroom Chaos, a documentary shown on channel Five. She arrived at classrooms with a miniature camera disguised as a button that allowed her to record pupils smashing furniture and making false accusations that teachers had touched them.

• Children under three 'should not watch TV' - Children under three should see no television and it should be severely rationed for older youngsters, an expert told MPs yesterday. Parents should restrict them to a recommended daily allowance, said Dr Aric Sigman. He believes too much watching increases the risk of health and learning problems and said the Government must take action. He also believes there should be no sets in children's bedrooms and new mothers should be warned of the possible effects of too much television.

• Cancer clusters at phone masts - SEVEN clusters of cancer and other serious illnesses have been discovered around mobile phone masts, raising concerns over the technology’s potential impact on health. Studies of the sites show high incidences of cancer, brain haemorrhages and high blood pressure within a radius of 400 yards of mobile phone masts. One of the studies, in Warwickshire, showed a cluster of 31 cancers around a single street. A quarter of the 30 staff at a special school within sight of the 90ft high mast have developed tumours since 2000, while another quarter have suffered significant health problems.

• Brain's clock is key to putting on weight - SCIENTISTS today revealed they have identified the part of the brain which co-ordinates the annual biological clock that affects how we deal with seasonal change. The research from Edinburgh University will help our understanding of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), as well as the working of the metabolic mechanisms that make us put on weight. Light could also be shed on the physiological changes that occur when we fly across time zones into different seasons. Dr Gerald Lincoln, of the university's centre for reproductive biology, said: "Our daily body clock is an amazing system. Most of the cells in the body have their own internal clocks - whether in the liver or the brain - yet they are all co-ordinated and nicely synchronised with the outside world.

Monday 23rd April 2007: -

• John Kerry: Building 7 Was Deliberately Demolished: Massachusetts Senator's conclusion directly contradicts 9/11 official story, multi-billion dollar insurance lawsuit - At a recent speaking engagement in Austin Texas, Senator John Kerry responded to a question about WTC Building 7 by concluding that according to his information, the building was brought down as a result of a controlled demolition, directly contradicting the official line that the structure fell as a result of fire and debris damage. WTC Building 7 was a 47-story building in the WTC complex that collapsed at 5:20pm on September 11. The building had been structurally reinforced and was not hit by a plane yet collapsed in a uniform implosion within its own footprint in a matter of seconds after sustaining relatively light debris and fire damage following the collapse of the twin towers. News networks like BBC and CNN were reporting that the building had collapsed before it fell, indicating that the media were being handed a script of events that had yet to even unfold. Ground zero EMT's, firefighters and police were all told hours in advance to clear a collapse zone for Building 7 as it was going to be "brought down." Questioned on WTC 7 by members of Austin 9/11 Truth Now at a Book People event in Austin Texas, Kerry responded, "I do know that that wall, I remember, was in danger and I think they made the decision based on the danger that it had in destroying other things, that they did it in a controlled fashion."

• Chertoff in Washington Post admits 9/11 truth has gone mainstream - Michael Chertoff: "Since Sept. 11, a conspiracy-minded fringe has claimed that American officials plotted the destruction. But when scholars such as Zbigniew Brzezinski accuse our leaders of falsely depicting or hyping a "war on terror" to promote a "culture of fear," it's clear that historical revisionism has gone mainstream." The rest of the article can be summarized thus: "al-Qaeda... terror network... Osama Bin Laden ... kill Americans... islamist ideologues... al-Qaeda... al-qaeda and the Taliban... Sept. 11... Sept. 11... Islamic extremists' plot... horrific consequences... Sept. 11... al-Qaeda... al-Qaeda trained killers... " I think this has to be seen as a measure of how far the 911truth movement has come. For the head of the department of Orwellian irony department to write this article in an attempt to shore-up the crumbling 9/11 myth shows just and how much the perpetrators fear the truth. The tide has turned. The truth will out. It cannot be stopped. Keep up the pressure.

• Are meds to blame for Cho's rampage?: Experts say psychiatric drugs linked to long list of school shooting sprees - Cho Seung-Hui's murderous rampage – during which he killed 32 students and faculty members at Virginia Tech – is prompting research into gun laws, resident aliens and graphically violent writings. Investigators also may want to check his medicine cabinet, because psychiatric drugs have been linked to hundreds of violent episodes, including most of the school shootings in the last two decades. The New York Times has reported the killer was on a prescription medication, and authorities have said he was confined briefly several years ago for a mental episode. They also have confirmed that the "prescription drugs" found among his effects related to the treatment of psychological problems.

• Airlines push for biometric scans: 'Enhance security while improving the passengers' experience' - A coalition of Canadian airlines and airports is putting pressure on Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon to adopt a biometric travel screening program that would allow passengers to "fast track" through airport security and avoid hassles such as taking off their shoes and coats and removing laptops from their cases before boarding planes. The voluntary program, which is in place at several major U.S. airports, relies on iris and fingerprint scans to identify passengers and quickly move them through airport security.

• Former Russian Pres. Yeltsin dies - Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who dismantled seven decades of totalitarian rule has died, the Kremlin says. Mr Yeltsin, who won two elections as president, had a history of heart trouble. He had a quintuple heart bypass operation following his re-election in 1996. The exact cause of his death, however, was not immediately available. Mr Yeltsin was 76. He became the first president of the Russian Federation from 1991 to 1999, after Mr Gorbachev resigned as Soviet leader in December 1991. Kremlin spokesman Alexander Smirnov confirmed media reports that the former Russian leader had died but refused to give further details.

• Sainsbury's own-brand drinks plan - SAINSBURY'S will remove all artificial colours and flavours from its own-brand soft drinks, it said today. The move will affect some 120 varieties of squash, cordials, mixers and fizzy drinks. Low calorie drinks will contain sucralose - which is made from sugar - instead of the sweetener aspartame. The use of natural ingredients comes in response to customer demand and concerns about the effect of E numbers on young children. Sainsbury's will use fruit and vegetable extracts as colourings and flavourings.

• Teachers want wi-fi risk research - Teachers want an investigation into whether there are any health risks from wireless computer networks in schools. The PAT teachers' union is writing to the education secretary for a clarification on wi-fi safety. "There's a concern the potential health risk of this technology hasn't been investigated fully," says the union's general secretary, Philip Parkin. The Health Protection Agency says "wi-fi devices are of very low power, much lower than mobile phones".

• McAfee: RFID chips exposing users to danger: As use expands, the technology becomes a very tempting target for hackers - The current generation of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is vulnerable to eavesdropping, cloning and forging. That's according to an April security trends report (download PDF) from security software vendor McAfee Inc. The Sage report is issued semiannually by McAfee Avert Labs based on its research into high-tech threats. The report warns that as RFID technology becomes more pervasive, the risk for users increases dramatically. The study notes that the technology is increasingly embedded in clothing, food and health care products and that some companies are even embedding RFID chips into the bodies of employees. Some states have already passed laws to prohibit forced implantation of the chips.

• Breakfast TV show phone-in 'conned millions of viewers' - Millions of viewers who tried to enter a TV breakfast show's premium-rate phone competitions have been conned, a documentary will claim tonight. Some callers and texters to GMTV stood no chance of winning because shortlists of potential winners were finalised "long before" phone lines closed, according to an investigation by BBC's Panorama. The programme claims the amount of money these people spent trying to enter was an estimated £45,000 a day or £10m a year.   (INFORMATION: Panorama will be broadcast tonight on BBC1 at 8.30pm.)

• Scientists want to put hormones in baby food 'to beat obesity' - FEEDING babies a special infant formula containing hunger-suppressing hormones could stop them getting fat later in life, researchers believe. Scientists are currently studying the prospect of adding leptin to baby and children's foods as part of the solution to obesity. They admitted that their work was still in the very early stages, and larger studies were needed. Concerns have also been raised over the repercussions of tampering with babies' brains - essentially programming them not to overeat.

Sunday 22nd April 2007: -

• 'Envirocrime' snoops paid £30,000 just to check your rubbish - A council is paying plain-clothes snoopers £30,000 a year to track down homeowners who put their rubbish out at the wrong time of the week or in the wrong place. The 'envirocrime' officers are employed to enforce environmental regulations and have the power to fine residents who 'offend'. Ealing Council in West London is spending nearly £150,000 on recruiting and employing four new enforcement patrollers to add to its 23-strong team that already monitors 'waste disposal' regulations. The same council attracted controversy last month when it was revealed it had drawn up plans to use hidden CCTV to catch fly-tippers.

• 9/11 First Responders To Be On "The View" This Wednesday, 4/25 - From John Feal: I hope you all get a chance to watch the 9/11 responders on "The View" on ABC @11.00AM this Wednesday the 25th. One of those responders will be Vito Valenti, a 9/11 volunteer, sick with fibrosis of the lungs and needs a double lung transplant. Vito also sits on the board of directors at the FealGood Foundation. I can only hope Rosie and the others do the right thing for these three heroes that day. Please support these brave souls, Bonnie Giebfried, Alex Sanchez and Vito, and the FealGood foundation.   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• 9/11 FIREFIGHTER LUNG AILMENTS ON THE RISE - Twenty-six firefighters who toiled at Ground Zero came down with sarcoidosis, an inflammatory illness that often attacks the lungs, in the five years after 9/11 - a significant increase, a new study has found. The study has angered the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, which complains that the NYPD has refused to acknowledge that 9/11 caused sarcoidosis in cops. Half the firefighter cases were diagnosed in the first year after 9/11 - a rate six times higher than the average for the Bravest in the 15 years before 9/11, according to a paper to be published in CHEST, a medical journal. The results "strongly argue for improved respiratory protection" at future fires, disasters and toxic sites, says the report, whose authors include FDNY top doctors David Prezant and Kerry Kelly. The PBA, which has its own registry of ailing WTC responders, counts 19 cops with sarcoidosis.

• AWOL After 9/11: A Skeptical Press? - There's a simple principle underlying "Buying the War," said television journalist Bill Moyers: Be skeptical. "People should read and watch the news with a raised eyebrow," said Moyers, a writer, executive editor and narrator of the 90-minute documentary about U.S. media coverage of claims and information leading to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. The "phenomenon of terrorism" and the events of Sept. 11, 2001, shaped press coverage, he said. The film notes: "As the administration organized to strike back at the terrorists, there was little tolerance for critical scrutiny from journalists."

• '50% good' rule is bad news for Russian radio - AT THEIR first meeting with journalists since taking over Russia's largest independent radio news network, the managers had startling news. From now on, at least 50 per cent of reports about Russia must be "positive". Journalists working for the Russian News Service were told by the new managers, allies of the Kremlin, that opposition leaders could not be mentioned and the US was to be portrayed as an enemy.

• Venezuela: thousands march in support of freedom of speech - Thousands of Venezuelans from the opposition marched Saturday downtown Caracas in support of the oldest private television station Radio Caracas Televisión, RCTV, which is threatened with removal from the air if the government of President Hugo Chavez does not renew its license next May 27. Waiving Venezuelan flags and placards in support of RCTV marchers called for freedom of speech and democratic rights. Meantime hundreds of Chavez supporters in red caps and T-shirts mounted a rival gathering nearby backing the government`s decision not to renew the license of the station which they accuse of backing a 2002 coup that briefly ousted Chavez. Chavez`s opponents charge that the former paratroop commander has decided not to renew RCTV`s broadcast license when it expires May 27 in an attempt to silence a fierce government critic and also as a warning to other media outlets.

• Texas Senate waves through cell phone wiretapping bill: Harder to buy pre-paid cell phones, easier to bug - A bill extending wiretapping provisions to cell phones and covering a wider range of crimes - including kidnaping, human trafficking and money laundering - has been approved by the Texas Senate. Only murder, drug-related crimes and child pornography investigations are covered by existing lawful interception laws in Texas, AP reports. Wiretaps authorised by the proposed laws could be used to authorise the tracking of suspect's mobile, land line and online activities in multiple locations; unlike current laws which are location specific.

Saturday 21st April 2007: -

• Suits banned over touting of 9/11 air - An appeals court ruling could spell trouble for New Yorkers suing the Environmental Protection Agency and its former chief for saying that sooty lower Manhattan air was safe to breathe after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has declared that then-EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman and other agency officials can't be held constitutionally liable for making rosy declarations about air quality in the days following the World Trade Center's destruction. The opinion, written by the court's chief judge, Dennis Jacobs, said opening EPA workers up to lawsuits for giving out bad information during a crisis could have a catastrophic side effect.

• MORE 'PROBLEM > REACTION > SOLUTION' IN THE WAKE OF THIS WEEKS SHOOTINGS IN THE USA: Smart surveillance could help tighten campus security - Technology certainly could not have stopped the tragic events at Virginia Tech from ever happening, but some developers insist their high-tech creations might have been able to lessen the severity of the tragedy. Take, for example, surveillance cameras that use sophisticated software to spot, on their own, when something's just not right. That technology is being offered by a few companies like NICE Systems, Inc. Company spokesman Ian Ehrenberg said 98.8 percent of all security video is useless, and humans don't need to analyse every second of tape. “Smart technology will look at a scene and determine what is considered normal, dwell or standard. From there, it will identify exceptions that you want to be detected and that will immediately be brought up in real time to make an assessment on,” Ehrenberg said. But just what is an exception?

• Fed breach leaks Social Security numbers - The Social Security numbers of 63,000 people who received Agriculture Department grants have been posted on a government Web site since 1996, but they were taken down last week. Free credit monitoring is being offered to those affected. The security breach was only noticed last week and promptly closed, the Agriculture Department and Census Bureau announced Friday. The Agriculture data that included Social Security numbers were removed from the Web on April 13 and similar data from 32 other agencies were taken down April 17 as a precaution, said Agriculture spokeswoman Terri Teuber.

• Huge Credit Card Chip n Pin Scam linked to Tamil Tigers - Motorists across the UK have fallen victim to a huge oraganised credit card skimming scam, that allegedly aims to fund the activities of the separatist Tamil Tiger group in Sri lanka. The scam operates via customers having their cards skimmed when they pay for petrol using chip n Pin cards. The skimming process copies the card and keeps a copy of the pin entered onto the Chip n Pin terminals. These are then duplicated to a new card and used in small purchases or withdrawals over a period time. According to the Sri Lankan High Commission, Maxwell Keegel, the skimmed information is sent to Tamil Tiger operatives via the significant Tamil expatriate community in the UK, who may have been forced by Tamil Tiger agents to operate the fraud. Some 200 petrol stations are under suspicion out of a total base of some 10,000.

• Venezuelan Crime Blimps Patrol Caracas Air Space With Cameras - Venezuela's capital city will be patrolled by three bullet-proof blimps equipped with video and still-photo cameras to survey and stop crime on the ground. The first of the $1.4 million blimps, launched yesterday to patrol high-crime and central neighborhoods of violence-wracked Caracas, will transmit high resolution images to a central police command post and directly to patrol cars. Caracas Mayor Juan Barreto, whose office installed 3,000 security cameras in crowded city plazas, bus stations and high- theft areas last year, said the increased aerial surveillance will bring ``greater tranquility, quiet, peace and security to Caracas homes.''

• Cameras ‘won’t stop’ cab crime - STRONGER policing and not CCTV is what is needed to hit back at the violence against taxi drivers, according to one cabbies' group. Bill Williams, of Bolton Taxi Drivers Association, said he would hand over his cab to police for a night so they can see the problems first-hand - and make some arrests. Two of the town's other taxi organisations had called for CCTV to be introduced in cabs. But Mr Williams said CCTV would not stop violence committed outside the vehicle. "There's no way on earth CCTV is going to stop someone throwing bricks at you," he said.

Friday 20th April 2007: -

• EU police data-sharing plan draws criticism: Supervisor warns plan lacks safeguards to ensure data protection - Plans by several European Union members states to establish a system for sharing police data have drawn criticism from the region's data-protection watchdog. European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx warns that the proposal, in its current form, still lacks safeguards to ensure sufficient data protection for the public. "The proposal is very open on crucial points," Hustinx said. "We need a framework of common rules before we can move ahead." Under the system, known as the Treaty of Prum after the German town where the accord was signed by seven EU member states in 2005, participating nations allow mutual and automatic access to databases containing DNA and fingerprint records as well as car registration and other personal information. For instance, police can run database searches on suspected individuals and retrieve information within minutes.

• We complain about weather on Earth, but what about Space Weather?: Space weather concerns various environmental conditions that occur in outer space. But, does it affect us on the Earth? - Yes, space weather affects us here on the surface of the Earth. According to the National Academy of Science, “Space weather describes the conditions in space that affect Earth and its technological systems. Our space weather is a consequence of the behavior of the sun, the nature of Earth’s magnetic field, and our location in the solar system.” Space weather deals with weather within planetary atmospheres such as on the planets Mars and Saturn, but also involves radiation and matter within interplanetary space (existing between planets) and sometimes from interstellar space (existing between stars).

• Brown backs off ID card scheme - The momentum whipped up by the government to arm every Briton with an identity card has been setback by an unlikely opponent – the Prime Minister-in-waiting, Gordon Brown. Disclosures obtained by The Times reveal that the chancellor has refused to approve the overall budget for the scheme, thereby leaving the option open to scrap it if he becomes PM. By saying the Home Office can only spend a limited amount to develop it, John Reid, the Home Secretary, will need to seek permission before the issuing of cards can begin. The total price tag for the project, which will exceed the spending limit tabled by the chancellor, is an estimated £5.4billion, with 15% of the costs devoted to IT to run the scheme. Under Section 37 of the Identity Cards Act, the government is required to spell out the programme’s likely cost every six months, over its 10-year life span.

• ADHD drugs concern judge - ATTENTION Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is the most over-diagnosed condition in the community, according to a Wollongong District Court judge. Judge Paul Conlon yesterday questioned whether enough was known about the long-term effects of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) drugs like Ritalin, while issuing his judgment for a 20-year-old man convicted of assault and an indecent act. "I know there are those with the appropriate medical qualifications who are concerned about the effects of these drugs on the mental health of young persons," he said.

Thursday 19th April 2007: -

• Scottish schools set for cashless payments: Scotland to install an extra 3,000 smartcard readers - Scottish councils are to extend their use of smartcards to allow cashless payments in schools, libraries and at leisure facilities. The National Entitlement Card Programme (NECP), funded by the Scottish Executive, began last year when one million pensioners were given smartcards for concessionary travel. Scotland’s 32 councils are now expanding the use of the cards with the introduction of 3,000 smartcard readers over two years, significantly adding to the 1,000 installed so far. Councils are in various stages of implementing smartcard infrastructures, says Sid Bulloch, NECP programme manager. ‘Some councils will be getting kitted out for the first time with this new phase and others are building on the smartcard infrastructure they have, using applications such as cashless catering, registration and controlled access in schools,’ he said. ‘We are always trying to roll out new applications. For example we are considering allowing people to use smartcards to access cultural events.'   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• Cashless zones ... in 30 seconds: Cashless initiatives around the world - In Hong Kong, more than 13 million Octopus smart travelcards have been issued since 1997. The cards can be used to make cashless payments for goods and services at more than 300 locations, including fast-food outlets and parking operators. In Japan, RFID-enabled mobile phones can be used to settle up at restaurants and petrol stations. The scheme is to be extended to include payment for taxis. The phones can also receive a signal from advertising posters and be used to make a purchase immediately. Nottingham University Hospital’s NHS Trust has introduced smartcards that can be used to buy items in its restaurants and staff canteens (Computing, 29 March). The money is automatically deducted from employees’ pre-tax salaries.

• Seung-Hui Cho Was a Mind Controlled Assassin: Deadly accuracy, disturbing revelations suggest outside involvement in VA Massacre, cocktail of brainwashing from prozac, violent video games contributed to carnage - Seung-Hui Cho was a mind-controlled assassin, even aside from clear evidence of influence from outside parties, the fact is that the cultural brainwashing of violent video games and psychotropic drugs directly contributed, as it does in all these cases, to the carnage at Virginia Tech on Monday morning. Gun grabbers are already exploiting the tragedy to disarm future students from the opportunity of being able to defend themselves against deranged killers, but the media circus is completely silent when it comes to the laying blame at the feet of a deadly cocktail of mind-warping drugs and bloodthirsty shoot-em-ups.

• TOTAL PSY-OP!: Virginia gunman sent final video - The student who shot dead at least 30 people at Virginia Tech sent a package to the US TV network NBC News on the day of the shootings, police said. The package contained "disturbing" photographs, video and writings, NBC said, posted from the college campus between the two rounds of killings. Cho Seung-hui is shown pointing guns at the camera, and ranting angrily.

• Tag vulnerable aged, says minister - Elderly people should be "tagged" to enable the authorities to keep tabs on them, a government minister has suggested. Science minister Malcolm Wicks said satellite technology could be used to allow families to monitor frail or elderly relatives, it was reported. According to the Mirror newspaper, Mr Wicks said many families worried about elderly relatives or "what's happening about an 80 or 90-year-old who may have Alzheimer's", and using the technology could let them know their loved one was safe. Mr Wicks said: "Satellites currently monitor the planet in a variety of different ways. "I'm raising this as an issue for discussion. Are there other uses of technology that could benefit society?

• Gregoire signs bill rejecting national ID card: Governor calls it too expensive, threat to privacy - Gov. Chris Gregoire, who is developing a high-tech state driver's license that can serve as a border-crossing document, signed legislation Wednesday rejecting Real ID, a federal identification requirement that would essentially create a national ID card. The legislation is part of a growing rebellion against an expensive federal mandate that the American Civil Liberties Union says would threaten personal privacy. The new state law says Washington will not implement the new Real ID system unless: Uncle Sam foots the bill, the government takes steps to ensure that privacy and data security concerns are addressed, and the system doesn't place unreasonable costs or record-keeping burdens on the average citizen.

• Lawyer outlines a broader conspiracy in search for FBI documents on Oklahoma City bombing - A Utah attorney alleges informants gathering information on Timothy McVeigh or his associates warned the FBI about the plot to bomb the Oklahoma City federal building but the agency took no action to stop the 1995 attack. Jesse Trentadue also says there were others involved in carrying out the bombing besides McVeigh and Terry Nichols, despite investigators' conclusion that they were the only ones responsible for the crime. The allegations are made in a brief filed Monday in a lawsuit by Trentadue, who believes his brother s death in a federal prison was.

Wednesday 18th April 2007: -

• Secret Iraq memo leaked by civil servant - A secret Downing Street memo detailing talks between US President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair was leaked by a civil servant, the Old Bailey has heard. David Keogh passed the memo to a friend, Leo O'Connor, at a local dining club in Northampton. But police were called in when political researcher O'Connor placed it in papers for his boss, Anthony Clarke, Labour MP for Northampton South, to see, the jury was told. David Perry QC, prosecuting, said the reason the memo was leaked was to bring its contents into the public domain. But the record of the April 16, 2004, meeting in Washington was sensitive and was concerned with the US and UK policy towards Iraq.

• 'Families Need Answers' - An investigation will be held into claims that nuclear workers had body parts removed and stored without the knowledge of their families, the Government has confirmed. It is claimed 65 workers at the Sellafield plant in Cumbria in the 1960s and 70s may have had tissue, bones and body parts removed. The investigation will be led by Michael Redfern QC who carried out the inquiry into the Alder Hey children's body parts scandal.

• School row over Al Gore film - Parents who claim that an award-winning film on climate change is inaccurate and politically motivated are threatening a legal challenge over the Government's decision to send it to every secondary school. The film by Al Gore, the former US vice-president, won an Oscar for the best documentary this year and Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary, says he wants teachers to use it to stimulate children into discussing climate change and global warming. But a group of parents in the New Forest say the circulation of the film by the Government amounts to political indoctrination and is in breach of the Education Act 2002. Derek Tipp, their spokesman, has urged Mr Johnson to stop the film being sent out.

• Gunman 'had been in mental unit' - The gunman involved in the deadliest shooting in modern US history had previously been accused of stalking two female students and had been taken to a mental health facility in 2005, but no charges were filed, police said. Cho Seung-hui worried one woman enough with his calls and emails in 2005 that police were called, said police chief Wendell Flinchum. He said the woman refused to press charges and Cho was referred to the Virginia Tech disciplinary system. The case was then outside the scope of the police department, he said.

• Police knew of Virginia killer's troubled history - The gunman who went on a deadly rampage at Virginia Tech had been accused of stalking women students and was taken to a psychiatric hospital in 2005 because of worries he was suicidal, university police said today. The new details added to an already chilling portrait of Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old student from South Korea who massacred 32 people and then took his own life on Monday in the bloodiest shooting spree in modern US history.

• Neo-Cons To Spin VA Massacre As Terrorist Attack: Propaganda junkies may milk "Ismail Ax" to say bloodshed was spurred by militant Islam - Neo-Con media cheerleaders for the Bush administration's war on terror are set to connect killer Cho Seung-Hui with militant Islam as an excuse to propagandize the notion that Monday's VA Tech Massacre was a terrorist attack. Reports state that Seung-Hui wrote two words on his arm in red ink before carrying out the bloodbath - "Ismail Ax." Explanations as to the meaning of the words vary but according to a Chicago Tribune report, "One popular theory spreading across the web comes from a story in the Koran, the holy book of Islam, about Ibrahim and his son, Ismail. This theory picked up speed because many bloggers wondered if the actions at Virginia Tech could be related to terrorism."

• University 'warned about gunman' - A professor who taught a student whose gun rampage at Virginia Tech left 32 people dead says she warned university officials about his behaviour. Lucinda Roy said she became concerned after Cho Seung-hui wrote disturbing pieces for a creative writing class. The 23-year-old South Korean has been described as a loner and an introvert. Virginia's governor has vowed to review authorities' handling of the shootings amid claims that the US university did not do enough to protect students.