Wednesday 30th April 2008: -

• CCTV car patrols at school gates - A car with a CCTV camera built into a periscope has begun patrolling outside schools amid concerns drivers are putting children at risk. The high-tech camera is being used to deter parents from parking near school gates in Harrow, north-west London, after complaints from headteachers. Leaflets on traffic safety will also be handed out during the week-long trial. Harrow council said anyone caught parking illegally on the car's first visit to a school will not be fined.

• New cameras for lollipop patrols: A council is giving its lollipop men and women a new weapon to fight aggressive drivers - Kirklees Council in West Yorkshire has mounted mini cameras on lollipops, one facing forwards, the other backwards. The pictures can be used as evidence against drivers who hurl abuse or put the children crossing the road at risk.

• Lawyer faces jail for contempt – but is free speech at stake? - THEY gathered in their dozens outside the court building, holding banners in support of the beleaguered lawyer. Their message was simple: "Defend Aamer Anwar", "Defend the freedom of speech". The man in question offered only a wan smile as he walked through the crowd shortly before 10am, his wife by his side. Anwar's appearance outside the Edinburgh court yesterday was in sharp contrast to a September afternoon last year. On that occasion, standing on the steps of the High Court in Glasgow, he spoke with barely concealed rage. The controversial solicitor unleashed a stinging verbal attack on Scotland's justice system. Standing in the full glare nation's media only minutes after his client was convicted of terrorist crimes, he described the verdict a "tragedy for justice" and insisted the prosecution had been "driven by the state".

• Labour stays silent on who faces bin tax until polls are over - Almost two in three homes could be taxed on their rubbish under ministers' targets, according to the Tories. They said the Government was plotting to bring in pay-as-you-throw schemes only after tomorrow's local elections, in case Labour is punished at the polls over the issue. By refusing to reveal which councils will be involved in trials, ministers were keeping voters in the dark, they added.

• US troop deaths push monthly toll to 7-month high in Iraq - The killings of five U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for April up to 49, making it the deadliest month since September. One soldier died when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb. The second died of wounds sustained when he was attacked by small-arms fire, the military said Wednesday. Both incidents occurred Tuesday in northwestern Baghdad. A third soldier died after being struck by a bomb while on a foot patrol early Wednesday in a northern section of the capital, while another roadside bomb killed two American soldiers in southern Baghdad, the military said in separate statements.

• Barclays Bank accused of aiding Robert Mugabe regime: Barclays Bank has been accused of providing "personal banking services" for up to four members of Robert Mugabe's regime who have benefited from the controversial land-grabs from white farmers in Zimbabwe - The Liberal Democrats said yesterday that the alleged support was against the spirit of European Union sanctions, which specifically target prominent members of the Zimbabwe government. The controversy has echoes of the 1980s when Barclays was boycotted by anti-apartheid activists and students for its links with South Africa. Under European Union sanctions imposed in 2002, bank accounts and funds of 131 members of Mr Mugabe's Government were frozen.

• Not kooky to doubt Bush 9/11 story - Letter to the Editor: I was disappointed with your piece on Sen. Karen Johnson's views concerning 9/11. The editorial implies that anyone who investigates the veracity of the Bush government's version of 9/11 is on the same plane as a Jonestown cult member, a distortion to be avoided by any who claim to value intellectual honesty. Unfortunately, without a fair hearing from established press such as The Arizona Republic, what may very well be a sound and factual argument will continue to be vilified as dangerous heresy.

Monday 28th April 2008: -

• COUNCILS USE ANTI-TERROR SPYING LAWS FOR LITTERBUGS AND DOG-FOULING - Local authorities are using anti-terror and anti-crime spying laws to crack down on dog-fouling and litterbugs, a survey today shows, while Plymouth and Devon used the powers 25 times in the last year. Some local authorities across the United Kingdom have used the new Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) more than 100 times in the last 12 months to conduct surveillance. The Press Association contacted 97 councils to find out how they were using the powers, originally designed to combat crime and terrorism.

• British elections 'open to fraud' - PRIME Minister Gordon Brown has been warned that the British electoral system is close to meltdown with both the mayoral and local elections open to large-scale fraud. A damning report prepared by an independent trust claims that reforms to encourage people to vote by widening access to postal voting have increased the risk of fraud. It reveals that electoral registers are in a parlous state, often including voters who are dead, never existed or live somewhere else. In areas of high migration, up to a third of eligible voters are not even registered.

• Only five per cent of Irish understand EU treaty: poll - Most Irish people do not understand the European Union's key Lisbon Reform Treaty which they will vote on in a referendum on June 12, an independent commission said on Monday. A survey carried out for the Referendum Commission this month found that 80 percent said they did not understand the treaty particularly well, or at all. Just five percent said they understood the treaty, while 15 percent said they understood it to some extent. The Referendum Commission has the job of explaining the treaty to voters, promoting awareness that the referendum will take place and persuading people to vote.

• NYPD Officers Killed by 9/11 Illnesses Honored on 'Wall of Heroes' - Eight city cops who succumbed to 9/11 dust-related illnesses will be memorialized on the NYPD's "Wall of Heroes" for officers killed in the line of duty - a poignant nod to their kin, who spent years battling City Hall over how the deaths should be classified. The decision by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to include the names of the fallen officers on the memorial at One Police Plaza will culminate May 7 in an emotional ceremony at which he and Mayor Bloomberg will preside. "We are happy about it, but it's been a long battle," said Joseph Zadroga, whose son, Detective James Zadroga, died in January 2006 from lung disease after spending about 450 hours at Ground Zero. For years, sickened officers and their families sparred with Bloomberg over whether their illnesses were caused by their logging hundreds of hours at the smoking pile of the World Trade Center and at the Fresh Kills landfill.

Sunday 27th April 2008: -

• BBC's Lottery show hit by fresh 'fake' row - The BBC has been embroiled in a new fakery row over its National Lottery quiz show. The controversy concerns the process of choosing contestants to take part in the 1 vs 100 programme. Many viewers have the impression that contestants are picked randomly from members of the studio audience, but it has emerged that BBC producers select players before the show begins. One contestant from the latest series, which began on April 19, has been on six different quiz shows in the past seven years, the Mail on Sunday reported. Dennis Powell, 41, has won more than £20,000 in prize money from shows such as the Weakest Link, Deal Or No Deal and Beg Borrow or Steal.

• Ousted for exposing ‘scam’ of EU chief - A British whistleblower who exposed alleged corruption at a European aid agency faces the sack after he told EU fraud investigators that his boss was involved in the scam. Terry Battersby, 53, from Manchester, has been removed from his job as head of information technology at the Brussels-based Centre for the Development of Enterprise (CDE) and placed on a short-term contract. Battersby uncovered evidence that the agency’s former director, Hamed Sow, who is now the energy minister of the west African country of Mali, approved the award of lucrative European Union contracts to a company in which he had a financial interest.

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Saturday 26th April 2008: -

• Britons to have prints taken in US airports - More than four million British tourists face being fingerprinted when they leave the United States, under plans drawn up by the American government. The Department of Homeland Security wants to tighten checks on foreigners going in and out of the country. It has asked airlines to carry out the exit fingerprint checks on its behalf, prompting fears of lengthy delays at American airports for Britons.

• Syrian envoy says CIA fabricated evidence - Syria's ambassador to the United States said Friday that the CIA fabricated pictures allegedly taken inside a secret Syrian nuclear reactor and predicted that in the coming weeks the U.S. story about the site would "implode from within." "The photos presented to me yesterday were ludicrous, laughable," Ambassador Imad Moustapha told reporters at his Washington residence.

Wednesday 23rd April 2008: -

• 9/11: The Lack of Foundation Damage at the Pentagon is Irreconcilable with the Official Reports and Data - The lack of foundation damage at the Pentagon is irreconcilable with the official reports and is strong physical evidence contradicting the 9/11 official story. The ASCE Building Performance Report has meticulously documented the damage to the building and has come to the conclusion that all damage from the alleged plane impact was limited to the bottom two floors, but primarily below the 2nd floor slab so that 90 tons of jumbo jet would have slid on it's belly across the 1st floor slab all the way through the C-ring.

• About time we binned Britain's mini Hitlers - The other week a friend of mine broke the law. She and her partner found themselves in a lock-in at a local restaurant. Pulling out a pack of cigarettes, the owner decreed his establishment a smoking zone and the entire room lit up. Normally my friend would have relished this mini-rebellion. Instead, she sat frozen with fear, expecting a crack team of smoke police to break down the door and arrest the lot of them. "I suddenly knew what it felt like to live in a totalitarian state," she said. We all do. Britain, we're reminded daily, is teetering on the brink of recession with an economy in freefall. Worrying, yes.

• Taser victim was already in handcuffs - A 100 Mile House man testified that he suffered minor injuries after he was zapped by a high-voltage Taser gun by an on-duty RCMP officer called to a disturbance outside a local lounge. Kevin Campbell said he was already handcuffed when Cpl. Dan Cameron, who is charged with assault with a weapon, used the Taser on him.

• Alberta man's family seeks answers into Taser death - The family of an Alberta man who died after being hit by an RCMP Taser in Red Deer almost two years ago hopes a fatality inquiry that begins Wednesday will reveal the answers they've been looking for. "We want to know why a 28-year-old man that is completely strong ends up dying," Surya Doan said in an exclusive interview with CBC News and the Canadian Press. "If it wasn't the Taser, what was it?" Doan and her family believe RCMP officers used excessive force to subdue her brother, Jason, a pipeline worker, on Aug. 10, 2006, in a park in the central Alberta city. Internal RCMP reports obtained by the two media outlets offer some details of what happened that day.

• Miami U. grad critical, shot with Taser by Oxford police - A 2002 Benedictine High School graduate remains in critical condition in a Cincinnati hospital for injuries suffered when Oxford police used a Taser on him after a bar scuffle early Saturday. Kevin Piskura, 24, who grew up in Walton Hills but now lives in Chicago, was in Oxford with a friend before the incident at the Brick Street Bar. Piskura graduated from Miami University in 2006.

Tuesday 22nd April 2008: -

• UK: CRIMINAL RECORD FOR OVER FILLING WHEELIE BIN - A YOUNG father-of-three has been prosecuted by his local council for overfilling his wheelie bin by four inches. Gareth Corkhill, 26, was stunned when he received a fine for £110 from Copeland Borough Council for overfilling his wheelie bin, which had its lid raised by four inches. Mr Corkhill of Whitehaven refused to pay the fine and was taken to court where he was ordered to pay an extra £100 in prosecution costs and a £15 court surcharge. He said: “My bin lid was only open four inches. I was in shock when I found about the fine. I couldn’t believe they would do that.

• Food Rationing Begins in America - Food shortages and rationing has been a third-world problem as of late, but recently, the phenomenon once thought unthinkable in the United States could start happening. The New York Sun newspaper is reporting that major retailers on both coasts are limiting customers’ purchases of flour, rice and cooking oil. The Sun reports that a Costco Warehouse in California ran out of rice, frustrating shoppers. “Where’s the rice?” an engineer from Palo Alto, Calif., Yajun Liu, said. “You should be able to buy something like rice. This is ridiculous.” The rice that is left is selling at near one dollar a pound, and in some areas, customers report paying about $30 for a 25-pound bag. Most Costco members were only allowed to buy only one bag. One clerk reportedly dropped two sacks back on the stack after taking them from a customer who tried to buy more than the one bag limit.

• U.S. environment head not liable for 9/11 assurances - The former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cannot be held liable for assurances she gave about air safety following the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. Christine Todd Whitman led the agency at the time of the attacks and was sued by people who lived and worked in lower Manhattan who accused her of statements that "falsely represented ... that the air in and around lower Manhattan was safe to breathe." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found that Whitman was faced with conflicting information about dangers posed by the dust and that she had passed on assurances that came from the White House.

• We Are Change To Release Assault Videos - After months of tolerating verbal and physical abuse from a fringe group of emotionally unstable "no-planers" at ground zero, Luke Rudkowski and We Are Change have had enough, and are set to release video showing the assaults and attempts to smear We Are Change as being complicit in the Times Square recruitment center bombing. While We Are Change were busy confronting people intimately involved in the 9/11 cover-up like Rudy Giuliani and raising money for the first responders, police, firemen and other heroes of that fateful day, fringe nutcases who advocate discredited and divisive non-issues did little other than harass and abuse Luke Rudkowski and his fellow We Are Change members in New York. The harassment came to a head when the ringleader of the fringe gang, Nico Haupt, gatecrashed a We Are Change ground zero vigil with a huge sign that read "We Did The Time Square Bombing," in a crass attempt to smear the activist group as terrorists. For weeks, the police completely ignored Haupt despite his brazen attempt to incite hostility.

• Origin Of China's 2008 Olympics Logo?

• Disney launching unit to make environmental films - The Walt Disney Co. says it will launch a new film production unit called Disneynature to produce documentary films about the environment. CEO Robert Iger said Monday the unit marks a return to the Disney tradition of making nature films. The first of seven planned films will be "Earth," set for release on April 22, 2009, which is Earth Day.

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UPDATE...

• FACEBOOK GROUP: Common Purpose International Community - Go figure, Common Purpose are also on Facebook, using the 'trendy' online platform to promote a further collaboration between CP graduates, so that they can network and basically expand the New World Order operation worldwide politically, socially, economically, academically (the whole grid) like any other Secret Society (i.e. with something to hide) would!: -

The description of the group states...

"We’re looking for help from Common Purpose graduates who have an interest in finding and joining forces with other interesting and unfamiliar people all over the world, who’ve been through a Common Purpose programme..."

The keyword, 'programme' is correct!  But try to join and you might be blocked by one of the administrators, as the Facebook group is only open to graduates of Common Purpose (try though!).

(RELATED: Want to know more about Common Purpose?  See our archive here.)

Sunday 20th April 2008: -

• State to snoop on your sex life with probing questions about promiscuity and contraception - Government inspectors are to pry into the intimate details of more than 500,000 people a year, asking a series of probing questions about their sex lives and earnings. Snooping officials will want to know about previous sexual partners, contraception, and how long couples lived together before marriage. The 2,000-question survey from the Office for National Statistics will raise major concerns about privacy – especially as the data will be logged with the respondents' names and addresses.

• Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand - In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure. The administration’s communications experts responded swiftly. Early one Friday morning, they put a group of retired military officers on one of the jets normally used by Vice President Dick Cheney and flew them to Cuba for a carefully orchestrated tour of Guantánamo.

• Omar Bin Laden: Did They Make a “Copy” of My Father? - On April 17, the son of Osama bin Laden appeared on Belgian Public Television. He said “they” made a “copy of my father and they say he says this and he says that.” No word on who Osama’s son thinks “they” are. But that is simple enough if we do a bit of history reading. It was the CIA, in cahoots with Pakistan’s ISI. In fact, after Osama died of complications associated with diabetes (see Health & Medical History of Osama bin Laden), the CIA made several “copies” of the supposed terrorist, the former “freedom fighter” against the Soviets, and paraded these on television and the internet. We were subjected to the Fat Osama and then the Grecian Formula Osama and these “copies” were poor reproductions of the original, although a lot of people didn’t seem to notice.

• World's smallest transistor is the size of a molecule - Scientists have created the world's smallest transistor, one little bigger than a single molecule. The feat marks a milestone in efforts to lay the foundations of the next generation of computers when conventional silicon based microchip technology runs out of steam. A team in Manchester last year announced that it had created transistors that measured 50 atoms across. Now they have slashed the size of the transistors to just 10 atoms, marking the first true electronic nanocomponent, where a nanometre is one billionth of a metre, and a single human hair is 100,000 nanometres across. The University of Manchester team led by Prof Andre Geim has been fashioning the transistors from the world's thinnest material, called graphene, consisting of carbon atoms a single layer thick, arranged in a hexagonal pattern like that seen in chicken wire.

• Child Protective Services took a necessary risk in seizing FLDS kids - The state of Texas took a big risk when it removed more than 400 kids from the polygamous separatist compound in West Texas, and even more when the decision was made to isolate the older children from their mothers. It risked a crushing burden on its own perennially strained Child Protective Services apparatus. It risked a chaotic and protracted court fight. It risked a tornadic storm of criticism – one Texas-based advocate for parents of children in the child-welfare system, incredibly, was quoted by ABC News as likening the state’s actions to "the Nazis and how the parents and children were divided on the train platforms."

• Sweetener poses serious health risks - Aspartame poisoning is becoming an increased risk for Americans today. New information on the dangers of the low-calorie sweetener is released often, but associations funded by Mansanto, the creator of aspartame, make it almost impossible for any negative information to leak through to the public. One major discovery connects the mystery of the Desert Storm health problems with this hazardous chemical of today. At the end of Desert Storm many troops came home very ill; it is now said that more than 60 of these cases can be directly related to the consumption of an aspartame product.

Thursday 17th April 2008: -

• EU ready to give U.S some access to police data - The European Union executive signaled on Thursday the bloc could give the United States limited access to its police databases in a bid to resolve a long-running visa row with Washington. The offer, likely to stir up European concerns about data privacy, would be an attempt to get all 27 EU member states into the U.S. visa-free system. But it would apply only if the EU received similar data from Washington, a senior EU official said.

• UK Householders fury over 'Big Brother' council plan to enter 2,000 properties for 'statistical survey' - A Town Hall scheme to 'inspect' the inside and outside of thousands of private homes was condemned yesterday as a 'tax raising snooper's charter'. Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council has written to 2,000 homeowners asking permission to enter properties to assess the condition of homes as part of a general 'statistical survey.' But suspicious residents believe the 'inspections' represent the latest intrusion of privacy in an increasingly 'Big Brother' state and could be a method to raise council tax bands. Nationwide, officials have already been condemned for putting microchips in wheelie bins to monitor family rubbish and boosting the number of traffic cameras to raise revenue. One council even recently used laws intended for anti-terrorist surveillance to spy on a family who were wrongly accused of lying on a school application form.

• Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel - The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv on Wednesday reported that Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan university that the September 11, 2001 terror attacks had been beneficial for Israel. "We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq," Ma'ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events "swung American public opinion in our favor." Netanyahu reportedly made the comments during a conference at Bar-Ilan University on the division of Jerusalem as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians.

• "Bond Girl" Comes Out for 9/11 Truth - Lana Wood, actress/activist, recently not only came public on 9/11 truth, but helped create a very creative youtube video that can reach many. Spread it widely, let’s get it up on the youtube rankings - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8hY41o4g58 - It’s a great video because it starts off in a very “youtube-ey quirky” play on her roll as Plenty O’Toole in “Diamonds are Forever,” but THEN very quickly delves into the seriousness of the 9/11 issue, and Lana’s impassioned plea for all of us to get educated on 9/11, and do all we can to launch the first Week of Truth campaign occurring April 16 to 22nd.   (YOUTUBE LINK: Click here /// RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• Ahmadinejad's Bumbling 9/11 Comments Please Neo-Cons: Iranian President does not represent the truth movement, obsession with his idiocy only proves debunkers are frightened to take on real experts - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's bumbling comments about 9/11, in which he crudely questioned the official story by referring to the death toll, play right into the establishment media and the Neo-Cons' hands and give them an ample opportunity to debunk the entire truth movement - don't think for a minute they won't seize the chance. "Four or five years ago a suspect event took place in New York," President Ahmadinejad said. "A building collapsed and they said 3,000 people had been killed but never published their names," he said in a speech in the holy city of Qom.

• UK Church leader backs Lisbon Treaty - The Bishop of Chichester used his maiden speech in the House of Lords to back the ratification of the controversial Lisbon Treaty. Debate on the European Union (Amendment) Bill is expected to centre on whether a referendum should be held. All three main political parties had promised a referendum on the European Union constitution which preceded the current treaty, but the Government says the Lisbon treaty is not a constitution so a referendum is not needed.

• New security camera can 'see' through clothes - New technology that can "see" through clothing and detect what's underneath can now be used to scan crowds, making it a potentially effective tool to prevent terrorist attacks in public places. The ThruVision T5000 camera picks up Terahertz rays, or T-rays, which are naturally emitted by all objects and can pass through fabric or even walls. The camera can then image metallic and non-metallic objects hidden under clothing on still or moving subjects without revealing any body detail, according to its British manufacturer, ThruVision Limited.

• "Offensive" Gay Blood Donation Ban Could Be Overturned Despite Aids Risk: Homosexual lobbyists decry "homophobic" law, say right to give blood more important than 50% increase in HIV infections it would create - Homosexual rights activists are trying to get a ban overturned on accepting blood donations from gay and bisexual men in the UK because it is "offensive," despite the fact that such a change would increase the risk of HIV infection by 50%, in the latest example of political correctness lunacy that is endangering society. "Rob McDowall, a campaigner on gay rights, has branded current blood-transfusion policy "homophobic" for not accepting blood from men who have had homosexual relationships," reports the Scotsman. "This outdated, homophobic and offensive rule must be changed to allow gay and bisexual people to give the gift of life," added McDowall. But there's a very good reason that gay and bisexual men are banned from donating blood in the UK, and it relates to basic public safety. According to the latest figures held by the Office of National Statistics for HIV, nearly 50 percent of new HIV cases between 1996 and 2005 involved gay and bisexual men, even though they statistically represent just 5-10 per cent of the population (other estimates say 3 percent).

Tuesday 15th April 2008: -

• Child DNA is added to ‘Big Brother’ database - Details of nearly 2,000 children across Greater Manchester were added to the DNA database in only three months, shock new figures reveal. Youngsters aged 10 to 17 accounted for around one in four new additions to the database, according to records released in Parliament. The figures, obtained by the Liberal Democrats, suggest the number of children having DNA stored as a percentage of the entire samples was above the national average. Records of 1,075 children under 16 were placed on the system - that’s 14.9 per cent - compared with the national average of 12.1 per cent. In addition, 860 samples from 16 to 18-year-olds were added.

• DNA man’s answer over civil liberties - THE scientist who launched DNA fingerprinting, Sir Alec Jeffreys, is coming to Huddersfield. And Sir Alec is expected to air his controversial views on the future of genetic fingerprinting. He will give a free public lecture at Huddersfield University on Wednesday. The event is in the Canalside West Lecture Theatre. Sir Alec will share his controversial views on the subject of DNA databases with the public, and invites them to question him about the future implications of storing sensitive information about everyone in the country. Sir Alec first made his world-changing discovery by separating strands of DNA into different sizes and showing them as bands on a photograph. What first seemed to him to be ‘a complicated mess’ has now become invaluable for police investigation, ranging from settling immigration and paternity disputes to solving rape and murder cases. Genetic fingerprinting uses a part of our DNA that varies a great deal between individuals, called ‘microsatellites’. Each DNA fingerprint is unique, and can be produced from the smallest samples – a single hair or just a few skin cells. The UK currently stores DNA information – called ‘profiles’ – from 4 million people on a database. Samples are taken from anyone arrested for a wide range of ‘recordable’ offences, and their DNA profiles kept and stored – even if the person is not convicted.

• Bush Warns of Another 9/11 - The perverse and perilous paradox of this presidency is that the more Bush and Cheney fail, the more they succeed. Bush parlayed his criminal failure to protect and come to the rescue of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast due to Hurricane Katrina into getting Congress to pass in September 2007 the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007. The Warner Act abrogates the Posse Comitatus Act (the Civil War law that prohibits the use of federal troops in domestic affairs) and gives the President the power to declare, on his own say so, a "public" emergency" and carry out mass" target="_blank">click here roundups, arrests and detentions.

• July 7 trial told of 9/11 images - Images of the ruined World Trade Centre and Pentagon were found on the computer of an east London man accused of aiding the July 7 bombers, a court has heard. Kingston Crown Court heard the photos were found on a computer belonging to Waheed Ali, accused of accompanying two bombers on a reconnaissance trip. Ali, 24, from Tower Hamlets, denies conspiracy to cause explosions.   (COMMENTARY: 9/11 Images on his computer?  He must have done it then I guess!)

• NHS ruling 'denies drugs to many' - Nearly 100,000 patients with Alzheimer's a year will be refused drugs that could delay the onset of the disease, the Court of Appeal has heard. The manufacturer of one drug - Aricept - has been fighting a decision to restrict access to patients in the later stages of the disease. NHS drugs advisers said the therapy along with others in its class are not cost effective for early Alzheimer's. The decision was upheld by the High Court earlier last year. Drugs company Eisai brought the case to the High Court with support from fellow drugs firms Pfizer and Shire, which manufactures other drugs affected by the NHS ruling, and the Alzheimer's Society.

• Mayor admits Olympic torch error - It was a mistake to allow Chinese secret police to guard the Olympic torch during its London relay, Mayor Ken Livingstone has admitted. "It was wrong and should not have happened," he told a BBC London debate. Police said the guards got in the way of officers trying to restore calm during the 6 April procession. At the Stratford debate Tory mayoral candidate Boris Johnson admitted he had underestimated the cost of putting conductors back on London buses.

• Irish government embarrassed by leaked EU treaty email - German chancellor Angela Merkel has called on Irish voters to back the EU treaty on the same day that the Irish government was embarrassed by a leaked email outlining what a UK diplomat says is Dublin's strategy for holding and winning a referendum. In a state visit to Ireland, the only country to hold a public poll on the treaty, Ms Merkel on Monday (14 April), said "To my mind, the Lisbon treaty offers the best preparation for Europe's future."

• Stop deceiving British people over EU treaty - The banks-induced turmoil in the money markets has expunged any further media reference to the Lisbon treaty, which the House of Commons treacherously approved recently. This is the treaty that surrenders the last vestiges of British national sovereignty to the European Union. This is the treaty that the government mendaciously asserts is markedly different from the European Constitutional Treaty, upon which the British people were promised a referendum.

Monday 14th April 2008: -

• Big Brother wants to catch you speeding - Seems officials in Beverly Hills are going to throw their weight behind a bill in the state Legislature to allow the use of cameras to catch cars breaking the speed limit, our traffic guru, Steve Hymon, reports. The bill would: ...create a pilot program allowing a marked mobile unit to set up only in school or residential neighborhoods where the speed limit is 25 mph or less. Signs would be posted to warn drivers that cameras were present, Hines said, and officers would oversee the cameras and inspect the photos before mailing them to vehicle owners with citations attached.

• Judge quashes decision to make details of ID card scheme public - A High Court judge yesterday quashed decisions to make public details of two early assessments of the government's controversial ID cards scheme. But Mr Justice Stanley Burnton said a different Information Tribunal should look again at the request under the Freedom of Information Act. He said his ruling is not a judgment on whether the gateway reviews should or should not be disclosed and that would have to be determined by the tribunal.

• Is "Real ID" Dead—or Just Waiting for the Next Terrorist Crisis? - Are there limits beyond which Americans will refuse to go in the so-called "War on Terrorism?" Apparently so. Legislators in more than two-dozen states have enacted laws refusing to go along with an unfunded federal mandate that imposes security, authentication, and issuance standards for driver's licenses and state ID cards. The initial deadline for compliance with this "Real ID initiative" is May 11, 2008. After that date, residents of states that haven't promised to issue Real ID-compliant identity documents won't be able to use their drivers' licenses to board a domestic airline flight, enter a federal courthouse, or for other official government purposes.

• Less than third of Irish plan to vote for EU treaty: poll - Less than a third of Irish people plan to vote for the new European Union treaty in a crunch June 12 referendum, although the vast majority remain undecided, a new poll showed Monday. The survey, published in the Irish Sun newspaper, found 28 percent have decided to vote "Yes", 12 percent will vote "No" and 60 percent are still to make up their minds. The referendum will be closely watched across the 27-nation bloc: Ireland is the only EU member state holding a vote, and rejection could in theory stymie the treaty.

• The EU Lisbon Treaty: Old Wine, New Bottle? - JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Laurent Pech, Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, says that the controversy over ratification of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty is somewhat strange as the Treaty represents no radical alteration of the current “constitutional” relationship between the EU and its member states...

• EU-wide tax regime must be opposed - France takes over the presidency of the EU in July, and its finance minister, Christine Lagarde, has signalled clearly that it intends to pursue the controversial plan to harmonise the corporate tax base. Her comments are unfortunate for two reasons. First, while the so-called common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB) has no direct connection with the Lisbon Treaty, trying to gather support for such a measure, as Ireland heads towards a vote on the treaty, shows extraordinary tactical naivety. Second, and more fundamentally, there is simply no justification for the harmonising of corporate taxation across the EU. Taxes in Europe are - and should remain - national concerns.

• We Are Change UK - 11th of every month - US Embassy - Members of We Are Change UK visited the United States Embassy in London this April 11th in support of the truthaction.org international autonomous grassroots campaign 'The Eleventh of Every Month'. We encountered some Iraqi refugee's and a large number of police officers.

• 9/11 conspiracy theories may contain the truth - To the Editor: The last time I took copious notes was in grad school, that is, until March 14's 9/11 Truth's presentation at the Hampshire County Library. When they started out their information stunned me and I began writing. Prior to this event, and the library is to be commended for providing a place where citizens can collectively speak truth, I had trouble with the conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11. As the hard facts took their toll on my misperceptions I heard my self-concept telling me that, at large, people who disbelieve in the conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11 use their disbeliefs to ease their embarrassment at having had their faith in our systems ruthlessly taken advantage of.

Sunday 13th April 2008: -

• Undercover in Tibet - and terrorised by the Chinese thugs in blue tracksuits - The Chinese men in blue tracksuits were horribly familiar. Although they were dressed like athletes, their robotic movements, blank faces, swivel eyes and rough, menacing style reminded me of the secret policemen I had to avoid when I was in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, some years ago. Last Sunday, they surrounded Konnie Huq as she ran with the Olympic flame through the streets of London, ordering her to hold the torch higher and shoving protesters and British policemen out of the way. Lord Coe, the London Olympics chief, was overheard describing the so-called "torch attendants" as "thugs". He said: "They tried to push me out of the way three times. They are horrible."

• USA: The Government Is Trying to Wrap Its Mind Around Yours - Imagine a world of streets lined with video cameras that alert authorities to any suspicious activity. A world where police officers can read the minds of potential criminals and arrest them before they commit any crimes. A world in which a suspect who lies under questioning gets nabbed immediately because his brain has given him away. Though that may sound a lot like the plot of the 2002 movie "Minority Report," starring Tom Cruise and based on a Philip K. Dick novel, I'm not talking about science fiction here; it turns out we're not so far away from that world. But does it sound like a very safe place, or a very scary one?

• The week they sowed the seeds of a British secret police - It is still just possible to imagine that this is a normal country, if you don't pay too much attention. But the story of the couple who were spied on in case they were cheating to get their child into a popular school shows just how strange and alien Britain has become. Usually when I say I feel I am living in a foreign land, my enemies accuse me of making some veiled remark about immigration. But that's not what I mean at all. Immigration is a problem, sure enough, but if I want to talk about it, I'll make it clear that's what I'm doing. I'm not ashamed of being against mass immigration on its current absurd scale. I feel no need to disguise my views. What bothers me just as much is the sense of being transported, when I wasn't looking, into a very bad dream from which there is no waking up. When exactly did it happen? When did my town hall change from being a friendly, efficient place into a headquarters of fussy political correctness where I feel like an unwanted interloper? When did the BBC news become a shameless propaganda show, instead of a discreet one?

• Councils deny snooping over school places - HAMPSHIRE councils have denied using snooping powers to check up on parents over school admissions. Southampton City Council and Hampshire County Council distanced themselves from Poole civic bosses who admitted using the tactic on three occasions to check whether children were living within school catchment areas. Yesterday Poole council said it would continue spying after it emerged an undercover officer had made a detailed log of an innocent family's daily activities without their knowledge for more than two weeks. The council was using powers under the Regulation of Investigator Powers Act, introduced in 2000 partly on the grounds of improving national security. Evidence can be used in criminal proceedings.

• Council admits spying on family - A council has admitted spying on a family using laws to track criminals and terrorists to find out if they were really living in a school catchment. A couple and their three children were put under surveillance without their knowledge by Poole Borough Council for more than two weeks. The council admitted using powers under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) on six occasions in total. Three of those were for suspected fraudulent school place applications. It said two offers of school places were withdrawn as a consequence. Human rights pressure group Liberty called the spying "ridiculously disproportionate" and "intrusive".

• Council uses terror law to spy on family - Poole Borough Council has admitted spying on a family using laws to track terrorists to find out if they were really living in a school catchment area. A couple and their three children were put under surveillance for more than two weeks. Co Durham: Two men convicted of a murder which inspired the film Get Carter, have failed in a new attempt to clear their names. Michael Luvaglio and Dennis Stafford failed to convince High Court judges they were the victims of a miscarriage of justice.

• Council accused of holding back accounts - Barnoldswick Town Council has been accused of being secretive over its accounts. Newly elected independent member Glenn Whittaker claims that despite asking as a councillor and under the Freedom of Information Act, he has not been shown the accounts for a number of town council events. Coun Whittaker wants to see the accounts from the Festival of Flight, Fireworks Fantasia, Beating the Bounds and Town Criers' competition, which were held before 2006. "How am I supposed to answer council-related questions from the people who have elected me if there's certain things I'm not allowed to see?" he said.

• UN Human Rights Official Wants Investigation Into US Government Role In 9/11: John Bolton: "This is exactly why we voted against the new human rights council." - An official in the newly formed UN Human Rights Council has called for a fresh investigation into the events of 9/11 in order to examine the possible role that neoconservatives may have played in the attacks. The New York Sun picked up the story today, explaining that Richard Falk, a professor of international law emeritus at Princeton University, and an expert on human rights was assigned to a new position within the council on March 26.

• Clinton Portrays Herself as a Pro-Gun Churchgoer - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton managed to co-opt Mr. Obama’s message of hope and optimism, beginning a speech in Valparaiso, Ind., by talking about how positive and “fundamentally optimistic” Americans are. “We don’t get bogged down and looking back – we’re always looking forward,” she said, as heavy applause nearly drowned out her words. “Whatever obstacle we see, we get over it. Whatever challenge we have, we meet it. We’re the problem-solvers, we’re the innovators, we’re the people who make the better future.”

Wednesday 09th April 2008: -

• Chinese Paramilitary Thugs Policed London Torch Relay: Outrage after British government allowed members of China's internal security force to manhandle protesters - Fresh outrage has erupted over the Olympic torch procession after it emerged that the blue-clad thugs witnessed manhandling protesters and barking orders during the torch relay in London were Chinese paramilitary police hired by Beijing and the British government to quell demonstrations. Officially know as the 29th Olympic Games Torch Relay Flame Protection Unit, this gaggle of bullies were in actual fact, "Picked from special police units of the People's Armed Police, China's internal security force." The requirements for the job: to be "tall, handsome, mighty, in exceptional physical condition similar to that of professional athletes," the state-run China News Service said.

• Anti-ID card campaigners point finger at Jacqui - A BOUNTY of £1,000 has been put on the fingerprint of Redditch MP and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith by two human rights groups. More than 10,000 Wild West style Wanted posters of both the Home Secretary and Prime Minister Gordon Brown have been produced urging people to try and get the pair's fingerprints. Privacy International and No2ID hope the stunt will bring attention to the Government's fingerprinting policy and highlight the recent problems with millions of personal details being lost. Phil Booth, the national coordinator of anti-ID Card pressure group No2ID, who grew up in Selly Park, said: "We are hoping people from Birmingham and Redditch who find themselves near the Home Secretary will try their hardest to get her fingerprint.

• Card readers installed in laundry rooms - Now it's easier to do your laundry on campus with the new ID card readers available for all on-campus laundry services. "It's official. Everything works," said Holly Herlinger, housing coordinator. "I'm so excited." As of last Wednesday Drury residential students can now use their student ID cards to pay for laundry services, instead of quarters. To use a laundry machine, simply swipe your ID through the machine and follow the directions. The card swipe service had been advertised to students since last summer, but has taken a while to get off the ground.

• 9/11 Truthstock kicks off today: Speakers and films present new views about the tragic day - Everyone agrees that the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 in New York and Washington, D.C. were national tragedies, but even 6 1/2 years later, people still don't agree on what actually happened that day. "9/11 Truthstock 2008" kicks off a series of events today to get San Diego State to rethink the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. "It's all about information," said David Taylor of www.truther.org, an on-campus group convinced that the truth behind the tragedies has yet to be publicly revealed. "We're speaking about information that the mainstream media is ignoring and that a lot of very smart and intellectual people are thinking about, and we're trying to say that there needs to be another investigation into what occurred on 9/11."

• EU losing will to go to war, Kissinger charges: Drop in patriotism factor in unwillingness to fight: ex-politician - The reluctance of Europe's leaders to risk soldiers' lives in Afghanistan is rooted in the emergence of the European Union and the decline of nationalism and patriotism, former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger argued in an essay published yesterday. Mr. Kissinger, who once famously asked whom he should call if he needed to speak to Europe, said the EU's growing clout presents a transatlantic problem that won't go away when George W. Bush is no longer in the White House.

Tuesday 08th April 2008: -

• EU plan may let drug firms sidestep ban on advertising - Drug companies will be allowed to sidestep the ban on advertising drugs to the public under new European proposals, consumer groups warned yesterday. The European commission plans to allow drug companies, which have a history of failing to warn about the risks of their medicines, to give "information" about their drugs to the public on TV, the internet and in print. While consumer groups agree that better information is needed, they say one-sided information from a drug company is little more than advertising. They warn that companies which have failed to warn of the risks of drugs such as the painkiller Vioxx, which caused heart attacks, and Seroxat, which can make young people feel suicidal, cannot be trusted as sources of unbiased information.

• Lords usher in EU treaty with 12-hour farce - By happy coincidence, two events last week again confirmed the Orwellian ingenuity of the EU's coup d'état over the constitution. In 2005, with the EU's leaders in shock after their constitution had been rejected by French and Dutch voters, their response was "Plan D", to win the support of the "citizens of Europe" through "democracy, dialogue and debate". Then they had an even better idea: to rearrange the contents of the constitution under another name and railroad it through national parliaments without allowing the voters of Europe a further chance to reject it.

• Big Brother: Homeland Security blinks on Real ID: No hassles on May 11 - In the long-running Real ID staring match, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ended up being the first to blink. Homeland Security announced Wednesday that all 50 states and the District of Columbia will be technically Real ID-compliant by the May 11, 2008 deadline-- even though many states actually have rejected the concept and have zero plans to embrace a national ID card.

Sunday 06th April 2008: -

• Cop car cameras: Is there a negative? - If someone told me my bosses were installing cameras to record my every move while I was working, I wouldn't be happy. Not that I've got anything to hide. But don't they trust me, I'd want to know? For some reason, though, I'm not getting that reaction from cops, who are about to have video cameras installed in their squad cars. "I think it's great," Sgt. Art Mendoza says of the decision to install cameras in the LAPD's South Bureau squad cars at a cost of $5 million, with plans to eventually go citywide for another $20 million or so.

• Are Motorists Learning To Love Speed Cameras - Perish the thought, but more motorists are accepting safety cameras as part of life on the road, according to an IAM Motoring Trust Survey. Of 500 motorists questioned, 78 per cent approved of 'speed cameras' - up 9 per cent from 2007 (but still down on the near 90 per cent approval they received in 1999). However, there is still a strong suspicion that 'speed cameras' are not installed for pure safety reasons and doubt about the prime aim and outcome of 'speed cameras' remains strong. For just 36 per cent believed that cameras were positioned only at serious crash sites, and only 39 per cent believed that raising revenue was not the motive for using 'speed' cameras. We are a cynical lot at times.

• Passports or special ID needed next year for all U.S.-Canada travel - American and Canadian citizens entering the United States through land or sea borders must have a passport or other federally approved ID, such as Washington state's enhanced driver's license, starting June 1, 2009. The new requirement will affect Washingtonians driving home from a Vancouver, B.C., weekend trip; those taking a ferry back from Vancouver Island; or Seattle-Alaska cruise passengers whose ships call at British Columbia ports.

Saturday 05th April 2008: -

• Corporate Media Attempts to Marginalize Jesse Ventura - As the videos here demonstrate, at least certain members of the corporate media are paying attention to Jesse Ventura’s appearance earlier this week on the Alex Jones Show. As should be expected, they are making him out to be a nut, primarily for going public “with a radio host who believes the U.S. government was behind the attacks.” In order to diminish the impact of Ventura’s assertion the official 9/11 version is little more than a fairy tale, the talking heads here pull out all the stops, even allude that his book, Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me, is more fiction than fact, in short that Ventura is a liar. After they characterize him as a fiction writer and eccentric nut case, it is hoped people will consider his opinions about the events of September 11, 2008, as the ravings of a mad man. It won’t work, of course. Millions of people are now awake to the fact the government had something to do with the events, although many are still unable to accept the possibility the government would so such a thing, so deep and severe is the propaganda.

• ASPARTAME IS NEUROTOXIC GENOTOXIC MOLECULAR FOOD & VACCINE PHARMACO-GENOCIDE: by Dr. William Deagle, Founder, Nutrimedical and The Nutrimedical Report - Aspartame was approved by the FDA for food and medicine in the 1980s after the intervention of Donald Rumsfeld, recently Secretary of Defense to Geo Bush Jr. Terms 1 and 2. The poison of Aspartame dipeptide is a deadly neurotoxin and genotoxin. This paper will analyze results of extensive animal studies, human case reviews, cellular pathology and a logical analysis of biochemical and cellular toxicology. It is not a matter of incompetence but of malicious pharmaco-genocide that this toxin is present in from 6,000 products and over 90 countries. It is even registered with MSG, Ethyl Salicylate Mercury Thiomerosal, and other adjuvant immunologic and neurotoxic substances that are now approved by FDA for vaccine antigenic amplification as an adjuvants.

• Keith Allen: 'Diana was murdered' - Keith Allen has revealed he doesn't think that Princess Diana's death was an accident. Allen, father of popstar Lily, is quoted as saying in The Independent: "To this day I absolutely believe that it wasn’t an accident. I just know."

• UPCOMING PUBLIC EVENT: -

MONDAY 7th APRIL 2008 - Open 7.30 PM for FREE refreshments - 8.00 PM start 

"The Subversion Of Our Society" 

A challenging and thought provoking presentation by Brian Gerrish 

Do you feel that the UK has changed and is changing? Do you feel that many of these changes are not for the good? That moral standards and values are falling? That politicians don't care. That many schools are unruly and youth badly behaved. Does it seem that the judicial system now favours the criminal rather than giving justice to the victim? Is the media biased and preoccupied with depressing upsetting news and programmes? Is music now full of obscenities and dark lyrics? Is the established Church failing? Are the British Muslims a threat? Do you know what cognitive dissonance is? Do you know what creative partnerships are? Do you know how and where public money is being spent — your taxes? Do you get the feeling that something is wrong in the UK, but you just can't put your finger on what it is? Would you like to know what is the cause and what can be done about it? This is a personal presentation dealing with real events and situations both locally and across the UK. The presentation is designed for an adult audience, and is not party political. You will find it extremely challenging and thought provoking. 

http://www.new-horizonz.co.uk/ 

New Horizonz (St Annes) meets every Monday evening at the Community Centre next to the YMCA on St Albans Road, St Annes on Sea. 

Doors open from 7:30pm, the guest speaker will start at 8:00pm 

Refreshments available, Entrance fee is £3.00 

For further details call James on 01253 398300 

Organised by the makers of 
http://www.financialoutrage.org.uk/

Thursday 03rd April 2008: -

• Former Governor Jesse Ventura: WTC Collapse A Controlled Demolition: Navy veteran and movie star savages official story, says media covering up truth about attacks - Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura vehemently savaged the official 9/11 story on a syndicated national radio show today, saying the WTC collapsed like a controlled demolition and was pulverized to dust as he also highlighted the impossible 10 second free fall speed of the towers. Appearing on The Alex Jones Show, Ventura said that his initial reaction to 9/11 was much like most people at the time, and he accepted the official story outright, a response he now regrets because he was in a position of power and could have used it to raise a lot of pointed questions. "I kicked myself when it initially happened that the light didn't go off but I was so shocked that this thing had even taken place that I apologize for not being more aware," said Ventura, adding that watching Loose Change at the insistence of his son was part of the catalyst for his wake up call.

• Top Comedian Believes In 9/11 Conspiracy: Actress Cho says Americans will be angry when they realize true agenda behind attacks - Top comedian and actress Margaret Cho has joined Willie Nelson and Charlie Sheen in questioning the official 9/11 story, stating that the public were going to become very angry when they realized there was a conspiracy behind the terror attacks. Appearing on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones Show, Cho said her doubts about 9/11 were sparked by President Bush's non-reaction to the unfolding crisis. "I got concerned right after 9/11 where the plane had hit the World Trade Center and he was in that classroom with all those children and they told him what was going on and he did nothing," said Cho.

• YAAAAAWN!: Men 'planned airliner explosions' - Eight men planned to detonate bombs aboard flights from London across the Atlantic to create deaths on an almost unprecedented scale, a court has heard. Homemade devices were to be smuggled on to passenger aircraft and detonated mid-flight, Woolwich Crown Court heard. Prosecutor Peter Wright QC said the men planned to inflict heavy casualties, "all in the name of Islam". The eight men all deny conspiring to murder others and endangering aircraft bound for the US and Canada in 2006.

Wednesday 02nd April 2008: -

• Centers Tap Into Personal Databases: State Groups Were Formed After 9/11 - Intelligence centers run by states across the country have access to personal information about millions of Americans, including unlisted cellphone numbers, insurance claims, driver's license photographs and credit reports, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post. One center also has access to top-secret data systems at the CIA, the document shows, though it's not clear what information those systems contain.

• Top Bush Administration officials pressured underlings to use torture tactics at Guantanamo - Of Guantanamo interrogators: “You could almost see their dicks getting hard as they got new ideas.” "Torture at Guantánamo was sanctioned by the most senior advisers to the president, the vice president, and the secretary of defense, according to the international lawyer and professor of law at University College London Philippe Sands, who has conducted a forensic examination of the chain of command leading from the top of the administration to the camp at Guantánamo," Vanity Fair will report on newstands today.

• Students 'forced' to accept ID scans - A SYDNEY high school has been accused of intimidating students into having their fingerprints scanned for a new attendance monitoring system, and branding parents who object as "idiots". Parents of students at Ku-ring-gai High School in Sydney's north say their children have been bullied into taking part in a trial of the scheme introduced this week. According to a principal's note sent home with students last Friday, parents were permitted to opt out by sending an "exemption" letter to the school. Parents told The Australian yesterday their children were told their fingers would be scanned anyway, and data later deleted, only if there were still objections.

• Thumbs down for fingerprint technology - Schools are rejecting a move towards the use of biometric technology. Systems using electronic fingerprints to buy lunch or borrow library books appear unlikely to become widespread in Brighton and Hove after a consensus of opinion against them. In a survey of all 75 schools, only Falmer High School said it was likely to introduce a system in the future. Four schools said they had already installed biometric technology but one had since discontinued the trial. In total, 37 schools said they were not considering using the systems at all, while another nine said they would not rule them out but said it was unlikely they would use them.

• 80 Year Old Man Arrested For Wearing Anti-war T-shirt In Mall: Another milestone for anti-war protester - Among the many milestones in Don Zirkel's life - serving in the Army; editing The Tablet, the Diocese of Brooklyn's newspaper; and working in the state Division of Human Rights under Gov. Mario Cuomo - perhaps the most famous will now be his arrest at the food court in Smith Haven Mall. "Eighty years, and I have never been arrested before for fighting injustice," Zirkel, of Bethpage, said yesterday. On Saturday, Zirkel, 80, was at an anti-war rally outside the mall in Lake Grove, wearing a white T-shirt splotched with red and emblazoned with a simple message about the fatalities of the Iraq war: "4,000 troops, 1 million Iraqis dead. Enough."