Wednesday 28th February 2007: -

• BOMBSHELL: 9/11 COVER-UP UNRAVELING: CNN, BBC 24 Reports Conclusively Prove Media Prior Knowledge and False-Start Scripting of Building 7 Controlled Demolition - It has now been discovered that BBC 24 also reported the Building 7 collapse before it fell. Furthermore, CNN’s Aaron Brown reported that Building 7 "has collapsed or is collapsing" over an hour before it fell. These clips both reinforce the shocking, newly discovered BBC coverage wherein Jane Standley reports the collapse early-- with the building still standing behind her. The early timing of these reports is now verified twiceover-- the BBC 24 report is time stamped at 21.54-- or 4:54 P.M. Eastern Standard Time [See World Time Zones] Secondly, CNN's Aaron Brown states the time as "4:15 Eastern Daylight Time," announcing Building 7 has fallen-- more than one hour before its actual collapse.

• BUILDING 7 IN PERSPECTIVE - A compilation of clips regarding the collapse of WTC7: -

• THE SKY IS FALLING... WE NEED TO PROTECT YOU!!!: Climate Panel Recommends Global Temperature Ceiling, Carbon Tax - A panel of scientists has presented the United Nations a detailed plan for combating climate change. VOA’s correspondent at the U.N. Peter Heinlein reports the strategy involves reaching a global agreement on a temperature ceiling. A group of 18 scientists from 11 countries is calling on the international community to act quickly to prevent catastrophic climate change. In a report requested by the United Nations and partially paid for by the privately funded U.N. Foundation, the panel warns that any delay could lead to a dangerous rise in sea levels, increasingly turbulent weather, droughts and disease.

• Gov't estimates 754,000 homeless people - The nation has three-quarters of a million homeless people, filling emergency shelters through the year and spilling into special seasonal shelters in the coldest months, the government said Wednesday. The Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated there were 754,000 homeless people in 2005, including those living in shelters, transitional housing and on the street. That's about 300,000 more people than available beds in shelters and transitional housing. The report is the government's latest attempt to count people who are notoriously difficult to track. The estimate is similar to one by an advocacy group in January. The 2000 Census pegged the number of homeless people at 170,700, but it was widely considered an undercount. In 1996, the Urban Institute used data collected by the Census Bureau to estimate there were between 640,000 and 840,000.

• Walter Reed patients told to keep quiet - Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to the media. “Some soldiers believe this is a form of punishment for the trouble soldiers caused by talking to the media,” one Medical Hold Unit soldier said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. It is unusual for soldiers to have daily inspections after Basic Training.

• AUSTRALIA: Coming soon: park and pay with a mere microchip - TOLLWAY giant Transurban is looking to expand its e-tag system to give customers cashless entry into Sydney car parks. Transurban will roll out an electronic tag toll system in Sydney similar to its Melbourne operation if it succeeds in its $1.26 billion takeover bid for Sydney Roads Group. The deal would leave Transurban in control of most of Sydney's roads, adding the M1 Eastern Distributor, the M4 and M5 to the M2 and M7 motorways it already operates.   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• Biometrics gets its ‘fingers’ into school foodservice - The use of biometrics for identification and authentication is taking hold throughout the country and in our schools. Way back in 1972, far before many people were even thinking of using biometrics in conjunction with daily authentication, the University of Georgia began using biometrics in their dining halls. The campus had decided to simplify their mealplan offerings—from a ticket-based program to an enrollment program—and they needed a way to accurately identify paid customers The same goal of simplification remains a core motivator when colleges, universities, and K-12 schools decide to use biometrics in their facilities. Biometric identification is not a new concept. “The ancient Egyptians used bodily characteristics to identify workers to make sure they didn’t claim more provisions than they were entitled—just like governments today are looking at biometrics to lessen benefit fraud,” says Jay Fry, CEO of biometric developer, identiMetrics. And just like the University of Georgia has been doing for years.

• NETS rolls out more uses for its contactless cash card - The NETS cash card can now be used for contact-less payment at selected car-parks and petrol stations which are fitted with a new card reader. The NETS "Wave and Go" combination card can either be inserted into the electronic pricing system reader at car-parks or now just waved pass the new contact-less reader. The card takes less than one second to read, compared to inserting a card which takes one or two seconds. At the moment, 4.5 million NETS cash cards are in circulation, including 400,000 cashless combination cards.

• ANOTHER PETITION FOR NO 10 DOWNING ST: "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to recognise that music and dance should not be restricted by burdensome licensing regulations" - The recently introduced changes in licensing law have produced an environment where music and dance, activities which should be valued and promoted in a civilised society, are instead damaged by inappropriate regulation. We call on the Prime Minister to recognise this situation and take steps to correct it.   (COMMENTARY FROM ONE OF OUR HELPFUL CONTRIBUTORS: This is an absolutely ridiculous situation; licensing for live music???? Is it a way to insure that those trouble making folk artists who sing about social injustice do not have a venue? Is it a way to insure that non-establishment musicians who are by their nature non-conformist have no chance of making a living?)

• UK gov scraps youth ID card - The government has scrapped its carrot and stick id card for yoofs after realising that the costs of developing its computer system were beginning to outweigh the benefits it could deliver. Public Sector Forums (PSF) said it learned of the scheme's demise from a memo leaked from the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), which was supposed to pilot the system with 10 local authorities over two years from autumn 2006. However, it appears that an early assessment of progress has caused the DfES to scrap the scheme before it even got off the ground. The statement obtained by PSF, which the DfES said was public anyway, said the project had been scrapped after an assessment of its costs, benefits and risks. Known as the youth opportunity card, it was introduced as one of a raft of measures designed to help wayward kids back on the straight and narrow, as part of the government's Respect Action Plan and Every Child Matters programmes. It was supposed to give them access to sports and recreational services with electronic pocket money that would be given or taken away according to how well behaved they were. Disadvantaged children were to have their cards topped up with a government subsidy.

• Taser policy sparks worry: 2 councilwomen ask police chief to tighten usage rules in draft - Concerned about reports suggesting shocks from hand-held stun guns can contribute to deaths, some members of the Howard County Council suggested yesterday that the police chief tighten a draft policy governing the use of Tasers, if the newly elected body is to approve them. The stun guns shoot electric probes into the skin and incapacitate a person for five seconds. Police Chief William J. McMahon wants the law banning the use of "electronic weapons" in the county to include an exemption for public safety officers, including police, sheriffs and corrections officers.

• Police find no illegal drugs during random school searches - Random drug searches by police dogs at two Charlevoix County schools turned up no evidence of illicit drugs Friday. Charlevoix County Sheriff George T. Lasater said the drug-sniffing dogs from his office and the Antrim County Sheriff’s Office conducted the searches at Charlevoix High School and Boyne Falls School at the request of officials from the respective schools. “With cooperation between the sheriff’s offices and the school districts in the county, this is an effort to help keep our schools safe and drug-free,” Lasater said in a news release. The sheriff noted that Friday’s search was just one of several such random searches that his office has or will conduct in most schools in the county throughout the school year.

• Obese child escapes care order - A GROSSLY overweight eight-year-old boy who weighs four times the healthy weight of a child his age was today allowed by Social Services to stay with his family. Connor McCreaddie, from Wallsend, North Tyneside, weighed 15 stone 8lb before Christmas and has since lost one-and-a-half stone thanks to intensive exercise and healthier eating. Connor and his mother, Nicola McKeown, 35, today attended a child protection conference with North Tyneside Council where social workers allowed the boy to stay with his family rather than being taken into care.   (FLASHBACK: 33-stone man sues over detention)

Tuesday 27th February 2007: -

• Andhra Bank keen on biometric, mobile ATMs - Andhra Bank is looking at setting up 175 biometric ATMs within and outside Andhra Pradesh in the next 12 months. The bank has also obtained approval from RBI to ply mobile ATM vans in the twin cities. Biometric ATMs absolve the need for PIN number by using thumb impression for identification and are particularly easy to use for rural and uneducated masses.

• Makers of ADHD drugs instructed to warn of risks - Drugs prescribed to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder will include guides to alert patients and parents of the risks of mental and heart problems, including sudden death. The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that it directed the manufacturers of Ritalin, Adderall, Strattera and all other ADHD drugs to develop the guides.   (RELATED: See our Compromised Health archive)

• Research supports mercury-autism link - It was reported repeatedly in 2006 that the link between mercury-containing vaccines and autism has been disproven. Yet if one looks at the most recent research coming from some of our major universities, one may draw the opposite conclusion. What we have learned in the last couple of years is that the underlying medical condition of autism is neuroinflammatory disease. In a study conducted at John Hopkins University, brain tissue from deceased autistic patients was examined. The tissue showed an active neuroinflammatory process and marked activation of microglia cells. Neuroinflammatory disease is synonymous with an activation of microglia cells. A study done at the University of Washington showed that baby primates exposed to injected thimerosal (50 percent mercury), at a rate equal to the 1990s childhood vaccine schedule, retained twice as much inorganic mercury in their brains as primates exposed to equal amounts of ingested methylmercury.

• Students ask for Taser policies - Two members of a student organization urged the Wichita school board on Monday to reform the use of Tasers in schools. "Despite repeated outcries from the community, the school board has taken no action," said Danielle Strunk, a senior at West. "We believe that now is the time for action." The students spoke to the board in response to the use of a Taser on a Coleman Middle School student last week. A debate about Tasers in the schools has been under way since the Wichita Police Department announced last year that school resource officers in middle and high schools would begin carrying the devices. Tasers subdue people with an electric shock.

• Pope: New eugenics strikes developed world - Benedict XVI says that a new form of eugenics is striking the most developed countries, where an "obsessive quest for the 'perfect child'" leads to the elimination of embryos. The Pope said this on Saturday to the participants in a congress organized by the Pontifical Academy for Life on the theme "The Christian Conscience as Support of the Right to Life." This quest, noted the Holy Father, leads to "legalizing euthanasia," multiplying at the same time the pressure to "legalize forms of living together alternative to marriage, closed to natural procreation."

• Alarm at fingerprinting of pupils - HUMAN rights campaigners have criticised education bosses after it emerged thousands of schoolchildren are being fingerprinted. Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show 83 schools in the county are using biometric data to identify pupils. Human rights groups said the move was an unnecessary invasion of privacy and that children should not be encouraged to give out sensitive personal information. Suffolk County Council has defended the practice, saying biometric recognition is only used for the issuing of library books and is not passed on to any other organisations, including the police. But Phil Booth, national co-ordinator for human rights organisation NO2ID, said to use fingerprinting technology instead of simple library cards was “overkill”.

• Cops may check crash drivers' mobile records: Extended powers proposal - The government may give police powers to check crash drivers' mobile phone records after a "routine accident", the Daily Telegraph reports. Currently, mobile phone records can be probed "only after a fatal accident and on the instruction of a senior officer". The government says that in 2005, 13 road deaths, 52 serious and 364 minor accidents were linked to mobile phone use.

• BBC Responds to Building 7 Controversy; Claim 9/11 Tapes Lost: Pathetic five paragraph blog rebuttal does not answer questions as to source of report that Salomon Building was coming down, BBC claims tapes lost due to "cock-up" not conspiracy - The BBC has been forced to respond to footage showing their correspondent reporting the collapse of WTC 7 before it fell on 9/11, claiming tapes from the day are somehow missing, and refusing to identify the source for their bizarre act of "clairvoyance" in accurately pre-empting the fall of Building 7.   (DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT: Go to the BBC website and respond to Richard Porters (sneering) comments)

• BBC reporter says "WTC 7 has collapsed" BEFORE IT COLLAPSED - Huge breaking news. A reporter from the BBC is reporting in NYC on 9/11. They are talking about the "Saloman Brothers building", aka WTC 7. They are reporting that the building has also collapsed along with the Twin Towers. It is estimated that this was reported roughly 23 minutes before the building actually did fall. For those of you saying, "well, duh, isn't this report AFTER the building fell?" NO! THE BUILDING IS STILL STANDING IN THE BACKGROUND! HAHAH! The BBC screwed up BIGTIME!

• After This Fiasco, How Can We Trust Anything They Told Us About 9/11?: The BBC Building 7 farce lends about as much credibility to the official story of 9/11 as weapons of mass destruction do for justifying the invasion of Iraq - The fiasco of a BBC journalist reporting in advance that Building 7 had collapsed as it loomed large behind her strikes at the very root of how the media were complicit in acting as facilitators for the official myth that was manufactured on 9/11. After this debacle, how can we trust anything we were told about September 11?

• BREAKING STORY CARRIED OVER FROM YESTERDAY: AN INTERESTING DEVELOPMENT FOR 9/11 TRUTH RESEARCHERS - On September 11th 2001, BBC World reported at 4:57pm Eastern Time that the Salomon Brothers Building (more commonly known as WTC7 or World Trade Building 7) had collapsed.

This also made the 5pm EST headlines. What is bizarre is that the building did not actually collapse until 5:20pm EST. 9/11 was unusual enough, without BBC World being able to foretell the destiny of WTC 7!

So the question is; on 9/11 how did the BBC learn that WTC7 collapsed 23 minutes before it actually did?. Building Seven was 47 stories, modern in design with structural steel throughout, yet symmetrically collapsed in 6.5 seconds, was someone leaking information?

No steel framed skyscraper has ever collapsed due to fire, before or after 9/11, most people who find out about WTC7, believe it was brought down by a controlled demolition, even demolition experts agree.

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Monday 26th February 2007: -

• Nichols' OKC Revelations: Bomb Nichols helped McVeigh build unsophisticated, half size of device described by feds, mainstream press ignores testimony, obsesses instead about Britney Spears shaving her head - Astounding revelations on behalf of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, including Timothy McVeigh's connection to government provocateurs and the fact that the bomb he helped McVeigh build was completely different to the one described by official accounts, have been uniformly ignored by the corporate media as the story enters its sixth day.

• Interview: The untold story of September 11 - Conspiracy theories about what happened on 9/11 began to circulate just days after the attacks, but in recent months they've become a phenomenon with up to 75 per cent of Americans believing their government hasn't told them the whole truth about that tragic day. World Trade Centre janitor William Rodriguez was there when the aircraft struck the Towers and was decorated for his heroism in rescuing survivors. Ahead of an appearance in Lewes, he speaks to Angela Wintle about the experience and the disturbing questions he's been asking ever since. They still haunt his dreams, the ones who didn't get away. He hears their screams for help from the passenger lift, screams he heard as he fled from the stricken World Trade Centre for the very last time.

• Police use YouTube to catch suspects - Patrolman Brian Johnson of the Franklin (Mass.) Police Department studied a surveillance video showing two men using allegedly stolen credit cards at a Home Depot. But when Johnson didn't recognize either man, he decided to involve people -- lots of people -- in the crime-solving process. He posted a clip from a security camera on YouTube.com, the video-sharing Web site, then sent e-mails to about 300 people and organizations to say the department was looking for the suspects. "You don't have to be a technology wizard to figure out how to watch a video on YouTube," Johnson said. A handful of police departments have utilized YouTube as a law enforcement tool, putting up video of suspects and eliciting help from the Internet-using public in identifying them.

• Just another step to the North American Union - Mexican truckers soon will have full access to U.S. highways under a new agreement between the United States and Mexico. Mexican-registered trucks currently are allowed to make deliveries in the United States only within special commercial zones along the U.S.-Mexican border that extend up to 70 miles into U.S. territory. But Thursday, the first Mexican trucks were inspected by U.S. safety officials under a Bush administration test program that will allow up to 100 Mexican trucking companies to operate beyond the commercial zones.

• Call to add fluoride to bottle water - BOTTLED water may soon contain added fluoride amid rising concerns about childhood tooth decay. Consumer, health and industry groups were united yesterday in calls for the national food regulator, Food Standards Australia New Zealand, to overturn its ban on added fluoride. Only naturally occurring fluoride is allowed in bottled water. Two months ago Prime Minister John Howard described the increase in tooth decay as a national tragedy and called for parents to give children at least one glass of fluoridated tap water a day.

Sunday 25th February 2007: -

• AUDIO DOWNLOAD: John Conner (American based author of the book and website The Resistance Manifesto) and Joseph Skelton (UK based webmaster of cremationofcare.com) discuss the recent BBC hit piece on 9/11 - Recorded 23/02/2007

• UK terror threat at 'new high' (Again!) - The threat of homegrown terrorists attacking Britain is greater now than any time since the September 11 attacks in the US, it has been reported. More than 2,000 British-based Islamic terrorists are believed to be plotting attacks, according to a leaked Government threat assessment. "The scale of al-Qaida's ambitions towards attacking the UK and the number of UK extremists prepared to participate in attacks are even greater than we previously judged," the Daily Telegraph quoted the document as saying.   (RELATED: See our Problem > Reaction > Solution archive)

• Child identification program assisted by Freemasons... go figure! - According to New York State's 2005 Missing Children Report, 278 children were missing in Chemung, 15 in Schuyler, and 54 in Tioga County. Parents and children all attended Tioga County's Safety Fair, which was co-sponsored by the Civil Service Employees Association and the Masons. Parents were able to leave with a laminated card listing their child's picture, fingerprints, address, and other descriptions. They also got a disk that has their child's front and side profile and their speech pattern. If a child is missing, that disk will have all the information authorities need to issue a nationwide Amber Alert in just 15 minutes. "It gives you a peace of mind because it's just all the things you hear on the news. It's scary," said parent Tara Cofone. "Your kids could be missing, so it's another tool to help you find your kids." The Masons have provided this free child identification program since 1996 and say it's also available for senior citizens or handicapped individuals.

• RFID Inside: The Murky Ethics of Implanted Chips - What if your boss asked you to have a chip implanted in your arm? Would you do it? What if it meant getting a higher salary? Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, small circuits consisting of a microchip and an antenna that generate a radio signal when triggered by a reading device, are implanted in millions of pets and livestock to keep track of them and return them to their owners if they are lost. In the last few years people have begun to have tags planted in themselves--a move that could have serious repercussions for our privacy and freedom, according to Kenneth R. Foster and Jan Jaeger, University of Pennsylvania professors and authors of an article in the March issue of IEEE Spectrum.

• Edible RFID chip from Kodak - George Eastman's brainchild, Kodak, is going after an edible RFID chip that patients would voluntarily—of their own volition—swallow so that doctors and nurses and insurance companies could monitor the patient's vital signs and all manner of other levels. The chip would be embedded in a wafer, which would in turn be covered in a substance that is both digestible and tasty (I'm rootin' for Salt and Vinegar). That substance would need to dissolve slowly enough for doctors to "see" inside the patient's body before the whole thing gets slurped up by your stomach's ever-present hydrochloric acid.

• Patients tracked by chip - RFID chips are likely to be used to monitor the whereabouts of patients in at least one hospital in New Zealand by the end of the year, after a trial proposed by the Health IT cluster met with strong interest from would-be suppliers. Andrea Pettett, chief executive of the Health IT cluster, which represents 46 health technology firms, says she is confident that the organisation has found a hospital to take part in the trial, but funding has yet to be arranged. A Kiwi technology company would be chosen to develop the RFID tracking system, which it would then be free to market overseas. "We want to innovate in New Zealand and help vendors export by that route."

• Japanese Govt to test new terrorism surveillance system - The Construction and Transportation Ministry is to experiment with a new surveillance system that uses security cameras to automatically warn of individuals acting suspiciously, or unidentified objects at railway facilities, it has been learned. The experiment is aimed at preventing terrorist attacks on railway stations and other related facilities--places that have been targeted for attack in other nations. The ministry will select several JR and private railway stations from across the country to test the effectiveness of the system from fiscal 2007. About 30,000 cameras are currently deployed at the nation's railway facilities. But because these require workers to monitor the images, only limited number of monitors can be checked at any given time.

• Thousands protest against Iraq war - Thousands of anti-war protestors took part in demonstrations calling for British troops to be withdrawn from Iraq. In London's Trafalgar Square and Glasgow, activists and military families took to the streets alongside politicians and entertainers. The Stop The War coalition, who organised the demo along with CND and the British Muslim Initiative, estimated up to 60,000 people were taking part in the London event. But the Metropolitan Police said their latest figure put the number at 10,000. Organisers said the entire march took two and a half hours to make its way into the Square.

• Amazing maths of the mosaic makers - Medieval Islamic artists produced intricate decorative patterns using geometrical techniques that were not understood by Western mathematics until the 20th century, scientists have discovered. The combinations of ornate stars and polygons that have adorned mosques and palaces since the 15th century were created using a set of just five template tiles, which could generate patterns with a kind of symmetry that eluded formal mathematical description for another 500 years. The discovery, by Peter Lu, of Harvard University, published in the journal Science, suggests that the Islamic artisans who created these typical girih designs had an intuitive understanding of highly complex mathematical concepts, even if they had not worked out the underlying theory. “We can’t say for sure what it means,” said Mr Lu, who is studying for a PhD in physics. “It could be proof of a major role of mathematics in medieval Islamic art or it could have been just a way for artisans to construct their art more easily.

• Santa Cruz man sues over 'humiliating' strip-search policy - A Santa Cruz man says the strip-search policy at County Jail is draconian and humiliating, and he and an attorney with a track record of successfully challenging such policies have filed suit against Sheriff Steve Robbins and the jail. Dennis Butler, who claims he was strip-searched twice in County Jail last fall after an October arrest for a traffic warrant, maintains jail personnel illegally strip-search everyone regardless of the severity of their charges. "It's a disgusting, dehumanizing practice," said attorney Mark E. Merin, who represents Butler and has filed similar suits across the nation. "It violates the Fourth Amendment, which guarantees people the right to privacy"

• More cashless vending machines rolling out - Making it easier than ever for Americans to spend their money, and creating new business for credit and debit card companies, three of the biggest snack and soda makers are rolling out more vending machines that take plastic. Coca-Cola Co. , Cadbury Schweppes and PepsiCo are all testing vending machines that don't require cash in various U.S. cities. "Society is moving towards cashless and we want to be at the forefront of that movement," said Mark Jackson, vice president of Cold Drink Equipment at Cadbury Schweppes. The company -- which makes Dr Pepper, Snapple and 7 Up -- began testing cashless vending machines in Dallas, New York and Chicago last December.   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

Saturday 24th February 2007: -

• Report: Israel Wants to Fly Over Iraq - Israel opened negotiations to fly through U.S. controlled airspace in Iraq to carry out strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, a British newspaper reported Saturday. Israel's deputy defense minister denied the claim. The Daily Telegraph newspaper quoted an unnamed Israeli defense official as saying the talks were aimed at planning for all scenarios, including any future decision to target Iran's nuclear program.

• General says eliminating bin Laden not priority - The Army's highest-ranking officer and the former leader of the secretive world of Special Operations offered his thoughts on the importance of capturing or killing Osama bin Laden during a luncheon here Friday. They're probably not what anyone expected. "I don't know whether we'll find him," Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, said in a speech to the Rotary Club of Fort Worth. "I don't know that it's all that important, frankly."

• Russian rights activists oppose lie detector tests during job interviews - Russian human rights activists oppose a bill in Moscow's city legislature that would allow companies to give prospective employees lie detector tests. "Authorizing lie detector tests during employment interviews will come as a violation of human rights," Moscow Helsinki Group head Lyudmila Alexeyeva told Interfax on Saturday. "The lie detector is quite a tricky device. It is not precise. That is why it is hardly worth using during employment procedures," she said.

• Library workers upset over surveillance cam - A small security camera is causing a big controversy in Ithaca. Workers at the Tompkins County Public Library are upset they were being watched. Library Director Janet Steiner suspected money was being taken from the library donation box. Steiner then contacted the Ithaca Police Department, who placed a surveillance camera in a clock radio. A small security camera is causing a big controversy in Ithaca. Workers at the Tompkins County Public Library are upset they were being watched. Employees discovered the camera and were not happy. 35 of the library's workers signed a petition and brought it to County Legislative Chair Tim Joseph. The petition reads as follows: "We, the employees of the Tompkins County Public Library, wish to write an open letter to the Library Board and the County Legislature concerning the recent actions by the Library Director to secretly install a spy camera in our building. We feel that trust, respect and privacy is important at our workplace. We need positive leadership and integrity. We need a leader who will support and energize us, so that we can better serve our patrons."

• Met Police chief Blair backs gun amnesty - Sir Ian Blair Britain's most senior policeman gave his backing to a gun amnesty today as concern about firearms-toting gangs continued to dominate the political agenda. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said the time was probably right for a new initiative to encourage the handing over of illegal weapons. During a visit to Hackney in east London, with Home Secretary John Reid, Sir Ian said: "I am interested in a gun amnesty.   (RELATED: See our Disarmed & Enslaved archive /// RELATED EXTERNAL LINK: gunbancon.com - Exposing the horrible truth about big government and the enforced defenselessness of the British people)

• Pledge to seek cluster bomb ban - Forty-six nations, including the UK, have pledged to work towards a new treaty banning cluster bombs. At the end of a two-day conference in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, the countries signed a declaration committing themselves to a ban. They aim to prohibit by 2008 the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians. The US has rejected any ban, saying the weapons have a place in its arsenal.

• 9-11 and The Left - Several prominent liberal writers are arguing that 9/11 is a distraction from the fight for liberal causes. Are they right? Before I address that question, let me ask another one: Q: What do Daniel Ellsberg, Howard Zinn, Medea Benjamin, Robert McChesney, Gore Vidal, Thom Hartmann, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Doris "Granny D" Haddock, Ray McGovern, Paul Hawken, David Cobb, Randy Hayes, Ernest Callenbach, Dennis Bernstein, Paul H. Ray, Michael Franti, Janeane Garafalo and Ed Asner all have in Common? A: All of these leading liberal voices believe that 9/11 may have been an inside job.

• Reasons to Doubt the Official Story about the 9/11 Attacks - The more you study the facts and the circumstantial evidence surrounding the 9/11 attacks, the more you doubt the official explanation of the attacks given in the 9/11 Commission Report. Most all the necessary information is, or has been, available through the major media. It's just a matter of pulling it all together and organizing the data. When you do that, you are left with major doubts about the official story and you begin to suspect that some of our officials may have been involved, at least in the sense that they had fore-knowledge of the attacks and just let them happen. You are not alone. In a national poll conducted by the Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University in August 2006, 36 percent of respondents said it is "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that federal officials either participated in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or took no action to stop them "because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East." Let's look at some of the evidence.   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• 9/11 attacks only an ‘incident’ - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen called the September 11, 2001 attacks an “incident,” saying the 3,000 who died during the attacks were insignificant compared to the number of people killed in Iraq. He made the comment during an interview with the Catholic newspaper La Croix. The article ran yesterday. “Three-thousand dead, that is how many die in Iraq in a month and it’s far less than the deaths in the Marseille or Dresden bombings at the end of the Second World War,” Le Pen told the newspaper. The National Front leader also praised Islamic leaders for condemning the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

• NOW AVAILABLE ON THE UK'S PLAY.COM FOR ONLY £7.99!: Terrorstorm: A History Of Government Sponsored Terrorism - The terrorists aren't who you think they are. Throughout history, criminal elements inside governments have carried out terror attacks against their own populations as a pretext to enslave them. TerrorStorm reveals how, in the last hundred years, Western leaders have repeatedly murdered their own citizens while posing as their saviors. In TerrorStorm you will discover that September 11th, the attacks of 7/7 in London, and many other terrorist events were self-inflicted wounds. You will witness British Special Forces troops caught in the act of staging terror attacks in Iraq and see official US government documents laying out plans to hijack passenger planes by remote control. You will learn how the Reichstag fire, the Gulf of Tonkin, and the US-backed Iranian coup of 1953 are all interconnected false-flag terror events. This powerful documentary explores the mindset of the average brainwashed Westerner and delves deeply into the systems of control, which have been scientifically crafted to imprison their minds and keep their eyes closed to the realities of the world around them.   (Also available on amazon.co.uk)

• Big Brother is watching and selling pictures - SHOCKING details about the controversial My Camden website - which allows web users to see detailed pictures of residents' homes - have been discovered by the Ham&High. Papers obtained from a Freedom of Information request show photo supplier Cyclomedia is allowed to reproduce or sell any of the images to anyone who requests them. Camden Council forks out thousands of pounds to put photos on the site, which allows anyone with a computer to view various angles of properties in the borough. Residents have complained because some images include car licence plates and children's faces.

Friday 23rd February 2007: -

• US denies 'Son of Star Wars' snub - The US has denied dealing Tony Blair a major rebuff over an offer to site key elements of their controversial "Son of Star Wars" missile defence system on British soil. Downing Street confirmed for the first time that the Government was in discussion with Washington about hosting parts of the programme - believed to be the interceptors used to bring down a ballistic missile - in the UK. Earlier, the US deputy chief of mission in London, David Johnson, went on the airwaves to say the US administration was primarily focusing on allies in Eastern Europe to locate the system.

• Legal bid 'may leave UKIP broke': Nigel Farage fears his party could be put out of business - The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has said a legal bid to force it to forfeit £367,697 of "impermissible" donations could leave it "penniless". The Electoral Commission has accused the party of breaking the law by accepting money from a donor whose name was not on the electoral register. UKIP, which has 10 MEPs, said legal action was disproportionate for what it claims was an honest mistake. Its leader, Nigel Farage, said it could put the party out of business.

• Court Upholds New York City's Dancing Ban at Bars - Come and meet those dancing feet, up on 42nd Street — but only in nightspots with special licenses. The city's 80-year-old cabaret law banning dancing by patrons in ordinary bars and restaurants is legal, the state Supreme Court's Appellate Division ruled Thursday. The Gotham West Coast Swing Club and several people had sued, saying the law violated their constitutional right to free expression. But the appeals court backed the law, which was enacted in the Prohibition era to crack down on speakeasies. "Recreational dancing is not a form of expression protected by the federal or state constitutions," the court wrote.

• Study to look at planting identification chips in dementia patients - The scenario is all too real in South Florida: An Alzheimer's patient wanders away from home and is found by police officers who take him to a local hospital for care. But the patient cannot recall potentially life-threatening conditions like diabetes or heart disease, making a quick assessment difficult at best. To help solve that problem, a Delray Beach company and the Alzheimer's Community Care Association of Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc. have begun a two-year study to determine whether it's practical to implant tiny computer chips containing medical records in dementia patients.

• The US psychological torture system is finally on trial: America has deliberately driven hundreds, perhaps thousands, of prisoners insane. Now it is being held to account in a Miami court - Something remarkable is going on in a Miami courtroom. The cruel methods US interrogators have used since September 11 to "break" prisoners are finally being put on trial. This was not supposed to happen. The Bush administration's plan was to put José Padilla on trial for allegedly being part of a network linked to international terrorists. But Padilla's lawyers are arguing that he is not fit to stand trial because he has been driven insane by the government.

• Algerian accused of training 9/11 pilots refused compensation for a shattered life - Lotfi Raissi had modest aspirations for a life in Britain - to work as an airline pilot, watch Premiership football and visit the theatre occasionally. Then British security services pulled him from his bed in a Berkshire flat at 3am on the morning of 21 September 2001. It was the beginning of a six-year ordeal in which he would be named as a flight instructor of the 9/11 hijackers, locked up in Belmarsh jail for five months to await extradition to the US and, ultimately, be released when no evidence of his involvement materialised.

• More UK soldiers for Afghanistan - Extra British troops are to be sent to southern Afghanistan, Defence Secretary Des Browne has confirmed. The move, which the BBC understands involves more than 1,000 personnel, comes as about 1,600 troops are being withdrawn from Iraq. The UK has been reluctant to add to its 5,600-strong force in Afghanistan, as it has reinforced there several times. The Tories said the move showed British forces were too "overstretched" to carry out duties in both countries.

• US soldier sentenced 100 years prison for rape, murder in Iraq - A US soldier was Thursday given a 100-year sentence in a military prison for raping and murdering a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her family, local media reported. Sgt Paul Cortez, 24, pleaded guilty on Wednesday and presiding judge Col Stephen R Henley accepted Cortez's plea agreement, finding him guilty of conspiracy to commit rape, four counts of felony murder, rape, violation of a general order and housebreaking, according to The Leaf-Chronicle in Clarksville, Tennessee.

• Cashless vending machines get trial run: People in test cities like being able to use credit, debit cards - Just off the ice at the Star Center rink, Jenafir Chant held a credit card against a vending machine. A second later, a bottle of Diet Dr Pepper tumbled into view. The machine takes plastic. "We were all excited when these went in last week," said Chant, who leads a team of girls who clean the ice between periods at Dallas Stars games. "I was scrounging around for $2 for a Monster. Now I don't have to scrounge." The machine at the ice rink is one of 750 that Cadbury Schweppes PLC and MasterCard Inc. are testing in the Dallas area, New York and Chicago to answer a key question: Will people spend more at vending machines if they can use plastic? The early answer is, yes.   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• Israel's eye in the sky watches for dig protests - Ultra-orthodox Jews watch the launch of an Israeli observation airshipfrom the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem yesterday. The airship, or blimp, carries cameras and will hover over the Old City, monitoring the al-Aqsa mosque during Friday prayers. Israeli police are enforcing security against possible demonstrations against Israeli excavations from the compound, sacred to Muslims as Haram al Sharif and to Jews as the Temple Mount. The excavations have been condemned by critics in the Muslim world, including King Abdullah of Jordan.

• Unspoken truth behind Blair interview - The Prime Minister appeared to be in denial in his Today interview, insisting that the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq was not an admission of failure but a sign that its fledgling democracy was growing stronger. What really lay behind those answers? Here we analyse key moments in the interview and reveal what remained pointedly unspoken.

• Hospital Superbug Deaths 'Double In 5 Years' - The number of people killed by hospital superbugs has more than doubled in the last five years, according to latest figures released today. And a campaigning doctor claimed the NHS was committing "institutional manslaughter" by not preventing the thousands of deaths, and claimed the true figure of infections is in the tens of thousands. The surge in cases of the deadly MRSA and Clostridium difficile bugs was revealed by the Office of National Statistics, who studied death certificates where the bug was mentioned.

• Britons up in arms over 'Bin Brother' - The British tolerate millions of surveillance cameras watching their every public move. They agreed to let roadside cameras record their vehicular movements and store the information for two years. But when they discovered that their garbage is being bugged, they howled that Big Brother had gone too far. Local governments have attached microchips to some 500,000 "wheelie bins," the trashcans that residents wheel to the curb for collection. The aim, they say, is to help monitor collections and boost the national recycling rate, now among the lowest in Europe. The public has reacted with suspicion and fury.

• Tony Blair reportedly hired psychics to find bin Laden: MoD defends psychic powers study - The Ministry of Defence has defended a decision to fund secret tests into the ability of volunteers to use psychic powers to "remotely view" hidden objects. The study, conducted in 2002, involved blindfolding test subjects and asking them to "see" the contents of sealed brown envelopes containing pictures of random objects and public figures. Defence experts tried to recruit 12 "known" psychics who advertised their abilities on the internet, but when they all refused they were forced to use "novice" volunteers.

Thursday 22nd February 2007: -

• New OKC Revelations Spotlight FBI Involvement In Bombing: Nichols' claim that McVeigh had government handlers supported by huge weight of known evidence - New claims by Oklahoma City Bombing conspirator Terry Nichols that Timothy McVeigh was being steered by a high-level FBI official are supported by a plethora of evidence that proves McVeigh did not act alone and that authorities had prior warnings and were complicit in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building. The Salt Lake Tribune reported yesterday, Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking FBI official "apparently" was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Utah. The official and other conspirators are being protected by the federal government "in a cover-up to escape its responsibility for the loss of life in Oklahoma," Nichols claims in a Feb. 9 affidavit.   (RELATED: See our Problem > Reaction > Solution archive for more background info on the OKC bombing)

• Nichols Fingers FBI Agent Directing McVeigh in OKC Bombing By Name: Newspaper reported name of Potts before court sealed documents - A newspaper reported the name of the FBI agent fingered by Terry Nichols as having led Timothy McVeigh in carrying out the Oklahoma City bombing before a Utah court order sealed documents pertaining to the testimony. Though subsequent reports do not mention the accused agent by name, the Deseret Morning News identified the individual as Larry Potts, who was the lead FBI agent during the Ruby Ridge confrontation in 1992 and was also involved in the 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in 1993.

• Meacher challenges Brown 'coronation' - Michael Meacher has confirmed that he will stand against Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership, calling for a "contest not a coronation". Announcing his candidacy, the former environment minister and veteran left wing MP said a leadership contest would confer democratic legitimacy to the new prime minister, adding that Labour supporters expect a choice, needed to reflect the differences of opinion within the party. A Britain run by Mr Meacher would declare war on climate change, while moving away from the US's foreign policy, the Oldham MP said today. Mr Meacher, who was first elected for Oldham West in 1970, pledged that he would not join the US in any military action against Iran. Should Washington attack Tehran, he pledged: "I would not put at risk a single British soldier or RAF pilot in support of such a crazed venture."   (FLASHBACK RELATED TO 9/11 TRUTH: This war on terrorism is bogus - By Michael Meacher)

• BBC's 9/11 Conspiracy Files: Points Which Were Ignored - On February 18, 2007 the BBC aired the documentary 9/11: The Conspiracy Files. A brief summary of the programme: The USAF could not prevent the attacks because transponders in the hijacked jets were turned off. Explosives in the twin towers were "debunked" by Popular Mechanics (now there's a joke). The demolition of WTC 7 was also "debunked" by the ever reliable Popular Mechanics. The rest of the programme was dedicated to straw men. Was the Pentagon was hit by a plane? Did Flight 93 crash in Pennysylvania or did it land elsewhere? Did 4000 Jews skip work in the WTC on 9/11? Were the attacks predicted in the pilot of the "Lone Gunmen" TV show? Finally, the programme finished with an irrelevant piece on pre-9/11 warnings which were missed. The conclusion of the BBC: the evidence doesn't support conspiracy theories. Okay, let's take a look at a some facts which were "overlooked" by the BBC.

• NORTH AMERICAN UNION "CONSPIRACY" EXPOSED - A top Democratic Party foreign policy specialist said on Friday that a "very small group" of conservatives is unfairly accusing him of being at the center of a "vast conspiracy" to implement the idea of a "North American Union" by "stealth." He called the charges "absurd." But Robert Pastor, a former official of the Carter Administration and director of the Center for North American Studies at American University (CNAS), made the remarks at an all-day February 16 conference devoted to the development of a North American legal system. The holding of the conference was itself evidence that a comprehensive process is underway to merge the economies, and perhaps the social and political systems, of the three countries. Pastor said that he favors a "North American Community," not a formal union of the three countries, and several speakers at the conference ridiculed the idea of protecting America's borders and suggested that American citizenship was an outmoded concept.

• Cities find it pays to enforce safety: Red-light cameras cut accidents, officials say, but the devices also snap up lots of money - Two years after Lilburn installed red-light cameras, it's a safer city to drive in — and a much richer one, too. "The cameras are a real effective means of reducing accidents and reducing injuries from accidents," said John Davidson, the police chief in Lilburn. They also generate a ton of cash that can have a huge impact in small towns with relatively small budgets, like Lilburn.

• High Tech Monitoring System Protecting Students - A drivers license and a fingerprint are now needed to enter Cooper North Elementary. The school is the first in the area to use a high-tech computer system to track school visitors. One parent said, "I think it's wonderful, I think the more security we have around, the better." That's the same thought Lubbock Cooper ISD had when they chose Cooper North Elementary School as the pilot school for a new high tech visitor monitoring system.

• Mugabe bans political rallies after clash - President Robert Mugabe marked his 83rd birthday on Wednesday by imposing a three-month ban on all political rallies in Zimbabwe and suggesting that senior figures in his Zanu-PF party may be plotting against him. The ban, imposed after weekend clashes between the police and supporters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, comes a week before the government imposes a four-month prices and incomes freeze and followed an announcement by Mr Mugabe on Tuesday that the country’s fledgling diamond mining industry would be nationalised.

• £35 charge for NOT using a credit card - Lloyds TSB is forcing thousands of its most prudent credit card customers to pay an annual fee of £35. The fee will apply to around 50,000 account-holders who do not use their cards much, and pay off their balance in full each month. Credit card companies and banks regard customers who do not make much use of their cards as a drain on the business. They have to be provided with statements and other material, but do not generate any income for the banks with purchases, interest on balances, and charge.

Wednesday 21st February 2007: -

• BBC Discredited; Retractions on 9/11 Hit Piece Forthcoming: Complaint responses suggest consternation within corporation on revelations of bias in Conspiracy Files documentary, indicates large number of complaints received - The BBC's response to complaints made against the bias and inaccuracy of the 9/11 Conspiracy Files documentary suggests that an overwhelming backlash has caused considerable consternation at the network and possible retractions or apologies may be forthcoming, with BBC bosses potentially fearing the company's credibility has been tarnished.

• Red-light cameras could rake in cash: Orange official wants the state to allow the use of cameras to nab scofflaws - What happens when drivers run red lights more than 11,000 times every day at just five intersections in Orange County? Not a lot right now. But if county officials could install cameras to catch and automatically ticket those drivers, they'd stand to rake in fines that might rival lottery winnings: $2 million a day.

• How the NYPD Videotapes You - In the wake of a federal judge criticizing the NYPD's videotaping procedures last week, I-Witness Video looks at what the NYPD actually uses to record public events and calls it "360 degrees of surveillance," best illustrated by what the police used during the 2004 Republican National Convention. Officers used "lipstick cameras" which are easily concealed, as well as helicopters with "military-style infrared imaging." And Fuji lent the NYPD its BlimpCam, and I-Witness Video describes the blimpcam footage from August 27, 2004.

• VeriChip Corporation Completes Installations of Three Hugs Infant Protection Systems in Portugal: Company Looks to Expand International Sales Opportunities - VeriChip Corporation (Nasdaq: CHIP - News), a provider of RFID systems for people in the healthcare industry, announced today the completion of its first three Hugs® infant protection systems in Portugal. These installations also represent the Company's first sales in continental Europe for the Hugs system. Overall, VeriChip has now sold 15 Hugs infant protection systems in international markets.

• Audit: Anti-terror case data flawed - Federal prosecutors counted immigration violations, marriage fraud and drug trafficking among anti-terror cases in the four years after 9/11 even though no evidence linked them to terror activity, a Justice Department audit said Tuesday. Overall, nearly all of the terrorism-related statistics on investigations, referrals and cases examined by department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine were either diminished or inflated. Only two of 26 sets of department data reported between 2001 and 2005 were accurate, the audit found.

Tuesday 20th February 2007: -

• Producer Struggles to Defend Flaws & Bias of BBC Hit Piece: Guy Smith says 'we can debate these issues all day' without being able to debate any of them - The producer of the BBC Conspiracy Files documentary, a poorly researched and bias hit piece against the 9/11 truth movement, appeared on the Alex Jones Show yesterday and struggled to defend charges that the program was laden with glaring flaws and crass emotional manipulation throughout.

• 9/11 fantasists pose a mortal danger to popular oppositional campaigns: These conspiracy idiots are a boon for Bush and Blair as they destroy the movements some of us have spent years building - 'You did this hit piece because your corporate masters instructed you to. You are a controlled asset of the new world order ... bought and paid for." "Everyone has some skeleton in the cupboard. How else would MI5 and special branch recruit agents?" "Shill, traitor, sleeper", "leftwing gatekeeper", "accessory after the fact", "political whore of the biggest conspiracy of them all".   (COMMENTARY: I was in agreement with Monbiot until I realised that he wasn't talking about the official story swallowing '9/11 fantasists'!)

• An Orwellian solution to kids skipping school - Let's say your teenager is a habitual truant and there is nothing you can do about it. A Washington area politician thinks he might have the solution: Fit the child with a Global Positioning System chip, then have police track him down. "It allows them to get caught easier," said Maryland Delegate Doyle Niemann (D-Prince George's), who recently co-sponsored legislation in the House that would use electronic surveillance as part of a broader truancy reduction plan. "It's going to be done unobtrusively. The chips are tiny and can be put into a hospital ID band or a necklace."   (RELATED: See our Total Global Surveillance archive)

• Collar the lot of us! Blair adds whole UK to police suspect list: You're on an identity parade. Forever - The National Identity Register will allow police to add the entire adult population of the UK to their suspect list, giving them the opportunity to check fingerprints left at scenes of crime against those collected from ID card and passport applicants, says Tony Blair. Nor are fingerprints in other EU countries necessarily safe - the introduction of biometric technology, he adds, will "improve the flow of information between countries on the identity of offenders.