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.

• New JFK film: 90 seconds to assassination - With a pink hat and a broad smile, Jackie Kennedy looks out on the crowd gathered in downtown Dallas, only 90 seconds before the assassination that was to change the US. You may think you've seen it before, but this image comes from a newly-discovered home movie handed into a Texas museum and released for the first time yesterday. George Mack, the curator of the Six Floor museum in Dallas that collects material relating to the assassination and to the life of JFK, said the silent 8mm colour film provided the clearest and "the best view of Jackie I have ever seen" on the day.

• Man Critical After 2 Taser Shocks - A man who was shocked twice by a Taser gun is in critical condition at a North County hospital. The investigation began when a man called the sheriff's department to report that "someone was out to get him," according to the department. Deputies were sent to a gas station at the 100 block of Emerald Drive in Vista. They said that once they arrived a little after 10 a.m., they located a 43-year-old man who deputies said was acting strangely. The deputies said the man tried to kick out a window in the back of a patrol car after he was taken into custody. After deputies decided to further restrain him, he was taken out of the car and began to struggle. A deputy then shot the man with a Taser gun. Officials said the man was shocked a second time with the device because he continued to struggle. The deputies said they realized he was in medical distress after he was successfully restrained. They then removed the restraints and performed CPR until paramedics arrived. The man is now listed in critical condition at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside.

Monday 19th February 2007: -

• BBC Hit Piece a Tissue of Lies, Bias and Emotional Manipulation: Outraged truth community demands answers from Guy Smith, immediate retractions and apologies urged, savage agenda driven yellow journalism an insult to the truth - The BBC's Conspiracy Files documentary about 9/11 was a tissue of lies, bias and emotional manipulation from beginning to end. Producer Guy Smith should be ashamed of himself for inflicting this travesty of yellow journalism upon the 9/11 truth movement and he is assured to encounter a vociferous and outraged response in its aftermath. Separated into two categories below are a number of questions intended to highlight Guy Smith's production for what it was - a deliberate hit piece on the 9/11 truth movement structured around fallacy, lying by omission and overwhelming bias. We invite Mr. Smith to respond to these questions and the hundreds of others that are already being asked by furious and informed community of people who were made sick to their stomachs by Smith's yellow journalism hatchet job.

• Top Bin Laden Expert: Confession Fake - Was Osama Bin Laden responsible for 9/11? The Bush Administration says yes, citing a grainy, badly-edited videotape that surfaced in December, 2001. In that tape, a fat guy who vaguely resembles Bin Laden chortles about the success of the 9/11 attacks. (In earlier interviews, Bin Laden had denied responsibility for 9/11, once even deploring the loss of civilian life in the attacks and calling them un-Islamic.) Is the famous “confession video” genuine? Despite Bush’s insistence that the tape is authentic, America’s top academic Bin Laden expert has finally gone on the record, joining numerous other experts.

• Judge's Ruling in Diana Probe Challenged - Lawyers on Monday challenged a coroner's decision to preside without a jury over the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, arguing that her decision to act alone gave the appearance of impropriety. The legal appeal at London's High Court was made by Fayed's father Mohamed al Fayed, lawyers for his Ritz Hotel in Paris, and the family of Henry Paul, who drove the car in which he, the princess and Fayed died in Paris in 1997.   (RELATED: See our popular Diana Assassination archive)

• The extraordinary photo that reveals just how little MPs knew about the Iraq war - The extraordinary picture on the right lays bare just how much Tony Blair's Cabinet was kept in the dark as Britain went to war in Iraq. Rather than being told by the Prime Minister that the country was at war, they had been roused from their beds by policemen or phoned by journalists with news of the first American strikes. But at this moment, 7.55am on March 20, 2003, they know no more about the final decision to launch the attack than the rest of the British public tuned in to the early-morning news.

• Boffins develop RFID 'powder' chips: Radio controlled dust devils - Tiny Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips, 64 times smaller than current devices, have been developed by Hitatchi in Japan. Little bigger than a grain of sand at 0.05 x 0.05mm, the chips come with a 128-bit memory capable of storing an identification number of up to 38 digits.

• Canadian Internet Users Enthusiastic About RFID in Grocery Stores: Study Finds Grocery Shoppers Also Interested in Using the Technology in - Canadian Internet users are ready to embrace Radio Frequency IDentification technology not only in their grocery stores, but also in their homes, and while they mention safety, privacy and security as concerns, they are more worried about the cost of RFID and that it might not work properly, a new poll conducted by TNS Canadian Facts reveals.

• Little RFID tags let Big Brother watch - Radio Frequency Identification has been around for quite a while, but has gained momentum in the last few years. Mario Cadullo's 1973 patent is credited with being the thought leader for today's modern radio frequency identification technology. His business plan, presented to potential investors in 1969, listed such uses as auto identification, electronic toll systems, security and medical applications. RFID tags or cards can be passive, semi-active and active, based on their power supplies. Because they communicate by radio waves, they can be extremely small and require no power supply at all. Privacy activists worry public apathy will allow large corporations and possibly government entities to cross the line when monitoring private individuals.

• UK 'defenceless' without ID cards - Cancelling plans for ID cards would render Britain "defenceless in the war against illegal immigrants", according to Home Office minister Liam Byrne. Speaking at Home Office questions in the Commons, Byrne told MPs that 70 per cent of the cost of introducing the ID card system would have to be spent on new biometric passports. He dismissed suggestions that the scheme - intended to combat illegal immigration, identity fraud, organised crime and terrorism - could be scrapped in its entirety.

• New freedom threat: Radio Frequency Identification - Do you value your privacy, your freedom? Recently, I finished a book on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, about a world where everything you own - sneakers, driver's license, even your prescription medications - contains a tiny microchip that can transmit private information about you to marketers, criminals or government agents. These RFID chips may eventually replace bar codes, allowing strangers to study your purchasing habits, peek at your medical history and pinpoint your physical location by global corporations and government agencies.

Sunday 18th February 2007: -

• Labour will force everyone to give fingerprints at ID card interview centres - Ministers plan to force all adults to travel miles at their own expense to fingerprint scanning units so their details can go onto an identity card database. From 2009, everyone will have to attend one of 69 "interview centres", whose locations are revealed today for the first time. People without their own transport, such as the elderly and the less well off, will be hit hardest by having to make round trips that in some cases will be more than 100 miles. Somebody living in Cambridge would be forced to make a 62-mile round trip to Bury St Edmunds, while people in Blackpool would have to travel 54 miles to Blackburn and back. In Stranraer, residents face a 128-mile round trip to Kilmarnock.

• Face-to-face interviews planned for all passport applications - Passport officials have defended a new face-to-face interview system for passport applications, saying they will be an invaluable tool in fighting identity fraud. Critics had said the checks, to be introduced for new applicants from April, would pose a "major threat" to individual liberty. From 2009, the scheme will be extended to those renewing lost, stolen or expired passports. There are 600,000 applicants for passports each year. The new rules require anyone requesting a passport for the first time to be interrogated about their personal details. Opponents claim the policy is a back-door means to gather data for use with the Government's controversial identity card scheme.

• Blair backs tougher gun laws after shootings - Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday backed tougher laws targeting gun crime after a slew of teenage murders in London that have provoked soul-searching about the state of society. The fatal shootings of three youths this month in the south of the capital have sparked a huge political response and widespread debate about whether the killings reflected a general malaise in the nation at large. Blair said while gun crime in Britain, and London specifically, had fallen, tougher sentences for youngsters found carrying guns would help police clamp down on gangs.   (RELATED: See our archive Disarmed and Enslaved)

Saturday 17th February 2007: -

• EU police will access our DNA database - Police across the EU will gain access to Britain's DNA, fingerprint and car registration databases in what critics are calling another move towards a "Big Brother Europe". 3,500 schools now use finger print scanners in 'Big Brother state by stealth'. Schoolchildren face airport style security to curb knife culture. Speeding: Now you will be fingerprinted. The Home Office has agreed to a data-sharing network of national crime records across 27 EU states. Officers from those countries will be able to access records as early as next year. The UK has the largest criminal DNA database in the world, holding nearly 4million samples.

• 50,000 Norfolk people on DNA database - Almost 50,000 people in Norfolk have had their DNA taken to be added to a national database despite claims it infringes civil liberties. Norfolk Constabulary is storing the DNA profiles of 47,036 people - 6pc of the total population of Norfolk - including innocent people who are never convicted of crimes. At least 3,500 of the people on the database are aged under-18 and while the Government argues it is an invaluable tool against fighting crime, critics say keeping the DNA of innocent people without their consent is wrong. Dr Ian Gibson, Norwich North MP, said: “I'm worried about the reason for innocent people being put on the database - I could understand somebody being put on if they were convicted but people who are not charged should not be put on the database.

• New eyes in the sky: blimp telescopes - It's not just a lot of hot air. A handful of companies, including space-industry leader Lockheed Martin, are working on solar-powered blimps that can serve a host of purposes, including transmitting cell phone calls, taking deep-space snapshots, and detecting incoming missiles. The Hubble-like aspect is garnering the most press these days, especially since the venerable space telescope is targeted for eventual disintegration; but the other uses are powerful possibilities as well.   (RELATED: See our Total Global Surveillance archive)

• Why the resistance to 9-11 truth? - Anyone who has studied 9-11 at all knows it was an inside job. Bush was not surprised. His brother Marvin's security company closed down one tower the week before and brought in lots of cables and other equipment. The towers, including building 7, were dropped by controlled demolition. The planes provided a dramatic cover story- great pix. Rumsfeld had control of scrambling planes transferred to himself, exclusively, a few months before, and then disappeared that morning, so no planes intercepted the four hijacked airliners. Instead, there was a "stand-down" of NORAD. By some strange coincidence, a military exercise was being run that am which simulated planes crashing into buildings, so that the air traffic controllers were confused about whether the "attack" was real or part of a drill.

• US-North Korean Nuclear Agreement: Clearing The Decks For Iran - The deal reached between the US and North Korea at six-party talks in Beijing on Tuesday has been variously described in the international media as a “landmark” and an “historic agreement”—holding out the prospect of ending more than five decades of confrontation between the two countries. Nothing could be further from the truth. Far from marking a fundamental change in the militarist course of the Bush administration, the deal represents a temporary and tactical shift that conveniently sidelines a potentially explosive issue as the US prepares for war against Iran.

Friday 16th February 2007: -

• 26 Americans ordered to stand trial in Italy - An Italian judge has ordered 26 Americans - most of them CIA agents - to stand trial over the kidnap of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. Osama Mustafa Hassan was allegedly seized by the CIA and flown to Egypt, where he says he was tortured. Five Italians were also indicted by the judge. Most of the indicted US citizens are believed to have returned home from Italy. The case would be the first criminal trial over the secret US practice known as 'extraordinary rendition'.

• SmartMetric Unveils Fingerprint Payment Card - SmartMetric, a small, publicly traded company, claims to have solved the problem of how to send cash over the Internet. The New York-based company has developed software and a biometric fingerprint card that enable a person sending money over the internet to verify the receiver of the cash. The card has an embedded fingerprint sensor and a surface-mounted smart chip. The user just has to plug the card into a computer's USB port.

• School district finds unique way to charge students for lunch - The Bethel School District says it plans to expand a "fingerprint" system for school lunches. The district right now has a pilot program at Centennial Elementary in Graham. The District says its communication with parents wasn't perfect this time. They promise community meetings and a chance for parents to say "no". But they want people to know this is not really fingerprinting, it is a lunch identification program that doesn't store any information which could be used for identification purposes.   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• Google Turns Over User IDs - Google's YouTube and a company called Live Digital will offer no refuge to users who uploaded pirated copies of Fox Television's "24" and "The Simpsons" onto their video platforms. In an e-mail to internetnews.com, a 20th Century Fox Television spokesperson said that Google and Live Digital complied with subpoenas issued by the U.S. District Court in Northern California and disclosed to Fox the identities of two individuals who illegally uploaded entire episodes of "24" prior to its broadcast and DVD release.

• Threat to staff who sign road petition in office - Workers were warned yesterday that they face disciplinary action if they use office computers to sign the Downing Street petition calling for the scrapping of road pricing proposals. The curbs faced by individuals wanting to protest emerged as Dorset Police launched an internal investigation into the circulation of an email which urged staff to back the campaign. An inquiry has been launched by the force's Professional Standards Department and those who endorsed the protest could face disciplinary action.

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  To whom it may concern:
  
  Two versions of 9/11: The Conspiracy Files?
  
  Word is reaching us that the BBC is in a quandary over which version of 9/11: The Conspiracy Files will be put out to air on Sunday evening. The dilemma is apparently due to there being two versions of Mike Rodin & Guy Smith’s documentary. One version is a well-balanced piece of investigative journalism, whereas the alternative version is a hit-piece, intent on portraying 9/11 Truth Campaigners as nothing more than a lunatic fringe group.
  
  It appears that the dilemma is a direct result of the phenomenal reaction to the recent flurry of 9/11 related items appearing in the National Media. The debate kicked off with the publication of George Monbiot’s ill-researched hit-piece on Loose Change, the most downloaded video in the history of Google Video. Any casual observer perusing the responses posted on the Guardian website, could not fail to notice that the remarkable difference in style between those who leapt to the defence of the Official Conspiracy Theory (OCT) and those were seeking answers to the glaring anomalies between the OCT and the physical evidence. The vapid vitriol from the defenders of orthodoxy was no match for the measured curiosity of the Truth seekers.
  
  Last Saturday (Feb 10) the public awareness of the case for 9/11 Truth was raised further by a reasonably balanced article authored by Sue Reid and published in the Daily Mail. On Tuesday (Feb 13) Tim Sparke, Executive Producer of Loose Change: Final Cut, responded to Monbiot’s assertion that Loose Change was responsible for triggering a ‘Conspiracy Virus’! 
  
  In a blatant attempt to publicise BBC2’s 9/11: The Conspiracy Files, Jeremy Vine employed New Statesman contributor Brendan O’Neill in an attempt to attack David Shayler and marginalise the 9/11 Truth Movement as a bunch of eccentrics; an objective which seriously missed the mark. Shayler handled himself admirably, he continually offered evidence upon evidence against O’Neill’s argumentum ad hominem. The discerning listener coming away with the clear perspective that there are some aspects of 9/11 that are not quite right! 
  
  So what’s up with the Beeb? Well, word reaches us that new kid on the block, Gareth Ancier is the point man in trying to persuade BBC2 to run the hit-piece. Despite the fact that his appointment to the position of Head Honcho in the US (see link below) was only announced in Wednesday’s edition of The Guardian, he is apparently already flexing his muscles. How would the producers Guy Rodin & Mike Smith feel about this outside influence? Well, they’ve been paid so what do they care! Journalistic integrity is not in the vocabulary of the major broadcasters and certainly not in the vocabulary of one Ancier’s previous employers, FOX. 
  
  http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2013028,00.html 
  
  Newly responsible for the marketing of BBC productions in the US, Ancier is no doubt claiming that he will not be able to maximize revenues if the BBC is seen to be running programmes, however balanced, intimating that 9/11 might have been an inside job. From personal experience of operating within the US industrial complex, it is not beyond the realms of probability that Ancier is waving mega$ incentives if the Beeb agrees to run the hit-piece. As Princeton graduate and an initiate of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, serious pressure will be being put on Ancier to get the Beeb to ‘play ball’.
  
  Ancier will be familiar with the acquisitions strategy adopted by FOX in the aftermath of the OKC bombing, where local TV stations were broadcasting facts which called into question the ‘Lone Gunman’ theory that the devastation of the Alfred P. Murrah building was the result of a single Ryder truck loaded with fertilizer based explosives. 
  
  Local News is a thing of the past in the USA; all local TV stations being required to broadcast the sanitized news prepared by FOX, or one of the other ‘approved’ centralised news organisations . As a friend of mine from Texas commented recently, “Our news media treats us like mushrooms; we’re fed sh*t & kept in the dark.”
  
  There will undoubtedly be individuals within the British Government who will also be angling for the hit-piece to be broadcast. When the truth about the events of 9/11 is eventually realised, there are players who are either going to have to face charges of complicity or endeavour to explain their apparent ignorance, despite the ever-mounting availability of evidence which is anomalous to the OCT. They will also have to explain why they ignored the 9/11 Fact Sheets & Loose Change DVD’s that was sent to every MP, Member of the Lords, & every MEP in April of 2005!
  
  9pm on Sunday evening may turn out to be a defining moment for the BBC.
  
  Ian R. Crane
  
  Chair – 9/11 Truth Campaign (UK & Ireland)

Thursday 15th February 2007: -

• BBC 9/11 Documentary Likely Hit Piece: Obsessive focus on strawman theories say individuals interviewed for upcoming show - This weekend's highly anticipated BBC documentary on the 9/11 truth movement is likely to be a sophisticated hit piece, according to those who were interviewed for the program and others wary of the motives behind the creators of the show. The BBC are extensively promoting the show via commercials during peak time viewing and yesterday featured a reasonably balanced summary of the 9/11 truth movement on their website. A preview clip and an extended clip showing Alex Jones and Jim Marrs at Dealy Plaza were also released yesterday. Seemingly fair promotional material shouldn't suck anyone in to believing anything else than the fact that this is most probably going to be a severe attack on 9/11 truth.

• Barclaycard displays wave-and-pay in cab: Barclaycard has exhibited a mockup of a wave-and-pay system in a taxi at the Business Travel Show - Barclaycard is continuing its campaign against pocket change with a mock-up of a wave-and-pay taxi terminal, on display at the Business Travel Show in London. The concept cab, from London taxi firm Computer Cabs, let show attendees see how the contactless payment system could work and what potential uses the mobile terminals could have ahead of their expected release later this year. The contactless system, which was originally announced in December, will allow customers to pay for transactions under £10 by simply waving their Visa cards in front of a reader - similar to Transport for London's Oyster card system, which will also be built into the cards.   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• Prescription Drug Use Among Students Growing: Students look to drugs like Ritalin to control ADHD and enhance test performance - About one-third of undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz are prescribed behavior-altering drugs for depression, anti-anxiety, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), according to Craig Reinarman, professor of Sociology at UCSC and drug-policy expert. The growing tradition of students using—and often abusing—drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall to better concentrate or gain more energy, has everyone from sociologists to students questioning what the underlying causes for the drugs’ use is. Reinarman believes that the reason behind the trend in possible use of Ritalin sans prescriptions is due to what critic Richard DeGrandpre, author of Ritalin Nation, has labeled as “rapid-fire culture.” According to Reinarman, today’s culture bombards people with more and more kinds of stimulation—whether in television, movies, advertisements, computer games, iPods, or video games.

• 'Ringleader' denies involvement in Madrid bombings - An Egyptian accused of being one of the masterminds of the Madrid terror attacks today told a court he had no involvement in the bombings, despite intercepted conversations in which he allegedly bragged that he was the brains behind them. Rabei Osman told his defence lawyer: “I never had any relation to the events which occurred in Madrid.”  (RELATED: See our Problem > Reaction > Solution archive for more background info)

• Superintendent, security chief: Student ID cards could better enforce dress code - Hazleton Area School District’s top administrator says student identification cards could lead to better enforcement of the dress code. School board Security Committee members teamed with Superintendent Frank Victor and Security Coordinator Vincent Zola when following up on a director’s request for having security personnel help enforce the dress code. Zola responded to Director Carmella Yenkevich’s request for having security identify violations and turn those issues over to vice principals who typically deal with disciplinary problems.

• VeriChip IPO Focuses Attention on Human Implants - I'm not a big fan of implanting people with radio frequency identification transponders. It's unnecessary and a little creepy. There certainly could be some benefits to doing so. After Hurricane Katrina, thousands of people saw their medical records wiped out because the physical documents were destroyed. And many people left their homes in the middle of the night wearing only their pajamas, so they had no way to prove who they were when seeking medical treatment. By linking electronic medical records stored securely in a remote location and backed up properly to a chip inside a person, that person could be sure he or she would always be able to be identified and have access to medical records. But not everyone likes the idea of getting implanted. It's the stuff of TV dramas, and it scares people. My view is that a pendant with an RFID transponder in it could work just as well.

• APOLOGIES FOR OUR LACK OF UP-DATES.  WE HAVE ONCE AGAIN BEEN ATTACKED BY A MAJOR VIRUS WHICH CAUSED US TO REQUIRE A COMPLETE WIPE OF OUR COMPUTER SYSTEM.

THIS IS ONLY THE SECOND TIME IN THE PAST THREE YEARS THAT OUR COMPUTERS HAVE BEEN TARGETED IN SUCH A MANNER - THE FIRST WAS LAST NOVEMBER AND NOW THIS TIME.  THE TIMING OF BOTH EVENTS COINCIDED (TO THE DAY) WITH OUR HAVING A MAJOR USA BASED 9/11 TRUTH SPEAKER COME TO WORK WITH OUR TEAM IN THE UK.

...JUST A COINCIDENCE I AM SURE!

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Tuesday 13th February 2007: -

• Apology call over Forest Gate raid - Two Muslim families caught up in the "terrifying" Forest Gate anti-terror raid were innocent victims of a failure in police intelligence for which Scotland Yard should apologise, an official report has concluded. At least two of the occupants of the raided houses were physically struck, while another was shot in the shoulder by armed officers employing "very aggressive" and "frightening" tactics, the police watchdog said.

• Response: Don't believe the official 'conspiracy' theory - We have to ask who stood to gain the most from the appalling events of 9/11, says Tim Sparke. George Monbiot's explicit attack on the film Loose Change (A 9/11 conspiracy virus is sweeping the world ..., February 6) has no basis in fact. While we accept that there are flaws in the current version of the film, we stand by its overarching theme that the official "conspiracy" theory of 9/11, constructed in the hours, days, weeks and months after 9/11, is false. In uncritically endorsing the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report, Monbiot neglects to say that the collapse mechanism for the entire World Trade Centre building was never documented by NIST - it didn't see it as its job. Additionally, in accepting that the towers collapsed at virtually free-fall speed ("the weight of the collapsing top storeys generated a momentum the rest of the building could not arrest"), Monbiot shows no awareness that this explanation violates the law of conservation of momentum.

• ID backer knocks Tuskegee deletion from Kansas standards - A debate over how evolution is taught in Kansas also has become a debate over what students should hear in science classes about the Nazis, forced sterilization and an infamous study of syphilis in black men. A brief passage about history in science standards for the state's public schools became an issue Monday, as the State Board of Education prepared to vote on a new set of guidelines. Seeking to rewrite anti-evolution standards adopted in 2005, the board targeted for deletion a passage about historic abuses of science citing the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

• Why MI5 will be watching - Instant cash transfers by mobile phone will present another challenge for the intelligence and law enforcement agencies that have to try to keep track of money-laundering methods used by terrorists and organised crime syndicates. MI5 is one of the agencies that attempts to penetrate the money-transfer systems used by terrorist groups to fund attacks around the world. Like the police, MI5 will expect any new money-transfer systems to be guarded by strict checks under which financial reporting officers of banking and other institutions are obliged by law to make known any suspicious activities. The Vodafone tie-up with Citigroup, offering a mobile-based international money-transfer service, will be closely monitored to ensure that it provides the required safeguards.

• Officer charged after Taser hits stepdaughter in face - A police officer is facing charges of child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury after his stepdaughter was injured by a Taser stun gun inside his house. Investigators believe William Van Arsdale, who has been with the department for 16 years, was demonstrating the use of the weapon when it went off and hit his stepdaughter close to her right eye.

• SATIRE!: Homeland Security Bans Urine From Flights - Remeber to go, before you go In a press release from the Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, earlier today, it appears passengers with any sort of liquid in their bodies will not be allowed to board. "It is just too big of a security risk," Chertoff said. "We have found various different methods that people wishing to do the US in could smuggle explosives into their person, if you will." The President also commented, stating, "I don't really know how we didn't catch this sooner. However, the American people need not worry. We will win this fight against terrorists. Because as they say, terrorists are like rocks. And the US is like scissors. And everyone knows scissors cut up rocks." Homeland Security agents have already been briefed on how to search for urine. "It's basically a cross between tickling someone and punching them in the stomach," agent Mike Croack said. "We just start hitting them really hard for about 20 minutes. If they pee, then obviously they were hiding it. Just last week I beat this Islamic grandmother. She peed. Right now, she's in Guantanamo until she tells us what plot she was a part of." :-)

Monday 12th February 2007: -

• BBC explores 9/11 conspiracy - September 11 conspiracies will go mainstream on Sunday as BBC airs an hour long documentary that investigates the growing number of conspiracy theories surrounding the 9/11 attacks. 9/11: The Conspiracy Files, will try to answer the question that has been doing the rounds on the Internet ever since the hijacked planes crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center: "Is it an inside job?" According to the BBC, investigators have travelled across the United States speaking to eyewitnesses trying to separate fact from fiction.   (COMMENTARY: I sense a hit-piece.  This is the second part of a TV series, the first of which aired back in December and 'set out to look at the theories' surrounding the Diana assassination (some call it an accident... not this writer!).  I must say that I was not exactly blown away with the 'well we ought to trust the official story' theme which ran through the hour long show.  What else do you expect from the British Bull***t Corporation?  Are they likely to admit that their five-plus years of reportage has failed to uncover to biggest piece of psychological warfare since the 'Trojan Horse'.  I recommend that we all take caution with this upcoming program and caution others who are perhaps new to this subject, the modes of straw-manning the 9/11 truth movement with arguments of dancing Israelis, holograms and so on.  Observe the stereotypical way in which we in the 9/11 research community will be branded as tin-foil hat wearers in front of a home audience of millions.  By playing their usual dirty tricks, this is a good opportunity for the NWO controlled media to smear ourselves, but is also a fact that many of the currently sleeping viewers will be woken up to do the research.  And we will be waiting!)

• Airport X-ray causes trouser droppage - Airport security can be very frustrating in this age of post-9/11 paranoia, security theatre and the War on Liquids. But one German tourist in the Phillipines should probably have found a better outlet for his dissatisfaction – because he could now face six years in jail for dropping his trousers before walking through an X-ray machine. The 66-year-old man, the impressively named Hans Jurgen Oskar von Naguschewski, was trying to board a flight from Manila airport to Frankfurt when he was asked to walk through the X-ray scanner for a second time. This was clearly the straw that broke the camel's back, and von Naguschewski responded by pulling his trousers down before walking through the machine.

• Talking Toilets To Tell Us Right From Wrong: Government thinks we need to be kept in line by urinal cakes - The state of New Mexico has ordered 500 talking urinal cakes that will deliver a recorded anti-DWI message to bar and restaurant patrons who make one last pit stop before getting behind the wheel. The "Wizmark" device subjects users to a female voice reading the following script: "Hey there, big guy. Having a few drinks? Listen up. Think that you've had a few too many? Then it's time to call a cab or ask a sober friend for a ride home. It sure is safer and a hell of a lot cheaper than a DWI. Make the smart choice tonight. Don't drink and drive. Remember, your future is in your hand."

• The Hidden Agenda: Ian R Crane of spiritualalchemy.com (whom is also a good friend of ours) delivering his talk on the Hidden Agenda at the Glastonbury Symposium in July 2006 - A cross between MTV & The History Channel, recorded live at the 2006 Glastonbury Symposium, Ian R. Crane delves into the belief systems of those who consider it to be their inherent right to dominate & rule the physical realm, by keeping the vast majority of the global population in perpetual financial slavery. In discussing Tony Blair's role in the death of Princess Diana, Crane's theory as to why she was murdered is far outside the realm of conventional wisdom ... but then so is much of his thinking!. The cloak surrounding the manipulation of global events is falling apart. Crane's presentation will shock as much as it will inform ... but also serves to bring enormous hope into a world of apparent despair: -

(ALSO AVAILABLE ON DVD HERE)

• AUSTRALIA: Flu shot went horribly wrong - A flu vaccination went horribly wrong for a public servant who developed a potentially fatal condition, a Senate estimates committee heard today. A woman developed the nerve disease Guillain-Barre syndrome after receiving a flu shot in 2005 through the federal department of parliamentary services. Three other people also fell ill but their cases have not been conclusively linked to the Parliament House vaccination program. Department of parliamentary services head Hilary Penfold said the woman was still dealing with compensation claims for her treatment.

Sunday 11th February 2007: -

• The tiny airline spy that spots bombers in the blink of an eye - Tiny cameras the size of a fingernail linked to specialist computers are to be used to monitor the behaviour of airline passengers as part of the war on terrorism. Cameras fitted to seat-backs will record every twitch, blink, facial expression or suspicious movement before sending the data to onboard software which will check it against individual passenger profiles. Scientists from Britain and Germany are spending £25million developing a system which they hope will make it virtually impossible to hijack an airliner by providing pilots and cabin crew with an early warning of a possible terrorist attack such as 9/11.

• Criminals Control the Executive Branch - Gentle reader, you are probably unaware of former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski’s damning indictment of the Bush Regime in his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 1, 2007, as the United States no longer has a media – only a government propaganda ministry. Brzezinski damned the Bush Regime’s war in Iraq as "a historic, strategic, and moral calamity." Brzezinski damned the war as "driven by Manichean impulses and imperial hubris." He damned the war for "intensifying regional instability" and for "undermining America’s global legitimacy."

• No ID card? No entrance: High school to go hi tech - By the end of the month, any student wishing to enter Trenton Central High School must carry an identification card with a special bar code. With just one swipe of the card, the student's picture and class schedule will appear on a computer screen. If the picture matches the student, he or she may gain access into the building.

• Putin thunders against US foreign policy - RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has launched in one of his harshest attacks on the United States in seven years in power, accused Washington overnight of attempting to force its will on the world. In a speech in Germany which reminded some of Cold War rhetoric, Mr Putin accused the United States of making the world a more dangerous place by pursuing policies aimed at making it "one single master". Attacking the concept of a "unipolar" world in which the United States was the sole superpower, he said: "What is a unipolar world? No matter how we beautify this term it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master."

• THE LATEST FROM WILLIAM RODRIGUEZ'S UK 9/11 TRUTH TOUR - "300 People at Edinburgh on Saturday, a very good reception.  Showed Ludicrous Diversion followed by a short introduction about the Twin Towers collapse, which was then followed by a very powerful talk by William Rodriguez.  A Muslim leader closed proceedings with a debate about the Islamic communities as a consequence of their government activities.  We expect equal success in Edinburgh on Sunday thanks to yesterdays Daily Mail article about the truth movement." Anthony Beckett, UK 9/11 Truth Activist.

• Should schools drug test?: Lawyer-father says, `Yes' - Few Americans who are not lawyers will ever read the full opinion of a case decided by the United States Supreme Court. The Rockridge school district is considering establishing a policy that would require some students to be tested for illegal drugs. A number citizens claim such a policy will violate the "privacy rights" of the students tested.

• LET'S MAKE THIS THE VERY LAST ARTICLE OF THE DAYS NEWS!: UK opposition chief won't deny he smoked cannabis - British opposition leader David Cameron said on Sunday he would not deny newspaper reports that he smoked cannabis when he was a pupil at one of the country's most exclusive schools 25 years ago. "Like many people I did things when I was young that I shouldn't have done and that I regret," Cameron told reporters camped outside his Oxfordshire home. "But I do believe that politicians are entitled to a past that is private and that remains private, so I won't be making any commentary on what's in the newspapers today," the Conservative Party leader said.

Saturday 10th February 2007: -

• NYPD Officer Heard Building 7 Bombs: "The whole time you're hearing boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I think I know an explosion when I hear it" - Following our reports this week about three different ground zero rescue workers who all testified that they were told Building 7 was to be brought down, yet more revealing testimony has come to light - this time from a former NYPD officer and first responder, who states that he clearly heard bombs tear down Building 7 as he ran away from its collapse. NYPD officer Craig Bartmer awoke on 9/11 to images of the World Trade Center burning. Knowing colleagues who worked inside the towers, he immediately headed for ground zero to help with the rescue efforts. He is now suffering from respiratory illnesses as a result of the toxic dust inhaled at the site. Bartmer was in the immediate vicinity of Building 7 before its collapse at approximately 5:20pm.

• Engineer: GPS Shoes Make People Findable - Isaac Daniel calls the tiny Global Positioning System chip he's embedded into a line of sneakers "peace of mind." He wishes his 8-year-old son had been wearing them when he got a call from his school in 2002 saying the boy was missing. The worried father hopped a flight to Atlanta from New York where he had been on business to find the incident had been a miscommunication and his son was safe. Days later, the engineer started working on a prototype of Quantum Satellite Technology, a line of $325 to $350 adult sneakers that hit shelves next month. It promises to locate the wearer anywhere in the world with the press of a button. A children's line will be out this summer.

• 9/11: If I knew nothing else about it, I'd know this - Theories abound. And really, why shouldn't they. What else could possibly be expected when this government, this President, blocked the creation of the commission to investigate the biggest mass murder in American history. And what else could possibly be expected when this President then hand-picked the commission members after losing his battle for "silence"? And then there was the "mission statement" of the commission itself, or rather, the NON-mission statement: "Our purpose is not to assign RESPONSIBILITY for the attacks". This, by the DIRECTIVE of the President AS A CONDITION FOR THE CREATION OF THE COMMISSION.   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• An explosion of disbelief - fresh doubts over 9/11 - The official story of what happened on 9/11 never fails to shock. Four American airliners are hijacked by Osama Bin Laden's terrorists in an attack on the heart of the Western world on September 11, 2001. Two are deliberately flown into New York's famous Twin Towers, which collapse. A third rams into the United States defence headquarters at the Pentagon, in Washington D.C. The last goes down in rural Pennsylvania, 150 miles north of the capital, after a tussle between the hijackers and some of the passengers onboard, whose bravery was recently portrayed in a Hollywood film, United 93. Nearly 3,000 ordinary, decent Americans die in the attacks, provoking the U.S. President George W. Bush to mount a global war on terror, which leads to the invasion of Iraq, with Britain in tow. Or that's how the official story goes.

• ANOTHER BLATANT ATTEMPT TO FALSELY LABEL THE 9/11 TRUTH MOVEMENT AS RACIST: ADL leader warns of new danger to Jews - The "demons" are back, anti-Semitism fighter Abraham Foxman said Friday. The demons that make people say that Jews lied about the Holocaust. That Jews are all rich. That they run U.S. foreign policy, determine wars and stifle discussion about Israel. "There's a scary pattern out there," Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, told the organization's national leaders at their annual meeting in Palm Beach. "Suddenly, we're fighting demons every day that we were convinced we had buried long ago." Foxman's fiery speech at the three-day conference of the ADL National Executive Committee traced several anti-Semitic strands that have revived since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001. One, he said, is that a third of the world's people think the attack was caused by Jews.

• Rabbi Lerner open to 9/11 conspiracy theory: I guess he must be an anti-Semitic too if he is critical of the 9/11 official story? - Rabbi Michael Lerner said he “would not be surprised” if the Bush administration had been involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In an essay published in the book “9/11 and American Empire: Christians, Jews, and Muslims Speak Out,” the left-wing activist and editor of Tikkun magazine says he’s “agnostic” on the question of what exactly transpired on Sept. 11, 2001. “I would not be surprised to learn that some branch of our government conspired either actively to promote or passively to allow the attack on 9/11,” Lerner wrote. While he noted in his essay what he called “huge holes” and “contradictions” in the government’s account of the attacks, Lerner said in a subsequent interview with the Forward that he was “skeptical” of conspiracy theories advanced by other authors in the collection.

• Cash for keeping patients alive - HOSPITALS are to be given cash bonuses - for keeping people alive. Regional health bosses are planning to try out a US system of rewarding trusts which have low death rates, levels of infection and readmissions. It will be piloted in part of the north west from October and all the region's hospitals from next April. Trusts will compete for a total pot of £1.5m. Any hospital that ranks in the top 10 or 20 per cent will get a share. But Stephanie Thomas, of the Unison union, said: "Members of the public would expect these standards would be prioritised already, so it is difficult to see how this scheme would make the situation better. We would also be concerned that by rewarding the best performing trusts rather than giving extra help to those which are struggling, it will not improve the system as a whole but create super centres and leave other trusts struggling to survive."

• Defense bigs ask '24' to cool it on torture - The grossly graphic torture scenes in Fox's highly rated series "24" are encouraging abuses in Iraq, a brigadier general and three top military and FBI interrogators claim. The four flew to Los Angeles in November to meet with the staff of the show. They said it is hurting efforts to train recruits in effective interrogation techniques and is damaging the image of the U.S. around the world, according The New Yorker. "I'd like them to stop," Army Brig. Gen. Patrick Finnegan, dean of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, told the magazine. Finnegan and others told the show's creative team that the torture depicted in "24" never works in real life, and by airing such scenes, they're encouraging military personnel to act illegally.

Friday 09th February 2007: -

• The brain scan that can read people's intentions: Call for ethical debate over possible use of new technology in interrogation - A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before they act. The research breaks controversial new ground in scientists' ability to probe people's minds and eavesdrop on their thoughts, and raises serious ethical issues over how brain-reading technology may be used in the future.

• Guantánamo probe flawed, rights group says - A human rights group says the U.S. military failed to adequately investigate the latest allegations of prisoner abuse at Guantánamo Bay -- and urged officials to permit independent monitoring of the detention center. In October, the U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the U.S. naval base in southeast Cuba, opened an investigation into a Marine paralegal's report that Guantánamo guards bragged about beating detainees. Amnesty International said the probe was ''flawed'' because the chief investigator, Army Col. Richard Bassett, did not interview any detainees before concluding there was no evidence of mistreatment.

• Big Brother is keeping you safe - IN George Orwell's powerful novel 1984, the all-seeing and all-hearing Big Brother presides over a totalitarian state. Fast forward to Peterborough in 2007, where 135 CCTV cameras dotted across the city capture our every move. If Orwell could take a stroll through our city centre streets, where a camera peers down from every corner, he would think his gloomy prediction was real. But he wouldn't be further from the truth. As a law-abiding citizen, going about your daily business, you have absolutely nothing to fear. That is unless you are suddenly overcome by an urge to steal a bicycle, mug an old woman, hurl a brick through a shop window or drop litter on the ground.

• Skipton's closed circuit TVs are "no deterrent" - SKIPTON'S closed circuit television network is not helping police bring criminals to justice, a council report has revealed. Currently Skipton's town centre is monitored in seven places - the town's four main car parks, in Caroline Square, Newmarket Street and outside Holy Trinity Church on the High Street. The cameras rotate for 24 hours a day and images are picked up and monitored in Harrogate. There is an additional viewing facility at Skipton Police Station consisting of a "slave" monitor and camera control equipment. But this is rarely viewed due to North Yorkshire Police's policy of not allowing constant CCTV monitoring from within police stations.

• Schools 'not obliged to follow fingerprint advice': SCHOOLS will soon be told that they should seek parental permission before taking children's fingerprints – but the country's privacy watchdog admitted last night teachers will remain free to ignore the guidance - The Information Commissioner is "shortly" to issue new guidance telling schools to secure parents' and pupils' consent to the taking of biometric details for hi-tech library, class registration and cashless dining room systems using fingerprint identification. The Yorkshire Post revealed last year that thousands of children across the region – some as young as five – were having their fingerprints taken in schools. At least 30 schools in Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire are known to use fingerprint systems, although campaigners insisted that the true figure was likely to run into hundreds in this region alone.

• More Ground Zero Heroes On The Record: Building 7 Was Deliberately Brought Down: Testimony of multiple rescue personnel that they were told Building 7 was going to be imploded means FEMA, NIST, Silverstein Properties and federal government all lied, revelations demand immediate grand jury inquiry into insurance fraud, vindicates call for new independent 9/11 investigation - Two more ground zero emergency rescue personnel are on the record as stating they were told Building 7 was going to be brought down on 9/11 hours before its symmetrical implosion, completely contradicting the official explanation of accidental collapse. The new revelations provoke urgent questions about how a building was rigged with explosives within hours when such a process normally takes weeks or months and why the decision was taken to demolish the building amidst the chaos of the situation on that day.

• Nanobattery created to power RFID tags - A nanotechnology company is developing a nanobattery which could prolong the shelf life of radio frequency identification (RFID) applications. New Jersey-based mPhase Technologies is working on the creation of a new version of its Smart Nanobattery product in order to provide an energy source which is long-lasting but quick to activate. The firm aims to integrate the battery within an RFID security solution which could then be used in tracking systems on cars, shipping containers and large-scale or costly medical equipment.

• Stop Tesco! That's message from Hucknall traders - TRADERS in Hucknall are overwhelmingly against a plan to extend the Tesco superstore, saying it could be "the death" of the town centre. The Dispatch exclusively revealed last week that the supermarket giant is planning to spend £5 million to create a second floor at its flagship store off Station Road. It would be used to sell non-food products, ranging from DVD players and televisions to clothes.   (RELATED: See boycotttesco.com)

Thursday 08th February 2007: -

• Ground Zero EMT: We Were Told Building 7 Was to Be "Pulled": New Jersey Emergency Medical Technician asked "how could someone have rigged all these explosives?" before towers collapsed, support columns had been blown out - A New Jersey EMT has gone public on how emergency workers were told that Building 7 was going to be "pulled," before a 20 second demolition countdown broadcast over radio preceded its collapse. The ground zero rescue worker also blows the whistle on how he witnessed multiple underground support columns of the WTC towers that had been severed before the buildings imploded. In a letter to Loose Change producer Dylan Avery, the individual who wishes to remain anonymous refering to himself only as Mike, 30, NJ, describes how he has repeatedly tried to alert numerous authorities to what he saw on 9/11 but was ignored or told to "shut up" on every occasion, and ultimately fired for disorderly conduct.    (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• Freed man condemns 'police state': Ex-terror plot suspect speaks out - A man freed after he was arrested over an alleged plot to kidnap a UK Muslim soldier has criticised the police investigation. Abu Bakr, who works in the Maktabah bookshop, targeted in anti-terror raids in Birmingham, also told BBC News the UK was "a police state for Muslims". Mr Bakr, one of nine men arrested during last week's raids, was released without charge along with another man. He said he would be affected for the rest of his life by the arrest.

• 3,500 schools now use finger print scanners in 'Big Brother state by stealth' - As many as 3,500 schools are taking fingerprints from pupils, often without their parents' permission, a new poll revealed yesterday. Soaring numbers require pupils to undergo biometric identity checks before they can register in the mornings, buy canteen meals and use the library. But the trend has prompted furious complaints from parents who are concerned their children's data will be stored on insecure databases. Under current laws, schools do not have to seek parental consent before taking pupils' fingerprints, although they should notify them.

• Taunton school lunch goes digital - Student lunch payments are going digital, with transactions to be made with an electronic scan of a student's fingertip. Six schools within the Taunton School District will implement the use of finger scans next month as a method of simplifying payment of student lunches. During a meeting of the Taunton School Committee on Wednesday, Food Services Director Karen Pappas said the program will be implemented in mid-March at the Bennett, Chamberlain, East Taunton and Pole elementary schools and at the Martin and Mulcahey middle schools. Eventually, the program will also be used at Friedman Middle School and the high school. Pappas said the process will enable parents to pay for their children's lunches on-line with credit cards or through checking accounts.

• Sarnoff wants to scan your iris without your knowledge - Okay, so it's more like the US government wanting to snag shots of your eyeballs sans your knowledge, but still, Sarnoff Corporation (yet another New Jersey firm interested in ocular studies) has recently filed a patent application that spells out a snazzy method of quickly photographing a helpless individual's facial region multiple times in order to (hopefully) capture one solid look at the iris. This newfangled manner of jacking biometrics from clueless pedestrians is actually being requested by the American government, as it apparently hopes to use it to run constant background checks with the information on file in order to peg a threat as they're strolling through. The device is slated to beam a "powerful, infrared strobe light" onto the subjects' faces, which syncs up with the camera exposures and creates a bank of hopeful photos for each individual, presumably chewing through terabytes of hard drive space in the process.

• New biometric system launched in Birmingham - A sophisticated biometric system to help frequent travellers get through immigration quickly has been launched at Birmingham International Airport (BIA). The government's new Iris Recognition Immigration System (Iris) allows passengers to go through a simple iris scan instead of queuing to see immigration officers at passport control. Travellers must be signed up to the programme to undergo the scan. Once at the airport, they must go to an automated barrier and look straight into a camera, which will scan their eyes and match the information with a database. The passenger will be able to go straight through the barrier once he or she is recognised by the system.

• Australian Government 'sneaking through ID card' - THE Federal Government has used climate change as a diversion to sneak a national ID card into Parliament, claims the Australian Privacy Foundation. Draft laws setting up the Access Card, which will replace the Medicare card and provide access to up to 16 other government health and welfare services, were introduced into Parliament this morning. But the foundation said the card was really a national ID card "pure and simple" with all the features of the Australia Card proposal rejected in the 1980s.

• Wife: Husband said 'he will die' before going to prison - The wife of a man barricaded in his fortress-like home since he was convicted of tax evasion said Wednesday she's sick with worry about his safety. ''They're not going to let him stay there forever,'' Elaine Brown told WMUR-TV. ''So, how's that going to end? I don't know.'' Ed and Elaine Brown were convicted last month of plotting to conceal their income and avoid paying federal income tax for years. They argued the tax is illegitimate and no one is required to pay it. They said they would pay their taxes if the government shows them a law that allows labor to be taxed.

Wednesday 07th February 2007: -

• Media Fearmongering Links Letter Bomber to Big Brother Critics, Tax Protesters: Groups opposed to tracking and surveillance demonized as Blair's cash for honors scandal disappears off front pages, fearmongering spreads to make people nervous about looking in their private home letter box, secret Downing Street memo called for police postal scans - A third UK company that oversees Big Brother tracking and taxation policies has been targeted in a letter bombing campaign that has only succeeded in demonizing privacy and personal freedom advocates, while also wiping Tony Blair's cash for honors scandal off the front pages. British media outlets are busy trying to link the letter bomber to anti-surveillance and tax protest groups. For years we have been predicting that attacks on Big Brother institutions would be blamed on extremists who are angered by rapidly expanding surveillance and taxation and used to demonize organizations that legitimately oppose government encroachment on privacy.   (RELATED: See our Problem > Reaction > Solution archive)

• Conservatives lay plans to ditch ID card - The shadow home secretary David Davies has asked the government to agree get-out clauses with companies it contracts to build its ID card systems and databases so that a Conservative government can ditch the scheme. In a letter to Sir Gus O'Donnell, cabinet secretary, Davies gave "formal notice" that the Conservatives would scrap the ID card and drew on the gentleman's agreement between successive governments that one won't tie the hands of its successor. "As a matter of financial prudence, it is incumbent upon you to ensure that public money is not wasted, and contractual obligations are not incurred, investing in a scheme with such a high risk of not being implemented," he wrote.

• Random Drug Testing For USA High Schools? - An aggressive new drug program is the talk of the town out in the Hill Country Wednesday morning. The Burnet Independent School District is hoping to enact random drug tests at their local high school. The athletic director approached the school board for the first time recently with a few ideas to randomly test students. He used a few examples to consider, one which would include students who drive their cars to school. Burnet Consolidated Independent School District is a 4A school, which considers itself typical of Hill Country schools.

• Police free two in terror inquiry - Two of the nine men arrested during anti-terrorism raids in Birmingham last Wednesday have been released without charge by police. The two said in a statement after their release that police had made no mention to them of an alleged kidnap plot. Sources had told the BBC police were investigating an alleged plot to kidnap and murder a British Muslim soldier. Police said it was "normal" for people to be released without charge at this stage in "complex criminal inquiries".   (COMMENTARY: By 'complex' I think they mean 'staged for political purposes')

• Why you should never trust new wonder drugs - A drug company was last week accused of concealing evidence about the safety of the antidepressant Seroxat. According to leading psychiatrist Professor David Healy, this is just the latest in a string of cases where patients and medical professionals have been misled about a drug's adverse effects. Ten years ago, I sat faced with boxes and boxes that contained a dirty secret. Inside were thousands of confidential internal company documents about Prozac, an anti-depressant then being prescribed to millions. The secret they revealed was that public statements about the safety of the drug were a lie; that the company knew Prozac was responsible for a raised risk of suicide and was only slightly more effective than a placebo.   (RELATED: See our Compromised Health archive)

• U.K. based Supermarket Giant Tesco To Enter The U.S. This Year - Tesco, The U.K.-based grocery giant, plans to open as many as 100 stores in Southern California, Arizona and Las Vegas by the end of the year, according to The Union-Tribune in San Diego, Calif. Tesco plans to spend $400 million annually over the next five years to launch its business in the U.S. The company is building an 820,400-square-foot distribution center in Riverside. The company plans to open neighborhood markets that offer fresh food in addition to convenience items.   (RELATED: See boycotttesco.com)

• Criminal code raises fear over EU powers - For eurosceptics, the European Court of Justice ruling in September 2005 was like giving a child a loaded gun. It opened the way for the European Union to designate a new class of pan-European crimes, and how they should be punished. In Britain there was an outcry. In future decisions taken in Brussels could be applied to the British courts, denying parliament the right to determine what constituted a crime and levels of sentencing. Concerns grew when the European Commission interpreted the ruling as being far wider than the case at issue: environmental crime. It produced a list of offences it believed should also be covered by the new rules, including counterfeiting, money laundering and computer hacking.

• US journalist in record jail term - A reporter in California has now passed the mark for the longest jail time served in US history for failing to hand over source material. At midnight on Tuesday, Josh Wolf entered his 169th day in custody for refusing to hand over a video of an anti-capitalist rally in 2005. Activists have condemned his jailing but no date has been set to free him.

• Warning over ePassport microchips - Microchips in Britain's new ePassports only have two-year warranties, a National Audit Office report says. They are so new, no-one knows how long they will last, or how the scanners reading them will work, the NAO said. Public Accounts Committee chairman Edward Leigh said the fact they had a two-year warranty, when passports were kept for 10 years, was "most worrying".

• Britain 'at risk of police state' - THE Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, today issued a warning that Britain was in danger of "coming close to a police state" in the wake of the arrest of suspected terrorists in Birmingham. Dr Sentamu, who fled Uganda in the 1970s, criticised 90-day detention, likening it to his home country under the tyrannical rule of Idi Amin. He said: "If you detain people, you must have good enough reason for detaining them."

Tuesday 06th February 2007: -

• ANOTHER PETITION FOR THE UK PRIME MINISTER: "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy - The idea of tracking every vehicle at all times is sinister and wrong. Road pricing is already here with the high level of taxation on fuel. The more you travel - the more tax you pay. It will be an unfair tax on those who live apart from families and poorer people who will not be able to afford the high monthly costs. Please Mr Blair - forget about road pricing and concentrate on improving our roads to reduce congestion."

• Armed US police could be on London streets - Armed foreign police could patrol the streets of London during the 2012 Olympics under an unprecedented scenario outlined by one of Scotland Yard’s most senior officers. Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, the man in charge of security preparations for the Games and Britain’s most senior Muslim police officer, also raised the prospect of British troops being drafted in to help with the huge security challenges. Security experts are privately debating how to protect the Olympics from terror attacks from Islamic extremist “jihadi” terrorists in London, especially in the wake of the 7/7 terrorist atrocities in London in which four British-born jihadi suicide bombers killed 52 people.

• A 9/11 conspiracy virus is sweeping the world, but it has no basis in fact: Loose Change is a sharp, slick film with an authoritative voiceover, but it drowns the truth in an ocean of nonsense - There is a virus sweeping the world. It infects opponents of the Bush government, sucks their brains out through their eyes and turns them into gibbering idiots. First cultivated in a laboratory in the US, the strain reached these shores a few months ago. In the past fortnight, it has become an epidemic. Scarcely a day now passes without someone possessed by this sickness, eyes rolling, lips flecked with foam, trying to infect me. The disease is called Loose Change. It is a film made by three young men that airs most of the standard conspiracy theories about the attacks of September 11 2001. Unlike the other 9/11 conspiracy films, Loose Change is sharp and swift, with a thumping soundtrack, slick graphics and a calm and authoritative voiceover. Its makers claim that it has now been watched by 100 million people.   (COMMENTARY: For anyone who isn't up to speed, The Guardian did a semi-fair article/review on Loose Change - 2nd Edition a couple of weeks ago - read it here.  No doubt this upset a few people so here we have another weak-arsed hit piece, with the usual ad hominem attacks to clean up the damage.  'No basis in fact'?  The film documents confirmed information and merely puts it in the kind of true-to-life context that is seldom seen in the mainstream media.  Don't trust me... judge for yourself below.)

(View more 9/11 truth films at 911truthskipton.com's film room here)

• Chip and PIN card security compromised (again): Relay attack hands baton to fraudsters - Doctored payment machines could be used to lift confidential authorisation codes from Chip and PIN credit and debit cards, security researchers at Cambridge University have discovered. Shoppers attempting to use fake terminals to make purchases might unwittingly allow scammers to hijack details and make fraudulent purchases using counterfeit cards at another shop. Card identity codes would be sent wirelessly from crooks running fake terminals to accomplices buying goods so that fake cards are accepted as genuine. The PIN is then sent from the fake terminal to the accomplice so fraudulent purchases can be authorised.

• Organic firms slam GM label plan - Rules for labelling food's genetically modified (GM) content do not go far enough, say organic producers. The government wants labels to show all produce with more than a 0.9% GM element, but green groups say the threshold should be nearer 0.1%. The Conservatives back that call, saying customers need to have "clear information" to ensure trust in food. The government says the guidelines, based on European Commission ones, are "adequate" and "appropriate".   (RELATED: See our Compromised Health archive)

Monday 05th February 2007: -

• Bush asks for $725 billion in military spending: He's conservative you see! - President Bush asked Congress to approve a total of $725 billion (£368 billion) in military spending today while cutting nearly $80 billion ($41 billion) from health and education programmes. Presenting a $2.9 trillion budget for the fiscal year of 2008, Mr Bush said a mixture of increased defence spending and domestic belt-tightening "reflects the priorities of our country at this moment in its history" but there were immediate signs that the White House faces months of dissent from the Democratic-controlled Congress. Although wary of cutting funding for American forces serving abroad, Democratic lawmakers are thought to be unlikely to agree to a range of cuts to health and education services, many of which are designed to serve the country's elderly and working poor.

• Woman hurt in letter bomb blast: I guess we're gonna have to check through everybodys mail now? - A woman employee at the company which runs London's congestion charge was being treated in hospital after a letter bomb exploded in her hands. The bomb, which was stuffed in a jiffy bag, detonated as she opened it in the postroom of Capita's main offices in central London. The force of the blast left her with injuries to her hands and stomach. Witnesses described how she was led away from the building in tears, with one of her arms bandaged and her wounds bleeding.   (VERY LIKELY RELATED!: See our Problem > Reaction > Solution archive)

• Biometric kiosks give shoppers personalized coupons - Catherine Muriel thinks she can replace coupon clipping with coupons that actually get used. Muriel is the new CMO at Pay By Touch, San Francisco, a provider of biometric authentication, personalized marketing and payment solutions. While the company is best known for systems that let consumers pay for purchases with a finger scan, it is getting set to roll out a new program that will give consumers coupon discounts without having to carry actual coupons. "We want consumers to have a personalized shopping experience," she said.

• USA Technologies' Cashless Vending Makes The TV News In Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas - CBS 11 Network News in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas reported cashless vending machines deployed in the city by Cadbury Schweppes are the "wave of the future." Vending machines equipped with USA Technologies' e-Port cashless transaction technology that accept credit cards were installed in the Dallas City Hall, Texas, and rapidly sold out stock in many of the machines. Bud Gillett, the Dallas City Hall correspondent for KTVT-TV (CBS 11), reported that the technology was retrofitted into the machines quickly and easily, and immediately impressed consumers with its convenience.   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO WHEN CASH IS COMPLETELY REMOVED FROM CIRCULATION!: Smile says sorry as frowning bank customers left cashless - The Co-operative Bank has apologised to customers unable to get their hands on their cash this morning because of computer problems. The Reg was contacted by several unsmiling customers unable to get onto the website or withdraw money from cashpoints this morning. Phone banking was also suffering.

• Cashless lunches growing on kids (Like foot fungus!): Glitches ironed out as pupils, parents adapt to new electronic system - After a few glitches, the Easton Area School District's point-of-sale system is up and running smoothly in all school cafeterias. The district spent $74,000 on equipment in July and began a phased implementation of the electronic system. The high school and middle schools were the first to use the system, which was installed before the school year began. All elementary schools were using it by December.

• Glastonbury: Blazing the identity card trail - Is nothing sacred?!?! - In an effort to tackle the ticket touts, the Glastonbury Festival has introduced a registration process that involves photographic identification. More than 100,000 people signed up on the first day of the festival's registration system. With numbers like that, it is clear that festival goers don’t have an issue with big brother type regulation as long as it is for the greater good. If such a free-spirited, free-living demographic is willing to embrace such a system, is it only a matter of time before society as a whole will come round to the idea of national identity cards? Clear and present danger. Given what we’ve witnessed in the last week, with the arrests of nine men allegedly involved in a gruesome plot to kidnap, torture and ultimately behead a British Muslim soldier, the question of whether identity cards should be introduced to enhance security is bound to be raised once again.

Sunday 04th February 2007: -

• 'Unusual' fetishists face being locked up - People who are not mentally ill risk being locked up because of the wording of the Government's new mental health proposals, a leading committee of MPs is warning. A damning report published today by the joint Human Rights Committee also says the Mental Health Bill fails to protect the rights of extremely vulnerable patients and their families. Members of the committee are demanding that ministers introduce extra safeguards to protect patients who are force-fed, kept in seclusion or given electro-convulsive therapy.

• Cashless society will benefit ‘Big Brother’ government and banks but not consumers - What is the agenda of those who are promoting a cashless society? It is the opinion of this “cash talks” proponent that “Big Brother” government and banks want this society so they may track an individual’s every purchase and account for his or her time all day long and make money for banks. Is this what we want in this land of the free?   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• 'Half of voters' want Tony Blair to quit immediately - Tony Blair was under fresh pressure to quit Downing Street today after a poll found more than half of voters want him to step down immediately. The ICM survey for the Sunday Express found that 56% of the public want him to go now rather than wait for his planned summer departure. The poll follows claims that even Cabinet ministers are now questioning how long he can go on as the cash-for-honours controversy deepens and Whitehall increasingly looks to his successor.

• Number of People Stopped by New York Police Soars - The New York Police Department released new information yesterday showing that police officers stopped 508,540 individuals on New York City streets last year — an average of 1,393 stops per day — often searching them for illegal weapons. The number was up from 97,296 in 2002, the last time the department divulged 12 months’ worth of data. After inquiries by the City Council and civil rights advocates, the department delivered four bound volumes of statistics to the Council in midafternoon. The raw data showed that more than half of those stopped last year were black: an average of 67,000 per quarter.   (RELATED: See our Police State archive)

• Al Gore's (Propaganda) Movie Coming to U.K. Schools - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's global warming documentary will be sent to every secondary school in England as part of a campaign to tackle climate change, the government said Friday. Environment Secretary David Miliband and Education Secretary Alan Johnson announced plans to distribute Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth," on the day the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report was published in Paris. The report by leading scientists, said global warming has started and is "very likely" caused by humans.

• Pupils and shoppers face knife scan - Police want to use search arches - similar to metal detectors used at airports - to catch people carrying knives into Oxfordshire secondary schools. They have said the arches, introduced into the force last November, will also be set up at entrances to shopping centres and Oxford's bus and railway stations. But details of when and where they will be used will not be publicised, so the measures retain a surprise element. People would not be legally required go through these arches. But if police believe someone is carrying a weapon, they have the power to search them.

Saturday 03rd February 2007: -

• FURTHER EXPANSION OF THE CASHLESS SOCIETY CONTROL GRID IN THE UK: Reebok staff to go cashless - STAFF at the Reebok Stadium will soon be carrying less cash with the introduction of a new cashless catering system. Newcastle-based G2 Integrated Solutions (G2IS), has won the contract to supply the Myriad System to 250 staff based at the Reebok stadium, and it will be installed within weeks. Employees will be issued with a smartcard - similar in size and shape to a credit card - on to which they can add money to pay for meals and snacks. The contract, which is with the Reebok sportswear group, will see G2IS supply hardware including smartcards, tills, cash value loaders and vending machines, as well as state-of-the-art software, so Reebok staff no longer have to carry cash on site.   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• Papers Reveal Plans for 'North American Union' - A government watchdog is calling for more transparency in talks between U.S., Canadian and Mexican officials who are discussing a "vision of North America" that some critics worry are the first step toward a North American Union. Judicial Watch this week released documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request that include U.S. officials' notes from the North American Forum, a September 2006 meeting with Canadian and Mexican officials that explored ways to create "genuine partnerships."

• Rush Limbaugh Shills for Bohemian Grove - John Connor of the Resistance Manifesto forces Limbaugh to talk about Bohemian Grove, after which Mr. Oxycontin attempts to minimize the importance of the elite compound, flying in the face of the facts that both Star Wars and the Manhattan Project were conceived there: -

(RELATED: See our Bohemian Grove archive)

Friday 02nd February 2007: -

• OUT THERE TV: Episode 247 - This weeks guest: Joseph Skelton - Joseph Skelton is a truth activist in the UK who has spent the last ten years researching the mechanisms of the New World Order and the ancient techniques which have been used to enslave the populations of the world. In the last few years, Joseph has worked closely with the UK 9/11 Truth Movement which is currently fronted by former MI5 officers David Shayler and Annie Machon. Among working on various projects, Joseph currently webmasters a website (cremationofcare.com) which is constantly up-dated with 'breaking news' headlines and is dedicated to exposing the Orwellian Big Brother control system which is unfolding and expanding across the globe: -

OUTTHERETV.COM

• MoD fails to show cockpit video - The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has failed to provide an inquest with a recording of a "friendly fire" incident in which a British soldier died. Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker had criticised the MoD for delays and gave officials until Friday to produce the tape. But the MoD said authorisation from the United States was needed to hand over the video. The case was adjourned. Lance Corporal of Horse Matty Hull, 25, from Berks, died in March 2003. The cockpit video was taken as a US aircraft opened fire on British troops.

• New hall monitors have electronic eye: Schools' cameras meant to keep kids honest - At the far ends of the new Whitmore Lake High School, stairwells stretching three stories high are normally outside of staff members' view. Their wide open spaces are inviting targets for kids wanting to be kids. But, thanks to three security cameras mounted high on the wall, Principal Tom DeKeyser doesn't worry about shenanigans going on outside of his sight.   (RELATED: See our Total Global Surveillance archive)

• 7/7 Bus Bomb Survivor Contradicts Official Story: First hand witness testimony tells of strange occurrences in bombing aftermath - Alex Jones was joined on air this week by Daniel Obachike, the man who was on the lower deck of the number thirty bus that exploded in Tavistock Square in London on 7/7/05, to give an exclusive account of what he saw and a preview of his soon to be published narrative, The 4th Bomb. Last December we detailed how Daniel's forthcoming book will claim that the Hackney bus was diverted to Tavistock Square by two unmarked cars which then left the scene at high speed after the drivers had conversed with police in the area. In a further report last month Daniel provided more information, revealing that he witnessed several "agents" as he calls them, seemingly with assigned tasks, calmly coordinating the scene in the immediate aftermath, before paramedics arrived and whilst many lay injured, dead or dying.   (RELATED: See our 7/7 archive)

• Petrol station customers hit by credit card scam - MOTORISTS have had hundreds of pounds stolen from their bank accounts days after using their cash cards at a Redhill petrol station, the Mirror can reveal. People who used the chip and PIN facilities at the BP garage in Brighton Road later found international debits on their statements,with some people having their accounts completely emptied. It is thought at least 20 people have fallen victim to the criminals. E-mails from the public have been sent to businesses and individuals across the Redhill and Reigate area warning people to steer clear of the garage since the first rumours of the fraud emerged.

• New Zealand: Livescan Finger and Palm Printing to Go National - Police have approved a national rollout of new technology to replace ink and paper fingerprinting of offenders. LiveScan is an electronic, computer-based device which reads finger and approved palm print patterns directly from the person and provides real-time identity of offenders. Fingerprints are collected into an electronic medium from the 'live' person, rather than being captured and read from ink. LiveScan's performance and functionality has been tested by Lower Hutt Police in a pilot running since November last year. The pilot was successfully completed on 9 January when Livescan was designated as operational and subsequently approved for national roll out.

Thursday 01st February 2007: -

• First-Ever 'Talking' Billboards Ad Campaign - Imagine MINI owner Scott is driving down the highway. He's checking out the billboards - phone companies (snore)... online casinos (no thanks)... "MOTOR LIKE YOU MEAN IT, SCOTT!" (Hold on! Say what?). Scott has just experienced personalized "talking" billboards - the latest innovation from MINI USA, which will be the first to use advanced technology to communicate directly with its consumers with the introduction of MINI Motorby. Commuters who are tired of seeing billboards with the same mind-numbing out-of-home copy will instead be greeted by MINI Motorboards. These boards feature an ever-changing array of unique, personal, playful and unexpected messages targeted to and triggered by MINI owners. Messages will be spelled out in lights on billboards in locations in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami beginning January 2007.

• Fingerprint schools don't fear guidelines - SCHOOLS who have taken fingerprints of pupils as young as seven say they have nothing to fear from new government guidelines. Four local schools said they'd continue with biometric technology that uses information from children's fingerprints instead of library and dining hall cards. The Education Department's guidelines are due later this year after some London schools stored thumb prints without parental consent. Civil liberty groups have campaigned against the use of the technology in schools. But bosses at all four schools – Portsmouth Grammar, Lyndhurst Junior in North End, Mill Rythe Junior in Hayling Island and City of Portsmouth Girls' – were keen to point out information from a fingerprint scan cannot be turned into a fingerprint image as seen on police records. They say they have parental consent for all pupils who use their systems, information is deleted when pupils leave, and they are confident they will face no legal issues.

• White House gives Congress secret wiretap files - RESURGENT Democrats, now in control of Congress, have forced a big concession from President George W. Bush, the administration agreeing yesterday to turn over classified documents about its domestic spying program to Congress. Most of the documents were understood to have been handed to judiciary and intelligence committees in Congress yesterday, ending a standoff that had included threats from Democrats that they would start issuing subpoenas to the White House. The move follows an extraordinary shift from the White House in the past two weeks, which had been fiercely defending a clandestine bugging program carried out on US citizens suspected of having links with al-Qa'ida. Media reports in December 2005 revealed that Mr Bush had authorised wiretaps, without warrants from a secret intelligence court as required by law.

• "Beheading Plot" Latest Terror Merry-Go-Round: Few Brits believe Phony Tony on terror alerts anymore, so scriptwriters change the narrative - An alleged conspiracy to kidnap a British Muslim who served in Iraq and decapitate him on video is the latest terror merry-go-round to be unleashed on the British public. From past examples we can safely predict that within a month this supposed plot will hold about as much credibility as yesterday's scare in Boston where electronic advertisements for a cable cartoon were mistaken for bombs. "Police are continuing to question nine men arrested over what security sources say was a plan to film (a Muslim) soldier being executed and post it on the web," reports the BBC.

• Chinese government accused of performing illegal transplants: Lecturers say organs shouldn’t be for sale - Concerned with allegations of organ harvesting in China, David Matas and David Kilgour, along with three other speakers, brought evidence and first-person accounts to the University of Alberta’s International Week. David Kilgour is a former MP and was Canada’s Secretary of State for the Asia Pacific region from January 2002 to December 2003. David Matas is a Winnepeg lawyer who specializes in immigration, refugee and international human rights. In July 2006, the two men released an independent report on the allegations of organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Founded in 1992, Falun Gong is often referred to as Chinese yoga and is based on a philosophy founded on three values: truthfulness, compassion and forbearance. Kilgour and Matas were asked by The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of the Falun Gong in China, a NGO registered in Washington, DC with a branch in Ottawa, to investigate accusations that state institutions of the People’s Republic of China were involved in the harvesting of organs from live Falun Gong advocators, killing them in the process.   (RELATED: See our Chinas Sale of Human Organs archive)

• Cuban, Venezuelan Intel Say 911 Was An Inside job - Add Cuba and Venezuela to the list of countries that knew of and informed the Bush administration about a "major terrorist attack" prior to 911. In addition to Russia, Jordan, France, Germany, and other nations, Venezuelan and Cuban intelligence picked up chatter about a "major terrorist attack" on the United States prior to 911. Cuban intelligence, which has an extensive network in Florida -- a home base of the hijackers and their handlers -- initially picked up reports about the attack and passed the information to both the United States and Venezuela. However, the Bush administration failed to react to this and other foreign warnings. Venezuelan intelligence, likely from its own sources in Florida and elsewhere, confirmed that something major would occur in the United States.   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• George Carlin: Owners of This Country - Classic George Carlin in "Life is Worth Losing". Real news under cover as humor (Contains swearing... but it kind of adds to the severity of the message!): -

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