Monday 30th June 2008: -

• Grandfather with 'For Sale' sign in car window given £100 fine for running street business - A car owner who put a for-sale note on his Ford Escort soon found another sign on the window - a £100 penalty ticket. Victor Abrahams was accused of 'offering goods for sale in a parking place'. When the 67-year-old grandfather called the council, he was told the offence had been introduced a year ago and had been advertised in the local paper. But as he does not live in the North London borough of Barnet, he says he had no idea that new rules had been brought in.

• Britain's rubbish rebellion - The citizens of Whitehaven try, really they do. They separate out their cans, their paper, their cardboard and their glass, and they recycle them all. They compost. They jump up and down on their trash to cram it into their government-issued garbage cans, and they put the trash out for collection at exactly 7 a.m., twice a month. But when Gareth Corkhill, a bus driver, was fined $215 — and given a further $225 fine and a criminal record when he failed to pay — for leaving his garbage-can lid slightly ajar this spring, Whitehaven's residents banded together in dismay. They raised the money to pay the fine, and they began to complain. "I consider the fine against Mr. Corkhill to be a matter of injustice, really, and as a Christian minister I'm required to speak out against injustice," said the Rev. John Bannister, the rector of Whitehaven, a seaside town in Cumbria. Referring to the garbage cans Whitehaven residents use, he said, "To be given a criminal record for leaving your wheelie bin open by 3 inches has, I think, really gone beyond the bounds of responsible behavior."

• EU Constitution author says referendums can be ignored - Future referendums will be ignored whether they are held in Ireland or elsewhere, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the architect of the European Union Constitution said. The former President of France drafted the old Constitution that was rejected by French and Dutch voters three years ago before being resurrected as the Lisbon EU Treaty, itself shunned by the Irish two weeks ago. Mr Giscard d'Estaing told the Irish Times that Ireland's referendum rejection would not kill the Treaty, despite a legal requirement of unanimity from all the EU's 27 member states.

• Privacy concerns over U.S.-E.U. move - Highly personal information about British citizens, including their Internet browsing habits, could be passed to American authorities under a proposed agreement between the European Union and the U.S. government as part of the “war” on terror. Rights campaigners have expressed alarm over the sweeping nature of the agreement which is said to be in an “advanced” stage. “There will be no such thing as personal information left if the accord goes through,” one activist said reacting to a report in The Observer that the agreement would allow the FBI to have access to U.K. citizens’ credit card details, travel history and browsing habits, among other things.

• ID card protesters say Home Office is stifling public debate - Campaigners opposed to the government's controversial plans for national identity cards say the Home Office is trying to stifle public debate. Today in Edinburgh, protestors attempted to gain entrance to a meeting between a Home Office minister and organisations who will be affected by the introduction of ID cards. One protester was thrown out after he tried to make a statement.

• Bush signs bill funding wars into 2009 - President Bush on Monday signed a bill that will pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the remainder of his presidency and into spring 2009. President Bush on Monday said the men and women of the armed forces deserve "our unflinching support." The supplemental spending bill provides nearly $162 billion in war funding without the restrictions congressional Democrats vowed to put into place since they took control of Congress nearly two years ago. After signing the bill, Bush said the men and woman of the armed services are owed "our unflinching support, and the best way to demonstrate that support is to give them the resources they need to do their jobs and to prevail."

• Police Used "Agents Provocateurs" At UK Bush Protests: Anti-war MP George Galloway writes details to Home Secretary - Anti-war MP George Galloway has accused London Metropolitan Police of engaging in "a deliberate conspiracy to bring about scenes of violent disorder" during President George W. Bush's visit to the UK last week. Galloway has written a letter to the Home Secretary in which he names a senior police officer thought to have been operating as an undercover "agent provocateur". The Respect Party MP details incitements that the officer made towards police and how the man encouraged other protesters to charge baton-wielding officers and hurl projectiles at them. Galloway cites an article from last Weekend's Mail On Sunday in which author Yasmin Whittaker-Khan detailed how she bumped into a known senior police officer, dressed like a press photographer with a large expensive camera, who shouted “Pigs out!” and enticed others to the front of the police-protestor clashes.

Tuesday 24th June 2008: -

• New Big Brother London Underground Signs Stir Controversy: Some commuters disturbed by dystopic "artwork" - Upon entering the London underground following a rare trip abroad last week I was hit with a sudden reminder that I was entering back into big brother control central when I encountered rows and rows of advertising boards plastered with the same stark posters reading "I THINK I'M BEING WATCHED". Amidst the CBS all seeing eyes, the hordes of surveillance cameras and the constant announcements to report anything suspicious, another poster read "Oh boy, what a Wonderful City!".

• British soldier dies in Afghanistan - A British soldier has been killed during an engagement with the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has said. A spokesman said the soldier, from 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, was killed during a firefight in Helmand province. He said: "The soldier was on a deliberate operation against the Taliban in the Upper Sangin Valley when he was fatally wounded." Next of kin have been informed.

• Study Says Mobile Phones 'A Health Risk' for Kids - Parents must limit the time that children spend yakking on mobiles, an international team of researchers has revealed. The team said "the electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile phones should be considered a health risk". "What we found was astounding and much more concerning that what we had been led to believe," the Scotsman quoted Dr David Servan-Schreiber, who led the team, as saying. During the study, researchers found that significant levels of electromagnetic radiation from the phones did penetrate the human body, and argued that until more research was done the gadgets should be considered dangerous.

• Nuke plant a health risk, farmer says: Power company denies 'ridiculous' claims - Eugene Bourgeois has been living in the shadows of a nuclear power plant for decades, but two particular days remain locked in his memory -- the days he got gassed. Working in his fields, the Ontario sheep farmer alleges he was caught in a sour gas leak in 1985 and again in 1988. "I saw stars," he says. "I couldn't string two words together." The gas, also known as hydrogen sulphide, had been used at the neighbouring nuclear power facility to extract heavy water as part of the nuclear reactor process. Bruce Power took over the plant years later and has plans to expand into Alberta.

• No one's celebrating as EU turns 50 - At 50, the European Union suddenly finds itself in a troubled middle age where the future is uncertain, friends are few and the critics and mischief-makers are many. Since Irish voters on June 12 rejected the Lisbon Treaty aimed at boosting the EU's powers, it has been a de facto open season for attacking European institutions. Leading the charge is the newly ascendant camp of eurosceptics, which portrays the EU's executive commission as smug, over-powerful and unaccountable, the European Parliament as a money-gobbling talking shop and European integration as an assault on national sovereignty.

• ID cards face fingerprint errors, say experts: Experts have warned that the ID-card scheme risks being derailed by mistakes in fingerprint matches - The £4.4bn National Identity Scheme's (NIS's) reliance on fingerprint and facial-recognition biometrics exposes the system to error, according to the independent Biometrics Assurance Group (BAG). BAG urged the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) to adopt iris scans as a 'fallback', for when there are problems taking or matching a fingerprint.

• eBay Responds to Privacy Busting Payment Legislation: Bill would force retailers to report every transaction to federal government - The global online auction giant eBay has responded to a frightening piece of legislation that will force retailers to report every transaction to the federal government, warning that it will "negatively impact individual Internet users, the growth of small businesses, and entrepreneurial and economic empowerment." The provision is hidden in Senator Christopher Dodd's 630-page Senate housing legislation and according to the Freedom Works organization "affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America’s small businesses," because it "would require the nation's payment systems to track, aggregate, and report information on nearly every electronic transaction to the federal government."

Friday 20th June 2008: -

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• BBC Set To Launch New Smear Attack On 9/11 Truth: New documentaries about 9/11, 7/7 and who's representing the "conspiracy theorists"? A holocaust denying, Neo-Nazi crop circle fanatic! - The BBC is set to launch another savage smear attack on the 9/11 truth movement with two documentaries about the September 11 attacks and the 7/7 bombings that attempt to debunk evidence of government complicity and smear doubters of the official story as holocaust deniers, Neo-Nazis, and crop circle fanatics. Having taken its rightful place alongside Popular Mechanics and The History Channel as one of the 21st century's most plentiful peddlers of yellow journalism with their first 9/11 hit piece last year, "Auntie Beeb" is set to have another crack at the whip on July 6th when it airs a documentary about the collapse of WTC Building 7, the 47-storey skyscraper that imploded into its own footprint on 9/11 without being hit by a plane, called The Third Tower.   (RELATED: See our archive on the February 2007 BBC Hit Piece '9/11 - The Conspiracy Files' /// See also our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• EU maps out future amid setbacks - Try as they might to talk about other pressing issues, EU leaders kept bumping into the elephant in the room - the Lisbon Treaty. Last year's German triumph in clinching the reform treaty after some eight years of institutional wrangling now looks like a pyrrhic victory. The Irish No vote on Lisbon dominated the Brussels summit, with new cracks appearing just when EU leaders thought they had papered them over. In a surprise announcement after the talks, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said full British ratification would have to wait until a court ruling on a Euro-sceptic millionaire's demand for a referendum on Lisbon.

• EU treaty: Judge tells Gordon Brown to delay ratification - A High Court judge has told Gordon Brown to delay British moves to ratify the European Union's Lisbon Treaty. Lord Justice Richards's unusual public intervention in the political debate over the controversial text forced the Prime Minister to admit that ratification will not come immediately. Mr Brown has pushed ahead with ratification despite Ireland's rejection of the treaty in a referendum and the clear opposition of British voters. The judge is considering a case brought by Stuart Wheeler, the millionaire eurosceptic, which alleges that ministers have acted unlawfully by trying to ratify the treaty without a British referendum.

• Crude Oil Rises as U.S. Dollar Weakens, Israel Conducts Drill - Crude oil rose as the weaker dollar enhanced the appeal of commodities as a currency hedge and the New York Times reported that Israel held a rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on nuclear targets in Iran. Oil prices have nearly doubled in the past year as investors sought refuge from a declining dollar, which fell again today after traders pared bets the Federal Reserve will raise rates on June 25. Iran, OPEC's second-biggest oil producer, would respond to an Israeli attack with a ``heavy blow,'' a senior cleric said.

Thursday 19th June 2008: -

• Dutch supermarket pilots fingerprint payments - Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn is teaming with European payments processor Equens to test fingerprint scanning technology as an alternative to card and cash payments at the check-out. Shoppers participating in the new service - called Tip2Pay - will be able pay for purchases by placing their fingertips on a reader at the point-of-sale. The payments will then be processed by Equens. Customers who want to use the technology will need to provide proof of identification and a debit card before having their fingerprints scanned, says Equens. Customers' names, addresses, bank account numbers and loyalty card details will then be registered in accordance with Netherlands privacy laws.

• Reagan files copyright claim in attempt to get Mark Dice death threat removed: Talk show host Michael Reagan files copyright infringement claim to prevent audio clip of him calling for the murder of anti-war activist from circulating the Internet - Last week, radio talk show host Michael Reagan called for his listeners to track down and murder anti-war activist, Mark Dice. After Dice downloaded the show's free podcast and posted the 3 minute and 21 second clip on YouTube, Reagan filed a copyright infringement claim to remove the clip in an attempt to prevent it from circulating.

• Clearchannel Host Frustrated at Growing 9/11 Truth Movement - "Is everybody now into black helicopters and conspiracy theories? Is the entire country now simply, it's a conspiracy theory?" Bill asks in frustration. Yes Bill, and it's only growing. We will never stop. The new world order will be defeated.

• Many more terrorism victims in UK before 9/11 - In a written parliamentary reply published Wednesday, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith listed a total of 1,973 deaths in the UK due to terrorist activity since 1978, including more than 1,500 in Northern Ireland alone. The UK suffered from many more victims of terrorism before the 9/11 attacks in the US in 2001, according to official figures.

• Royal assent for EU treaty sweetens PM's lunch with Sarkozy - Gordon Brown will today attempt to put Britain at the heart of the debate on the future of the EU when he meets Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris as the Queen gives royal assent - in Norman French - to the parliamentary bill enacting the Lisbon Treaty. In an attempt to strengthen his hand in Paris and at today's European summit in Brussels, where EU leaders will discuss Ireland's rejection of the treaty, Brown yesterday defended Britain's decision to ratify the treaty and mocked David Cameron for dancing to a Eurosceptic tune.

• UK Supports Organ Harvesting Without Permission - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced his support for the harvesting of organs from dead patients without prior consent, and said that he hopes for such a policy change to take place within the year. "A system of this kind seems to have the potential to close the aching gap between the potential benefits of transplant surgery in the United Kingdom and the limits imposed by our current system of consent," Brown wrote in the Sunday Telegraph. With a waiting list for organs 8,000 patients long, and 1,000 people dying each year due to organ unavailability, the U.K. has announced plans to overhaul its organ donation system. As part of this new effort, doctors and nurses will be pressured to identify more organ donors ahead of time and to alert organ donation coordinators as patients approach death. The government seeks to appoint a doctor in each hospital as a donation "champion," to be paired with a lay person who can do outreach on the topic.

• British soldier Gavin Williams died of heatstroke in 'beasting' punishment - A junior soldier died of heatstroke after being subjected to an informal Army punishment known as a "beasting", a jury has heard. Private Gavin Williams, 22, collapsed and then suffered a heart attack following the extreme exercise session which was so intense it brought on hyperthermia and pushed his body temperature nine degrees Fahrenheit above the norm. Before he died in hospital, one of the officers who oversaw it was boasting to colleagues in the mess that it was the "best beasting of his life".

Wednesday 18th June 2008: -

• Former Senator Gravel Backs NYC 9/11 Commission - After two presidential runs in one year, former Senator Mike Gravel is setting his sites on New York City politics, specifically a grassroots effort to have New York City citizens vote to establish a new September 11th investigation commission. The petition drive needs at least 30,000 residents to give their signatures in order to place a potential amendment to the city charter on the November ballot. The former Alaska senator and lifelong political loose cannon threw his weight behind the effort to establish a second, privately funded investigation into the events of September 11th, in response to what he called a fatally flawed 9/11 Commission report. “Even the commissioners and their panderers admit it had shortcomings” Gravel said. “This commission will be made up of people with only one stake: finding the truth.”

• Lawmaker takes 9/11 doubts global - In a September 2003 article for The Guardian newspaper, Michael Meacher, who served as Tony Blair's environment minister from May 1997 to June 2003, shocked the establishment by calling the global war on terrorism "bogus." Even more controversially, he implied that the U.S. government either allowed 9/11 to happen, or played some role in the destruction wrought that day. Besides Meacher, few politicians have publicly questioned America's official 9/11 narrative — until Diet member Yukihisa Fujita. In January 2008 Fujita, a member of the Democratic Party of Japan, asked the Japanese Parliament and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to explain gaping holes in the official 9/11 story that various groups — including those who call themselves the "911 Truth Movement" — claim to have exposed. Fujita, along with a growing number of individuals — including European and American politicians — are leading a charge to conduct a thorough, independent investigation of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001.

• Parliament approves EU treaty - Parliament completed ratification of the European Union treaty on Wednesday, the first country to do so since Irish voters plunged the bloc into turmoil by rejecting the treaty in a referendum. The Lisbon treaty passed through the House of Lords after members of the upper chamber rejected moves by opposition Conservative Party peers to halt the ratification process because of the Irish "No" vote.

• Gordon Brown sticks to his guns over national ID cards: Prime minister Gordon Brown has again defended the introduction of national ID cards, in a speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) - He told an IPPR conference yesterday, "I believe it [a national ID card scheme] can make a powerful contribution on an individual level to our personal security. "Opponents of the identity card scheme like to suggest that its sole motivation is to enhance the power of the state. But, in fact, it starts from a recognition of the importance of something which is fundamental to the rights of the individual: the right to have your identity protected and secure.

• Patients’ details on six stolen laptops - The laptops were taken from St George's Hospital Six laptops holding data on 20,000 patients have been stolen from a hospital. The computers were swiped from a locked cabinet which was forced open, Scotland Yard said on Wednesday. 'We could not anticipate a determined thief who was prepared to force open a cabinet and locked drawers,' said David Astley, chief executive of St George's Hospital in Tooting, south-west London.

• Thatcher 'was behind coup plot' - Sir Mark Thatcher was one of the leaders behind a failed 2004 coup in the West African nation, former SAS officer Simon Mann has told a court in Equatorial Guinea. The British mercenary said the ex-prime minister's son was "part of the management team" behind the failed plot and "not just an investor". Speaking on the second day of his trial, Mann also accused the Spanish government of backing the conspiracy.

• Tory MPs broke rules on second home payments - David Cameron was rocked by a fresh sleaze scandal today when two senior Conservative MPs were found to have breached rules on taxpayer-funded second homes. The all-party standards and privileges committee ordered a stop on payments of up to £21,600 a year to SirNicholas and Ann Winterton to rent a London flat they had already bought and put into a family trust. The Tory couple are said to have claimed around £165,000 to rent the property, having paid off the mortgage. The two MPs and a solicitor are trustees of the trust, which benefits the Wintertons' three children.

• Afghanistan bomb blast: The first British woman killed in action in Afghanistan died along with three SAS reservists in the deadliest enemy attack on UK forces since hostilities began nearly seven years ago - In one of the bloodiest periods of the conflict so far, nine British soldiers have died in the last 10 days, bringing the total number of deaths to 106 since the start of military operations in November 2001. The latest tragedy came just days after the Government announced that around 200 more troops are being sent to the country, taking the UK force to a record high of 8,030 by next spring.

• Thug Cop Slams Teenager’s Head Against Wall - Leave it up to the corporate media to deny reality. “A Michigan police officer has been suspended on suspicion of roughing up a teenager during an arrest, and the whole thing was caught on tape,” reports KNBC 4 in Los Angeles. Suspicion? Maybe it was Derek Nugent’s doppelgänger that slammed the kid’s head against the wall. Did KNBC bother to look at the video footage posted on their website and apparently broadcast over their network? “The teen, who was arrested on charges of violating rules outside of the Kalamazoo Transportation Center, suffered facial injuries and damage to three of his teeth, police said.” Damage? In fact, the kid lost the teeth.

• Black Helicopters Over Denver & Florida - Those black helicopters that some insist only exist inside the warped minds of tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy kooks are making themselves pretty visible over Denver and Florida today. With no notification whatsoever and under the pretext of "terrorism training," choppers are buzzing around Denver and even causing damage to people's property by flying well below legal altitudes. At what point does martial law training become martial law? When officials think it's routine for the military to be swooping around skyscrapers and homes in American cities what's the difference?

• SunCountry accepting plastic (but not cash) for in-flight snacks - Sun Country Airlines will air a new program that will allow it to accept credit cards for items available for purchase on flights. The Mendota Heights-based carrier said its "cashless cabin project" will allow fliers to use Visa and MasterCard as payment for items available for purchase onboard flights, like premium beverages, space-available first-class upgrades, headphones and pillow/blanket sets. Sun Country will launch the program today.

• Wiltshire crop circle identified as symbolic code for first ten places of pi - Wroughton Mathematicians are perplexed after a highly complex crop circle appeared in a Wiltshire field - depicting a fundamental mathematical symbol. The circle is, apparently, a coded image representing a complex mathematical number — the first ten digits of pi — and even astrophysicists admit they find it “mind-boggling”. The circular pattern was created in a barley field near Barbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort, earlier this month. Measuring around 46m (150ft) in diameter, it has had crop circle enthusiasts and experts stumped. The symbol was identified eventually by Mike Reed, a retired astrophysicist who contacted Lucy Pringle, a crop circle photographer and expert, with an explanation.

• Row over cervical vaccine choice - A new vaccination programme to protect schoolgirls from cervical cancer later in life will be using the wrong vaccine, say campaigners. Cervarix, made by GlaxoSmithKline, will offer immunity to the strains of a virus which cause 70% of cases. However, some experts say the Department of Health should have chosen a rival version, which also protects against genital warts. The government insists Cervarix came out on top after rigorous assessment. The vaccine will be given to 12 and 13-year-olds from September, and protects against two strains of human papillomavirus. Health minister Dawn Primarolo described it as an "exciting opportunity" which could eventually save 400 lives a year. However, some health charities, while welcoming the introduction of a cervical cancer vaccine, said that Cervarix represented a missed opportunity.

Friday 13th June 2008: -

ONE OF THE DUMB E-MAILS THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED FOR MARK DICE FOLLOWING HIS RECENT APPEARANCE ON FOX NEWS: -

***PROFANITY WARNING***

"OUR SOLDIERS ARE FIGHTING FOR YOUR RIGHT TO THINK AND ACT LIKE A FUCKING IDIOT! MARK DICE YOU ARE A STUPID FUCKING ASSHOLE. YOU NEED TO MOVE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY WHERE YOU CAN'T ENJOY THE FREEDOM TO BE AN ASSHOLE!!!!!!! YOU ARE A COWARD THOUGH, AND WOULD NEVER SURVIVE LIFE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY. MOVE, YOU STUPID IDIOT. IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT HERE...GET THE HELL OUT. I HATE YOUR GUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

One problem though... cremationofcare.com is not Mark Dice's website!  So why are you sending this to us???  You would think that these people would get their facts straight.  Actually I take that back... you wouldn't... these are Fox viewers for heavens sake :-)

Marks excellent activist website address is theresistancemanifesto.com

• Irish voters reject EU treaty - Europe was thrown into political chaos Friday by Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, a painstakingly negotiated blueprint for consolidating the European Union's power and streamlining its increasingly unwieldy bureaucracy. The defeat of the treaty, by a vote of 53.4 percent to 46.6 percent, was the result of a highly organized campaign that played to Irish voters' deepest fears about the EU. For all its benefits, many people feel, the Union is remote, undemocratic and ever more inclined to strip its smaller members of the right to make their own laws and decide their own futures.

• EU Dictators May Ram Through Lisbon Treaty Despite Irish Rejection: EU risks losing all legitimacy by circumventing its own laws in pursuit of federal superstate - Spearheaded by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the EU and its member states, in their relentless pursuit of a federal superstate, may break its own laws and ram through the Lisbon Treaty despite it being rejected by Irish voters today. Under EU laws, if one of its member states rejects a treaty, the EU is mandated to scrap the bill. But the European Union's contempt for direct democracy is likely to lead them to ignore the Irish referendum and pursue the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty anyway - underscoring the fact that the EU is nothing more than an illegitimate dictatorship of manufactured consent.

• UK to press ahead with EU Treaty - Foreign Secretary David Miliband says the UK must ratify the EU Treaty despite its rejection by Irish voters. The result of the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty should be "respected and digested" but the UK "must keep the ratification process going", he said. EC President Jose Manuel Barroso said it will be discussed next week but the Tories said it must be "declared dead". Ireland was the only member state to hold a public vote on the treaty, which must be ratified by all 27 countries.

• EU mulls options after Irish No vote - For weeks journalists have been pressing the spokesman for the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, on what would happen if the Irish voted No in a referendum on the Lisbon treaty. But there was no answer. "There is no plan B!" we were told. To be honest, it began to sound like a rather tired refrain. And - surprise, surprise - it turns out that in fact there are a number of possible plan Bs. The French - who take over the presidency of the European Union in July - are suggesting a continuation of the ratification process that is currently under way across the other 26 member states.

• We Are Change Colorado Member Handcuffed, Ticketed for Handing Out Terrorstorm, Loose Change - This is my recollection, to the best of my ability to remember, of what exactly went on the 11th of June, as We Are Change Colorado did a street action and were handing out free DVD copies of Loose Change: Final Cut, 9/11: Mysteries, and Terrorstorm on the 16th st. mall in downtown Denver. Anyone who can help or would like to give counsel or represent me feel free to contact me (Rob) through our group email address: info@wearechangecolorado.org.

• USA: Police spying alleged: Suit claims Maryland State Police surveilled peace activists - The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland is suing the Maryland State Police to get records it believes may show local authorities aided the federal government in spying on peace activists during several annual protests outside the National Security Agency. Filed yesterday in Baltimore Circuit Court, the lawsuit alleges that state police have refused to disclose a record related to the surveillance despite public information requests. Court papers state that a "Baltimore Intel Unit" had monitored many individual peace activists as they gathered at the American Friends Service Committee and prepared to protest in 2003 at the NSA, based at Fort Meade.

• UK Commons report: British "surveillance society" - The Commons' home affairs committee has submitted a report warning of the danger of Britain becoming a surveillance society. The report calls on the government to promise the proposed ID card scheme will not be used to spy on people. "We recommend that the Home Office produce a report on the intended functions of the national identity scheme in relation to the fight against crime, containing an explicit statement that the administrative information collected and stored in connection with the national identity register will not be used as a matter of routine to monitor the activities of individuals," the report reads. ID cards will become compulsory for non-Europeans living in Britain later this year.

• Bóboli trials RFID - Tagsys has announced that Bóboli, one of Spain’s premier fashion houses for children, is piloting an RFID deployment program to effectively track and manage items from manufacturing through point-of-sale. Bóboli, which has products available throughout Europe, the Middle East, SE Asia and the Americas, is believed to be the first Spanish brand apparel manufacturer to invest in item-level tracking based on RFID technology.

• Russert Dies of Heart Attack After Collapsing at Work - Tim Russert, NBC News's Washington bureau chief who was renowned for his tough questioning of politicians, died of a heart attack after collapsing while at work today. He was 58. Russert became famous for his relentless probing on the Sunday morning talk show ``Meet the Press,'' a program he hosted longer than anyone else, according to former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw. Russert was also a best-selling author whose books included a tribute to his father, ``Big Russ and Me.''   (YOU MAY REMEMBER TIM RUSSERT FROM THIS STORY FROM 2004: Tim Russert asks the President about Skull and Bones and the President confirms he is a member by saying he can't talk about it)

Wednesday 11th June 2008: -

You want news on Euro 2008?, the new series of Big Brother?, The Apprentice?, the Harry Potter prequel?

You wont bloody find it here!  We deal in REAL stories!

AND ITS RED ALERT TIME!!!... 

THIS IS THE STORY THAT THEY HOPE YOU WONT CHECK OUT!!!: -

Ireland Votes on the Lisbon Treaty...

•  Ireland Set To Vote On EU Dictatorship: Last chance to stall agenda for final building blocks of tyranny - Ireland's opportunity to shatter the EU agenda of passing the Lisbon Treaty by stealth - a crass repackaging of the 2005 EU Constitution that was rejected by both the Netherlands and France - represents the last stand against the imposition of a European Union dictatorship. Polls show the "No" camp gaining ground sharply on the government-backed "Yes" camp having trailed in recent weeks, but the referendum is expected to be a close call. In light of tomorrow's all important vote, it's necessary to recap on the disturbing warning of former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovksy, who personally saw secret documents in 1992 which outlined a conspiracy to turn the European Union into a Socialist dictatorship.

• Ireland, Save Us All From The EU Empire: A “No” to the EU Treaty would be a gift from the Irish Republic to all People of Europe - A small freedom loving country now holds the fate of free folks in Europe in its hands. Once there was a dream of Europe. Now the shadow of a ruthless, most dissembling empire called “European Union” is falling on republics, constitutions, parliamentary democracies and systems of checks and balances on the continent. The people in Europe have not even been asked, the German parliament endorsed the EU Treaty in a disgusting act of shame without even reading it. No complete copy of this law - that will end the third republic on German soil - was given to our so-called “lawmakers”. They bowed to it anyway, like they always did in German history with well-known consequences.

• Future of EU treaty lies in hands of Ireland - The final straw, Dermot Gilmartin said, was seeing an official struggling on television to answer questions about the topic of the hour: the European Union's Lisbon treaty, on which Ireland will vote in a referendum Thursday. Challenged on a technical point, the official sputtered, frantically began rifling through his papers and fell silent. For two and a half minutes. "I was cringing for the guy," said Gilmartin, 25, as he made his way to the local pub one recent afternoon. But pity aside, Gilmartin said, why should he vote for something so abstruse that even someone whose job it is to understand the treaty cannot explain away its mysteries?

AND THE REST OF THE NEWS THAT THEY USUALLY BURY...

• Brown wins 42-day detention vote by a whisker - The Government narrowly won the key Commons vote tonight to extend pre-charge detention of terror suspects to 42 days... amid claims that nine Democratic Unionist MPs who saved Gordon Brown had been 'bought'. After weeks of arm twisting and a series of concessions, the power for ministers to exercise the controversial "reserve" power was backed by 315 to 306 - a majority of just nine.

• 9/11 Conspiracy Song Borrows Bee Gees' 'Stayin' Alive' - A YouTube-based political cover/parody act calling itself The Free Bees rewrote the lyrics of the 1970s disco anthem and Saturday Night Fever theme "Stayin' Alive" to promote the theory that the tragedy of 9/11 was a home-grown conspiracy. The song and video (embedded), called "9/11's a Lie," kicks off with the lyrics, "Well you can tell by the way the buildings fell / There was something wrong, Now it's time to tell." The refrain includes: "Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother, 9/11's a lie, 9/11's a lie / Neo-cons are shaking, the world has started waking / 9/11's a lie, 9/11's a lie." There's no official statement yet on how the surviving members of the Bee Gees feel about having their iconic hit rewritten.

• 9/11; Response to a Financial Times Report regarding 9/11: "fails to deal with the evidence" - An Evidence-Based Response to Peter Barber regarding his article, "The Truth is Out There", Financial Times, June 7, 2008. Dear Mr. Barber: I am a professional medical librarian who delivered "best evidence" literature to the public health officers of the British Columbia government for 25 years. Your article, "The Truth is Out There", is an "ad hominem" approach to a critically serious matter, and it unfortunately fails to deal with the evidence involved.

• Sneak Peak - TRUTH RISING: The 9/11 Chronicles Part One - An Alex Jones Film. Coming to the Infowar July 4th, 2008 & online first at Prison Planet.tv. This film follows the growing momentum of 9/11 truth, as people throughout the world take action against their globalist masters. Shot unlike anything you have ever experienced from Alex Jones, cinema verite' style, this masterpiece not only exposes the mistreatment of our 9/11 heroes, but also shows how a growing number of people around the world are questioning the official version of events that day. Featuring interviews with Willie Nelson, Rosie O'Donnell, Jesse Ventura, George Carlin, Martin Sheen, as well as confrontations with many political figures including Bill Clinton, David Rockefeller and Arnold Schwarzenegger.   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

Sunday 08th June 2008: -

• Identity cards 'could be used to spy on people' - Britain is in danger of becoming a “surveillance society” and new safeguards are needed to protect people's privacy, an influential committee of MPs has warned - Fears are growing that the compulsory ID card scheme may be used to carry out surveillance on people and that a new children's database may be used to identify likely future criminals. The Home Affairs Select Committee is calling on ministers to introduce new safeguards to minimise the amount of information collected and stored on Britain's citizens following a series of data scandals. Last week it emerged that councils are now using covert surveillance hundreds of times every month to investigate petty offences - such as putting out domestic waste incorrectly and dog fouling - and to check applications for popular schools.

• EU vote too close to call as 'No' group gain ground in Ireland - Irish voters who oppose the controversial European Constitution are rapidly gaining ground in the run-up to the crunch referendum, a new poll showed yesterday. A resurgent 'No' campaign has gained six points in the last fortnight, compared with a mere one point increase for the 'Yes' campaign. Even though those backing the rejigged constitution remain narrowly in the lead, by 42 per cent to 39 per cent, it suggests the momentum is with their opponents ahead of Thursday's crucial ballot, according to the poll for Ireland's Sunday Business Post newspaper.

• Financial Times Covers 9/11 Truth: The Truth is Out There & What Happened to Building 7? - When Cynthia McKinney speaks the words of Martin Luther King Jr, they resound through the church with some of King’s cadence. “A time comes,” declares the former US congresswoman from Georgia, “when silence is betrayal.” The congregation answers with whoops and calls of “That’s right!” King was talking about America’s war in Vietnam. More than 40 years later, before the packed pews of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, McKinney is speaking of the American government’s war on its own people. The shock and awe phase of this conflict, we had been told earlier, began on September 11 2001, when the Bush administration launched attacks on New York and Washington, or at least waved them through.

Thursday 05th June 2008: -

• Our frontline troops are being paid less than traffic wardens - Teenage British soldiers risking their lives against Afghan and Iraqi insurgents earn almost £1000 a year less than a traffic warden, £5000 less than a firefighter and £8000 less than a newly qualified police constable. The disparity in wages emerged as General Sir Richard Dannatt, the Chief of the General Staff, called yesterday for a boost in cash and welfare for his troops to halt a growing exodus of servicemen and women who cannot afford to raise a family on their military salaries. His remarks prompted the Prime Minister to promise that the government would do "everything in our power" in the coming years to recognise the contribution to Britain's security made by members of the armed forces.

• McCain Supports Warrantless Domestic Surveillance - I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "While there have been shifting reports about McCain's view on warrantless wiretapping, nothing could be clearer than the latest comment by McCain adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin, who said, 'We do not know what lies ahead in our nation's fight against radical Islamic extremists, but John McCain will do everything he can to protect Americans from such threats, including asking the telecoms for appropriate assistance to collect intelligence against foreign threats to the United States as authorized by Article II of the Constitution.'  Article II, of course, is what Bush has argued gives the President virtually unlimited power during war, and McCain has already voted in favor of Telecom Immunity, though he sometimes mentions wanting to holding hearings about what the telecoms did to those asking for accountability."

• Phone spies: UK Town halls using anti-terror powers to bug residents' calls and emails - Town hall snoopers used controversial anti-terror powers to delve into the phone and email records of thousands of people last year. They wanted to check for evidence of dog smuggling and storing petrol without permission - and even to trace a suspected bogus faith healer. In one case they were inquiring into unburied animal carcasses. Some councils are allowing middle-ranking staff to authorise covert operations under the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which is intended for use 'in the interests of national security'.

• Councils snoop into phone records of 1,000 callers - Nearly 1,000 people's phone records have been investigated by council snoopers, it was revealed yesterday. The surveillance powers for tracking terrorists have been used to probe everything from a bogus faith healer to dog smuggling. A survey of Big Brother spying town halls showed that one council used the powers almost 100 times to monitor private phone calls and emails. It comes after it was revealed Poole Council in Dorset had spied on a family because it wrongly suspected the parents of abusing rules on school catchment areas.

• Doubts over terror law safeguards - The government has still not done enough to protect individual liberty in its anti-terror plans, an influential committee of MPs and peers says. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith unveiled a series of amendments earlier this week aimed at heading off a Commons defeat. But in a new report the joint committee on human rights said the safeguards were "inadequate". And plans to hold terror suspects for up to six weeks without charge would "almost certainly not be lawful". Ms Smith told The Spectator she thought the government would win next week's crunch Commons vote on 42 day detention.

• Teenager Tased In School By Police For Not Complying and Showing I.D.: School defends action against sixteen year old - A sixteen year old child was shocked with a Taser stun gun by police at a North Carolina school last week for failing to comply with orders to show an officer his I.D. badge. Quayshaun Leak was tased and arrested in an incident which Richmond Senior High School has since defended as proper policy and "within appropriate bounds of the officer's authority.”

• The Three Amigos on 9/11 - The Corbett Report has just released the final installment in a three-part YouTube documentary series seeking to highlight some of the bizarre facts surrounding the movements and whereabouts of President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld on the day of 9/11. The three videos can be watched in the players below (Follow this link). Where Was Rumsfeld on 9/11?

• Consumers 'reject food from cloned animals': Most people don't want to see food from cloned animals and their offspring on supermarket shelves, new research reveals - The public are not convinced that the food would be safe and feel it would be morally wrong to subject farm animals to cloning methods. People believe that food from cloned animals could result in 'timebomb' diseases - such as BSE in cattle and CJD in humans - which might not show up for years, research for the Food Standards Agency (FSA) revealed. They feel the food would be of little value to consumers and the only people to benefit would be the biotech companies, farmers and retailers.

• Lisbon treaty: EU democratic process in question - On February 4, the French Parliament voted in the bill modifying title XV of the French Constitution in Versailles, and three days later, on February 7, the Treaty of Lisbon was formally ratified. The Lisbon Treaty, which provides for the reform of the EU’s institutions, was drawn up to replace the draft European constitution, which was first rejected on May 29, 2005, by 55 percent of French voters and then on June 1, 2005, by 61 percent of Dutch voters.

BILDERBERG 2008: -

• Spooks Infest Marriott Hotel As Bilderberg Begins: Tucker and Jones followed, questioned by FBI as stunt fire alarm interrupts Coast to Coast appearance - Spooks, FBI agents and cops have descended on the Westfields Marriott hotel in Chantilly Virginia to scrutinize Jim Tucker and Alex Jones as the 2008 Bilderberg meeting gets underway today without even being mentioned in the American corporate media. Immediately before appearing on the nationally syndicated Coast to Coast AM broadcast last night, a show that boasts around 16 million listeners, Alex Jones was interrupted by a fire alarm which forced him to leave the hotel. "I know this is a set-up, they timed this exactly....the moment the phone rang the alarm goes off....they want to use this to flush us out of here," Jones told host George Noory.

• Bill & Hillary Clinton Confronted On Bilderberg - Members of We Are Change ask Bill and Hillary about their affiliation with the Bilderberg Group and are confronted by security guards and rude, foul-mouthed, brainwashed idol-worshipping Clinton-bots who are shocked that anyone would dare question their demagogues.

• Jim Tucker On the Scene at This Year's Bilderberg - AFP editor Jim Tucker discusses the upcoming Bilderberg meeting near the site of this year's gathering.

• Bilderberg, Shadow Supergovernment: The economic summit will take place this week near Washington - It was particularly difficult this year to find out when and where the annual conclave of world powerbrokers, the Bilderberg Group, would take place. Finally, it appears certain that the highly secret meeting of western political-military elites will take place from June 5 – 8 in Chantilly, Virginia, near Washington, in a luxury hotel immersed in nature, the Westfield’s Marriott.

• Portuguese Newspaper Admits Bilderberg Kingmaker Power: Sol reports on 2008 meeting, cowardly complicit American corporate media silent about this week's confab of nearly 200 global powerbrokers - A Portuguese newspaper has reported on something the American corporate media remains cowardly complicit about and dare not even mention - this week's confab of nearly 200 of the world's most influential powerbrokers in Chantilly Virginia for the 2008 Bilderberg Group meeting. The Sol newspaper carries a story today concerning two of the Portuguese attendees of this year's conference, the mayors of Lisbon and Porto - Antonio Costa and Rui Rio (pictured top). Tellingly, the report highlights the fact that Bilderberg has kingmaker power in vetting future Prime Ministers and Presidents, noting how Pedro Santana Lopes and Jose Socrates attended the 2004 meeting in Stresa, Italy before both going on to become Prime Minster of Portugal. In addition, the report underscores how both Costa and Rio have ambitions to lead their respective parties and potentially run for Prime Minister in the future.

Sunday 01st June 2008: -

• Largest Swiss Newspaper Asks if Bush Was Behind 9/11 - 2,973 humans died with the attacks of 9/11. "Bin Laden" and "Al Qaeda," the Bush clan cried. The world believed them. In the meantime even scientists doubt the Bush version. Now, Swiss university professors Albert A. Stahel and Daniele Ganser raise new questions. "Something is not correct," says strategy expert Stahel in "World Week", and here he refers to the "incomplete" official US Government 9/11 Report of 2004.   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• Ireland sees growing opposition to European constitution: The June 12 vote on the Lisbon Treaty now seems less certain, as opposition groups, some businessmen and farmers raise concerns about sovereignty - The "Yes on the EU" bus rolled into town blaring a foot-stomping "Galway Girl" from its megaphone one afternoon last week, but what it got was a whole lot of no. An Irishman has always been a hard sell, and never more so than when issues of sovereignty are at stake. "People died for your freedom," declares one of the signs that have popped up in this agricultural town as Ireland prepares to vote June 12 on the European Union's new constitution. "Don't throw it away."

• As EU takes over Smith Square, Conservatives remain silent on Europe - There is rich symbolism in the fact that the former Conservative Central Office in Smith Square, Westminster, is to be renamed "Europe House", as the new London headquarters of the European Commission (currently tucked away in an obscure alley up the road). The EU doubtless regards it as only appropriate that it should be able to hang its "ring of stars" flag outside one of the most iconic political buildings in Britain, just as its new "Not the Constitution" comes into force - with the added sweetness that it will be like a final symbolic victory over Lady Thatcher, for whom it was the backdrop to her political triumphs of the 1980s.

• Northern Calif. man dies after police use Tasers - A Woodland man has died after police officers fired on him with a Taser stun gun. Police in Woodland, about 20 miles north of Sacramento, say the man became increasingly agitated as they tried to talk to him Wednesday morning. He had just left a clinic for people with mental health issues. The man is believed to be in his 40s but his identity has not yet been released. Lt. Charles Wilts says the man was not armed but was holding a pencil and moving closer to the officers when they fired at him. Wilts says at least three officers deployed their Tasers, but it was not clear how many times the man was shocked. He also was struck in his arms and legs by police batons.

• Tasers: More questions than answers - Jerry Knight may not have left police any choice but to Taser him that tepid July morning on the floor of a Brampton motel. But within minutes of arching his back to absorb the white-hot sting of 50,000 volts, he was dying. His heart stopped beating just 26 minutes after he burst into the tiny foyer of the White Knight Motel. He'd been punching walls, trying to vault the front desk. The clerk was cowering in a corner. Knight, 29, a trained boxer on the verge of a comeback, attacked around 20 officers with fists and teeth, sending two to hospital, before he was finally brought under control with the help of one – possibly more – blast from a Taser.

• Police use Taser on suspect, twice - Casper police arrested a Casper man on Thursday night who is suspected of assaulting his girlfriend with a large brass ashtray. Michael Grant Harmon, 36, was booked into jail on suspicion of assault and battery, methamphetamine possession, carrying a concealed weapon and interference with a police officer after an officer chased him down and used a Taser on him. An officer, looking for the suspect, saw Harmon walking in the 1000 block of Burlington Street about 11 p.m Thursday. Harmon began running when he saw the officer and didn't stop until the officer fired his Taser at Harmon, striking him in back, according to the affidavit. Harmon fell to the ground, the affidavit stated, but the police officer had to fire the Taser a second time after Harmon refused several times to comply with the officer's requests.   (COMMENTARY: There you go... 'pain compliance'.  You and I might call that torture, but never mind)

• Poole Council used terror law to spy on parents - One council that firmly believes in using surveillance powers to the fullest is Poole, on the South Coast. Officials authorisied spying operations to detemine whether fishermen were illegally gathering shellfish in the town’s harbour and to try to find out who had damaged a barrier. Then the council decided that an Act of Parliament designed to defeat terrorism should be used to see if a couple had been cheating the school catchment system. Tim Joyce and Jenny Paton and their children were put under surveillance for more than two weeks before being asked by Poole Council to “come in for a chat”.

• Do we really need to use these powers to tackle dog fouling? - Human rights lawyers are increasingly alarmed that a piece of legislation that put state snooping on a legal basis has resulted in a huge expansion of the public sector’s ability to pry into private lives. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act was not one of those pieces of legislation to grab the public’s attention when it was passed. But in Whitehall and among civil liberties groups, its importance was never in doubt. The Act regulated surveillance and spying by police and the security services that had previously been operated merely by official guidance.

• Britain fast turning into erstwhile East European-type ‘surveillance state’ - With thousands of middle managers in local councils being authorised to spy on people suspected of even petty offences in a bid to prevent crime and terrorism, the British society is fast turning into a “surveillance state” the likes of erstwhile East Europe. Even junior council officials are being allowed to initiate surveillance operations. Tens of thousands of service-managers work in hundreds of councils throughout Britain and many have less than three years’ experience, the Times has reported.

• Spy powers abused by town hall - NORTH councils are using anti-terrorism powers to spy on people suspected of minor offences such as fly tipping, the Sunday Sun can reveal. Local authorities — including those in Newcastle and Durham — have been identified as carrying out sophisticated surveillance work for petty matters, leading to them being compared to the Stasi . . . the notorious Eastern German secret police. The Home Office has been urged to issue guidelines to councils on the type of spying operations which can be used. A Parliamentary committee recently launched a probe into the use of snooping tactics through the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, Ripa. Some MPs say it is being misused by councils to focus on petty crime rather than serious offending.

• 'Big Brother' policing to target youths - A 'Big Brother' policing scheme in which officers film the every move of troublesome youths on video cameras will be launched nationwide, the Home Office has said. The technique, known as "harass a youth", has been used previously to target football hooligans. Police conducting a pilot scheme on an estate in Essex claim that it has led to a "100 per cent" drop in crime. Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, praised the scheme saying: "It creates an environment where those responsible for anti-social behaviour have no room for manoeuvre and nowhere to hide, where the tables are turned on offenders so those who harass our communities are themselves harried."

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