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Friday
30th March 2007: -
9/11
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9/11
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Thursday
29th March 2007: -

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The
9/11 Truth Domino Effect: More
and more going public everyday with vital information and valuable
expertise - The
leaking of the until now withheld WTC blueprints this week represents
a growing trend of truth seeking individuals putting aside politics
and coming forth in an attempt to set the record straight on the
defining event of the 21st century.
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U.S.
rejects Saudi view of Iraq as occupied - The
United States on Thursday rejected Saudi Arabia's charge that Iraq is
under an "illegitimate foreign occupation" and said U.S.
troops are there at Iraq's invitation, under a U.N. mandate.
"It is not accurate to say that the United States is occupying
Iraq," said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.
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Spanish
Judge calls for architects of Iraq invasion to be tried for war crimes
- Baltasar Garzón,
the Spanish judge who sought to prosecute Chilean dictator General
Augusto Pinochet, has called for US President George W. Bush and his
allies to be tried for war crimes over Iraq. Writing
in El Pais on the fourth anniversary of the invasion, Garzón stated,
“Today, March 20, marks four years since the formal start of the war
on Iraq. Instigated by the United States and Great Britain, and
supported by Spain among other countries, one of the most sordid and
unjustifiable episodes in recent human history began.
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Yahoo!,
Google abet censorship in China: Amnesty -
Software giants Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! have been collaborating
with the Chinese authorities to curtail freedom of expression and
suppress dissent against their proclaimed values, Amnesty
International said. 'All
three companies have, in one way or another, facilitated or colluded
in the practice of censorship in China,' said the rights organisation,
which released its report on China titled 'Undermining freedom of
expression in China - the role of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google
terror', here Thursday.
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With
desktop camera, your face can be your password - A
Canadian company on Wednesday announced a new camera that functions as
both a Webcam and a security system that scans a face in three
dimensions. Toronto-based
Bioscrypt claims an industry first with its 3D DeskCam. The 3-inch
tall, half-inch wide camera uses infrared along with a lens to scan a
face in three dimensions and authenticate users accessing computers,
the company said. The camera uses about 40,000 identification points,
looking primarily at a person's forehead, eye sockets and nose bridge,
said Ryan Zlockie, director of product management at Bioscrypt. The
facial-recognition system has passed tests with identical twins and
professional face molds, Zlockie said. A person registered with facial
hair who subsequently shaves doesn't have to be reregistered, but
somebody who undergoes plastic surgery does, he said.
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Berezovksy
to be interviewed by Russian detectives -
The Russian tycoon Boris Berezovksy has agreed to meet Russian
detectives as part of their investigation into the murder of the
former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko - but only on the condition that
they are frisked for poisons. The
team of Russian prosecutors arrived in London on Monday. Mr Berezovsky
will meet them on Friday after they agreed to a series of conditions
including being searched for "weapons and poisons" first.
The Russian investigators' visit comes two months after they first
submitted a request to Scotland Yard to be allowed to carry out their
own separate inquiry into the ex-agent's death. It follows a visit by
British detectives to Moscow in December.
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Richardson
Warns About 'nuclear 9/11' - New
Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has urged U.S. attention be focused on
possible nuclear terrorism. Richardson,
seeking the 2008 Democratic Party nomination for president, told a
Washington audience that America needs to wage what he called a
"Manhattan Project" type effort to prevent a "nuclear
9/11." He said he considered nuclear terrorism among the most
dangerous threats facing the United States. But he voiced hope that it
can be prevented "if we give this matter the attention it
deserves."
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Big
brands turning to Big Brother: Questionnaires
and focus groups aren't enought - now companies are having volunteers
filmed for days on end to see what makes customers really tick, finds
Stephen Hoare - Teenagers
around the world could soon be sporting a new range of Doc Martens
trainers with coloured laces and a long tongue that pulls out of the
shoe. Channel 4 viewers might find more of their favourite kind of
programmes. And impatient ice-cream lovers could soon find that their
favourite brand of tub ice-cream defrosts straight from the freezer.
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Reid
pledges to strengthen borders - Home
secretary John Reid has today promised to crack down on illegal
immigration and tighten Britain's borders. Mr
Reid outlined new measures the government is to undertake to shore up
the UK's much-maligned immigration system, which he accepts is
"the peoples' highest priority". The headline measure
announced today is the exporting of Britain's border controls to other
countries and the expanding of the visa system so that 75 per cent of
the world's population will need documentation to enter the UK.
"We are actually putting, at the point of departure from the
country you are leaving, the requirement entry visa," Mr Reid
told Sky News.
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Hospitals
take smart step:
Cashless payments in Nottingham canteen offer all-round savings - Nottingham
University Hospitals NHS Trust is to introduce smartcard technology
this year to allow staff to make cashless payments in its restaurants.
When hospital personnel charge up their cards online or using physical
machines linked to the trust’s payroll system, the amount will be
deducted from their salaries when they are paid. This deduction from
the gross salary means employees will save on tax and national
insurance, while the NHS Trust will save on national insurance
contributions and an overall reduction in its salary bill.
(RELATED:
See our Cashless
Society Control Grid
archive)
Wednesday
28th March 2007: -
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IT
experts urged to defy Big Brother -
‘Big Brother’ will end up being more powerful than Orwell could
have ever predicted thanks to the rise of technology and the
powerlessness of citizens to resist. Researchers
yesterday identified the marked increase in CCTV cameras, supermarket
loyalty cards, camera phones and even photo-sharing sites as potential
threats to British citizens. Delivering the ominous verdict, the Royal
Academy of Engineers called engineers and IT professionals to
‘design in privacy’ into their developments for the survival of
personal privacy. Unless steps are taken, including a debate on how
personal data will be stored and a charter to spell out individuals’
data rights, criminals and terrorists will keep hijacking personal
details.
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FOX
News Chickenhawks Exploit British Captives To Beat Iran War Drums - FOX
News wasted no time jumping on the dispute over British captives in
Iraq in order to ramp up the level of rhetoric against Iran. Contrary
to its “We report, you decide” motto, it was clear from the last
two Hannity & Colmes programs (3/26 and 3/27/07) that FNC execs
have already decided that Americans should hate Iranians more than
ever while not bothering to report the possible ramifications of an
increased conflict or heightened tensions. With video. On Monday,
March 26, there was a reasonably balanced report on the situation by
Sky News. But that was followed by an unbalanced discussion with radio
talk show host Laura Ingraham about how the US should proceed.
Ingraham has never served in the military and has no apparent
credentials in foreign policy yet she was the only guest to discuss
this serious situation.
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Historians
lose Da Vinci Code plagiarism appeal Michael Herman -
Dan Brown, the American author, did not copy large parts of an earlier
book to produce his blockbuster novel, The Da Vinci Code, the Court of
Appeal ruled today. Michael
Baigent and Richard Leigh, two of the three authors of The Holy Blood
And The Holy Grail, who pursued Mr Brown’s publishers Random House
through the High Court to the Court of Appeal, now face a total legal
costs bill approaching £3 million. High Court judge Mr Justice Peter
Smith cleared Mr Brown of copyright infringement of ideas set out in
The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail in April last year. But Mr Baigent
and Mr Leigh took the case to the Court of Appeal, claiming the theme
of the book that made Brown the highest-paid author in history was
taken from their 1982 work.
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Cashless
society benefits nobody but the banks -
Earlier this month Payments Guru heard one of the most ridiculous
things - it was a prediction from the big cheeses at Visa that cash
would be a thing of the past in a mere five years' time. The
Visa chief Peter Ayliffe must have been on another planet when he
suggested that by 2012 using credit and debit cards should be cheaper
and more convenient than cash. But isn't cash free for consumers and
isn't plastic increasingly expensive for retailers to accept? The only
way this statement could come true is if retailers start surcharging
customers if they choose to pay for goods using cash - which surely
would not happen because the alternative would be for them to have to
accept ever-more plastic that currently costs them a lot more to
accept than cash.
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RFID
open to criminal abuse:
From triggering bombs to faking passports, report exposes the flaws in
this emerging technology -
Terrorists could potentially use RFID technology in electronic
passports to set off a bomb when a particular target comes within
reach, warns a leading electrical engineering expert. Nigel Gilbert of
the Royal Academy of Engineering suggests a number of ways in which
RFID technology could be abused by both criminals and governments in
his report entitled 'Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance: Challenges
of Technological Change', published this week. In particular he is
concerned that that unencrypted data stored on an RFID chip in an
e-passport, such as those currently being implemented by the UK
Government, can be read by anybody passing near the document holder
with the right equipment.
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Prison
visits 'put children off crime' - Troubled
children are being given an unvarnished insight into the realities of
life behind bars in a series of visits to a prison designed to steer
them clear of crime. Eight
boys and girls aged between 11 and 15 have been taken on once-monthly
visits to Lewes Prison in Lewes, East Sussex, to show them the tough
truth of prison life. Most of the children have been subject to
acceptable behaviour contracts for low-level anti-social offences such
as vandalism, graffiti and criminal damage. The aim of the prison
visits, organised by Arun District Council's anti-social behaviour
team in West Sussex, is to expose the children to what may lie ahead
if their offending continues.
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Ordinary
Customers Flagged as Terrorists - Private
businesses such as rental and mortgage companies and car dealers are
checking the names of customers against a list of suspected terrorists
and drug traffickers made publicly available by the Treasury
Department, sometimes denying services to ordinary people whose names
are similar to those on the list.
The Office of Foreign Asset Control's list of "specially
designated nationals" has long been used by banks and other
financial institutions to block financial transactions of drug dealers
and other criminals. But an executive order issued by President Bush
after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has expanded the list and its
consequences in unforeseen ways. Businesses have used it to screen
applicants for home and car loans, apartments and even exercise
equipment, according to interviews and a report by the Lawyers'
Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area to be issued
today.
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Cities
set limits on serving food to homeless people -
Cities are cracking down on charities that feed the homeless, adopting
rules that restrict food giveaways to certain locations, require
charities to get permits or limit the number of free meals they can
provide. Orlando,
Dallas, Las Vegas and Wilmington, N.C., began enforcing such laws last
year. Some are being challenged. Last November, a federal judge
blocked the Las Vegas law banning food giveaways to the poor in city
parks. In Dallas, two ministries are suing, arguing that the law
violates religious freedom. "Going after the volunteers is
new," says Michael Stoops of the National Coalition for the
Homeless. "They think that by not feeding people, it will make
the homeless people leave.
Tuesday
27th March 2007: -
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UK
Children to 'face criminal checks' - All
children could face compulsory checks to discover if they are at risk
of turning into criminals, according to new plans announced by the
Prime Minister. The
controversial proposal would mean checks at important stages in a
child's life, such as the move from primary to secondary school, Tony
Blair said. He also announced plans to further expand the DNA database
to include 'all suspected offenders who come into contact with the
police'.
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Big
brother to watch kids at Net cafe -
Big Brother may soon be watching what you are watching. If the
government has its way, children below 12 years would be barred entry
into internet cafes unless accompanied by an adult. Moreover,
no surfing for children at cafes during school hours and between 10 pm
and 6 am. These are among the rules likely to be adopted by the
government under the Information Technology Act, 2000 (Central Act),
once it clears procedural hurdles such as a Cabinet nod and the bill's
introduction in the Assembly. Though the IT Act came into force seven
years ago to prevent cyber crimes, it's only now that the IT
department has finally prepared draft rules with the help of the Cyber
Crime Police.
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Want
To Watch The Game? Show Your ID: Big
Brother invades British football, grooms citizens for national ID
acceptance - In
another example of how Big Brother is enveloping all aspects of
British society, Sheffield Wednesday football club are to become the
first team in the country to demand their season ticket holders show a
photo ID every time they enter the stadium to watch a game. Allied
with a new smoking ban that is set to be enforced next season and a
scheme that encourages fans to report suspicious behavior and hate
speech via text message during games, the club announced yesterday
that fans will be forced to have their identity checked by the
turnstile operator at each game in order to prevent supporters from
sharing their season tickets by loaning them to friends or family when
they are unable to attend a match. Bizarrely, the club added the
proviso that season ticket holders can get a substitute ticket for
their stub if they are unable to attend a game by "proving"
their legitimate absence to employees at the club's ticket office.
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British
backtrack on Iraq death toll - British
government officials have backed the methods used by scientists who
concluded that more than 600,000 Iraqis have been killed since the
invasion, the BBC reported yesterday.
The Government publicly rejected the findings, published in The Lancet
in October. But the BBC said documents obtained under freedom of
information legislation showed advisers concluded that the much-criticised
study had used sound methods. The study, conducted by researchers from
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Al Mustansiriya
University in Baghdad, estimated that 655,000 more Iraqis had died
since March 2003 than one would expect without the war. The study
estimated that 601,027 of those deaths were from violence.
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FBI
Provided Inaccurate Data for Surveillance Warrants - FBI
agents repeatedly provided inaccurate information to win secret court
approval of surveillance warrants in terrorism and espionage cases,
prompting officials to tighten controls on the way the bureau uses
that powerful anti-terrorism tool, according to Justice Department and
FBI officials. The
errors were pervasive enough that the chief judge of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, wrote the
Justice Department in December 2005 to complain. She raised the
possibility of requiring counterterrorism agents to swear in her
courtroom that the information they were providing was accurate, a
procedure that could have slowed such investigations drastically.
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Public
webcams, not CCTV, urged to avoid Big Brother society - Footage
from surveillance cameras must be made freely available to the public
if Britain is to avoid becoming a Big Brother state, researchers
warned yesterday. Under
the proposals, networks of CCTV cameras would be turned into public
webcams, allowing those under surveillance to see where cameras are
directed, what images are recorded and who is viewing the footage. The
recommendations, in a report called Dilemmas of Privacy and
Surveillance, published by the Royal Academy of Engineering, come as
the Home Office and police forces prepare to upgrade national CCTV
networks amid concern that evidence from the cameras is often too poor
in quality to use in criminal investigations.
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"You,
the Queen, should be ashamed!": All
was solemn at the slavery service in Westminster Abbey ... until a
bright-shirted demonstrator let loose, says David Smith who watched
the drama unfold -
The slavery bicentenary service was about 45 minutes old and running
as smoothly and sombrely as any usual major national commemoration at
Westminster Abbey: the singing of hymns, readings from the Bible and
an air of inviolable solemnity. All this was shattered when, from
behind my seat in Poets' Corner, a man strode rapidly into the space
in front of the altar and began screaming at the top of his voice. The
Queen, Prince Philip, Tony and Cherie Blair, John and Pauline
Prescott, Gordon and Sarah Brown and the Archbishop of Canterbury
watched in stunned disbelief. The bright-shirted black demonstrator,
Toyin Agbetu of the African rights organisation Ligali, was only a
dozen feet from all of them, with apparently no security guards to
block him.
(COMMENTARY:
A slightly sycophantic article (what else do you expect from the
mainstream papers?), however here it is)
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Christians,
Muslims, and Jews forge an Interfaith 9/11 Truth Alliance over the War
on Terrorism - When
I tell people I work for the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11
Truth, LINK, I can see their eyes glaze over for a moment as they try
to process the information. The
idea of any Muslim- Jewish-Christian alliance is "hard to
compute." The 9/11 truth part further boggles the already boggled
mind of the neophyte, provoking stupefaction or, occasionally, amazed
laughter. Jokes subvert expectation, and the idea of a
Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 truth seems so subversive it
sounds like a joke: "A rabbi, a priest, and an imam walk into a
bar...bartender says, what are ya having"; Rabbi says, "A
glass of kosher wine and some 9/11 truth please. Priest says,
"Amen to the truth, but make mine whiskey." Imam says,
"Glad to hear you arggh both helpeeng clear zee names of zee
slandered Muslims... but what zee hell am I doing in a bar? Seriously,
MUJCA is no joke. Short version: We're the interfaith wing of the 9/11
truth movement. Co-founded in November 2004 by myself and Faiz Khan, a
physician, imam, 9/11 first responder, and interfaith activist, MUJCA
has been spearheading a worldwide effort to get people of the
Abrahamic faith traditions to talk about the facts and meaning of the
events of September 11th, 2001. As our mission statement puts it: We
do not necessarily agree about the probable level of official
complicity in the events of September 11th, but we agree that a new
investigation is a matter of the utmost importance.
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Christians
attack "satanic" Eurovision song:
Christian fundamentalists are calling for Switzerland's Eurovision
Song Contest entry to be banned because of its allegedly satanic
content - On
Tuesday the Federal Democratic Union (FDU) handed in a
49,000:signature petition to the government condemning DJ Bobo's
"Vampires Are Alive" as an affront to people's religious
convictions. The controversy is something of a setback for the former
baker's apprentice who is a household name in Switzerland and known
for his squeaky:clean image.
(RELATED:
See our archive on The
Occult in your Living Room)
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"The
Queen" : Why Movies Lie - "The
Queen" illustrates how the public is lulled to sleep with Mother
Goose stories. The
drama rests entirely on Queen Elizabeth II's refusal to speak publicly
after the death of Princess Diana in 1997; and how, under pressure
from a grieving nation, she graciously rose to the occasion. Nominated
for "Best Picture," the movie doesn’t mention she had good
reason to be reticent. Helen Mirren won for "Best Actress"
but if Mohammed Fayed is right, Elizabeth II deserves the Oscar.
Monday
26th March 2007: -
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Attack
on deputy prime minister considered inside job: Interior
security shake-up ordered - The
suicide attack against Iraq's Sunni deputy prime minister is now seen
as an inside job carried out by a member of his own security detail --
a distant relative who had been arrested as an insurgent, freed at the
official's request, then hired as a bodyguard, a senior security
official and an aide to the victim told the Associated Press
yesterday. The assassination attempt, at least the third major
security breach involving a top politician in four months, prompted
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to order a security shake-up throughout
the government, including plans to hire a foreign company to guard the
Green Zone building where Parliament meets, the security official said
on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with
reporters.
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EU
constitution back on the table - Tony
Blair last night backed moves to revive the rejected EU constitution
by 2009 - without offering voters a say in a referendum. The
Premier, who is in Germany, signed up to a declaration vowing to
'renew the political shape of Europe' before the next European
elections. And his close ally, EU commissioner Peter Mandelson,
suggested the changes that would be proposed would not require the
endorsement of the British people in a vote. The 'Berlin Declaration'
was agreed to mark 50 years of the union. It does not mention the
constitution by name, but says the EU should be placed on a 'renewed
common basis' before the 2009 elections and concludes 'Europe is our
common future'.
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Royal
Academy of Engineering releases report warning against potential
misuses of CCTV, identity cards and databases - The
mismanagement of CCTV, identity cards, traceable mobile phones, health
and social security databases, store loyalty cards and other data
retention technologies could hurt privacy and cost lives, according to
a new report from the Royal Academy of Engineering. Surveillance
and collection of personal data used to make lives safer and more
convenient must be engineered and monitored to prevent misuse by
governments, companies and even individuals, according to the
academy's Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance report.
"Technologies for collecting, storing, transmitting and
processing data are developing rapidly with many potential benefits,
from making paying bills more convenient to providing better
healthcare," said Professor Nigel Gilbert, chairman of the
academy working group which produced the report.
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How
Big Brother puts you in danger -
Big Brother Britain is putting lives at risk, according to a new
report into surveillance. Much
of the information captured by security cameras or stored in computer
data banks could easily be exploited by criminals or terrorists, it is
claimed. Far from being 'closed circuit'TV, footage from the cameras
is often openly available on the Internet, warns the report from the
Royal Academy of Engineering. Mobile phones give away a user's
location, supermarket loyalty cards reveal what shoppers buy and
computers record every Internet site users visit, the report adds. But
many people do not realise how closely their lives are monitored and
how little control there is over the information, it says. The RAE's
62-page report notes that Britain has 4.2million CCTV cameras – one
for every 14 people. Londoners are captured on camera an average of
300 times a day. Author Prof Nigel Gilbert told Metro of websites
where anyone could log in and watch ordinary people going about their
daily business.
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NZ
Police loosening criteria for taser use -
Green Party MP Keith Locke is concerned that Police appear to have
loosened the criteria for taser use, so that it is now being used
simply to make an arrest easier.
"The Police are now going beyond their taser trial mandate, which
was to use it only when there was a threat of physical injury,"
Mr Locke, the Party’s Police spokesperson says. "This last
week, in two separate incidents, the taser was used just to make it
easier for the Police to put handcuffs on the alleged offender.
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Government
Misconduct, Not Truthers, Most Insulting to 9/11 Heroes, Victims:
Toxic air, abuse of recovery process and pothole scandal is the real
disgrace - A
popular tactic to shut down debate on behalf of debunkers is to claim
that asking questions about the official 9/11 story is insulting to
the victims, and yet it is the progenitors of that myth, the
government itself, that through its post-9/11 actions has inflicted
the most misery and suffering upon ground zero heroes and victims.
Frothing Neo-Con attack dogs like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity,
along with high profile 9/11 truth TV and newspaper hit pieces put out
by the BBC and their ilk, have all regurgitated the emotional rhetoric
that having skepticism towards the official 9/11 fairy tale is a
direct attack on the memories of those lost on 9/11 and their loved
ones.
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Mark
Dice Crashes Cal State San Marcos -
CSUSM gets an unexpected visit from Mark Dice to spread 9/11 truth to
the students. One professor
says he isn't opposed to the ideas, he just says Mark should have
asked permission first instead of interupting class: -
Sunday
25th March 2007: -
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Iran:
British Sailors Knew Their Location -
The 15 British naval personnel being held by Iran allegedly knew they
had trespassed into Iranian waters in the Persian Gulf, it was
reported Sunday. An
informed-but-unnamed source was quoted by Iran's Fars News Agency
saying the eight Navy personnel and seven marines knew they were in
Iranian -- not Iraqi -- waters when they stopped a boat to check for
possible smuggling activity Friday. "The explanations provided by
the British marines and recordings made by the seized British vessels
testify to the fact that the British forces were fully informed they
had trespassed the Iranian waters," the source told the Fars News
Agency.
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GLOBALISTS
GATHER IN BRUSSELS:
List of Attendees Copped by AFP; Trilats Push for Higher Gas Taxes - America
should impose a $1-pergallon increase in the gasoline tax as penance
for causing pollution, John Deutch, former head of the Central
Intelligence Agency, told the Trilateral Commission’s secret meeting
here. When the TC called on the United States to increase gas taxes by
10 cents at a meeting in Tokyo in 1991, The Washington Post, which is
always represented at TC and Bilderberg meetings, called for such an
increase in an editorial the following day.
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UK
POLICE TO GET NEW GRAB LAW - POLICE
will get unprecedented powers to seize the property of criminals in a
new war on crime. The
clampdown is part of a wide-ranging policy review into crime and
security ordered by Prime Minister Tony Blair. At present, police can
only seize cash if they have "reasonable grounds" for
suspecting the money is the proceeds of crime. But ministers want to
extend the law to allow police to confiscate "noncash
assets" of up to £100,000.
(COMMENTARY:
"Well, you know... ever since 7/7... (he-he-he!)"
You see how this works?)
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Mark
Cuban Exposes O'Reilly Hypocrisy On Radio Broadcast:
Hearst yellow journalism devotees Popular Mechanics, NY Post enlisted
to debunk 9/11 truth again - Billionaire
Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks who is set to finance a
cinema release of Loose Change narrated by Charlie Sheen, exposed Bill
O'Reilly's rampant hypocrisy concerning his coverage of the 9/11 truth
movement on the Fox News host's radio show yesterday. Offering the
entire 18 minute segment will probably result in Bill calling on Fox
security to pay us a visit so here's a 9 minute clip instead.
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Hannity
& Colmes Covers Sheen & 9/11 Truth -
Fox News' Hannity & Colmes delivers yet another hit piece on the
9/11 truth movement, this time denouncing Charlie Sheen, who is set to
narrate Loose Change in association with billionaire Mark Cuban.
Notice how they attack him on a personal level and then talk about the
fact that they attacked him on a personal level, without actually
discussing any of the issues he raises! To be fair, Colmes presents a
balanced counter-argument and mentions the fact that Alex Jones is a
conservative, so this isn't a left/right issue: -
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007
refuses to destroy real ID -
SUPERSPY James Bond was given a REAL British passport for his latest
movie outing. The
Home Office handed it to star Daniel Craig for Casino Royale.
Whitehall officials claim they told producers to give it back after
shooting so it could be shredded - to stop it falling into the hands
of terrorists. And Home Secretary John Reid said: "The Identity
and Passport Service require such passports to be returned and
destroyed immediately after use." But a spokeswoman for film
company Eon said: "They haven't asked for it so we'll be keeping
it indefinitely."
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Exploitation
of the Patriot Act:
“The Devil’s On The Line,” All The Time Now - “Big
Brother” looking over your shoulder is literally in the here and now
in the United States. Many are asking the question, “Are there any
privacy rights in America any more?” When George Orwell wrote the
book, Nineteen Eighty-Four, in 1949, in the midst of the emerging
McCarthyism (the purging of Communist sympathizers in the U.S., in the
midst of a dawning Cold War’s second “Big Red Scare”), it seemed
to be a far-reaching fictitious misnomer that the American government
would ever become so obtrusive that no act would go unseen - no
conversation would go unheard - and no transaction would go unnoticed.
Yet, 58 years later, that appears to be where we are, if one were to
accept the Justice Department’s most recent Inspector General’s
report that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has abused their
authority under the Patriot Act. Ah, that explains why some of my
checks are missing.
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Despot
dresses his thugs as police - ZIMBABWE
President Robert Mugabe no longer trusts his police force and now
relies on his poorly trained but vicious party militia to keep a
growing opposition movement in check. The
violent repression of a protest march earlier this month and the
savage beating of Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for
Democratic Change, by men in police uniforms appeared to implicate the
country's police force. Now many think it was ruling party militants,
using requisitioned police outfits, who were responsible for the
dozens of injured, and the death of a family man shot while
demonstrating against Mr Mugabe's rule.
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Human
implant RFID gets owned - Radio
frequency identification tags have taken another hit from the security
community and Adam Laurie -- an independent security researcher based
in the U.K. -- can claim another first.
After setting off a torrent of worldwide media coverage by hacking the
U.K.'s new RFID-enabled passports in a project sponsored by and first
detailed by the Daily Mail newspaper earlier his month, Laurie used
his presentation at the ongoing ShmooCon confab to show off techniques
for hacking other RFID tags -- including one implanted inside a live
human being. After cracking the codes for a common RFID identification
card and an RFID tag that would be found inside livestock, Laurie
called up a volunteer from the audience who had a chip injected under
their skin -- and who used the device among other things to unlock his
laptop PC.
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9/11
remains possibly used on roads: court papers - Debris
that may have contained bits of bone from victims of the World Trade
Center attacks was used to fill potholes and pave city roads,
according to court papers filed on Friday. The
charge was made in an affidavit filed in Manhattan federal court in an
ongoing case filed in 2005 by family members of those killed in the
attacks against the city. They say the city did not do enough to
search for remains, denying victims a proper burial. Eric Beck, a
construction worker employed at the Fresh Kills landfill in the
borough of Staten Island, where the rubble was taken after the Twin
Towers fell, said in his affidavit that the process of sifting through
the debris was rushed.
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The
9/11 Lie is in Critical Condition -
There was a time, not long ago, when daring to question the official
account of 9/11 was risky business. One
was almost guaranteed to be attacked as a "crazy person" or
a "traitor" or a "terrorist sympathizer." Times
have changed. At this point, less than 20% of the population believes
they were given the full truth regarding 9/11. Logically one might
ask: "Why is that?" It wasn't for lack of trying that the
government failed in its propaganda campaign. It wasn't for lack of
"helping hands" in the mainstream media. (Though even that
support has begun to fall apart.) No, it was one thing and one thing
only that caused hundreds of millions of American citizens to openly
question the official account of 9/11; the evidence.
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Documentary
questions response to 9/11 -
It would have been too dark to see any finger-pointing. But
it was impossible to miss the snickering, groans and gasps that filled
the room Saturday as an audience of about 60 people reacted angrily to
the political documentary "9/11 Press for the Truth." The
provocative film, shown at the Fremont main library as part of the
Tri-City Independent Documentary Series, raises questions about
government explanations of the attacks on the World Trade Center and
Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. It highlights the story of four World
Trade Center widows, known as the Jersey Girls, who sought full
disclosure of what the government and intelligence agencies knew
before the attacks. The film "raises questions that are
unanswered. A lot of things that are very strange," one woman
said after seeing it.
Saturday
24th March 2007: -
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To
park or to play, students will pay with drug testing: Nothing
specific prompted the district’s new requirement, but administrators
had a sense that drugs were becoming more accepted by youths - Starting
this fall, Oak Grove High School students will be unable to park on
campus or participate in many activities unless they consent to random
drug tests. Sports, band, cheerleading, drama and academic
competitions such as Science Olympiad are all covered by the policy.
Oak Grove — east of Kansas City — is believed to be the first
district in the metropolitan area to adopt random drug testing of
students.
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School
'spycam' plan will beat the vandals - Big
Brother-style surveillance cameras are to be installed at a school in
a bid to clamp down on vandalism and bad behaviour. A
huge new CCTV system is being lined up to watch over the sprawling
32-acre Henry Cort Community College campus. Despite the refusal of
school and county chiefs to discuss how the camera scheme could
operate or how children’s privacy will be protected, parents have
welcomed the move to install cameras as a way to improve discipline at
the school, both in the classroom and the playground. Some parents
have voiced fears over standards of pupil behaviour among the 943
children at the Hillson Drive college. Only 147 families recently made
it their first choice school – way short of the 210 places
available.
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£1,000
fines by ID card secret police -
A police force will be set up to issue £1,000 fines to anyone who
fails to update their personal details on the Government's new
database, it has emerged. The
unit, part of the Identity and Passport Service, is expected to send
the penalties by post, after snooping through computer records.
Potential pitfalls include forgetting to tell the Government of a
change of address or name, failing to notify officials of an error on
the National Identity Register and failing to hand in an ID card
belonging to a relative who has died. All cash raised will go to the
Treasury.
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New
RFID Attack Opens the Door - Be
careful of who walks up to your building and swipes an ID card: New
proof-of-concept code will soon be released that lets attackers hack
RFID readers and walk right in as if they work there. The
attack uses SQL injection to fake the back-end RFID reader into
admitting the cardholder into the building, says Joshua Perrymon,
hacking director for PacketFocus Security Solutions and the researcher
who wrote the POC. Perrymon -- who's taking a cue from the recent
Black Hat RFID flap and won't name RFID vendor names -- says he's
tested it on a few RFID vendors' systems, but the exploit will work on
most any of them.
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NEC
succeeds in embedding RFID in bottle cap: Two
Japanese companies have succeded in developing a plastic bottle cap
embedded with an radio frequency identification (RFID) tag - According
to reports, the development would allow beverage manufacturers to
continue to use their existing manufacturing equipment even if they
shift to the new cap. NEC Corp. and container company Toyo Seikan
Kaisha, Ltd. said they have managed to fit a built in chip and a micro
antenna inside the plastic cap, according to various Japanese media
reports. No information on the RFID cap was available in English. Mami
Akasaka of Tech-On! journal said the cap is embedded with a passive
2.45 GHz RFID tag with a communication range extends to 10 cm.
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Fox
Bully O'Reilly Says Loose Change Will Destroy Sheen:
3rd grade level ad hominem hit pieces can't even pin down basic facts
- Fox News' The
O'Reilly Factor featured a segment last night in which TV bully Bill
O'Reilly warned Charlie Sheen that narrating Loose Change would
destroy his career, amidst a cacophony of slurs, smears and Holocaust
jibes, characterized by this and other hit pieces that carried all the
weight of a third grader's scribbled essay paper and couldn't even pin
down basic facts.
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Ground
Zero worker tells of illnesses from 9/11 - A
New Jersey man told a Senate panel today he has difficulty breathing
and his lungs have thickened since he worked at the World Trade Center
site on Sept. 11, 2001, and on cleanup efforts afterward. Jeffrey
Endean, a former commander with the Morris County Sheriff's Office who
lives in Succasunna, was among the witnesses who discussed health
problems he and thousands of people developed after breathing in the
pulverized sheet rock, glass and concrete from the Twin Towers
collapse and during debris removal later.
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Fatal
pet food had traces of rat poison, U.S. lab finds - U.S.
authorities say a banned rat poison is the likely cause of tainted pet
food made by Canada's Menu Foods and blamed for at least 14 animal
deaths across North America. New
York state agricultural officials confirmed the finding yesterday
after testing several cat-food samples for known toxic substances at
its laboratories in Albany. The suspected chemical was identified as
aminopterin, which can cause cancer and birth defects in humans and
kidney failure in dogs and cats. It remains a mystery exactly how the
aminopterin got into the pet food, although one of the leading
suspects is wheat gluten imported from China and elsewhere.
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Family
of ex-Marine killed by police claims officers used Taser gun, then
shot him 3 times -
The family of a former Marine who was given multiple electric shocks
and then shot to death by police sued Friday, claiming the officers
used excessive force and violated the man’s constitutional rights.
Police were investigating a motorcycle gang when they encountered
Derek J. Hale, 25, housesitting for a fellow member who had been
arrested there earlier, according to the lawsuit. Hale’s widow and
parents allege that although Hale posed no threat and police had no
warrant for his arrest, they shocked him with a Taser gun three times
Nov. 6.
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Anti-ID
card protest in Edinburgh - White-suited,
barcoded robots are planning to make a silent anti-ID card protest
outside government buildings in Edinburgh. Campaign
group, No2ID, will congregate at the Edinburgh Interrogation Centre in
Haymarket Terrace on Monday. No2ID member David Muxworthy said people
needing a passport would need to be interrogated and fingerprinted.
They would need to give 49 pieces of personal information for the
'National Identity Register' database, he said. Mr Muxworthy said:
"When the controversial Identity Cards laws come into force,
everyone will have to undergo this process to get an ID card.
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The
robbery trend is cause to consider cashless pizza delivery - About
10 people representing local pizzerias attended a New Castle County
police workshop on safety for delivery workers on Wednesday. Locally
and nationally, the growing trend of drivers being robbed and attacked
has prompted similar outreach efforts around the country. Just a few
years ago, the Labor Department included pizza delivery drivers on its
annual listing of most dangerous jobs.
(RELATED:
See our Cashless
Society Control Grid
archive)

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Cops
eye new tool to nab auto thieves - City
traffic cops are going high-tech to catch up with car thieves. EPS
has been researching new technology to rapidly scan licence plates on
passing cars to see whether they've been reported stolen. They plan to
buy two of the devices. "It's an effective tool," said EPS
spokesman Karen Carlson. She said she wasn't sure when the computer
and camera would be brought into use. Winnipeg police purchased a
$25,000 camera and computer system for its cruisers that will be able
to scan up to 200 licence plates a minute, even in moving traffic.
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City
to Seize Homes Over a $5 Parking Ticket:
Brooksville, Florida proposes to foreclose homes and seize cars over
less than $20 in parking tickets - The
city council in Brooksville, Florida voted this week to advance a
proposal granting city officials the authority to place liens and
foreclose on the homes of motorists accused of failing to pay a single
$5 parking ticket. Non-homeowners face having their vehicles seized if
accused of not paying three parking offenses.
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VAT
man grabs lap dancers' cash -
Lap dancers have been ordered to give the VAT man a slice of the
earnings they receive from customers following a High Court ruling.
Spearmint Rhino, which operates a chain of lap dancing clubs where men
pay £250 for an hour of one-to-one chat or £20 for a nude dance,
overturned an earlier ruling stating that the club was liable for the
tax bill. The company successfully argued that it does not employ the
women directly and merely provides them with a venue in which they can
entertain their customers.
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Lie
detector for e-mails and txt -
PEOPLE who tell lies in their e-mails and mobile phone text messages
may soon be exposed by new "lie detector'' software. Employers,
spouses and people using online dating will be able to install the
computer program to check if they are being lied to. Developed in the
US and expected to be available in Australia next year, the program
scans the contents of an e-mail or mobile phone text message for
specific word patterns. Whereas a traditional polygraph monitors a
person's pulse rate, the "digital polygraph'' looks for
"linguistic anxiety'', John Cornell, who has led the research,
said. He said academics had found 'tell-tale signs' to detect when a
person was lying in e-mail or texts.
Thursday
22nd March 2007: -
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Big
Brother is shouting at you: BIG
Brother-style 'talking' CCTV cameras are to be used to combat
troublemakers - A
pilot scheme will see loudspeakers linked to six cameras covering
anti-social behaviour hotspots in Bridlington town centre. It will
allow controllers to warn people causing problems that they are being
watched. Someone seen dropping litter can be asked to pick it up and
put it in a bin. And people involved in a fight or drunken behaviour
can be told they are being filmed and that the police are on their
way.
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Brave
New Car Dealer:
Fingerprints required to buy a car? - Imagine
you’ve gone through a multiple week process to purchase an
automobile. You know the drill. Research every feature, pick your
color, then, it’s negotiations for purchase price and for trade-in.
Everything is done and agreed-apon, and excited, you are ready to hand
over the check and collect your new car. But wait! You are handed a
slip of paper and told to mark your right thumbprint in a box. The
paper says clearly that it’s a request, for your protection, and to
prevent your identity theft. When you politely decline, the dealership
refuses to sell you the car.
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NEW
YORK POST HIT-PIECE:
H'WOOD'S 9/11 IDIOT BRIGADE - SOME
celebrities don't know when to keep their traps shut - like Charlie
Sheen and Rosie O'Donnell, who are throwing their weight behind the
twisted theory that the United States government was behind the 9/11
terror attacks. Page Six has learned that Sheen, the hooker-loving
Hollywood hunk, has agreed to narrate a new version of the loopy
YouTube documentary "Loose Change," which claims that a
corrupt faction within the federal government orchestrated the mass
murder at the World Trade Center.
(COMMENTARY:
One year later and the mainstream media haven't learned a thing have
they!)
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Debunking
NY Post's Tabloid Hit Piece On Sheen/O'Donnell: As
sophisticated as a Chicago Bears fan after a heavy drinking session -
The New York Post has produced a typically and purposefully ignorant
hit piece against both Rosie O'Donnell and Charlie Sheen for going
public with their views on 9/11, commenting that they should
"keep their traps shut". As far as hit pieces go, gossip
writer Richard Johnson's scribe is about as sophisticated as a Chicago
Bears fan after a heavy drinking session, but considering his other
stories today were about Paul McCartney sending a bunch of flowers and
Jay-Z making a bet with the editor of Playboy, we shouldn't expect too
much.
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9/11
Truthers Confront Alan 'Mengele' Dershowitz: Brainwashed
rapture-stoned fake Christians & Israeli-firsters scream and boo,
throw their toys out of the playpen - Activists
from the Philly 9/11 Truth organization confronted arch-Neo-Con and
torture advocate Alan 'Mengele' Dershowitz at a speaking event last
week, causing his fake Christian Israeli-first vulture audience to boo
and throw their toys out of the pram, shortly before security were
called to drag the dissenters out of the building for the crime of
asking a question. Dershowitz was top of the bill for the kool-aid
drinkers who attended the "Global Terrorism: The New World
War" event at the University of Pennsylvania.
-
Photos:
9/11 Truth Demo Outside ABC Studios - Picture Recap,
video coming soon!
-
Three
arrested over July 7 bombings - Three
men were today arrested in connection with the July 7 London bombings,
which killed 52 commuters on the capital's public transport system. In
the first significant arrests since the 2005 suicide attacks, two men,
aged 23 and 30, were detained shortly before 1pm at Manchester
airport, where they were due to catch a flight to Pakistan. A third
man, aged 26, was arrested at a house in Leeds shortly after 4pm. The
three were arrested by officers from the Met's counterterrorism
command on suspicion of the commission, preparation, or instigation of
acts of terrorism under the Terrorism Act 2000.
(RELATED:
See our 7/7
London Bombings
archive)
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Parents
stall scan program - Although
the scan's not necessarily banned, it has been postponed and parents
will finally get the final say whether their child's fingerprints are
added to a district-wide database. Uproar
protesting the initiative - a switch away from cash transactions for
school lunches, to a biometric thumb scanning system - has gained
initiative slowly, but steadily since the $52,000 purchase was
approved by the school committee more than a month ago. "Somehow,
my rights as a parent have been waived," Mary Heim said softly
into the microphone attached to a central office suite podium at last
night's committee meeting. "Lack of consent isn't implied
consent."
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Guantanamo
trials boycott urged -
Amnesty International has called on foreign governments not to
co-operate with US military trials of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. In
a report, the human rights group said other countries should refuse to
provide evidence for prosecutions. The US authorities should also
abandon its system of military commissions and try suspects in civil
courts on the US mainland, the report said. The military trials are
due to resume at Guantanamo next week.
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Net
porn ban faces another legal setback -
Congress' efforts to muzzle pornography on the Web were dealt another
serious setback on Thursday, when a federal judge ruled a 1998 law was
unconstitutional and violated Americans' First Amendment rights. U.S.
District Judge Lowell Reed in Philadelphia permanently barred
prosecutors from enforcing the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA,
saying it was overly broad and would undoubtedly "chill a
substantial amount of constitutionally protected speech for
adults." The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties
Union. Even though politicians enacted COPA nearly a decade ago as
part of an early wave of Internet censorship efforts, the courts have
kept it on ice and it has never actually been enforced. The law makes
it a crime for commercial Web sites to make "harmful to
minors" material publicly available, with violators fined up to
$50,000 and imprisoned for up to six months.
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TOMORROW
IN MANCHESTER
The Occult
Hand of 9/11: An illustrated talk by Ian R. Crane.
DATE:
Friday 23rd March 2007 at 7pm
LOCATION:
Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester (Behind
Central Library)
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Pentagon
Preps Mind Fields - The
U.S. military is working on computers than can scan your mind and
adapt to what you're thinking. Since
2000, Darpa, the Pentagon's blue-sky research arm, has spearheaded a
far-flung, nearly $70 million effort to build prototype cockpits,
missile control stations and infantry trainers that can sense what's
occupying their operators' attention, and adjust how they present
information, accordingly. Similar technologies are being employed to
help intelligence analysts find targets easier by tapping their
unconscious reactions. It's all part of a broader Darpa push to
radically boost the performance of American troops. "Computers
today, you have to learn how they work," says Navy Commander
Dylan Schmorrow, who served as Darpa's first program manager for this
Augmented Cognition project. He now works for the Office of Naval
Research. "We want the computer to learn you, adapt to you."
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Acids
in Popular Sodas Erode Tooth Enamel -
Root beer could be the safest soft drink for your teeth, new research
suggests, but many other popular diet and sugared sodas are nearly as
corrosive to dental enamel as battery acid. Prolonged
exposure to soft drinks can lead to significant enamel loss, even
though many people consider soft drinks to be harmless or just worry
about their sugar content and the potential for putting on pounds, the
study says. The erosive potential of colas is 10 times that of fruit
juices in just the first three minutes of drinking, a study last year
showed. The latest research, published in Academy of General Dentistry
(AGD) journal General Dentistry, reports that drinking any type of
soft drink hurts teeth due to the citric acid and/or phosphoric acid
in the beverages.
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God-fearing
villagers snub "satanic" bar codes - A
hundred residents of a Russian village have refused to switch to new
passports because they believe the documents' bar codes contain
satanic symbols, state television reported on Wednesday.
"We believe these new passports are sinful," Valentina
Yepifanova, an elderly resident of the village Bogolyubovo, told
Rossiya television as she clutched an old, tattered passport she said
she wanted to keep. "They have these bar codes and people say
they contain three sixes. We are against that."
(RELATED: Scroll
down and see yesterdays headlines to see how the latest £20 note has
a satanic up-side down & distorted pentagram in the design.
To see more about the symbolism of 666, see our Symbolism
Archive)
Wednesday
21st March 2007: -

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Liberal
Kingpins Help Bush War Agenda: MoveOn.org,
Pelosi, fake "progressive left" Neo-Cons in sheep's clothing
- Almost six
months after the Democrats recaptured both Houses and political
sleeping gas sent the "progressive" left off into dream
world, establishment liberals like Nancy Pelosi and the MoveOn.org
foundation continue to whore themselves in service of the Neo-Con war
agenda and their Bush administration pimps. While the media obsesses
about the sideshow of the attorney firings "scandal,"
preparations for a war with Iran and the continued feeding of U.S.
troops into the Iraq meat grinder continues with the utter and total
complicity of kingpin Democrats and their phony advocacy groups.
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APACS
shows how Brits use cash -
UK payments service APACs has given an overview of how Brits use cash
to coincide with the release of a new £20 note. The
figures show the increasing popularity of plastic card payments.
However, cash remains popular too, with no sign that Brits are
abandoning ready money in favour of plastic. Cash accounts fro 63 per
cent of day to day payments by volume, and 96 per cent of all payments
under £5 in value were made with cash last year. Most of the
transactions are made in retail outlets, with this sector taking 60
per cent of our cash transactions. Other locations where cash is in
heavy use include pubs, clubs, meals out and takeaways. Eighty per
cent of payments for travel and entertainment are made by cash.
(RELATED:
To see more about up-side down pentagrams, see our Symbolism
Archive)
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US
wants all 10 fingerprints on entry - The
US will increase the amount of information it holds on foreign
visitors when it takes all 10 fingerprints from air travellers rather
than the usual two. Currently
foreign travellers must have their index fingers scanned into a
database when they enter the US by agents of the Department of
Homeland Security. Those prints can then be checked against a database
of fingerprints held by police forces or the FBI. That number will
increase to all 10 fingerprints on a trial at 10 US airports. It is
planned that the programme will be in place in all airports in around
a year, according to a report in The Daily Telegraph.
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Taxpayers
will be losers in ID card gamble -
Does anyone seriously believe Joan Ryan MP when she defends identity
cards in such a transparent fashion? The
information harvested from the populace, she assures us, will be
stored on a "secure database". Anyone who has observed the
errors made with the passport service database (which cost people
their holidays), the criminal records database (which cost people
their dignity and threatened their jobs) or the extensive fraud in the
JobCentre database (which cost a great deal of money) should be less
than reassured when a minister claims with a broad brush that the new
ID database will be "secure".
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ID
card protest warning - CAMPAIGNERS
opposed to government plans for identity cards claim those who object
to their details being stored on a proposed national database could be
refused a passport. The
Hackney branch of the NO2ID campaign claim the travel restrictions
came to light when the official responsible for the scheme was
interviewed by a national newspaper. "We were told at the last
general election the scheme would be voluntary," said Martin
Twomey, of Hackney NO2ID. "Now we are being told people can opt
out of having their details centralised, but in return they must
forego the ability to have a travel document.
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Biology
teacher fired for referring to Bible -
During his eight days as a part-time high school biology teacher, Kris
Helphinstine included Biblical references in material he provided to
students and gave a PowerPoint presentation that made links between
evolution, Nazi Germany and Planned Parenthood. That
was enough for the Sisters School Board, which fired the teacher
Monday night for deviating from the curriculum on the theory of
evolution. "I think his performance was not just a little bit
over the line," board member Jeff Smith said. "It was a
severe contradiction of what we trust teachers to do in our
classrooms."
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At
Least 5 Million Americans Now Have Alzheimer's -
Food, especially meat, is a big culprit in the Alzheimer's Disease
epidemic. In
addition, the severe pollution of our environment and our water supply
with heavy metals is another factor. Pesticide and fertilizer run-off
from corporate farms into our streams, ponds and reservoirs is also
involved. Health authorities simply say that the cause of increased
Alzheimer's Disease cases is due to an aging population living longer.
Ridiculous...Alzheimer's wasn't a factor 50 years ago. The above
factors are crucial. In my opinion, future populations will not have
the longevity of our parents' generation.
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Freedom
in a Surveillance State - A
gladiator match between freedom, technology, and government is on the
horizon, and there’s no guarantee the America we know will survive
it. Consider
Radio Frequency Identification tags, or RFIDs. A long-standing
practice of biologists is to tag animals with tracking devices so
their locations and behaviors can be monitored. In a few short years
this technology will b |