Friday 30th March 2007: -

• Iran airs UK sailor's 'apology' - Iran has broadcast TV footage of a captured British marine apologising for entering Iranian waters "without permission". The serviceman, Royal Marine rifleman Nathan Thomas Summers, was shown sitting with another serviceman and the female British sailor Faye Turney against a pink floral curtain. Both men wore camouflage fatigues with a label saying "Royal Navy" on their chests and a small British flag stitched to their left sleeves. Turney wore a blue jump-suit and a black headscarf.

• Is Rudy Giuliani Qualified To Be the Next US President? - We are all hearing a lot of unhappiness from both major US political parties about what is going on today with the residents currently in the White House. This is one of the reasons that this is the earliest time ever for the general public to get this involved with the political process for the next general election. The Democrats are somewhat giddy now-a-days because for the first time in a number of past Presidential primaries, they seem to have an actual choice of qualified and for the most part "likeable" candidates. On the other side, the Republicans are having a harder task.

• ANOTHER MAJOR DEVELOPMENT FOR 9/11 TRUTH AS MORE PREDOMINANT FIGURES GO PUBLIC! - This week, Rosie O'Donnell discusses 9/11 truth on her TV show The View and in her video blog. See below for clips. Please help spread these links: -

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Thursday 29th March 2007: -

• O'Donnell 9/11 Rant Reaches 30 Million Viewers: Promises to feature physics professor on The View to discuss WTC collapse - Rosie O'Donnell is certainly not backing away from her public stance about 9/11, and this morning on The View went on a 9 minute rant about the many questions surrounding the attack, reaching around 30 million viewers in the process. This is the largest single exposure 9/11 truth has enjoyed to date and it represents a watershed moment in the quest to bring the truth to the masses. We are acquiring the video of the rant and it will be posted here soon.   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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."

• 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.

• 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.

• 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: -

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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: -

• 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'.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• "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)

• 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.

• 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)

• "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: -

• 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.

• 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'.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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: -

• Digital Angel awarded $400K contract by Air Force - Digital Angel Corp. announced Monday that it has been awarded a $400,000 contract to design a system for a pilot-recovery radio for the U.S. Air Force. The radio system connects to the United States Air Force Jet Pilot Recovery Radio, which needs to be replaced because of a frequency change for the related satellite system which will take effect in 2009. Digital Angel hopes to complete the project by June 2007. The company will then begin trials, and if the trials are successful, the Air Force will seek bids for 15,000 devices.

Sunday 25th March 2007: -

• 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.

• 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.

• 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?)

• 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.

• 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: -

• 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."

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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: -

• 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.

• 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.

• £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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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: -

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!)

• 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.

• 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)

• 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."

• 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.

• 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.

• 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."

• 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.

• 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: -

• Former CIA official supports Professor's claim that official 9/11 Islamist conspiracy theory are lies - David Ray Griffin is widely recognized as one of the leading spokespersons of the 9/11 truth movement. This is by virtue of his previous four books on the subject. Professor Griffin and a growing list of scholars, other researchers as well as diverse experts and activists, reject the official Islamist mastermind conspiracy theory about 9/11 advanced by Establishment interests. Although the 9/11 truth movement was long ignored by the U.S. government and the mainstream media, recent polls have shown that (as Time magazine has acknowledged) the rejection of the official theory has become "a mainstream political phenomenon."    (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• Police Harass 9/11 Truthers Outside ABC Studios: Group supporting Rosie O'Donnell intimidated, fracas causes O'Donnell to leave - A 9/11 truth organization supporting and attempting to speak with Rosie O'Donnell about her recent comments regarding the September 11 attacks outside the ABC studios were harassed and intimidated by New York City police, a scene that caused O'Donnell to prematurely leave. O'Donnell has been attacked by Neo-Con webzines over the last few days but completely ignored by the corporate media for controversial comments questioning the official 9/11 story.

• MUSIC VIDEO - 9/11 Building 7: - 

(Does anyone know where we can get an MP3 copy of this song and/or who made it? - E-Mail us if you do)

• 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.

• 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)

• The children drugged for being naughty - Countless children labelled hyperactive are being subdued with drugs like Ritalin. But many experts think they're just naturally boisterous - and those needless pills are causing terrifying side-effects. "As soon as Jack arrived at nursery at the age of three, the teachers realised he was trouble," says his mother, Rozalyn Harrison. "He wouldn’t sit still; instead he was constantly running around being a nuisance. "Sometimes it got so bad that the moment I got home after dropping him off, I’d get a call asking me to collect him. At home he’d scream and cry if he didn’t get what he wanted. He put holes in doors, smashed windows, and broke anything he could lay his hands on. Going shopping was a nightmare; I couldn’t do anything to calm him down.   (RELATED: See our Compromised Health archive)

• O’Reilly punks himself on torture: Has he ever heard of John Yoo? - O'Reilly always likes to think he's smarter than most people, but in this instant—he punks himself and looks more pathetic than ever. Sunsara Taylor of "The World Can't Wait," was on to talk about ending the Iraq war…It seems she has a better grasp on the administration than he does.

• 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.

• 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".

• 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.

• 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."

• 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.

• 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 be coming to a human near you. In recent months U.S. manufacturers announced plans to utilize RFIDs in a staggering array of products. Making use of the same technology that allows cars to sail through EZ Pass tolls, RFIDs are slated to appear on clothing, sneakers, razors, books, boots, and just about everything else that a tiny tracking device can be stitched onto or into. The initial incentive is a highly practical one: "tagged" products can be readily tracked through the distribution gauntlet from factory to store shelf. Concealed like many extant antitheft devices, they will do nothing unless touched by a "reader signal," which makes the RFID "reply" with its own unique signal – an electronic dialogue invisible to the person wearing it.   (RELATED: See our Total Global Surveillance archive)

• NO 10 PETITION:  HELP SPREAD THIS LINK! -  "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to hold a referendum to consult the nations opinion on your proposed signing of the 'Declaration on the Future of Europe' which will sign Britain over to a Federal Europe and strip British people of their rights FOREVER" - On MARCH 25th in Berlin, Mr Blair will sign a 50 page ‘Declaration on the Future of Europe' without consulting the UK people. A binding treaty that embodies "basic laws" for 490 million people in 27 countries based on a despised constitution, rejected by voters across Europe. Nine countries with over 150 million people turned it down or, decided not to put it to the vote. Blair alone has decided the UK will not vote. If you don’t want to be controlled by a European Federation, we must demand a national referendum NOW. It will create: • A PERMANENT, unelected, EU president. A sole voice for Europe serving a 5 year term. • FULL-TIME foreign and defense ministers for Europe meaning powers like China and America will by-pass Britain to speak directly to them. • A REFORMED European parliament drawing up its own laws. Britain couldn’t veto its decisions and each member states government loses the right to "opt out" of EU laws & treaties. ACT NOW or be slaves to the EU forever.

Tuesday 20th March 2007: -

• Now a council uses cameras in bean tins to catch bin 'criminals' - A local council is to use hidden cameras to catch residents who leave rubbish out on the wrong day. CCTV devices will be disguised inside objects such as baked bean cans and house bricks to film offenders. The covert surveillance has been ordered by Ealing council to target "enviro-criminals" - those who leave out black bags when they should not or let the contents spill on to the pavement. Offenders can be issued with onthe-spot fines of up to £1,000.

• Biometric fabrics to monitor "physiological state" - Military officers will be able to monitor the physiological state of their men with a new "smart" fabric which records biometric data, it has been claimed. Designed by Zephyr Technology (ZT), the material has been integrated into two products which can record and transmit information about the wearer, such as their heart beat, posture and breathing rate, reports the BBC. The bio-harness and shoe pod were launched at hi-tech exhibition CeBit and, according to the manufacturer, could be used in the health, medical and defence sectors.

• Guantanamo inmate confesses to USS Cole attack - A top al Qaeda lieutenant has admitted planning the 2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 sailors and helping to organize the simultaneous 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 200, including a dozen Americans. Waleed bin Attash told U.S. military officials at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, seeking to determine his "enemy combatant" status that he participated in "the buying or purchasing of the explosives" and put together the plan for the attack on the Cole "a year and a half prior to the operation, buying the boat and recruiting the members" that carried it out.

• NYCLU Slams New York City for ‘Over-Policing’ of Schools – Civil libertarians say that security measures and the presence of police officers in New York City schools have created "hostile and dysfunctional environments" for students and teachers. Calling the city’s school-policing program "aggressive," the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union said in a report released yesterday that metal detectors, searches and the overwhelming presence of police officers make "schools feel more like juvenile-detention facilities," and "undermine [their] educational missions."

• New act to prevent college censorship - A law that would protect college journalists from university censorship is making its way through the Illinois General Assembly. The College Campus Press Act, which was introduced by Sen. Susan Garrett, unanimously passed the Illinois Senate Thursday and now awaits a vote by the Illinois House. Under the law, college media at public universities, such as SIUC, would become public forums, meaning they could not legally be subject to review by universities. The DAILY EGYPTIAN is already a "designated public forum." The act also protects faculty advisers to campus newspapers and television stations if they refuse to suppress students' free expression.

• Police need federal DNA database, states told - A NATIONAL DNA database, accessible by police in any jurisdiction in Australia, has been called for by the new Minister for Justice, David Johnston. Senator Johnston has called on the states to "stop dragging the chain" and accept a national system which could be quickly implemented under mechanisms already in place. He endorsed last week's decision by the South Australian Government to dramatically broaden the guidelines for collecting DNA from individuals (anyone 16 and over who is arrested), keeping the samples indefinitely, and doing checks on the DNA profiles of victims of crime.

• Big Brother set to give credit where credit is due - The Government is to remove all barriers to banks sharing data on us in a bid to curb irresponsible lending. But the potential for error is huge, writes Teresa Hunter. The Government is poised to remove all privacy to our financial arrangements by allowing banks and other institutions to reveal full details of our accounts to each other and credit reference agencies, even though we may not have given permission for this data to be shared. The move is likely to prove controversial as credit reference agencies can be prone to errors. Citizens Advice confirmed that the bureaux regularly deal with clients who have been refused credit because of problems with their files. Moira Haynes of Citizens Advice says: "There can be things on files which customers do not agree with, or imply financial associations with other people which do not exist. We do what we can to help them get the mistakes corrected."

• Exxon advocates tax over carbon trading - OIL and gas giant ExxonMobil has broken ranks with industry and the Government to argue that a carbon tax has some advantages over a carbon trading system that merit closer examination, as Australia moves to cutting greenhouse gas emissions. In its submission to the Prime Ministerial Task Group on Emissions Trading, ExxonMobil called yesterday for the scope of the inquiry to be expanded beyond carbon trading. It notes that some economists are advocating a carbon tax as being a more practical and efficient way of cutting emissions than creating a complex carbon trading system.

• Bush: 'Iraq withdrawal may spark 9/11 repeat' - President George W Bush used the fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war yesterday to warn that US withdrawal would unleash a "contagion of violence" that could spark a repeat of the September 11 attacks. Although he conceded that there would be "bad days ahead", he insisted that there had been "good progress" in Iraq and there were "hopeful signs" that the influx of 30,000 additional troops would stabilise Baghdad. The bullish self-confidence of 2003 was absent as he said only that the war could be won rather than portraying victory as inevitable. "Four years after this war began, the fight is difficult, but it can be won."

• Anniversary Of Sheen's 9/11 Trailblazing Legacy: Chain reaction raises profile of truth movement - Today marks the one year anniversary of Charlie Sheen going public on his doubts about the official 9/11 story, a courageous act that has inspired a chain reaction of other high profile figures to use their media platforms in drawing attention to the 9/11 truth movement. 2006 heralded the biggest surge in growth of the 9/11 truth movement since its birth, aided in no small part by the anniversary protests in New York and before that by actor Charlie Sheen's decision to risk his multi-million dollar career by standing up for the truth, and being viciously attacked for doing so, in March of that year.   (RELATED ARCHIVE: Charlie Sheen Speaks out on 9/11)

• Council tax snoops call on the spies in the skies - Satellite imagery and aerial photos are being used by Government snoopers as part of a council tax revaluation which could see bills soar. Opposition MPs claimed the 'spy-in-the-sky' surveillance technology was being used to recalculate bills in Northern Ireland, which they said was a 'testing ground' for using the 'sinister' technique in Britain.

• Terrorist given 7 UK passports - TWO terrorists obtained nine British passports fraudulently, the Home Office revealed today. The latest Home Office scandal emerged as it was revealed that an estimated 10,000 British passports were issued to bogus applicants last year. Jailed Al-Qaeda militant Dhiren Barot received seven passports before he was imprisoned for life for terror plots. A second man, Moroccan national Salaheddine Benyaich, had two British passports in the name of a British citizen born in Brighton.

• Hilary Clinton In Big Brother Ad On YouTube - YouTube has entered the presidential campaign with a new controversial commercial posted on the video streaming site. The ad features Hilary Clinton in a 'Big Brother' setting, addressing rows of blank faces from a large TV screen. The footage is a direct take on the 1984 Apple Mac ad directed by Ridley Scott, which was based on the George Orwell book "1984". It originally aired during the Super Bowl.

Monday 19th March 2007: -

• Rosie O'Donnell 9/11 Comments Garner No Media Coverage: Talk show host's 9/11 rant ignored - Rosie O'Donnell's blog comments last week, in which she stated some of the facts surrounding the controlled demolition of building 7 on 9/11, have garnered no media attention. O'Donnell wrote : The fires in WTC 7 were not evenly distributed, so a perfect collapse was impossible. Silverstein said to the fire department commander “the smartest thing to do is pull it.” Firefighters withdrawing from the area stated the building was going to “blow up”. The roof of WTC 7 visibly crumbled and the building collapsed perfectly into its footprint. Molten steel and partially evaporated steel members were found in the debris. After going public with this skepticism over the official story of 9/11, O'Donnell then continued to address the issue in a Q&A with her readers on her website.

• Chip and PIN blamed for debt rise - IT WAS introduced to help tackle credit card fraud, but now chip-and-PIN technology has been blamed for fuelling the ongoing rise in consumer debt. The claim was made by the online consumer advice service uSwitch.com, which said that the popularity of the new system has made it easier for people to get cashback on credit card purchases at the till and overspend. Chip and PIN was introduced in February 2006 as a replacement for the old-style signature strip system, which was considered to be an easy target for potential fraudsters. Since its introduction, it has been credited with cutting down on fraud, but a report produced by uSwitch.com suggests this has not come without a cost to consumers. The service said the introduction of the new technology had led to a "dramatic increase" in credit card debt, and added that up to one million people believe that charges on credit card cash withdrawals are free, as they are on debit cards. This is not the case.   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• 13 Diabetics Implanted with VeriMed RFID Microchip at Boston Diabetes EXPO: VeriChip Corporation continues to focus on diabetic patients to provide important identification and medical record information - VeriChip Corporation (Nasdaq: CHIP - News), a provider of RFID systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, announced today it added 13 diabetic patients to its VeriMed Patient Identification System network at a Boston Diabetes EXPO sponsored by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). At the Boston Diabetes EXPO, physicians implanted VeriMed RFID microchips in conference attendees who signed up for the voluntary procedure. The VeriMed Patient Identification System, which utilizes an implantable RFID microchip in combination with a handheld RFID scanner and a secure patient database, provides immediate access to important identification and health information for patients who arrive at an emergency department unable to communicate.

• Europe under fire over fingerprint database - National law enforcement agencies across the EU may soon tap into a massive centrally accessible database that would store the fingerprints of each member state’s career criminals. The prints of top offenders and suspects in all 27 nations would be stored on a new e-warehouse, yet they would be confined to serious crimes such as organised crime, terrorism and murder. The proposals, tabled by the European Commission, have drawn opposition from civil liberties groups and MEPs, who said on Thursday that they amount to ‘Euro Big Brother run riot.’

• Fingerprinting in UK schools more authoritarian than in China: Baroness Walmsley - Government ministers will today [Monday] be forced to confront criticism about the practice of fingerprinting of children in school, following questions by the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords. There is currently no government guidance for schools about the controversial practice, which is even being banned in schools in China on privacy grounds. Commenting, Liberal Democrat Education Spokesperson, Baroness (Joan) Walmsley said: "The Government is walking blindfolded into a perilous situation. Insecure school computers holding precious unique personal information are a gift to potential identity thieves. I only hope it’s not too late to reign in these dangerous practices before children’s identities are compromised for life. The fact that the Chinese Government is more concerned with children’s privacy rights than our Government is appalling. The Government needs to wake up and listen to the very real concerns of parents and produce strict regulations for schools using these technologies."

• School offers biometric security degree - Todd Fortier is banking on the day when ATMs will be required to confirm a user's face, voice or thumbprint before spitting out cash. Fortier, 19, is seeking a degree in biometric security at Davenport University, one of the first such programs in the nation. He's seen trends in favor of biometrics and is confident he'll be getting into a lucrative field by the time he graduates. "I think with the advancements in this technology and with how security is becoming a really important issue ... I think there's going to be huge job growth in this field," Fortier said. About 55 students are enrolled in either the two- or four-year biometric security degree programs at Davenport, a 141-year-old school of 13,500 students with its main campus in Grand Rapids.

• No Houston PD officer ever disciplined for Taser use - More than two dozen Houston police officers have shocked five or more people with Tasers — including two officers who have used the weapon at least 10 times — though none of those officers has faced disciplinary action for using the stun gun unjustifiably, according to a Houston Chronicle review. In fact, no officer has ever been reprimanded for discharging the 50,000-volt Taser at a suspect, even though many of the suspects were never charged with a crime, according to the Chronicle''s review of more than 1,000 Taser incidents since December 2004. Of the top users, nine HPD officers have used their Taser more than any other, discharging the stun guns on at least six people in the first two years they carried them. Together they shocked 74 people during incidents that primarily stemmed from disturbances and traffic stops but also included some violent assaults. In one-third of the cases, a Chronicle review found, no one was convicted of a crime.

• Global Warming On The Ropes: Hysteria of climate cult begins to look increasingly inane - The religion of man-made global warming has encountered a fierce backlash in recent weeks, partly as a result of Martin Durkin's excellent "Swindle" documentary, but also as a consequence of the sheer hysteria warming advocates are forced to attach their argument to when self-evident facts are in short supply. A case in point was presidential candidate John Edward's screed last week, in which he said that global warming would make world war look like heaven. It being highly unlikely that Edwards fought in either of last century's world wars, he can only be fixing his premonition around an expected casualty figure of over 19 million human deaths as a result of a short term temperature increase.

• Robert Baer and Daniel Pearl: On The Trail Of The 9/11 Mastermind? - “Former” CIA agent Robert Baer has recently weighed in with his own assessment of how we should view Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's recent testimony.  In Baer's view, we should take it with a grain of salt. He further hints that, in the light of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's current lack of gravitas and obvious reliability as a witness, we should perhaps look to the contributions of other agents and state actors in our evolving understanding of the dynamics of al Qaeda. And though he now seeks to minimize the role of KSM in the Pearl killing - Baer considers him, as he has now learned through the proverbial grapevine, as more of a standby eyewitness than as an actual hands-on participant - Baer neglects to inform his readers of his own personal role in Daniel Pearl's investigation, a role that could arguably be said to have set Pearl directly on the course toward his tragic fate.

• THE HIDDEN AGENDA: THE OCCULT HAND IN 9/11: An Illustrated Talk by Ian R. Crane - To many people the official story of 9/11 has been demonstrated as not standing up to the scrutiny of the evidence. Moreover, evidence has mounted in recent years that suggests that a faction of the US Government may have been complicit in the attacks; using the method of false-flag terrorism in order to justify various overseas militarily actions and to transform domestic politics. An ex-oilfield executive who has spent many years studying mythology, alternative history, ancient wisdom, secret societies & mysticism, Ian Crane has a unique take on many of the catastrophic events that have occurred in the first few years of this new millennium including 9/11. Where many only see tragedy and suffering, Crane regards this period as the most exciting time since the days of Atlantis; and the eventual outcome he says, is down to each and every one of us! The event will be held at The Friends' Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS. Doors 6.30 - 9.00pm

• 9/11 confession sounds fake - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed recently confessed to plotting the 9/11 attack. In his words, "I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z." But he didn't just stop there. He also took credit for several other executed and non-executed attacks, including the death of Daniel Pearl, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Bali nightclub bombings. While his confession may bring comfort and relief to Americans, others are saying his confession rings false. Sheikh Mohammed is being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, which is where he confessed. These camps are infamous for allegedly torturing their prisoners.

Sunday 18th March 2007: -

• MIKE KILLS 'SENSITIVE' 9/11 PROBE - Mayor Bloomberg killed a study on the city's response to the 9/11 attacks after his lawyers said they did not want a report that cited any missteps or dealt with "environmental" or "respirator issues," says a former city official. City lawyers raised fears that the proposed "after-action report" - which the U.S. Department of Justice had offered to fund - could lead to criticism and fuel lawsuits, David Longshore, former director of special programs for the city's Office of Emergency Management, told The Post. "The Bloomberg administration acted to sweep any potential problems under the rug," said Longshore, who was trapped in a loading dock outside the WTC while both towers collapsed. He later developed sinusitis and throat polyps and sued the city.

• Firemen douse Rudy’s image as 9/11 hero: Union bid to halt White House run - FIRE battalion chief Jim Riches brought up his son to be one of New York’s “bravest”, like him. The young Jim followed his father into the New York fire department and died at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. What followed turned his heartbroken father into a relentless opponent of Rudy Giuliani, then mayor of New York. With other families of 9/11 victims, Riches has vowed to torpedo Giuliani’s prospects of winning the White House by attacking his greatest source of strength, his reputation as a hero that day.

• WHO BENEFITS?... THE 'BIG' BANKS?: Post-9/11 regulations challenge small banks - What is the biggest challenge facing Security Savings Bank as it celebrates its 125th anniversary? William C. Robinson, chairman of the bank's board of directors, said satisfying all the regulations banks face these days is probably the most imposing task. William D. Chapin is a full-time compliance officer whose job is to make sure all those regulations are followed. "There are more rules since 9/11 to make sure nobody is using the bank to launder money," Robinson said.

• 9/11 Attacker's Words Put Doubts On Confession - Wearing an orange jumpsuit and with his hands chained, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed quoted from the Quran and cited George Washington as he attempted to justify the horrors of 9/11 - providing the first glimpse into the mind of the alleged architect of the attacks. Mohammed's statements during a hearing at Guantanamo Bay, in which he confessed to planning 31 terrorist attacks, also raise questions about the effect that years of rough CIA interrogations may have had and whether his confession is valid. "As a result of torture, KSM himself falsely implicated various other people who he says are innocent," said Clive Stafford Smith, an attorney for several other Guantanamo detainees. He cited Mohammed's statements, which did not name names.

• Senators say alleged abuse of 9/11 terrorist must be taken seriously - Two senators who watched Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confess to planning the Sept. 11 attacks and other plots said Friday that his allegations of mistreatment by U.S. captors should be taken seriously. ”To do otherwise would reflect poorly on our nation,” Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a joint statement. At a closed military hearing last Saturday at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval prison in Cuba, Mohammed claimed responsibility for plotting more than 30 attacks and personally beheading American journalist Daniel Pearl. He also gave military officials a written statement alleging mistreatment before arriving at Guantanamo Bay. He had previously been held by the CIA at secret facilities.

• The Great Bird Flu Hoax - Dr. Joseph Mercola - An Important New Eye-Opening Book that Will Protect You & Your Loved Ones. From FAR More than the Just the Lies of the "Bird Flu Epidemic" ... AND a Unique Chance to Help FINALLY Put the Deceptions of the Drug Companies and Giant Food Companies Front and Center BIG-TIME in the Public's Eye ... The Major New Book by Dr. Mercola, go to www.greatbirdfluhoax.com

• ‘Tesco jails’ and more DNA testing planned - Short-term “jails” are planned for supermarkets and town centres to deal with yobs and shoplifters under Home Office proposals to ease the burden on police. Discussions have already started about building a “retail jail” inside the Selfridges store in Oxford Street, London. Suspects would be held for up to four hours in a small room with a clear plastic front so they were visible to custody officers at all times during their detention. Ministers are also proposing a huge expansion of police powers to take fingerprints, DNA and other samples from offenders and store them on national databases. People caught speeding, failing to wear a seat belt, allowing their dog to foul the footpath and dropping litter could be forced to give fingerprints or DNA to police for checking against other databases.

• Litterbugs may end up on national police database - Speeders, litterbugs and parking offenders could soon end up on the national police database if the Government has its way. The proposals are part of radical Home Office plans to reform the rules which govern how suspects must be treated by police officers. In a wide-ranging consultation paper – a review of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, also known as Pace – launched yesterday, the Home Office wants to introduce short-term detention units in shopping centres to process low-level offenders such as shoplifters.

• Thousands protest as war enters 5th year - Denouncing a conflict entering its fifth year, protesters across the country raised their voices Saturday against U.S. policy in Iraq and marched by the thousands to the Pentagon in the footsteps of an epic demonstration four decades ago against another divisive war. A counterprotest was staged, too, on a day of dueling signs and sentiments such as "Illegal Combat" and "Peace Through Strength," and songs like "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "War (What's It Good For?)."

• Rosie O'Donnell Goes Public On 9/11: Follows in footsteps of other brave figures in public eye - After going public this week with her skepticism over the official story of 9/11, Rosie O'Donnell has continued to address the issue in a Q&A with her readers on her website. We reported yesterday that O'Donnell, who has for weeks now been tentatively trying to raise the issue of 9/11 truth on her ABC show The View, wrote a blog entry encouraging her readers to research 9/11, in particular the building 7 demolition.

• VeriChip to implant RFID chips inside US soldiers - VeriChip is forging ahead with its plan to implant its RFID chips under the skin of U.S. soldiers, despite recent concerns over reliability and privacy. News reports have the chip maker lobbying the Defense Department to install RFID tags in soldiers as a replacement for dog tags. That sort of replacement has certain benefits, namely that an RFID tag can hold much more information on the soldier than a dog tag can. An under-the-skin RFID tag would also be much more difficult to dislodge, unlike dog tags, which can be yanked off and kept or discarded by usurpers. Another benefit is that an RFID tag could contain a soldier's medical information, which could be valuable, perhaps even being the difference between life and death if the soldier is wounded in battle.

• Monroe was tricked into suicide, says FBI report - A secret FBI document has raised fresh doubts about the circumstances surrounding the death of legendary screen idol Marilyn Monroe. The three-page report suggests the late US attorney-general Robert Kennedy, the movie star’s lover, knew of — and perhaps even participated in — a plan “to induce suicide”. The papers suggest Monroe, 38, who had a history of attention-seeking suicide attempts, was deliberately given the means to fake another one on August 4, 1962, but was left to die. The report details aspects of Kennedy’s on-off affair with the actress, including sex parties.

• Schools under random drug search policies: Jackson-Madison County Schools superintendent authorizes new policy - Police soon will begin using drug dogs for random searches of Jackson-Madison County Schools buses and buildings that serve fifth- through 12-grade students. Superintendent Nancy Zambito authorized the new policy this week. Police began conducting random searches for drugs in the parking lots of school properties earlier this school year, though nothing has been found so far, to Zambito's knowledge. "What prompted this decision was there was concern among the principals, and I received several calls from parents whose children have seen drugs on the school buses," Zambito said Friday.

• "Drug Search Places School On Lockdown, Concerns Parents": Has Rutherford County crackdown on drugs in schools gone too far? - For four hours Friday, LaVergne High School was on a precautionary lockdown. Concerned parents, unclear of what was going on inside, watched as sheriff deputies, in about a half dozen vehicles, roamed the school grounds. What at least one parent claimed looked as if it could have been an incident involving a gun was not and in fact, was a random drug search at the school. While the Rutherford County School Board believes the random drug checks to be effective. After Friday morning’s incident, some parents are not so sure.

• Devices used in July 21 attacks were deliberately made not to explode, alleged bomber tells court: Explosive taken on bus 'had been watered down' / Aim said to be protest over Iraq, not to kill Londoners - The man "principally responsible" for creating the explosive devices used in the failed "terrorist attacks" on London in the summer of 2005 defended his actions for the first time in public yesterday. Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29, the alleged bomber of the number 26 bus, took to the witness box at Woolwich crown court to explain that he made the devices in such a way that they would not explode. At the start of the defence case, Mr Ibrahim was asked by his counsel to explain in a "very short sentence" why he had carried the device on to the bus on July 21 2005. He replied: "To protest against the plight of Muslims everywhere, especially in Iraq."

St Patrick's Day - Saturday 17th March 2007: -

• NO 10 PETITION:  HELP SPREAD THIS LINK! -  "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to hold a referendum to consult the nations opinion on your proposed signing of the 'Declaration on the Future of Europe' which will sign Britain over to a Federal Europe and strip British people of their rights FOREVER" - On MARCH 25th in Berlin, Mr Blair will sign a 50 page ‘Declaration on the Future of Europe' without consulting the UK people. A binding treaty that embodies "basic laws" for 490 million people in 27 countries based on a despised constitution, rejected by voters across Europe. Nine countries with over 150 million people turned it down or, decided not to put it to the vote. Blair alone has decided the UK will not vote. If you don’t want to be controlled by a European Federation, we must demand a national referendum NOW. It will create: • A PERMANENT, unelected, EU president. A sole voice for Europe serving a 5 year term. • FULL-TIME foreign and defence ministers for Europe meaning powers like China and America will by-pass Britain to speak directly to them. • A REFORMED European parliament drawing up its own laws. Britain couldn’t veto its decisions and each member states government loses the right to "opt out" of EU laws & treaties. ACT NOW or be slaves to the EU forever.

• O'Donnell Out Of The Closet... As A 9/11 Truther: Talk show host lays out WTC 7 facts in blog - It has been evident for a number of weeks now that talk show host Rosie O'Donnell has been trying to cover 9/11 truth in the best way she can without being yanked off the air - now her latest blog posting confirms this. In her latest blog, dated March 15th, O'Donnell dispenses with the small talk and gets to the nub of the matter by stating some of the facts surrounding the demolition of building 7 on 9/11.

• Rush Limbaugh Says 9/11 Truthers Need Rehab - Rush Limbaugh dumps call about 9/11 being an inside job and advocates rehab for 9/11 truthers.

• `Friendly fire` death in Iraq deemed unlawful killing - A coroner on Friday accused the US military of a criminal breach of the international law of armed conflict after the "friendly fire" death of a British soldier in the early days of the Iraq war. Andrew Walker ruled that Lance Corporal Matty Hull was unlawfully killed when two US jets mistakenly attacked his clearly-marked convoy in southern Iraq and criticised the Pentagon for failing to cooperate fully with the inquest. Hull's widow, Susan, said she was relieved with the ruling but accused the United States of letting down its main ally in Iraq by failing to explain the exact circumstances.

• Strip-Searching Children - Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades, some of them American citizens. While organizations that focus on Israel-Palestine have long been aware that Israeli border officials regularly strip search men and women, If Americans Knew appears to be the first organization that has specifically investigated the policy of strip searching women. In the course of its investigation, If Americans Knew was astonished to learn that Israeli officials have also been strip searching young girls as young as seven and below. According to interviews with women in the United States, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Israeli border officials periodically force Christian and Muslim females of all ages to remove their clothing and submit to searches. In some cases the children are then "felt" by Israeli officials.

• Wilson Students Forced to Remove Peace Window Paintings - After painting the word "Peace" in the windows of many classrooms at Wilson High School with permission of the teachers, students have been told that they must remove their display. Wilson High School in Southwest Portland's activism club Students for Social Justice(SSJ) over the past month have painted the windows of many classrooms at the school, using water soluble paints, displaying the word "Peace" in five languages along with doves and peace signs. This was meant to support the non-political idea of peace. After a parent complaint a legal adviser for Portland Public Schools has asked that the display be removed with the reasoning that in allowing the windows to be included in free speech, other messages could be displayed similar to graffiti. While a large portion of Wilson's staff has encouraged the students, the students have agreed to remove the display from the windows as the janitorial staff would be forced to if they did not.

Friday 16th March 2007: -

• Bush cleverly used 9/11 fear factor to impose his agendas - Build and buy bigger SUV's and Humvee's and invade Afghanistan and Iraq. Now they plan and scheme to invade Iran even before poor Iraq is put back together again by American firms generously handed hundreds of contracts by this administration in a winner takes all in your face gesture to deride any nation which dissented over the invasion. Gone are the days of world community. The UN is made a laughing stock. Now it is back to "the law of the jungle" and "might equals right." The net result of renewing the arms race has been to make the world a more dangerous place. Bush ended the long standing Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Treaty and is installing a new generation of long range missiles in Alaska. Gone is the era of nuclear disarmament. "Global economy" and "spreading democracy" are euphamisms for economic imperialism or American mercantilism. The "War on Terrorism" is a euphamism for a war on dissidents.    (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• Weapon scanners in school - SCHOOLS in the north of the borough have installed metal detectors and scan-ners to check pupils for knives and guns. Chelmsley Wood's Grace Academy, Archbishop Grimshaw Catholic School and Smith's Wood Sports College have had the tough security measures fitted along with the City Technology College in Kingshurst. The temporary move is part of the 'Tooled Up 4 School' operation as part of West Midlands Police's 'One Knife One Life' campaign, run jointly with our sister paper, the Birmingham Mail.

• Gonzales’s Critics See Lasting, Improper Ties to White House - As he pressed his case to be confirmed as attorney general, Alberto R. Gonzales made a promise to the Senate Judiciary Committee — and to the nation at large. “I will no longer represent only the White House,” he testified in 2005 as he prepared to leave his job as White House counsel. “I will represent the United States of America and its people. I understand the differences between the two roles.” Yet in one of his first acts in his new job, Mr. Gonzales brought over two top White House aides and elevated a third, D. Kyle Sampson, a Justice Department staff member who had worked in the White House. Within days, Mr. Sampson began identifying federal prosecutors to oust, an effort initiated by Harriet E. Miers, the fellow Texan who succeeded Mr. Gonzales at the White House. The attorney general’s accumulating critics point to the removal of seven prosecutors in December as evidence that Mr. Gonzales, a longtime Bush loyalist, had failed to distance himself and his agency from the White House and its political agenda.

• Why KSM's Confession Rings False - It's hard to tell what the Pentagon's objective really is in releasing the transcript of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession. It certainly suggests the Administration is trying to blame KSM for al-Qaeda terrorism, leading us to believe we've caught the master terrorist and that al-Qaeda, and especially the ever-elusive bin Laden, is no longer a threat to the U.S. But there is a major flaw in that marketing strategy. On the face of it, KSM, as he is known inside the government, comes across as boasting, at times mentally unstable. It's also clear he is making things up. I'm told by people involved in the investigation that KSM was present during Wall Street Journal correspondent Danny Pearl's execution but was in fact not the person who killed him. There exists videotape footage of the execution that minimizes KSM's role. And if KSM did indeed exaggerate his role in the Pearl murder, it raises the question of just what else he has exaggerated, or outright fabricated.

• Church school renames Three Little Pigs to avoid offending Muslims - The story of the Three Little Pigs' battle with the Big Bad Wolf has delighted children since it was written more than 150 years ago. But the tale highlighting the merits of hardwork and practicality has become the latest to fall victim to political correctness. A junior school production of the children's story has been renamed the Three Little Puppies for fear of offending Muslims.

• Giuliani, Clinton Battered As 9/11, OKC Frauds Unravel - According to the anodine USA Today, Republican presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani couldn't find time in his busy schedule to seek the endorsement of the the International Association of Firefighters, which will host a bipartisan candidate forum in March. But the New York press reports that the former mayor was not invited, citing the group's press release: "The fundamental lack of respect that Giuliani showed our FDNY members is unforgivable - and that's why he was not invited. Our disdain for him is not about issues or a disputed contract, it is about a visceral, personal affront to the fallen, to our union and, indeed, to every one of us who has ever risked our lives by going into a burning building to save lives and property." With the recent revelation of CNN and BBC reporting, on Sept. 11, 2001, that World Trade Center 7, also known as the Saloman Brothers Building, had collapsed before it actually fell, suspicions about Giuliani's advance knowledge of what was obviously a preplanned demolition have again come to the fore. Was it, as seems likely, the mayor's emergency management office that warned the firefighters and news agencies the building would collapse? On 9/11, WTC7 became the third, after WTC1 and WTC2, steel frame building to ever collapse.

• DIANA DEATH: EX-SPY IS GAGGED - A FORMER spy who claimed MI6 might have been involved in Princess Diana's car crash has been banned from giving evidence at the inquest. Richard Tomlinson, Britain's MI6 agent in France between 1991 and 1995, has been gagged by the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith. A permanent injunction stops Mr Tomlinson, who lives in Cannes, from talking about his former role as it would breach the Official Secrets Act. He said: "I think they have been quite crafty." During the earlier inquiry led by Lord Stevens, he had told of seeing a top secret file detailing how to make an assassination look like a crash. The inquiry rejected his claims.   (RELATED: See our popular Diana Assassination archive)

Thursday 15th March 2007: -

• KSM: The Ultimate Patsy "Confesses": Go back to sleep, you can trust a press release from a heavily redacted secret military tribunal of a tortured detainee conducted by individuals representative of an oligarchy whose every deception, gross violation of U.S. law, and act of imperial bloodletting over the last six years rests on maintaining the orthodoxy of the official 9/11 myth - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged "Al-Qaeda mastermind," has confessed to direct involvement in a myriad of terrorist attacks and assassination plots around the world, including 9/11 "from A to Z," but some are likely to be disappointed that after 5 years of torture he stopped short of accepting responsibility for killing Kennedy, creating AIDS and being the real Santa Claus. The Pentagon's press release was subject to editing on behalf of the U.S. Defense Department to remove any sensitive material that Khalid might have unwittingly revealed between his water boarding sessions, but I'm sure we can trust this same gaggle of criminals that lectured us on WMD and "accidentally" misplaced over 2 trillion dollars.

• Protection Agencies Cracking Down on Dirty Water: Prescription pharmaceuticals and chemicals polluting the nation's water - Americans are prescribed millions of prescriptions a year—livestock are given even more. After running their course through the body, these pharmaceuticals do not dissolve completely, and experts believe that 90 percent of the chemicals are released into our water system and soil unchanged. During recycling processes at water plants, prescription drugs are not detected or removed. The tap water that we drink can contain such the remnants of drugs ranging from Prozac to birth control. With the formation of a major pharmaceutical market only a phenomenon of this past century, studies on the impact of this so-called “pharmaceutical pollution” are only now beginning to arise.    (RELATED: See our Compromised Health archive)

• Blair questions after rebellion - Tony Blair's authority has been questioned after his plans to renew the UK's nuclear weapons system sparked the biggest Commons revolt since Iraq. The government won Commons support for renewing Trident, despite 95 Labour MPs voting for the decision to be delayed. Baroness Betty Boothroyd said the backbench rebellion showed Mr Blair had become a "lame duck" prime minister. But party chairwoman Hazel Blears said any Labour leader would have met the same response on such a divisive issue. She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The issue of nuclear weapons has always been an incredibly emotional decision in the Labour Party, but even on this issue, a majority of Labour backbenchers did support this decision."

• Drunken Bush Hurls Vile Insult At Wife - Our White House Press Corps sources report further disturbing news about President Bush. Our sources have witnessed a clearly inebriated Bush approaching members of the press corps and making rude comments, including one particularly crude remark about First Lady Laura Bush. In that case, Bush, nodding toward Laura, called her a "c**t." While Bush's drinking is no secret to the White House press contingent, that particular comment was reportedly the worst they have heard uttered by Bush.

• Blue Peter admits phone-in fake - The presenters of Blue Peter were forced to apologise on air yesterday after it emerged that the programme faked the winner of a phone-in competition. Nearly 14,000 children called to answer a question posed on November 27 last year and were charged 10p a time, but a technical failure prevented the BBC from picking a winner during the programme. It is understood that, in panic, a member of the production staff randomly picked a girl who was visiting the studio to call from behind the scenes to give the correct answer. When the girl went on air she declared herself to be “calling from London” – in reality she was in the same studio as the presenters. The child was then given a toy as a prize. She has not been named and is understood to be blameless.

Wednesday 14th March 2007: -

• Is your baby playing with its toes yet? If not the government wants to know why: Children to be monitored from birth to age five / New curriculum sets 69 'early learning goals' - Babies will be assessed on their gurgling, babbling and toe-playing abilities when they are a few months old under a legally enforced national curriculum for children from birth to five published by the government yesterday. Every nursery, childminder and reception class in Britain will have to monitor children's progress towards a set of 69 government-set "early learning goals", recording them against more than 500 development milestones as they go. At five, each child will be assessed against 13 scales based on the learning goals and their score, called an early years profile, must be passed to the Department for Education and Skills.

• Students at Philadelphia's sixty high schools issued contactless campus ID cards: Access, attendance tracking, lunch programs drive the implementation provided by Scholarchip - Colleges have been using campus card ID systems for years. But with increasing security concerns, similar products are moving into public schools. One example: Philadelphia, Penn.’s school system where high school students at 60 schools have been provided a contactless ID card needed to gain admission to school property, track attendance, and, in some cases, buy lunch in the cafeteria. "We have 56,000 high school students and we wanted a better handle on (them)," said Patricia DiLella, senior project manager for Philadelphia School District’s Office of Information Technology. "Before, everyone was assumed present until marked absent. We needed something to track students. With this new system, everyone is assumed absent until they tap (their card) and have physically been seen by school personnel."

• VeriChip Passes Significant Milestone: Over 500 Hospitals Have Now Agreed to Adopt VeriMed Patient Identification System: VeriChip Adds 65 Hospitals/Emergency Departments to its VeriMed Network on First Day of AAEM Conference - VeriChip Corporation , a provider of RFID systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, announced today that 65 new hospitals have agreed to participate in the VeriMed Patient Identification System network at the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) 13th Annual Scientific Assembly conference in Las Vegas, bringing the Company's total number of enrolled hospitals to more than 500.

• Core Capital Leads $6M Round For FreedomPay, Inc. - Core Capital Partners, a leading venture capital firm, announced today that it led a Series D financing for Wayne, PA-based FreedomPay, Inc., the world leader in cashless payment and loyalty solutions. FreedomPay will use this round of financing to increase its sales force, accelerate development of new product capabilities, and expand domestically and abroad. Core Capital Partners led a syndicate of investors, which included current investor BlueRun Ventures. "FreedomPay's innovative solution incorporates RFID technology and data management tools to increase sales and profitability," said Mark Levine, a Core Capital managing director who will join the FreedomPay board. "We feel the market for cashless payments products will grow rapidly as businesses streamline point of sales options for the convenience of their customers. FreedomPay is positioned as the clear industry leader with major industry and government customers."   (COMMENTARY: Check out the name of the firm... 'FreedomPay Inc'.  The expanding Cashless Society that they themselves are pushing indeed has MAJOR implications upon freedom, so in true Orwellian 'Double-Speak' fashion they see it appropriate to name their company 'FreedomPay'.  Its all one big joke you see!  / FLASHBACK: Clear (Freedom) bags 'to ease Tube fears' / RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• Nuclear weapons 'essential to UK' - Tony Blair says it is "essential" the UK begins renewing its nuclear weapons system as soon as possible. The prime minister may face his biggest Commons rebellion since the start of the Iraq war when MPs vote on a £20bn plan to replace the Trident system. Up to 80 Labour MPs may rebel, but defeat in the 1900 GMT vote is unlikely as the Conservatives back the plans. Ministerial aide Stephen Pound has become the third MP to quit a government post over the proposals.

• Police shoot boy, 15, with Taser - A 15-year-old boy has been shot with a Taser gun during an armed police raid in Manchester. Police say the teenager began threatening officers during the search of a property on Broadoak Road in Moss Side on Monday evening. An ambulance was called but the youth was not seriously hurt, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.

• Town votes to remove fluoride from drinking water - The Maine Dental Association expressed disappointment after residents voted to remove fluoride from the local drinking water, making Mount Desert the state’s first community to make such a change. The decision came after the Mount Desert Water District said studies conducted during the past few years call into question the safety of fluoridation. The vote in last week’s referendum was 229-to-42 to remove fluoride.   (RELATED: See our Compromised Health archive)

• A New World Order, Who is behind it? - We have heard the words “A New World Order” spoken by President Bush 41 and others yet we seem to not comprehend the meaning. It is just pawned off as another conspiracy theory and is ignored as such. As the evidence builds we should take heed as this is the goal of individuals that control the banking and some industries the world over. The goal is a one world government that has nothing to do with democratic freedoms. The outcome envisioned is far from the utopia promised.

• 1M archived pages removed post-9/11 - More than 1 million pages of historical government documents — a stack taller than the U.S. Capitol — have been removed from public view since the September 2001 terror attacks, according to records obtained by the Associated Press. Some of the papers are more than a century old. In some cases, entire file boxes were removed without significant review because the government's central record-keeping agency, the National Archives and Records Administration, did not have time for a more thorough audit. "We just felt we couldn't take the time and didn't always have the expertise," said Steve Tilley, who oversaw the program. Archives officials are still screening records, but the number of files pulled recently has declined dramatically, he said.

• Is America Headed for a Depression? - Bill Cara submits: For several months, some of the U.S. homebuilder companies acknowledged abnormal supply as well as pricing pressures in the marketplace. More recently, the sub-prime mortgage companies that recklessly financed the bulk of the industry’s business discovered a problem with delinquencies and foreclosures. This is the story that will finally push the stock market from Bull to Bear, and the economy into recession. Traders are nervous, with the upshot being a swing to cash and gold. Why gold? Under the circumstances that exist today in the financial marketplace, any rise in interest rates will certainly pass the tipping point to where millions of Americans will be forced from their homes and put out on the street.

Tuesday 13th March 2007: -

• 9/11, Iraq: Cheney again claims tie - Vice President Dick Cheney, lashing out at Democrats for the first time since the felony conviction of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, his former top deputy, resumed his controversial claims Monday that the war in Iraq is the central front in the worldwide U.S. response to the Sept. 11 attacks. Cheney linked Iraq and al Qaeda even though post-invasion reports by the Senate Intelligence Committee and the presidential Commission on Intelligence Capabilities found no link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda before the U.S.-led invasion on March 19, 2003.

• Bryant school scanning parent IDs - Bryant Elementary school has a new system in place in which adults on campus to pick up children scan their I-D cards into a database that's connected to law enforcement. The Raptor Scanner will use that link to determine within seconds whether the person is listed in a sex offender database. The school got the device after it was awarded a Justice Department grant. It takes about 15 seconds to scan the I-D and for an administrator to get an answer back from the system. School officials say the system was developed after Hurricane Katrina, after which thousands of unaccounted for sex offenders were suddenly on the move.

• ID Refusniks To Be Prisoners In Their Own Country: "Voluntary" system means UK citizens can refuse ID cards, as long as they don't plan on taking a vacation - People who attempt to resist the forthcoming Big Brother ID card and database system in the UK will never be able to leave the country according to the Government official in charge of the scheme. As the UK Daily Mail reported last weekend: James Hall, the official in charge of the supposedly-voluntary scheme, said the Government would allow people to opt out - but in return they must "forgo the ability" to have a travel document. As of 2009 anyone who applies for a passport in Britain will also be issued with an ID card, for which they must also provide fingerprints, biometric details such as a facial scan and a wealth of personal details - including second homes, driving licence and insurance numbers.

• Global Warming Replaces 9/11 As Justification To Do Anything: Stop asking questions and just let us tax the living hell out of you, including the very air you breathe, after all - it's for the environment and we've never lied to you before have we? - Invoking September 11 has officially been succeeded by a new mantra and an excuse for the state to unleash a fresh tyranny no matter how offensive and damaging to individual liberty it may be. Global warming has replaced 9/11 as the justification to do anything! The bellicose denouncement of global warming skeptics (that is skeptics of the man-made explanation) and their tarring as being akin to holocaust deniers, is beginning to mirror what happened after 9/11, when anyone who criticized Bush's agenda was lambasted as a traitor, a terrorist sympathizer, and completely divorced from the political mainstream.

• China to increase censorship of bloggers - China will intensify controls of the growing numbers of bloggers using the Internet to lay bare their thoughts, politics and even bodies, the country's chief censor has announced. The director of China's General Administration of Press and Publication, Long Xinmin, said the administration was forming rules to further regulate Internet publishing, including the country's legions of bloggers, The Beijing Morning Post reported Tuesday. "We must recognize that in an era when the Internet is developing at a breakneck pace, government oversight and control measures and means are facing new tests," Long told members of China's national Parliament on Monday, the report said. Long singled out bloggers as one challenge. Long said "citizens' freedom of expression would be fully protected." But China's restless blogging population has been a headache for the ruling Communist Party, which has sought to extend longstanding censorship to the country's fast-growing Internet use.

• What’s behind the CNN and the BBC’s premature announcement of the WTC7’s collapse? - There are two theories regarding how did WTC 7 collapse, part of September 11 attacks that hit the United Sates six years ago and changed the political map of the entire world and the U.S. foreign policies in the Middle East. Some analysts attributed the collapse to structural failure due to prior debris impact and ongoing fire damage. The other theory suggests the building collapsed as a result of controlled demolition- many support the second theory given the lack of precedent of total collapses of steel framed structures during fires.

• Airport aims to streamline security: Albany International to negotiate for registered-traveler program that could launch by summer - A program to speed registered travelers through security lines at Albany International Airport could be operating by summer. The Albany County Airport Authority said it will negotiate a contract with New York City-based Verified Identity Pass Inc. to install its Clear Registered Traveler program at the airport. Albany was one of 20 airports in a pilot program of the Transportation Security Administration that is intended to speed frequent travelers through security checkpoints. If all goes as planned, Albany will be the sixth or seventh airport nationwide to have such a program in place. Travelers will pay $99.95 a year and undergo a background check by the TSA. Identification cards containing biometric information -- either an iris scan or fingerprint -- will be issued. The cards will permit them to use the registered-traveler lane at any airport nationwide.

• '21/7 plot bombs could have repeated 7/7 carnage': Government scientists showed footage of explosions similar to those allegedly attempted on July 21, 2005 - The homemade devices made by the alleged 21/7 bombers contained “a very effective high explosive” which could have caused a repeat of the carnage of 7/7, a court heard today. The power of the improvised explosive devices was displayed to the jurors in the 21/7 trial when they were shown a film of tests carried out by government scientists in a deserted quarry. Television screens around the courtroom at Woolwich Crown Court played footage of replica devices exploding in flashes of light, flames and smoke. Four such “bombs” partially detonated on three Tube trains and a bus on July 21 2005 - two weeks after the deaths of 52 people in the July 7 suicide bombings.   (RELATED: See our 7/7 London Bombings archive)

• Exhibit shows eugenics' deadly history: Perversion of Darwin's theory of evolution used to slaughter millions - Adolf Hitler used the theory of eugenics in his quest to create a master race, legitimizing the murder of thousands deemed unfit for the German race and culminating in the genocide of 6 million Jews. But the idea behind eugenics -- improving a population's health through genetics -- was hardly unique to Germany, as shown by a traveling exhibit developed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and on display at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

• Pelosi hears boos at AIPAC - Members of the main pro-Israel lobbying group offered scattered boos to a statement by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that the Iraq war has been a failure on several scores. The boos, mixed with some polite applause, stood in stark contrast to the reception House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) received minutes earlier. Most of the crowd of 5,000 to 6,000 stood and loudly applauded Boehner when he said the U.S. had no choice but to win in Iraq. Pelosi and Boehner were speaking at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual meeting. AIPAC has not taken a position on the war in Iraq or the supplemental spending bill to be considered this week by the House Appropriations Committee, but much of Boehner’s speech was about the future of the Iraq conflict. Boehner sought to link the fight in Iraq to the future of Israel, as he said a failure in Iraq would pose a direct threat to Israel.

• USA: Late mortgage payments reach high - Late mortgage payments shot up to a 3 1/2-year high in the final quarter of last year and new foreclosures surged to a record high as borrowers with tarnished credit histories had trouble keeping up with their monthly payments. The Mortgage Bankers Association, in its quarterly snapshot of the mortgage market released Tuesday, reported that the percentage of payments that were 30 or more days past due for all loans tracked jumped to 4.95 percent in the October-to-December quarter.

Monday 12th March 2007: -

• Brown demands 'new world order' - Chancellor Gordon Brown is seeking to regain the initiative on the environment with a call for a "new world order" to combat climate change. Ahead of the launch of the Government's Climate Change Bill on Tuesday, the Chancellor will herald the Government's role in new European emissions standards and call for the UN to prioritise the fight against global warming. And he will dismiss Tory leader David Cameron's capacity to lead the continent on the environment because of his, and his party's Euroscepticism.   (COMMENTARY: And there I was, all this time thinking that only them crazy 'conspiracy theorists' talk about the New World Order!)

• ID card details for sale to banks: Banks and other businesses are to be sold access to personal information stored on the Government's ID cards database - Ministers want to raise hundreds of millions towards the £540m a year cost of running the controversial scheme. The Government is already facing a backlash over charging people £93 each for an ID card - which will contain 49 different pieces of personal data. Now ministers are planning to charge companies around 60p a time to check details held on the giant 'big brother' database. They hope for up to 770m 'verifications' each year. The data which banks, financial institutions and others will be allowed to access includes names, addresses, any second homes and National Insurance numbers. Critics warned it may be the 'tip of the iceberg' as the Home Office becomes increasingly desperate to balance the books.

• Has cash had its chips? - Until now, royalty and paupers have been the only ones not to carry cash. But within five years, it could apply to all of us. The prediction comes, perhaps not surprisingly, from a man whose career is based on the growth of plastic transactions. Peter Ayliffe, head of Visa's European operation, says that by 2012 Britain will be a cashless society in which everyone will see credit and debit cards as more convenient than notes and coins.   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• 18 Diabetic Patients Implanted With VeriMed RFID Microchip at Atlanta Diabetes EXPO: VeriChip Corporation enhances focus on diabetic community and partnering with American Diabetes Association - VeriChip Corporation , a provider of RFID systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, announced today it added 18 diabetic patients to its VeriMed Patient Identification System at an Atlanta Diabetes EXPO sponsored by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). At the Diabetes EXPO, physicians implanted VeriMed RFID microchips in conference attendees who signed up for the voluntary procedure. The VeriMed Patient Identification System, which utilizes an implantable RFID microchip in combination with a handheld RFID scanner and a secure patient database, provides immediate access to important health information for patients who arrive at an emergency department unable to communicate.

• Turkey to use vehicle identification system - The Ministry of Finance is preparing to introduce a 'vehicle identification system.' The new system will be used to find stolen vehicles as well as to track fiscal offenses. The Ministry of Finance will set up vehicle ID units in gas stations which will receive information about the individual car and will then transmit it to the cash register via identification chips located in the vehicle. The system will be activated as the fuel pump is inserted in the car's gas tank. Vehicle ID units will receive the license plate number, frame and engine number of the vehicle. Identification chips will be located near the tank tap in a way which will not allow the owner to remove it.

• Newly Unearthed Footage Exposes 9/11 Media Scripting: Bizarre foreknowledge and explanation of towers' collapse more cryptic clairvoyance - Yet more archive news footage unearthed from broadcasts on 9/11 offers further evidence that the media were being fed a script in which a cover story was quickly groomed to offset questions about the highly suspicious collapse of the twin towers. Two weeks ago we highlighted BBC World footage from September 11 in which a correspondent reports the collapse of Building 7 as it remains standing in the live shot behind her head. New footage unearthed from Britain's Channel 5 news coverage provokes more questions about 9/11 scripting in a similar vein.

• MDC leader 'battling for his life' - Zimbabwe's chief opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been left fighting for his life after being brutally beaten in police custody, his deputy claimed on Monday. "As of now, ... Tsvangirai is battling for his life at Borrowdale police station after he was brutally assaulted," Thokozani Khupe, deputy head of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), told reporters. Khupe, who has not herself seen Tsvangirai since his arrest Sunday, said the MDC leader lost consciousness three times while at Machipisa police station, close to the site of a planned rally that was crushed by the security forces.

• Tricky truths behind Wikipedia - About six months ago, I noticed that I had an entry in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. I was flattered. It was short, and named both my father and one of my sons, confirming my belief that I am a transitional piece of genetic material, linking two very talented generations. I don't know who wrote it, but it lacked the usual lazy tropes of onanistic buffery you so often see in journalists' bios: "award-winning columnist . . . nominated for the Pulitzer Prize." My dog can nominate me for the Pulitzer Prize, OK? In fact, I think she has. Maybe a month ago, a friend remarked to my son , "I didn't know that your Dad hated Canada." How embarrassing. I thought I was the guy spotted singing "Ode to Newfoundland" in a St. John's beer hall. I thought I was the guy who fled to Nova Scotia, the "peaceable kingdom," the week after Sept. 11. I thought I was the guy suspected of being on permanent retainer to Snow Mexico, one of my favorite countries in the world.

• Former President Bush treated at Calif hospital - Former President George H.W. Bush, father of the current president, was treated overnight at a California hospital after becoming dizzy and dehydrated in the desert heat, a hospital spokeswoman said on Monday. "President Bush was playing golf in the 94 degree heat and became dizzy and dehydrated," Elizabeth Wholihan, a spokeswoman for Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, said in a statement. Bush, 82, was released on Monday morning, she said. Southern California has been baking under a heat wave that threatens to shatter record temperatures.

• U.S. to send another 3,500 troops to Afghanistan - The White House announced on Sunday that another 3,500 U.S. troops will be deployed in Afghanistan, which will bring the number of U.S. forces there to the highest level of 27,000 since 2001. The decision was taken by President George W. Bush as "part of the effort to speed up the training and expand the size of the Afghan forces," said National Security Spokesman Gordon Johndroe during Bush's recent visit to Colombia. Previously, the Democratic majority in Congress had opposed Bush's plan to heighten U.S. troop levels in Iraq, but called for more troops for Afghanistan.

Sunday 11th March 2007: -

• Children tricked into giving fingerprints... by headmaster - A primary school headmaster has outraged parents after he tricked his pupils into recording their fingerprints by telling them they were playing spies. Children were persuaded to give their prints after being told by Mark Woodburn that it was 'just a game...so there's no need to tell your parents'. Privacy campaigners said the case, involving children as young as three, highlights the extent to which Britain is becoming a surveillance society. It follows the leak of Home Office documents last week which revealed that from 2010, children aged 11 to 16 are to have their fingerprints taken and stored on a secret database when they apply for a passport.

• "Big Brother" Gaining Ground in Great Britain - Maybe George Orwell was on to something... It seems that "Big Brother" is gaining ground in Great Britain. Starting in 2009, in order to apply for a passport, Britons will be required to register their fingerprints, facial scans and a host of personal information such as second homes, drivers licenses and insurance policy numbers. If they do this, they will receive a national ID card and then their passport. However, the program is not mandatory. The British government has said that the program is voluntary and that people will be allowed to opt out. However, those that do will be denied receiving a British passport. Since the program has been proposed one in eight Britons has said that they would refuse to register their personal information with the government. This could mean that up to five million people would be refused the right to travel outside of Great Britain.

• Has the BBC fallen down on the job?: Derided for allowing itself to be gagged over cash-for-honours, the corporation still seems to bear the scars of the Hutton inquiry - From the General Strike of 1926 to Andrew Gilligan's "sexed-up" dodgy dossier exclusive 77 years later, the BBC has struggled to define its relationship with government. The corporation's most ardent admirers acknowledge that its independence has often been compromised by a reluctance to confront ministers. For ideological opponents, this risk aversion is an inevitable consequence of the licence fee. Others say it has grown particularly intense since the fiasco of the Hutton inquiry. Those in the latter camp say the corporation's response to the injunction that prevented the 10 o'clock news on Friday 2 March transmitting allegations in the cash-for-honours probe marks a new low.

• WEST YORKSHIRE TRUTH CAMPAIGN – PRESS RELEASE: LEEDS LECTURE CHALLENGES THE OFFICIAL 9/11 STORY - A group of Bradford residents have become so concerned at the many anomalies surrounding the official story of the terror attacks of September 11th 2001, that they have invited the Chairman of the ‘9/11 Truth Campaign (Britain and Ireland)’, to give a presentation. The event will be held at the Brudenell Social Club, 33 Queens Road, Hyde Park, Leeds LS6 1NY on Tuesday 20th March 2007.

• Tory plans for 'green' air taxes - The British Conservative Party is to unveil radical proposals for a set of new environmental taxes intended to curb air travel - but their plans are already facing a backlash from airlines. The Conservatives hope the measures unveiled by shadow chancellor George Osborne will convince voters of the party's "green" credentials. A fuel duty or VAT levy on domestic flights and scrapping air passenger duty in favour of a "per flight" tax based more closely on carbon emissions are all being considered.

• Blair is called to account over abandoned troops - British soldiers returning from war are suffering unprecedented levels of mental health problems amid claims that the long-standing "military covenant" guaranteeing them proper care is in tatters. More than 21,000 full-time servicemen and women who have served in Iraq, as well as army reservists, have developed anxiety and depression, an Independent on Sunday investigation can reveal today.

• 11 States Oppose North American Union - Eleven states are working on resolutions that would oppose not only the implementation but the idea of a "North American Union," or other plans that would lead to the integration of the United States into a larger structure. "Americans are rapidly learning the new vocabulary of the globalists," Phyllis Schlafly of www.eagleforum.org">Eagle Forum told WND, "and they don't like it." While President Bush, many members of Congress and Bush administration officials deny there are plans for a North American Union under the www.spp.gov/">Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, some state legislatures are taking no chances.

• PETITION: No more Stonewalling from the BBC re WTC 7: -

  To:  The British Broadcasting Corporation

  So Mr. Richard Porter of the BBC wants the whole 'BBC Reported Building 7 Collapse 20 Minutes Before It Fell' scandal (and believe me, it IS a scandal even if you don't see it on the evening news) to just go away. The BBC is under the impression that knocking down a couple of straw-men and proclaiming 'nothing to see here folks' is going make us all just forget the monumental 'cock up' which is the BBCs attempt at damage control. The BBC is also under the impression that it is only a few 'lone nuts' out there hammering the YouTube and Google Video counts and that this story is going to lose all it's steam by next week.
  
  Well Mr. Richard Porter. This is where you are so very wrong...
  
  We the Undersigned formally demand the following information from the BBC.
  
  1. Who was the source who told your station that the Salomon Building had collapsed?
  
  2. Who from the BBC ordered YouTube and GoogleVideo to immediately start pulling the videos from their sites the day this story broke?
  
  3. Who from the BBC ordered Archive.Org to block and then remove their copies of the footage which (until this story broke) were freely available online?
  
  4. Who is responsible for and what were the circumstances surrounding the 'cock-up' which led to the loss of BBC World News' 9/11 footage?
  
  5. Who cut reporter Jane Standley's live feed from NYC at 5:18pm (EST) on 11/09/01?
  
  Until you answer these 5 questions IN FULL, you can expect the BBC's phones to be ringing daily with people asking these 5 questions over and over until they are answered.
  
  Take a good look at the number of signatures here Mr Porter. These are the people who are demanding these answers and these are the people who WON'T go away.
  
  Welcome to the Digital Age Mr. Richard Porter. You're either a news outlet or a supermarket tabloid. Which is it?

  Sincerely,

  The Undersigned

  CLICK HERE TO VIEW & SIGN THE PETITION... HELP SPREAD THIS LINK OUT!!!

• The Great Global Warming Swindle - Are you green? How many flights have you taken in the last year? Feeling guilty about all those unnecessary car journeys? Well, maybe ... there's no need to feel bad. According to a group of scientists brought together by documentary-maker Martin Durkin, if the planet is heating up, it isn't your fault and there's nothing you can do about it. We've almost begun to take it for granted that climate change is a man-made phenomenon. But just as the environmental lobby think they've got our attention, a group of naysayers have emerged to slay the whole premise of global warming: -

• Don't like ID cards? Hand over your passport - Anybody who objects to their personal details going on the new "Big Brother" ID cards database will be banned from having a passport. James Hall, the official in charge of the supposedly-voluntary scheme, said the Government would allow people to opt out - but in return they must "forgo the ability" to have a travel document. With one in every eight people saying they will refuse to sign-up, up to five million adults could effectively be refused permission to leave the country. Campaigners reacted to Mr Hall's remarks with fury, saying they were yet more evidence of the lurch towards "Big Brother" Britain. Phil Booth, of the NO2ID group, said: "The idea that ID cards scheme is voluntary, and people can opt-out, is a joke.

• Singaporeans Should Think Before Going to China for Organ Transplants - Early 2006, after the revelation of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) crime of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, Canadian independent investigators David Kilgour and David Matas released their independent investigative report in July 2006, claiming the crime is an unprecedented evil on Earth. On January 31, 2007, two investigators released new evidence regarding the CCP's harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners at the Parliament Hill in Ottawa, further verifying the CCP's guilt. Since the revelation of "live organ harvesting" last year, the CCP on the surface has denied harvesting organs from living persons. However, according to Kilgour and Matas, such activities are continuing even now, only they are being done in a more covert way. Hiding the organ harvesting is an obvious attempt to escape an independent and just investigation by the international community.   (RELATED: See our Chinas Sale of Human Organs archive)

Saturday 10th March 2007: -

• Norfolk school scraps cash - It is one of the many minor irritants that make school mornings such a drag for hard-pressed parents. Finding the right dinner money can result in searching the bottom of drawers, turning out your purse and even putting an IOU in your little one's piggy bank. But at one Norfolk school, the ordeal is over. Taverham Middle School has become one of the first in the county to become a “cashless school”. Instead of bringing in their little purses, the children have their own accounts, which their parents pay into whenever they like. The children have their photographs taken, then when they reach the end of the lunch queue they say their name and the till operator calls up their picture on a screen. He or she presses their nose (on the screen) and up come their up-to-date account details. The cost of the latest lunch is then debited from the balance. Headteacher Neil Beacock said: “The world has moved on. Hardly anyone carries cash. I have a vision for Taverham Middle to be a cashless school."   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• Child medicine additive concern - Medicines for babies and young children frequently contain additives banned from foods and drinks aimed at under-threes, research shows. The Food Magazine examined 41 medicines aimed at the under-threes, and found only one was free of the additives. Azo dye colourings were found in five products and multiple artificial sweeteners and preservatives in many. No colours or sweeteners are allowed in foods and drinks for the under-threes and most preservatives are banned.   (RELATED: See our Compromised Health archive)

• The great ADHD myth - The psychiatrist who identified attention deficit disorder - the condition blamed for the bad behaviour of hundreds of thousands of children - has admitted that many may not really be ill. Dr Robert Spitzer said that up to 30 per cent of youngsters classified as suffering from disruptive and hyperactive conditions could have been misdiagnosed. They may simply be showing perfectly normal signs of being happy or sad, he said. 'Many of these conditions might be normal reactions which are not really disorders,' he continued. Dr Spitzer developed the bible of mental disorder classification in the 1970s and 1980s, which identified dozens of new conditions including ADD and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Since then hundreds of thousands of children have been diagnosed with ADD, a behavioural disorder linked to poor attention span, and ADHD, which adds an element of hyperactivity.

• Aaron Russo's film suggests neo-cons planned 9/11, and also seek to micro-chip all Americans - Aaron Russo's film, which runs about 1 hour and 40 minutes, entitled "America: Freedom to Fascism", describes the descent of America from a constitutional republic to a bureaucratic state, where the IRS, police, and other elite-driven institutions have run amok. Hollywood director Aaron Russo goes in-depth for first time on the astounding admissions of Nick Rockefeller, including his prediction of 9/11 and the apparently contrived "War on Terror", the Rockefeller's alleged creation of "women's lib", and the elite's ultimate plan for world population reduction as well as a "microchipped society".   (RELATED: See Aaron Russo's website freedomtofascism.com)

• Child ID program is launched locally - The Children’s Services Council, the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office and the Okeechobee County School Board have joined together to bring the National Child Identification Program to Okeechobee County. All 7,273 students in grades kindergarten through 12 will receive a National Child Identification Program I.D. Kit to be taken home and given to a parent or guardian. The kit contains an inkless fingerprint kit, wallet card and DNA collection swabs. The National Child Identification Program is a community service initiative dedicated to providing parents and guardians with a tool to record the physical characteristics and fingerprints of their children on identification cards that are then stored at home. If law enforcement ever needs information to aid in finding missing children, parents will be able to easily provide law enforcement with fingerprints and even DNA samples.

• The dangers of DNA testing - DNA testing is in the news a lot these days, and not solely because of the saga of Anna Nicole Smith, whose burial was delayed amid a legal tussle over the paternity of her 5-month-old daughter, Daniellyn. The growing success in obtaining convictions by genetic matching (since the O.J. Simpson trial anyway) has made it the preferred identification technology for law enforcement, as well as by other federal agencies. The U.S. military requires every serviceman to give blood for future DNA analysis, presumably for body identification. States are among the most aggressive users of DNA testing. The New Jersey Supreme Court recently upheld a Garden State law requiring DNA testing of all felons, with the results maintained in a state database and submitted to the FBI.

• Firefighters fry Giuliani over 9/11: He cut back hunt for remains, union claims - The nation's largest firefighters union has accused Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, of committing "egregious acts" against firefighters who died Sept. 11. In a letter to its members Friday, the International Association of Fire Fighters excoriated Giuliani for his November 2001 decision to cut back firefighters searching Ground Zero for the remains of about 300 fallen comrades. The 280,000-member union accused him of expediting the cleanup with a "scoop and dump" operation after the recovery of millions in gold, silver and other assets from the Bank of Nova Scotia.

• U.S. Military: Censorship Was Justified - The U.S. military asserted that an American soldier was justified in erasing journalists' footage of the aftermath of a suicide bombing and shooting in Afghanistan last week, saying publication could have compromised a military investigation and led to false public conclusions. The comments came Friday in response to an Associated Press protest that a U.S. soldier had forced two freelance journalists working for the AP to delete photos and video at the scene of violence March 4 in Barikaw, eastern Afghanistan. At least eight Afghans were killed and 34 wounded. "Investigative integrity is one circumstance when civil and military authorities will reluctantly exercise the right to control what a journalist is permitted to document," Col. Victor Petrenko, chief of staff to the top U.S. commander in eastern Afghanistan, said in a letter Friday.

• Surveillance camera ordinance revised - Chicago businesses open between the hours of 8 p.m. and 4 a.m. would be required to install indoor and outdoor surveillance cameras to fight crime, under a watered-down ordinance tailor-made to soften opposition. Instead of requiring cameras at every licensed business open more than 12 hours a day, Ald. Ray Suarez (31st) has narrowed his focus to businesses open during the eight-hour window when most crimes are committed. Mayor Daley embraced the alderman's more radical approach 14 months ago. But the mayor's support was not enough to get the ordinance out of a City Council committee. The License Committee is scheduled to consider the softer version on Monday.

• AMERICAN EXPRESS ADDRESSES RFID PEOPLE TRACKING PLANS: Promises Full Patent Review, Tracking Notice, and Chip-Free Option - The top brass at American Express, chagrined at the discovery of its people tracking plans, met with CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) last week to discuss the issue. One outcome of the meeting was a promise by American Express to review its entire patent portfolio and ensure that any people-tracking plans be accompanied by language requiring consumer notice and consent. The meeting was organized after CASPIAN called attention to one of the company's more troublesome patent applications. That patent application, titled "Method and System for Facilitating a Shopping Experience," describes a Minority Report style blueprint for monitoring consumers through RFID-enabled objects, like the American Express Blue Card. According to the patent, RFID readers called "consumer trackers" would be placed in store shelving to pick up "consumer identification signals" emitted by RFID-embedded objects carried by shoppers. These would be used to identify people, track their movements, and observe their behavior. The patent also suggested such people-tracking systems could "be located in a common area of a school, shopping center, bus station or other place of public accommodation."   (RELATED: See our Total Global Surveillance archive)

• Phone watchdog warns TV channels - TV shows found to be cheating viewers could face criminal proceedings, the phoneline watchdog has warned. Icstis said any criminal activity found by a review of phone-in competitions would be passed on to police. The warning came after the regulator met TV bosses to set up a licensing scheme in the wake of allegations some phone-ins were ripping off callers. Five has dropped quizzes with premium rate services after it was found winners on one show had been faked.

Friday 09th March 2007: -

• Snoopers' guide to your home - A picture guide to every home in England will be used by council-tax spies in a drive to push up homeowners' bills. The "illustrated guide" for council tax inspectors is the first full evidence of how far they are prepared to intrude into homes to collect the highest possible amount. The 80-page book carries 168 pictures of types of homes, which are divided into 99 groups. Inspectors are instructed to place every home into one of these groups. They are then asked to decide if the householder should pay higher bills because of the neighbourhood and amenities of the house. Conservatories, swimming pools, balconies and parking spaces count to push up the tax rating.

• Justice Dept: FBI misused Patriot Act - The FBI improperly and, in some cases, illegally used the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about people in the United States, a Justice Department audit concluded Friday. And for three years the FBI underreported to Congress how often it forced businesses to turn over the customer data, the audit found. FBI Director Robert Mueller said he was to blame for not putting more safeguards into place.

• Powerful Documentary Trounces Man-Made Warming Hoax: Climate change is natural and has been happening since the Earth began - An astounding documentary that was broadcast in the UK last night completely trounced the man-made explanation for global warming, not with emotionally-laden propaganda or by attacking the messenger as its adherants resort to, but by presenting carefully considered and rational science. The Great Global Warming Swindle brought together a plethora of scientists, professors, climatologists and weather experts to expose the myths about climate change that have been promulgated in order to hoodwink the world into accepting the man-made theory of global warming.

• Fish are up to their gills in mercury: Children, pregnant women most at risk of high levels of heavy metal, report says - So much mercury has accumulated in fish that there should be a worldwide public warning about eating seafood contaminated by the dangerous heavy metal, says a report summarizing the latest scientific evidence on global mercury pollution. The report, compiled by many of the leading academic experts on mercury pollution at a conference last year, is being published today in Ambio, the journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It says that those most at risk from exposure to the metal -- mainly children and women of childbearing age -- should be careful about the quantity and types of fish they eat.   (RELATED: See our Compromised Health archive)

• Vaccine officials knew about MMR risks - Government officials were made aware of some problems with a version of the MMR vaccine in other countries but still introduced it in Britain in the late 1980s, newly released documents show. The MMR vaccine with the Urabe strain of mumps was first used in Britain in October 1988. It was blamed for the deaths of several children after being withdrawn by the Department of Health in September 1992. Previously confidential documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show how officials gradually learned of the dangers of the Urabe strain MMR which caused encephalitis-type conditions, including meningitis. Involving swelling of the brain or of the lining of the brain or spinal chord, they can lead to brain damage, deafness or even death.

Thursday 08th March 2007: -

• Taser safety questionable, experts say - Deaths and injuries after being struck by a Taser have been reported, but studies on the guns’ safety don’t always paint a clear picture, experts said. “They are less lethal. There is always a possibility, for whatever reason, that a suspect might die,” said Al Arena, project manager at the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Howard County police have been cleared to start a pilot program with the stun guns, known by the brand name Taser.

• ‘Naked’ X-ray machine tried at Delhi airport - Air travellers passing through terminal 1B of Indira Gandhi International Airport here were scanned by an X-ray machine that can see through clothes, for one week in January. The authorities later decided to dump the state-of-the-art X-ray machine after it failed to reduce passenger clearance time. The authorities decided to test the new backscatter X-ray machine two months ago without any notice or warning to passengers, a senior official with the Central Industrial Security Force confirmed. “India became the first country where it was tested, even ahead of the United States,” he said. The machine was tested at Phoenix Airport in the US last month. The official said the machine was removed after a week. “The machine ... failed to clear passengers quickly and also it was disgusting for officials to see naked pictures of passengers,” said the official.

• Hate Crime Legislation Will Target Your Freedom of Speech - A battle has been waging during the opening months of the 110th Congress over proposed Hate Crime legislation. The main bill currently before the House is H.R. 254, titled, "The David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act," introduced by Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX). Opposition is growing to the legislation because hate crime laws would make certain types of speech a federal offense, allowing federal "thought police" to interfere in the law enforcement authority of states and local government. Such interference is blatantly unconstitutional.

• Cameron sacks Tory front-bencher over 'black bastards' gibe - Patrick Mercer, a Conservative front-bencher, has been sacked by his party leader David Cameron after telling Times Online that being called a "black bastard" is part and parcel of being an ethnic minority in the Armed Forces. Mr Mercer, who was the Tories' Homeland Security Spokesperson and a decorated former Army colonel, had claimed that when he served with the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters before becoming an MP, he knew "a lot" of ethnic minority servicemen in the Army who used perceived discrimination as an excuse for poor performance. Announcing he had been sacked from his frontbench role, Mr Cameron said today: "The comments made by Patrick Mercer are completely unacceptable. I regret that they were made.

• Punch Victim Sues Officer - A young woman repeatedly punched by a policeman is demanding an apology and compensation. CCTV pictures show 20-year-old Toni Comer being hit five times by PC Anthony Mulhall. The officer, who has been suspended from frontline duties, says he was trying to deaden her arm so she could be restrained with handcuffs. The mother-of-one said: "I thought police arrested people for doing things like that, not that they did it themselves. "Afterwards, there were bruises on the back of my neck, the side of my head and on my arms." She added: "I would like to see some kind of justice so this never happens to anybody else in the future.

• SURVEY: Brits prefer cash - Bank Machine Ltd., a subsidiary of Houston-based Cardtronics LP, has found that 81 percent of Britain’s banked consumers who participated in a survey conducted by London-based YouGov PLC say they are aware of financial institutions’ efforts to reduce cash. According to a news release issued by Bank Machine, 75 percent of the survey’s respondents say they prefer the ability to use cash for smaller transactions and are not happy with the concept of a cashless society. Recent contactless-card trials aim to encourage a cashless society but that is not what the British public wants, Bank Machine says. The survey also found that most consumers carry, on average, £26 (U.S. $50) for smaller purchases. Men typically carry £10 (U.S. $19.29) more than women.

Wednesday 07th March 2007: -

• Human Genes In Your Food - A new type of genetically-modified crop containing human genes is reportedly set to get the go-ahead for commercial production. A type of rice has been developed which produces human proteins similar to those found in breast milk and saliva, say reports. According to the Daily Mail, US firm Ventria Bioscience claims it could be used to treat children with diarrhoea, which remains a major killer in Third World countries. The rice, branded a "Frankenstein food" by its critics, represents the first time genes of human origin have been blended with those from plants.

• New head of MI5 is named - The country on Wednesday named a new head of MI5 as it grapples with what authorities call a severe and unparalleled terrorist threat.  A Home Office spokesman said Jonathan Evans, previously deputy director general of MI5, would take over on April 8 from Eliza Manningham-Buller, who announced late last year that she was stepping down. Evans, 49, had been hot favourite to succeed her in the role. He joined MI5, in 1980, working initially in counter-espionage and later on Northern Ireland-related counter-terrorism. He became director of international counter-terrorism at MI5 in 2001, only 10 days before the September 11 attacks on the United States.

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• British grandmother fined for using cannabis as medicine - A British grandmother who used cannabis to alleviate depression and pain was Wednesday fined 1,000 pounds (1,930 dollars) and ordered to do 250 hours of community service. Sixty-eight-year-old Patricia Tabram, who defended herself at the trial at Carlisle Crown Court in northern Britain, was found guilty of possessing and cultivating the drug, which is classified an illegal substance in Britain.

Tuesday 06th March 2007: -

• Americans Don't Trust Bush on Threat Intelligence - Many adults in the United States express no confidence in their federal government on the topic of intelligence, according to a poll by TNS released by the Washington Post and ABC News. 63 per cent of respondents say they cannot trust the Bush administration to honestly and accurately report on possible threats from other countries. Pre-Iraq war speeches by U.S. president George W. Bush mentioned specific chemical agents, such as mustard gas, sarin and VX nerve gas as banned substances allegedly secured by Iraq. State secretary Colin Powell assured the United Nations (UN) Security Council in February 2003 that Hussein possessed biological weapons. The final report of the Iraq Survey Group—presented to the U.S. Congress on Sept. 30, 2004—concluded that Hussein’s regime did not possess chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, and had not implemented a significant program for their development.

• Are Putin's agents behind shooting? - Speculation of the involvement of Russian agents intent on silencing opponents to President Vladimir Putin's regime, wherever they may be, has increased with an attempted murder in America and an apparent suicide in Moscow. On the face of it the two incidents appear to have nothing in common, but Paul Joyal, shot in Adelphi, Maryland, on Saturday, is a friend of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy poisoned with polonium in London last year. And in Moscow, Ivan Safronov, 51, was an ex-colonel and journalist for Kommersant who had irritated the Russian FSB security service with his frequent exposes.

• Big Brother Watches Cabbies - NYC taxi drivers are threatening to strike if tracking technology is installed in their cabs. A new plan calls to equip all cabs with a system that will provide television service, credit card processing and GPS tracking. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance is calling on drivers to protest the plan, which many deem an invasion of privacy, by rallying outside the Taxi and Limousine Commission headquarters today. The alliance has also taken issue with the cost of the new systems, for which medallion owners would be responsible, and the credit card transaction fees that would come out of their profits. But the Taxi and Limousine Commission claims that tracking devices will make it easier for passengers to retrieve lost items, and that more people will take cabs if they accept credit cards.

• 9/11 Not First Example Of Media Scripting & Foreknowledge?: Were Oswald, Pearl Harbor details leaked ahead of time? - The BBC and other news outlets reporting the collapse of WTC 7 in advance was not the first time in history that the media had pre-empted major events by reporting them before they happened. Did a newspaper in New Zealand report intricate details about Lee Harvey Oswald's connection to the JFK assassination before such knowledge was publicly available? Our reports on the BBC Building 7 fiasco have gained overwhelming traction on the Internet but the establishment media has all but blacklisted the story.

• 9/11 Accountability Conference: Tarpley Emphasizes the Brzezinski Warning - Along with the media collection at the Citizen's Advocate, several media clips from the 9/11 Accountability Conference in Chandler, Arizona, have been posted at YouTube by Paula Gloria, Producer of "Further Down the Rabbit Hole" which airs on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Tarpley emphasizes the significance of Brzezinski's warning of a pretext to launch a suicidal war against Iran and other states. He also decries "holocaust denial" very directly, "Holocaust denial to me is pure historical idiocy. It is an absurdity from a historical point of view to deny the obvious facts of genocide against Jews and other populations in central Europe under the Nazi regime." (at the 00:53 mark)

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NYC Truth Characters at the conference;
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DE866D7B68901116

Tarpley's talk with Q&A;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reKa2jSdNGc

Tarpley's appearances on Manhattan Neighborhood Network;
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=701CFE3840B82989

• Young people taking prescription drug abuse to college - If there's any one thing recreational drug experts are likely to remember about this generation, it would probably be that young people are refusing to follow the drug use trends of yesterday. This generation's predecessors might have been content to dabble in cocaine, try marijuana or drop ecstasy. But nowadays, recreational drug use is far more likely to begin with a prescription and an orange bottle - a trend troubling drug experts who say the potentially dangerous pharmaceuticals showing up in dorm rooms and even college libraries are the product of habits likely formed in high school, according to a newly released analysis of several studies conducted by the Partnership for a Drug-free America that examined drug use among highschoolers over four years. Conner, a freshman art history major, said few students in his circle have experimented with harder drugs.

• Ex-Cheney aide found guilty in trial over CIA leak - A former aide to the Vice-President Dick Cheney has been convicted of obstruction, perjury and lying to an FBI unit which was trying to investigate how a CIA operative's identity was leaked to the press. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, Mr Cheney's former chief of staff, was found guilty on four counts out of five by a jury in the US this afternoon. Mr Libby is the only person charged in the case, which grew out of an investigation into how the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative, was leaked to the US media in 2003.

• Fake Wikipedia prof altered 20,000 entries - Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, has been plunged into controversy after one of its most prolific contributors and editors, a professor of religion with advanced degrees in theology and canon law, was exposed as a 24-year-old community college drop-out. The editor, who called himself Essjay, was recruited by staff at Wikipedia to work on the site’s arbitration committee, a team of expert administrators charged with vetting content on the online "free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit". But no-one apparently vetted the credentials of Essjay, who claimed to be a tenured professor of religion at a private university and contributed to an estimated 20,000 Wikipedia entries.

• Students swiping ID cards offer look at future of vending - If the next step toward a cashless society is vending machines that accept debit or credit cards, Northeastern Wisconsin residents must wait a bit. "It's something that's going to be here in the future," said Sue Salewski, operations manager for Ashwaubenon-based Be's Coffee and Vending Service. "We're ready for it," she said, noting that current machines can be retrofitted to accept credit or debit cards. "We're just waiting for interest from our customers," she said.

• Nothing to fear over ID cards privacy, says passport chief: Identity database 'won't create personal audit trail'... - The man in charge of the government's national ID cards scheme has dismissed claims the cards will lead to a personal audit trail of each citizen's movements and transactions. Privacy groups have claimed records of each time an ID card is used, where and what it is used for will create a vast personal tracking database of every individual on the National Identity Register.

• Chip and Pin not working for many disabled people - The results of new research that has been carried out by a disability charity has indicated that over fifty percent of disabled people have experienced difficulties with chip and pin technology. The research was carried out the disability charity Leonard Cheshire, and shows that around fifty four percent of disabled consumers have experienced problems with chip and pin. Amongst the problems highlighted by those polled were poor access to keypads when using chip and pin machines, and feeling vulnerable when using chip and pin machines. However, officials from APACS stated that there was an alternative for those unable to use the ship and pin system, and this was the chip and signature card.

Monday 05th March 2007: -

• Sun gagged over funding probe email - The Sun has been blocked from publishing details of an email linked to a police probe into political party funding, the tabloid said on Monday, barely 48-hours after the BBC was similarly gagged. Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith, acting on behalf of the police, obtained a court injunction on Sunday to prevent the daily from revealing the content of the email sent between two aides to Prime Minister Tony Blair, it said. The censored email was also at the centre of a BBC report blocked by a court order on Friday, according to the Sun.

• Internet Archive Authenticates BBC Video - Internet Archive's Director of Collections, Stewart Cheifet, responsible for all video and audio files at the archive, has authenticated the BBC video: "I am Director of Collections at the Internet Archive, responsible for all video and audio files. This video clip is part of a collection from the TV Archive of global television coverage of the events that occurred on and shortly after September 11, 2001. This clip, among others, has drawn quite a bit of attention because it appears to show a BBC reporter in New York reporting that World Trade Center Building 7, also referred to as WTC7 or the Salomon Brothers Building, has collapsed before it actually did collapse. Despite some confusion on the issue of time code stamping and UTC conversions to EDT, the timing on the clip appears to be correct. This particular clip was recorded between 4:54 and 5:36 PM EDT. The anchor references to the WTC7 collapsing occur at 4:58 PM and 5:01 PM and then a live reporter says the building has collapsed at 5:08 PM in what appears to be a live shot with the building still in tact behind her. The feed from the live reporter is lost at 5:15 PM and then the building does actually collapse at 5:20 PM.

• BBC's 9/11 Yellow Journalism Backfires: Building 7 becomes the Achilles heel of the official conspiracy theory - The BBC's Conspiracy Files documentary hit piece and their flustered attempts to adopt damage control over questions about why their correspondent reported the collapse of Building 7 before it happened, have only provoked a firestorm of new interest in 9/11 truth and exalted questions surrounding WTC 7 to the point where it is now the Achilles' heel of the official conspiracy theory. The BBC was forced to issue a second response on Friday afternoon following a barrage of criticism against their initial effort to dismiss the Building 7 fiasco and their claim that they had mysteriously lost all footage from BBC World's 9/11 coverage.

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

• Diana pregnant claims may be tested - It is "very likely" that the inquests into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed will investigate her "alleged fears" for her life and the suggestion that she was pregnant when she died. Baroness Butler-Sloss, the coroner who will hear the inquest, indicated in a letter that it was very likely both matters would have to be considered - "to an extent at least". The contents of the letter were read out at a pre-inquest hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice to discuss the scope, timing and venue of the high-profile investigation, which could take between four and eight months. The letter also said the inquest was likely to investigate "the embalming of (the princess's) body and its purpose, and the acquisition by Dodi Fayed of a ring on August 30, 1997".   (RELATED: See our popular Diana Assassination archive)

• Hey, D.C., pay 9/11 patriots: Workers' military duty costs city 57M - War is expensive, even on the home front. The city's policy of subsidizing the pay of nearly 2,000 municipal workers while they serve active military duty in Iraq and elsewhere has cost the city more than $57 million since Sept. 11, 2001, according to a report released by Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn, Queens). The war is "costing us a great deal here in New York City in treasure as well as lives," Weiner said. Weiner said 1,832 city employees have taken military leave since 9/11, including 1,087 cops, 216 firefighters and 529 assorted workers. Many of the affected workers were military reservists called up by their units, but some were also volunteers motivated by the 9/11 terror attacks. Weiner noted that the municipal workers lost a combined total of 610,873 city workdays while performing their military service. He said that drove up overtime costs for the city and made it less safe. "Yet because of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of our Finest, many of our Bravest, are in Iraq, in Afghanistan, making us, in fact, arguably less safe because of the war," he commented on releasing his report Tuesday at a news conference outside City Hall.

• Aide: Terrorist Act Will Make Giuliani President - Rudy Giuliani told Larry King last month that he was running for president before setting off on a series of carefully staged campaign events around the country to prove the point. Just showing that he meant it gave Giuliani a serious bump in the polls and worried his rivals. After a slow start, Giuliani's candidacy has gained ground in recent weeks. In the new Newsweek Poll, Giuliani leads Sen. John McCain by 25 points (59 to 34 percent) as the choice of registered Republicans and voters leaning Republican for the party's nomination, while former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney trails both men by more than 30 points.

Sunday 04th March 2007: -

• MI5 trains supermarket checkout staff: Workers told how to detect potential terrorists as shops are warned of bomb risk in underground car parks - Supermarket checkout staff are being trained by the security services in how to detect potential terrorists. MI5 has been secretly advising food retailers, including Asda and Tesco, on how to identify extremist shoppers. Measures include increasing CCTV in underground carparks to prevent bomb attacks and being alert to mass purchases of mobile phones, which can be used as bomb detonators. The awareness training for staff also covers bulk sales of toiletries which could be used as the basic ingredient in explosives. The security services and ministers are worried supermarkets are an attractive target for terrorists because of the potential for mass casualties.

• Texans fear US sovereignty will disappear down superhighway - If it were built, the road would be one of the engineering wonders of the 21st century -a trade route a quarter of a mile wide, carving a path from Mexico through the heart of America to Canada. In its most radical form, it would allow lorry drivers to travel hundreds of miles from the Mexican border deep into the US before reaching customs and immigration controls in Kansas. Backers of the idea, labelled the "Nafta Superhighway", after the North American trade pact, say it would revolutionise patterns of commerce across the continent and enhance the economic prospects of millions. But its critics say it could spell the end of US sovereignty. In arguments akin to those deployed by critics of the European Union, opponents say that opening borders will hit businesses, create a terrorist threat and allow illegal immigrants and drugs to flood in.

• The truth about Charles Clarke's ID card claims - ...While in office he was criticised for pushing the Identity Cards Bill even though it is seen by many as a serious infringement of privacy. Mr Clarke, who lost his job in a Cabinet reshuffle last May and who last week launched a campaign to persuade David Miliband to stand against Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership, is so passionate about ID cards that he is continuing his campaign. Now marooned on the backbenches, he has resorted to television to get his message across. On Friday night he told the tragic tale of his wife's ancestors as part of a Channel 4 documentary, Fighting Identity Fraud. He outlined his arguments in favour of ID cards and one of his 'very personal' arguments involved the story of the Maramaa family.

• DNA 'WILL BE STOLEN' FROM ID CARDS - FORMER Home Secretary Charles Clarke has called for DNA details to be put on the identity cards database – despite warnings it will be accessed by crooks. Mr Clarke argues that current Government plans for ID cards are too timid and that the more information placed on them, the safer they will be from abuse. But last night the Home Office admitted fraudsters can already scan biometric passports without our knowledge. And campaigners warned that putting DNA on the database would take Britain’s £1.7billion annual identity fraud crisis to dangerous new levels. Tory MP Grant Shapps said: “Imagine what will happen if all your information, everything about who you are is stored in one place. "It raises the prospect that information will be skimmed straight off your ID card as you walk down the street, simply by someone brushing past you.

• Britain Plans Kids' Fingerprint Database - The British government plans to begin storing the fingerprints of children who apply for passports. Leaked Home Office documents reveal that the program is set to begin in 2010, The Times of London reported. The creation of the fingerprint database for children ages 11 to 16 is part of a plan for a biometric passport and an identity card that all British residents would be required to carry. Storage of fingerprints and biometric identifiers is expected to begin next year for everyone over age 16 who applies for a passport.

• Sheriff’s department to offer free kids ID cards - The Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Department will soon begin participating in Operation Safe Child, an initiative launched in 2005 by then Gov. George Pataki to raise awareness about child safety. While the sheriff’s department has made identification cards available for children and adults for several years, this new system will allow information on the child to be electronically distributed statewide, Sheriff Dennis B. John said. The program is being undertaken in conjunction with the county district attorney’s office. The program is being offered in partnership with the New York State Police, New York State Sheriff’s Association, New York State Chiefs of Police, and the state Division of Criminal Justice Services. The program provides state grants for the sheriff’s department to buy a computer system, digital camera, fingerprint reader and a card printer to make the child identification cards for parents and guardians.

• Real problems with Real ID - President Bush signed the Real ID Act into law in May 2005, but as with so many federal brainstorms, it was unreal from its inception. The law, which was intended to prevent terrorists and illegal immigrants from counterfeiting driver licenses, came with no rules governing what security features the states should use to make their IDs tamper-proof. And, predictably, the law came with only a token investment of federal money to help get the job done. Washington was willing to put up only pocket change - $40 million of the $11 billion total cost. All states were supposed to be in compliance with this initiative that has no rules and no money by May 2008. Naturally, as the deadline approaches, the states have been complaining more loudly and angrily about the unfinanced and unreal federal mandate.

• Doubt cast over Guantanamo "suicides": Swiss forensic pathologists who carried out an autopsy on a Guantanamo inmate say many questions surrounding his death remain unanswered - The team from Lausanne University said all the available evidence pointed to suicide but they could not be 100 per cent sure because the prison authorities had withheld information and material. "What I find both shameful and regrettable is that even though there is a priori no reason to doubt suicide, they have not let us have access to evidence that substantiates this theory," said forensic pathologist Patrice Mangin. According to the United States authorities, Yemeni Ahmed Ali Abdullah, who was in his thirties, was found hanged in his cell at Guantanamo Bay on June 10, 2006. Two Saudi inmates reportedly hanged themselves the same night.

• China to Increase Military Spending - China will boost military spending by 17.8 percent this year, a spokesman for the national legislature said Sunday, continuing more than a decade of double-digit annual increases that has stirred unease in Washington and some of China's neighbors. Underscoring such concerns, Jiang Enzhu also lashed out at the president of Taiwan, the self-governing island claimed by China, accusing him of manipulating Taiwan's political divisions to steer it toward formal independence, something Beijing has vowed to prevent using military force if necessary.

• Cameras keep eye on pupils - Big Brother will now be keeping an eye on pupils, staff and trespassers at a Phoenix school. Palmview Secondary School is installing CCTV cameras at several points to catch criminals and misbehaving pupils. Parents were informed of the installation at the first school meeting of the year. Dinesh Lallmun, the guardian of a pupil at the school, said, "We were told cameras would be installed for security reasons. There have been incidents of armed robbers coming into the school, children fighting with each other, smoking and relationships that have gone beyond just being friendly.   (RELATED: See our Total Global Surveillance archive)

• Security cameras are being developed to watch the world and interpret what they see - The next time you walk by a shop window, take a glance at your reflection. How much do you swing your arms? Is the weight of your bag causing you to hunch over? Do you still have a bit of that 1970s disco strut left? Look around -- You might not be the only one watching. The never-blinking surveillance cameras, rapidly becoming a part of daily life in public and even private places, may be sizing you up as well. And they may soon get a lot smarter. Researchers and security companies are developing cameras that not only watch the world but also interpret what they see. Soon, some cameras may be able to find unattended bags at airports, guess your height or analyze the way you walk to see if you are hiding something.

• CANADA: Big brother watching for crooks in Surrey - All eyes are on Surrey this week. The eyes of the media, focused on a new Surrey plan to fight crime, may soon be joined by the unblinking ‘eyes’ of closed-circuit video cameras in some public places, as part of Mayor Dianne Watts’ comprehensive 106-recommendation strategy. The outcome, if the new plan is properly implemented and supported, will be a dramatic drop in crime, according to criminologists. That would be welcome news to offset the more Big Brother-ish implications of public video cameras.

• AUDIO DOWNLOAD: For those who missed it, William Rodriguez recently appeared on BBC Radio Five Live with Simon Mayo.  This radio spot was to promote his UK 'Last Man Out' tour which ran through February and has helped to bolster support for the UK 9/11 truth community.   (RELATED: See also 9/11 Hero William Rodriguez on BBC's Look North /// WILLIAM RODRIGUEZ'S OWN WEBSITE: 911keymaster.com)

• 9/11 Truth Music To My Ears - The truth is being shouted from the rooftops…and it’s loud, it rhymes, and it’s waking the neighbors. It's 9/11 Truth Music and it comes in a variety of flavors from rap to techno, each decibel piercing the listener’s soul with hard to answer questions and undeniable truths. I first became aware of this new genre after hearing the song ‘What Would You Do?’ by rapper Paris and I felt the song was speaking directly to me in a way I had never felt before. It had mixed the Illuminati’s agenda into a venomous poem and was delivered with the precision and quality of any chart-topping single. I was wondering why nobody had written songs about 9/11 being a cover up and an inside job. Well it appears some people had, and I found myself going down yet another 9/11 rabbit hole.

• Programmed For Obesity: Early Exposure To Common Chemicals Can Permanently Alter Metabolic System - Obesity is generally discussed in terms of caloric intake (how much a person eats) and energy output (how much a person exercises). However, according to a University of Missouri-Columbia scientist, environmental chemicals found in everyday plastics and pesticides also may influence obesity. Frederick vom Saal, professor of biological sciences in MU's College of Arts and Science, has found that when fetuses are exposed to these chemicals, the way their genes function may be altered to make them more prone to obesity and disease. "Certain environmental substances called endocrine-disrupting chemicals can change the functioning of a fetus's genes, altering a baby's metabolic system and predisposing him or her to obesity. This individual could eat the same thing and exercise the same amount as someone with a normal metabolic system, but he or she would become obese, while the other person remained thin. This is a serious problem because obesity puts people at risk for other problems, including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension," vom Saal said.   (RELATED: See our Compromised Health archive)

Mark Dice, formerly known as 'John Conner' has recently announced his real name (for anyone a little confused!)

Saturday 03rd March 2007: -

• Attorney General halts BBC probe - The Attorney General has obtained an injunction against the BBC to stop it broadcasting an item about the cash for honours investigation. The injunction was obtained on Friday night at a hearing which lasted around two hours at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Lord Goldsmith's office said he had acted "completely independently of government" on the matter. The BBC said its reporting of the story is a matter of public interest.  (COMMENTARY: This kind of puts the BBC's 'Conspiracy Files' whitewash series into perspective, doesn't it?  To paraphrase the part time series producer Guy Smith; 'The government doesn't have any control over the BBC... how preposterous, we report the truth as we see it without any such influence'... really Guy?)

• Former FBI Director Calls For New OKC Bombing Investigation: Coulson names Strassmeir as "agent" in upcoming documentary - Former FBI Terrorist Task Force director Danny Coulson has called for a new grand jury investigation into the Oklahoma City bombing and for the first time names Andreas Strassmeir as an "agent," in a documentary set to air Sunday, according to lawyer Jesse Trentadue. Trentadue, attorney for bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, last week obtained an astounding declaration from Nichols in which he fingered FBI agent Larry Potts as having directed McVeigh in carrying out the attack.

• 'Gangsters and Nazis murdered my son' - Harrods boss Mohamed al Fayed called for the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles to give evidence to an inquest into the deaths of his son Dodi and Princess Diana after winning a High Court battle for the case to go before a jury. Three senior judges ordered coroner Baroness Butler-Sloss to empanel a jury after ruling that she acted unlawfully when she decided to conduct the inquest on her own. The judges also sought to distance the inquest from the royal family to ensure there would be no appearance of bias by directing that Lady Butler-Sloss should not preside over the inquest in her role as deputy coroner of the Queen's Household.   (COMMENTARY: Okay, this is how this works; Mohamed Al Fayed is basically the main man in the eyes of the public who is going around saying 'They killed my son and Diana and made it look like a car accident'.  To a certain extent he is correct, however he is actually confusing the public and misleading any investigation by making allegations that Princes Phillip and Charles were literally THEMSELVES involved at a key level in the assassination.  We have been researching the Diana murder for many years now and have not found this to be the case.  The argument that either Princes were behind the 'hit' is a clear 'Strawman' argument, meant to discredit the case... very much like the accusation that 'President Bush was behind the 9/11 attacks'.  To be analogous, Princes Philip and Charles (like President Bush) are simply a brand front, the packaging on the can of Cola... we need to be looking at the men back at the factory before we can even begin to uncover and expose the truth.  We appreciate the fact that Al Fayed is kicking up a public firestorm over this issue, but we need to ask, who's side is he on? RELATED: See our popular Diana Assassination archive)

• Total eclipse will turn Moon red - Millions of people have the chance to see the most spectacular lunar eclipse in years tonight when the Moon will turn bright orange or red. Lunar eclipses are when the Earth’s shadow from the Sun falls directly on the Moon and a change in the weather forecast means it is likely to be visible almost everywhere in the country. The colour of the Moon will change from silvery white to coppery red or orange as light is deflected by the Earth’s atmosphere and bounces back off the “blood moon”. In ancient times blood moons were seen as omens of great change or disaster and were regarded with dread. As the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon light scattering through the atmosphere is reduced to predominantly red wavelengths, which reflect off the lunar surface. Astronomers are confident that even with the naked eye stargazers will be treated to dramatic views of the eclipse, which will be at its height from 10.24pm to 11.58pm.

• Trafficking in women a worldwide epidemic: Up to - 10,000 trafficked women in Israel and more than 280 brothels in Tel Aviv alone - Calling human trafficking one of the greatest human rights abuses of our time, Canadian journalist and social activist Victor Malarek addressed the Jewish community at a Montreal synagogue last Thursday. Promoting a book he has written on the subject, Malarek said destitute Third World and Eastern European females as young as 12 are tricked into leaving their homelands with promises of wealth and prosperity in the West, as well as Israel. Instead, they are sold into the sex trade by organized crime, gangs, pimps and brothel owners.

• Africa's 'cyber' currency - Try to imagine, if you will, a cashless economy where there’s no paper, no plastic, no coins — just mobile banking. Far-fetched? Now stretch your imagination a little. Imagine a virtual currency where pre-paid airtime is traded across national borders to exchange goods and services, cancelling conventional currency exchange and the associated costs from the equation as a prerequisite; where at the touch of a button, value can be transferred from your bank, stored as airtime in your cellphone and used to purchase, say, a can of Coke from your local street vendor. The very thought of those innovations in technology promises to reshape the trading system that underpins 21st century capitalism, multiplying its revolutionary impact on the lives of the poor, giving them facilities once available to the rich only.

Thursday 01st March 2007: -

• New WTC 7 Blockbuster One Of The Biggest Stories Of All Time: And it all started with one person... - The new WTC 7 revelations, in which BBC and CNN reporters tell of WTC 7's collapse as the building still stands, has sent shock waves through out the internet and has become one of the biggest stories of all time. In just 2 days the footage has been seen by an absolute minimum of 270,000 people. The version on YouTube has over 140,000 views, and the version on Live Leak has over 130,000. The amount of other versions, as well as the original version which was deleted, are innumerable. All the videos are still growing at tremendous rates and will no doubt continue to spread like wildfire over the coming weeks.

• Proof Digg's Bury Feature Abused to Suppress Controversial Content: Programmer hacks Digg, gets bury list for a few hours: Bury list is full of shills burying highly significant content - A programmer found a bug at Digg which allowed him to view the Bury feed at Digg. He posted the list on his website and it is eye opening, to say the least. Notice how there are tons of obvious shills burying our recent explosive WTC 7 articles as well as many other articles of extreme significance. It's shocking to read the list and see how much significant, documented, and extremely popular content is being buried for obvious ideological reasons. This is completely undemocratic abuse of the Digg system and is proof positive the Bury feature is being abused to suppress content by vindictive Anti-Diggers.

• 'Why Are We In Iraq?' - The grandfather of a British soldier killed in Iraq has attacked the "blind" politicians who took the country to war. Daniel Lee Coffey, 21, died after being hit by "small arms fire" while protecting colleagues during an ambush in Basra on Tuesday. The rifleman, from the Second Battalion The Rifles, was the 103rd British soldier to be killed in action since the 2003 invasion. David Godfrey, 61, paid tribute to his grandson - from Cullompton, Devon - whom he described as a patriot with a "wonderful, caring heart". But he said: "To die at 21 years of age is incomprehensible and beyond belief. "Now is not the time to talk political agendas but I will say this, I struggle to comprehend just why our troops are in Iraq at all.

• LETTERS: Having secure ID makes sense after 9/11 - Critics of the REAL ID Act have made false assumptions about what the act does. (``National driver's license may not be in cards,'' Feb. 10, Page A3). It does not call for a national ID. Rather, it simply calls for minimum security standards for the most important ID we already use - the state-issued driver license. Even without the act, states have begun beefing up security to combat the issuance of fraudulent driver licenses, a practice that aids not only terrorists but also drug dealers, perpetrators of identity theft and, of course, underage drinkers and drivers. Three of the five 9/11 hijackers on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, for example, used fake licenses to board the plane that morning. That is one reason why the 9/11 Commission recommended that the driver license system be secured: We need to be able to assure that people are who they say they are, and are here legitimately.   (COMMENTARY: We posted this article/letter as this is a typical example of how the 9/11 'official story believers' are shilling for the erosion of the American Bill of Rights and Constitution.  It is interesting to note that the writer is a former counsel to the 9/11 Commission and president of 9/11 Security Solutions.)

• Banks forced to pay up: Banks which close the accounts of complaining customers are being ordered to pay compensation of at least £200 a time - The details emerged yesterday as a City watchdog made clear it will not let banks intimidate customers who have legitimate grievances. The controversy follows an explosion of complaints from bank customers over rip-off penalty charges on overdrafts and bouncing cheques. More than a million people are believed to have claimed refunds after the Office of Fair Trading said the charges were unfair and illegal.

• Man Implants Radio Frequency Identification Tags Rather Than Carry His House Keys: Amal Graafstra doesn't have a chip on his shoulder. But he does have one in his hand. Two, in fact - Graafstra, a computer technician, decided one day in 2005 that he was tired of carrying his keys. He disliked losing keys or leaving them behind, and he surmised that there must be a simpler way. The technology of radio frequency identification, or RFID, caught his eye, and it wasn't long before he found himself sitting in a doctor's office, his hand numbed, as a cosmetic surgeon carefully slipped a tag underneath his skin.

• The murky ethics of implanted chips - "Wanted: Power-systems engineer with experience in high-power (5–100-kW) motor-­controller design. Must be U.S. citizen and have valid ISO1443-compatible access-control RFID implant." Sound farfetched? Today, yes. A decade from now, maybe not. With the proliferation of radio-frequency identification technology and the recent, but increasing, use of implantable RFID chips in humans, we may already be on a path that would make such an ad commonplace in a 2017 issue of IEEE Spectrum. The benefits would be undeniable—an implantable RFID chip, which is durable and about the size of a grain of rice, can hold or link to information about the identity, physiological characteristics, health, nationality, and security clearances of the person it’s embedded in. The proximity of your hand could start your car or unlock your front door or let an emergency room physician know you are a diabetic even if you are unconscious. Once implanted, the chip and the information it contains are always with you—you’d never lose your keys again.

• Children are finally being told they'll be allowed to keep their fingers to themselves: Finger scans may now be optional in Taunton public schools - The American Civil Liberties Union has entered the debate over fingerprint scanning technology, aimed at speeding up lunch lines. "By requiring students to provide their fingerprints for scanning, from which a unique identifier will be created and stored, the Taunton school system is effectively teaching students and their parents to be quite casual about their biometric data, at a time when computer security breaches are commonplace and identity theft has become a major problem in our society," Sarah Wunsch, staff attorney for the ACLU Boston chapter, wrote to Superintendent Arthur W. Stellar. "This is the wrong lesson for Taunton to be teaching."

• Fears over fingerprinting pupils - A fingerprint system which has outraged human rights campaigners is being used in Suffolk schools to monitor pupils' library borrowing. The biometric system has been used for children as young as three. It was put under the spotlight when documents were released under the Freedom of Information Act which showed 83 schools across Suffolk – about a quarter – fingerprint students. A child's fingertip is scanned and a number generated from the pattern of the print. When they borrow a book, their fingertip is re-scanned and the computer creates another number. It then searches for a near match on its database. The number, rather then the fingertip print is stored on the computer.

• American-style yellow buses to be piloted in the Borders - A YEAR-long review of school transport in the Borders has recommended that CCTV cameras should be fitted on certain buses to monitor "the worst cases of recurring bad behaviour". A Scottish Borders Council working group also wants to pilot an American-style 'Yellow Bus' on a single route, still to be selected, with a history of pupil disorder and safety issues.

• Illegal migrants 'allowed to go' - The police are often "not interested, too busy or don't know what to do" when illegal immigrants are reported, says the largest UK traffic warden provider. National Car Parks said it reported the illegal migrants who attempted to get jobs with it, but most "walked away". "Limited resources" for immigration officers also seemed to contribute to a lack of action, the firm told MPs.

• Blairites manoeuvre to prevent Brown coronation - David Miliband is under mounting pressure to challenge Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership after Blairites opened a campaign to prevent a "coronation" for the Chancellor when Tony Blair stands down. Charles Clarke and Alan Milburn, both former cabinet ministers, launched a website yesterday calling for debate about Labour's future policies. They denied that their move was aimed at blocking Mr Brown but did not rule out a heavyweight challenger emerging.

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