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 b