Wednesday 28th November 2007: -

• Study reviews post 9-11 laws - More than six years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks prompted a rash of legislation limiting access to government information, authors of a congressionally funded study on those restrictions hope their findings will restore transparency. All states except South Dakota revised their open government laws after Sept. 11 because of fear that terrorists could use the information, said Jeffrey Addicott, director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University in Texas. He said he hopes the study will prompt the review of laws, such as the PATRIOT Act, which were passed hastily in the panic following the attacks.   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

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• DNA database: Will your DNA get lost, too?: As 25 million people learn that their bank details have gone missing, Helena Kennedy, QC, tells Victoria Lambert of her fight to protect our most personal information - Like all former head girls, there is nothing that Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC, human rights lawyer and social reformer, enjoys more than running a committee and ensuring things are done properly. "I love chairing inquiries," she says, her green eyes warm with a passion others might reserve for golf or opera, "because you learn so much about a subject." A subject like genetics, for instance.

• Brown's chief fundraiser embroiled in sleaze row - The funding scandal engulfing Labour and the Government threatened the career of another senior party figure today after it emerged that Gordon Brown's chief fundraiser may also have known about secret donations totalling more than £600,000. Senior party sources told the BBC that Jon Mendelsohn, Mr Brown's director of general election resources, has known about the clandestine funding arrangement for a month, after being told by Peter Watt, the party's general secretary, who resigned on Monday over the scandal.

Tuesday 27th November 2007: -

• Alleged Trainer Of 9/11 Hijackers a CIA Informant: Sakka attempts to plug holes in 9/11 official story, claims Hanjour did not pilot Flight 77 - The man who claims to have trained six of the 9/11 hijackers is a paid CIA informant according to Turkish intelligence specialists, who also assert that Al-Qaeda is merely the name of a secret service operation designed to foment a strategy of tension around the world. In a London Times report, Louai al-Sakka, now incarcerated in a high-security Turkish prison 60 miles east of Istanbul, claims that he trained six of the 9/11 hijackers at a camp in the mountains near Istanbul from 1999-2000.

• Your fingerprints may soon replace credit cards - Are you afraid that using a credit card for shopping may make you a victim of an ID fraud? Well, now a new technology based on personalised fingerprints is here to address your worries. With the revolutionary new system, which is being introduced in Europe, it will be possible to buy a product by paying through fingerprints. The so called digiPROOF fingerprint payment system is already very popular in Germany. To pay for the product purchased, a customer will have to press his/her finger or thumb on to a scanner at the till, which acts as a register of customers prints and their bank details. The total will then be deducted from the customers account.   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• Facebook and ABC News get political - Facebook and ABC News are to offer a new online destination for election-obsessed social networkers. Today, as reported by The New York Times, the two outfits launched a brand new Facebook application called "US Politics". Integrating with your on-site Facebook profile, this free tool gives you quick access to political reporting from ABC News as well as discussion forums where you debate the campaign issues of the day.

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Sunday 25th November 2007: -

• 9/11 SUITS IN LEGAL LIMBO - The judge overseeing the lawsuits of thousands of sick 9/11 rescue workers says he won't speed up trials for several responders described as being "on death's door." Manhattan federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein refused a request to set early trials for three World Trade Center workers who suffer severe lung disease. "I'm not going to do that," Hellerstein said in court Nov. 16. He later heard details in his chambers about retired NYPD detective Michael Valentin, 43, retired NYPD officer Frank Maisano, 41, and Ground Zero morgue volunteer Mary Bishop, 45. "All three of them are on death's door," lawyer Paul Napoli said.

• OH MY GOD! THEM AMERICANS ARE USING THEIR BRAINS!  HOW DARE THEY... LOCK THEM UP!: 'BLAME U.S. FOR 9/11' IDIOTS IN MAJORITY: 'PLOTS' THICKEN IN SHOCKING POLL - Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the federal government had warnings about 9/11 but decided to ignore them, a national survey found. And that's not the only conspiracy theory with a huge number of true believers in the United States. The poll found that more than one out of three Americans believe Washington is concealing the truth about UFOs and the Kennedy assassination - and most everyone is sure the rise in gas prices is one vast oil-industry conspiracy. Sixty-two percent of those polled thought it was "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that federal officials turned a blind eye to specific warnings of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Only 30 percent said the 9/11 theory was "not likely," according to the Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll.

• Russian police detain 50 anti-Putin protesters - Russian riot police beat opposition activists on Sunday, detaining about 50 people ahead of a march against President Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg, a Reuters reporter said. They were detained when they left the offices of the liberal Yabloko party, in the centre of Russia's second city. Riot police beat about a dozen of them with batons and then pushed nearly 50 activists into waiting buses. "It is very aggressive. I cannot understand why they do these things," Nikita Belykh, leader of the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) party, told Reuters.

• Tamiflu And Relenza Should Have Psychiatric Side Effects Warning, Say Regulators - After receiving reports of patients experiencing delirium, psychosis and hallucinations, US FDA staff recommend that flu drugs, Tamiflu and Relenza should carry warnings about possible side-effects. Tamiflu is made by Roche Holdings, Relenza is made by GSK (GlaxoSmithKline). Tamiflu (oseltamivir) is a pill, while Relenza (zanamivir) is inhaled. Reports from Japan indicate that children, particularly, may have a higher risk of experiencing these psychiatric side effects after receiving the flu drugs. Tamiflu and Relenza are the most common medications used for the treatment of flu. Apart from the said side effects, there have also been reports of deaths.

Friday 23rd November 2007: -

• Confidence in Labour 'plummets' - The Government will face fresh questions over the loss of millions of voters' personal data amid evidence the debacle has helped fuel a massive slump in public confidence. One poll showed those backing Labour's ability to handle economic problems had been more than halved to 28%, with just a quarter deeming Gordon Brown's administration "competent and capable". And another gave the Tories a nine-point overall lead, its strongest position for 15 years, just weeks after Labour enjoyed an 11-point advantage in the same poll.   (COMMENTARY: So... public confidence is down in the British government (Labour, Tory... whatever mask it is wearing today) so brace for convenient 'terror attacks' to get them old approval ratings up again?)

• Fury at new leak from foot and mouth lab - A new foot and mouth scare left ministers facing fresh accusations of incompetence yesterday. Foot and mouth virus was found to have leaked again from the government-licensed laboratory at the centre of the last outbreak in August. The unit is run by the pharmaceutical firm Merial Animal Health at Pirbright scientific research centre in Surrey, which is also home to the Government's Institute for Animal Health. A seepage from the site was blamed for the August outbreak which led to widespread livestock culls and cost the farming industry an estimated £100?million.

• Diana coroner fights paparazzi evidence ruling: Lord Justice Scott Baker has appealed a ruling that photographers must be cross-examined for their evidence to be admitted - The coroner overseeing the inquest into the death of the Princess has appealed against a court ruling that threatens to restrict his power to use evidence from photographers who were at the scene of the fatal crash. Lord Justice Scott Baker’s lawyer told the Court of Appeal that last week’s decision challenging the validity of accepting evidence from photographers who refused to be cross-examined risked seriously disrupting current and future inquests into overseas deaths.

Wednesday 21st November 2007: -

• Diana 'believed her phone calls were monitored' - Diana, Princess of Wales, believed that her phone calls were being monitored in the months before her death, her former private secretary said today. Michael Gibbins also said that he detected disapproval from within the royal household about Diana’s lovers, and said he warned her about the likely ramifications of going on holiday with the al Fayed family, before her relationship with Dodi began. At the inquest into the deaths of the Princess and her companion, Mr Gibbins was asked whether Diana had ever said she feared her calls were being monitored. He replied: “She never expressed that concern but her actions were such, in terms of changing her telephone number, that it was clear that that was a concern to her, yes.”   (RELATED: See our popular Diana Assassination archive.)

• Brown apologises over lost data - Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologised on Wednesday for the tax authority losing the personal details of nearly half the population in an error which has dealt a new blow to his government. The loss in the mail of two computer discs containing data on 25 million people exposed victims to the risk of fraud and is potentially Britain's biggest data security lapse. It also increased pressure on Chancellor Alistair Darling, who was accused by the opposition conservatives of making an appalling blunder and is already under fire over a banking debacle involving mortgage lender Northern Rock.

• Driver Tased For Asking Officer Why He Was Stopped: Man who refused to sign speeding ticket because he did not understand what it was is tased and arrested by officer who then refused to read him his rights - A man was tased and arrested on a Utah highway after being stopped by an officer and refusing to sign a speeding ticket because he did not understand what offence he had committed or why he had been pulled over. The encounter, captured on the police car camera on September 14th and released this week, is the latest in a long string of incidents involving the unacceptable use of Tasers by officers on citizens whom the evidence reveals are in no way threatening, acting unlawfully or resisting co-operation.   (COMMENTARY: Utterly disgusting, officers like this guy give cops a bad name.  And this is what they will do in front of a camera!)

• Goldsmith would have quit over 90-day limit - Tony Blair's Attorney General today revealed that he would have resigned had an extended 90-day pre-charge detention limit been pushed through parliament, and attacked Gordon Brown's plans to tighten anti-terror laws. Lord Goldsmith, formerly the Government's most senior law officer, told MPs that he had seen no evidence to justify holding terror suspects without charge for more than the current 28-day maximum. Mr Brown is believed to want a new limit of around 56 days, an increase opposed by the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and some Labour MPs. "I am sure the reasons for making proposals are based on a genuine belief that it is the right thing to do in protecting the country," Lord Goldsmith told the Home Affairs Select Committee, which is investigating Britain's terror laws. "I do not take the view that, if the proposal was to extend to 56 days, that that is justified by the evidence."

• Sterling hits 4-1/2 yr low vs euro, BoE cuts eyed - Sterling fell to 72 pence per euro for the first time in 4-1/2 years on Wednesday after Bank of England minutes backed expectations that interest rates will be cut before too long. Two of the nine policymakers voted for a cut this month, with the rest backing the on-hold decision, as expected. Analysts were surprised though that John Gieve, the normally hawkish deputy governor, was one of the dissenters. Taken together with recent signs of slowing in Britain's housing market and a dovish BoE inflation report last week, the minutes were seen as backing the case for a rate cut from 5.75 percent early next year or even as soon as December.

• Endgame 1.5: PhD Course In Understanding the Agenda of the Global Elite: Available exclusively to prison planet.tv members next week - If Endgame was the masters degree in understanding the long term goals of the global elite and their quest for world government and population reduction, then Endgame 1.5 is the advanced PhD course - it goes into extensive detail about the origins of the blueprint for global enslavement, what the near to mid-term goals of the Bilderberg Group are, and how long we have to stop their agenda. Endgame 1.5 features bonus footage and extended interviews with experts Michael Coffman, Daniel Estulin and Jim Tucker.

• What JFK Conspiracy Bashers Get Wrong - As the 44th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy approaches, you may get caught up in an eruption of the perennial and sometimes tedious conspiracy debate. You want to keep an open mind and make sure you don’t fall for any JFK assassination myths. You can, for example, say with confidence that a lot of the crazy JFK conspiracy scenarios have been debunked over the years. No, neither the KGB, the Masons, the Mossad, nor the Red Chinese were behind the gunfire that killed the liberal statesman. No, Abraham Zapruder’s famous home movie assassination was not secretly altered to hide evidence of a conspiracy. And, no, the legendary three tramps photographed that day did not whack Jack. They were just a trio of homeless guys in the wrong place at the wrong time. But no sooner were these fables dispatched by scrupulous JFK researchers, than public discourse on the JFK story was engulfed by a new set of assertions imbued with an anti-conspiratorial animus that is also unhinged from the historical record. These too need the truth squad treatment.

Tuesday 20th November 2007: -

• 9/11 Families Counter Giuliani - New York firefighters, including two who lost sons in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, joined other victims' relatives Monday to argue that Rudy Giuliani's character and actions make him unfit to be president. Members of the group, 9/11 Firefighters and Families, long have been vocal critics of Giuliani's performance as New York mayor, but Monday marked their first trip to another state. For his part, Giuliani was in Mission, Texas, discussing border security. "They deserve a legacy of the facts, a true story about what happened to them, our city, and really to our country. That's why we're not going to give up," said a tearful Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son died at the World Trade Center. "We want people to know the truth about Rudy Giuliani running for president as a false hero."

Sunday 18th November 2007: -

• Boys must be boys – for all our sakes: Our uptight, risk-averse world is denying boys the outlets they need to grow up into civilised, successful adults, writes Sue Palmer - Ryan was eight when he tried to kill himself. He saved up his Ritalin tablets until there seemed to be enough for an overdose, then knocked them back and waited to die. Later, after he had been very sick, his mum asked why he had done it. “Because I’m too naughty,” he said. “I’m just a nuisance to everyone.” Ryan is constantly in trouble at school and at home. He has been diagnosed with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), a “developmental disorder” involving problems with concentration and self-control. ADHD did not exist as a medical condition until 40 years ago but is now thought to affect about 5% of the population. The vast majority of sufferers are male.

• In Paul They Trust (The Feds May Differ) - The ardent supporters of Rep. Ron Paul, the iconoclastic Texas libertarian whose campaign for the presidency is threatening to upend the battle for the Republican nomination, got word yesterday of a new source of outrage and motivation: reports of a federal raid on a company that was selling thousands of coins marked with the craggy visage of their hero. Federal agents on Thursday raided the Evansville, Ind., headquarters of the National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act and Internal Revenue Code (Norfed), an organization of "sound money" advocates that for the past decade has been selling a private currency it calls "Liberty Dollars." The company says it has put into circulation more than $20 million in Liberty Dollars, coins and paper certificates it contends are backed by silver and gold stored in Idaho, are far more reliable than a U.S. dollar and are accepted for use by a nationwide underground economy.

• 9/11 Firefighters and Family Members Plot Anti-Giuliani Ad Campaign: Group Considering Swift-Boat-Style Television Attack - A group of 9/11 firefighters and victims' family members with eyes on derailing Republican Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign is close to a decision on forming an entity that would run issue ads in key early nominating states. "TV made him a hero, and we'll use TV to take him down," New York Fire Chief Jim Riches told ABC News. The final decision about the formation of an outside entity will happen sometime within the next few weeks after the group finalizes its plans at a meeting scheduled for after Thanksgiving. So far, though, under Riches' leadership, the group has sought legal guidance and help from political consultants. If the group decides to move forward, it would set up a 527 committee -- or something similar to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which in 2004 helped sink Democratic Sen. John Kerry's White House bid.

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Saturday 17th November 2007: -

• Diabetic in coma shot with Taser out of fear he was suicide bomber - A man who slipped into a diabetic coma on a bus was shot twice with a Taser gun because police mistook him for an Arab suicide bomber. Nicholas Gaubert, 34, had left work and was on his way to meet friends when he suffered a hypoglycaemic attack on the top deck of a bus in Leeds. When he was found slumped in his seat at the end of the journey, clutching a black rucksack, the bus driver became suspicious and an armed police unit was called into action. Firearms officers boarded the empty vehicle, which had arrived at a bus depot, and, when the helpless man was unable to respond to their instructions, they shot him twice with the electric stun gun. When he later came round, handcuffed, in the back of a police van, Mr Gaubert, a call-centre worker, thought initially that he had been kidnapped. He was told that he had been arrested as a suspected terrorist. Only when Mr Gaubert explained that he had diabetes and needed urgent medical attention did the police take him to hospital, where they insisted that he should remain in handcuffs during his treatment. He says that when West Yorkshire Police finally realised they had detained an innocent man, he was offered only a half-hearted apology and told that officers had thought he “looked Egyptian”.

• Giuliani takes liberties on his NYC record: Certain boasts of fiscal gains exaggerate role - As a presidential candidate, Rudy Giuliani recounts his eight-year stint as mayor of New York City as an era of tax-cutting and welfare-slashing, one long fight to tame the city's bureaucratic behemoth. That's basically true, but Giuliani and his campaign exaggerate some facts and ignore many others to hone the point. Giuliani often suggests that he alone was responsible for cutting 23 taxes, but seven of those moves were state initiatives, according to the city's Independent Budget Office. Of the remaining 16 tax reductions, Giuliani actually opposed the largest cut, which was due to come with the expiration of a 12 1/2-percent surcharge on the city's personal income tax. Giuliani proposed extending the levy, generator of several hundred million tax dollars a year, but backed down in a clash with the City Council and the tax relief took effect.

Friday 16th November 2007: -

• State Lawmaker Fights National ID Card - Troubled by the gradual erosion of civil liberties and privacy rights in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, a Pennsylvania state lawmaker has introduced legislation that would exempt Pennsylvania from a federal mandate, imposed by the REAL ID Act, requiring a national identification card. "In the post-9/11 era, there is the sense by some that we should strip away privacy rights, if that's perceived as what's necessary to stave off terrorism," said state Sen. Mike Folmer (R-Lebanon). "A national ID system will redefine privacy as we know it, create a mountain of new bureaucracy and increase fees and taxes - without making us any safer."

• Doctors 'did not check Diana for pregnancy' - The doctor who led the attempts to save the life of Diana, Princess of Wales has dismissed suggestions that his team should have checked whether she was pregnant. Prof Bruno Riou said taking up valuable time to perform an ultrasound scan as the princess lay critically ill would have been disastrous. He also told the inquest into the princess's death that her chances of survival when she was brought into hospital in Paris were almost nil.

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Thursday 15th November 2007: -

• Video shows Polish traveler dying after police Taser - A video released Wednesday shows the dramatic last moments of a Polish immigrant who died after police shocked him with a Taser and restrained him at Vancouver's airport last month. Robert Dziekanski, 40, of Pieszyce, Poland, was tasered and restrained by police on October 14 after going on a rampage out of frustration for waiting 10 hours for his mother. He spoke no English and died minutes later while being attended by an emergency medical team.

• Anti-ID card group gathers support - CAMPAIGNERS fighting plans for ID cards will use street stalls in Worcester to drum up support. The Worcestershire branch of NO2ID condemned the Government scheme at their first meeting at the Portobello, Bransford Road, St John's, Worcester. About 20 people attended the meeting, where the group vowed to mount a campaign against ID cards by setting up Saturday stalls in Worcester to disseminate their views and lobby Home Secretary Jacqui Smith in her Redditch constituency.

• Doctor ordered Diana ambulance to drive slowly - THE ambulance carrying the dying Diana, Princess of Wales, to hospital drove deliberately slowly because of specific doctor's orders, her inquest heard yesterday. The jury has been told of claims the journey through central Paris was prolonged as part of a conspiracy to kill the princess. The coroner, Lord Justice Scott Baker, told the court at the start of the case that questions had also been raised over why Diana was treated at the scene of the crash rather than being taken straight to hospital. In a statement read to the jury yesterday, ambulance driver Michel Massebeuf said he was told staff at the Pitié-Sâlpetrière were ready to receive Diana and that he could not set off until her condition was stable enough." The onboard doctor, Jean-Marc Martino, treated Diana for almost 40 minutes before the ambulance set off.   (RELATED: See our popular Diana Assassination archive.)

Wednesday 14th November 2007: -

• Endgame Soars to Number 3 On Amazon Charts - After our push to vault Endgame up the Amazon rankings in order to expose the vital information contained on the DVD to new people, Endgame is now sitting pretty at number three on the most popular documentaries list. Endgame is now outselling the likes of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, and Michael Moore's Sicko.

• Ambulance driver defends slow Diana journey - The ambulance carrying the dying Diana, Princess of Wales to hospital was deliberately driven slowly due to the severity of her injuries, an inquest heard today. The ambulance driver told the inquest jury that the onboard doctor ordered him to drive slowly in an attempt to save the princess's life. The account of the driver, Michel Massebeuf, contradicted claims that the journey to hospital through central Paris was prolonged as part of a conspiracy to kill Diana.

• No Law Says Parents Have To Get Their Children Vaccinated: Government and media propaganda hoax continues as parents in Maryland hoodwinked and threatened into believing it is the law to vaccinate kids, error-strewn Fox news report relays disinformation - News networks and state authorities are once again engaging in mass public deception by claiming that vaccines for children are mandated by law and that parents will go to jail if kids do not take their shots. In reality, there is no law that says you have to vaccinate your children and waiver forms for personal or religious exemptions are freely available. A situation in Prince George's County, MD. has attracted media attention and once again provided the platform for a propaganda push that falsely implies it is the law for children to be vaccinated with mass produced big pharma shots that are often not stringently tested and have been linked with dangerous side-effects.

• Children who need parents, not pills - As belief in God declines, so children have become our new religion. We shudder at the brutal treatment of youngsters in previous centuries. We don't send nine-year-olds up chimneys like those nasty Victorians, do we? Hell, no. Secretly, we feel superior to our forefathers for whom children were there to be 'seen but not heard'. Our little darlings are so protected they are not allowed to climb a tree without a full St John's Ambulance crew in attendance. They are our hope of the life to come. We would do absolutely anything for our kids. Yet I wonder what future generations will make of the fact that this child-worshipping country of ours drugged thousands of its youngsters up to the eyeballs to keep them quiet? Half-a-million British children are now said to suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. When I was growing up, ADHD was still called Being A Bit of a Handful. Last year in Britain, 55,000 children were prescribed drugs such as Ritalin for hyperactivity or ADHD.

• Britain to toughen security at stations and airports: Brown to unveil anti-terror plans - Plans to protect public places, railway stations and other key buildings from terrorist attacks are due to be launched by the prime minister. The security minister, Lord West, was asked to draw up the proposals after the summer's attempted bombings in London and at Glasgow Airport. Gordon Brown warned that attacks could hit "anywhere and from any place". He is also due to unveil a report on a planned border force which combines immigration, customs and visa staff.

Tuesday 13th November 2007: -

• Hillary Clinton May Have A Problem With Women - In response to Peggy Noonan's column "Things Are Tough All Over," Leisure & Arts, Nov. 10, Hillary Clinton is no Margaret Thatcher, no Barbara Jordan or any of a myriad of strong women of achievement. I believe Hillary's strong supporters see her as an educated woman of high achievement, a leader, a strong woman. They aren't familiar with the tens of thousands of high achieving, educated women who have achieved on their own merit, by their own sweat and intelligence. In my opinion, one or more of those women should be running for president, not Hillary, who leans heavily on her husband's experience, not her own. Her key experiences seem to be as first lady of Arkansas and the U.S., as attorney crafting advice that turned into the Whitewater scandal and as a U.S. senator who is in lock-step with President Bush on the key issue that divides America. Ms. Clinton, or rather, Mrs. Bill Clinton, hasn't a clue what a true feminist is.

Monday 12th November 2007: -

• Truckloads of U.S. weapons have gone missing in Iraq - As the insurgency in Iraq escalated in the spring of 2004, U.S. officials entrusted an Iraqi businessman with issuing weapons to Iraqi police cadets training to help quell the violence. By all accounts, the businessman, Kassim al-Saffar, a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, did well at distributing the Pentagon-supplied weapons from the Baghdad Police Academy armory he managed for a military contractor. But, co-workers say, he also turned the armory into his own private arms bazaar with the seeming approval of some U.S. officials and executives, selling AK-47s, Glock pistols and heavy machine guns to anyone with cash in hand — Iraqi militias, South African security guards and even American contractors.

• ID scans making mark on retailers - Biometric identity authentication systems are rapidly being introduced into retail transactions, changing the way we pay for goods and services. As concerns about credit card and identity theft have grown, financial institutions and retailers have sought more secure methods to protect themselves and their customers from losses. Radio frequency identification tags embedded within cards allow the user to simply swipe or wave the card before a reader, which then completes the transaction. Although speeding the purchasing process, RFID cards still can be lost or stolen. A number of firms have introduced biometric authentication systems to the market. For example, 3.5 million consumers use biometric systems from the company Pay By Touch at more than 3,000 retail outlets, including gasoline stations and supermarket chains Jewel-Osco and Albertson’s.   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• Ritalin of no long-term benefit, study finds - Research released today raises questions about the long-term effectiveness of drugs used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A team of American scientists conducting the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD (MTA) has found that while drugs such as Ritalin and Concerta can work well in the short term, over a three-year period they brought about no demonstrable improvement in children's behaviour. They also found the drugs could stunt growth. The research, which will be broadcast on the BBC Panorama programme tonight, shows that GPs in the UK prescribed ADHD drugs such as Ritalin and Concerta to around 55,000 children last year – at a cost of £28m to the NHS.

• BBC To Apologize For 9/11 Truth Hit Piece?: Scandal-hit network desperately scrambles to offset legal action over lies and bias in February 2007 documentary - The BBC could be forced to apologize and admit mass public deception for airing a documentary on the 9/11 truth movement that was clearly riddled with errors, lies and bias, as the scandal-hit corporation desperately squirms to avoid a potential court case brought by a British scientist. John A. Blacker, a qualified physicist & mechanical engineer and a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice, is currently engaged in a pre-action protocol with the BBC in an attempt to settle out of court and get an apology from the broadcaster as well as a guarantee that the program will never be shown on television again. In a letter to the BBC, Blacker cites a catalogue of errors, distortions and outright lies that were contained in the program, arguing that the documentary is an insult to those that lost their lives on 9/11.   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• NFL Star Considered 9/11 a False Flag From Day One: Super Bowl winner and former Dallas Cowboys ace Stepnoski goes further during radio interview - Former Dallas Cowboys Super-Bowl winner and five time Pro Bowler Mark Stepnoski said in a radio interview yesterday (Thursday) that anybody who still believes the official story of 9/11 is either incredibly naive or in complete denial, as he revealed how he considered the event to be a possible false flag operation on the very day it happened. Stepnoski went public in an interview with the Pennsylvania based Erie-Times newspaper on Sunday, but during an interview on The Alex Jones Show he went further and revealed that his questions about 9/11 began on the very day of the attacks.

• 5,000 'illegals' work in security - About 5,000 illegal immigrants were mistakenly cleared to work as security staff, the Home Office has said. The Metropolitan Police confirmed that some of those who were not properly vetted by the Security Industry Authority had been working for them. Ministers ordered fresh checks on 40,000 people after it emerged the SIA was not checking applicants could work in the UK before granting licences. The Conservatives described the Home Office as "still not fit for purpose". According to the Sunday Mirror, illegal immigrants were also working at airports and ports.

Sunday 11th November 2007: -

• New Study Released On Respiratory Problems For 9/11 Workers - A new study released this month shows state employees who worked at the World Trade Center site after the toxic dust cloud cleared are suffering from the same respiratory problems as workers who were there during the actual September 11th terrorist attacks – just to a lower degree. The study by the New York State Department of Health looked at more than 1,400 state police, National Guard members, and state Department of Transportation workers, including 110 who were in the dust cloud when the Twin Towers fell. Of those studied, one-third arrived during the first two days after the attacks and 57 percent arrived before Sept. 16, 2001.

• Millions undergo background checks under post-9/11 laws - Already this year, 25 million Americans have had background checks by the federal government, a number that's risen every year since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Amid the rise, a notable shift has occurred: More civilians are now checked each year than criminals. And checks on the vast majority come back clean, even as states allot more money for their growing screening operations. And, in rare cases, predators still slip through the cracks. Take Timothy Stephen Keil, an Ohio church camp counselor recently convicted of molesting two young boys. Or Ralph Fiscale, a New Hampshire soccer coach, and Stephen Unger Jr., a Texas schoolteacher, both of whom committed similar offenses in the past year. All were either not run through a check by their superiors, or they passed one. Civil libertarians say the tradeoffs of such a system, built largely through state mandates enacted since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, have become too high.

• PROBLEM > REACTION > SOLUTION: 9/11 angered man enough to enlist - The Pisczek residence is filled with seasonal decorations. A variety of red, gold and orange leaves are intertwined with wreaths, candles and pumpkins. A fragrant spicy aroma fills the lower level of the home while laughter from the second floor bedrooms filters downstairs. The household was much different last year. The holiday season wasn't going to be shared by everyone as the family patriarch was serving overseas, fulfilling both a personal mission and one ordered by the nation's commander in chief. When the two commercial airliners crashed into the New York Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, like Americans across the country, Uniontown resident Jaison Pisczek was angry. It took a couple of years for the 1990 Connellsville Area Senior High School graduate to decide just what he should do, but in 2004 he made up his mind and enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve.

• The helmet that will give fighter pilots X-ray vision - This is the helmet that will also the next generation of fighter jet pilots to see through their own aircraft. Honestly. The head gear is being developed for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter(JSF) and is currently being tested by Ministry of Defence scientists at Boscombe Down in Wiltshire. An MoD spokesman said: “Unlike other jet aircraft the JSF, which is planned to replace the Harrier, does not have a traditional head-up display. Instead the computerised symbology will be displayed directly on to the pilot’s visors, providing the pilot with cues for flying, navigating and fighting the aircraft. “It even will superimpose infra-red imagery on to the visor to allow the pilot to look through the cockpit floor at night and see the world below - like something out of Terminator. This is absolutely the cutting edge of technology. No other helmet will be able to do this.”

• UK’s MI5 to create DNA database of terror suspects - British intelligence outfit MI5 is to create a database of DNA samples taken from terror suspects. According to The Sun, the new law will allow the intelligence service to collect and use the vital data gathered from those they fear are plotting outrages. The DNA will be collected from fingerprints, saliva samples taken from used glasses, cigarette butts and other everyday objects. MI5 will then be able to run the samples against the national DNA database. Premier Gordon Brown believes it will be a vital tool in the war on homegrown terrorists. And it will end the farce of police refusing to share DNA samples taken from known suspects.   (COMMENTARY: That's right, its a farce that the police refuse to share DNA samples with a secretive and demonstratably unaccountable agency that has a proven track record of funding and aiding terrorism and political assassination for it's own ends... a farce I tell you!)

• Facebook staff spy on punters - ALTHOUGH the social networking site, Facebook makes a great deal about protecting its punters' privacy, its own staff flout the rules as a perk of the job. According to online gossip magazine, ValleyWag, Facebook employees check out people they fancy and look at which profiles they have viewed. In other words Facebook knows if you are obsessed with a workmate or classmate. They could be leaking some juicy gossip to the tabloids about the stars who have an account.

Saturday 10th November 2007: -

• Hillary Denies Attending Bilderberg, Confirms Bill Did - Members of Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth recently asked Hillary Clinton about her attendance at the 2006 Bilderberg Meeting-- which she emphatically denied. She laughed uncomfortably before declaring that she had "no idea what they were talking about" at Bilderberg Meetings since she "wasn't there." However, she did acknowledge that Bill Clinton had attended in 1992, but maintained that she herself had never been. This denial goes against reports from insiders at the Brookstreet Hotel in Ottawa who claimed she attended the 2006 meeting for one day. Witnesses saw a number of vehicles which unloaded in back loading dock, away from the public's view, including a stretch limousine with U.S. diplomatic plates.

• Cost of ID card and passport rises to £100 - The cost of providing an identity card combined with a new-generation biometric passport has now passed the £100 mark as the latest official estimate yesterday put the total price tag of the scheme at £5.6bn over the next 10 years. James Hall, chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service, yesterday indicated that people applying for identity cards from 2009 might have to give their fingerprints in post offices and travel agents, on top of the network of 70 new ID card offices. He disclosed that negotiations were starting to find private outlets to supplement the national network of ID card and passport offices being built across the country.

• Seminole holds off on use of finger scans at 2 schools - Plans to speed up cafeteria lunch lines by using fingerprint scanners at two Seminole County schools were temporarily shelved Thursday after parents complained that the machines intrude on their children's privacy and make them vulnerable to identity theft. Superintendent Bill Vogel said he had "indefinitely" delayed installation of finger scanners in lunchrooms at Hagerty High in Oviedo and Millennium Middle in Sanford. The Hagerty scanners were to be in use as early as today, and Millennium was to have followed before the end of the month. The scanners might go in all county schools later. "We are putting this on hold until we can clarify any public questions or concerns that might exist," Vogel said.

• New law could make gay jokes illegal - The right to crack jokes or be rude about homosexuals could fall victim to new government laws to stamp out "homophobic" behaviour, Rowan Atkinson, the Blackadder star warned yesterday. Atkinson, who mounted a successful campaign in 2004 to water down legislation aimed at criminalising expressions of religious hatred, has returned to the fray to defend the art of gay leg-pulling.

• Attacking elderly is a hate crime, courts told - Criminals who target the elderly are to be treated more harshly by the courts, the Crown Prosecution Service has announced. New guidelines say offences against old people should be dealt with in the same way as "hate" crimes that are motivated by racism or homophobia.

• Rove Decries ‘Nutty’ ‘Vitriolic’ Bloggers Who Spew ‘Bad Words’ - Yesterday, ThinkProgress attended a Yahoo-sponsored Citizen 2.0 event in Washington, DC, at which Karl Rove discussed the intersection of politics and the Internet. Rove lamented the loss of civility in politics on the web, but then proceeded to use his speech as a partisan bashing of the netroots. According to Rove, bloggers are “nutty,” “vitriolic,” and “kooks.” The Washington Times reported on his remarks.

• Ex-Giuliani aide denies corruption - A former New York police commissioner has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges, including tax evasion and receiving benefits from a company suspected of links to organised crime. Bernard Kerik, who was an aide to Rudi Giuliani, the former New York mayor standing for the Republican presidential nomination, was released on bail on Friday. "This is a battle I'm going to fight," Kerik said outside the federal courthouse in White Plains, just north of New York City.   (COMMENTARY: 'Giuliani' and 'corruption' in the same sentence... who would have thought?)

• Former Arizona Governor Fife Symington: I saw a UFO in the Arizona sky - In 1997, during my second term as governor of Arizona, I saw something that defied logic and challenged my reality. I witnessed a massive delta-shaped, craft silently navigate over Squaw Peak, a mountain range in Phoenix, Arizona. It was truly breathtaking. I was absolutely stunned because I was turning to the west looking for the distant Phoenix Lights. To my astonishment this apparition appeared; this dramatically large, very distinctive leading edge with some enormous lights was traveling through the Arizona sky.

• WEATHER CHANNEL Founder: Global Warming 'Greatest Scam in History' - If the founder of The Weather Channel spoke out strongly against the manmade global warming myth, might media members notice? We're going to find out the answer to that question soon, for John Coleman wrote an article published at ICECAP Wednesday that should certainly garner attention from press members -- assuming journalism hasn't been completely replaced by propagandist activism, that is. It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create in [sic] allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the "research" to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus.

• Lawyer Ridicules Diana Conspiracy Theory - A senior accident investigator and another expert cast doubt Thursday on the theory that the high-speed car crash which resulted in Princess Diana's death had been staged. Anthony Read, a senior accident investigator for the London force, said at an inquest into the deaths of Diana and boyfriend Dodi Fayed that staging such a collision, even under controlled conditions, would have been difficult. "It really is a nonstarter," Read said. Those involved "in the venture would have to understand and have to have accepted the very real possibility that they would be seriously injured if not killed themselves."    (RELATED: See our popular Diana Assassination archive.)

• Sibel Edmonds Case: the untellable story of AIPAC - Last week, former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, announced that she was willing to tell everything that she knows if any of the major networks are willing to give her airtime, without airbrushing the essence of her case. Bradblog will have an update on the progress, or lack of it, next week. Of course, Sibel would prefer to testify under oath in congress, but apparently our Democratic Congresscritters (I’m looking at you, Waxman) don’t care about the treason, bribery, and corruption that has hijacked US foreign policy. Meanwhile, last week we learnt that the judge in the AIPAC case has allowed subpoenas to be issued to 15 current and former high-level officials. Many of us are excited about the prospect of the trial - but Sibel assures us that the case, as it stands, is just the tip of the iceberg. ‘AIPAC’ is at the core of Sibel’s case, and Sibel’s story needs to be heard - either in Congress, or in the media.   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• Government's 9/11 Investigators Were ALSO Lead OKC Bombing Investigators - Would you be surprised to learn that the exact same investigators who headed up the government's investigation into the World Trade Center collapses and the Pentagon attack on 9/11 also headed up the government's investigation into the Oklahoma City bombing? The WTC collapses, Pentagon attack and OKC bombing involved assessments of entirely different kinds of structures inflicted with different kinds of damage. And there are 1.5 million engineers in the U.S., many of them highly-qualified to investigate attacks and their damage. And yet the authors of the official report on the Murrah Federal Building -- Gene Corley, Charles Thornton, Paul Mlaker, and Mete Sozen -- were all among the initial team of the American Society of Civil Engineers' 9/11 investigation. Several of these individuals have strong connections to industries that benefited from the attack, and that would suffer if it were known that 9/11 was an inside job, such as armaments makers and oil and gas producers.

• LOOSE CHANGE CIRCULAR: Final Cut PreOrders Now!

Dear Loose Change Supporter,

A reminder that at 12:01 AM EST on November 11, 2007 (Sunday), we will be launching our new site, new store, and several new products. We will be offering Final Cut as an online stream for $6.95. We will be adding a trilogy pack of Loose Change 1,2, and 3 for $44.95 (shipping in December).

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• CIRCULAR: Loose Change News 11.07.2007 - Screening

LC Supporter,

We're busy getting geared up for the big release this weekend (more news on that coming tomorrow).  In the meantime, we wanted to let you know about a world premiere of Loose Change Final Cut on November 11th (Sunday) in Minneapolis, Minnesota.   Jason  Bermas will be at the Riverview Theater at 4:30 PM to speak to the audience and take questions after the film.  We hope that if you're in the area, you'll come support the movement.  Tickets are available for advance purchase at the Riverview Theater Box Office.  Visit http://www.airamericaminnesota.com/node/1964 for more information.  Also, if you want to hear the radio commercial for this event, please visit http://lc911.com/radio .

Spread the truth.  We hope to see some of you in Minneapolis!

-The LC Team

Thursday 08th November 2007: -

• Met boss defiant over Assembly vote - Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair has defied a vote of no confidence by London politicians and insisted he will not resign. The UK's most senior officer remained at the centre of a political storm in the wake of the death of Jean Charles de Menezes. Members of the London Assembly passed an unprecedented vote of no confidence at the end of a marathon bad-tempered clash between Sir Ian's allies and critics.

• The 9/11 shadow on the 2008 election - Even on a bitterly cold November day, visitors to the Flight 93 memorial deep in rural Pennsylvania arrive in their dozens. They bow their heads in contemplation as they pay their respects to the 59 passengers and crew who died on September 11, 2001 – and began America’s fight back against the jihadists. The events of 9/11 play significant if largely silent backdrop to the 2008 race for the White House. Rudy Giuliani, the Republican front runner and New York’s mayor that day, refers to his role much less frequently than before. Hillary Clinton, the New York senator, also mentions it only rarely.

• Sikh girl, 14, suspended for wearing religious bangle - A Sikh teenager has been suspended from school for refusing to remove a religious bangle. The parents of Sarika Singh, 14, are now considering a legal challenge against the school, a girls’ comprehensive school in Aberdare, South Wales, that taught the girl “in isolation” for nine weeks before excluding her. Jane Rosser, the headmistress of Aberdare Girls’ School, said that the code of conduct permitted only two items of jewellery, a watch and a pair of plain metal stud earrings. The school bans all visible religious symbols, including Christian crosses and Muslim headscarves. Miss Singh has won the backing of the Valleys Race Equality Council and her parents are now considering a challenge in the High Court.

Wednesday 07th November 2007: -

• CBS Labels Ron Paul a "Meaningless Fruitcake" With "No Chance" Of Winning: Kevin Drum channels South Park's Officer Barbrady: "Nothing to see here folks. Move along..." - Despite a general begrudging acceptance amongst a large swathe of the corporate media that Ron Paul is a real contender for the Republican nomination following the hugely successful November 5th "money bomb" campaign, a CBS News op-ed piece today labels the Texas Congressman a "meaningless" "fruitcake" with "no chance" of winning. The article is entitled Ron Paul, Fruitcake and its writer, Kevin Drum, attempts to make the point that anyone who even expresses an interest in the Congressman's campaign is a "political infant" who needs to "grow up". In reality, it's Drum who needs to grow up - his four paragraph whine reads like the literary equivalent of a baby throwing its toys out of a playpen.

• Eventually all DNA will be recorded - IN the 12 years since the national DNA database was inaugurated, our four police forces have contributed to it more than 260,000 profiles, we learn, courtesy of figures obtained by the Welsh Lib Dems. This figure amounts to getting on for 10% of the resident population, if indeed these are the people recorded. So either we have a very large criminal population or a very large criminal population is offending and being caught in Wales. Over one fifth of these 260,000-plus bio-samples were taken by North Wales police, averaging just over 4,500 per year, not far-off 13 per day – and far more than this in recent years as the original rate increased tenfold from 620 in 1995 to 6,000 or so last year.

• Data sharing plans in Queen's speech: