Thursday 27th November 2008: -

• Britain can’t afford ID cards - For the first time since 1952, the British government is issuing identity cards. In order to test the system and ease its introduction, there is to be a cynical requirement for foreign nationals resident in the UK to register. To begin with, this will affect students and the foreign spouses of British citizens. The fact that they already possess an identity document - a passport and/or a visa - does not seem to enter into the Government’s thinking, principally because they are guinea pigs. Over time, residents from outside Europe will be fingerprinted and have to account for their movements. Starting in 2010, so will the rest of us.

• Microsoft Corporation Censors 9/11 Dissent - Xbox Live is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service created and operated by Microsoft Corporation. They refer this platform as “the Ultimate Broadband Gaming Experience,” accessible on the Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles. After reaching 10 Million users, I decided to change my GamerTag (GT) to disseminate 9/11 truth to the console gaming world. About a a month ago, I changed my GT to www911TRUTHorg. Utilizing the headset, every time I entered a new game lobby I spoke to the other users in the “room” about the 9/11 Truth Movement. The responses varied: most people ridiculed or mocked the GT, while the others either commented with approval/praise, or said nothing at all. Either way, BOTH the nay-sayers and fellow truthers listened to what I had to say. In fact, many times the conversation of the game would revolve entirely around 9/11, the Global War on Terror, corporate war profiteering, the destruction of our civil liberties, etc… It was a great method of cyber-activism, until Microsoft caught on!

• 9/11 Truth Skipton and West Yorkshire Truth Campaign Meetings: -

LEEDS Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 7.30pm - 9:30pm: held at the Original Oak Pub, Headingley, Leeds LS6 2DG. Meeting location and directions

SKIPTON Thursday 4th December 2008, 8.00pm: held at The Narrowboat Pub, 38 Victoria Street, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 1JE. Meeting location and directions

(RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• Cynthia McKinney Prevented From Leaving U.S.: Former congresswoman stopped from boarding plane in Atlanta - Former Congresswoman and presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney has been prevented from leaving the country after she planned to give a speech in Damascus Syria at a Conference being held to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “Today, November 23rd, I was slated to give remarks in Damascus, Syria at a Conference being held to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and, sadly, the 60th year that the Palestinian people have been denied their Right of Return enshrined in that Universal Declaration. But a funny thing happened to me while at the Atlanta airport on my way to the Conference: I was not allowed to exit the country,” writes McKinney. “I do believe that it was just a misunderstanding,” she adds, though why a well known former Georgia congresswoman who represented Atlanta, the city in which she was born, would not be allowed to board a plane raises disturbing questions. Has McKinney been put on a terrorist watch list merely for speaking out in support of 9/11 first responders and passionately questioning the official 9/11 story? As many will recall, McKinney was perhaps the first major public figure to doubt the official version of events way back in 2002, which at the time was tantamount to treason. McKinney has since become a vocal advocate for the 9/11 truth movement and appeared at numerous 9/11 truth conference and events.

Cynthia McKinney with a couple of our guys for a 9/11 Truth related lecture at Leeds Met Uni back in 2007.

• America Was Informed Of 9/11 America was informed of the attack by Egyptian and Russian agents: Several meetings were postponed at WTC - Nobody has been charged or punished for ignoring the alleged warnings about the attack on the “Twins”, the WTC on September 11, 2001 yet. Who knew and how did the USA react, i.e. why did it not react? Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian President, claims the Egyptian secret services warned their American colleagues at the beginning of September 2001 that al Qaeda was preparing an air strike on an American target, on American territory.

• Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says False-flag Terrorism an Imaginary Threat: Philly 9/11 Truth Video - View transcript of the entire event conveniently on the Dept. of Homeland Security’s website http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/speeches/sp_1224524493787.shtm

• India, Corporate Media Moves To Frame Pakistan For Suspicious Attacks: Perfect pretext for continued bombing raids, increase in U.S. military aggression as promised by President elect Barack Obama - “official story” is manufactured around contradictions and lies - As we predicted would happen in our early report yesterday, Indian government authorities are now blaming Pakistan for being behind the ongoing attacks in Mumbai, providing a perfect pretext for expanded U.S. military aggression against a country that is also a target for President elect Barack Obama. As we outlined yesterday, “With the corporate media desperate to pin the blame in order to score much needed propaganda points for the ailing war on terror, suspicion is likely to fall on Pakistan, a country that President elect Barack Obama openly threatened during his presidential campaign.”

• UK marines killed in Afghanistan - Two Royal Marines have been killed in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has said. They died after their foot patrol near Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, came under fire from insurgents. Both served with 42 Commando Royal Marines. Next of kin have been informed and have asked for a period of grace before further details are released. Their deaths bring the number of UK forces killed in Afghanistan since the start of operations in 2001 to 128.

Tuesday 25th November 2008: -

• UK: Protests in city over ID cards - STUDENTS were due to hold protests in Liverpool today to mark the introduction of the government’s controversial ID card scheme. They aim to draw attention to the effect the introduction of ID cards will have on overseas students and wider society. The protests will take place outside the processing centre at Reliance House, Water Street, and will coincide with demonstrations in Birmingham, Cardiff, London, Glasgow and Sheffield. Campaign groups, including No Borders and NO2ID, are also expected to take part in the city protests.

• Exploding costs of UK ID cards - NORMAN Tebbit once told Dennis Skinner: "Far better to keep your mouth shut and let everyone think you're stupid than to open it and leave no doubt." That famous put down came to my mind last Wednesday in the Scottish Parliament when listening to the contribution of one MSP — and indeed the sole "noble" MSP to the debate we had on the massive waste of money that is the UK Government's proposed identity card scheme. The costs of this scheme have exploded — now standing, the Home Office have said, at over £5000 million over the next 10 years. (Yes — that is no misprint — it will cost over five billion pounds). But even that huge amount of taxpayers' cash — almost enough to buy a bank — does not include fees that every one of us must pay for joining the scheme. And some critics say the final bill will be £18 billion pounds!

• Scottish government rejects ID cards - The Scottish Parliament has voted against plans to introduce ID cards. MSPs backed a motion which asserted the ID card scheme would not increase security or deter crime, and would have serious implications for civil liberties. Labour MSPs did not back the motion. They said the Scottish parliament should use its time to debate issues it has power over. The motion was passed with 68 votes to one, with 38 abstentions. The motion was put forward by the Community Safety minister Fergus Ewing, SNP member for Iverness. He said during the debate that ID cards, with or without biometrics, do not deter terrorist activity and that the vast majority of terrorists operate under their true identities.

• UK Police to be armed with stun guns - Up to 30,000 police officers across all forces in England and Wales are to be trained to use Taser stun guns. Currently, only specialist firearms officers carry the weapon, which can temporarily disable a suspect. Now the government has announced plans to buy 10,000 more Tasers and extend their use to all frontline officers. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said police needed tools to protect themselves and the public. Amnesty International is warning against using Tasers routinely. The Home Office plans to spend £8m on 10,000 new Tasers.

• VIDEO: The men behind Barack Obama Part 1 - Especially in politics it is of the utmost importance to try to look behind the facade: who makes up the team of the presidential candidate? The future president of the United States of America is for a large part dependent on and being fed by his team of advisors and future cabinet members. Webster Tarpley wrote a book on the men and women behind presidential hopeful Barack Obama. He argues that there is more to Obama than his charismatic appearance and that some of his advisors pose a danger to the US and the world in case Obama might be elected to become the next US president. Whether Tarpleys view is correct for now is a matter of opinion and remains to be seen, but for the public debate it is relevant to take note of his facts and arguments. Therefor DeepJournal interviewed Webster Tarpley on the topic of his recently published book Obama, The Postmodern Coup,The Making of a Manchurian Candidate.

Part 2 of the video is available here.

Sunday 23rd November 2008: -

• Britain pays out £700,000 in compensation to civilian casualties in Afghanistan - Britain has paid out £700,000 in "compensation" to civilians who have become casualties of the war being fought in southern Afghanistan. Details obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that between April 2006 to October 2008, the British government made 858 ex-gratia payment to Afghan civilians who either had family members killed or injured in fighting between the Taliban and British troops or whose property had been damaged. A total of £90,000 has been paid to Afghans who have been injured or the families of those killed in fighting in Helmand.

• £1,000 fine for not updating ID card - The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has announced that ID card holders could face fines of up to £1,000 if they fail to keep their personal details on the National Identity Register (NIR) up to date. Alongside the launch of the consultation for the secondary legislation needed for the enforcement of the National Identity Scheme (NIS), the Home Office also announced that users will face fines if they do not update their personal details. The IPS said that penalties will only be applied if someone consistently fails to provide an update. They will begin at £125 and could rise towards £1,000 for persistent offenders.

• UK ID cards: a waste of time and money - While we've been fretting about the credit crunch and John Sergeant's disappearance from Strictly, the government has been steadily making more inroads into our personal freedoms. The first ID cards are being issued to foreign nationals in the UK at the end of November, with marriage visa holders and non-European Union students being the first to receive the cards. That's just the beginning. Workers at some airports - Manchester and London City airports - will be required to carry ID cards as well and home secretary Jacqui Smith told a sympathetic think tank last week that the first cards might be available to UK volunteers from next year.

• UK: CCTV to go live in two towns - An enhanced CCTV system which will see a total of 60 cameras being monitored across Shropshire’s two biggest towns will go “live” next week. Telford & Wrekin Council and Shrewsbury & Atcham Borough Council have joined forces as part a project to enhance Telford’s existing CCTV system. It means 60 cameras, including some already in place in Shrewsbury and others in Telford, will be monitored from Shrewsbury’s existing control room. Mobile CCTV technology will also be used to respond and clamp down on local “hot spots” of activity through the scheme, following a £260,000 investment.

• UK Councils to be banned from using anti-terror powers to snoop on people who overfill bins or drop litter - The Government is planning action to stop local councils using surveillance powers designed for terrorism and serious crime to deal with trivial offences like dog-fouling, a Home Office minister said today. Vernon Coaker admitted that council snooping on people who overfill bins or drop litter was undermining public support for the anti-terror law, and promised action 'in the near future'. Mr Coaker also defended the scale of the national DNA database, which contains samples from 7.39 per cent of the UK population - more than in any other country in the world - and includes those detained by police but released without charge.

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• The 2000 Cole bombing: Warm-up for the 9/11 false flag attack?: Connect the dots - There was no DNA evidence linking the Moslem patsies to it, there were no traceable boat parts, friendly vessels "just happened" to be close by, the ship was quickly sent back to the US for repair with no real investigation, there was no video from the destroyer itself despite all of its high security, alleged Yemeni CCTV video doesn't even show the explosion, the armed sentries were all on stand down and could only have fired first with orders from the captain or another officer, the bombs went off near the galley at lunchtime, the very hallmark of an inside job, many eyewitnesses and the mainstream media were clearly in on it (some even reported that the sailors on deck were talking with the Moslem patsies on the alleged boat before the bombs went off, and you can't converse with a hologram), the June, 2001 video of bin Laden bragging about it is an obvious fake, FBI agents were rushed over there to start the cover-up operation immediately, and the friendly Yemeni government didn't even have any alleged acomplices to turn over to us and isn't holding any of them now, proving that we tried to frame them.

• Let the BBC beware of the wrath of suburbia - THE hash Newsnight made of covering the effects of the recession in suburbia shows more tellingly than the Ross affair the depth of the trouble the BBC is in. Instead of understanding that the middle classes also experience anger and despair when the redundancy slip comes, Alex Ritson arrived in Surbiton and gurgled: "It's real! I thought for years that Surbiton had been made up by some BBC executive for a Seventies sitcom like The Good Life or Reggie Perrin, but it's real!" In 1989, New York jurors sent down the notorious hotel magnate Leona Helmsley for saying: "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes." Ritson's mock-shocked condescension is from the same stable. Who would believe it? Little people living in boring semis in joke towns. Look at them worrying about redundancy while always knowing that they must pay my salary, even if their jobs and homes go. Yes, all right, you don't have to remind me that the BBC does much fine work. Hard-won experience has also taught me that all journalists make mistakes, which was why I couldn't get excited about Ross and Brand.

Tuesday 18th November 2008: -

• Howard Zinn: “I Don’t Care” If 9/11 Was An Inside Job: Another gatekeeper illustrates the intellectual cowardice of the establishment left - World renowned peace activist and left-wing anti-war icon Howard Zinn recently told an audience that he didn’t care if 9/11 was an inside job, echoing the disdainful and apathetic rhetoric of fellow liberal gatekeepers Noam Chomsky and Alexander Cockburn in dismissing the efforts of the 9/11 truth movement. Buddy Moore, Independent Candidate for US Senate in Colorado, asked Zinn if he would join him in voicing doubts about the official 9/11 story and in particular the demolition of the twin towers and Building 7. Zinn said he was skeptical of the official story but then stated, “I don’t know much about the situation and the truth is, I don’t care that much about it, that’s passed….that’s a diversion from what we really have to do,” adding that debating who was behind 9/11, “gets in the way of dealing with the immediate situation”. Moore attempted to ask Zinn a follow up question about allowing the perpetrators to go free but was largely shouted down by Zinn’s fawning army of left-wing sycophants.

• UK Pilots threaten to strike over ID cards - The first wave of ID cards to be issued to British citizens has prompted airline pilots to threaten a strike rather than accept the documents. Aviation workers have warned that proposals to make airport staff register for the cards from next year would do little to improve security. The British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa), which represents 10,000 of the 12,000 commercial pilots and flight engineers in Britain, said its members were being treated as "guinea pigs". Jim McAuslan, Balpa's general secretary, said the Government's "early warning system should be flashing" over opposition to the plans.

• UK: Heating poverty deadly for the elderly - AS winter weather begins to bite, bitterly cold temperatures, chilling wind and relentless rain bring on the usual inconveniences of coughs, colds and sore throats and, for some people, more serious health conditions such as bronchitis, influenza and hypothermia. This winter many of Scotland's older people will be at even greater risk of winter ills as they have to choose whether to "heat or eat". With the recent rocketing fuel and household bills this means that for many of Scotland's pensioners that stark choice is now a reality. Figures recently released by Age Concern suggest that as many as two-thirds (66 per cent) of pensioners are cutting back on the amount of gas and electricity they are using, more than half (52 per cent) are already buying less or poorer quality food, and 49 per cent are planning on cutting back their heating this winter because of fears about bills being higher than they can afford.

Monday 17th November 2008: -

• IPCC Scientists Caught Producing False Data To Push Global Warming: Al Gore-linked Goddard Institute claimed “hottest October on record” after using temperature figures from September - Climate scientists allied with the IPCC have been caught citing fake data to make the case that global warming is accelerating, a shocking example of mass public deception that could spell the beginning of the end for the acceptance of man-made climate change theories. On Monday, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.

• Obama to Fund Forced Abortions - De-funded during the Bush Administration, US money for the UN Population Fund that supports China’s policy of coercive abortion will flow again during the Obama Administration, say supporters. Supporters of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) are confident that President-elect Barack Obama will reverse the Bush administration’s 2002 decision to stop the $40 million it received in U.S. funding. The policy was instated because of UNFPA’s support for China’s one-child policy, which includes coercive abortion practices. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D – N.Y.) said the funding will be approved by the Democratic majority Congress. Her comments came while speaking Wednesday at a press conference at the National Press Club where the 2008 U.N. report on world population was released.

• Brown may press ahead with organ donor law, despite ruling of advisers - Gordon Brown has refused to rule out a change in the law that may see everyone considered as a potential organ donor, despite the recommendations of his advisers today. The opt-out system of organ donation should not be introduced as it could undermine patients’ confidence in medical care, the UK Organ Donation Taskforce said. The system of “presumed consent”, as used in Spain and other countries, was unlikely to boost donation rates, as The Times revealed on Friday. A £4.5 million public awareness campaign in England will start next year with the aim of boosting the number of people on the voluntary organ donation register.

• Gulf War illness is real, new federal report says - An extensive federal report released Monday concludes that roughly one in four of the 697,000 U.S. veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness. That illness is a condition now identified as the likely consequence of exposure to toxic chemicals, including pesticides and a drug administered to protect troops against nerve gas. The 452-page report states that "scientific evidence leaves no question that Gulf War illness is a real condition with real causes and serious consequences for affected veterans." The report, compiled by a panel of scientific experts and veterans serving on the congressionally mandated Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses, fails to identify any cure for the malady.

• Ireland May Back EU Lisbon Treaty in Second Vote - Ireland may back the European Union's Lisbon Treaty in a second vote if the country is allowed to retain its EU commissioner and receives assurances in areas including taxation and neutrality, an Irish Times poll showed. Forty-three percent of those questioned said they would vote ``yes'' to the treaty, with 39 percent saying they would reject it. Eighteen percent had no opinion. In the June ballot, voters shot down the treaty 53.4 percent to 46.6 percent. Ireland's rejection of the treaty in the June 12 vote froze plans to streamline the 27-nation EU's decision-making process as the accord requires the approval of all member states. Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said yesterday that the government would decide whether to hold a second vote before a meeting of EU leaders in Brussels on Dec. 11-12.

COMMENTARY: If the June 2008 vote in Ireland had been a 'Yes' I wonder whether they would still be having a second vote (just to make sure that the Irish hadn't changed their minds)...

• AUSTRALIA: Faulty scanner charging e-tag motorists twice - MOTORISTS are being slugged twice every day for the e-tag toll to cross the Harbour Bridge, and may not even be aware of the rip-off. A malfunctioning Roads and Traffic Authority e-tag scanner at the northern end of the harbour tunnel entrance is thought to be mistakenly capturing the e-tags of motorists travelling in lane four on the bridge - the lane closest to the tunnel entrance - and charging the tunnel toll to their accounts. They are then charged again by the scanner at the southern end of the bridge.

Sunday 16th November 2008: -

• OBAMA: FEAR AND THE SECURITY FORCE - In all my life I have never seen such intense emotion surrounding a leader as that evoked by Barack Obama. Even Ronald Reagan, the Gipper himself, didn’t enjoy the kind of prostration of the will offered to the president-elect by hordes of followers. Yet, while people the world over are imbued with “hope” and chant Obama’s slogan “Yes, we can!” – for instance, the French are using their translation of it, “Oui, nous pouvons!” – some of the intense emotion is of a very different species. It is fear.

• Cops AND robbers - UK Police with theft and assault convictions allowed to stay in jobs - Police officers with convictions for gun crimes, benefit fraud and violent attacks are still serving, it emerged last night. The offences include discharging a firearm, possession of a cannabis plant, being drunk and disorderly, assault and theft. Many of the crimes took place while the officers were in post, supposedly protecting the public. Last night experts said the public would be alarmed by the revelations, which point to a fall in standards. MPs said they raised ‘serious questions’ over whether courts can trust the evidence given by police convicted of dishonesty.

• MTV Martial Law Warnings: YouTube Video - MTV Warns us about Martial Law and Concentration Camps in America.

• BBC shies from fight with licence rebels: Public figures refusing to pay TV the fee are being let off to avoid making them heroes - The BBC is failing to prosecute viewers who refuse to pay the television licence on principle amid claims that the corporation fears creating a wave of “martyrs”. The band of licence-fee refuseniks include Vladimir Bukovsky, a former Russian dissident, Noel Edmonds, the television presenter, and Euro-sceptics who believe the BBC is politically biased.

Friday 14th November 2008: -

• Kashkari Accused Of Bailout “Bait and Switch” During Angry Hearing: Former Goldman Sachs executive grilled by Kucinich and Issa - Neel Kashkari, the fox appointed to guard the henhouse and front the multi-trillion dollar bailout, faced angry questions from Dennis Kucinich and Rep. Darrell Issa during a hearing today, as Issa accused him of playing a “bait and switch” game with taxpayers’ money. All the major networks carried footage of the U.S. House subcommittee hearing this morning and aired Kashkari’s opening statement in full. But as soon as Kucinich and Issa were about to weigh in, the networks almost simultaneously cut the feed and moved on to a different story. Another example of how the corporate media is owned by the same elite that runs the Federal Reserve.

• Auntie Beeb's amazing, evolving, ID card stories: Rewriting history as it happens... - On the 6th of November the BBC announced to an astonished world that "People 'can't wait for ID cards'. Breathlessly repeating the words of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's speech that morning, Auntie reported: "I believe there is a demand, now, for cards - and as I go round the country I regularly have people coming up to me and saying they don't want to wait that long." And added that the market for fingerprints, photographs and signatures* garnered in post offices and retailers would amount, according to Smith, to "about £200 million a year." The Beeb neglected to mention that the £200 million a year represented a laundered price hike of up to £40 a throw, but there are a few other things the Beeb neglected to mention - or more properly, stopped mentioning - that day, too.

• U.K. Government Plagued by Data Loss Scandals: Last Month the Ministry of Defense Lost a Disk Containing Personal Details of Some 100,000 Military Personnel - Who can the British trust these days with their personal details? Many have been left questioning this as the U.K. Government continues to be rocked on a regular basis by a series of high-profile data loss scandals. In the wake of the latest embarrassing data blunder, which saw a sensitive government memory stick found in a bar parking lot, Prime Minister Gordon Brown was forced to admit last week that the government can't make any promises when it comes to keeping the British public's personal details safe.

• Moberly Taser death ruled homicide: Police actions remain under investigation - The Randolph County coroner has ruled that the August death of a man whom Moberly police shocked twice with a Taser during a traffic stop was a homicide. Gerald Luntsford said he would wait until receiving the results from a Missouri State Highway Patrol investigation before releasing the exact cause of death for Stanley Harlan, 23, of Moberly. Luntsford said he expects that investigation to be complete soon. "A homicide only means that a person came to their death by the hands of another," Luntsford said today. In a separate investigation, the highway patrol is trying to determine whether officers acted appropriately. Luntsford said he could not disclose whether the use of the Taser killed Harlan. "There’s no doubt it contributed to it," the coroner said. "In a few days, we will have exactly what killed him." Moberly police pulled Harlan over early Aug. 28 for driving his vehicle erratically and tried to arrest him on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Harlan resisted, and the arresting officer was able to get only one handcuff on him, police said. An officer, whom police have not identified, deployed the Taser and forced Harlan to the ground. Police said that when Harlan refused orders to remove his arms from under his body, the officer deployed the Taser again, and Harlan complied.

• Deputy suspended for using Taser to wake inmate - A Pinellas County detention deputy was suspended for using the sound of his stun gun to try and wake up an inmate. According to an internal affairs report, the deputy thought the crackling sound of his Taser would rouse an inmate on July 27. It did not. The inmate had fallen asleep at on the floor of the jail's intake section. The deputy, a three-year veteran, received a 15-day suspension. His punishment also includes a charge of misconduct for falsifying a report.

• British judge criticizes pesticide policy - The British government should reconsider its policy on pesticide use and do more to protect people who live near farms, a High Court judge said Friday. Environmental campaigner Georgina Downs had mounted a court challenge to Britain's pesticide regulation, arguing that the government was violating a European Union directive that says chemical pesticides can only be used if they do not have a harmful effect on human or animal health. Downs said the government rules focused only on "bystanders" — people exposed to the chemicals in the short term — instead of worrying about the effect on those who live near areas where crop spraying is constant.

• 9/11 Hero Dog Dies From Cancer: Canine Was Sacramento Fire Department Search Dog - Ana, an accomplished Sacramento Fire Department search dog, has died of cancer. She died at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday at Fire Station No. 56 -- where she was usually the only girl -- after spending her last day on the job, Capt. Jim Doucette said.

RELATED: For perspective see our WTC Emergency Responders Betrayed section at our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com.

• JOKE OF THE WEEK: After numerous rounds of 'We don't even know if Osama bin Laden is still alive', Osama himself decided to send George Bush a letter in his own hand writing to let him know he was still in the game.
  
  Bush opened the letter and it contained a single line of coded message:

370H-SSV-0773H

Bush was baffled, so he e-mailed it to Condoleezza Rice. Condi and her aides had not a clue either, so they sent it to the FBI.

No one could solve it at the FBI so it went to the CIA, and then to MI6.
Eventually they asked the Mossad (Israeli intelligence) for help.

Within a minute the Mossad emailed the White House with this reply:

"...Tell the President he's holding the note upside down"

Monday 10th November 2008: -

COMMENTARY: And there was me in all innocence thinking that it was a 'conspiracy theory' to even use the phrase 'New World Order' and that there is no such thing!

• Obama Ready To “Rule” According to Transition Team Leader: The decider makes way for the ruler - Almost eight years ago the incumbent president uttered one of his first Bushisms, a phrase that would crop up again and again during his two terms in office; “If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” In early 2006 Bush delivered perhaps his second most memorable verbal spout by announcing to the world that he was “the decider”. This weekend president elect Obama became known as “the ruler”.

• Continuity Trumps Change - As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to fill top positions for his incoming government, he faces a stubborn reality: Some of the key individuals he will rely upon to tackle the country’s most serious challenges are holdovers from the current administration — a trio of Bush appointees who will likely stay in place for at least the first year or two of Obama’s presidency. In confronting the financial crisis and weakening economy, Obama must turn to Ben S. Bernanke, a Republican and former chairman of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, who will lead the Federal Reserve for at least the first year of the new administration.

• Agenda disappears from Obama Web site - Over the weekend President-elect Barack Obama scrubbed Change.gov, his transition Web site, deleting most of what had been a massive agenda copied directly from his campaign Web site. Gone are the promises on how an Obama administration would handle 25 different agenda items - everything from Iraq and immigration to taxes and urban policy - all items laid out on his campaign Web site, www.BarackObama.com. Instead, the official agenda on Change.gov has been boiled down to one vague paragraph proclaiming a plan “to revive the economy, to fix our health care, education, and social security systems, to define a clear path to energy independence, to end the war in Iraq responsibly and finish our mission in Afghanistan, and to work with our allies to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, among many other domestic and foreign policy objectives.”

• Brzezinski: Obama may be tested - A former US national security adviser says President-elect Barack Obama may be tested by terrorists after he takes office on Jan. 20. “It’s possible. There’s no way of predicting that. It’s a possibility, but it’s by no means a certainty,” former Carter administration national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski said in an interview with Deutsche Welle. Brzezinski said that history shows that every new US president is tested by transitional challenges and circumstances.

• Obama Mania - On November 4, the world exhaled. The age of George Bush ended, and a new one under Barak Obama began. With high hopes he’ll reverse the toxic legacy of the past eight years. Adopt socially progressive policies. End foreign wars. Govern the nation responsibly, democratically for all its people. Show his supporters that their faith in him was justified. “Let us congratulate ourselves on being alive at such a promising moment,” wrote The Nation magazine’s William Greider. His victory is “a monumental rebuke to tragic history — the ultimate defeat of ‘while supremacy.’ Barak Obama has already changed this nation profoundly. Like King before him, the man is a great and brave teacher. (He) redefined the country for us.”

• Obama’s ‘Hate Bill’ Steals Right to Free Speech - President-elect Barack Obama prioritizes passage of the freedom-stealing Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act. High-level Democrats are also eager to limit free speech in media with the Fairness Doctrine. Earlier liberals, especially during the 60s and 70s, championed unbridled freedom of speech and expression. But Obama and “new liberals” encourage the opposite: hate and bias laws which restrict and even criminalize criticism of federally protected groups such as Jews and homosexuals. Should there be limits on freedom of speech? Or do the ethical foundations of America, the Bible and the Constitution allow us to say virtually anything we want?

• UK: Paul Dacre attacks Mr Justice Eady over privacy curbs - Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre has launched an attack on High Court judge Mr Justice Eady - accusing him of using the Human Rights Act to "bring in a privacy law by the back door". In a no-holds-barred opening lecture at the Society of Editors conference in Bristol on Sunday night, Dacre said Mr Justice Eady had been given a "virtual monopoly" and said his rulings against the press jeopardised its role in holding people to account. "The British press is having a privacy law imposed on it, which is, I would argue, undermining the ability of mass circulation newspapers to sell newspapers in an ever more difficult market," Dacre said. "The law is not coming from Parliament - no, that would smack of democracy - but from the arrogant and amoral judgements, words I use very deliberately, of one man. "I am referring, of course, to Justice David Eady who has, again and again, under the privacy clause of the Human Rights Act, found against newspapers and their age-old freedom to expose the moral shortcomings of those in high places."

• 'Stolen cash' given to Lib Dems - A businessman whose company gave the Liberal Democrats £2.4m, used stolen money to fund the donation, London's Southwark Crown Court has heard. The biggest donation in the party's history was designed to create a front that Michael Brown, 42, was a "well-connected man" prosecutors alleged. Mr Brown is accused of nine charges, including fraud and money laundering offences. He denies all the charges. The trial has begun in his absence, as he has been on the run since July.

• Pound hits new low against the euro: Retailers on Oxford Street have reported a significant rise in shoppers from the eurozone, who have taken advantage of the favourable exchange rate - Sterling was driven down to a new all-time low against the euro today by speculation that the Bank of England will keep cutting interest rates aggressively to avoid a protracted recession. In a blow to UK citizens planning a winter break in Europe, the pound hit a low of €1.2176 – its lowest point since the single European currency was created. Sterling has been falling steadily against the euro since early 2007 but its decline has accelerated in recent weeks as the likelihood of a UK recession increased.

• Home Office Enlists Help Of Supermarkets, Post Office As ID Card Costs Double - The cost of new soon-to-be-launched UK ID card is set to skyrocket to nearly £60 as the cost of capturing biometric data and fingerprint amounts to almost as much as the cost of the card holding them. The Press Association understands that this hidden charge will now be outsourced to external providers that could include the post office, high street stores or even supermarkets. The Home Office secretary, Jacqui Smith, said that the "market" for providing the data collection service would be worth around £200 million for the 7 million or so adults expected to sign for the new card.

• Controversial fingerprint policy for overseas students - A new policy means that overseas students will now need to give fingerprints when applying for visa extensions to study in the United Kingdom. It has been revealed that overseas students will require biometric identity cards, containing personal information, which, alongside fingerprinting students, is part of a bid to tighten immigration.

• Policeman facing jail after stealing winning betting slip from dead man - A former police officer was facing jail today after he admitted stealing a winning betting slip from a dead man. PC John Fleet, 28, took the slip - worth just £59.21 when he was called to investigate the death of Stephen Lawrence. Mr Lawrence died of natural causes and Fleet was sent to the house after a call from a neighbour. But after he found the body he spotted a winning betting slip that Mr Lawrence had made days before on a horse race. He took the slip and cashed it but the next day Mr Lawrence's sister visited the bookies, in Paignton, Devon, to place a bet. The bookmaker told her it was 'such a shame' about the death and revealed someone had called in to collect his winnings. She immediately alerted police but Fleet then contacted her to try and persuade her to drop the compliant. He was suspended and has since resigned from Devon and Cornwall Constabulary.

• BBC chiefs face curbs on pay after fakery and phone-in scandals - The 10 most senior executives at the BBC face a freeze on their bonuses because of public anger over the size of their salaries. Mark Thompson, the BBC's director general, is among those who face a freeze on their bonuses. The BBC Trust, the corporation's governing body, is demanding restraint after the disclosure that the top 10 directors had their pay boosted by 17 per cent this year despite a string of phone-in and fakery scandals. The Trust, which sets the salary of Mark Thompson, the director general, has decided to act because of hostile public reaction to the bosses' bonuses at a time when the BBC is in the process of axing 1,800 jobs to save money. The income of the BBC's top executives totalled £4.96million, up £708,000, according to the BBC's annual report. In the same period the BBC licence fee increased by 3 per cent to £131.50 and most BBC employees received a 4 per cent pay rise. The pay rises follow a year in which the BBC was found guilty of deceiving viewers on a number of programmes ranging from Children in Need and Blue Peter to Russell Brand's BBC6 music show.

• 9/11: More than meets the eye: Discussion of the very real doubts over the World Trade Center attacks was conspicuously absent from the US presidential race. But America's international image will always be tainted as long as the uncertainty remains - Every so often attention is called anew to the doubts surrounding the true character of the events surrounding the 9/11 attacks. Recently, the report of the collapse of Building 7 represented such an occasion. Any close student of 9/11 is aware of the many serious discrepancies between the official version of what took place and the actual happenings on that fateful day in 2001. David Ray Griffin and others have analyzed and assessed these discrepancies in such an objective and compelling fashion that only wilful ignorance can maintain that the 9/11 narrative should be treated as a closed book, and that the public should move on to address the problems of the day.

Friday 07th November 2008: -

• Obama’s Treasury Candidates: Old Guard Of The Corporate Elite: Globalist enthusiasts and architects of the financial meltdown do NOT represent change - All of the leading candidates for the position of Treasury Secretary under president elect Barack Obama directly represent the old guard of the corporate elite system that has used the American economy as it’s engine to drive their march toward a global empire for decades. Under the banner of “change” whichever of these candidates is appointed to the Treasury will continue to rapidly expand the empowerment of the Federal Reserve monetary system and institute the very policies that have led us to the brink of financial ruin to move the economies of the world toward a centralized global banking system.

• Obama’s First Appointment Is Son Of Zionist Terrorist: Rahm Emanuel’s father was member of militant terror group that bombed hotels, massacred villagers - Obama pick is keen supporter of lobbying group aimed at creating militarized youth brigades - President elect Barack Obama’s first appointment, Rahm Emanuel, who is set to become chief-of-staff, is the son of a member of the Zionist terrorist group Irgun, which was responsible for bombing hotels, marketplaces as well as the infamous Deir Yassin massacre, in which hundreds of Palestinian villagers were slaughtered. Revelations about Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers, a Weather Underground domestic terrorist, which dogged him during the final weeks of the campaign trail, pale in significance to his selection of Emanuel, whose father, Benjamin M. Emanuel, was an Irgun member.

• Bill for UK ID cards rises by £50m as Home Office unveils pilot scheme: 200,000 airport staff will get free cards next year / Lib Dems claim costs are spiralling out of control - The costs of the national identity card project crept up by a further £50m yesterday as the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, announced that a small number of transport workers will be able to volunteer to get the cards next year before the official launch date. Smith disclosed that plans to enrol 200,000 airside and other critical transport workers first will begin with an 18-month pilot scheme at two airports - Manchester and London City - and without workers paying the £30 fee that was originally envisaged.

• UK SHOPKEEPER DRIVES 'THIEF' TO POLICE AFTER CALLING 999 IN VAIN - A BUSINESSMAN condemned police yesterday after he was forced to drive an alleged shoplifter to a police station in his own van despite four ­desperate 999 calls. Mark Ward held the suspected thief in his shop for two hours while he pleaded with a 999 operator to send him help. But the exasperated locksmith was repeatedly told police were too busy to respond and he would have to wait his turn. He was even told: “Let him go if you like.”

• Peers back challenge to 'Big Brother' DNA database - Jacqui Smith was last night given a bloody nose by peers who want to help innocent people remove their details from the 'Big Brother' DNA database. A Tory amendment to the controversial Counter-Terrorism Bill, passed by 161 to 150 in the House of Lords, will force the production of national guidelines on the deletion of records. The defeat comes only three weeks after peers rejected the Home Secretary's plans to extend the limit on the detention of terrorist suspects from 28 days to 42 in the same Bill.

• Internet black boxes to record every email and website visit - Internet "black boxes" could be used to record every email and website visit made by computer users in Britain, it has been reported. Under Government plans to monitor internet traffic, raw data would be collected and stored by the black boxes before being transferred to a giant central database. The vision was outlined at a meeting between officials from the Home Office and Internet Service Providers earlier this week. It is further evidence of the Government's desire to have the capability to vet every telephone call, email and internet visit made in the UK, which has already provoked an outcry.

• David Ray Griffin Debunks Popular Mechanics: YouTube Video - David Ray Griffin talks about Popular Mechanics’ 9/11 debunking at a 9/11 Truth Conference in Osaka, Japan on November 1, 2008.

• Lawyers for 9/11 Truth - An impressive, if small, group of lawyers has signed a petition calling for 9/11 truth at a new website called Lawyers for 9/11 Truth, at http://www.L911T.com. If you know any judges, law professors or attorneys open to 9/11 truth, send them that way.

• Attack on 'Truthers' who question 9/11 failed to address their issues - I appreciate The Province printing an article by National Post columnist Jonathan Kay about 9/11 and conspiracy theorists. Most papers are too afraid to talk about the conspiracy theories that abound yet Kay admits "39 per cent of Canadians either reject or doubt the official explanation for the 9/11 attacks." Nevertheless, I am somewhat disappointed that Kay wrote an article stating that the Truthers' conclusions are wrong and their concerns are nonsense without citing a single fact.

• Students in 'Weird Science' Halloween party arrested under anti-terror laws - A group of students had their 'Mad Scientist' party brought to an abrupt end when police mistook them for terrorists. The private party, held in Hackney, north London, was organised by a group of friends dressed in white laboratory coats and wigs, who put on a display of theatrical 'experiments' to entertain guests. But when police entered the building for a routine check in the early hours of Sunday morning, they discovered scientific debris and plastic skeletons and mistook it for terrorist paraphernalia or drug-making equipment.

• Safety fears over nanocosmetics - Cosmetics containing tiny "nano" particles are being used widely despite unresolved issues surrounding their safety, a consumer watchdog warns. Many skin care products, including sunscreens and wrinkle creams, contain this technology to make them easier to apply and invisible on the skin. But experts are concerned about their possible long-term effects on the body, Which? reports.

Wednesday 05th November 2008: -

Today's the big day...

but remember...

• The More Things “Change” The More They Stay The Same: Obama the Messiah-Dictator is more dangerous than Bush - The messianic fervor which has preceded Barack Obama’s expected ascension to the White House has alarming implications for freedom and is a painful reminder that most Americans have once again been suckered into believing that the two-party monopoly offers any kind of solution to the crisis that we face. For eight years during the term of Bill Clinton, Alex Jones was labeled a right-wing fascist for opposing him and for the past near-eight years Jones has been derided as a communist and even an Al-Qaeda member for railing against the Bush administration. Now even regular readers of our own websites are calling Alex a right-wing racist once again merely for questioning the ascension of the new great leader - Barack Obama.

• Obama Win Will Not Change Rigged Economy: Ludicrous CNBC anchor tells economic expert “Gold has no inherent value”, describes dire financial warnings as “fun” - In an incredulous display of ignorance symptomatic of the underlying causes of the financial crisis, CNBC anchors laughed their way through an interview with respected economist Peter Schiff yesterday as he attempted to explain how an Obama presidency would negatively impact the U.S. economy. Erin Burnett and Mark Haines of CNBC’s Squawk on The Street persistently interrupted Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, barely allowing him to finish sentences or even complete thoughts as he sought to explain how ‘Obamanomics’ will not address the problems at the core of the crisis and will instead perpetuate them.

• 2 socialists for price of 1?: Michelle Obama's 'give up piece of pie' remark invokes Marxism - While Sen. Barack Obama has caught flak for his socialist-sounding remarks about "spreading the wealth around," his wife's own Marxist-tinged rhetoric has gone largely unnoticed. During an April campaign stop in Harrisburg, N.C., Michelle Obama spoke with a group of about 50 working moms who were having a hard time making ends meet, including some who complained about health-care benefits. Obama said the rich would have to start giving up more income to pay for health care for everybody. "The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more," Obama said.

• Cuba, other Latin American states give thumbs-up to Obama - Latin American leaders on Tuesday expressed eagerness to work with George W. Bush's successor, with some openly declaring their preference for a win by Barack Obama, after eight years of generally worsening ties with the United States. Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro endorsed the Democrat Obama as "more intelligent" than his "bellicose" Republican adversary John McCain as Americans voted Tuesday on who will lead their country beginning next January. The comments, penned by Castro in the official Cuban press, were part of a big Latin American stamp of approval for Obama, who is the favorite to take over from Bush.

• Obama the Messiah is going to produce profound disillusion - There is a video clip running on YouTube at the moment which shows a black woman moved nearly to tears at an Obama rally, telling a television interviewer that all her problems will be at an end when he is elected president. She won’t have to worry anymore about putting gas in her car or paying her mortgage because “he will help me”.

• Religious Thugs for Obama - Challenging Democratic Senator Barack Obama means facing a squadron of self-benighted ideological body guards who will exploit law to intimidate opponents – as one Catholic prelate recently discovered. Bishop Arthur Serratelli of Patterson, NJ, wrote a column for his diocesan newspaper October 9 in which he implied that Obama’s support for pro-abortion legislation would destroy constitutionally protected freedom. On October 24, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (or AU) announced that it would petition the Internal Revenue Service to review the Diocese of Patterson’s tax-exempt status.

• Do Polls Mean Anything in an Age of Fraud? - The Republicans stole Florida to get Bush in 2000 and have been stealing elections on a much larger scale ever since. Will it happen again, even with Obama ahead in the last polls by the commanding margin of about 7.5% nationally? The truth is, there’s no way to really know what will happen in the vote-counting, and this is the most frightening thing about it. Nonetheless, in the last two presidential elections, the pre-election polls were actually pretty close to the official result. It was the exit polls that tipped us off to the fact that something was rotten in the state of Amerika. (That’s why all the pro-establishment pundits, pollsters, and meta-pollsters are falling over themselves now to say how unreliable exit polls are and how worthless they are for detecting fraud. Funny how accurate they were until just a few years ago.)

• McCain campaign distributing reports of "Election Day irregularities": Is the McCain camp preparing a case to contest the legitimacy of the election, should Obama win by a 2000-like narrow margin? - The McCain campaign is collecting reports of "Election Day irregularities" in swing states and distributing them to reporters. I cannot help but wonder if they are preparing a case to contest the legitimacy of the election, should Obama win by a 2000-like narrow margin. The irregularities include "black panthers" who are "intimidating Voters By Standing Outside Of A Polling Station While Holding A Night Stick" in Philadelphia, and "multiple reports that a polling station in Virginia Beach is understaffed, and people are picking paper ballots off the floor and casting multiple votes". About an hour ago they released the following statement: ARLINGTON, VA -- The McCain-Palin campaign is committed to ensuring that every qualified voter has the opportunity to vote and that all lawfully cast ballots are not cancelled out by fraudulent votes. Given that four states in the 2004 Presidential Election were decided by 1 percent or less, the McCain-Palin Campaign believes there should be a zero-tolerance policy for voter fraud and voter intimidation.

• Fraud hotline draws 242 calls - The Kentucky Attorney General’s election fraud hotline had received 242 calls as of 4:40 p.m., according to Allison Martin, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Jack Conway. About 113 of those calls came from Jefferson County, Martin said. Those included 23 complaints about voting machines, 17 complaints about election officials and 17 complaints of electioneering. There were a handful of complaints about vote-buying in Bell, Madison and Warren counties, Martin said. Investigators were on the ground checking out credible claims of misconduct, but Martin said so far no complaints have been found to have substantially impacted the election process.

• No ID required: Inviting voter fraud - The story on our site titled "Election Day: What could possibly go wrong?" is all about the technology glitches that could occur today when you go out to vote, and it's part of our extensive coverage of the problems surrounding e-voting. But at least here in Massachusetts, there's a much more fundamental problem with the voting process.

• Georgia Voter Fraud Tops 100,000 - Election officials in Georgia are launching an all-out investigation into allegations of voter fraud that could involve over 100,000 people. “This is extraordinarily disturbing,” declared Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel on Tuesday, according to WSBTV.com. The investigation follows a report by TV news stations in Atlanta, Orlando, Tampa, and Cincinnati who compared voter roles in Georgia with those in Florida and Ohio. The investigative journalists found more than 100,000 names that appear to be registered in more than one state. Georgia’s master record of voters has 42,000 people on it who are also apparently registered in Florida, according to WSBTV.com. At least four instances of double voting have been uncovered already – which is a felony. “Does our system just trust that people won’t vote twice?” Handel asks. “From the federal level, yes pretty much.”

• Republicans fear possible voter fraud in Ohio - Republicans are worried that possible voting irregularities in Ohio may hurt their chances of winning the battleground state, which none of their presidential candidates has ever lost and still managed to win the White House. Their fears are compounded by polls that show Democratic candidate Barack Obama with a slight edge over his rival John McCain. According to a Real Clear Politics aggregate poll for Ohio, Obama has 49 per cent support and McCain has 45.8 per cent. Ohio, which has 20 electoral votes up for grabs, has a history of voting irregularities. In the 2004 election, nearly 200,000 ballots were discounted and Democrats alleged they were stolen. Eventually, two elections officials pleaded no contest to a charge of negligent misconduct.

• Could Voter Fraud Steal the 2008 Election? - Should we be concerned over voter fraud in the upcoming election? If history is any guide, then the emphatic answer is “yes!” There are numerous cases, just in the last decade or so, in which elections were stolen and races were decided by a handful of votes. An investigation of 5,000 fraudulent absentee ballots in Miami in 1997 resulted in the election results being overturned. In addition to votes by fictitious individuals and persons using false addresses (persons who didn’t actually live in Miami), votes were also bought. And vote buying is a federal crime that the Department of Justice has prosecuted repeatedly.

• Police Confront Night Stick-Wielding ‘Security’ Patrol at Philadelphia Poll - Self-described “security” thugs intimidate voters with billy clubs in Philly. The Drudge Report says these guys are “Black Panthers” but that is just a claim at this point.

• If It Ain't Real, Fake It - As I've listened to the various and sundry discussions about tomorrow's election, I keep hearing how this is "the dirtiest" election in history. And I've scoffed. I remember the elections of 2004 and 2000. 1972 was tainted by Watergate. 1960 featured "Landslide Lyndon" Johnson and the combined corrupt political machines of Chicago and Texas collaborating to win for Kennedy and Johnson. And the elections of the 19th century were some of the nastiest, most vile, most disgusting tactics and accusations and stunts. But I'm starting to wonder if the folks who've been saying so might be on to something. Someday, the 2008 presidential election might be known as "the most fraudulent election in American history." "Fraud" certainly seems to be the watchword of this election cycle. At least, it ought to be. Fraudulent voter registrations. By last count, that criminal conspiracy known as ACORN has submitted over 400,000 bogus registration forms across the nation.

• Obama raises stunning $150 million in September - Barack Obama raised more than $150 million in September, a stunning and unprecedented eruption of political giving that has given him a wide spending advantage over rival John McCain. The Democrat's campaign released the figure Sunday, one day before it must file a detailed report of its monthly finances with the Federal Election Commission.

• Obama fundraising breaks the money mould - The fundraising juggernaut unleashed by Barack Obama has permanently changed the rules for future U.S. presidential campaigns, experts say. Not only has the cost of becoming president taken a quantum leap, the Obama campaign has redefined how candidates raise money - and has left America's campaign public financing system a smouldering ruin in the process. "The unbelievable outspending that the Obama campaign has been able to do has just tilted the playing field enormously," says Josh Israel, director of the Buying of the President project at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. The money raised and spent by Obama and his Republican rival, John McCain, boggles the Canadian mind. But even to Americans, the numbers are astonishing.

• Medvedev, Russia Call for New World Order - Until a couple of months ago, some economists argued Russia’s robust growth of recent years had effectively "decoupled" it from a direct correlation with the US economy. While the financial crisis proves the theory wrong, the Russian government is insisting on a new world order. As world leaders try to deal with the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, President Dmitry Medvedev is echoing his French and British counterparts in calling for far reaching changes to the world financial system. “We will need a new international agreement. The financial system must have common sources, which implies a multiplicity of world financial centres and reserve currencies. We need to form a new risk-management system,which would be based on new techniques, not the principles that the Bretton Woods agreement was based on,” Medvedev said.

• Canadian resistance grows over North American Union agenda - As some people may have been informed, in South-West Ontario, 2 November 2008 was declared a regional Day of Action against the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). A little over a month ago, a callout was sent from Anti-War@Laurier (AW@L)—an activist group in Kitchener-Waterloo — asking for autonomous actions targeting companies on the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) and Federal "(Mis)-representatives." The motto for the day is simply, "challenge corporate power." This article is asking for something equally simple. Check out AW@L's new NO SPP campaign page and consider taking some sort of local action, such as contacting your local MP or targeting a NACC company in your community. The SPP is an Agreement between the Government Executives of Canada, the U.S, and Mexico. Its only official advisors are the corporate elites of the NACC. The SPP reveals a militarized corporate oligarchy and their implementation of, what has been called, "NAFTA on crack." It is imperative to focus on education about, and taking action against, the SPP, because as more information becomes publicly available, the deeper ramifications of this undemocratic partnership become alarmingly apparent.

• Senior Corporate Executives Warned to Leave N.Y. on 9/11 - Foreign Policy Journal has learned that senior executives of a major U.S. international corporation may have been warned to leave New York on September 11, 2001. According to an inside source, one of the senior executives of the corporation told him beforehand that “something big” was going to occur and so other corporate executives would be travelling out of New York.

• Debunking the 9/11 “Dust” Theory - Some peripheral folks in the 9/11 truth movement claim that exotic high-energy weapons were used to bring down the Twin Towers. The overwhelming majority of credible scientists, engineers and others in the movement do not believe this. The proponents of the star wars weapons theory argue that video footage shows metal spires “turning to dust”, which they think proves that futuristic weapons were used. Many of us have pointed out that the spires actually fell down, and that dust from the pulverized concrete simply fell off the spires as they were falling, hiding the fact that the spires were falling and creating the visual illusion that the spires were “turning to dust”.

Monday 03rd November 2008: -

• Only a 9/11 can prevent Obama's victory - Everybody on American television is being very polite on the eve of this historic US presidential election. In an increasingly desperate attempt to keep the race competitive, normally candid commentators are still treating both Barack Obama and John McCain as potential winners. It's a bit like an Antrim v Kerry all-Ireland football final where RTE's commentators keep mapping out surreal scenarios where the underdog can win. Rather than best election etiquette, in some cases the coyness is prompted by superstition and a fear of putting a jinx on the favourite.

• Members of Israeli spy ring 'related to 9/11 hijacker': 'Lebanon is an open theater for espionage' - Two men arrested for running an Israeli spy ring in the Bekaa Valley are relatives of a suicide hijacker who piloted a plane in the September 11, 2001, attacks, a security source told The Daily Star on Sunday. The Lebanese Army announced on Saturday that it had arrested two people suspected of involvement with a spy network that gathered information for Israel's intelligence services.

• BBC 'fat controllers' rake in £14.3million pay packet, it has been revealed - The BBC spends £14.3million a year on the salaries of just 50 managers, it emerged last night. Half of them are paid more than Gordon Brown. The money would pay for 677 nurses, 695 teachers, 540 firefighters or 586 police officers. BBC director-general Mark Thompson, pictured below, who was already under fire over the pay of stars like Jonathan Ross, insisted the BBC had to pay competitive salaries to get the best people.

• Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell leaves red box secrets on train - CABINET Minister James Purnell has sparked a security row after losing confidential documents on a packed train. The rising Labour star – tipped as a future PM – broke strict guidelines by taking documents out of his “red box” on the trip. Ministers are warned against taking their Cabinet briefcases on public transport amid fears secret papers could be lost or stolen. The embarrassing gaffe comes days after civil servant Richard Jackson was fined for leaving top secret documents relating to al-Qaeda and Iraq on a train.

• The GM genocide: Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops - When Prince Charles claimed thousands of Indian farmers were killing themselves after using GM crops, he was branded a scaremonger. In fact, as this chilling dispatch reveals, it's even WORSE than he feared. The children were inconsolable. Mute with shock and fighting back tears, they huddled beside their mother as friends and neighbours prepared their father's body for cremation on a blazing bonfire built on the cracked, barren fields near their home. As flames consumed the corpse, Ganjanan, 12, and Kalpana, 14, faced a grim future. While Shankara Mandaukar had hoped his son and daughter would have a better life under India's economic boom, they now face working as slave labour for a few pence a day. Landless and homeless, they will be the lowest of the low.

• UK: Ban on Christmas blasted by Muslim and Jewish leaders - A ban on the word Christmas by a council has been blasted by Muslim and Jewish leaders. Officials said their Winter Light Festival would be more inclusive to all faiths. But Sabir Mirza, of the Muslim Council for Oxford, said: "I'm angry. Christmas is part of being British and we shouldn't ignore it." Rabbi Eli Bracknell, of the city's Jewish Centre, said: "It's important to keep a traditional Christmas."

Sunday 02nd November 2008: -

• Half of UK councils use anti-terror laws to spy on 'bin crimes': More than half of councils are using anti-terror laws to spy on families suspected of "bin crimes", it has emerged. More than half of councils are using anti-terror laws to spy on families suspected of "bin crimes". Their surveillance tactics include hiding secret cameras on streets and even in neighbouring homes to catch householders putting their rubbish out on the wrong day. Seventy-seven of the 151 councils who responded to a Freedom of Information request admitted using the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) to crack down on "domestic waste, littering or fly-tipping offences" in the last three years. Last month The Sunday Telegraph disclosed that three-quarters of local authorities had used the act – which was introduced to help the police fight terrorism and crime in 2000 - to tackle minor misdemeanours. The Act allows public bodies – since expanded to include councils – to place residents and businesses under surveillance, trace telephone and email accounts and even send staff on undercover missions.

• Memo shows how Blair aided Murdoch - A newly disclosed Downing Street memo has revealed how Tony Blair helped Rupert Murdoch overcome an official investigation which was jeopardising one of his big investments. It shows that Blair, while prime minister, immediately ordered his top officials to help the tycoon who was frustrated that a potentially lucrative scheme was being blocked by a long-running European commission investigation. Blair told the media magnate that "he was instinctively sympathetic to what Murdoch was aiming to achieve". The tycoon eventually won approval for the plan. BSkyB had teamed up with other big companies to develop an interactive scheme in which people could shop and manage their finances through their televisions.

• Gordon Brown says government cannot ensure data safety - Gordon Brown has made a frank admission that government cannot promise the safety of personal data entrusted by the public. The Prime Minister was speaking hours after it emerged that a memory stick containing the passwords to a government website used submit online tax returns had been lost. Speaking on the second day of his trip to the Gulf, the Prime Minister said it was caused by "mistakes" which were “human”. He also sought to clear government officials of blame, stressing that a private company – Atos Origin, a computer management firm – had accepted responsibility for the loss.

• Fingerprint scanner will help cut crime - Getting fingered for a crime took on a whole new meaning this week. Poli ce are soon to have access to new technology that can check the identities instantly. It will help cut crime and save time - but still the PC brigade is up in arms. Civil rights group Liberty could only see the downside to a new por table fingerprint scanner the size of a mobile phone. They've whinged on about protecting the rights of suspects. What's wrong with police being able to establish the correct identity of someone at the scene of a crime, if their prints are on record?

• Previously unreleased 9/11 video footage of WTC7 and North Tower spire posted on Veoh - Some previously unreleased videos of the North Tower collapse, with a long shot on the “spire”, and a slightly different angle of WTC7. Posted on Veoh, 10.31.2008. (Footage is bigger at source pages: North Tower - WTC7.

• The Phantom USA Today Building Fire and the Evacuation of Arlington’s ‘Twin Towers’ on 9/11 - In a recent interview, Assistant Chief James Schwartz of the Arlington County Fire Department (ACFD) revealed an intriguing detail relating to the 9/11 Pentagon attack. Just before the Pentagon was hit, ACFD responded to alarms going off at the USA Today building, located a few miles from there. Yet it is unclear whether there was actually any fire. Other evidence indicates that, as a result of this alarm, when the Pentagon was hit a significant number of fire and medical units were already on the road nearby and available to quickly respond to the attack. Curiously, the two buildings of the USA Today complex were known as the “Twin Towers.”

(RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• Ecuador says CIA infiltrated its military – The US Central Intelligence Agency had “full knowledge” of the deadly Colombian raid March 1 on a FARC rebel camp inside Ecuador that led to a rupture in ties between Bogota and Quito, Ecuador’s Defense Minister Javier Ponce said. The CIA “had full knowledge of what was happening in Angostura,” the border area in Ecuador where the attack took place, Ponce said while presenting the results of an official investigation into the suspected infiltration of Ecuador’s armed forces by US intelligence agents. Investigators “even detected a call by the CIA on the morning of March 1 announcing the attack in Angostura,” the minister added.

• Expert's fear over cervical cancer vaccine - MASS vaccination of Scottish schoolgirls against cervical cancer should have been delayed because not enough is known about possible side effects, a leading researcher claimed last night. Dr Diane Harper, one of the world's leading experts in the field, said safety trials of the Cervarix vaccine should have been conducted for at least four more years before the decision was taken to give the jabs to thousands of girls in schools. Harper concedes that Cervarix is effective against the HPV virus that causes many cases of cervical cancer and admits there is no evidence so far of any serious side effects. Manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline says rigorous tests have been conducted over six years.

• AUSTRALIA: Children in care drugged - ONE in four children who have been removed from the care of their parents and placed in foster homes are being heavily medicated to control their emotions and behaviour. And 50 per cent of children under 12 who live in residential care - where children live in small groups under the supervision of social workers - are taking a psychotropic medication. According to the annual report of the NSW Children's Guardian, 44 per cent of Aboriginal children in residential care are also medicated on drugs such as Ritalin, Strattera and Zoloft. By comparison, the proportion of children nationwide on psychotropic medication is less than 2 per cent.

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