Tuesday 31st October 2006: -

• More Satanic Worshipping in Vatican Verified: High Level Illuminati from Monte Carlo P2 Lodge Pins 9/11 Plot on Knights of Malta and Vatican involvement - A former high level member of the influential Monte Carlo P2 Lodge verified that satanic worshipping goes on in the catacombs of the Vatican. Leo Zagami, who defected from the Illuminati in June, said he had personal knowledge of "Black Masses" were regularly being conducted in the Vatican for high level members of the European and American Illuminati in a decadent display of audacious Satanic power.

• THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH: Pentagon boosts 'media war' unit - The US defence department has set up a new unit to better promote its message across 24-hour rolling news outlets, and particularly on the internet. The Pentagon said the move would boost its ability to counter "inaccurate" news stories and exploit new media. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said earlier this year the US was losing the propaganda war to its enemies. On Monday, Vice-President Dick Cheney said insurgents had increased attacks in Iraq to sway the US mid-term polls.   (FLASHBACK TO FEBRUARY 2002: Pentagon plans propaganda war)

• British scientists grow human liver in a laboratory - British scientists have grown the world's first artificial liver from stem cells in a breakthrough that will one day provide entire organs for transplant. The technique that created the 'mini-liver', currently the size of a one pence piece, will be developed to create a full-size functioning liver. Described as a 'Eureka moment' by the Newcastle University researchers, the tissue was created from blood taken from babies' umbilical cords just a few minutes after birth.

• Nearly 400 charged with terror offences in UK - Nearly 400 people have been charged with terrorist offences during the past five years, the home secretary, John Reid revealed Tuesday. Speaking at a conference for business leaders in London, Reid said that that since the 9/11 attacks in the US, 387 suspected terrorists or sympathisers had been charged under the Terrorism Act and other criminal legislation. Of those, 214 had since been convicted and another 98 were awaiting trial. This, he said, was an "indication of the scale of the threat that we face." "In response to it, the struggle has to be on every level and with every person. It is easy to forget just how deep and ongoing the struggle is." The home secretary argued that at the core of the struggle was a battle of ideas and he called for the public, private and voluntary sectors to work with the government to "advance our values of guarded openness and liberty in defiance of the terrorist menace".

• Physicist bolsters 9/11 conspiracy views - A Utah physics professor has become a hero to those who believe the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were somehow orchestrated by the United States. Steven Jones, who has been on leave from Brigham University since he published a paper that suggests explosives must have helped bring down New York's World Trade Center, was one of three speakers on a panel at the University of Colorado, the Denver Post reported Monday. Jones believes the collapse of the twin towers resembles what happens in a controlled demolition. He said that World Trade Center 7, which collapsed hours after the towers, came down in 6.5 seconds -- only slightly longer than a steel ball bearing dropped from the top of the building would have taken to reach the ground.   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

Monday 30th October 2006: -

• GERMANY: Anti-terrorist technology scans faces on crowded train platform - Railway authorities in Germany are conducting tests of revolutionary biometric facial recognition software that enables computers to pick out the faces of suspected terrorists in a crowd. The new software, being tested by Deutsche Bahn AG, will make it easier to distinguish terrorists from commuters, it is hoped. 'We're a couple of weeks into a pilot project that is testing technology designed to automatically detect terrorists or other criminals entering trains and alert security personnel,' Jens Puls, director of corporate security at Deutsche Bahn, announced at the Systems IT trade show in Munich.

• Stick to the clock... big brother's watching - GLASGOW bus drivers are being monitored all the time by satellite to check they're not running even two minutes too early. The Big Brother-style system, a first for Scotland, came into operation this month. Any driver caught two or more minutes quicker than scheduled is sent a warning letter by bosses at First. Running ahead of the timetable is considered a cardinal sin within the industry. As underlined by our Get Glasgow Moving campaign, it can lead to Scotland's Traffic Commissioner imposing penalties on bus route operators. And the problem can frustrate customers even more than late services can do.

• Ex-air marshal to sue over 'SSI' label - A former federal air marshal said he will file suit against the government today to challenge use of a nonclassified label that he says allows Homeland Security officials to cover up dangerous and inept policies. Robert MacLean, an air marshal who was fired for blowing the whistle on a cutback of flight protections in the wake of a terrorist alert, is the first federal employee to challenge the validity of the "Sensitive Security Information" (SSI) label in court. Asked why he is challenging the bureaucratic tool, Mr. MacLean said, "Vindictive retaliation like this makes agents unwilling to report gross mismanagement." Families of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks and government-watchdog groups have failed to obtain records classified as SSI.

• School Safety Drill Upsets Some Parents - A school safety drill that included police officers in riot gear with weapons has caused concern among some parents who say it was too realistic and frightened some students. Police in the western Michigan community of Wyoming entered two classrooms at Lee Middle and High School on Thursday and announced there was a threat to the school, The Grand Rapids Press reported. Students, who were unaware police were conducting a drill, were taken from the classroom into the halls, patted down by officers and asked what they had in their pockets, the newspaper said. "Some of these kids were so scared, they just about wet their pants," said Marge Bradshaw, a parent with four children in Godfrey-Lee Schools. "I think it's pure wrong that the students and parents were not informed of this."

• The astronomy of Halloween: Holiday marks halfway point between autumnal equinox and winter solstice - Halloween means more than just a day for costumes and candy corn. It's the halfway point between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice, the last of four "cross-quarter" days on the solar calendar. "Our recognition of the cross-quarter days in the English-speaking world comes primarily from the Celts who lived in Britain in pre-Christian times," said astronomer Richard Pogge at Ohio State University. Celts, as well as traditional Japanese Shinto societies, considered equinoxes and solstices the middle of a season. They chose cross-quarter dates as a time to ring in the beginning of each season.   (RELATED: See our The Occult in your Living Room archive)

• Berlusconi could face another trial: Judge to decide on 2nd case involving Mills - A Milan judge is set to rule whether former premier Silvio Berlusconi and British corporate lawyer David Mills should stand trial for allegedly perverting the course of justice in two corruption trials. Judge Fabio Paparella withdrew on Monday to decide on prosecution requests that the two be indicted. Mills, who is the estranged husband of British Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, helped Berlusconi set up a network of off-shore companies before the billionaire media magnate's 1994 debut into politics.

• Rock star's uncle was killed by IRA - A CHART-TOPPING rock star has admitted how the IRA murder of his uncle has inspired his fascination with conspiracy theories and world terrorism. Muse frontman Matt Bellamy - whose band plays in Belfast on Saturday - revealed how his Army officer uncle was shot dead, outside Springfield Road RUC station in west Belfast. The 28-year-old Muse lead singer and guitarist was only 16-months-old, when Duke of Wellington regiment warrant officer, David Bellamy was killed in a hail of 30 bullets, during the IRA ambush in October 1979. But the singer revealed to US radio listeners how the murder of his uncle has influenced his alternative thinking on who is behind worldwide acts of terror. Bellamy controversially believes that the 9/11 bombings in the USA and the London bombing last July were the result of government or high-powered dirty tricks. Said the Cambridge-born singer: "I think 9/11 was definitely an inside job, done by a group of high-powered people, looking for an excuse to invade the Middle East for oil and other natural resources."

Sunday 29th October 2006: -

• Leak defies Blair terror claim - TONY Blair's claim that the war in Iraq has not fuelled terrorism was dealt a devastating blow last night as leaked Cabinet documents acknowledged that Britain's military forays had contributed to extremist attacks. Papers put before a Cabinet committee on security earlier this month, and circulated to ministers and security chiefs, declare bluntly that the UK should rein in its ambitions in the Middle East. In a frank declaration, the papers demand "a significant reduction in the number and intensity of the regional conflicts that fuel terror activity". The assertion is a hammer blow to the Prime Minister, who has attempted for months to separate the Iraq conflict from terror attacks such as last year's London bombings.

• Amnesty International calls for bloggers to stand up for freedom: The organisation says this is a critical time - Amnesty International has issued a ‘Call to Bloggers’, asking them to get online and stand up for freedom of expression on the internet. The organisation says this is a critical time when fundamental rights – particularly freedom of expression and privacy – are under threat from governments that want to control what their citizens say, and what information they can access. The call comes as the online world prepares to meet at the Internet Governance Forum to discuss the future of the internet.

• Flag-burning could become crime - Police chiefs are urging the government to make flag-burning a new criminal offence, as part of a drive to crack down on Islamic extremists and others preaching violence and religious hate, the BBC has learned. The proposals also include action to ban demonstrators from covering their faces to avoid police scrutiny, and tougher powers to arrest demonstrators seeking to inflame tensions. They have been drawn up by Scotland Yard, and submitted to the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, by Britain's most senior muslim police chief, Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur.

• UK paper: Israel used 'uranium bombs' - The IDF on Saturday denied a report by the British newspaper The Independent claiming that Israel used uranium-based munitions, including uranium-tipped bunker-buster bombs, during its war against Hizbullah in Lebanon this summer. "The IDF Spokesman's Office wants to make it clear that no munitions containing uranium were used in the war in Lebanon," an IDF spokesman told The Jerusalem Post. According to the report, scientists found two soil samples thrown up by Israeli heavy or guided bombs which showed "elevated radiation signatures." "Scientific evidence gathered from at least two bomb craters in Khiam and At-Tiri, the scene of fierce fighting between Hizbullah guerrillas and Israeli troops last July and August suggests that uranium-based munitions may now also be included in Israel's weapons inventory - and were used against targets in Lebanon," it said.

• Google defiant over censorship in China: Internet giant steps into realm of politics with debate on freedom of speech - Google is to enter the political arena in earnest this week when it debates freedom of speech, intellectual property rights and how to connect Africa to the internet at a special UN conference. The Silicon Valley giant will attempt to position itself as a force for change that can finance web entrepreneurs in the developing world, champion the rights of consumers against 'over-zealous' copy-right laws and use the web to protect diverse minority cultures and languages. But Google will declare itself unrepentant over the controversial decision to censor its search engine at the behest of Beijing. At the first Internet Governance Forum in Athens, starting tomorrow, the firm will insist its presence in China does more good than harm by getting more information to more people.

• Rockefeller Predicted "Event" To Trigger War Eleven Months Before 9/11: Hollywood director Russo recalls remarkable "forecast" of coming attack - Hollywood director and documentary film maker Aaron Russo, currently receiving a wave of plaudits for his latest release, America: From Freedom to Fascism, told The Alex Jones Show that Nicholas Rockefeller had personally assured him there was going to be an "event" that would trigger the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq eleven months before 9/11 took place. Saying he had been approached many times by the Rockefellers and other members of the CFR elite in an attempt to recruit him, Russo recalled a conversation that would come home to roost on September 11, 2001. "Here's what I do know first hand - I know that about eleven months to a year before 9/11 ever happened I was talking to my Rockefeller friend (Nicholas Rockefeller) and he said to me 'Aaron there's gonna be an event' and he never told me what the event was going to be - I'm not sure he knew what the event was going to be I don't know that he knew that," said Russo. Russo related how Rockefeller knew precisely what the event would lead to and which countries would be militarily targeted by the elite.

Saturday 28th October 2006: -

• The US Orchestrated 9/11, Iranian Government Official Says - An Iranian government official accused the US of staging the attacks of September 11, 2001, claiming the New York's World Trade Centre was actually blown up by bombs, not by terrorists' hijacked planes. "What we watched on the TVs regarding the slamming of two planes into the New York Twin Towers, was in fact a make-believe scene," Deputy Culture Minister Mohammad-Hadi Homayoun was quoted by state news agency IRNA. He spoke in an address to the Iran-Russia Dialogue among Civilizations Conference in Moscow. "The sky-scrapers were destroyed through bomb explosions and afterwards the massive US media propaganda and the crusade issue began", the minister said referring to US President George W Bush's controversial remarks that outlined a "crusade" against terrorism following the 9/11 attacks.   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• Banks facing fines over ID thefts - Several leading banks may be facing unlimited fines over allegations that they dumped confidential customer account details in bin bags on streets. The information watchdog, Richard Thomas, told the Times that he had received "highly disturbing evidence". He is investigating alleged lapses by the Royal Bank of Scotland, Halifax, HSBC, Natwest and Post Office, it said. The British Bankers Association said it was normal practice to dispose of confidential information securely.

• Bush: U.S. Doesn't Torture Prisoners: Must be true then I guess! - President Bush said Friday the United States does not torture prisoners, commenting after Vice President Dick Cheney embraced the suggestion that a dunk in water might be useful to get terrorist suspects to talk. Human rights groups complained that Cheney's words amounted to an endorsement of a torture technique known as "water boarding," in which the victim believes he is about to drown. The White House insisted Cheney was not talking about water boarding, but would not explain what he meant.

• Cold weather's 25,000 deaths toll is scandal, say charities - More than 25,000 people died in England and Wales last winter as a direct result of cold weather and the illnesses that accompany it, official figures disclosed yesterday. Older people's charities said this seasonal death toll was a national scandal, largely brought about by Britain's failure to provide insulation and support for vulnerable pensioners who could not afford to keep their homes warm.

• Implantable RFID Microchips to Monitor Blood Sugar - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Digital Angel Corporation (AMEX: DOC) a patent for its syringe-implantable glucose-sensing RFID microchip, Digital Angel announced today. The RFID microchip measures the glucose concentration levels of diabetic patients and will be marketed and distributed by Digital Angel's sister company, VeriChip, as an extension to the company's products benefiting people. "A glucose-sensing microchip could profoundly impact the 230 million people worldwide living with diabetes," said Digital Angel CEO and President, Kevin McGrath. "Patent approval for this RFID microchip is a major step in bringing this life-altering technology to market. It also underscores Digital Angel's commitment to innovation, product development and rapid growth." Checking blood glucose levels regularly is critical to properly managing diabetes. The conventional method - a finger prick - is invasive, painful and often inaccurate. The implantable bio-sensor chip has a passive transponder, glucose sensor and integrated circuitry that allow anyone implanted with the microchip to painlessly scan it to determine their level of glucose concentration. The RFID microchip quickly and accurately transmits the glucose data back to a wireless scanner that displays the glucose level. The RFID microchip is powered by the scanner signal, avoiding the need for a battery in the microchip.

• U.S. Military Blocks Troops From Visiting Alternative News Websites - We realize that when it comes to freedom of the press, the USA has fallen to Number 53 in the world — tied with our fascist homies in Croatia and the islanders of the Kingdom of Tonga! — but do we have to make is so damned obvious? Another Marine stationed in Iraq has sent us a screenshot of what happens when you need some hot news on Macaca and Foley:forbidden, this page (http://www.wonkette.com) is categorized as (Personal Pages) ALL SITES YOU VISIT ARE LOGGED AND FILED. Nice little threat at the end, too. Asswipes.

• Chinese man jailed for internet subversion - A MAN HAS BEEN dropped in the clink in China for three years for supposedly causing trouble by posting a pro-rights essay online. According to news.com, Li Jianping, a 40 year old and student participant in China's infamous Tiananmen Square 1989 demonstrations, was nabbed for posting an essay published on overseas Chinese websites in 2003. He'd been accused of "inciting subversion of state power," and found guilty. The essay Li posted was in support of Hong Kong protestors fighting against a widely criticised legislation, Article 23, which has been accused of clamping down on political liberty.

Friday 27th October 2006: -

• MORE MAINSTREAM MEDIA FEAR/HATE MONGERING: Australian Muslim cleric blames women for rape - Australia's most senior Muslim cleric has been forced to apologise after provoking widespread outrage with a speech in which he appeared to blame women for rape, comparing them with "uncovered meat" that attracts animals. Sheik Taj Aldin al-Hilali reportedly made the remarks in a religious address to 500 worshippers in Sydney last month, during Ramadan. The speech was translated by The Australian newspaper, which ran excerpts yesterday.

• Poll: Most feel civil liberties not harmed by war on terror - Most Americans do not believe the Bush administration has gone too far in restricting civil liberties as part of the war on terror, a new CNN poll released Thursday suggests. While 39 percent of the 1,013 poll respondents said the Bush administration has gone too far, 34 percent said they believe the administration has been about right on the restrictions, according to the Opinion Research Corp. survey. Another 25 percent said the administration has not gone far enough. Asked whether Bush has more power than any other U.S. president, 65 percent of poll respondents said no. Thirty-three percent said yes. Of those who said yes, a quarter said that was bad for the country.

Thursday 26th October 2006: -

• Team develops DNA switch to interface living organisms with computers: Researchers at the University of Portsmouth, UK, have developed an electronic switch based on DNA - a world-first bio-nanotechnology breakthrough that provides the foundation for the interface between living organisms and the computer world - The new technology is called a ‘nanoactuator’ or a molecular dynamo. The device is invisible to the naked eye - about one thousandth of a strand of human hair. The DNA switch has been developed by British Molecular Biotechnology expert Dr Keith Firman at the University of Portsmouth working in collaboration with other European researchers. Dr Firman and his international team have been awarded a €2 million European Commission grant to further develop this ground-breaking new technology.

• US, EU sketch plans for global immigration database: If your print ain't down, you ain't coming in - The US is to corral "like-minded" nations behind a global immigration database after proving with a trial link to British computers that such an ambitious, global plan is technically feasible. Allies of the US have joined it in talks to formulate an international policy framework that would allow the sharing of immigration databases, effectively creating a global border control.

Wednesday 25th October 2006: -

• US naval war games off the Iranian coastline: A provocation which could lead to War? - There is a massive concentration of US naval power in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. Three US naval strike groups off the Iranian coastline are deployed: USS Enterprise, USS Eisenhower and USS Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group. The naval strike groups have been assigned to fighting the "global war on terrorism." Tehran considers the US war games to be conducted in the Persian Gulf, off the Iranian coastline as a provocation, which is intended to trigger a potential crisis and a situation of direct confrontation between US and Iranian naval forces in the Persian Gulf.

• ID card scheme to buy junk food - AN Ulverston school is pressing for an ID card system that would stop kids from munching junk food in lunch breaks. The initiative would see some pupils turned away from the town’s shops and cafes during the dinner hour in an effort to encourage them to eat school dinners. The idea has been proposed by Ulverston Victoria High School. Students in year 11 and above would be given a card displaying their photograph, allowing businesses to check whether or not they were allowed to be in town during school hours and could be served grub.

• Fingerprint plan for kids - SCANNERS which read children's thumbprints when they buy school meals are being introduced in city schools. The ECHO understands some faith schools in Liverpool are trying out the hitech equipment to improve speed and safety. Instead of a child bringing their lunch money into the schools, parents pay electronically into a special account.

• German ministers 'knew about CIA torture cells' - The German government is alleged to have received first-hand evidence that the CIA began torturing terrorist suspects at secret prisons in Europe shortly after the September 11 attacks, despite claiming it only knew about such sites through the media. Stern magazine quoted a leaked German intelligence report yesterday which said that only weeks after September 11 2001, two agents and a translator visited a US military prison at the American "Eagle Base" in the Bosnian town of Tuzla, where they saw a torture victim.

• Tesco condemned for selling pole dancing toy - Tesco has been forced to remove a pole-dancing kit from the toys and games section of its website after it was accused of "destroying children's innocence". The Tesco Direct site advertises the kit with the words, "Unleash the sex kitten inside...simply extend the Peekaboo pole inside the tube, slip on the sexy tunes and away you go! "Soon you'll be flaunting it to the world and earning a fortune in Peekaboo Dance Dollars". The £49.97 kit comprises a chrome pole extendible to 8ft 6ins, a 'sexy dance garter' and a DVD demonstrating suggestive dance moves.   (RELATED EXTERNAL LINK: boycotttesco.com)

• Pointing fingers at corporate security - Fingerprinting firm DigitalPersona has launched a new version of its fingerprint authentication system, Digitalpersona Pro 4.0, which it says is faster and more reliable than its predecessor. Designed for use in a corporate environment, version 4.0 is more accurate, the company says, supports individual sign-on, is highly scalable, and is interoperable with all varieties of fingerprint sensors - optical and silicon. Those with responsibility for such things can read up on the technology here. Company co-founder and CTO Vance Bjorn is keen to stress that he is not pushing fingerprinting as a one-stop solution for security. He is all too aware of the limitations of the technology and of the criticisms levelled against it, but, he argues, it has its place.

Tuesday 24th October 2006: -

• Pay By Touch Introduces Rapid Enroll Kiosk(TM) to Improve Loyalty Program Enrollment Process: Internet-enabled System Expedites Enrollment, Reduces Processing Costs, Improves Customer Experience - Pay By Touch, the leader in integrated biometric authentication, personalized marketing and payment solutions, today announced the immediate availability of its Rapid Enroll Kiosk(TM). The new Internet-enabled retail kiosks speed and streamline enrollment for loyalty and rewards programs. The system allows for quick and easy customer sign up, and reduces enrollment processing time and expense for grocers and retailers. "Pay By Touch is committed to providing retailers with innovative solutions that improve the customer experience and make business sense," said John Rogers, founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pay By Touch. "The new Pay By Touch Rapid Enroll Kiosk simplifies loyalty program enrollment for customers and reduces costs associated with enrollment for merchants."   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• German Railway Tests Biometric Technology: Problem > Reaction > Solution - Terrorists attempting to smuggle bombs into trains could be stopped in their tracks by intelligent surveillance technology being tested by German railway company Deutsche Bahn. "We’re a couple of weeks into a pilot project that is testing technology designed to automatically detect terrorists or other criminals entering trains and alert security personnel," Jens Puls, director of corporate security at Deutsche Bahn, said Monday at the Systems IT trade show in Munich. The project comes on the heels of foiled attempts to bomb two German regional trains in July, Puls said. German investigators have meanwhile learned that the terrorists had planned to bomb trains during the World Cup soccer tournament in Germany earlier this year but decided to wait because of the country’s tight security measures during the games.

• BBC admits: We are biased on religion and politics: Internal corporation memo on ‘impartiality’ summit leaked to British media exposes truth on BBC bias – The British Broadcasting Corporation has been struggling for several years against criticisms and claims of biased reporting concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and distorted coverage of the global fight against terror. Following a diplomatic incident with Israel, the BBC appointed an editor known for his objective reporting, however, the true stance of the corporation’s editors remained the same. An internal memo, recently discovered by the British media, revealed what the BBC has been trying to hide. Senior figures admitted in a recent 'impartiality' summit that the BBC was guilty of promoting Left-wing views and anti-Christian sentiment.

• Youth prison system in 'meltdown' - Senior officials of the Prison Service and the Youth Justice Board have warned that the number of young people being held in custody in England and Wales has reached a crisis level and that the system is in danger of a "meltdown". Figures released today by the Youth Justice Board reveal that 3,350 youngsters are currently being held and that immediate action was needed before the handful of beds now available were filled. Dozens of children and youths from London are being held in South Yorkshire and the Scottish borders because of the shortage of beds, contravening rules that young offenders should not be held more than 50 miles from home.

• RFID chips embedded into collectable videgame cards: Information saved on chips provide interactive card-to-game playing - Mattel has teamed up with British company Innovision Research and Technology to create a new games platform that incorporates RFID technology into collectable cards. Hyperscan combines video games with collectable cards for the first time interactively. Each card is equipped with an RFID chip, while a reader plugs into the games console. Players scan their cards in order to take on the role of certain characters on the cards, and imbue them with special skills and powers. During the game, rescanning the card will enhance their characters' strength or armoury.

• VIDEO: Skipton's First 911 Truth Meeting: (Narrowboat pub, Thursday 19th October 2006) - What follows is uncut and unedited footage of the events at the Skipton 911 Truth Movement's first meeting in the town, held at the Narrowboat pub on the evening of Thursday 19th October 2006. The two speakers concerned were David Shayler (former MI5 officer) and his partner Annie Machon (also former MI5). The reason I filmed this event was to provide a document of proceedings thereby allowing those who were unable to attend to view the event online.  (Part One is Currently having technical difficulties)

Monday 23rd October 2006: -

• No limits on DNA database, says PM - Tony Blair has insisted there should be no limits on the expansion of the national DNA database, saying it was vital for catching serious criminals. The Prime Minister said the public were behind the controversial project as he urged police to make use of technological advances to solve thousands of "cold cases" During a tour of the Forensic Science Service Headquarters in central London, he said: "I think the politicians are more resistant (to the database) than the public. "I think the public think if this is helping us track down murderers, rapists... then go for it."

• ID cards plan remains "worryingly vague": LSE academics criticise government's latest cost estimates - The government's ID cards plan and cost estimates remain "worryingly vague", according to academics at the London School of Economics (LSE). The LSE response follows the Home Office's first "section 37" report, which will be given to parliament every six months, on the latest cost estimates for the UK's national ID cards scheme. The first report earlier this month said the ID cards scheme will cost £5.4bn to set up and run over the next 10 years, with 15 per cent - £810m - relating to investment in the technology. Dr Edgar A Whitley, from the LSE's Department of Management, said the report is "worryingly vague" about the timeline for implementation and does little to increase public confidence in the scheme.

• VIEW THE FILM ONLINE NOW: AARON RUSSO'S: AMERICA - FROM FREEDOM TO FASCISM - A documentary that explores the connection between income tax collection and the erosion of civil liberties in America.   (Also available on DVD from the official site freedomtofascism.com - Alex Jones has also added this to his own Infowars online store - Own a hard copy on DVD!)

• Hungarian police clamp down on anti-government protests - Hungarian police fired rubber bullets at anti-government protesters today as the country marked the 50th anniversary of its anti-Soviet uprising. Photographers at the scene said one demonstrator had been hit in the head by a rubber bullet and was bleeding but still conscious. A line of about 150 police slowly advanced behind three water cannon towards a crowd of protesters. About 200 demonstrators threw bottles and rocks at the police, who fired tear gas back at them.

• Irish passports go RFID, and naked: Mug me, my house is currently worth a fortune - The Irish government has begun issuing RFID passports with biometric data that can be read at a distance to comply with US regulations for its visa waiver programme. But unlike the RFID passports the USA is now issuing, the Irish ones lack a security feature preventing them from being skimmed, or read surreptitiously.

Sunday 22nd October 2006: -

• Surveillance cameras OK’d for high schools: Cameras are intended to detect and prevent violence - A half-million-dollar program to install surveillance cameras in local public high schools, including Menlo-Atherton and Woodside, has been approved unanimously by the Sequoia Union High School District Board of Trustees. Systems also are to be installed at Carlmont and Sequoia high schools. The board acted Oct. 18 at the request of assistant superintendent Ed LaVigne, who had set aside about $500,000 in bond money for the job a couple of years ago when school principals let him know that they wanted cameras on campus. The recent violence in schools across the country "just reminded me that we have this request," LaVigne said in an interview. Board President Gordon Lewin said in an interview that he "wasn't about to second guess the principals' views on this matter."

• AUDIO DOWNLOAD: Webster Tarpley talk with Ian Henshall - Tarpley talks to UK author and activist Ian Henshall about the state of the 911 Truth campaign in the UK and efforts to talk to other political groups in the UK, including the Green Party, SNP and leftist/antiwar groups, encouraging them to take these ideas on board.

• Dogs in 9/11 search doing OK: Well the ones that are still alive! - They dug in the toxic World Trade Center dust for survivors, and later for the dead. Their feet were burned by white-hot debris. But unlike thousands of others who toiled at Ground Zero after Sept. 11, these rescue workers aren't sick, researchers say. Although many Ground Zero dogs have died -- some of rare cancers -- researchers say many have lived beyond the average lifespan for dogs and are not getting any sicker than average.

• O'Brien urges Muslims to say sorry for 9/11 - THE leader of Scotland's Roman Catholics, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, has called for Muslims to apologise for the 9/11 and 7/7 bomb attacks, declaring that the public should not have to live "in fear of attack" from believers of the Islamic faith. In a move that has provoked a storm of outrage, the cardinal claims that, as the Pope apologised for the offence caused last month by his comments on the Islamic faith, so Muslims should now step up and say sorry for the attacks carried out in the name of their faith.

• US 'arrogant and stupid' in Iraq - A senior US state department official has said that the US has shown "arrogance and stupidity" in Iraq. Alberto Fernandez made the remarks during an interview with Arabic television station al-Jazeera. The state department says Mr Fernandez was quoted incorrectly - but BBC Arabic language experts say Mr Fernandez did indeed use the words. It comes after President George W Bush discussed changing tactics with top US commanders to try to combat the unrest. Mr Fernandez, an Arabic speaker who is director of public diplomacy in the state department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, told Qatar-based al-Jazeera that the world was "witnessing failure in Iraq".

• Schools tracking students electronically - Up to one hundred Australian schools are electronically tracking students to tackle truancy. Under the system, reported by Fairfax, students swipe a card to register their arrival at school and at classes. Roles are checked and parents are notified automatically about any unexplained absences by computer-generated letter, email or SMS. The swipe cards also record late arrivals and early leavers. Parents can request an instant print-out of their child's attendance.

• Beer fingerprints to go UK-wide - The government is is funding the roll out of fingerprint security at the doors of pubs and clubs in major English cities. Funding is being offered to councils that want to have their pubs keep a regional black list of known trouble makers. The fingerprint network installed in February by South Somerset District Council in Yeovil drinking holesy is being used as the show case. "The Home Office have looked at our system and are looking at trials in other towns including Coventry, Hull & Sheffield," said Julia Bradburn, principal licensing manager at South Somerset District Council.

• Steve Jones Announces Early Retirement From BYU
  
  Friends and Colleagues:
  
  BYU issued a press release today -- I have elected to take early retirement from BYU. I don't have the actual release -- it will be in local papers tomorrow and may be on the BYU web site now.
  
  I feel that this is a good move for me. I have been contacted by another school about joining their faculty, and may do so -- but no decision on that yet. I think it will work out for the best. I assure you all that I will continue in my research on 9/11 issues, and speaking out -- should have more time for these activities in fact.
  
  With this window of opportunity, I sent the letter below to local newspapers; perhaps it could be posted at st911.org, Jim, if you wish. "Dr. Jones letter to newspaper editors upon announcement of his retirement from BYU," or something like that.
  
  I feel good about this -- not angry with BYU, moving on and happy with it overall.
  
  Thanks for all your support, especially to those who signed the petition at st911.org in my behalf.
  
  My sincere thanks to all my friends in the 9/11 truth community worldwide; we have a great, growing community of intelligent, caring people. We can do this!
  
  Sincerely,
  
  Steven E. Jones
  Physicist
  20 October 2006

Saturday 21st October 2006: -

• Camera plan to catch bad drivers - Traffic cameras to catch motorists blocking box junctions or ignoring road signs could be introduced countrywide. The government is considering extending the use of the cameras already in place in London, where one million drivers were fined last year. Sheila Granger, of the RAC, expressed concern there would be fewer traffic police on the roads to spot problems like drug-driving and mobile phone use. Councils around the country could begin using the cameras from 2008.  (RELATED: See our Total Global Surveillance archive)

• Labour admissions leave ID cards plans in disarray - LABOUR'S national identity card scheme was in disarray last night after the Home Office insisted that its budget and timetable were now "flexible", despite claiming last week that both elements were set in stone. A devastating document slipped out by the Government yesterday also revealed that the Home Office believes it is impossible to work out exactly what ID cards will be used for, and what biometric data they should hold, until after they are introduced. Tory Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said the uncertainty over the project at this late stage "beggars belief", while Harrogate Liberal Democrat MP Phil Willis called the announcements "pure Yes Minister stuff".

• Home Office plans floating jails - The Home Office is moving ahead with plans to use prison ships to ease overcrowding in prisons. Britain's last floating prison - HMP Weare, moored at Portland Harbour in Dorset - closed last year. The government has advertised for contractors to provide up to 800 places on ships in England and Wales. The move comes as the first prisoners were moved into designated police cells as part of the plans to alleviate the overcrowding crisis.

• Putin's 'rape joke' played down - Russia's President Vladimir Putin has been overheard joking about the virility of his Israeli counterpart, who is accused of multiple rape. A Russian journalist said Mr Putin joked that President Moshe Katsav was a "mighty man", adding "we all envy him". Mr Katsav is facing allegations that he raped members of his staff. He strongly denies the claims.

• U.S. ambassador says new high-tech ID cards will speed up cross-border travel - A United States plan to introduce a high-tech ID card that would allow residents to re-enter the country without a passport will actually speed up cross-border travel, not impede it as critics suggest, U.S. ambassador David Wilkins said Thursday. In response to concerns about the original scheme, which would have required American citizens to carry a passport whenever they left the country, the U.S. is now proposing a high-tech, wallet-sized identity card residents can use when returning home from Canada.

• Canada supports Israel: PM - Prime Minister Stephen Harper mounted a vigorous defence on Wednesday of his government's Middle East policy, saying support for Israel is "fundamental to what this nation has always stood for." Speaking to a B'nai Brith dinner in Toronto, Harper made no apologies for his government siding with the Jewish state during this summer's fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

• Microchips becoming the latest medical accessory - It's a technology that's already being used on millions of pets in America. Now, microchips are being implanted in human beings as well and this week in Las Vegas, the procedure is being performed on dozens of people attending a medical convention. The implants are inserted into the arm. The tiny computer chips can help doctors get important medical information. The chips are incredibly small and are implanted just under the skin. The chips that are used in dogs and cats contain information that can identify the animal if it gets lost. In the case of humans, the chips provide a link to a computer database that gives doctors instant access to a patient's complete medical history.

• Parts of Canada Secrecy Law Struck Down - A court struck down sections of a Canadian anti-terrorism law Thursday, in a ruling that threw out warrants used to search the home of a reporter covering U.S. efforts to secretly send a Canadian terror suspect to Syria for interrogation. The Ontario Superior Court judgment quashed three sections of the so-called leakage provisions of the federal Security of Information Act, which passed following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.   (COMMENTARY: By design, I might add on to the end of that - see our 9/11 archive to see more information on how the 'authorities' are using staged terror attacks to - in turn - attack our civil liberties)

Friday 20th October 2006: -

• Red Cross lambasts US terror law - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has expressed concern over a newly-approved US anti-terrorism law. ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger said the law raised "questions" about its compliance with the Geneva Conventions on the conduct of war. He said some points had been omitted, such as the right to a fair trial and the ban on humiliating and degrading treatment of prisoners.

• Touch, eat 'n' tell: Pinellas schools are testing a new ID system designed to let students zip through lunch lines — and give them an incentive to make wise choices from the menu - Coming to Pinellas County schools: a way for parents to check up on their children’s meal choices. The new technology, which debuted Wednesday at two schools, will let parents go online and see exactly what their kids are buying for lunch. If the trial period goes smoothly, the program should be available in every Pinellas school by early April, administrators said. The $900,000 system, developed by Horizon Software International of Loganville, Ga., uses a biometric finger scan to identify students.

• Mayor, Gov. Argue 9/11 Pension Benefits - WNBC.com's Melissa Russo exclusively reported on a debate that affects the families of rescue workers who die from World Trade Center-related illnesses. A meeting of the New York City pension boards scheduled for Friday has been postponed because of a disagreement over how much the city should pay families of deceased rescue workers. Gov. George Pataki signed a new law in August that would pay family members as if their loved one died in the line of duty, even if they had already retired before they died. For example, the widow and children of a police officer who dies in the line of duty would receive 100 percent of that officer's salary until the children are grown, according to the governor's office and police unions. However, New York City lawyers have a different interpretation. In a memo obtained by NewsChannel 4, they argue the city only has to pay half an officer's salary in such cases. Police union President Pat Lynch is calling this an outrageous attempt by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to shortchange the heroes of Sept. 11, 2001.

• See a Smoker in a Non-Smoking Area? Call 911 - If you catch someone smoking in a non-smoking area in Omaha, Neb., call the police. The Omaha Police Department (OPD) is encouraging city residents to call 911 in the wake of the citywide ban on smoking that went into effect on Oct. 2. Teresa Negron, sergeant in charge of public information of the OPD, explained that the department encourages observers of infractions to pick up the phone to report the infraction -- just like they would for any other crime they observe being committed. "Citizens or business owners that observe a violation to the smoking ban are urged to call 911 and report the violation," Negron told Cybercast News Service. "[It's like] any other crime that happens in any city -- if somebody sees a crime happen, they can call 911 and report it."

Thursday 19th October 2006: -

• THE BOOGEYMEN ARE COMING: UK 'number one al-Qaeda target' - Al-Qaeda has become more organised and sophisticated and has made Britain its top target, counter-terrorism officials have told the BBC. Security sources say the situation has never been so grim, said BBC home affairs correspondent Margaret Gilmore. They believe the network is now operating a cell structure in the UK - like the IRA did - and sees the 7 July bomb attacks "as just the beginning". Each cell has a leader, a quartermaster dealing with weapons, and volunteers.

• Database state could go pear-shaped, says police chief - The boss of UK police technology has warned that government attempts to use surveillance and databases to impose law and order could backfire unless those with access to the system are prevented from abusing the power it gives them. But authorities are not using the means already available to penalize organisations that abuse information in state databases. Six months after the Criminal Records Bureau bragged it had the powers to punish firms that used police records to discriminate against vulnerable ex-offenders, it is still only giving the firms slaps on the wrists for their offences. Philip Webb, chief executive of the Police Information Technology Organisation, said: "What we've not got is clear rules for ensuring that data is protected and new data is properly controlled. Custodianship of information is an issue that legislators should address from a national and international level." The police should be able to use information to protect people from danger he said, and this increasingly meant sharing data with the private sector. The problem was, data was too prone to get into the wrong hands.

• Post office rally collects "largest ever" petition - Thousands of subpostmasters will present what they say is Britain's biggest-ever domestic petition at Downing Street on Wednesday to demand the government safeguard the future of 14,500 local post offices. Around 2,500 have been shut in urban areas in recent years while the remaining network lost 111 million pounds last year, largely through the loss of vital government contracts. The 4 million names, collected at post offices across the country will be the largest domestic petition ever presented to a prime minister, said the rally's organisers, the National Federation of SubPostmasters (NSFP).

Wednesday 18th October 2006: -

• Judge refuses to grant immunity from 9/11 lawsuits - A federal judge has ruled that thousands of emergency workers sickened by World Trade Center dust can press their claims against New York City. US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said in a ruling Tuesday that he'll appoint a special master to evaluate claims against the city, its contractors, and the Port Authority. The city and its contractors are trying to avoid damages in lawsuits filed on behalf of workers who cleaned up the World Trade Center site for months after 9/11.

• Troops will be in Afghanistan for next 20 years, says commander - The commander of the British forces returning from Helmand said that his forces were having to make up for the time lost by the decision of the US and UK to invade Iraq instead of concentrating on post-Taliban Afghanistan. "We could have carried on in 2002 in the same way we have gone about business now," said Brigadier Ed Butler. "Have the interim four years made a difference? I think realistically they have. It doesn't mean that we will not achieve what we set out to do."

• FaceKey files patent on biometric device that accesses vending machines: FaceKey Corp. is looking to find new ways for consumers to buy sodas and other items from vending machines without the use of cash - San Antonio-based FaceKey (OTC Pink Sheets: FEKY) has developed a new technology that uses biometrics to access vending machines. And it has filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to protect its designs. The new patent application is titled "Biometric Access Control System for Vending Machines." It covers a biometric-based mobile device that can provide controlled access to many different types of vending machines. FaceKey President Yevgeny B. Levitov says the new patent application demonstrates the company's commitment to broadening the company's intellectual property portfolio beyond building access control or time and attendance products.   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• "How Orwellian can you get?" - RFID for air travellers - A plan to tag air travellers with RFID chips to improve airport security by monitoring passengers as they kill time after check-in in airport coffee shops and departure lounges has been slammed by silicon.com readers as "another ill thought out idea", "a solution looking for a problem" and even "dead in the water". Electrical engineers working on University College London's 'Optag' project have designed a prototype RFID tag with a much greater range than a standard RFID chip - up to 20 metres. The new tags are to be trialled at an airport in Hungary next month and, if successful, could be rolled out to airports within two years, according to project lead Dr Paul Brennan. But a smooth rollout is unlikely, judging by the overwhelmingly negative reaction of silicon.com readers - many of whom cast doubt on the effectiveness of the tagging technology as a security measure.

• Post office incomes 'eaten away' - A Belfast subpostmistress has accused the government of "eating away" at the income of post offices "by stealth". Wendy Cairns, who runs Dunmurry sub post office, is among those calling for urgent action to safeguard the network of rural post offices. A petition of four million names will be handed into Downing Street and the National Federation of Subpostmasters will hold a rally in London. Ms Cairns said when post offices close "communities just die".

• French forces: Stop Lebanon overflights or we'll open fire - The commanders of the French contingent in UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) have warned that if Israeli warplanes continue their overflights in Lebanon, they may have to open fire on them, Defense Minister Amir Peretz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday. Peretz told members of the committee that despite the warnings, Israel would continue to patrol the skies of Lebanon as such operations were critical for the country's security. Over the past few days, Peretz said, Israel had gathered clear evidence that Syria was transfering arms and ammunition to Lebanon, meaning that the embargo imposed by UN Resolution 1701 was not being completely enforced.

• Human species 'may split in two' - Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said. Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge. The human race would peak in the year 3000, he said - before a decline due to dependence on technology. People would become choosier about their sexual partners, causing humanity to divide into sub-species, he added.

• Bush clears way for continued CIA interrogations - US President George W Bush on Tuesday cleared the way for continued CIA interrogations of terrorism suspects, signing a law he says is vital to preventing new attacks. The measure also legalizes future military trials of terror suspects at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. One of those whom Bush wants to face justice is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US. White House spokesman Tony Snow said it would be 'a month or two at least' before trials by so-called military commissions begin. After months of emotional political debate, the signing sealed a crucial part of Bush's agenda and a victory over critics who say the law undermines US standing in the world.

• Web could be terror training camp: Chertoff - Disaffected people living in the United States may develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the Internet and that could present the next major U.S. security threat, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Monday. "We now have a capability of someone to radicalize themselves over the Internet," Chertoff said on the sidelines of a meeting of International Association of the Chiefs of Police. "They can train themselves over the Internet. They never have to necessarily go to the training camp or speak with anybody else and that diffusion of a combination of hatred and technical skills in things like bomb-making is a dangerous combination," Chertoff said. "Those are the kind of terrorists that we may not be able to detect with spies and satellites."

• Another Stone 9/11 film may be in works - After dealing with the 9/11 rescue effort in his (mostly) critically acclaimed "World Trade Center," Oliver Stone is looking to stay on the topic. According to Variety, Stone may make "Jawbreaker" his next project for Paramount. The film examines the government's response to the attacks, specifically the search for Osama bin Laden.

• Attleboro School Bans Tag, Other Recess Games - ATTLEBORO Children at the Willett Elementary School in Attleboro are not allowed to play tag, touch football or any games involving contact during recess. Prinicpal Gaylene Heppe cited the safety risks and the school's liability in case of injury as reasons for the recess ban. Heppe, who is in her second year as principal, told CBS4 the ban is not new and has been in effect for years. "I was surprised....I think they should be allowed to. I used to run and chase, play kickball, dodgeball, all that," said parent Colleen Bischoff. Critics of the policy said it's just another way to micromanage kids. "Kids will be kids, no matter what. Kids are going to trip on rocks, it happens," said one unidentified parent.

• Inside Illuminati Lodge Skull and Bones 322 Yale University: According to Italian celebrity, Leo Zagami, these our truly the end times because the Jesuit Order, firmly in control of the Catholic Church and NWO, are well known black magicians of the most powerful kind, dealing directly with the Devil himself - This Confession to the Jesuits features the efforts of Leo Zagami, an Italian fighting the forces of evil by exposing real stories about evil Satanists, hiding behind names like the Illuminati, Zionists, Freemasons, P2, GLADIO, Opus Dei, the Jesuits and the New World Order. Zagami is a man of many talents, becoming one of Italy's most respected DJ's and a member of one of his countries successful dance music shows called Centro Suono Sound System.

Tuesday 17th October 2006: -

• Treasury refuses to release UK ID card analysis - The Treasury is still resisting demands to publish an independent analysis of the cost of introducing identity cards, it has emerged. The move comes despite a ruling from the information commissioner Richard Thomas that the so-called 'gateway review' into the £5.4bn scheme should be released. However a report in Computer Weekly magazine on Tuesday found the Treasury's Office of Government Commerce has asked for that decision to be put to an appeal tribunal, which could cost taxpayers £100,000. Conservative MP Richard Bacon, a member of the Commons public accounts committee, told the magazine: "It is extraordinary that the government would go to such lengths to prevent the publication of gateway reviews.

• Terror control orders explained - It has emerged that two terror suspects under control orders to restrict their movements are on the run. The orders have been surrounded by controversy since their introduction in March 2005. They were introduced to replace emergency laws brought in after the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US. Those laws had allowed the government to imprison a number of foreign terror suspects without charge or trial.   (COMMENTARY: Don't you just love the BBC, they know how to sell the New World Order agenda within the first few paragraphs... no beating about the bush!  'The terrorists are coming, give up your rights, its for your own good, totalitarianism will protect you, the threat is real!')

I don't know about you but I'm on board!

• Anger over plans to spy on students - University bosses and lecturers reacted with anger and alarm last night over government plans to encourage academics to spy on their students. They said the measures, outlined in a leaked document obtained by the Guardian, were misplaced and likely to be counterproductive in the drive to root out extremist activity on university campuses. According to the proposals drawn up by the Department for Education and Skills, ministers are to ask staff to spy on "Asian looking" or Muslim students, informing special branch of anyone they suspect of being involved in Islamic extremism.

• Deformed babies killed for super race - THE North Korean regime's obsession with racial purity has led to the killing of disabled infants and forced abortions for women suspected of conceiving their babies by Chinese fathers, according to a growing body of testimony from defectors. The latest description of Kim Jong-il's policy of state eugenics came from a North Korean doctor, Ri Kwang-chol, who escaped last year and told a forum in Seoul that babies with deformities were killed soon after birth. "There are no people with physical defects in North Korea," Dr Ri said. Such babies were put to death by medical staff and buried quickly, he claimed. He denied ever committing the act himself.

• "Official" 9/11 story On Life support; The Truth is Taking Over - The gutless purveyors of fraud trying to shout down the 9/11 Truth movement are not going to like this news. The "official" story is on life support, and the prognosis is not good. A new New York Times/CBS poll reveals that only 16 percent of Americans think they're being told the whole truth about 9/11, down from 21 percent in May of 2002. Over this same period, the number who believe the administration is "hiding something" has actually decreased from 65 to 53 percent, which might seem odd, but only until you take into account that the ranks of those who think the Bush crime family is "mostly lying" has skyrocketed from 8 to 28 percent. Feelings are getting stronger. Skepticism is giving way to certainty. The 9/11 Truth Movement is growing exponentially.

It isn't that difficult to figure out is it?

• Hillary Clinton supports selective torture of terror suspects: Senator Hillary Clinton has said that she supports legalizing the torture of a captured terror suspect who knows about “an imminent threat to millions of Americans” - Senator Hillary Clinton has said that she supports legalizing the torture of a captured terror suspect who knows about “an imminent threat to millions of Americans”. This, she said was an exception to her opposition to torture. “If we're going to be preparing for the kind of improbable but possible eventuality, then it has to be done within the rule of law,” the New York Daily News quoted Hillary as saying in a phone interview on Friday. She said the “ticking time bomb” scenario represented a narrow exception to her opposition to torture as morally wrong, ineffective and dangerous to American soldiers.

• Microchips planted under skin to pay bills - A recent study showed that almost one in ten teenagers and one in twenty adults would be willing to have a microchip implanted to pay shop bills and help to prevent card or identity fraud and muggings. The retail industry in the UK is the latest to look at the applications of biometric payment methods. These include fingerprint and iris recognition, along with a personalised microchip, which could be inserted under the skin. A quick scan of the arm would indicate a customer's bank details so that a payment could be made. A recent study (9 October 2006) carried out by the Institute for Grocery Distribution (IGD), a retail think-tank in the UK, showed that almost one in ten teenagers and one in twenty adults would be willing to have a microchip implanted to pay shop bills and help to prevent card or identity fraud and muggings.   (RELATED: See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• Help Push "Terrorstorm" to the top at Google video - On Saturday's "World Crisis Radio", Webster Tarpley gave Alex Jones some airtime, and Jones made a personal request to everyone listening to help get around Google's counter-resetting by driving Terrorstorm to the top of the Google video charts where it can be viewed by millions.  Here is a direct link to one of the Google Video feeds.  You can also view the film below: -

Monday 16th October 2006: -

• Fingerprints coming to a licence near you: B.C. considers ID for drivers that's tough to forge, could counter U.S. plans to require passports - British Columbia could soon become the first Canadian jurisdiction to imprint driver's licences with fingerprints or other biometric features. The province is studying the biometric technology, which, according to B.C. Solicitor General John Les, would have an added benefit other than making licences tougher to forge: It would bolster the argument against controversial American plans to require passports for Canadians visiting the U.S. by 2009.

• Inquiry launched as children in care run off in pyjamas - An inquiry is being launched after five youngsters ran away from their children's home dressed in just their pyjamas. The children, aged between ten and 13, sparked a major police hunt as they were able to make their way across much of Bradford before being found several hours later. The alarm was raised early yesterday morning when the children were seen, dripping wet in their night clothes, on a golf course near to the home. Staff opening up the course called police after they saw the group of youngsters looking bedraggled on a fairway, but they had gone by the time officers arrived.

• 350G PAYCHECK FOR CITY'S 9/11 SCROOGE - The woman in charge of the $1 billion fund that's fighting claims by sickened World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers is collecting $350,000 a year plus benefits from the federal fund - a pay package that has stunned and angered advocates for the 9/11 responders. Christine LaSala, president and CEO of the city-controlled WTC Captive Insurance Co., which is managing the 9/11 fund created by Congress, gets the entity's top salary - which has never before been publicly revealed - plus $20,000 in health benefits for herself and her family, documents obtained by The Post show. Meanwhile, teams of lawyers hired by the fund to dispute and deny more than 5,000 claims for illnesses blamed on toxic exposure at Ground Zero earn up to $550 an hour for "senior partners," the records show. Other top lawyers working for the entity earn higher rates, sources said.

• HEINZ KISSINGER STILL ACTING AS WHITE HOUSE CAPO FOR DAVID ROCKEFELLER LEADS US BACK TO 911: By Jack Blood - According to Bob Woodward’s newest book “State Of Denial” Henry Kissinger has been advising President Bush and Vice President Cheney about Iraq, telling them that "victory is the only meaningful exit strategy," Of course it is underplayed, and even spun to show how inept the Cheney / Bush Admin are running the War in Iraq. Oh but it says so much more to those of us who have been investigating Kissinger for many, many years now. In fact it leads to 911, and other high crimes and higher crimes by the controlling elite global mafia.

• Troubled school in Burnley to install CCTV cams - A TROUBLED school has bowed to pressure from parents and the council leader by promising to urgently install a CCTV system to protect pupils. Council leaders and parents have welcomed the move at Burnley's Hameldon Community College, formed from Ivy Bank and Habergham High School. Within three weeks a CCTV system will be installed in the college's corridors and grounds. It follows a call for action by 50 worried parents at a meeting this week after it was revealed that police had been called to the Burnley super school 19 times since it opened five weeks ago. Parents claimed a number of incidents have taken place at the college, including bullying and pupils being threatened with knives.

• Privacy concerns surrounding RFID must be addressed: Consumers don't trust the industry to handle privacy issues - The possible threat to privacy posed by RFID tags has led to calls by the EU Commission for assurance that the tags can be turned off if desired. EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding said today at a conference in Brussels that Europeans are worried about the chips' broadcasting people's personal information and the consequential loss of privacy if this happens. These RFID tags can be used for a wide variety of useful purposes, such as identifying livestock or luggage and even pointing out if food is past its sell-by date.

• Bill Maher attacks Charlie Sheen - Here's a video from Real Time with Bill Maher. The week before 9/11/06, Bill Maher finally addressing the truth only to immediately ridicule it for a cheap laugh. Not only that, he attacked Charlie Sheen, jokingly calling him a "scholar". Nevermind Jim Fetzer, Kevin Barrett, and everyone in Scholars For 9/11 Truth: -

RELATED: See our section Charlie Sheen Speaks Out on 9/11

• One man still locked up from 9/11 sweeps: Detainee has not been charged, not seen as a threat, but is behind bars - In a jail cell at an immigration detention center in Arizona sits a man who is not charged with a crime, not suspected of a crime, not considered a danger to society. But he has been in custody for five years. His name is Ali Partovi. And according to the Department of Homeland Security, he is the last to be held of about 1,200 Arab and Muslim men swept up by authorities in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Sunday 15th October 2006: -

• FLASHBACK: 'Poppy' Bush and the Franklin Cover up - I have dug this out from an old 'TV cock-up's' programme from the 80's - the audience thought that it was funny, but having read the Franklin Cover-up by John De Camp, I have to cringe a bit.  In a speech, George H W Bush talking about his first two unofficial terms as President (truth be told) with Reagan slips up and says "...we've had some sex... setbacks".  Knowing how elites work (they love to brag) I would even doubt that this was an accident. "Oooops yes we've had some wild parties at Bohemian Grove with male prostitutes and worse... and I'm telling you and you're to dumb and decadent to see it aren't you!": -

• DIEBOLD VOTING MACHINES WORK LIKE A CHARM WHEN YOU WANT THEM TO DON'T THEY!: White House upbeat about GOP prospects - Amid widespread panic in the Republican establishment about the coming midterm elections, there are two people whose confidence about GOP prospects strikes even their closest allies as almost inexplicably upbeat: President Bush and his top political adviser, Karl Rove. Some Republicans on Capitol Hill are bracing for losses of 25 House seats or more. But party operatives say Rove is predicting that, at worst, Republicans will lose only 8 to 10 seats — shy of the 15-seat threshold that would cede control to Democrats for the first time since the 1994 elections and probably hobble the balance of Bush's second term.

• Questionable justice during 'terror sting' trial - In his instructions prior to closing arguments in the Albany "terror sting" case (pizza shop owner allegedly agrees to launder money for missile sale to terrorists; such "contract" allegedly witnessed by local imam), U.S. District Judge Thomas McAvoy told the jurors that the FBI's "certain valid suspicions" about the defendants had prompted the federal sting. However, under the current regulations, jurors could neither hear nor consider the evidence that prompted the sting operation in the first place; the validity of the FBI's "suspicions" must be taken on faith.

• British police want spy planes to fight anti-social behaviour - A British police force is considering using unmanned aerial surveillance drones to fly over troubled local council housing estates to help tackle anti-social behaviour in respective areas, The Sunday Telegraph reported. The police force for Merseyside, in western England, has formed a new Anti-Social Behaviour Task Force which will have a budget of one million pounds (1.85 million dollars, 1.5 million euros), and a staff of 137, drawn from both the local police and fire services. ‘It’s a cheap way of doing aerial surveillance, it’s a cheap way of doing intelligence and evidence gathering. Put over an anti-social behaviour hotspot, it is quite a significant percentage cheaper than the force helicopter,’ said Superintendent John Myles, the joint-head of the task force.   (RELATED: See our Total Global Surveillance archive)

• BA sends home worker for wearing crucifix - BRITISH Airways has banned a Christian woman from wearing a cross on a necklace to work, it was reported today. It was reported today that Heathrow check-in worker Nadia Eweida was sent home after refusing to remove the crucifix that breached BA's dress code. The move has been criticised by Christian groups and Miss Eweida's MP Vince Cable. It is believed Miss Eweida, who has an unblemished record during seven years at BA, is suing her employer for religious discrimination after being suspended from work without pay for two weeks. Miss Eweida, 55, from Twickenham, said: "I will not hide my belief in the Lord Jesus. "British Airways permits Muslims to wear a headscarf, Sikhs to wear a turban and other faiths' religious apparel. "Only Christians are forbidden to express their faith. I am a loyal and conscientious employee of British Airways, but I stand up for the rights of all citizens."   (COMMENTARY: I do not fully agree with the statement "Only Christians are forbidden to express their faith" as we have seen recent stories in which Muslims are also being punished for their adherence to religious convictions.  I myself have breached dress codes at work as a Christian by refusing to wear a neck-tie (see here for more info) and have not had any problem.  If we stand up for our beliefs we (as supposed free human beings) usually win out against the bullies that would just as soon see us as uniformed worker clones.  So to say that this is a 'Christianity vs. Islam' issue is a damaging and nonsensical spin.  Expect nothing less from the mainstream media though!)

• Beijing to monitor students' risk behaviors - Beijing health and education authorities plan to monitor the risk behavior of students in the hope of reducing violence, unprotected sex and Internet and drug addiction. The urban youth risk behavior monitoring plan will target 10 to 24-year-old students in elementary school and universities, the Beijing News reported Saturday. The move is part of the city's five-year plan to improve campus disease prevention and the physical and mental health of students, the paper said, adding that details of how the students will be monitored have not been fully developed. Previously regular anonymous surveys were used to monitor trends in risk behavior of students.

• Diet products "boost appetite - DIET products make people eat more, says nutritional toxicologist Peter Dingle. He said some sweeteners in diet products were linked with stimulating appetite. "Aspartame, commonly known as the sweetener NutraSweet, is a neuro-stimulant linked with stimulating appetite, so it can make you hungry," Prof Dingle, associate professor in health and the environment at Murdoch University, said. "Diet stuff doesn't satisfy hunger like conventional food, because hunger is linked to certain texture and taste sensations. If you don't get them, you don't feel satisfied -- you don't have the feeling 'I've had enough, I'm full'." He said people also ate more because they felt they had "done something healthy" by having diet products. "Then they tend to consume just as much, if not more, than before," he said. "There is little research to show that these foods have great benefit for long-term weight control.

Saturday 14th October 2006: -

• Americans Question Bush on 9/11 Intelligence - Many adults in the United States believe the current federal government has not been completely forthcoming on the issue of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to a poll by the New York Times and CBS News. 53 per cent of respondents think the Bush administration is hiding something, and 28 per cent believe it is lying. Only 16 per cent of respondents say the government headed by U.S. president George W. Bush is telling the truth on what it knew prior to the terrorist attacks, down five points since May 2002.   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

WEBMASTER COMMENTARY: These are the figures that I myself have come to see when in the public arena talking to people on the streets about 9/11 governmental involvement and prior knowledge.  These figures are accurate.  So to all of those who have called those like myself 'cultists' for rejecting the official 9/11 story... lets see those figures once again: -

TO THE QUESTION POSED: "When it comes to what they knew prior to September 11th, 2001, about possible terrorist attacks against the United States, do you think members of the Bush Administration are telling the truth, are mostly telling the truth but hiding something, or are they mostly lying?" 

• Not sure 3%

• Hiding something 53%

• Mostly lying 28%

• Telling the truth 16%

• MORE COMMENTARY FROM PRISONPLANET.COM: Scientific Poll: 84% Reject Official 9/11 Story: Only 16% now believe official fable according to New York Times/CBS News poll - Truth Movement has the huge majority of opinion, How will the Bush Cabal react?

• Pentagon shows anti-war database's scope - Internal military documents released Thursday provided new details about the Defense Department's collection of information on nationwide demonstrations last year by students, Quakers and others opposed to the Iraq war. The documents, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, show, for instance, that military officials labeled as "potential terrorist activity" events like a "Stop the War Now" rally in Akron, Ohio, in March 2005. The Defense Department acknowledged last year that its analysts had maintained records on war protests in an internal database past the 90 days its guidelines allowed, and even after it was determined there was no threat.

• Timewatch: Operation Gladio - Behind False Flag Terrorism (Part 1) - The first of three programmes about `Gladio', the secret terrorist network operating in Europe. Discusses the network's creation, after the ... all » end of the Second World War, from a group of Nazis remaining in occupied territories, and in resistance to the rise of communism. Reveals the role of the CIA in the political affairs of post-war Europe through their manipulation of `Gladio' and the network's influence in the internal affairs of almost every European country. This is essential to understanding the networks that carry out false flag terrorism and the roots behind 9/11. These documentaries were originally aired on BBC2 in 1992.

• International Leaders Propose Asian Union - Asian political leaders on Sunday proposed creating a community called "Asian Union" in a concluding statement at the fourth general assembly of the International Conference for Asian Political Parties (ICAPP). Four hundred representatives from 90 political parties in 36 Asian countries adopted the Seoul Declaration from the three-day conference, which included not only the establishment of the Asian Union but also a joint campaign to fight terrorism, poverty and weapons of mass destruction.

Friday 13th October 2006: -

• TAGGED LIKE ANIMALS: How tagging passengers could improve airport security - Air travellers could soon be electronically tagged inside airports in a bid to improve security. The technology would use wrist bands or boarding passes embedded with computer chips and allow authorities to track passenger movement around terminal buildings. Paul Brennan, an electronic engineer at University College London who is leading work on the EU-funded Optag system, said it would combine high resolution panoramic video imaging with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to enhance airport security, safety and efficiency. "It would work if each passenger were issued with a tag, which could allow location to about one metre accuracy," he said. "The video and tag data can be merged to give a very powerful surveillance capability."

• UK POLICE STATE: Girl arrested in racism inquiry - A 14-year-old girl has been arrested for allegedly making racist remarks at a school in Greater Manchester. Codie Stott said she asked to be moved from a science group where she was with five Asian pupils - only one of whom spoke English. The 14-year-old was questioned in a juvenile unit before being released without charge. Harrop Fold High School, in Worsley, is investigating before deciding on what action to take.

• Bill O'Reilly hammers (poorly) latest talking points about Kevin Barrett - On the October 11th edition of The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly repeated several false statements about Barrett and called him the usual names; "crazy," "madman," etc. He had two guests -- both students from UW Madison -- the editor of the conservative student paper and a student enrolled in the class. The newspaper editor is outraged, just outraged(!) that her school's reputation is being destroyed. The student from the class said she wants to hear what Barrett has to say. She also corrected O'Reilly on his claim that students were being forced to read his essay. In a stunningly ironic move, O'Reilly read a quote from the book ("Like Bush and the neocons, Hitler and the Nazis inaugurated their new era by destroying an architectural monument and blaming its destruction on their designated enemies.") and asked her if she knew what that event was. He revealed that it was the Reichstag fire and then used the fact that she didn't know the answer as proof that her poor little head will be filled with Barrett's lies and that she just won't know what to do. She did a great job of standing up to O'Reilly's bullying and condescension, stating that she feels qualified to hear differing opinions and reach her own conclusions (rather than just accepting O'Reilly's). Thanks, Bill, for spreading the word about a historic example of a false flag event! ;)  Here is the clip: -

• UK minister urged Aljazeera bombing - David Blunkett, the UK's former home secretary, has said that during the 2003 invasion of Iraq he suggested to Tony Blair that Britain's military should bomb Aljazeera's television transmitter in Baghdad. Aljazeera television said on Thursday that Blunkett's claims - made in an interview with Britain's Channel 4 television to be aired on Monday - support its belief that the US and Britain deliberately bombed its Baghdad offices during the war. Ahmed al-Sheikh, editor-in-chief of Aljazeera's Arabic channel, said; "This adds to the growing number of evidences that will one day prove that the attack on Aljazeera was premeditated ... at the highest levels.

• 'Guantanamo abuse boasts' probed - The US Pentagon has ordered an inquiry into alleged abuses at Guantanamo Bay after reports that camp guards boasted of beating and mistreating detainees. A marine sergeant who visited the camp has said she understood "striking detainees was a common practice". The sergeant's sworn statement said she had overheard a guard describe slamming a detainee's head into a cell door.

• Daley: By 2016, cameras on 'almost every block' - Security and terrorism won't be an issue if Chicago wins the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games because, by that time, there'll be a surveillance camera on every corner, Mayor Daley said Wednesday. "By the time 2016 [rolls around], we'll have more cameras than Washington, D.C. ... Our technology is more advanced than any other city in the world -- even compared to London -- dealing with our cameras and the sophistication of cameras and retro-fitting all the cameras downtown in new buildings, doing the CTA cameras," Daley said.

• Iraq reporter unlawfully killed - A coroner has recorded a verdict of unlawful killing on ITN reporter Terry Lloyd, who was shot dead by US forces in southern Iraq in March 2003. An inquest heard Mr Lloyd was killed by a US bullet near Basra. His interpreter died and his cameraman is missing. It was told Mr Lloyd, 50 and originally from Derby, was hit while in a makeshift ambulance, having already been hurt by American-Iraqi crossfire. The coroner is to ask the attorney general to consider pressing charges.

• School locked down for 3 hours after threat - Students and faculty members at Olympia Middle and High School were locked in classrooms and the cafeteria throughout Wednesday afternoon because of a threat found on a restroom wall that morning. Olympia Superintendent Donald Hahn said the writing, which indicated there was a firearm in the school, was found in a men’s restroom about 11:40 a.m. The lockdown was announced about 11:45 a.m., he said, and students were dismissed from school at their scheduled time. About 20 county and state police officers were at the school Wednesday to investigate the threat and search students, their bags and lockers, police said. Police remained in the building until after students were dismissed for the day.

• China May Block Bond at the Border: Blackouts and censors may pushes back or block Casino Royale in China - Variety reporst that Casino Royale may be China’s next victim of their “blackouts” of Hollywood films. This year’s Miami Vice and World Trade Center have already suffered from the blackouts. Variety reports, “China usually has two or three blackout periods a year in which foreign films are not allowed to be released, but this year there will have been more.” The next blackout seems to block Casino Royale from making its planned 17 November release. The delay could cost Sony and Danjaq millions if past examples hold true as cheap pirated DVDs of the film will likely flood into a market of over a thousand million before Casino Royale can officially be shown. And the blackouts are not Bond’s only adversary in China. Chinese censors have yet to approve a James Bond film for release, “[Bond’s] penchant for espionage in other jurisdictions or ‘third countries’ has meant he has yet to outdo his adversaries among China’s censors.” Variety reports.

Thursday 12th October 2006: -

• South Park 9/11 Episode Equates Truthers with Anti-Semitism, Numerology and Cartman: Cartoon jabs at 'retarded' public, Charlie Sheen, citing Bush incompetence - The popular cartoon South Park launched a 9/11 hit piece, claiming that the "one-fourth" of Americans who believe the attacks were an inside job are "retards." The episode equates the 9/11 truth movement with anti-semitism, a pointless and insignificant investigation into the misuse of a bathroom, numerology, and the selfish, racist, spoiled and more-or-less evil show character Cartman, who frequently attacks the character Kyle for transgressions he blames on Jews.

• Why 'Debunkers' Help The 911 Truth Movement - Two kinds of 9-11 truth deniers (debunkers) exist today: Those who deny our government has the expertise to carry out the 9-11 attack, and those who deny our government is diabolical enough to do it. Both are sadly mistaken. If you present them with the many suspicious anomalies of 9-11, they demand your proof. If you present them with proof, they deny it with scarcely a glance. If you mention the scientific laws that were broken on 9-11, they claim you are no authority. If you quote an authority, they claim he is no expert in that particular field.

• Al Qaeda Suspect: U.S. Government Gave Me LSD - An alleged operative for Al Qaeda imprisoned for 3 1/2 years as an enemy combatant is saying he was tortured and forcibly medicated with "a sort of truth serum" while in a Navy brig. Jose Padilla, 35, was arrested in 2002 on suspicions that he was plotting a radioactive explosion, also known as a dirty bomb. He spent several years in a military jail in Charleston, S.C., without facing criminal charges. As legal wrangling over his fate continued, prosecutors in Miami charged him late last year with providing material support to a terrorist group and conspiring to murder, maim, and kidnap Americans abroad.

Wednesday 11th October 2006: -

TODAY'S NEW YORK PLANE CRASH COVERAGE : -

COMMENTARY ON THE RECENT INCIDENT IN NEW YORK: As serious and tragic as this event may be, this certainly looks like a distraction (albeit a temporary one that will probably go down the mainstream media 'Memory Hole' in a few days time).  A distraction that is needed to take public attention away from the Washington pervert scandal, the North Korea Nuke 'threat' and all the rest of the dirt currently in the mainstream news.  All of this before the USA's mid-term elections.  This could be the October Surprise, recently hinted at by Karl Rove which will help Bush.

As pointed out by our good American friend Jack Blood on air earlier tonight, this events date may even have significant subliminal implications.  In standard American format of Month/Date/Year we have 10/11/06 - this up-side down reads as 90/11/01.  As in September 11th 2001, the sub-conscious picks it all up.  Sound far fetched? See our Subliminal Abuse archive for background info.

• Plane crash in New York triggers air defence - A small plane crashed into a high rise apartment building on the East Side of Manhattan on Wednesday, killing at least one person, jogging fears of another terrorist attack and triggering deployment of US fighter aircraft, broadcast reports said. Within a half hour or 40 minutes after the crash at 2:45 pm, the Pentagon had scrambled fighters from the North American Air Defence over New York City's airspace, Cable News Network reported. FBI and military officials however said there was no indication that the crash into a 20th or higher storey of 524 East 72nd Street was a terrorist attack.

• Fox News Spins Plane Accident; Says It Could Affect Election: Hysterical reactions invoke 9/11 as baseball star confirmed as pilot, passport found on street - The FBI and Homeland Security are now labeling a small aircraft hitting an apartment building on Manhattan's Upper East Side at 72nd Street and York Avenue, as a probable accident. Is this a government psy-op intended to invoke memories of 9/11 as the mid-term elections approach?

• BBC In pictures: New York plane crash - A small aircraft has crashed into a high-rise building in New York City, killing two people.   (COMMENTARY: It has been claimed by the FAA that this was not as helicopter but a small plane, meaning that this was not likely an accident.  According to the BBC, 'the FBI says there is no indication that the crash is terrorism-related'.  They should know!  Either way, lets see if the building collapses, could be interesting!)

• Google Earth: Images from Today's Manhattan Plane Crash - A small airplane crashed into a 50-story residential building in Manhattan today, according to several news reports and the view out my window. Update: New York Yankees Manager Joe Torre told CNN that the plane that was a Cirrus SR-20 registered to team pitcher Cory Lidle.

• US stocks fall, dollar down after New York crash - U.S. stocks fell, Treasuries pared losses, and the dollar weakened against the Swiss franc on Wednesday after a small aircraft crashed into a New York building, driving investors into safer assets. Officials said there was no evidence of terrorism, but with the memory of aircraft crashing into New York's World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, still in investors minds, the immediate reaction was to bid for safe-haven assets, traders said.

• New York plane crash not linked to terrorism: FBI - There is no indication that the crash of small plane into a high-rise building in New York City was related to terrorism, the FBI said Wednesday. Flames shot from two floors of an apartment building on the affluent upper east side of Manhattan. The small plane crashed amid foggy weather.

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• 'Independent journalism has been killed in Russia' - Since the death of the campaigning Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya last weekend there has been much speculation about who was behind the killing, with some suggesting it was politically motivated or that it may even have been carried out on the orders of a faction within the Kremlin. Oleg Khlebnikov, the deputy manager of Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper, for which Politkovskaya worked, said: "We have several versions of who killed Anna.

• 9/11 Truth: Micheal Meacher & Andreas von Bulow (Part 1) - Two prominent European politicians, Michael Meacher and Andreas von Bulow, have gone on the record saying that 9/11 was an inside job which was planned and carried out by the Bush Administration. This is a Dutch TV program called "TweeVandaag" that aired on September 9, 2005. (Part 1 of 2): -

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• Study: 655,000 Iraqis Died Due to War - A controversial new study contends nearly 655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war, suggesting a far higher death toll than other estimates. The timing of the survey's release, just a few weeks before the U.S. congressional elections, led one expert to call it "politics." In the new study, researchers attempt to calculate how many more Iraqis have died since March 2003 than one would expect without the war. Their conclusion, based on interviews of households and not a body count, is that about 600,000 died from violence, mostly gunfire. They also found a small increase in deaths from other causes like heart disease and cancer.

• US forces 'shot to kill' Terry Lloyd - Terry Lloyd, the ITN journalist killed as he reported on the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was deliberately shot by American forces, a solicitor for his family told an inquest yesterday. The verdict on his death should be unlawful killing, said Anthony Hudson. Mr Hudson told Andrew Walker, the assistant deputy Oxfordshire coroner, that he could be "satisfied" on the evidence that whoever opened fire on Mr Lloyd did so with the intention of "killing him or causing serious injury". He said that American forces were willing to open fire on civilians and were not prevented from doing so by their commanders.

• High-tech school security is on the rise - Each morning, the 16,000 students in the Spring Independent School District in suburban Houston swipe their ID tags as they climb onto the school bus. A radio frequency tag tracks them, as it does when they arrive at school and as they leave the building. Nearly 1,000 cameras watch them all day. Every visitor — parents, volunteers, the guy who fills the Coke machine — must surrender his or her driver's license to a secretary who checks it against a national database of sex offenders. This fall, nearly one in three schools literally trap visitors inside a "secure vestibule," a bulletproof glass room, until they're checked out.

• Biometric IDs for port workers coming soon - By January 2007 the U.S. federal government hopes to issue thousands of biometric identification cards to workers around U.S. port facilities. The Galveston County Daily News reported Oct. 8 that Transportation Security Administration spokesman Darrin Kayser said: "We recognize the program has languished and we're working very hard to make sure we implement this final security measure." The Transportation Security Administration will administer the Transportation Worker Identification Credential Program along with the U.S. Coast Guard. Prior to issuing the biometric cards, federal officials will carry out background checks on 750,000 American longshoremen, truckers, vessel crews, dockworkers, security guards and railway workers who have access to ports and assess them as potential security risks.

• Ashcroft Responds To 9/11 Foreknowledge Charges: Former Attorney General confronted on radio show, claims reports he stopped flying commercial before September 11 2001 false, war on terror not a money making scheme for some - Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has been confronted on a nationally syndicated radio show about why he stopped flying commercial before 9/11 and other issues of government complicity in the attacks. Ashcroft's terse and evasive responses to the questions do not match the facts. After accepting an invitation to briefly appear with Ashcroft on Chicago's Mancow program, radio host Alex Jones grilled the former Governor of Missouri on why he was warned to avoid using commercial airliners in the weeks before 9/11. "I did not cease flying on commercial aircraft," said Ashcroft dismissing a July 2001 CBS News report that quoted the FBI as saying Ashcroft was only traveling via a government chartered jet due to a "threat assessment."   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive)

Tuesday 10th October 2006: -

• Federal Legislation Labels Activism As "Terrorism" - The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) is currently pending in Congress, and industry groups are doing their best to push it through quickly and with little public scrutiny, Patriot Act style, before Fall recess. Please act now to make sure that the War on Terrorism, and the tragedy of 9/11, isn't used to push a political agenda and silence dissent. The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act expands the Animal Enterprise Protection Act of 1992 http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/aepa. Supporters say it is meant to stem illegal actions taken against controversial animal enterprises, or any company that does business with an animal enterprise. But the sweeping language in the bill goes much, much further: AETA labels the tactics of Martin Luther King and Gandhi as "terrorism." It spells out penalties for "an offense involving exclusively a nonviolent physical obstruction of an animal enterprise or a business having a connection to, or relationship with, an animal enterprise, that may result in loss of profits but does not result in bodily injury..." In other words, a terrorism law includes nonviolent civil disobedience.

• Beijing harasses dissidents - even in America - It's no secret that China in recent years has stepped up its repression of political, religious and journalistic freedoms, to only the mousiest of objections from the outside world. Less well known is that China feels so unconstrained that it is brazenly harassing dissidents in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., too. Just ask Rebiya Kadeer, who now lives in Fairfax County, Va. In April, Kadeer's grandson noticed four men videotaping and photographing the family's ground-floor apartment from a car parked outside. He called to his mother, who wrote down their license plate number. Kadeer passed that on to Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., who enlisted the FBI, which determined that three of the four men in the rented car were Chinese agents. Of course, surveillance and intimidation are the least of what China's regime has inflicted on Kadeer. She was the victim of a mysterious hit-and-run accident in January; her children back home in China have been beaten and jailed; she herself spent nearly six years in prison.

• Police 'exaggerated evidence' against British 9/11 suspect - POLICE and prosecutors are facing allegations that they misled a judge and grossly exaggerated evidence against the only man to be detained in Britain over September 11, The Times has learnt. There is renewed scrutiny on two fronts of the role played by Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service in making unfounded claims that Lotfi Raissi trained the 9/11 hijackers. The Independent Police Complaints Commission has opened an investigation into the conduct of the Anti-Terrorist Branch detectives who arrested Mr Raissi in 2001 and prepared the evidence against him.

• Sugar Free Substitute Could Be Dangerous For Dogs - We like to reward our dogs but the treats we give them need to be made for dogs. A study in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association is warning products containing xylitol could be fatal to dogs. Dr. Jeanette Lubeanau, owner of Above and Beyond Pet Care Hospital in Lubbock says, "Xylitol is a sweetener that is added to sugar free gum, candies and other products. Basically what is does is if a dog ingests a piece of gum, it tends to make their blood sugar go low. If that happens, it's just like in a person. They become very weak and wobbly and they can actually become comatose and die if they're not treated."

Monday 09th October 2006: -

• Newly released documents show Cuban exile warned CIA of plot to bomb airliner - An anti-Castro militant, now elderly and being held in a Texas jail, warned the CIA months before the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that fellow exiles were planning such an attack, according to a newly released U.S. government document. The document shows that Luis Posada Carriles — who was cut off by the agency earlier that year — was secretly telling the CIA that his fellow far-right Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro's communist government were plotting to bring down a commercial jet. The document does not say what the CIA did with Posada's tip. A CIA spokesman said he had no comment Monday, a federal holiday. The CIA had extensive contacts with anti-Castro militants and trained some of them, but has denied involvement in the bombing.

• DEAL COMES AFTER DAYS OF RUMORS: Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion - Google agreed to acquire YouTube, the Web's most popular video-sharing site, for $1.65 billion in stock, the company announced today. "The YouTube team has built an exciting and powerful media platform that complements Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful,'' Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in a statement. Schmidt added that the companies shared similar values and ``are natural partners.'

• North Korea Nuke Test Derails Iran Invasion?: Has Rummy's madcap dictator arming resulted in a blowback that undermines the Neo-Con war machine? - North Korea's underground atomic weapon test is a wild card that could potentially derail the Neo-Con battle plan to carry out air strikes on Iran. Will the myopic hubris of the Bushists make them blind to the incompatability of selling a war on a nation years away from nukes while another openly proliferates, or could it just make the likelihood of a false flag terror attack more likely?

• UK ID cards to cost £5.4 billion - The government has revealed for the first time that the much-vaunted national identity scheme will cost £5.4 billion to implement over the next ten years. Home Office minister Liam Byrne made the announcement at the Institute of Public Policy Research (Ippr), claiming that the ID cards represent a 'powerful tool' in the fight against terrorism and illegal immigration. But the Conservative party has accused the government of grossly underestimating the total cost of the project, as the inaugural report on the costs of the ID cards was presented to Parliament.

• "Schizophrenia" should be dropped, say experts - Mental health experts called on Monday for the term schizophrenia to be dropped, saying it has no scientific validity, is imprecise and stigmatizing. "It is a harmful concept," said Professor Marius Romme, a visiting professor of social psychiatry at the University of Central England in Birmingham. He added that symptoms such as delusions, hearing voices and hallucinations are not the results of the illness but may be reactions to traumatic and troubling events in life.

• AUSTRALIA: New police terror powers for Indy - The Queensland Government will enact its special events legislation to protect the Indy 300 from terror attacks. Although there have been no specific threats, Premier Peter Beattie said police have asked for the legislation, which gives them powers to conduct random spot checks of cars, people and belongings. "This is the first time that special event legislation has been sought to be activated for the Gold Coast Indy," Mr Beattie said.

• German Tells Court CIA Kidnapped Him - A German citizen testified Monday in a Spanish court that he was kidnapped and tortured by U.S. intelligence agents in 2003, then flown by the CIA to Afghanistan where he was imprisoned and abused for five months. Khaled al-Masri, 43, broke down in tears several times during his testimony before National Court Judge Ismael Moreno, who is investigating reports that the CIA used a Spanish airport to secretly transfer suspected terrorists to countries where they were tortured.

Sunday 08th October 2006: -

• Corporal 'shot dead by colleague' - A British soldier killed in Iraq during an operation to capture a key terrorist leader was shot by one of his own men, it has been reported. Corporal John Cosby, 28, died from gunshots in north Basra on July 16, but a post mortem examination revealed he was killed by a bullet from a British Army SA80 assault rifle, according to the Sunday Telegraph. An MoD spokesman confirmed Royal Military Police (RMP) were investigating the "circumstances" of the corporal's death but would not discuss the newspaper's claims. It was alleged investigators were examining the soldier's background to discover if he had any enemies, but sources close to the inquiry said the shooting was not thought to be deliberate.

• US claims Guantanamo 'saved lives': Evidence from the camp where torture is alleged foiled attacks in Britain, says intelligence chief - The *interrogation of detainees at Guantanamo Bay has saved Britain from at least two major terrorist attacks, according to President George Bush's chief intelligence adviser. John Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence, claims information obtained from inmates at the camp has proved vital in thwarting a series of terror attacks around the world, including in Britain. But the claim has provoked anger among human rights groups, which argue it is being used to justify a number of practices at Guantanamo that may constitute torture.  (COMMENTARY: *Confessions obtained under torture (which is worth what?), I might add.  I would also add that there is a major problem with the part about 'saving us from terror attacks' - All the evidence that I have seen shows that all of the major plots, either foiled (like the alleged suicide liquid bombers of August 2006) or those successfully carried out (like the 7/7 London bombings) were staged by the security services; i.e. small criminal elements within.  To understand this is to understand that such comments made recently by Negroponte are not only completely backwards, but a flat out lie.)

• Mumbai 7/11 'Mastermind' met ISI boss in Pakistan - Engineering dropout Faisal Sheikh, the alleged mastermind of the July 11 serial train bombings that killed 188 people, has told investigators he met several “high-ranking” ISI officers during three visits to Pakistan between 2001 and 2004. The ‘western Indian commander’ of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has also admitted to having received, through Bahawalpur-based LeT terrorist Azam Cheema, instructions from the ISI on carrying out the 11/7 operation. Similar confessions have been made by Pune-based faith healer Sohail Sheikh, Faisal’s co-accused, who is also currently in custody. The confessions make up the core of the evidence gathered by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on the ISI’s role in 11/7. In a news conference given last Saturday, Mumbai Police Commissioner AN Roy had directly accused the ISI of planning the bombings, a charge that triggered a war of words between India and Pakistan.   (RELATED: See our Problem > Reaction > Solution archive)

• Anger over fingerprint book scheme - Lancashire's headteachers today hit back at claims new fingerprinting technology which allows pupils borrow library books is a breach of civil liberties. Central Lancaster High School, Hornby High School, and Garstang High School are among the schools to sign up to a new venture which uses electronic fingerprint technology instead of library cards to allow pupils access to the school library and to borrow books. The scheme has caused controversy after Green Party County Coun Chris Coates branded the move a "crazy Big Brother solution". He is concerned that the fingerprint data could be stolen by computer hackers and said many parents are unaware their children are being fingerprinted.   (RELATED: See our Total Global Surveillance archive)

• Bush, once again, claims to be above the law - President Bush, again defying Congress, says he has the power to edit the Homeland Security Department's reports about whether it obeys privacy rules while handling background checks, ID cards and watchlists. In the law Bush signed Wednesday, Congress stated no one but the privacy officer could alter, delay or prohibit the mandatory annual report on Homeland Security department activities that affect privacy, including complaints. But Bush, in a signing statement attached to the agency's 2007 spending bill, said he will interpret that section "in a manner consistent with the President's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch."

• 9-11 workers get lung screenings - U.S. Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fort Lauderdale, recently announced at Broward General Medical Center a new statewide lung-screening program for first responders such as firefighters and paramedics who served at Ground Zero. "Shortly after 9-11, I went to New York and surveyed the damage," Shaw said. "I saw firsthand our responders inhaling thick, heavy toxins and pollutants and most rescuers had very flimsy protection over their noses and mouths. Because of their extraordinary acts of patriotism, these first responders now need an ordinary act of compassion from Florida's hospitals." Broward General is the first hospital in the state to offer the lung screening.

• Police hail car tracker cameras as 7,000 snared: System helped trap Stephanie's killer - A hi-tech vehicle tracking system which helped catch Stephanie Hammill's killer has led to about 7,000 arrests in the region since it was introduced, the Yorkshire Post has learned. Greek engineer Ioannis Revenikiotis, 28, fled his home in Dewsbury after he abducted and killed the 20-year-old travel agent, who thought she was getting into a taxi. But he was travelling in a black Mercedes C180 matching the CCTV pictures of her abductor's car and at Dover his car registration was picked up by cameras able to read car number plates. They are linked to databases showing stolen or un-registered vehicles or those which have been involved in crime and enabled police to discover his route.

• Security moms desert Republicans over sex scandal - THE scandal over lewd messages sent by a closet gay politician to teenage boys in Congress has hit Republican support among “security moms” and evangelical voters — two groups that the party was counting on to win elections next month. The sleaze surrounding Mark Foley, a Florida congressman and campaigner against internet paedophilia and child exploitation, has narrowed the “God gap” in politics between Republicans and Democrats. A poll last week showed that 57% of white evangelicals are likely to vote Republican in the congressional elections, 21 points down on 2004.

• Military recruiters work hard to leave no child off their lists - My daughter just started high school. This milestone was marked by the arrival in our home of a ream of paperwork. Along with the usual bureaucratic permissions, I found tucked into this package a seemingly innocuous form that carries extraordinary consequences: Failing to fill it out might result in my daughter being harassed, assaulted, or being fast-tracked to fight in Iraq.

Saturday 07th October 2006: -

• Anna Politkovskaya, Journalist and Putin Critic, Is Shot Dead - Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, one of the most vocal critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Chechnya, was gunned down in Moscow today, the third execution-style killing in the past three weeks. Politkovskaya, whose books include ``Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy'' and ``A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya,'' was found shot to death in the entrance of her building on Lesnaya Ulitsa, a couple of miles from the Kremlin.

• UKIP 'voice of British majority' - UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage has told the party's annual conference that it speaks for the majority of British people. "I'd call us the commonsense party," he told members in Telford, Shropshire. "I would say that in terms of the political spectrum and where you should place UKIP, we are at the centre-ground of British public opinion." Mr Farage, elected leader last month, earlier told BBC Five Live that UKIP was the "real voice of opposition". "We've got three social democratic parties in Britain - Labour, Lib Dem and Conservative are virtually indistinguishable from each other on nearly all the main issues," he said.

• US court ruling shuts door on drug claimants' compensation hopes: Vioxx patients were refused legal aid in UK / Heart attack and stroke link to arthritis medicine - Britons injured by faulty drugs are being left without compensation by serious failures in the system for funding cases, lawyers said yesterday after a US court threw out 300 British claims over the withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx. The claimants, who had strokes and heart attacks after taking the drug, went to the New Jersey courts after twice being refused legal aid to sue the American maker, Merck, in the British courts. But Judge Carol Higbee of the superior court of New Jersey refused them permission this week to go ahead in the state, where Merck has its headquarters. She ruled that the British legal system would provide sufficient redress and a US jury should not be expected to comprehend a foreign system of drug regulation.

• Report: Gitmo Abuse 'Common Practice': Marine Says Guards Bragged About Beating Terror Detainees - Guards at Guantanamo Bay bragged about beating detainees and described it as common practice, a U.S. Marine sergeant said in a sworn statement obtained by The Associated Press. The two-page statement was sent Wednesday to the Inspector General at the Department of Defense by a high-ranking Marine Corps defense lawyer. A Guantanamo spokesman said the base would cooperate with any Pentagon investigation.

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• Martin rethinks fluoride amid health angst - After weeks of appeals from residents, Martin County commissioners on Tuesday will discuss whether they want to revisit their decision three years ago to inject fluoride into the county's drinking water. Commissioners voted 4-1 in March 2003 to start fluoridating water. But because it took time to get grants and hire a contractor to build the injection system, the county doesn't plan to start putting fluoride into the drinking water at its Jensen Beach and Tropical Farms water plants until early next year, Utilities Director John Polley said. But Commissioner Lee Weberman said that at the urging of residents such as engineer Pat Arena, he will ask commissioners Tuesday whether they want to reconsider that decision. Weberman, who voted for fluoridation, said he thought the county had been putting it in the water since the 2003 decision.   (RELATED: See our Compromised Health archive)

Friday 06th October 2006: -

• US terror agencies get easier access to airline data - Anti-terror agencies in the US will gain easier access to the personal data of European airline passengers under a streamlined information-sharing deal hammered out by Washington and the EU. The agreement covering 34 separate pieces of information from each passenger on trans-Atlantic flights was forged after the European Court of Justice ruled that a data-sharing deal from 2004 was invalid. This left the EU urgently needing to change the legal basis of the two-year-old agreement to comply with European law or leave airlines to reach bilateral deals, with the possibility that if talks failed the US could refuse some the right of entry.

• Generation RX- More Teens are Abusing Prescription Drugs than Cocaine: Prescription drug abuse has become prevalent among high school and college students looking for the ultimate study aid and new ways to get high - Twenty year old Hannah Wineberg tells the story of her struggles with Attention Deficit Hyper-Active Disorder; better known as ADHD. The room is tense, as all eyes stare fiercely at this young woman who attends the prestigious Smith College in Massachusetts. "When I hear claims that students fake ADHD in order to get prescription from their doctors, I get really frustrated. I had to sit through hours upon hours of testing just to prove that I had a disability. It just makes a mockery of who I am and what I struggle with on a daily basis." Prescription drug abuse is one of the most underreported but devastatingly critical epidemics that faces society's youth today. According to a recent study by The Partnership for a Drug Free America, one in five teens reportedly abuse prescription drugs, one in ten teenagers have tried prescription stimulants without a doctor's order, while nine percent of teens have abused "over the counter" medicines like cough medicine intentionally to get high.

• Lloyd shot dead by US troops, inquest told - ITN reporter Terry Lloyd was shot in the head by American troops as he was being driven to hospital, the inquest into his death was told today. An account by an Iraqi witness that was read out at the inquest in Oxford claimed Lloyd was still alive after the original attack on his car but was killed by US troops as he was driven from the scene. The unnamed driver's account, which was read out by the deputy assistant coroner for Oxfordshire, Andrew Walker, gave new details of the last moments of Lloyd's life. The witness's account was described as "very credible" by ITN's Nicholas Walshe, who led the news broadcaster's investigation into the journalist's death.   (RELATED EXTRENAL LINK: Profile: Terry Lloyd)

• School Says Police, Social Services Will Snatch Kids Of Late Parents: Indiana junior high threatens prison custody if child not picked up on time from mandatory homework class - A junior high school in Indiana threatens parents with police and child protective service involvement if they fail to pick up their child on time after mandatory Friday classes for missed homework. Outraged parents forwarded us a letter from the Tell City Junior High School in Indiana in which they were given a days notice that their child had to attend a Friday class to catch up on missed homework.

• Suspected Nazi-era euthanasia victims found in mass grave in Germany - German authorities suspect that some of the remains found in a World War II-era mass grave are from child victims of Adolf Hitler's euthanasia program, which killed people the Nazis considered worthless, officials said Friday. Prosecutors acting on a tip from an aging witness have opened a murder investigation, despite the difficulty of finding conclusive evidence more than 60 years after the end of the war and the likelihood that most or all of those responsible are dead.

• China's Execution Buses - Sky News has obtained chilling new evidence of mobile execution buses being used by the Chinese government. It comes less than two years before China hosts the next Olympics - an event it was given after promising to improve its human rights record. China's penal system is surrounded by a wall of secrecy, but an investigation by Sky's China correspondent Dominic Waghorn found between 3,500 and 10,000 people are put to death each year. The volume of executions has meant China has invented new ways of killing, mobilising and mechanising its execution system.

• Teen ticketed for Hacky Sac: Police issue $250 ticket for playing on Pearl Street Mall - A 17-year-old Boulder High senior faces a $250 fine — stiffer than a ticket for speeding through a school zone — for playing Hacky Sac. His offense: "releasing projectiles" on the Pearl Street Mall. "I had no idea Hacky Sac is a crime," Kallen Ford said. He knows now. A Boulder police officer clued him in just after 6 p.m. Tuesday. Ford said he and a buddy were lobbing a Hacky Sac back and forth in the fountain area outside the Boulder County Courthouse when Officer Colin Stephens approached.   (RELATED: See our Police State archive)

• Tesco self-scan tills 'open to card fraud': Lets thieves help themselves - Security shortcomings involving Tesco self-service tills make it easier for crooks to pay for groceries using stolen credit or debit cards, according to UK consumer group Which?. At around 200 of the supermarket’s stores, shoppers can scan their shopping themselves before paying for groceries using cards. The problem is that Tesco doesn’t require customers to sign for purchases or enter a PIN code. Which? issued its warning after receiving complaints from angry punters who found themselves hundreds of pounds out of pocket through fraudulent purchases made at Tesco's tills.   (RELATED EXTERNAL LINK: boycotttesco.com)

• SELLING BIG BROTHER TECHNOLOGY, A LUCRATIVE VENTURE: UK Biometrics: Secure your future - UK Biometrics, the world’s first biometrics franchise, is offering 32 substantial business opportunities to enter a sector set for exponential growth. With the country becoming ever more security-conscious, UK Biometrics Franchise predicts that within the next 10 years many security systems such as key or code operated locks, safes, alarms and attendance systems, will be replaced with biometric security devices. At the forefront of this technological evolution is UK Biometrics, the first company in the world to offer franchises within the biometrics industry. The company is offering just 32 franchises in the UK to candidates possessing management capabilities and the determination to grasp the numerous business opportunities available within their substantially-sized territories. "The market potential is limitless," insists Franchise Sales Director Barry Clayton.

Thursday 05th October 2006: -

• Nato takes over Afghan security - Nato has taken charge of Afghanistan's eastern provinces, which have been under the control of US forces since the Taleban were ousted five years ago. The alliance's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) already commands troops in the north, west and south of Afghanistan, as well as Kabul. Officials say the move will make the force more efficient, as it seeks to secure Afghanistan for reconstruction.

• Govt to hand-over 7/11 dossier to Pakistan - India will confront Pakistan with “detailed dossier” on 11 Pakistani nationals suspected to be involved in the July 11 Mumbai terror bombings when the foreign secretaries of the two countries meet next month to discuss the contours of a joint anti-terror mechanism. Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon, who assumed office three days ago, met Home Secretary V K Duggal and discussed the specifics of evidence collected by Mumbai Police that points to a Pakistani hand in the commuter train bombings July 11 that killed nearly 200 people and injured hundreds.   (RELATED: See our Problem > Reaction > Solution archive)

• COMMENTARY FROM ONE OF OUR CONTRIBUTORS: I went to a local bank (name withheld by us for legal reasons) today and asked if they had any leaflets or info on fractional reserve banking, they didn't have a clue.
  
  Me: Hi, do you have any information on Fractional Reserve Banking?
  Clerk: Excuse me, what is that?
  Me: I've been told by someone it's a system of lending people fresh air/non-existant money.
  Clerk: hmm...
  Me: Well, can you please call your bank manager?
  
  Bank manager comes along, shakes my hand and asks me more what fracation reserve banking is.
  
  Me: Fractional reserve banking is when everytime someone puts a pound into the bank, the bank has the right to lend ten pounds it does not have and that the banks are lending people fresh air money, numbers on a computer screen.
  Bank Manager: [looks bewildered] hmm...yeh but money exists, people are working for it everyday, loans are created and so are mortgages etc...
  Me: what is a mortgage? and why are people spending 3 times the amount to live in 1? 
  
  The bank manager and clerk are typical examples of system fodder people, who don't have clue in this Hierarchy system of control and manipulation! 
  
  What is Fractional Reserve banking?
  
  "First, one must be aware that the Federal Reserve Board is not Federal, nor are there any reserves! The Elite, who control the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks, (the FED), have created an incredible system to take our assets. Here is how the grand scam works: 
  
  1.) The Federal Reserve Central Bank has the Federal Reserve Notes printed by the US Treasury for pennies on the dollar, with not a cent of reserve or investment! 
  
  2.) Then it lends this ‘money’ to the Federal Regional Banks who multiply this deceptively created credit seven times over. For every billion dollars it borrows from the Federal Reserve Central Bank, Regional Banks lend seven billion dollars! (That is why it is called ‘fractional’ reserve banking.) 
  
  3.) The losers are the people and businesses who borrow this created credit line and are forced to pay it back with interest that is collateralized by real assets (their homes, cars, land, factories, etc.). 
  
  4.) Another deception of this system is that the controllers of the money supply (The FED) have virtual command of the economy. For the economy just to keep going, The FED needs to create more new credit each year than is due in interest payments. * A Federal Reserve $1 note buys goods only because people believe it has value. If people realized that there was no true value behind these Federal Reserve Notes, they would be worthless!" [CS pg 36-37] http://www.fearorlove.com/FAQ.htm  (Thanks to Narinder of multi-illusion.com for sharing these thoughts)

• VIDEO REVEALS KRISTOL'S ELITIST BEHAVIOR AND REMINDS CHICKEN-HAWK COLUMNIST THAT 9/11 JIG IS UP: PNAC ring leader William Kristol confronted on 9/11 - William Kristol, chairman of the Project for a New American Century (founded in 1997) spoke at the University of Texas in Austin about the current political climate and the "new order" or "new world" that emerged after 9/11. He was confronted by a large number of protesters who carry banners and question his role in 9/11. The event was covered by the Daily Texan. Pg. 51 of the PNAC document "Rebuilding America's Defenses" (published in September 2000, which otherwise calls for the dramatic build up of military forces and for a climate of multi-theater wars) states: "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor."   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive)

• Speaker's staff knew of pageboy scandal - House of Representatives speaker Dennis Hastert's hopes of snuffing out an election-year sex scandal suffered another blow yesterday when it emerged that the leading Republican's office had been told of disgraced congressman Mark Foley's suspicious dealings with teenage male pages as early as 2003. Kirk Fordham, who worked with Mr Foley until January 2004, said he had "more than one conversation with senior staff at the highest level of the House of Representatives asking them to intervene" over Mr Foley, who resigned from the house last Friday when confronted with over-friendly emails he had sent to teenagers working on Capitol Hill.

• Now you see it, now you don't - Danish physicists have managed to light-up a cloud of atoms using light teleported from a source half a metre away. Since Charles Bennett and his team first proposed quantum teleportation in 1993, science fiction enthusiasts have had to be content with frustratingly prosaic examples of the principle. However, at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, physicists have passed a milestone that will help to bring some practical applications of teleportation within sight (Nature 443 557). “This is the first time teleportation has been achieved between the ‘flying’ medium of light and the ‘stationary medium’ of atoms,” said Eugene Polzik of Copenhagen. “Such teleportation could serve as a main building block of a quantum network connecting distant quantum processors.”

• Fluoride foes have enough signatures on petitions - Two initiative petitions aimed at stopping adding fluoride in the Port Angeles water system have enough valid signatures. The city forwarded the petitions on to the auditor. The auditor's office reportedly found more than the required 16-hundred signatures to validate the petitions. It's still not clear if voters will get a look at the measures in the upcoming general election. The city is seeking a judge's opinion that the proposals may go beyond the legal realm of the city's new initiative process.

• Google Again Censors, Stifles 9/11 Film's Growth: Video viewership figures for Terror Storm being reset to prevent movie going "Loose Change" viral - Google Video has re-imposed a crass censorship policy to intentionally stifle the growth of Alex Jones' Terror Storm documentary and prevent it from reaching tens of millions of people by covertly editing viewer statistics and blocking the film from entering its popular categories.

• Iran seeks to fingerprint all US visitors - Iran’s conservative-controlled parliament is to debate a bill that would make digital fingerprinting compulsory for all US citizens seeking to enter the country, lawmakers said on Tuesday. According to the bill, which is expected to be voted on in the next days, “all US citizens should be controlled and subjected to digital fingerprinting when they enter Iran,” said lawmaker Kazem Jalali in a debate broadcast on state radio. “This law comes in response to the American practice of taking digital fingerprints of sportsmen, political officials and other Iranians, sometimes with an insulting attitude,” he added.

• Schools sue over fingerprint law - School districts across the state have been working to get all employees fingerprinted. Background checks are now required by law for anyone who works in the school system. But the new law, which went into effect in January, is causing some outcry. More than 460 school districts are suing the state over the new background check law. They say it's another unfunded program schools are required to do.   (RELATED: See our Total Global Surveillance archive)

• Former 9/11 detainee accuses U.S. of abuse - Javaid Iqbal's lawyers say the Pakistani cable repairman was snatched in the post-September 11 dragnet and held for over a year at a Brooklyn detention center, where guards beat him mercilessly. Iqbal, like hundreds of Muslims or Arabs detained in the days after the attacks but never charged, sued the U.S. government, saying that he was held and abused for no legitimate reason. His case was heard on Wednesday by a federal appeals court in Manhattan. The court's three-judge panel will decide to overturn or let stand a lower court's ruling that allows Iqbal's lawyers to seek information from former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller, former Bureau of Prisons head Kathleen Hawk Sawyer and Metropolitan Detention Center officials to find out what they knew about the alleged abuse.

Wednesday 04th October 2006: -

• UNSPINNING THE TRUTH: A FREE FILM SHOW AND TALK IN SKIPTON - The West Yorkshire Truth Campaign & 911 Truth Skipton are holding a free film show and a talk given by David Shayler (former MI5 Intelligence Officer and Whistleblower) and Annie Machon (former MI5 Intelligence Officer). The event will be held at The Narrowboat Pub, 38 Victoria Street, Skipton BD23 1JE on Thursday 19th October 2006. A new documentary film narrated by David Shayler will be shown. The film called “Short Changed” is an analysis of the events of September 11th 2001. This will be followed by a talk by David Shayler on the subject of state terrorism. Annie Machon will speak about the history and aims of the 911 truth movement.

• Disgraced Foley 'molested as teen' - FORMER US congressman Mark Foley, who has resigned in disgrace after revelations of compromising messages to young boys, was molested as a teenager, his lawyer said. David Roth said yesterday that Mr Foley had been molested by a clergyman and had "kept the shame to himself" until now. The lawyer also issued the congressman's first public acknowledgment that he is gay. The announcement came hours after ABC News released a new series of inappropriate messages Mr Foley is said to have sent to a teenager while waiting to cast a House vote in April 2003. The youth was a congressional page, but it was not clear if he had left Washington at the time Mr Foley sent the messages.   (RELATED: See our Elites Abuse of Children archive)

Tuesday 03rd October 2006: -

• Invention: Invisible drones - Can a surveillance drone be made virtually invisible? VeraTech, based in Minnesota, US, thinks so. And patent applications filed by the company explain how. "Persistence of vision" turns the fast-moving rotors of any helicopter into a near-transparent blur, while the slow-moving body looks solid. Inventor Michael Dammar has come up with a way of making the whole body of an aircraft spin as it flies, turning it into a single blur in the sky. This would not evade radar but should help the aircraft avoid visual identification. The so-called Phantom Sentinel aircraft is Y-shaped, consisting of a single long wing attached to two short aerodynamic extensions which each end in a propeller. And the weight is carefully balanced so that the centre of mass is positioned between the two extensions. When the motors are running, the solid part of the aircraft spins around this centre of mass, and the longer wing generates lift. The whole thing moves so fast that persistence of vision turns it into a single blur.   (RELATED: See our Total Global Surveillance archive)

• N Korea 'to conduct nuclear test' - North Korea is to conduct a nuclear test "in the future", the foreign ministry said in a statement. The move would "bolster" the country's self-defence in the face of US military hostility, official agency KCNA said. Pyongyang has faced mounting international pressure over its nuclear programme, and in July was condemned by the UN for test-launching missiles.

• YOUTUBE VIDEO: 9/11 Debate: Loose Change vs. Popular Mechanics (In case you missed it last month)

Monday 02nd October 2006: -

• THE TOTALITARIAN TIP-TOE: 3G Mobile Phone Allows “Chip and Pin” Payments - Mobile phones will be able to operate “chip and pin” transactions from any location, be it a taxi, or a car boot sale, using secure “two factor authentication”. The same technology can be applied across Internet payments, providing a further diverse network and safeguard against identity theft. “This patent grant fundamentally reinforces the work we have done over the last few years and with it we intend to change the mobile commerce paradigm by changing the way the world moves money – securely and in a non repudiatable way” said Keith Benson, Founder and Executive Chairman.

• Westminster launches Pay by Phone Parking - Motorists will be able to pay for their parking from their mobile phone in a new service launched by Westminster City Council. This service means motorists will no longer need to carry around bagfuls of change to pay for their parking as now they can now make a simple telephone call or text, from the comfort and safety of their vehicle, to pay for their parking on the street. Also, once they have parked, if they find themselves stuck in a meeting or delayed they can top up their parking fee remotely (up to the maximum time allowed) without having to return to their vehicle.   (COMMENT: Does no-one see the inherent danger here? See our Cashless Society Control Grid archive)

• BIG BROTHER IN THE CAR: Pay for cover by the mile - Norwich Union will this week launch its controversial ‘pay as you drive’ car insurance, where motorists are charged according to the distance and time of day they travel. The insurance, which relies on ‘black box’ technology fitted in cars to log details of all journeys, has until now been offered on a trial basis, but Norwich Union will open the scheme to all its customers later this week. It is expected to offer two products – one aimed at younger drivers and one for older motorists. People who use their cars infrequently in daylight hours will pay less, while those who drive at night, when accidents are more likely to happen, will face higher premiums. However, the scheme is likely to be controversial because the government could eventually use the technology to charge drivers when they enter traffic-clogged cities.

• Rabbit Hole Of Elitist Perversion Far Deeper Than Foley: Media obsession with E Mails of sicko Republican congressman overshadowed by ignored White House child prostitution scandal, Halliburton sex slavery evil - Revelations about a Florida Congressman that have mired the Republicans in another sex scandal over the weekend continue to rumble across the media spectrum today - but the true scale of organized child sex slavery rings and their connection to the elite is uniformly omitted from polite conversation.   (RELATED: See our Elites Abuse of Children archive)

• The laughing 9/11 bombers: (Although you can't hear the laughter because there is no soundtrack - go figure!) - FILM of the ringleader of the September 11 hijackers reading his “martyrdom” will inside Afghanistan at Osama Bin Laden’s headquarters has emerged five years after the Al-Qaeda outrage. It is the first time that a videotape has appeared of Mohammed Atta — who flew an American Airlines plane into the north tower of the World Trade Center — at a training camp in Afghanistan. It fills in a significant gap in the timing of the build-up to the attacks on the United States.   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive)

• Shirley offers fix for bad parenting: Sterilize irresponsible moms, dads, he says - Charleston City Councilman Larry Shirley says the robbery of a downtown video store - allegedly by a band of kids, including one too young to be charged - is a sure sign society has gone awry, and it's time to start a "dialogue." And one of the things he says needs to be talked about is whether bad parents should be sterilized. "What we've got is a failure in society, whether it's in Mount Pleasant with yuppie parents or whether it's on the East Side with poor crackhead parents," Shirley said Friday. "We pick up stray animals and spay them. These mothers need to be spayed if they can't take care of theirs. ... Once they have a child and it's running the streets, to let them continue to have children is totally unacceptable." Deadbeat dads might ought to be sterilized as well, he said.

• Teen Prodigy Dies in Crash - The teen engineering prodigy who gained national attention in 2002 when he and his family received identification chip implants on live television was killed in a motorcycle accident, authorities said. Derek Jacobs, 18, died early Saturday when he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed into a guardrail and a pole, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said.

Sunday 01st October 2006: -

• ISI a.k.a. the CIA: India to give Pakistan evidence of ISI spy role in Bombay blasts - India said it will give Pakistan evidence about the alleged involvement of its spy agency and militant groups in the deadly Bombay train bombings in July. Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon said the country will hand over evidence gathered by police showing the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency and Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba helped plant the bombs that killed 186 people.   (RELATED: See our Problem > Reaction > Solution archive for more background info)

• You should get a new passport - now: Don't risk ID theft once new, flawed chips are required - If you have a passport, now is the time to renew it — even if it's not set to expire anytime soon. If you don't have a passport and think you might need one, now is the time to get it. In many countries, including the United States, passports will soon be equipped with RFID chips. And you don't want one of these chips in your passport.   (RELATED: See our Total Global Surveillance archive)

• Australian Railways to get spy cameras - HUNDREDS of cameras with facial recognition capabilities will be installed at Sydney train stations as part of a $1.1 million counter-terrorism plan. Live feeds of station activity will also be screened to the public on plasma screens as part of the plan to deter terrorist and criminal activity. Costing around $4000 each, the high-resolution cameras are similar to those in place in the UK which helped police compile a list of suspects for last July's bombings after studying images of people entering the Tube.

• Diana crash witness: I saw a dozen 'shady figures' in tunnel - A key eyewitness to the car crash that killed Princess Diana has broken his silence to tell how he saw a dozen people at the scene moments before her death. Record producer Jacques Morel, 59, is convinced they expected to see her Mercedes brought to a halt by another car. Detectives working on the inquiry into Diana's death, headed by former Scotland Yard chief Lord Stevens, considered his account so important that he was flown to London and interviewed for three days.  Mr Morel, who was driving home with his wife Moufida in Paris on the night of August 31, 1997, said: "As we entered the Alma tunnel I looked to my left and saw about a dozen shady figures on a tiny pavement by the side of the opposite carriageway. "They were all standing in a long line. The sight was unforgettable. "The pavement is less than 30cm (12in) wide and next to fast traffic. They would have been breathing in petrol fumes and it was very dirty down there. It was certainly not a sensible place to stand around." If accurate, Mr Morel's recollections are significant because they suggest that the route Diana and Dodi Al Fayed were taking was known in advance.   (RELATED: See our popular Diana Assassination archive)

• Bush faces wave of challenges to terror law - The Bush administration yesterday faced a raft of legal challenges to a sweeping new regime for Guantánamo that would deny court oversight to detainees in the war on terror, and would bar prosecution of US personnel for war crimes. Mr Bush is expected to move within days to sign into law proposals for the treatment and trial before military tribunals of the detainees. The legislation, approved by the senate on Thursday, is a victory for the White House over senate Republicans, who had resisted attempts to relax standards on the treatment of detainees, and depart from standard rules of evidence in their trials.

• Police want pawn shops to fingerprint - Anyone hoping to sell an item to a local pawn shop could soon be forced to leave their fingerprints. “On a weekly basis what we see is people break into houses, steal things and go pawn them at a pawn shop,” said Captain Andy Leonard. In an attempt to curb this trend, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has urged city leaders to adopt an ordinance requiring pawn shops to fingerprint customers hawking items for cash. “We already have an ID on the pawn ticket,” said Leonard. “It’s just one more piece to help prosecute whoever has stolen the property.”

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