Thursday 30th October 2008: -

• Ex-Italian President: Provocateur Riots Then “Beat The Shit Out Of Protesters”: Cossiga says Italian government should “do what I did” under Operation GLADIO - infiltrate protest groups with agent provocateurs - Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga has offered a solution to the Italian government in dealing with widespread demonstrations by students and teachers over a cut in state funding of education - use agent provocateurs to start riots and then have the police “beat the shit out of the protesters”. Cossiga, former Italian President, Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, and one of the founders of the Operation GLADIO covert intelligence unit, encouraged Silvio Berlusconi and current Minister of the Interior Robert Maroni to “do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior,” namely infiltrate what so far have been relatively peaceful demonstrations, radicalize them, start riots, then engender public support for a heavy-handed police response.

• Police officers facing jail after being caught on video 'kicking and throwing' their pet dogs - Two police officers are facing jail after they were caught violently kicking and throwing their pet dogs around their backyard. Anja Mason and Craig Macleod were filmed by a concerned neighbour, who watched Tess, a collie pup, and Snoopy, a rottweiler, being abused at their house in Prestatyn. Both officers have since been removed from front-line duties. The pair watched in court as the video of the abuse was shown. Glenn Murphy, prosecuting for the RSPCA, said the DVD showed the dogs being kicked and hit.

• Data protection breaches affect millions of lives - Government plans to create a giant database of all telephone calls, emails and internet behaviour will suffer a setback today when the true scale of the misuse of personal information held by the state and private business is revealed for the first time. An investigation by the information watchdog has found that in the past year, millions of people have been affected by nearly 300 serious breaches of data protection laws across central government and the private sector. Cases include the loss or misuse of sensitive information about patients, service personnel, police, prison officers and the victims of domestic violence.

• GCHQ expert dismisses ID cards 'bunkum' - Claims that ID cards will help the fight against terrorism have been dismissed as "absolute bunkum" by a senior Government security expert linked to GCHQ. Ministers faced embarrassment after Harvey Mattinson, a senior consultant at the information security arm of the intelligence listening station, spoke out at a technology conference. Gordon Brown and Jacqui Smith have both insisted that ID cards could help foil future terror attacks. But Mr Mattinson, who works for CESG, the arm of GCHQ which advises government agencies on data security, told the Society of Information Technology Management annual conference said ID cards were designed to help Government bodies share personal information about individuals, it was reported yesterday.

• Most Presidents Ignore the Constitution - In a radio interview in 2001, then-Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama noted — somewhat ruefully — that the same Supreme Court that ordered political and educational equality in the 1960s and 1970s did not bring about economic equality as well. Although Mr. Obama said he could come up with arguments for the constitutionality of such action, the plain meaning of the Constitution quite obviously prohibits it. Mr. Obama is hardly alone in his expansive view of legitimate government. During the past month, Sen. John McCain (who, like Sen. Obama, voted in favor of the $700 billion bank bailout) has been advocating that $300 billion be spent to pay the monthly mortgage payments of those in danger of foreclosure. The federal government is legally powerless to do that, as well.

• Socialist or National Socialist? Take Your Pick - Americans will decide next week whether the next president will be a socialist or a national socialist. Lest you think I exaggerate, consider McCain’ campaign theme of “country first” before everything else – your private life, your job, your children, your education, your marriage, everything. Ask yourself how this differs from the philosophy of German fascism, which preached “the common good comes before the private good” (see Paul Lensch, Three Years of World Revolution). Or consider the fact that McCain supported the Wall Street Plutocrat Bailout Bill. A defining characteristic of fascism was that all profits were private, but losses were socialized. And oh yes, military imperialism (a.k.a., “national greatness conservatism”) and a dictatorial executive were also key features of European fascism. Recall that McCain promised that if elected (paraphrasing), “I will order the Secretary of the Treasury to by up all of the foreclosed mortgages.” Is that really a part of the delegated powers in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution?

• EU commissioners give little away about their freebies - It is a motley collection of items - pewter jugs, a box of cigars, an engraving of the Belgian parliament - but it gives a glimpse of the largesse that is bestowed upon European commissioners as they travel the world in luxury. The 27 members of the EU's executive body have registered 216 gifts during their four-year term, in line with a code of conduct that requires them to disclose details of presents worth more than €150 (£120) but not of any hospitality or other perks such as private jets, holidays, hotels and restaurants, no matter who paid for them. Pledges made in 2005 to tighten the code, after an outcry over a cruise on a Greek tycoon's yacht enjoyed by José Manuel Barroso, the Commission President, seem to have fallen by the wayside.

• VIDEO: FOX NEWS: " We Need Another 9/11" - Broadcast on Fox News (August 2007), Columnist Stu Bykofsky claims that America needs a new 9/11 to unite the American people, because they have "forgotten" who the enemy is. He also claims that "there will be another 9/11", and Fox News Anchorman concurs: "Does this columnist have a valid point?" "its going to take a lot of dead people to wake people up." "Another attack on America is inevitable"

Tuesday 28th October 2008: -

• Sarah Palin Supports New 9/11 Investigation: Alaska Governor gives unexpected answer during Ohio rally - John McCain’s presidential running mate Sarah Palin, much to the bewilderment of the 9/11 truth community, seemingly expressed support for a new investigation into the terrorist attacks during a rally in Ohio last week. Asked by We Are Change Ohio, “Do you support the family members and first responders who are calling for a new 9/11 investigation?,” Palin responded, “I do.” “I do because I think that helps us get to the point of never again, and if anything that we could do could still complete that reminder out there,” the Alaska Governor added. Palin was aware of the context because she then asked the cameraman if he had been affected by 9/11. Of course, one would have to be incredibly naive to think that Palin, at best a befuddled Republican poster child and at worst another establishment Neo-Con, would follow through on her support and back a new 9/11 investigation should John McCain snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and take the White House.

• Police to carry fingerprint scanners: Identity checks in the street - Ten of thousands of handheld devices capable of taking fingerprint readings could soon be distributed to British policemen. The Mobile Identification At Scene (Midas) project, which has so far costed at £30m-£40m, could soon see the average bobby able to take a fingerprint reading on the street to be able to identify someone straight away. The move, however, is already causing concern, coming so soon after the announcements of increasingly invasive plans by the government to keep data on British citizens. The police force has tried to allay some fears stating that the fingerprints taken by the scanners will not be stored or added to any government databases. But the civil rights group, Liberty, emphasised that this must be the case or the police, ironically, will be breaking the law.

• Secret bag checks on travellers - Customs officers are secretly searching luggage at Heathrow before it reaches the arrivals reclaim area. New rules which apply to all UK airports have quietly allowed checks to be carried out without travellers' permission or knowledge. And the Mirror has learned that the extra searches are being made seconds after flights touch down. Officers are randomly opening bags before fliers get the option of declaring goods that may require paying duty in the "red channel". The inspected luggage is then collected by the unknowing passengers as usual.

• UK: Health and safety axe on 800-year-old right to collect firewood - For the past 12 years, retired builder Mike Kamp has exercised his age-old right to collect firewood from the forest near his home. But the health and safety axe has finally come down on an 800-year-old tradition which dates back to the Magna Carta. Forestry chiefs say they have been forced to overrule the charter due to the 'increasing constraints' of modern legislation. The Magna Carta of 1215 included a Forest Charter which recognised the rights of commoners to get subsistence from common land. They were granted 'estovers' - dead wood - for fuel, to repair their homes, fix tools or make charcoal. Mr Kamp, 59, uses a wood-burning stove at his cottage near Betwys-y-Coed, North Wales, and enjoys walking through nearby Gwydir Forest. But now he has been told by Forestry Commission Wales that he can no longer buy a licence to forage.

• Riddle of the two missing hellraisers: Was George Osborne Bullingdon Club picture doctored - and why? - Dripping with privilege and arrogance, it is an image the Tories have been desperate to downplay. Yet their embarrassment over the picture of George Osborne in a notorious Oxford University drinking club intensified yesterday. Two ghostly figures appear to be lurking alongside the future Shadow Chancellor and his fellow members of the hellraising Bullingdon Club. The mystery over the snap from 1992 led to speculation yesterday that it might have been doctored.

• The Rothschilds and their 200 years of political influence - Nat Rothschild, the financier at the centre of allegations that threaten to engulf the shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, is no stranger to laws which forbid politicians from accepting donations from abroad. Political donations from overseas are also illegal in the US, where John McCain's campaign team is under investigation for allegedly accepting a benefit in kind from two mega-rich British citizens, namely Nat Rothschild and his father, Jacob, the Fourth Baron Rothschild. In April, Mr McCain passed through London and spoke at a fund-raising dinner for expatriate Americans, where seats at the cheapest tables cost £500 a head. What caught the eye of Judicial Watch, a Washington-based foundation dedicated to combating corruption, was that the event was held "by kind permission of Lord Rothschild and Hon Nathaniel Rothschild" at the family home in Spencer House, St James's, the only privately owned 17th-century palace in central London.

Sunday 26th October 2008: -

• 9/11 Hero William Rodriguez on UK Sky News 21/10/2008 - William Rodriguez is currently in the UK, and is doing some media along the way. This was broadcast on Tuesday the 21st of October, 2008.

• De Menezes family to quiz police: Three years after he was shot dead, his relatives come face to face with one of the men who killed him - The family of Jean Charles de Menezes will tomorrow be seeking answers from one of the police marksmen involved in the shooting of the 27-year-old Brazilian on the London Underground in July 2005. Their barrister, Michael Mansfield QC, will cross-examine police officer "C12" at the inquest into the fateful shooting that took place at Stockwell Tube station. Questions remain over why Mr de Menezes was shot repeatedly in the head at close range while he was being pinned down in a seat on the London Underground.

• UK Council using 'spy' powers on illegal parkers - IT is more a case of The Man From C.O.U.N.C.I.L. than The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - council employees carried out surveillance on residents 20 times this year. The agents from cult 1960s TV programme The Man From U.N.C.L.E. were famed for their skilful espionage. But the Gazette has learned that Islington Council carries out surveillance of its own, staking out homes and offices if it suspects residents of wrong-doing. Yet rather than fighting international criminal syndicate THRUSH, council "spies" are battling a slightly less heinous crime - illegal parking. Following a Freedom of Information request, Islington Council revealed it has carried out surveillance on residents 92 times in the last five years. Residents were snooped on after being suspected of incorrect use of disabled parking bays, claiming too many benefits or gambling. The number of operations is going up, with 20 in the first six months of this year.

• UK: Plumbers and electricians trained as council child abuse 'spies' - Tradesmen working for local authorities are to be asked to report signs of child abuse and neglect as they visit the homes of council tenants. The plumbers, electricians and carpenters will be issued with a checklist of signs to look out for, including ‘unexplained bruising’ and ‘scalds’. Training will last just half a day. But critics believe the use of workers untrained in such a highly complex field could backfire. They say that children who are at real risk could be overlooked because social workers with already bulging caseloads could be bombarded with baseless complaints.

• China: Internet cafés get new surveillance device - Reporters Without Borders condemns the Chinese government’s latest measure to reinforce surveillance of Internet café users, who will henceforth have to have their mugshot taken and their ID card swiped by a Customer Registration Device to be installed in all of Beijing’s estimated 1,500 Internet cafés by the end of the year. “All Internet users are now suspects to be put on file in China,” Reporters Without Borders said. “By citing a need to combat piracy and cyber-crime, the government has found a way to introduce a terrifying Big Brother-style system for automatically creating files on Internet users. With no guarantees on how this information will be used, the Internet cafés could become places for all kinds of spying and informing.”

• Mobile phone use 'raises children's risk of brain cancer fivefold' - Alarming new research from Sweden on the effects of radiation raises fears that today's youngsters face an epidemic of the disease in later life. Children and teenagers are five times more likely to get brain cancer if they use mobile phones, startling new research indicates. The study, experts say, raises fears that today's young people may suffer an "epidemic" of the disease in later life. At least nine out of 10 British 16-year-olds have their own handset, as do more than 40 per cent of primary schoolchildren. Yet investigating dangers to the young has been omitted from a massive £3.1m British investigation of the risks of cancer from using mobile phones, launched this year, even though the official Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) Programme – which is conducting it – admits that the issue is of the "highest priority".

Saturday 25th October 2008: -

• BBC Set To Air Third Smear Attack On 9/11 Truth: Broadcaster re-hashes WTC 7 hit piece in latest desperate attempt to discredit doubters of the official story - The BBC is set to launch a third savage smear attack on the 9/11 truth movement by rehashing a now thoroughly debunked program that it first aired in July of this year. Having taken its rightful place alongside Popular Mechanics and The History Channel as one of the 21st century’s most plentiful peddlers of yellow journalism with their first 9/11 hit piece last year, “Auntie Beeb” had another crack at the whip on July 6th when it aired a documentary about the collapse of WTC Building 7, the 47-storey skyscraper that imploded into its own footprint on 9/11 without being hit by a plane, called “The Third Tower”.

• BBC tells reporters: Don’t mention the ‘R-word’ - The BBC is facing claims that it is avoiding using the ‘R-word’ - recession - to avoid being too depressing about the gloomy situation. It has been alleged that reporters have been encouraged to opt for ‘downturn’. Sources have suggested that those covering the story for the BBC World Service have also been given the phrase ‘global financial crisis’ to use. The edict, which the corporation is denying, was said to have been brought in on the same day that Gordon Brown used the word recession for the first time.

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Tuesday 21st October 2008: -

• WeAreChangeLA ‘debriefs’ former CIA Case Officer Robert Baer about apparent Mossad and White House 9/11 foreknowledge, and more - On October 16, 2008, Robert Baer, who was a CIA Case Officer in the Middle East over the course of almost two decades, participated in a discussion at the Hammer Museum entitled “A Third War: The Threat of War with Iran.” Dr. Trita Parsi was part of the discussion which was moderated by Ian Masters.

• Another sneering hit piece on 9/11 Truth from Mike Rudin & The BBC: Caught up in a conspiracy theory - I've just been sent a video on the net which accuses me of being "Eurotrash" and of producing a "hit piece" about 9/11. Almost inevitably I've been enmeshed in the ever growing net of the conspiracy theory. They've added my name to a long list of imagined conspirators - the secret services, police, people who worked in the building, first responders, the fire service, city officials...and also those who they think have deliberately set out to cover up this huge conspiracy - the official investigators, the world's media... Last month we were in New York to film the seventh anniversary of 9/11 at Ground Zero for a new programme about the allegation of a conspiracy to deliberately destroy the three skyscrapers at the World Trade Centre. "The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 - The Truth Behind The Third Tower" is to be broadcast at 9pm on BBC Two on Sunday 26th October 2008.

COMMENTARY: The last 9/11 related Conspiracy Files show that aired on the BBC a (few months ago) was hugely debunked, much of the material is available in our own archives and at 911truthskipton.com in the news section - see the bottom of the page available here.  To those new to this subject or to those who consider themselves on the fence, please don't be 'suckered' in by the authoritative sounding tone of Rudin and the BBC.  The corporation is 'in deep' with the same corrupt system that carried out 9/11 and the subsequent whitewash.  Their lies have been so blatant and exposed many times over by this stage.  We have been threatened, cheated and attacked for challenging the official story... don't let them get away with this.  Investigate 9/11 and then wake up others.

• Britain's freedoms under threat from 'Big Brother security state', warns Director of Public Prosecutions - The chief prosecutor has warned the surveillance society is threatening to 'break the back of freedom'. Sir Ken Macdonald, Director of Public Prosecutions, said the state was poised to take powers to keep information on everyone and 'we might end up living with something we can't bear.' His message - delivered ten days before he steps down as head of the Crown Prosecution Service - was a parting shot at ministers who aim to make every phone call, email, test message and internet visit available to police and security services. Sir Ken said: 'We need to take very great care not to fall into a way of life in which freedom's back is broken by the relentless pressure of a security state.'

• This is the age of paranoia, scientists say - The 21st century is the "age of paranoia" according to British scientists. Levels of paranoia and mistrust are much higher than previously thought and are increasing, it was claimed. Dr Daniel Freeman, a clinical psychologist from King's College London, warned: "These days, we daren't let our children play outside. We're suspicious of strangers. Security cameras are everywhere." Dr Freeman, a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow, said: "We seem to have entered an age of paranoia. And the indications are that things may only get worse."

• 16 Words: New Court Filing Suggests Manufactured Terror Threat in Bush’s 2002 State of the Union - A new court filing by the lawyers for Lakhdar Boumediene and five other Guantanamo detainees suggests that the Bush administration ordered the Bosnian government to arrest and hold the men after an exhaustive Bosnian investigation had found them innocent of any terrorism related activity and had ordered their release, in order to use them as props in Bush’s January 2002 State of the Union speech. The filing–”Lakhdar Boumediene, et al., Petitioners, v. George W. Bush, President of the United States, et al., Respondents, Petitioners’ Public Traverse to the Government’s Return to the Petition for Habeas Corpus”–lays out the case that the Bush administration threatened at the highest levels to withdraw diplomatic and military aid to the Balkan nation if Bosnia released the men, which its own three-month investigation had found innocent of any terrorism charges in the days leading up to Bush’s January 2002 State of the Union.

• A bus ride down Penny Lane - the faster route to a cashless future - Liverpool is expected to become the UK's next city for time-saving and secure contactless payments, after MasterCard, The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Stagecoach today announced a one year trial of MasterCard PayPassTM and Maestro PayPassTM on around 200 buses in Merseyside. The major planned rollout in the second quarter of 2009 will be the first ever use of contactless bankcard payments on public transport in the UK and the first significant extension of the ‘Tap & GoTM' way to pay outside London for members of the general public.

Saturday 18th October 2008: -

• EU Leaders Call for Global Currency - If we are to believe the Washington Post, French president and current EU leader Nicolas Sarkozy has pledged to save us from nameless “freewheeling bankers and traders” who get the blame for the current economic crisis. Sarkozy, Gordon Brown, and EU honcho José Manuel Barroso are talking up an international summit to discuss an “urgent overhaul of the world’s financial architecture,” that is to say a new Bretton Woods to establish a brand spanking new international economic order. Sarkozy has managed to grab George Bush’s ear and he will travel to Washington on Saturday to lay the groundwork for a conference. In 1944, 44 allied nations met at a resort in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to fiddle with monetary standards, fix exchange rates, and create the IMF and World Bank. “Launching a remake of this old model — particularly in such a short time, with so many new participants — would represent a daunting challenge at any time, but particularly during the twilight of the Bush presidency and the crisis that is still jolting banks and stock markets around the world,” reports the Post.

• Britain's failure to tackle corruption damned amid new claims against BAE: Arms giant accused of fraud over Saudi deals / International monitors put UK ministers in dock - Fresh allegations of misconduct were made against arms company BAE yesterday as the government was condemned for failing to clamp down on corruption. It was disclosed that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has accused BAE of concealing the truth about its Saudi arms deals in order fraudulently to get government insurance cover. International anti-bribery monitors from the OECD published a report detailing allegations made during the aborted investigations into BAE's £43bn Saudi arms deals. BAE got insurance for the deals from the export credit agency, the ECGD. It is alleged that BAE concealed from Whitehall the existence of agents and intermediaries to whom it was making secret payments at the time.

• Former MI5 chief Stella Rimington claims 9/11 response was 'huge overreaction' - Former chief of MI5, Stella Rimington has claimed that the response to the September 11 2001 attacks was a "huge overreaction" and described the events as just "another terrorist incident". She said the attacks by al-Qaeda were "qualitatively different from any others" and criticised Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for making national security a partisan issue. In a wide-ranging interview, Rimington, who was the first-ever female, publicly named head of MI5 and retired 12 years ago, also said the war on terror in Iraq had influenced young British men to turn to terrorism. 'I suppose I'd lived with terrorist events for a good part of my working life and this was as far as I was concerned another one. 'It was huge, and horrible, and seemed worse because we all watched it unfold on television, So yes, 9/11 was bigger, but not qualitatively different', she told the Guardian newspaper. Attacking the home secretary, Dame Rimington said: 'National security has become much more of a political issue than it ever was in my day. 'Parties are tending to use it as a way of trying to get at the other side. You know, "We're more tough on terrorism than you are." I think that's a bad move, quite frankly.'

• Alleged - The Critical 9/11 Word - An article to raise awareness that the 9/11 hijackers are never referred to as alleged terrorists, whereas, they should be. If they were referred to as such, that would open up a wider range of possibilities for consideration when assessing the ramifications of that terrible event. Journalists, or people in general, bend over backwards to modify any reference to persons charged with a crime with the single word-alleged. Yet, in the case of persons who otherwise would have been alleged perpetrators in a crime, but because they are no longer alive and no case will go to trial, then no legal need exists to make sure to use that particular word. Then, it is so easy to either include or exclude this word depending on one's point of view on the bigger matter at hand.

• USA Knew About 9/11 Two Years Earlier! - With their huge intelligence network, the USA did not manage to stop the WTC attacks, even by overstepping all possible authorities. James Bamford reveals some shocking facts in his latest book “The Shadow Factory”, of which the most innocent allegations are those of wiretapping and violating the privacy of Americans. The claim that is stressed the most is that the secret services, first and foremost the “No Such Agency” (as the NSA is sometimes ironically called), knew about the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks two years before the attacks were carried out. Not only that, but that the attackers were in the “backyard” of the NSA and that is where they carried out their calls that were recorded and which were easily traced. In an interview published on Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman, a well known American investigative journalist, talked with James Bamford, the author of numerous books about the American secret services, which covered the activities of the NSA for the last three decades.

• 9/11 in 33 Minutes: Determining the Official Story Cannot Be True: 9/11 in 33 minutes: the best video summary of the 9/11 news stories that haven't been covered in the mainstream press - Seven years after 9/11, debate about who was involved in the attacks remains as contentious as ever. Despite Osama Bin Laden being popularly named as the prime suspect, the FBI to this day does not have him listed on their Most Wanted list for 9/11. By the FBI's own admission, there is "no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11". So who was responsible? We still don't know, but the evidence available does prove one thing: the official story cannot be true.

• Iraqis stage mass anti-US rally - Supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr have staged a mass demonstration in Baghdad in protest against plans to extend the US mandate in Iraq. An estimated 50,000 protesters chanted slogans such as "Get out occupier!". Iraqi and US negotiators drafted the deal after months of talks but it still needs approval from Iraq's government. Under the agreement US troops would withdraw by 2011, and Iraq would have the right to prosecute Americans who commit crimes while off-duty.

• Big Brother database: the revolt grows: Labour MPs join opposition parties in attack on Home Secretary's 'Orwellian' plans - Jacqui Smith faces a parliamentary backlash over "Orwellian" plans to intercept details of email, internet, telephone and other data records of every person in Britain. Labour MPs joined opposition parties in expressing doubts about plans announced by the Home Secretary which could lead to a vast database of information about Britons' calls and internet habits. They warned that MPs, emboldened by the Government's decision to ditch plans to hold terrorist suspects for up to 42 days without charge, would not accept this extension of state power.

• Mobile phones 'cause skin rash' - Mobile phones users are developing rashes on their faces and ears caused by an allergic reaction to the nickel on handsets, skin experts warn. The British Association of Dermatologists said the phenomenon is being seen in people who spend long periods of time on the phone. Nickel is often found in the handset casing or buttons. The BAD said women who reacted to nickel in jewellery were at a higher risk of a rash from their phones. Nickel allergy is the most common contact allergy in the UK and is thought to affect 30% of the population.

COMMENTARY: Errrr, I think that the brain tumors that Mobile phones can cause (provably so) is slightly more worrying.

• Sex education lessons 'to be compulsory in primary schools' - Sex education should be compulsory in all schools in an attempt to cut teenage pregnancy rates, a Government review will conclude. A report published next week is expected to recommend that pupils in primary and secondary schools should receive classes on the human body, sexual health and relationships. Basic lessons are expected to be given to under-11s following claims from experts that "gradual education" stops children rushing into sex when they get older.

• UK Student dies after ambulance service refuses to send crew - A 23-year-old student died after an ambulance service refused to send a crew from a neighbouring county. Rebecca Wedd was forced to wait 40 minutes for a paramedic crew to arrive, despite an ambulance being free just 15 miles away. But because the incident and spare ambulance were in different counties and covered by different control rooms, the controller of the available crew refused to release them in case it left them short. It was one of a catalogue of failures by Great Western Ambulance Service on the night that Miss Wedd died.

• Farmers sue labs over foot-and-mouth - A group of farmers have launched a legal claim against two laboratories blamed for last year's outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, it was announced today. The case has been formally launched in the High Court by 14 livestock farmers whose businesses were affected by the outbreak in Normandy, Surrey, in August last year. The claim has been brought against the Institute for Animal Health and Merial Animal Health Limited as operators of the Pirbright facility, and Defra Secretary Hilary Benn as licensor and regulator of the facility. The claim alleges that IAH and Merial were negligent in that they caused or permitted the foot and mouth disease virus to escape from the Pirbright facility. It also alleges that the Secretary of State was negligent in that he failed to properly licence or regulate the facility's operation.

Wednesday 15th October 2008: -

• Royal Mail criticised for stamp honouring 'racist' Marie Stopes - Royal Mail has been criticised for releasing a stamp honouring Marie Stopes, the birth control pioneer who is accused of being a racist and a Nazi sympathiser. Stopes, who is best known for opening Britain's first family planning clinic in 1921, will feature on the new 50p stamp as part of a commemorative series celebrating women of achievement. Others honoured with black and white photographs in the new release include the Labour cabinet minister Barbara Castle, for her work promoting equal pay, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first British woman to qualify as a doctor, and her sister the women's rights campaigner Millicent Garrett Fawcett. To her supporters Stopes, who has a sexual health charity now working in 40 countries named after her, helped liberate women and transform society with her campaigning in favour of family planning. But Stopes, who died in 1958, was also a supporter of eugenics, the pseudo-scientific theories which promoted sterilisation of diseased or weak people to "perfect" the race, which was openly promoted by the Nazis in Germany.

• Data storage shake-up 'Orwellian' - Plans to gather and record millions of pieces of information about everyone's internet and telephone habits have been condemned as "Orwellian". Measures to allow government agencies access to records of emails sent, websites visited and phone calls made amount to an "exponential increase in the powers of the state", it was claimed. Police and the security services say terrorists and organised crime gangs are becoming more and more sophisticated in the way they use new technology to evade detection. They fear that without changes to how the government monitors communications data (CD), their ability to break up terror plots and gather evidence for criminal prosecutions could be undermined.

• Merseyside Police Arrest A Number Of Peaceful Activists In 11th October Protest: On Saturday 11th October 2008 in Liverpool City Centre, Merseyside Police Officers broke up a peaceful protest and leaflet distribution, seized leaflets and arrested a number of protesters who were later initially charged with 'criminal damage ' later changed to 'Causing alarm and distress' - The main instigating officer involved was P.C Wilson. Here is a witness statemnt to the event: 'Last Saturday (11th) Merseyside Police broke up a legal political mass stall by various organisations on Church Street in Liverpool city centre that had been planned for some time, arresting two political activists in the process. The mass stall was arranged by various groups after the wrongful arrest of a Liverpool political activist in August for distributing leaflets and selling political newspapers on Church Street, allowed under Government legislation and Section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998.

• Smith says 42-day detention plan not dead - The government will rush through emergency legislation to allow police to hold terrorism suspects for 42 days without charge in the event of a serious threat or an attack, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said on Tuesday. Smith's vow came the day after the House of Lords resoundingly defeated proposals to extend the detention limit to 42 from the current 28 days, a measure the government says is necessary to deal with the terrorism threat. "My priority is we need to find a way through this," Smith told BBC radio.

• Jean Charles de Menezes inquest: officer admits changing evidence - A senior police officer has admitted tampering with evidence in the Jean Charles de Menezes inquest. Jean Charles de Menezes inquest: a police officer has admitted tampering with evidence Photo: AP The surveillance officer deleted parts of his computerised notes which suggested Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick said the Brazilian electrician should be allowed to get on a Tube train at Stockwell station because he was "not carrying anything". Miss Dick had previously said she believed Mr de Menezes posed a "great threat". The surveillance officer, known only as Owen, said he deleted parts of his computerised notes on Oct 7 – two weeks into the inquest – because he believed they gave a "totally false impression".

• Low flying is the talk of Fakenham - It made a change from talking about the credit crunch or the poor summer we have suffered this year. Rumours of aircraft fuel falling from the skies above Fakenham on Tuesday morning and concerns over low-flying aircraft and noise were on the lips of residents. The sounds of low-flying military aircraft led to several hours of confusion after USAF Lakenheath moved to deny local radio news bulletins suggesting that the flying and rumoured jettison of fuel was being caused by their F-15 fighter jets.

• Darling's men: How the Government will wield unprecedented power in the City - The government will wield unprecedented power in City boardrooms following yesterday's staggering bail-out of Britain's banking industry. As part of the £37 billion rescue, Chancellor Alistair Darling will be able to appoint three directors to the board of Royal Bank of Scotland. Lloyds TSB, which is swallowing rival Halifax Bank of Scotland, is also bringing two fresh faces into its boardroom, but these will both need to be approved by the Treasury. The five new bank directors are unlikely to be civil servants. Instead, the government wants experienced bankers to fill the five boardroom vacancies as it attempts to recoup all of its investment over the coming years.

COMMENTARY: Ever seen Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels?  The bit where the mafia boss gets the card player into massive debt then sends in his 'heavy (played by Vinnie Jones) to seize his assets.  Kind'a what is happening here... just without Vinnie Jones basically!

Monday 13th October 2008: -

• Met officer altered key De Menezes evidence: IPCC opens investigation after surveillance officer deletes note of Cressida Dick saying Brazilian was 'not carrying anything' - A Metropolitan police officer today admitted altering a key document about the events leading to the shooting dead of Jean Charles de Menezes. An official investigation was immediately launched after the admission by the officer, known only as Owen, who was the deputy surveillance coordinator on the day the Brazilian electrician was mistaken by police for a suicide bomber and killed.

• Speaker to investigate Tony Blair over Bernie Ecclestone affair - Michael Martin, the Speaker of the House of Commons, has said that he will investigate whether Tony Blair "deliberately misled" Parliament over the Bernie Ecclestone scandal. Documents obtained at the weekend under the Freedom of Information Act appear to suggest that the former Prime Minister personally intervened to secure Formula One's exemption from a tobacco advertising ban just hours after meeting Mr Ecclestone, who ran the sport. The Government has always maintained that the meeting did not influence the final decision over the exemption - even though Mr Ecclestone was a major party donor at the time.

• Suspended term for Tory candidate - A former Tory candidate who admitted carrying out a campaign of harassment against his Liberal Democrat rivals has been given a suspended prison sentence. Ian Oakley, 31, who quit as a prospective parliamentary candidate in Watford, admitted five charges of criminal damage and two of harassment. Oakley, of Ryeland Close, West Drayton, London, appeared before Central Herts Magistrates Court in St Albans. He received an 18-week jail sentence suspended for 12 months.

• A licence to collude? Police's right to confer after shooting questioned by judge in barrister case - Allowing police officers to confer before writing their account of a shooting means the 'opportunity for collusion is... institutionalised', a judge warned yesterday. Mr Justice Underhill's comment came in his judgment on the investigation into the killing of barrister Mark Saunders who died in a hail of bullets during a police siege at his £2.2million London flat in May. Although he ruled that the investigation was lawful, the judge expressed serious concerns over the controversial and well-established code of conduct that allows officers, unlike witnesses or the accused in other cases, to discuss their accounts of an event.

• Resounding defeat in the House of Lords leaves Brown's 42-day terror detention plans in tatters - Gordon Brown looks set to scrap plans to extend pre-charge detention of terror suspects to 42 days following a heavy defeat in the House of Lords tonight. In a vote carried by 309 to 118, the House of Lords resoundingly defeated the government's Counter-Terrorism Bill, which would have raised the time terrorism suspects can be held without charge to 42 days from 28 days. The extension had been carried in the Commons by a majority of just nine votes - despite a rebellion by 36 Labour MPs - with the help of Democratic Unionist and Ulster Unionist MPs.

• UK: 'ID card guinea pig' pilots ready to call in lawyers: 'How can it be voluntary if we're all going to lose our jobs?' - The British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) union has warned it may seek a judicial review of the government's ID cards scheme to prevent pilots being forced to carry identity cards. As part of a phased introduction of ID cards, the government has stipulated that people working in certain 'sensitive areas' such as airports will be required to hold an identity card from mid-2009. Foreign nationals will also have to carry the cards, with theirs set to be issued from next month. A spokesman for Balpa, which represents more than 10,000 airline pilots - some 90 per cent of the UK workforce - said: "The possibility of [seeking] a judicial review is very high on the agenda." "[The review] would be on the basis that we are told repeatedly by ministers that the ID card scheme is voluntary but how can it be voluntary if we stand the prospect of losing our jobs?" he said.

• Lost MoD drive may hold details on 1.7 mln people - A missing Ministry of Defence computer drive could contain details of as many as 1.7 million people who had shown interest in joining the armed forces. The drive, reported missing last Wednesday by IT contractor EDS, was used with a recruitment system. Armed Forces Minister Bob Ainsworth said on Monday that "in the worst case" the drive could hold details of 1.7 million people. For casual inquirers this would be no more than their name and contact details.

• UK: Record growth in DNA database - Britain's DNA database is being built by stealth, critics warned, as the Government admitted record numbers of profiles were added last year. Many of the 722,464 new samples were taken by police from people who have never been convicted of – or even charged with – a criminal offence. Britain now has a DNA database holding nearly five million samples – by far the largest in the world. Anyone picked up for an arrestable offence has to provide a DNA sample.

• Japan Goes Big Brother with Vending Machines with CCTV Cameras - Following in Britain's footsteps, it looks like the Japanese government is looking to install CCTV cameras in every conceivable public place in order to keep an eye on the populous. But since it's Japan, they're doing it in a uniquely Japanese way: via their ubiquitous vending machines. As anyone who's been to Japan knows, there are vending machines all over the place there, especially in the cities. They're on every block and ever corner, offering up hot coffee in a can and cigarettes whenever you need them. The next generation of vending machines, as first released on Friday, will also include a security camera, an emergency phone and an alarm.

• Cell Phones Sometimes Cause Real Pain - People increasingly complain of being "electrosensitive," claiming that the electromagnetic fields emitted from mobile phones cause them real pain. Christie Nicholson reports. Various studies have reassured us that mobile phones will not give us cancer. But cell phones can cause real pain. That’s according to an article in press at the journal NeuroImage.

COMMENTARY: "mobile phones will not give us cancer"... yeah and we are also told that when Justin sings 'What Goes Around', he isn't singing about Britney!

Thursday 09th October 2008: -

• UK: First York school to use fingerprint recognition technology - CHILDREN as young as 11 are having their fingerprints used to register at a York secondary school. The scheme at All Saints’ RC School is the first in the city using thumbprint recognition technology to register pupils as they turn up for school in the morning and after lunch break. Head teacher Bill Scriven, said the school, which has 1,200 pupils, including a sixth form, consulted parents before introducing the scheme and, although there were one or two who didn’t want their child to take part, the majority use the system. Mr Scriven said they introduced the fingerprinting technology because the schools split site on Mill Mount and Nunnery Lane made registration difficult. It can be used to monitor truancy levels, although Mr Scriven stressed the school has extremely few children skipping classes.

• ALEX JONES' CRITICISM OF PROPAGANDA IN THE POPULAR FILM 'ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM': Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 - A warning!!!

COMMENTARY: This film 'Zeitgeist' has gone super-nova on GoogleVideo and YouTube.  We don't know why because there are much better anti-NWO videos out there.  Moreover the solutions that the film gives are very general and when you actually look into these, you trace these back to Karl Marx and basic Communist (i.e. one branch of the New World Order control system) style propaganda... Maybe that's why the video has gone super-nova on GoogleVideo and YouTube?!?!

• Foo Fighters demands McCain stop using their music - Throughout the campaign season, Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign has continually drawn the ire of musicians by using their copyrighted material without permission. Now yet another band is complaining. Yesterday, the Foo Fighters issued a statement telling McCain to stop using their song “My Hero“: “The saddest thing about this is that `My Hero’ was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential,” the band said in a statement. “To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song.”

Wednesday 08th October 2008: -

• You Are Being Watched - Students are now being watched more than ever as Edinburgh sees the largest annual increase in CCTV cameras in its history. In the last year, 40 new closed-circuit television cameras have been introduced around the city and 15 on University-owned land - the highest number that either the city or the University have ever recorded in just one year. With the second largest surveillance system in Scotland, Edinburgh now has over 830 cameras scattering the city, with a further 220 CCTV cameras inside and outside University buildings and ground.

• UK schools to get advice on tackling extremism - British teachers are to be given guidelines on how to counter extremism among the young, with ministers saying they can play a vital role in tackling the problem. "Learning together to be safe" toolkits, which will be made available to all primary and secondary schools, aims to show how teachers can prevent pupils being influenced by extremists by challenging and exposing flaws in their arguments. The government says the kits will help fight al Qaeda and other hate or race-based prejudice. "Dealing with violent extremism is nothing new for the UK and we have learnt from past experience that a security response is not enough," Schools Secretary Ed Balls said.

• The 'Big Brother' council who set the dogs on the kennels... sending 12 officials to check on one pet - Not many farms offering luxurious accommodation have been raided because of claims that they are overcrowded with dogs. But then Lucies Farm is no ordinary establishment. It offers £50-a-night accommodation for man's best friend, including acupuncture from a vet, massages and an indoor pool for doggy paddles. But its tranquility was shattered after 12 council officials raided the kennels, which are licensed to keep ten dogs, while just one pet was staying there. Acting on a tip-off, the team from two local authorities, operating under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, entered the home of owners Craig and Marjorie Walsh on the site and seized computer files containing personal details. In their trawl for evidence, they took personal medical histories, credit card information and even a list of jewellery drawn up for the couple's insurers. The raid took place on January 10 while Mr and Mrs Walsh were away. After a seven-month investigation that cost thousands of pounds, Worcestershire county council's trading standards department wrote to the couple to say it had found no wrongdoing at the kennels near Powick. Mr and Mrs Walsh, both 59, are now suing the 'council snoops' for £150,000 over the 'Big Brother-style' raid.

• 'St John's Wort plant as effective as Prozac for treating depression', say scientists - It has long been a happy alternative for those reluctant to pop pills for depression. But the herbal extract St John's Wort now has more than just cheerful converts to testify to its mood-lifting powers. In what is billed as the most thorough study of the plant, scientists have found it is just as effective as Prozac at treating depression. Researchers compared the effects of the plant hypericum perforatum - popularly known as St John's Wort - with placebos or a wide range of old and new anti-depressants, including those from the new generation of SSRI drugs, such as Prozac and Seroxat.

COMMENTARY: Plus I don't think that St John's Wort gives as many young adults the suicidal edge that drugs like Seroxat are reported to do.

• One in 300 NHS patients killed by avoidable blunders, warns Richard Branson in call for new safeguards - One in 300 NHS patients is killed because of avoidable blunders by staff or hospital-acquired infections, Sir Richard Branson warned yesterday. The Virgin Atlantic chief said that this toll was far higher than the risks posed by air travel. Sir Richard, a newly-appointed vice-president of the Patients Association, compared the safety records of his aviation business and the NHS. He added that the level of harm suffered by patients going into hospital for treatment was ‘unacceptable’.

Tuesday 07th October 2008: -

• Kenya deports anti-Obama author - A controversial American author and conspiracy theorist was arrested in Nairobi and was due to be deported today after trying to plug his bestselling book attacking Barack Obama, whose late father was Kenyan. Jerome Corsi arrived in the country last week to promote The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, an error-riddled book that recently became a bestseller in the US. It falsely claims that Obama, who is revered in Kenya, was raised as a Muslim, and smears Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the country's most popular politician. Corsi had said that he also planned to deliver a $1,000 cheque from a conservative website owner to George Obama, the presidential candidate's half brother who lives in Nairobi's Huruma slum.

COMMENTARY: The mainstream media clone The Guardian up to the usual tricks, labeling critics of their 'movie' version of reality as 'Conspiracy Theorists', just as we see with the BBC, Daily Mail, the Telegraph and all the rest.  Left, Right, Liberal, Conservative, they're all the same - corrupt to the core getting their instructions from the same NWO force that controls all sides of the debate.

• FBI Prevents Agents from Telling ‘Truth’ About 9/11 on PBS - The FBI has blocked two of its veteran counterterrorism agents from going public with accusations that the CIA deliberately withheld crucial intelligence before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. FBI Special Agents Mark Rossini and Douglas Miller have asked for permission to appear in an upcoming public television documentary, scheduled to air in January, on pre-9/11 rivalries between the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency.

• The Government got you into this mess so don't trust them to get you out of it, says rogue trader Nick Leeson - The world's most notorious rogue trader today said it was 'foolish' to trust governments and central banks to solve the global credit crunch. Nick Leeson, whose trading led to the collapse of Barings Bank in 1995, said it was the political and banking leaders who allowed the financial meltdown to happen in the first place. The former trader said for the past decade the British Government and the Bank of England simply did not understand what was happening in the financial markets.

• Pc admits sex acts while on duty - A police officer has admitted having sex with a woman while on duty and propositioning another woman after she had been arrested. Pc Gary Bayldon, 48, from Newport, Isle of Wight, is suspended from duty on full pay with the Hampshire force and will face an internal inquiry. He admitted three counts of wilful misconduct in public office at Kingston Crown Court on Tuesday. He will be sentenced on 28 October. The judge warned he could face prison.

• MoD bosses splash out £230 million on hotels and dinners - Defence bosses splashed out £230million on hotels and dinners - while spending £16million upgrading the squalid houses of squaddies. The shocking contrast is revealed in figures obtained by the Mirror from 2006/7, the latest available. Campaigners fighting for better conditions for soldiers said the massive hotel and restaurant bill was disgusting. Rose Gentle, whose son Gordon, 19, was killed in Iraq in 2004, said: "How dare they spend so much money on themselves when our troops are living in damp, drafty and disgusting conditions. "I know soldiers' mothers who are having to send their sons money for food so they can eat properly. "Then you have a bunch of civil servants living it up in restaurants and hotels on taxpayers' money."

Monday 06th October 2008: -

• There’s no hiding place as spy HQ plans to see all - Intelligence chiefs want access to all communications made in the UK, but they face a fight. Every call you make, every e-mail you send, every website you visit - I’ll be watching you. That is the hope of Sir David Pepper who, as the director of GCHQ, the government’s secret eavesdropping agency in Cheltenham, is plotting the biggest surveillance system ever created in Britain. From his office in the agency’s famous “doughnut” building, Pepper is masterminding an innocent-sounding project called the Interception Modernisation Programme. The scope of the project - classified top secret - is said by officials to be so vast that it will dwarf the estimated £5 billion ministers have set aside for the identity cards programme. It is intended to fight terrorism and crime. Civil liberties groups, however, say it poses an unprecedented intrusion into ordinary citizens’ lives.

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• Armed racist Ellis Hammond's police links ‘kept from court’ - The Metropolitan police have been accused of withholding the fact that a racist fanatic prosecuted for stockpiling illegal weapons was one of their own officers. According to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), officers failed to disclose in a prosecution dossier that Ellis Hammond was a serving police community support officer (PCSO) after he had been found with a cache of arms including a CS spray, a stun gun, combat knives, a knuckleduster and a replica AK-47. He was also a member of the far-right British National party (BNP) and had a collection of racist literature.

• Taser zap for ram in a jam - Cops zapped a sheep with a taser gun because it was causing a traffic jam. Rspca chiefs a re investigating a complaint that it was not necessary to use the high-voltage device. A spokesman said: "We take it seriously. An inspector will look into it." Police were called after the ram strayed across the A55 dual carriageway near St Asaph, north Wales. Apolice spokesman said: "It was causing disruption and possible danger. To ensure safety, a decision was made to use the taser. "The ram was returned to its owner uninjured."

• Security fear over airport face scanners - Faulty facial recognition scanners at a British airport are allowing two people through immigration control on just one passport. Sources from the UK Border Agency (UKBA) have revealed that the devices are failing to detect when two people pass through them at the same time. The system, which replaces traditional passport control measures, is undergoing a "live trial" at Manchester Airport, where a UKBA worker said it was suffering almost daily malfunctions. He said immigration officers had been able to accompany travellers through the scanners without an alarm being triggered, even though the booths are supposed to detect if more than one person enters at a time.

• TV contestants face water torture in most sickening reality show yet - A reality television show has been accused of crossing the line from entertainment to sadism. In Channel 5’s Unbreakable the contestants are buried alive, trapped in a tent full of CS gas and must wade through piranha-infested water. They are also subjected to waterboarding - a torture technique used by the CIA on terror suspects. This involves being tied down on a board, tilted back and having water poured over the face, which recreates the experience of drowning.

• BBC PROPAGANDA ALERT!!!: BBC to screen Iraq drama: Hard-hitting series will be corporation's first on invasion, after earlier projects controversially pulled - The BBC, which has been attacked for not tackling the subject of the war in Iraq in its drama output, is to announce a hard-hitting new series about the impact of the invasion, starring James Nesbitt. Occupation, by acclaimed screenwriter Peter Bowker, will tell the story of three soldiers who serve in Basra together and will chart their friendship as they face the aftermath of war and join in the effort to rebuild Iraq. In April last year the BBC was criticised for not showing a controversial drama about the deaths of six army Red Caps who had been gunned down in southern Iraq in the summer after the invasion. Kieran Prendiville, creator of hit BBC1 drama Ballykissangel, had written the screenplay in collaboration with the relatives of the dead men. A BBC spokeswoman said the decision had not been taken because of concerns about covering a political issue. However, its termination followed a succession of failed BBC 'war on terror' projects.

• Critic says Bush post-9/11 spending strategy led to Wall Street crisis - After terrorists struck on 9/11, killing 3,000 people and shaking Americans to their core, President Bush launched a "war on terror" but told consumers to keep on spending. "Get down to Disney World in Florida," he said two weeks after the attack. "Take your families and enjoy life, the way we want it to be enjoyed." Now, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University is arguing that in encouraging spending instead of sacrifice as the nation went to war first in Afghanistan and later in Iraq, Bush fueled a binge of credit card spending.

• The Ultimate 9/11 'Truth' Showdown: David Ray Griffin vs. Matt Taibbi - A poll of 17 countries that came out September of this year revealed that majorities in only nine of them "believe that al Qaeda was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States." A Zogby poll from 2006 found that in America, 42% of respondents believed the US government and 9/11 Commission "covered up" the events of 9/11. It's safe to say that at least tens of millions of Americans don't believe anything close to the official account offered by the 9/11 Commission, and that much of the outside world remains skeptical. Over the years, AlterNet has run dozens of stories, mostly critical, of the 9/11 Movement. Matt Taibbi has taken on the 9/11 Truth Movement head on in a series of articles, and most recently in his new book, The Great Derangement. In April, I asked Taibbi if he would be interested in interviewing David Ray Griffin, a leading member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University and author of seven of books on 9/11, about his recent book, 9/11 Contradictions. After months of back and forths between them and some editorial delays, I'm pleased to share their written exchange -- all 24,000 words of it. What we have here are the preeminent writers on both sides of the 9/11 Truth argument; a one-of-a-kind debate. Because the questions and responses are quite long, I've woven them together in order. Enjoy.

• Who dares to question the 'Big Lie of 9/11'? - What exactly happened on Sept. 11, 2001? Did the Twin Towers fall because of terrorism or have we been duped by the “Big Lie of 9/11”? An avid debate on that question broke out on our letters page last week, in reaction to the dismissal of Lesley Hughes, a Liberal candidate and 9/11 skeptic. Some readers sided with her. “Numerous military, intelligence and government insiders have gone on record rejecting the official account,” wrote Inge Hanle. “So have firefighters, veterans and scientists. With several U.S. senators now daring to take on the issue, it’s high time for the Post and other media cogs to open your eyes to the lies.”

Sunday 05th October 2008: -

• Flu myths 'could be deadly' - People could be putting their lives at risk by underestimating the flu, health experts have warned. Professor David Salisbury, director of immunisation for the Department of Health, urged people most at risk from the virus to visit their GP for an annual vaccination. Everyone over 65 is eligible for a free jab but people with serious heart and chest complaints like asthma, serious kidney or liver disease, diabetes, lowered immunity and people who have suffered a stroke can also get one. GPs may also recommend a flu jab for people who have had a transient ischaemic attack, sometimes known as a mini-stroke; multiple sclerosis and other degenerative conditions of the central nervous system.

• Skype apologises for millions of secret text recordings in kowtow to Chinese government - Internet phone company Skype is facing a user backlash after it was discovered that it had been filtering and recording text messages to meet the demands of Chinese censors. The U.S.-owned Web communications firm has been forced to apologise for its Chinese service not only monitoring text chats with sensitive keywords, but also storing them along with millions of personal user records on computers that could easily be accessed by anybody.

• MI5 computer with anti-terror files stolen through open window - A computer containing MI5 anti-terror files has been stolen from a house after a window was left open. The burglar stole the computer after climbing in through an open window of a house rented by the security services. Officers believe it was an opportunist theft and that the house in Greater Manchester was not targeted. Police said the files were encrypted – making them impossible for anyone to access them without the relevant security code.

• Do not play politics with us, police chiefs say after Blair ousting - Police chiefs are to seek guarantees from politicians of all parties that they will be allowed to do their jobs free from “unwarranted political pressure”. Ken Jones, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, said that senior officers were extremely concerned that Sir Ian Blair’s sudden departure from Scotland Yard had “fundamentally altered the perception of policing independence”. Mr Jones told The Times: “We see dangers in allowing a drift away from the fine balance of interests between government, chief officers and police authorities. In our country the duty to preserve the impartiality of policing rests squarely with us all. Politics, policing and narrow vested interests make for a toxic mix.” He added that police officers, like the judiciary, had a duty “to keep the Queen’s peace, free from undue influence”.

• Climate change ‘will cut water supplies’ - Householders will have to reduce their consumption of water by a third or more over the next 40 years because climate change will cause river levels to slump, new research has shown. Average river flows will be 10 to 15 per cent lower than at present, according to a study by Ian Barker, head of water resources at the Bristol-based Environment Agency. The study overturns the assumption by climate-change modellers that while summer and winter rainfall patterns will alter, the overall quantity will remain much the same.

• There’s No Difference Between Martial Law and the Threat of Martial Law - If a bully threatens to beat up a skinny kid if he doesn’t give him his lunch money, and the bully doesn’t have to follow through because the kid does fork it over, does that mean that the aggressive kid isn’t a bully? Of course not. He’s a bully because he threatened to beat up the skinny kid and used coercion to get his way. Well, Congressman Sherman said that congress was threatened with martial law this week. Specifically, he says that Congress was told martial law would be imposed if they didn’t pass the Paulson bailout proposal.

• MP backing for 'Holocaust denier' - British courts should refuse to act on an EU arrest warrant requesting the extradition of an alleged Holocaust denier, a senior Lib Dem has said. Australian citizen Dr Gerald Toben was remanded in custody after his arrest by British police at Heathrow Airport. German authorities allege Dr Toben published material online "of an anti-Semitic and/or revisionist nature". But home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said holocaust denial is not a crime in the UK and he should not be extradited. Dr Toben, a German-born former schoolteacher, was en route from the United States to Dubai when he was arrested.

• U.S. strategy in Afghanistan will fail, leaked cable says - A coded French diplomatic cable leaked to a French newspaper quotes the British ambassador in Afghanistan as predicting that the NATO-led military campaign against the Taliban will fail. Not only that, but the best solution for the country will be the installation of an "acceptable dictator," the British envoy reportedly added. "The current situation is bad, the security situation is getting worse, so is corruption, and the government has lost all trust," Sherard Cowper-Coles, the British envoy is quoted by Jean-François Fitou, the deputy French ambassador to Kabul and the author of the cable, as saying.

• Revealed: How immigration actually costs Britain money and could cause huge social problems - If there were to be a British Statue of Liberty, it should be erected at Victoria coach station in London. For it is here that most of the tired, poor, huddled masses of Eastern Europeans have arrived seeking what Michael Howard once called the ‘British dream’. The influx of the past ten years has been the largest in Britain’s history, changing the country for ever. Immigrants now make up a ninth of our population, produce a fifth of our babies and fill (or create) most of our new jobs.

• WE'RE BACK: Sorry for the lack of updates this past week, we have been very pre-occupied.  Nothing serious though :-)

Thursday 02nd October 2008: -

• WE APOLOGISE FOR THE LACK OF UPDATES - THIS MAY CONTINUE UP TO THE WEEKEND AS WE WORK ON A DEVELOPING PROJECT AGAINST THE NWO LOCALLY (VERY HUSH-HUSH AT THE MOMENT) :-)

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