Monday 29th September 2008: -

• Congresswoman: Criminal Insiders Behind Bailout Bill - Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur boldly slammed the bailout bill this past weekend as the work of criminal insiders who have shut down the normal legislative process to commit “high financial crimes” and defraud the American people, while Rep. Michael Burgess warns that “martial law” has been declared. The two Congress members are part of a growing minority of representatives sounding the alarm about the dictatorial nature of the bailout bill, which is expected to be up for a vote in the House today, with most in Congress having not had the opportunity to even read the legislation. The bill is expected to reach the Senate on Wednesday as a raft of outraged politicians cry foul about being strong-armed and accused of being unpatriotic for opposing the carte-blanche passage of a piece of legislation that fundamentally centralizes control of the financial infrastructure of the country into the hands of the government and the Federal Reserve.

• UK's MI6 Uses Facebook To Recruit More James Bond Wannabees - Maybe MI6's definition of the ideal spy recruit is one who can navigate the maze of social network with ease, which is perhaps why, her Majesty's secret services, the Secret Intelligence Service, have now turned to Facebook to try to get new agents, not administrative staff, onboard. A Foreign Office spokesperson said that "The open recruitment campaign continues to target wide pools of talent representative of British society today. A number of channels are used to promote job opportunities in the organization. Facebook is a recent example." This will be done through a series of adverts on Facebook to complement its traditional radio and newspaper drive.

• NWO Halloween Costumes for the Kids - Back in the day, kids dressed up like monsters, super heroes, or the Hulk… now they dress up like minions of the NWO as they go door to door and trick or treat. I guess it’s all part of getting the little ones accustomed to the police state, now barreling down on us like a runaway freight train. It’s also a good way to prepare them for the jobs of the future. I didn’t see a prison guard uniform, although there is one for a prisoner. Maybe next year...

• 9/11 truth movement continues to grow - There will be a test. All students and faculty will be tested over their research concerning this issue. We have all been fooled. We have been duped concerning the truth surrounding the events of Sept. 11, 2001. Science does not lie, but the government does. The evidence is unimpeachable, but the media censors. Thoroughly investigate “9/11 Truth.” This is probably one of the most important issues of your life and your country. Don’t muff it. You had better ask yourself why you have not seen ALL of the videos and information surrounding the collapse of Building 7. Watch ALL the videos concerning Building 7, including: the BBC story which announced that the building had already collapsed 20 minutes prior to its actual collapse; the collapse angle shots; the many eyewitnesses who heard the countdown or knew that the building was about to “blow up” or heard explosions; the order from the owner of the building to “pull it”; the full Barry Jennings interview where he cites bombs going off in Building 7 prior to the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers, and how the stairwell was blown-out beneath Barry’s feet.

• UK Pensioners threatened with prison ... for giving bread to ducks - For the pensioners in the sheltered housing complex chucking the odd bit of crust towards the ducks outside their home was perfectly innocent behaviour. But when the council became aware of the practise they sent the 12 tenants letters threatening them with eviction and even prison if they persisted. The council said there had been complaints about the amount of bird faeces in the area and warned those in the complex they were breaking their tenancy agreements by feeding the birds.

• Energy giants are overcharging pre-payment meter customers by 'millions' every year - Britain's 'big six' energy giants should be made to pay back millions of pounds to customers using pre-payment meters, says the Government's new consumer watchdog. Consumer Focus says the 5.9million households with the meters have been systematically 'ripped off' for years. Energy suppliers are collecting a staggering £700million extra a year by inflating charges to these customers.

Sunday 28th September 2008: -

• East Lancs health chief backs fluoridation plans - EAST Lancashire’s leading public health expert has backed proposals to add fluoride to the region’s drinking water. Dr Ellis Friedman, director of public health for NHS East Lancashire, said it would be unethical not to add the controversial mineral to supplies, as it had been shown as the most effective way of dramatically improving dental health. Primary care trusts and councils have been asked by the strategic health authority NHS North West to consider further investigation of fluoridation, and NHS East Lancashire backed plans for a widespread consultation on the issue.

WORTH NOTING: In the 1950's, chemist and researcher Charles Perkins wrote: "In the 1930's, Hitler and the German Nazi's envisioned a world to be dominated and controlled by a Nazi philosophy of pan-Germanism. The German chemists worked out a very ingenious and far-reaching plan of mass-control which was submitted to and adopted by the German General Staff. This plan was to control the population in any given area through mass medication of drinking water supplies. By this method they could control the population in whole areas, reduce population by water medication that would produce sterility in women, and so on. In this scheme of mass-control, sodium fluoride occupied a prominent place."  READ MORE

• POLICE NICKED: COPS & ROBBERS & THUGS & KILLERS & SEX OFFENDERS & YOBS & URINATERS & FRAUDSTERS & DRINK-DRIVERS & CHILD ABUSERS & DRUG BARONS & WIFE-BATTERERS.. & BADGER-BAITERS - More than 700 police officers across Britain have been arrested over a shocking range of crimes in the last two years, The People can reveal. Since 2006, a total of 742 cops have been investigated for serious crimes including murder, child abuse, drug possession, sex offences, voyeurism and wife-beating. In a disturbing survey of 43 forces carried out by The People under the Freedom of Information Act, we discovered... The London Metropolitan force tops the list for the largest number of officers arrested - 304 - with 17 quizzed over sex offences as well as 123 for violence.

• Residents could be hit with £5,000 rubbish collection fine for leaving bin out - Homeowners could cop a £5,000 fine if they leave their wheelie bin on the street for too long. Council employees will patrol the streets and dish out £100 penalty notices, under a new plan. Residents who fail to pay within two weeks could end up with a £5,000 fee and be left with a criminal record. Homeowners are at risk of being fined if they fail to remove their bins after a collection or leave them in the wrong place. Bin owners should only put their rubbish out the night before and remove them the day of the rubbish collection. Residents could receive a fine if they fail to put their bin in spaces allocated outside their homes.

• New mental health powers threaten rights, claim lawyers - Lawyers are lining up to challenge the legality of the new Mental Health Act as fears about the imminent new powers grow among patients. The legislation was passed in July amid controversy after seven years of opposition from a coalition of 75 organisations. The new law introduces a much wider definition of mental disorder which could see people with an "untreatable" personality disorder sectioned and brought into hospital. Nurses, occupational therapists and social workers will be given new powers previously reserved for doctors. Patients detained in care homes could be forced to pay for treatment they do not want.

• Britons face carbon spotchecks - Britons should be subjected to random carbon spotchecks and intensive surveillance of their diets, transport and waste disposal habits, says the Government’s architecture and design quango in a new report today. The word “monitoring” occurs 19 times in the 32-page publication by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). If the proposals in the report What Makes An Eco Town?are implemented few aspects of life will go unrecorded. CABE says the strict monitoring is needed to ensure the carbon footprint of the eco-town dwellers remains at one-third of the British average, which is the requirement for what’s called “one-planet living”, the quango says.

• Man charged with assaulting a cop after breaking wind - A driver has been charged with assaulting a cop - after allegedly breaking wind and fanning it at him. Jose Cruz, 34, was in a police station after failing a roadside breath test. Police papers say he moved towards the officer, "lifted his leg and passed gas loudly. The gas was very odorous and created contact of an insulting or provoking nature".

• VIDEO: Mass chipping in U.K. has begun - Please post this as a bulletin, share and pass around this video!!! Mass chipping in U.K has begun. The British government on Thursday took the first step towards introducing bio-metric identity cards for immigrants from India and other non-European Union countries with Home Secretary Jacqui Smith unveiling the design of the supposedly forgery-proof card.

• ID card unveiled with Euro bull but minus Union Flag - The first national identity cards were revealed Thursday - with plenty of European bull but NO Union Flag. And that caused a new row to blow up around the biometric devices. Mp Andrew Rosindell blasted: "It is disgraceful. The fact we have the bull of Europa on them but not the flag of the UK is something most find offensive. ID cards are bad enough but now they are designed in a European rather than British way." Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, unveiling the cards, said of the Euro symbol: "It's a bull which I haven't done my research on but I understand it might be related to the parenting of Europe." In fact, the bull of Europa appears on every European ID card. It is linked to Greek mythology and is credited with giving the continent its name.

• VIDEO: ANTI-NWO RAPPING IN THE UK: Guy rapping outside Brixton Academy - Intro from David Icke's 2008 Brixton Academy lecture on DVD soon! We will be advertising this when available!

• Bush the Socialist and Destroyer - Anyone who has read a good economics book would be quickly reduced to laughter and tears by George Bush’s ridiculous economic address to the nation. He put on his 9-11 suit and tried to warn Americans about the impending disaster: that their access to an infinite stream of paper money might be imperiled if they don’t cough up hundreds of billions immediately. It is very tempting to go line by line and shout back. “I’m a strong believer in free enterprise, so my natural instinct is to oppose government intervention. I believe companies that make bad decisions should be allowed to go out of business.” And this is why he nationalized airport security, created huge new bureaucracies, spent more than any president in American history, centralized control of education, put up more protectionist barriers than Clinton and his father combined, bailed out airlines, presided over the Sarbanes-Oxley reign of terror, unleashed anti-trust regulators, intensified health-care controls, and pretty much used every headline as an excuse to demand more money and power?

Saturday 27th September 2008: -

• Personnel records stolen from MoD - The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is investigating the theft of computer files with the records of thousands of serving and former RAF staff on. The information was stored on computer hard drives at the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency at the RAF Innsworth site near Gloucester. The theft of the files took place on 17 September, within a high-security area on the base.

COMMENTARY: Dozy buggers... and they want us to take an ID card with all of our info on it too?  Next joke...

• Row continues as Smith unveils identity card - Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, on Thursday unveiled the new identity card in a move aimed at injecting the government’s controversial multi-billion pound scheme with fresh momentum. The credit-card sized devices containing biometric data stored on a security chip will be issued from November on a compulsory basis to foreign nationals from outside the European Economic Area applying for leave to remain in the UK. It will be linked initially to existing government data storage systems. Ministers predict that up to 60,000 cards will be issued by the end of next March, with the first phase of the scheme targeting sectors suspected of abusing the immigration system, such as foreign students and people claiming the right to stay through marriage.

• More Data Mayhem As Details of 11,000 Teachers Get Lost By Courier - A disc containing the details of nearly 11,500 teachers has been lost by a courier service while in transit from the Offices of the General Teaching Council for England (GTC) to a data processing contractor in Birmingham. Unlike other similar data loss cases though, the data - which contained names, addresses and teacher reference numbers - on the disc was apparently encrypted and there were no bank details - NI Number or date of birth - which could be used by cybercrooks. Teachers concerned by the data loss have already been informed and the GTC has pledged for the use electronic data transfer in the future to prevent any further such cases.

• Man hit by police Taser dies in fall - A naked man fell to his death from the window ledge of a fourth-storey flat after he was Tasered by police. Inman Morales, 35, hit the pavement head-first after the high-voltage blast. Police fired when he waved a metal pole around following a 30-minute stand-off. Witness Ernestine Croom said: "When they Tasered him, he froze and pitched forward. They didn't put out a mattress or a net or anything."

• Why your mobile should carry a health warning like cigarette packets because of brain cancer risk - Mobile phones should carry a health warning like those on cigarette packets, scientists have warned. The authorities must not make the same mistakes over possible links between mobile phones and brain cancer as they did with cigarettes and lung cancer, experts warned a powerful U.S. congressional committee. It took 50 years to get the tobacco industry to acknowledge the risks, and 70 years to remove lead from paint and petrol, they said. 'Society must not repeat the situation we had with smoking and lung cancer, where we waited until every 'i' was dotted and 't' was crossed before warnings were issued,' said Professor David Carpenter, director of the institute of health and environment at the University of Albany.

• No online addresses 'in 2 years' warns internet pioneer Vint Cerf - The world will run out of internet addresses in less than two years, the inventor of the web warned yesterday. Vint Cerf said they are being used up at a soaring rate as more aspects of life are connected to the net. He fears if plans are not made for a new generation of IP addresses, millions of PCs will not be able to go online. Mr Cerf warned: "This is like the internet running out of telephone numbers and with no new numbers you can't have more subscribers."

Friday 26th September 2008: -

• Dion sacks Winnipeg candidate over 9/11 beliefs - Liberal Leader Stephane Dion has asked Lesley Hughes, the party's candidate in the Winnipeg riding of Kildonan-St. Paul, to step down following controversial reports of Hughes's belief in conspiracy theories alleging the U.S. government was behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and that Israeli businesses had advance warnings. While I appreciate her apology, I cannot condone those sentiments in any way," Dion said. "I have, therefore, asked Ms. Hughes to step down as the Liberal Party candidate in Kildonan-St. Paul." Dion originally defended his candidate, accusing NDP Leader Jack Layton of attracting Sept. 11 conspiracists.

• ID card 'will drown in a billion mismatches': Won't somebody think of the elderly? - The government has underestimated the likely failure rate of the ID card scheme, according to a biometrics expert who reviewed the system. The ID card scheme will guard against one person having multiple identities by checking the two fingerprints and facial scan held on a chip on the ID card against biometrics in a central database, the National Identity Register. But academic John Daugman, a former member of the Biometrics Assurance Group (BAG) which reviewed the scheme, says its reliance on fingerprints and facial photos to verify a person's identity will cause the system to collapse under the weight of mismatched identifications.

• 'Big borough' is watching: Extra CCTV on its way - 'Big borough' is set to keep a watchful eye on more areas of the Royal Borough with the installation of additional CCTV cameras at a cost of £200,000 due to be completed later this autumn. Seven new cameras will be installed at Wessex Way, Cox Green, Shifford Crescent, Maidenhead, Riverside Gardens, Maidenhead, Bray Village Car Park, Eton Wick Recreation Ground and at The Green in Wraysbury, which will get two cameras. The project is due to be completed by the end of October 2008 and the cameras will use upgraded new technology to transmit pictures.

• Scientists warn US Congress of cancer risk for cell phone use - The potential link between mobile telephones and brain cancer could be similar to the link between lung cancer and smoking — something tobacco companies took 50 years to recognize, according to US scientists’ warning. Scientists are currently split on the level of danger the biological effects of the magnetic field emitted by cellular telephones poses to humans.

• Dead rats don’t lie, says sweetener critic - “Dead rats don’t lie,” says food safety campaigner, Chris Wheeler, over the controversy surrounding the artificial sweetener, aspartame, used widely in pharmaceuticals and diet products. “Before the so-called ‘scientist’ critics supporting sweetener safety get too carried away condemning the Italian rat studies demonstrating aspartame’s cancer-causing characteristics, on the basis that they never got to meet the rats, the public needs to know just who’s kidding who. Dr Magnuson, a recent corporate-sponsored visitor, and her ilk, are happy to use rat studies as a gold standard to ‘prove’ chemical food additive safety – when it suits them – but when a comprehensive series of studies come out from a prestigious, non-industry aligned research institute like Italy’s Ramazzini Institute showing dangers in aspartame, then these food industry apologists quibble over whether the rats used in the study were sufficiently upper class or went to the right school.

Wednesday 24th September 2008: -

• New airport screening 'could read minds' - US security officials could soon be screening potential terror suspects with a new type of technology capable of detecting "hostile intent". The Department of Homeland Security is testing a type of body scanner that seeks out invisible clues that a person might be harbouring criminal intent, such as raised body temperature, pulse and breathing rate. The system, called MALINTENT, uses a raft of "non-invasive" sensors and imagers to detect such factors remotely - subjects are not hooked up to anything. It also evaluates a person's facial expression to help to gauge whether they could be planning to commit an attack or crime. The technology, developed by the Human Factors division of Homeland Security's directorate for Science and Technology, would be used at border checkpoints, airports and special events that require security screening.

• UK: Terror law is attack on all our freedoms, says spy writer Le Carré in furious tirade against ministers - Spy novelist John Le Carré has criticised the Government for 'stripping' away British civil liberties due to the threat of terrorism. The 76-year-old author and former MI6 agent, who rarely speaks publicly, slammed ministers for voting to extend the 42-day limit that terror suspects can be held without charge. Le Carré, who admitted he had been labelled an 'angry old man', said: 'Partly I'm so angry that there is so little anger around me at what is being done to our society, supposedly to protect it. 'We have been taken to war under false pretences, and stripped of our civil liberties in an atmosphere of panic.

• Pakistan Investigating US Marine Activity Inside Marriott Hotel Days Before Huge Bombing: Authorities probing into truck load of steel boxes unloaded into hotel in secret by marines - Pakistani authorities investigating last Saturday’s huge bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad are looking into evidence that US marines were occupying two floors just days prior to the blast and were witnessed unloading a truckload of steel cases inside. “The authorities want to ascertain if it was a routine exercise or part of some special mission that does not have the approval of the government of Pakistan,” Pakistan’s largest newspaper The News reported. The reports of the mysterious activity first surfaced in the Pakistani media on Sunday. According to the accounts, several witnesses, including Pakistani government officials, described seeing a US embassy truckload of steel boxes unloaded while all entrances to and from the hotel were locked down at around midnight on the 16th September.

• Energy drinks 'should have caffeine health warning on cans' - The latest generation of fizzy energy drinks contain so much caffeine they should be forced to carry health warnings, scientists say. Some 'performance drinks' contain the caffeine equivalent of at least ten cans of cola. The warning comes amid concern about the health effects of energy drinks. Earlier this month, drugs experts warned caffeine dependency was causing disruption and concentration problems in classrooms.

• Elderly UK villagers have to trek for a mile to have rubbish collected - Householders living on a private road have to walk a mile up and down a steep slope to have their bins emptied, after kerbside collections were axed for health and safety reasons. Villagers have to go back and forth carrying recycling boxes and black bags to a fortnightly collection point at the end of their road. The ban on collecting from the kerbside in Drefach, Carmarthenshire, was introduced after county council officers initiated a new recycling scheme, but neglected to ensure all the safety measures were in place.

• Four new nuclear reactors on the way as French giant agrees takeover of British Energy - A new fleet of nuclear power stations is on the way after the Government today gave the green light to new reactors in Kent, Essex and Suffolk. Gordon Brown gave his seal of approval to a £12.5billion takeover of the UK's current nuclear generation company British Energy by the French state-backed giant EDF in league with the British Gas group Centrica. As part of that deal it was announced that the new company will build two new nuclear reactors. The South-East is set to bear the brunt, with one of the new reactors planned for Sizewell in Suffolk, the site of the last nuclear power station built in the Nineties, and the other at Hinkley Point in Somerset. It was also confirmed that EDF will have permission to sell land to rival companies such as E.On or its fellow German company RWE - the company that owns nPower - so that they can build new reactors on sites that include Bradwell in south Essex and Dungeness in Kent.

Monday 22nd September 2008: -

• City sharks made £190m killing in minutes before BBC report on HBOS takeover - City speculators made a £190million profit in just two minutes of trading in HBOS shares - moments before a rescue deal was announced. Watchdogs are expected to investigate the frenzy of trading immediately before it was announced that Lloyds TSB had begun takeover talks with its former rival. The disclosure raised the possibility that speculators knew about the rescue before it was revealed, allowing insider dealing. Details of the takeover talks were controversially announced by the BBC's business editor Robert Peston at 9am on Wednesday. But in huge deals made between 8.57am and 8.58am, two buyers bought up more than 22million HBOS shares at 96p each, the Mail on Sunday revealed yesterday. Within 45 minutes of Mr Peston's broadcast, the share price had more than doubled to £2.15, meaning the mystery buyers netted millions of pounds in profit.

• Why Would “Terrorists” Want To Decapitate Anti-US Leadership In Pakistan?: Hotel bombing doesn’t make sense unless “Al-Qaeda” is working to advance Neo-Con political agenda - Why would “Al-Qaeda,” a group that is supposedly the prime target of the U.S. initiated war on terror, commit a terrorist attack against a country that has recently changed its government and all but renounced its role as a U.S. ally in the war on terror? The mass media has already blamed the Marriott Hotel bombing, which killed at least 53 people, on “Al-Qaeda,” a routine reflex action despite the lack of any real investigation and no claim of responsibility. On Saturday morning, Newly elected Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari told his parliament, “We will not tolerate the violation of our sovereignty and territorial integrity by any power in the name of combating terrorism.”

• Internet attacks on 9/11 Truth intensify - Internet censorship is once again in the news after legendary YouTube user Nuffrespect posted a new video detailing the latest online attack on 9/11 Truth: a user who is creating clones of respected user accounts and truth movement leaders in order to smear 9/11 Truth by posting racist comments. These have already led to the deletion of several well-known accounts in what has been revealed as a coordinated effort to eliminate 9/11 Truth from YouTube. This is in addition to the news that YouTube deleted a number of videos and accounts last week at the behest of Senator Joe Lieberman. That CNET admits these videos were removed as a direct result of Lieberman’s staff’s request is significant, as it was Lieberman who has been urging YouTube to take down “radicalizing” terrorist propaganda since May of this year to bring it into compliance with H.R. 1955, a bill that is currently awaiting approval by the Senate and which would criminalize all dissent of the government. That H.R. 1955 will specifically target the 9/11 Truth community is made obvious by a presentation made to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee in 2007 on “Terrorism and the Internet” which actually listed 9/11 Truth sites alongside terrorist jihad sites as examples of terrorist propaganda on the internet.

• Mobile use 'increases cancer risk in children' - CHILDREN who use mobile phones are five times more likely to develop brain tumours than those who don't, according to research presented at a British conference. Scientists have warned children to only use mobile phones in emergencies, after a Swedish study indicated that under-16s were more at risk of radiation from mobile phones because their brains and nervous systems were still developing. The research was reported at the first international conference on mobile phones and health in London.

• Met police anti-terrorist detective jailed over credit card fraud: Richard de Cadenet went on £73,000 spending spree to win friends - One of Scotland Yard's most experienced anti-terrorist officers was jailed for 10 months today after admitting credit card fraud involving tens of thousands of pounds. Detective Sergeant Richard de Cadenet, 39, who worked on high-profile investigations including the 7/7 bomb attacks on London, misused more than £73,000 on a credit card issued to him by the Metropolitan police, Southwark crown court heard.

• Mr Average breaks the law at least once a day from speeding to illegal downloading - Many may not know they have done anything wrong, while others simply might not care. But the average person breaks the law at least once a day, a survey has found. Speeding, using a mobile phone while driving and dropping litter top the list of rules and regulations regularly flouted. Other laws often broken are eating while driving, parking on pavements and not wearing a seatbelt.

Sunday 21st September 2008: -

• £5,000 FINE IF YOU LEAVE A WHEELIE BIN OUT TOO LONG - CAMPAIGNERS have condemned a council’s plan to fine residents £5,000 for leaving wheelie bins out, branding it an “abuse of power” and “blatant moneymaking”. Under the scheme residents would face a penalty of £100 if their bin was still on the street the day after it had been emptied. But if householders fail to pay up within 14 days they could face court action – where they may be fined 50 times more. East Staffordshire Borough Council has been given permission to issue the notices to those who persistently leave bins out. They will be introduced in Burton-on-Trent in the coming weeks.

• Key Witness to WTC 7 Explosions Dead at 53: Emergency coordinator and 9/11 witness Barry Jennings has passed away with controversy about WTC7 still hot– as the BBC hit piece and NIST report have been released to counter Jennings’ exclusive testimony of explosions inside Building 7 - NYC Housing Authority spokesman Howard Marder has now officially confirmed that Barry Jennings indeed passed away approximately a month ago after several days in the hospital, matching confirmations from several other employees at the Housing Authority. Marder commented that Jennings was a great man, well liked by everyone at the Housing Authority, and that he would be missed. No other details were available.

• McKinney compares 9/11 truthers with civil rights activists at benefit - Cynthia McKinney, Green Party Presidential candidate, talks at a benefit for 9/11 First Responders, comparing 9/11 truthers with 1960s-era civil rights activists– who would stand their ground to do the right thing in spite of fire hoses, police abuse, intimidation, and etc. A disproportionate number of First Responders are ill as a result of the toxic conditions at the 9/11 site. The Gov’t does not acknowledge the toxic conditions nor is it offering significant support to the First Responders or their survivors.

• Apocalypse Now?: New world order could have devastating implications for Western nations - Almost exactly seven years ago Al Qaeda terrorists targeted their hijacked planes into the Twin Towers at the heart of New York’s financial centre — and the world was transformed. There were no deaths this week, but the effects of the carnage on the financial markets will be far more profound and destabilising than the 9/11 atrocity. For almost all of us, it will, I predict, be a change for the worse, and for a large minority the consequences will be extremely distressing.

• Tony Blair takes the jokes as TV host Jon Stewart mocks his stance on Bush and the war in Iraq - In the face of a mocking host and a hostile studio audience, Tony Blair defended the war in Iraq and his friendship with President Bush on one of America’s top satirical TV shows. The former Prime Minister told Jon Stewart, of The Daily Show, that he had no second thoughts about the Iraq invasion, and that he liked Mr Bush as well as agreeing with him on world security threats.

• Army training instructors suspended after bullying exposé - Five Army training instructors accused in an undercover BBC documentary of bullying recruits have been suspended while military authorities carry out investigations. The men, all ranked corporal, are alleged to have verbally and physically abused young soldiers at the Army's biggest training base at Catterick, North Yorkshire. In the programme, Undercover Soldier, the reporter Russell Sharp joined the Army and spent five months cataloguing the claims of abuse on fellow recruits using his mobile telephone to carry out filming. During that time, Mr Sharp says he was himself manhandled by one of the trainers.

• Pharmacists reassure worried parents about Calpol and asthma risk - Pharmacists are reassuring concerned parents that Calpol and other paracetamol products are safe to use in children after new research linked it to the development of asthma. A large study conducted in 31 countries found that children given paracetamol products more than once a month were three times more likely to have asthma at age six and seven. They were at greater risk of hayfever-like symptoms and eczema as well, the research conducted in New Zealand and published in The Lancet, found.

• Faith schools may 'indoctrinate' children, says leading headmaster - Children risk being "indoctrinated" under plans for more faith schools, a leading headmaster has warned. The Rev Tim Hastie-Smith, chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, said increasing the number of schools "could run the risk of segregating youngsters". He called for curbs on the ability of faith schools to select pupils along religious lines.

• One Week Later, a New World Order - Years from now, number-crunchers looking at weekly changes in the Dow Jones Industrial Average will look at the week ending Sept. 19, 2008, and see that the Dow managed a paltry 33-point decline for this most recent five-day period. It’s a 33-point move by way of a 1000-point swing. The exhausting roller-coaster of the last five days would have traders happy to see the weekend arrive were it not for the anticipation of more activity from federal regulators and Wall Street bankers over the weekend. It will be difficult to surpass the sinking feeling investors had this past Monday, however, when several large financial companies were teetering on the brink all at once. Just five days and a bankruptcy, a government takeover and a shotgun merger later, the American financial system has been completely reordered, and more changes in the regulatory framework and on Wall Street are likely to come in the next few years.

• UK OAP banned from swimming pool for wearing mask - A swimmer has been banned from a public pool - for wearing goggles. Leisure centre chiefs claim Roland Grimm's mask, which also covers his nose, is dangerous and kicked him out on health and safety grounds. The pensioner, who says the goggles are more comfortable than conventional ones and stop him breathing in water, branded the decision "mad". He added: "I've used these goggles in more than 100 different pools in countries including Germany, Spain, France and Portugal and no one else has ever complained or questioned why I'm using them.

Wednesday 17th September 2008: -

• ‘Smoking police’ hit the streets to shock people into quitting - Smokers will be stopped in the street and asked to take a carbon monoxide test in London’s most hard-hitting anti-smoking campaign. ‘Smoking police’ will target people at betting shops, bus stops and shopping centres to shock them into giving up cigarettes. They will be asked to breathe into a monitor to show how much carbon monoxide is in their bodies, and could then be signed up to local stop-smoking services and given access to counsellors.

• City uses DNA to fight dog poop - An Israeli city is using DNA analysis of dog droppings to reward and punish pet owners. Under a six-month trial programme launched this week, the city of Petah Tikva, a suburb of Tel Aviv, is asking dog owners to take their animal to a municipal veterinarian, who then swabs its mouth and collects DNA. The city will use the DNA database it is building to match faeces to a registered dog and identify its owner.

COMMENTARY: No doubt it'll be about 2 seconds before we start doing this in the UK too!

• UK: Google and YouTube branded "parasites" by ITV chief Michael Grade - Google and YouTube have been branded "parasites" by ITV boss Michael Grade. In a recorded interview, Grade claimed TV companies creating their own content remained the crucial factor in broadcasting - rather than amateur postings on line. Grade said TV remained the "shop window" for top-quality content and then launched an attack on broadcasting websites, contrasting what they do with ITV's £1bn annual programming budget. He said: "Google and YouTube are just parasites. The day they start spending £1bn a year on content is the day I'll start worrying."

• Crufts organiser reviewing contract with BBC over 'unfair editing' in documentary about 'cruel breeding of pedigree dogs' - The organiser of Crufts has said it is reviewing its contract with the BBC, which broadcasts the world famous dog show. The Kennel Club's decision comes after it lodged a complaint with TV regulator Ofcom over a BBC documentary exposing health problems in pedigree dogs. A decision to ditch the BBC could leave thousands of dog lovers unable to watch their favourite breeds compete in the prestigious show.

• Mentally-ill patients' details lost - The records of 200 mentally ill patients were lost on a computer memory stick dropped in a road. The highly sensitive information included notes on sexual abuse, drug addiction, self-harm and suicide bids. Files held patients' names, dates of birth, addresses, national insurance numbers - and are a gift to criminals, say experts. A spokesman for Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust admitted a computer technician had failed to delete data from the stick and had broken Trust rules forbidding staff from taking records home.

• Man banned from flying British Army flag by council - Patriotic Dave Dingvean was banned by jobsworths from flying the British Army flag in support of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Dave, 46, who raises cash for Army causes, had been given the red flag by a friend and proudly hoisted it outside his home. But within two days he got a council letter ordering him to take it down because it breached advertising rules. Dave, of Tolleshunt Major, Essex, said: "The council said only a national or state flag was allowed. "So I could fly the flag of Iraq or Afghanistan but not the Army flag. It was ridiculous, treacherous and petty-minded.

• MoD admits troops assaulted nine Iraqi civilians at food depot - The Ministry of Defence has admitted nine Iraqi men suffered unlawful assaults while being detained by British troops, it has been revealed. The men are bringing a claim for civil damages against the MoD for physical and sexual abuse they say they suffered at Camp Bread Basket, a food distribution depot near Basra, in May 2003. Three soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers were court martialled, jailed and expelled from the Army in February 2005 for mistreating suspected looters in the incident, which led to the head of the Army apologising to the people of Iraq.

• Health fears for chemical in plastics - The world's most widelyused industrial chemical has been linked to diabetes and heart disease. The first large human health study of Bisphenol A - found in plastic packaging, drinks bottles and CDs - discovered traces of it in 90 per cent of 1,455 adults tested. Researchers at Exeter University analysed data from the US survey and found heart disease and diabetes were more than twice as common in those with the highest levels of BPA.

Monday 15th September 2008: -

• UK Pensioner left in coma after police 'use CS spray to arrest him' - A pensioner was today in a coma after police used CS gas while arresting him. The 72-year-old, believed to be James Finney, had become involved in several disputes with neighbours over recent years due to a pile-up of rubbish in his bungalow. But officers refused to explain why they had arrested him on Friday night in Poole, Dorset. However, they confirmed an independent investigation had been launched over the police response. A spokesman for the Dorset force said: ‘During the arrest an altercation occurred and incapacitant spray was used to restrain the man.

• UK: KIDS IN COP RAID BLUNDER: Drug bust dad innocent - Drugs swoop cops who burst in and handcuffed a dad in front of his terrified children had raided the WRONG home. Mum Sheree Jolly tried to comfort tots Carmen, three, and one-year-old Charlie, as a dozen officers, some in riot vests, combed through their house. The police strip-searched her partner, night worker Paul Lovett, 25, who had been asleep upstairs. Then they led him downstairs in handcuffs.

• UK: Police will keep driving records for five years - Police plan to map all journeys made by drivers on major roads and store the data for five years. A national network of roadside cameras will be able to read 50 million number plates each day enabling officers to reconstruct the movements of motorists. But civil rights campaigners have questioned why the data needs to be kept for so long and want reassurances on who will be allowed to access the information. The project relies on automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras which pinpoint the time and location of all vehicles on the road.

• UK Council uses anti-terror rules to spy on man with noisy wardrobe - Anti-terror powers were used to spy on a member of the public after his neighbour complained about his noisy wardrobe doors and loud footsteps, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. Fife Council was given permission to plant recording equipment in the neighbour’s flat in response to concern that his or her human rights were being infringed because of the noise. The council admitted in another investigation that such equipment could lead to “collateral intrusion”, in which conversations were recorded, but insisted that all material was destroyed. Michael Parker, a spokesman for NO2ID, a civil liberties campaign group, said councils should adopt less intrusive ways of tackling problems.

• UK: Taser adds shock and awe to every bobby’s arsenal - FRONTLINE police officers across the country are to go on patrol armed with the controversial Taser stun gun under plans to be announced by ministers later this year. A stockpile of the weapons, which fire a 50,000-volt charge, will be kept at each police station so that patrolling officers can use them if required, Whitehall officials said. They will be used to confront and disable suspects who threaten violence, whether suspected suicide bombers or aggressive drunken yobs.

• TV LICENCE CHEAT NOEL - Telly host Noel Edmonds admitted yesterday that he no longer had a TV licence - after being "incensed" at how people are badgered into paying. Noel, 59, who worked for the Beeb for 30 years, said: "Nobody's come knocking at my door." TV Licensing said anyone without a licence risks a £1,000 fine.

• Group With Big Pharma Ties Wants to Shut Down Vaccine “Conspiracy Theories”: Kingpins of Military-Industrial complex say they will “brand” websites they consider “trustworthy and reliable sources of information” - A foundation populated by the giants of business, banking, government and military wants to “vet” websites and limit the spread of information that it says creates “conspiracy theories”. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), fronted by Internet creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee, says it is worried about the way the web has been “used to spread disinformation”. Speaking to the BBC, Berners-Lee said that there needed to be a new system that would give websites a “label for trustworthiness” once they had been proved reliable sources. Only then would the rise of “cult thinking” be avoided according to Berners-Lee.

• Cancer chemical found in Pringles, Hula Hoops and Prince Charles's organic crisps - An organic product sold under Prince Charles's Duchy Originals brand has been found to contain elevated levels of a cancer-causing chemical. Hand-fried vegetable crisps from the Prince's range are among a number of products identified as containing acrylamide in a study by the Food Standards Agency (FSA). Also on the list are Hula Hoops, Ryvita, Pringles and Tesco Ginger Nut biscuits. Acrylamide is formed when starch-rich foods are fried, baked, grilled or toasted at high temperatures. It has been found in a wide range of home-cooked and processed foods including potato crisps, French fries, bread, crispbreads and coffee.

Friday 12th September 2008: -

• Big Brother is watching you.... Council to fingerprint staff as they clock in for work - Hundreds council workers are set to be fingerprinted before they are allowed to work, it has been revealed. Staff at Westminster Council in London will 'clock in' by scanning their fingerprints in what is believed to be the first scheme of its type in Britain. But today civil liberties and data protection watchdogs warned the scheme had 'Big Brother' overtones and should be abandoned. Some of the workers affected are already considering industrial action over the plan. About 200 employees in the street management services department, including the borough's road sweepers, will be asked to provide their fingerprints.

• Royal Mail Honors Eugenicist & Nazi Sympathizer: Family planning pioneer Marie Stopes advocated sterilization of non-whites & poor, sent love letters to Hitler; But respondents agree that most humans should be sterilized or killed - Royal Mail is set to honor Marie Stopes, a feminist who opened the first birth control clinic in Britain in 1921 as well as being Nazi sympathizer and a eugenicist who advocated that non-whites and the poor be sterilized, by adopting her image for a new set of stamps. Stopes, a racist and an anti-Semite, campaigned for selective breeding to achieve racial purity, a passion she shared with Adolf Hitler in adoring letters and poems that she sent the leader of the Third Reich.

• EU begins secret drive to force Ireland to vote again on rejected Lisbon Treaty - A secret European Union plan to force Ireland to vote again on the Lisbon Treaty emerged yesterday. French officials have penned an explosive document entitled 'Solution to the Irish Problem', in which they say the EU should push Ireland into re-running its referendum next year, opening the way for the treaty to come into force next year. In return, Europe would offer Dublin a few promises, in a bid to ensure its people vote in favour of the treaty.

• Russian Poll: 84% Say Truth About 9/11 Being Deliberately Hidden - A new poll from a major Russian news outlet reveals that 84% believe that the truth behind the 9/11 attacks is being deliberately hidden by the U.S. government. At time of writing, the poll on the Russia Today website indicates that only 16% of readers feel that the 9/11 Commission report represents the full extent of the evidence as to who carried out the attacks over seven years ago. The 84% figure mirrors almost exactly that of similar polls conducted in 2006 and 2004.

• “Unusual Magnetic Forces” Should Not Have Caused the Twin Towers to Collapse - First it was the “new phenomenon” of “thermal expansion”. Now, Sergei Dudarev, of the UK Atomic Energy Agency, says the Twin Towers collapsed due to “unusual magnetic forces“.

• On Morning Of 9/11 Attacks, McCain Immediately Began Making The Case For Iraq War - On the morning of the 9/11, just moments after the World Trade Center collapsed from the terrorist strikes, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) went on television and immediately began focusing the nation’s attention on Iraq. In an interview with CBS’ Dan Rather on 9/11, McCain said: To be honest with you, Dan, I never thought that an operation of this sophistication and size would take place. I just never did. But I don’t think there’s any doubt that there are countries — Iraq, Iran, Libya, North Korea and others — who we know engage in proliferation of — of capabilities and, from time to time, involve themselves in state-sponsored terrorism. But never did we imagine on a scale such as this. The next day, on 9/12, McCain reiterated the point in an interview with Chris Matthews. “It isn’t just Afghanistan,” he said, “we’re talking about Syria, Iraq, Iran, perhaps North Korea, Libya and others.”

• Unwitting motorists face £1,000 fines as thousands of photocard driving licences expire - Thousands of motorists risk being fined up to £1,000 because they are unwittingly driving without a valid licence. They have failed to spot that their photocard licence automatically expires after ten years and has to be renewed. Motoring organisations said most drivers believed, wrongly, that their new-style licence was for life and blamed the Government for the fiasco.

• 'Rabbit-hutch' Britain: UK's new homes are 'smallest in Europe' - New homes in Britain are the most cramped in Europe with almost every other country in western Europe providing its citizens with more living space. In Denmark, newly-built homes have almost twice as much floor space as those built here in the UK. The main reason for the UK's cramped living conditions is the lack of building regulations regarding living space, according to experts. 'The cause is simple and shocking,' said award-winning architecture critic Ellis Woodman.

• Britain increasingly reliant on imported foods - Britain is increasingly reliant on imported food and vegetables just when the country should be improving food security, the Conservatives have claimed. The trade deficit has increased by more than half to £3.5 billion in the last decade, according to Peter Ainsworth, the Tories' environment spokesman. Imports of vegetables have risen by 516,000 tonnes and fruit imports by 974,000 tonnes, together worth an extra £1.3bn, he said after studying Defra figures.

• Actor Matt Damon Condemns Palin - Actor Matt Damon speaks out on the Republicans’ choice of hockey-mom Sarah Palin for VP. Damon compares her rise to a ‘really bad Disney movie’ and says it’s crazy that this woman could become President.

Thursday 11th September 2008: -

• Global Poll: Less Than Half Believe Al-Qaeda Behind 9/11: Majority of people surveyed in 17 different countries have doubts about official story - A new global poll conducted across 17 countries has found that less than half of those surveyed believe Al-Qaeda was behind the 9/11 attacks, with a full 15 per cent believing that the terrorist outrage was directly perpetrated by the U.S. government. On the eve of the 7th anniversary of 9/11, the poll underscores how a majority of people still do not buy the official story, despite numerous attempts to reinforce the explanation that 19 hijackers at the behest of Osama bin Laden were the culprits behind the plot. “The survey of 16,063 people in 17 nations found majorities in only nine countries believe al Qaeda was behind the attacks on New York and Washington that killed about 3,000 people in 2001,” reports Reuters.

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

• French Comic Forced To Apologise For Citing 9/11 Theories - France’s favourite stand-up comedian has been forced to apologise for claiming that the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US seven years ago tomorrow were an “enormous lie” orchestrated by the American government. The allegations by Jean-Marie Bigard have caused consternation in France because the comedian - who specialises in foul-mouthed, scatological and sexist humour - is a close friend of President Nicolas Sarkozy. On a radio show last Friday, the comedian interrupted a discussion on American politics, to say that it was “absolutely sure and certain” that the US government had stage-managed the 9/1l attacks in which 2, 896 people died.

• Dear Reporter: Looking for a Story about 9/11? - If you’re looking for a story for the 7th anniversary of 9/11, you can interview one of the following people: A 9/11 Commissioner, A Congress member, A military leader, An intelligence professional, A scientist, A structural engineer or architect, A legal scholar...

• 9/11 Truth group is incorrectly portrayed : Bloomington 9/11 Working Group - Thanks for covering David Ray Griffin’s presentation on 9/11 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Labor Day evening. Unfortunately, your article contained several serious misrepresentations. The worst is the statement that “Griffin contended that no difference exists between evil and patriotism as patriotism means working for one’s own country at the expense of others.” Griffin’s actual claim was that it’s possible to commit great evil while acting on patriotic motives. In particular, if those responsible for the events of 9/11 include persons within the U.S. government, they could well have been acting on patriotic motives. However, that would not justify their actions or make them good.

• Fury over firm's fuel bill gaffe - An executive at energy firm E.On has sparked anger after saying that the continued high gas and electricity prices would mean "more money for us". Mark Owen-Lloyd made the comment during a presentation at a seminar run by energy regulator Ofgem looking at the impact of a cold winter on fuel bills. The firm, which made £877m profit last year apologised unreservedly and said it was investigating. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the comments were "inappropriate." "I think everybody is against people making remarks like that, and I'm pleased that there has now been a full and comprehensive apology," Mr Brown added. Labour MP Roger Godsiff said the gaffe showed the firm's "contempt" for customers.

• 'Muslim massacre' computer game condemned - A computer game in which players control an American soldier sent to "wipe out the Muslim race" has been condemned as offensive and tasteless by a British Muslim group. The goal of Muslim Massacre, which can be downloaded for free on the internet, is to "ensure that no Muslim man or woman is left alive", according to the game's creator. Players control an "American Hero" armed with a machine gun and rocket launcher who is parachuted into the Middle East. Users progress through levels, first killing Arabs that appear on screen and later taking on Osama bin Laden, Mohammed and finally Allah.

• British soldier killed in Afghanistan - A British soldier has been killed in an explosion in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, it was announced today. The unidentified soldier, from the Royal Logistic Corps, was on a routine patrol near Musa Qala yesterday when he was caught in the blast. The cause of the explosion is being investigated. Lieutenant Colonel David Reynolds, a spokesman for Task Force Helmand, said: "This soldier's death will have a lasting impact on his family and friends as well as those who served alongside him. We will ensure that he is never forgotten." The soldier becomes the 118th military serviceman to die as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since the Taleban government was toppled in 2001.

• UK: Union urges council staff to boycott biometrics - A union has told members at Westminster City Council to refuse to use biometric devices for clocking on and off, due to concerns over consultation and privacy. The council said the machines will cover up to 200 staff within its community-protection department. Unison said some machines have already been installed at local offices for street-scene and community-warden staff, although the machines are not yet working. "Our objections are two-fold," Unison assistant branch secretary Stephen Higgins told GC News. "Westminster hasn't consulted with the union before installing, although it intends to consult. Secondly, members are not confident that Westminster can hold their data securely and will not share their data with others, such as the Metropolitan Police."

Wednesday 10th September 2008: -

• 9/11 PRESS FOR TRUTH CIRCULAR: -

'IN THEIR OWN WORDS: THE UNTOLD STORIES OF THE 9/11 FAMILIES' is the new, official companion DVD to the 2006's underground hit 'PRESS FOR TRUTH'. Over 2 hours of unseen families' interviews and rare news clips originally intended for inclusion in the movie ended up on the cutting room floor -- until now.

Order the DVD here: http://911pft.com/pft/catalog/In-Their-Own-Words-p-10.html

RELATED: This goes a long way to demonstrate the method of conditioning that causes many people deny the legitimacy of 9/11 truth.  Most people watching the mainstream news do so without discernment or retention of detail.  One friend of mine in particular has spent years in denial regarding 9/11 being an inside job... he 'knows for a fact' that Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, that fire brought down the Twin Towers and that those nineteen hijackers were the ones who did it.  Granted, he can't name even one of the alleged nineteen hijackers because he only retained an image that was projected to him by the mainstream media... but still he 'knows' that it unfolded just as we saw on TV.

• Critical report on anti-terrorism intelligence shelved: Inquiry into MI5 and police points to missed tip-offs / Prosecutors look at next move in liquid bomb case - A critical report on the conduct of the police and MI5 in the run-up to the July 7 attacks on London has been shelved for legal reasons, the Guardian has learned. The intelligence and security committee, which consists of senior peers and MPs, was due to have published its report today. It is understood to relate to communications between MI5 in London and West Yorkshire police. The committee, known as the ISC, undertook to draw up a report last year after concluding that it was possible the chances of preventing the July 7 2005 attacks in London "might have been greater had different investigative decisions been taken in 2003-05". It emerged that MI5 and the police had many opportunities to identify Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, two of the suicide bombers.

RELATED: It gets much worse than this! - See our 7/7 London Bombings archive.

• Book claims President Bush forced British police to swoop on liquid bomb suspects before they had enough evidence: 'President forced British police to swoop on suspects before they had enough evidence' - President Bush meddled with Scotland Yard's investigation into the liquid bomb plotters to boost his ratings, a book on US policy claims. British police were forced to arrest suspects before they were convinced they had enough evidence to get convictions, according to author Ron Suskind. Their hand was forced when the White House deliberately exposed the conspiracy - so Bush could show al-Qaeda was still a threat. He was facing midterm elections and suffering from poor poll ratings.

• UK Park attendants ordered to interrogate adults spotted without children - Park wardens have been ordered to stop and interrogate anyone who is not accompanied by children. The visitors who are quizzed have to explain their presence and risk being thrown out or reported to police if their answers are not satisfactory. The policy has been introduced at Telford Town Park in Shropshire. The council which manages the 420-acre area says it is a 'commonsense approach' aimed at safeguarding children. But park users accused it of 'authoritarian madness' and said the ruling risked panicking parents about the dangers faced from potential paedophiles.

COMMENTARY: And again we have the perceived threat of pedophilia to justify treating children and adults alike like criminals with curfews, random stops and interrogations etc, exacerbated by the mainstream media... how do they do that?  Well in particular what have we been subjected to the last year or so?...

"Madeleine McCann... Madeleine McCann... Madeleine McCann... Madeleine McCann... Madeleine McCann... Madeleine McCann... Madeleine McCann... Madeleine McCann... Gary Glitter... Madeleine McCann...Madeleine McCann...Gary Glitter... Madeleine McCann...Madeleine McCann... scared yet?"

Just watch GMTV on ITV one morning if you disagree.

• Adults who work with children 'guilty until proven innocent' - All adults who work or volunteer with children must have abuse allegations made against them investigated by council officers and kept on file until they retire, even if they are totally groundless. Local authorities around the country are setting up databases to hold records of accusations made about anyone from teachers and doctors to Scout leaders and private tutors. They are employing staff just to look into the claims - which can be made anonymously - who are required to contact police, social services or the adult's employer and then keep track of the case. Details of the allegation will be kept on the accused's personnel file until they retire so they can be seen by potential employers, and in a reversal of the basic tenet of English law they will only be deemed innocent if they can prove it.

• Council fines a single mother £700 fine... for putting her bin bags out on the wrong day - A single mother has been landed with a court bill for over £700 - because she put her rubbish out too early. Victoria Clarke, 21, left bin bags outside her gate so her four-year-old daughter had more room to play in the family back garden. But litter patrols spotted the rubbish on the pavement and hauled Victoria into court for an offence of 'the advancement of waste'. She was later fined £350 with £350.12 costs and ordered to pay a £15 victim surcharge under the terms of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. The maximum fine is £1,000. Council bosses claimed she left eight bin bags of rubbish outside her end-terrace home in Reddish, Greater Manchester, days before the correct collection date. But Victoria today hit back, claiming the council were 'totally over the top'. She said: 'I'm flabbergasted at what's happened. There are people out there beating each other up getting drunk in the street and causing all sorts of trouble yet most of them seem to get a slap on the wrist.

• Nice 'spends £1m more on spin than evaluating drugs' - The Government's drugs watchdog spends £1 million more on spin than on evaluating medications, the Tories have claimed. The National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has come under fire in recent months for the time it takes to decide which drugs can be given on the NHS and for rejecting some life extending medications as too expensive. Official figures show that Nice spent almost £3.4 million, 10 per cent of its budget, evaluating new drugs and technologies last year. But the organisation spent around £4.5 million, 13 per cent, on communications. The Tories, who uncovered the figures, claimed that they showed that the body was wasting money on "spin doctors". Mark Simmonds, the shadow health minister, said: "Unfortunately, these figures typify New Labour's approach to our health service.

Tuesday 09th September 2008: -

• French President Nicolas Sarkozy friend says 9/11 was a lie - One of France's most successful stand-up comedians and a close friend of President Nicolas Sarkozy has sparked outrage by becoming the latest French star to question the official account of the September 11 attacks. In an embarrassment to the French President, and with just two days to go before the seventh anniversary of the deadly terrorist strikes, Jean-Marie Bigard - a member of Mr Sarkozy's inner circle of showbiz friends - said the official version was a "lie". "We are now absolutely certain that these two planes - the one that supposedly fell into a forest (flight 93 in Pennsylvania) and onto the Pentagon don't exist... those planes are still flying. "It's an enormous lie," he told Europe 1 radio. "It's an American missile that hit the Pentagon, they provoked it themselves, they killed fellow Americans. "Usually one learns of these things 30 years afterwards. We know it now," he went on. Mr Bigard, who has staged shows to a full house in Paris' football stadium, le Stade de France, added: "We are beginning to seriously consider that neither Ben Laden nor al Qaeda were responsible for September 11."

PERSPECTIVE: See the Prominent Figures Speak Out page at our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com for a list of others that have gone public on 9/11 Truth.

• Liquid Bomb “Terror Plot” Collapses In Court: None of suspects charged with headline-grabbing plan to blow up airlines, alleged ringleader completely acquitted - The much vaunted liquid bomb “terror plot” that provoked paranoid airport security measures, an overnight change in baggage procedures, and at one point led to mothers having to drink their own breast milk, completely collapsed yesterday in court after the alleged ringleader was completely acquitted and none of the other suspects were charged with conspiracy to blow up an airliner. “Seven men admitted plotting to cause a public nuisance. An eighth man was cleared at Woolwich Crown Court,” reports the BBC. “But after more than 50 hours of deliberations, the jury did not find any of the defendants guilty of conspiring to target aircraft.” “Mohammad Gulzar, 27, who Scotland Yard accused of being a ringleader in the plot, was cleared of all offenses,” adds the Register.

COMMENTARY: I went on air on 10th August 2006, the day that the media ran with the Liquid Bomber story to say that this story looked like a fake threat and was subsequently called a conspiracy theorist... what do these people have to say now? (Not much!).

• Liquids ban in luggage must remain in place, airlines told - The current tight security at British airports is unlikely to be relaxed in the wake of the Crown Prosecution Service's decision to push for a retrial of the men accused of plotting to bring down airliners. Restrictions on taking liquid through security were immediately introduced in the wake of the discovery of the alleged bomb plot in August 2006. Counter-terrorist officers believe it would have claimed thousands of lives and inflicted massive economic disruption on both Britain and the US.

• UK: First 50,000 ID cards issued in November: 'We're ramping things up in April. By how much? Not telling...' - The government has revealed it will produce an initial run of 50,000 ID cards before ramping up production in April 2009. Foreign nationals coming to the UK will be issued cards from 25 November under the £4.7bn scheme. The government has yet to put a figure on how many ID cards will be issued after the initial deployment, saying "volumes will rise rapidly" from April 2009 but adds the rollout will depend on "the speed of implementation" and "the nature of immigration categories brought into the scheme". The revelations were made by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith in a written answer to parliament. The ID scheme will be rolled out over the next four years, starting with about 10 million "critical" workers - such as airport staff - in 2009, young people in 2010 and the rest of the UK public in 2011/12, when people will have a choice of a passport or ID card.

• Barclaycard unveils plans for paying using your mobile phone, key fob or fingerprints - Once you wouldn't leave home without it. But the credit card could soon be cashing in its chips. Experts predict that paying by plastic will make way for payments by mobile phone, key fob or even fingerprint. Like the cheque book, video cassette and CD before it, the plastic credit card could be on the way out within five years, according to leading financiers. Yesterday Barclaycard, which introduced the UK's first credit card in 1966, announced it was pouring millions into developing 'contactless payment technology'. The group has already developed a credit card that can be read without having to be taken out of a wallet. It hopes to take contactless payments a step further with chips that can be inserted into mobile phones, enabling shoppers to buy items by simply holding their handsets over them. The purchase would be confirmed by tapping a PIN into the phone, with no need to go to the checkout.

• Scandal of recycled rubbish ending up in India: 'I put a receipt into my bin for recycled paper & it ended up in a field in INDIA' - Rubbish sorted for recycling by British families is being shipped 4,000 miles to India and dumped on farmland. Thousands of households are doing their best to go green by carefully separating their waste so that plastics, metal, paper and glass can all be used again. But a receipt put into a paperrecycling bin in Essex turned up at the top of a stinking rubbish tip in southern India. It was traced to the Walton-on-the-Naze home of Geoff Moore, who was appalled that his efforts were in vain.

• Armed police called out to team-building exercise - A marketing firm's team-building exercise sparked an armed police siege because it involved a game using imitation firearms. Members of the public dialled 999 after fearing for their lives outside an office block in Southend, Essex. They reported seeing two men, both carrying guns and dressed in dark clothing, entering the headquarters of Converso Contact Centres. Armed police surrounded the building, only to find the men had been taking part in a morale building exercise. A spokeswoman for Essex Police said the call centre firm had been "offered suitable words of advice" after Friday's incident. Detective Chief Inspector Tim Raymond added: "The two men involved clearly did not think about the implications of their actions. This was potentially a very dangerous situation and, as such, armed officers were deployed.

• Veterans' mental care condemned - Britain faces a "timebomb" of mental health problems among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, best-selling author Andy McNab has said. He spoke out ahead of the launch of his latest book, which examines the fate of the men he served with in the SAS. Two of them have killed themselves and a third has shot his girlfriend dead. The government said most ex-service personnel made "a smooth transition to civilian life", but "robust systems" were in place to help the remainder. Andy McNab said care was "totally inadequate" and the NHS was woefully unprepared to deal with the estimated 15% of troops currently serving who will go on to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder. "I've seen for myself the appalling way that our soldiers are hung out to dry," he said.

• UK Television licence fee to be reviewed over bullying claims - A review into the way the BBC licence fee is collected is launched today amid claims the methods are too 'heavy handed'. Faced with accusations of harassment, the BBC Trust, the corporation's governing body, will investigate whether the methods employed to gather the £139.50 fee are "efficient, appropriate and proportionate". The public consultation follows complaints that people who do not even own a television set are receiving threatening letters from the organisation responsible for collection the fee. The letters from TV Licensing warn of "enforcement officers", with fines of £1,000 and threat of court action if people still refuse to pay. People have also accused the organisation of intimidating people with the tone of its marketing and advertising. One recent advert warned: "Your town, your street, your home...It is all in the database" against the sound of helicopters, sirens barking dogs and door-knocking.

• £1m pay rise on the way for boss of British Gas as 16 million of their customers face huge bill rises - The boss of British Gas's parent firm could see his pay soar by £1million this year as millions face huge bill rises. Sam Laidlaw, chief executive of Centrica, is expected to get a seven-figure increase in his pay, bonus and shares package. The rise will be a blow for 16million British Gas customers who face a 35 per cent rise in charges. He is one of several executives at the firm who could see earnings rocket, including British Gas managing director Philip Bentley.

• "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

Sunday 07th September 2008: -

• UK Schoolchildren recruited by councils to spy on neighbours who commit 'environmental crimes' - Children are being offered money by councils to spy on neighbours and report petty offences such as 'bin crimes' and dog-fouling. The youngsters are among 5,000 residents encouraged to photograph or video neighbours in the act of 'environmental crimes'. In some cases children as young as eight, are being bribed with rewards of £500 for passing on the names of neighbours or taking down their car registration numbers. The Daily Telegraph found that one in six councils out of 240 contacted admitted to signing up the 'environmental volunteers.'

• Anti-terrorism laws used to spy on noisy children in the UK - Councils are using anti-terrorism laws to spy on residents and tackle barking dogs and noisy children. An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph found that three quarters of local authorities have used the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000 over the past year. The Act gives councils the right to place residents and businesses under surveillance, trace telephone and email accounts and even send staff on undercover missions. The findings alarmed civil liberties campaigners. Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, said: "Councils do a grave disservice to professional policing by using serious surveillance against litterbugs instead of terrorists." The RIPA was introduced to help fight terrorism and crime. But a series of extensions, first authorised by David Blunkett in 2003, mean that Britain's 474 councils can use the law to tackle minor misdemeanours.

• UK Police consider extending curfews on young people - A controversial curfew banning youths from the streets after nightfall could be extended. Police say the summer trial in the Cornish town of Redruth, which comes to an end with the resumption of the school term on Monday, led to a fall in anti-social behaviour in the town. Under the curfew, parents in the Close Hill area were asked to make sure children aged 16 and under were off the streets by 9pm, while those aged under 10 were at home by 8pm. Figures for July showed the number of incidents recorded in the town fell by 15 to 106, compared with last year, with a similar fall last month. That has encouraged police and councillors in other parts of Cornwall to consider adopting the scheme in their own areas, particularly during the forthcoming half-term and Christmas holidays. Police in the South Wales town of Barry are also looking to introduce a similar curfew to cope with gangs of youths on the street.

• The failure of the NIST WTC 7 report to address concerns raised in Appendix C of the 2002 FEMA Building Performance Study - The NIST WTC 7 report does not attempt to explain the “severe high-temperature corrosion attack” on apparently the only piece of WTC 7 steel which was tested, as documented in Appendix C, “Limited Metallurgical Examination” of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Building Performance Study, which can be found at the link below on the NIST website. http://wtc.nist.gov/media/AppendixC-fema403_apc.pdf

• 9/11 Truth Movement is Everywhere - Blast this out to everyone you know that questions 9/11. Mostly a picture slide show, but this video shows truth activists protesting on the streets in cities across the country and the world. We are everywhere and getting stronger. Remember take action the 11th of Every Month and whenever else you can. Visit truthaction.org to find a action network in your area. TRUTH WILL PREVAIL.

• Doctors Ordered To Manage Media - Sky News has uncovered evidence that NHS staff are coming under political pressure to spin the headlines. We have obtained a letter, written by a senior representative of the Department of Health, which strongly criticises England's largest primary care trust for failing to "manage" the media. North Yorkshire and York PCT had been singled out for its handling of so-called exceptional cases, in which patients ask to be treated with medicines that have yet to be approved for use on the NHS. Newspapers highlighted cancer patients who had been denied expensive new drugs. Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority, which ensures Department of Health policy is followed in the region, wrote to the PCTs chief executive demanding urgent action. "This has resulted in damage to the reputation of the NHS. The PCT needs to look at how the media messages can be managed more effectively... to stem the national harm to the NHS profile that this constant publicity is creating." But Dr Peter Brambleby, the director of public health for the PCT, is so angry about the letter that he has blown the whistle.

• Ministers ignored parents' fears over cervical cancer jab: Go-ahead for programme to give girls HPV vaccine, despite concerns it would be 'a licence for promiscuity' - Ministers went ahead with the programme to vaccinate schoolgirls against cervical cancer despite government-funded research concluding that parents were widely opposed to the move, with many fearing it would give their daughters a licence to be promiscuous. Schools across the United Kingdom last week began offering all 12- and 13-year-old girls the vaccine against the human papilloma virus (HPV), blamed for causing 70 per cent of incidences of cervical cancer. Scottish schoolgirls last week became the first in the UK to be vaccinated. Pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will follow in the coming weeks.

• Pupils taught how to be happy - The weather is grim, the economy is in a mess, but ministers believe that they can restore the feelgood factor – by teaching children how to look on the bright side of life. The government is backing a new project designed to “immunise” youngsters from getting the blues by educating them in the art of happiness at a young age. In a programme imported from the United States, 11-year-olds are to be taught how to shrug off setbacks and banish pessimistic thoughts, helping them to cope with whatever life throws at them. The Penn Resiliency Program, as the scheme is known, has been scientifically tested and shown to produce positive results. More than 1,500 11-year-olds in 22 schools in Britain are already on the courses in a pilot scheme masterminded by one of the world’s leading authorities in “positive psychology”.

• Revealed: how Eurocrat leaked trade secrets over lavish dinners: A top EU official passed on sensitive information potentially worth millions to a company, Insight reports - The elegant Comme Chez Soi is one of the great Brussels restaurants where businessmen on expense accounts mix with Eurocrats beneath its famous art nouveau glass ceilings. On a warm Wednesday evening in March, one of the diners turning up to sample the two Michelin star menu was Fritz-Harald Wenig, a director in the European commission’s trade department. He had accepted an e-mail invitation to dine with two British lobbyists whom he had never met before. But it was one of his favourite restaurants and he was in good spirits.

• The housing chief who earns £1,000 a day from the taxpayer - A public sector housing boss has secured an earnings package worth almost £1,000 a day. John Belcher, whose organisation runs subsidised homes for the elderly, received taxpayer-funded salary and perks worth more than £360,000 last year. This is nearly twice the £189,994 earned by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and dwarfs the earnings of the public servants who are traditionally the best paid. Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, who as Lord Chief Justice is head of the judiciary in England and Wales, earns £236,300, while Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, is paid £290,000.

• Labour forced to repay illegal funding donation - Labour was embroiled in a fresh row over donations last night after it was forced to pay back £15,000 to a children's charity which illegally donated cash to the party. Catz Club, which has received lottery money to run breakfast and after-school clubs across Britain, paid the money to attend Labour's star-studded fundraising sports dinner this summer. But it was forced to ask for the money back after the Conservatives uncovered the donation and told the Charity Commission.

• 'Clear evidence of lies' by UK officials in Ward case: Report on Julie's murder also condemns 'brazen' Kenyan police - UK authorities investigating the death of British tourist Julie Ward in Kenya 20 years ago have been accused of "inconsistency, falsehoods and downright lies" in an independent police report. Her father, John Ward, used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the document, commissioned by the Metropolitan Police, to examine his suspicions that the authorities had conspired to cover up the truth of his daughter's death. It had been suppressed on grounds of national security.

Thursday 04th September 2008: -

• Study: Respiratory Problems Still Persist For 9/11 Workers - The city released its annual report today on the health of rescue workers at the World Trade Center site and nearby residents. For the past seven years since the September 11th terrorist attacks, the city has been monitoring the physical and mental health of recovery workers, first responders, and those living and working in Lower Manhattan. The World Trade Center Medical Working Group reviewed more than 100 scientific articles published since 2001 and found that people continue to suffer from a range of issues. The study's key findings include respiratory system have persisted for 25 percent of firefighters, two to four years after 9/11.

• Study clears measles vaccine of autism link - Scientists who tried to replicate a study that once tied a measles vaccine with autism said on Wednesday they could not find any link and hope their study will encourage parents to vaccinate their children to combat a rash of measles outbreaks. Parents' refusals to have their children vaccinated against measles have contributed to the highest numbers of cases seen in the United States and parts of Europe in many years. Measles kills about 250,000 people a year globally, mostly children in poor nations. Public health officials have been stressing the safety of the combined measles-mumps-rubella, or MMR, shot and other childhood vaccines in the face of vocal groups who claim the immunizations may cause autism and other problems.

• Spy satellites could analyse shadows from space to help identify terrorists - Spy satellites could soon be able to identify a person from space, by analysing the way their shadow moves. A computer programme has been developed to process the image of a shadow cast on the ground, and match it up with its owner. The technique, called gait analysis, works on the premise that it is extremely difficult to disguise your walking style. It could be used to monitor known criminals and suspected terrorists, such as Osama Bin Laden, using satellites or spy planes.

• Labour has created 3,600 new offences since 1997 - The Government has created more than 3,600 criminal offences since it came to office in 1997, almost one for every day in power. Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, will reveal the statistic as he sets out a fresh initiative to cut crime. Critics of the new laws blame a government addicted to pushing complicated legislation through Parliament, and keen on grabbing a cheap headline. A total of 3,605 offences have been introduced since May 1997, an average of 320 a year. They include 1,238 brought in as primary legislation, which means they were debated in Parliament, and 2,367 by secondary legislation, such as orders in council and statutory documents. The worst offender is the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which has created 852 new offences. This is followed by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, and its predecessor the Department for Trade and Industry, which between them have created 678 offences. Meanwhile the Home Office is responsible for 455 offences. Among some of the more bizarre criminal offences created in the past five years include disturbing a pack of eggs when instructed not to by an authorised officer, or offering for sale a game bird killed on a Sunday or Christmas Day.

• Vicar had 56,000 child porn images - A vicar who admitted having 56,000 indecent images of children was remanded in custody on Wednesday to await sentencing. The Rev. Richard Hart, 59, from Woking, Surrey, did not apply for bail and was led to the cells at the end of a hearing at Cardiff Crown Court. His defence lawyer John Ryan told the court: "He is realistic about the kind of sentence and wishes to have his time start now." Judge John Curran will sentence him later this month, the Press Association said. Hart also admitted 12 charges of making indecent photographs between 1999 and 2007, and four of taking such images in 1991.

• Report: Sex Sold For £15 In London - Sex is being sold in London brothels for as little as £15 and a number of premises are offering "very young girls" to customers. These shocking findings have come from a survey by trafficked women's charity Eave's Poppy Project. It says many of London's 921 brothels go under the guise of massage parlours and saunas. Co-author of the report, Julie Bindel says: "The police are not resourced to monitor these places. They're not really that hidden because we found them so easily. During our research one policeman told me 'We daren't pick up the rock - because we won't know what to do with what might crawl out from under it.'" Under that rock is illegality on a massive scale: sexual abuse, physical abuse, trafficking and links to other crimes like drug, gun crime child abuse. "There's no question that there are underage girls working in brothels. There are many men who actively seek sex with underage girls. Some will be trafficked some will be home grown."

• Tony Blair bodyguard left gun in Starbucks when she went to the toilet - A female police firearms officer left a gun in a coffee shop where it was discovered by a member of the public, Scotland Yard said today. The pistol was reportedly left in the toilets of a central London branch of Starbucks by a police bodyguard who was once Tony Blair's close protection officer. A female officer in her 30s left the gun, a semi-automatic Glock 17, on the floor of the café's only toilet for 20 minutes.

Wednesday 03rd September 2008: -

• Ventura Voices 9/11 Truth At Rally For The Republic: Former Governor hints at presidential run in 2012: “We can take our country back, it can be done” - During an impassioned speech in which he called for a revolution to take back the country, former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura voiced 9/11 truth to the 10,000 in attendance and the millions watching on C-Span and You Tube at the Rally For The Republic yesterday. Ventura also strongly hinted that he is considering running for the presidency in 2012. “I’m going to move on to another subject that a lot of people don’t want to discuss today,” he said, “I know when I discuss it, it’s amazing, I get attacked! And that’s something called 9/11!”

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Speaking of which...

• 9/11 TRUTH SKIPTON MEETING - Thursday 4th September 2008, 8.00pm: held at The Narrowboat Pub, 38 Victoria Street, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 1JE.

• Britons could be tried in absence in foreign courts under EU plan - British people could be convicted in their absence by foreign courts, under proposals approved by the European Parliament. The plans could see them immediately extradited to a European country on the basis of an "in absentia" guilty verdict in its courts for offences carrying fines or custodial sentences. In a joint statement the Parliament said: "The EU wants to create a common area for justice, which requires the mutual recognition of criminal law judgments by member states." The proposals, which were put forward by seven countries, including Britain, were described as "by their very nature a violation of the fundamental procedural rights of the accused" by the European Criminal Bar Association.

• The 2012 Olympic martyrs: 'We'll go to jail rather than pay £33 Games tax', say pensioners - An elderly couple are vowing to go to jail rather than pay the 2012 Olympics surcharge on their council tax bill. Tom and Rita Glenister insist the £33.33 levy imposed on London homes to cover the cost of the London Games is unfair. They will appear in court later this month after ignoring repeated demands for the Olympic charge from their local council.

• Pound falls to new low ahead of Brown rescue deal - The pound fell to a new low against the euro this morning and threatened to overshadow Gordon Brown's plan to rescue Britain's faltering housing market. The Prime Minister is due to announce a £1 billion rescue package later this morning, with schemes to help families in danger of having their home repossessed, to provide more council houses and to help first-time buyers get into the housing market through joint equity plans. One unconfirmed report also suggested that, after weeks of damaging speculation, the Government may temporarily suspend stamp duty, the tax paid by homebuyers.

• Pupils warned over energy drinks - The use of Red Bull and other energy drinks by schoolchildren is becoming a growing problem, a drug expert says. Bob Tait, of Drug Education UK, which delivers drug awareness classes in schools, warned the drinks could make pupils disruptive and hyperactive. He claimed high consumption could even cause chest pains and headaches and warned school nurses to be on the lookout for such problems. But a spokeswoman for Red Bull said the drink was not recommended for children.

• Reported US attack pushes Afghanistan war into Pakistan: Up to 20 die in attack by commandoes on village near known Taliban and al-Qaida stronghold - The war in Afghanistan spilled over into Pakistani territory for the first time today when heavily armed commandoes, believed to be US special forces, landed by helicopter and attacked three houses in a village close to a known Taliban and al-Qaida stronghold. The early morning attack on Jala Khel killed between seven and 20 people, according to a range of reports from the remote Angoor Adda region of South Waziristan. The village is situated less than a mile from the Afghanistan border.

• Muslim wrongly accused of being a terrorist wins £14,000 compensation - A Muslim police worker who was "maliciously" reported to the anti-terrorist squad by colleagues after the July 7 bombings has been awarded almost £14,000 compensation. Mohammed Hussain, 30, was investigated by the Met's specialist counter-terrorism command after false accusations from co-workers that he was an Islamic extremist. He told an employment tribunal that he was made to feel "isolated and lonely" when colleagues "conspired" against him, especially after the July 7 attacks on London. Mr Hussain, a researcher in the Metropolitan Police's forensic analysis unit, said he was made to feel like "a pariah".

RELATED: See our 7/7 London Bombings archive.

• BNP running gun camps for kids - The British National Party is running Hitler Youth-style training camps to teach children how to use guns and knives. Boys and girls as young as 12 have been taught to shoot a rifle, given demonstrations of knife techniques and shown how to make a lethal wooden dart called a Dutch arrow. The youngsters are also brainwashed with lectures on the BNP's racist beliefs and given talks on how to deal with "Marxist" teachers. The BNP ran the first youth camp at its annual summer festival called Red, White and Blue. The party's website boasts that children were taught how to make the Dutch arrows, which can be hurled 150 metres.

• Bosses 'may stop employing women' as maternity rights increase - Employers may stop giving jobs to women because the cost of maternity leave and temp cover is set to double, legal experts have warned. New rules mean that female staff due to give birth from next month onwards must receive job perks such as paid holiday, childcare vouchers and gym membership for a full year rather than six months. Companies will be liable for sex discrimination claims if they refuse to give the same benefits to women throughout 12 months of maternity leave. In addition, separate rules being brought in by the European Union will give temps and agency staff - who are used in many offices for maternity cover - the same pay as full-time workers after just 12 weeks in a post.

Tuesday 02nd September 2008: -

• Lab Tests Point to Problems with New Sweetener: Consumer group says product can increase cancer risk - A consumer group says a new commercial sweetner, said to be 200 times sweeter than sugar, may cause health problems and needs more study. Coca-Cola and Pepsi are planning to introduce new drinks made with the sweetner, rebiana, an extract of stevia leaves. In a letter to the Food and Drug Administration, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) says the agency should require additional tests, including a key animal study, before accepting rebiana as Generally Regarded as Safe, or GRAS. The letter cites a new 26-page report by toxicologists at the University of California, Los Angeles, several, though not all, laboratory tests show that the sweetener causes mutations and DNA damage, which raises the prospect that it causes cancer.

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• Study finds more allergic reactions after HPV jab - Young women in Australia who got a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer were five to 20 times more likely to have a rare but severe allergic reaction than girls who got other vaccines in comparable school-based vaccination programs, researchers said on Monday. They said the severe allergic reactions to the human papillomavirus or HPV vaccine were unusual and manageable and that the vaccine remained safe. The team of Australian researchers led by Dr. Julia Brotherton of The Children's Hospital at Westmead studied 114,000 young women vaccinated with Merck & Co's Gardasil vaccine as part of a 2007 vaccination program in New South Wales.

• Cervical cancer vaccine advertised on teen social networking sites - Teenage girls are being targeted through social networking websites with messages telling them to take up the new cervical cancer jab, it has emerged. The Government has placed advertisements for the vaccine, which protects against human papillomavirus (HPV), on websites Habbo Hotel and Lola's Land - both younger versions of maintstream sites such as Facebook and MySpace. The three-injection vaccine for around 300,000 girls aged 12 and 13 and will be rolled out across the country from Thursday, targeting the HPV virus, which causes most cases of cervical cancer.

• Perfumes linked to fertility problems - Researchers at Edinburgh University suggest that exposure to perfumes during pregnancy may increase a child's risk of infertility later in life. A study carried out on rats found that prenatal exposure to chemicals found in cosmetics can lead to later reproductive problems for baby boys. Lead researcher professor Richard Sharpe of the Medical Research Council's Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, explained to the BBC: "There are lots of compounds in perfumes that we know in higher concentrations have the potential to have biological effects. "If you are planning to become pregnant you should change your lifestyle… We would recommend you avoid exposure to chemicals that are present in cosmetics, anything that you put on your body that might then get through your body into your developing baby."

• 'Environmental volunteers' will be encouraged to spy on their neighbours - Councils are recruiting residents to report anyone who drops litter, fails to recycle their rubbish properly, or who allows their dog to foul the streets. Advertisements looking for people to sign up for the unpaid "environmental volunteer" jobs have been posted across the country in recent months. Critics said the scheme is encouraging a Big Brother society where friends and neighbours will be encouraged to "snoop" on one another. The recruitment drive follows news that the Home Office is granting police powers to council staff and private security guards, allowing then to hand out fines for low-scale offences and ask for personal details.

• Community Support officers could do more police work - Community support officers should do more police work in order to save money, Home Office officials have suggested. In a further disclosure from a leaked letter to the Prime Minister from the Home Secretary, it is proposed that police community support officers (PCSOs), who receive less training and are paid less than full police officers, be used as a cost-effective way to fight the increase in crime that it predicts will result from the economic downturn. A paragraph removed from the later draft of the letter reads: "We have a robust position on expecting the police service to maximise efficiency gains including workforce reforms that will also see changes to workforce mix, of the kind that will reduce cost pressures eg greater deployment for suitable tasks of grades such as PCSOs that are cheaper than Police Officers." The Conservatives said the latest passage disclosed the true attitudes and priorities of Home Office staff.

• Report: UK law and order needs US-style reform - Britain's police forces should be accountable to their own communities instead of government ministers, a think tank said Tuesday. The policy group Reform said Britain's police forces should be decentralized American-style. It proposed the creation of a National Bureau of Investigation — similar to the FBI — to handle law enforcement on the national level while leaving local police to look after their own. "In the U.S., the existence of the FBI enables local police forces to carry out local police work, and local courts to administer punishment locally," the report said. "Furthermore, innovation is generally high as states are able to form crime policies suited to their locality."

• Britons 'passive against crime' - British people are the least likely in Europe to be "have-a-go heroes" and get involved if they witness a crime, research from a think tank claims. The public policy group Reform says that Britons have become "passive bystanders" in the fight against crime. It says the UK has the world's most expensive justice system but people abdicate responsibility to politicians, police and the courts. The government said the justice system had been "transformed" since 1997. A joint statement from Home Office Minister Tony McNulty and Justice Minister David Hanson said many measures to ensure justice was seen to be done were already being implemented.

• The great Petra con: Blue Peter's famous dog was a fake, show's former editor reveals - For millions of young viewers, Petra the Blue Peter dog was the next best thing to a pet of their own. Long after her death, pilgrims still visit her statue in the Blue Peter garden at BBC Television Centre. But only now has the programme's former editor Biddy Baxter told the full story of how its first adopted animal was actually a fake. She was an emergency replacement found when the original dog died two days after her debut. In a book chronicling 50 years of Britain's favourite children's programme, Miss Baxter describes the scandal in detail. She recalls how on the last episode before Christmas 1962 the head of Children's Television, Owen Reed, appeared on the screen with a large cardboard box covered with festive paper and ribbons.

• Nearly half of Britons suffer "discomgoogolation" - Feeling stressed or anxious at an inability to access the Internet? Don't worry, you're not alone and now there's a word for it: "discomgoogolation". Nearly half of Britons -- 44 percent -- are discomgoogolation sufferers, according to a survey, with over a quarter -- 27 percent -- admitting to rising stress levels when they are unable to go online. "The proliferation of broadband has meant for the first time in history we've entered a culture of 'instant answers,'" said psychologist Dr David Lewis, who identified discomgoogolation by measuring heart rates and brainwave activity. The term comes from "discombobulate," which means to confuse or frustrate, and Google.

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• U.K. Pound Falls Below $1.80 for First Time Since April 2006 - The U.K. pound fell below $1.80 for the first time since April 2006 after mortgage approvals dropped to the lowest level in nine years and manufacturing contracted, adding to evidence of a looming recession. The pound also slid to a record low versus the euro as investors cut wagers on higher interest rates by the Bank of England after Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling told the Guardian newspaper on Aug. 30 that the U.K. faced the worst economic slump in 60 years. U.K. bonds rose, pushing the yield on the two-year gilt to the lowest level since May, as an industry report showed house prices tumbled last month by the most since at least 2001.

• Police raid headquarters of RNC protesters - Police raided a rental hall used by a group organizing protests at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Friday. The RNC Welcoming Committee, which describes itself as “anarchist/anti-authoritarian,” accused St. Paul police of trying to disrupt their protest planned for Monday, the day the GOP convention is set to begin. Although no one was arrested, the group said police temporarily detained and photographed at least 50 people who were inside the building. St. Paul Police spokesman Tom Walsh said they were executing a search warrant.

• Czech Constitutional Court starts Lisbon Treaty scrutiny - The Czech Constitutional Court is now prepared to start examining the Lisbon Treaty to decide whether it is consistent with the country's constitution, the body's chairman said in Prague on 31 August. Court chairman Pavel Rychetsky said he expects the court to concentrate on the seven passages against which a complaint was filed, ČTK reported. He added that he was not able to tell how long the judges would be discussing the case. The Senate, which is dominated by senior eurosceptics from the ruling Civic Democrats (ODS), asked the court to check the treaty's compatibility with the Czech Constitution in April. The ratification process was complicated by the fact that Ireland said 'no' to the treaty in a referendum in June.

• Protest to be held in support of hacker - A PEACEFUL protest will take place tomorrow outside the Home Office in support of computer hacker Gary McKinnon. Mr McKinnon, 42, has been accused of causing $700,000 worth of damage when he hacked into US naval, Nasa and defence systems from his Crouch End home in 2002. Last week Mr McKinnon, a former Highgate Wood pupil, lost his appeal to prevent extradition to the US where he faces up to 60 years in prison. Lucy Clarke, Mr McKinnon's girlfriend, who is organising the demonstration, said: "The point of the protest is to show support for Gary. What happened to Gary could have happened to anybody." Mr McKinnon, who was recently diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, will be extradited within the next few weeks. The protest will take place at the Home Office in Marsham Street, Victoria, at 4pm.

RELATED VIDEO: Gary McKinnon on the Richard and Judy show - 21/07/2006

• Fabled Enemies Now Streaming For Prison Planet.tv Members!: Fabled Enemies: A New Film By Loose Change Filmmaker Jason Bermas - Seven years after 9/11, the supposed mastermind behind the attacks is still at large, and the nation is entrenched in multiple wars in the Middle East. Is Bin Laden the evil behind the attack or a mere front man in a larger picture, a Bogeyman? We are told we are fighting a War on Terror, and that the Terrorists hate us for our freedom. If that is the case, why do our leaders take more and more of those freedoms away every day?

• Invitation from Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance - In solidarity and support of all peaceful protesters and those people within and outside of the US who have suffered violence from police, military and tyrannical forces, we will be gathering, speaking, singing for truth, peace, justice. As an antidote to the Democratic and Republican Conventions, join us in a celebration of the endurance of the human spiritual quest for truth, peace, justice for all. Please join us September 6th, 2008 for our 7th Annual 9/11 Truth Rally/March to the 10th Annual Power to the Peaceful Festival!

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