Friday, August 15, 2008
UNIFIL: Israel Violating Resolution 1701
The head of UN forces in Lebanon accuses Israelis of unilaterally violating a UN resolution that ended the 33-day war against the Lebanese.
Head of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Major-General Claudio Graziano criticized continued overflight of Israeli aircraft in Lebanon's airspace, and the refusal to provide a map of the zones riddled with Israeli mines and cluster bombs, a Press TV correspondent reported from Beirut. Graziano said Israel is turning a blind eye to the UN Security Council Resolution 1701 -which demands Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in parallel with the deployment of UNIFIL and Lebanese soldiers throughout the South- and refuses to pull out its troops from the Lebanese part of southern al-Ghajar village.
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And just like every other time nothing will be done by anyone, nothing said by anyone and nothing reported in the mainstream media by anyone !!!
McCain: ‘We Are All Georgians’
In addition to misrepresenting the crisis in favor of his good friend and neocon man-crush Georgian President Saakashvili, McCain once again speaks as if he isn’t the leading cheerleader for America’s own war of agression: “The world has learned at great cost the price of allowing aggression against free nations to go unchecked.”
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Labour Warned Over Limits to Free Expression
The government's use of the Official Secrets Act to prevent issues of public interest being published is also condemned in an intervention from the UN which warns that public servants are being gagged even where national security is not at risk.
The criticisms are made as part of the committee's analysis of a report which the UK is required to submit to the UN every three years, appraising human rights in its jurisdiction.
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Council worker emigrates 10,000 miles to Australia... but keeps his job in Cambridgeshire
His £100,000-a-year council job, however, will be travelling with them.
Mr Taylor, 44, is to continue working for the local authority as its finance chief despite emigrating 10,000 miles away.
Under the extraordinary deal, Fenland District Council in Cambridgeshire is paying Mr Taylor for one day’s work a week – which works out, prorata at £20,000 a year.
He will continue to manage the council’s annual £18million budget and help any replacement ease into the role via video link and email, despite being in Adelaide with an eight-and-a-half hour time difference.
The details have emerged a few weeks after Suffolk County Council chief executive Andrea Hill – who earns £220,000, £30,000 more than the Prime Minister – claimed town hall bureaucrats deserved large salaries because their jobs were so ‘high risk’.
Mr Taylor, who is due to move in October after serving three months’ notice, yesterday defended the deal, insisting it was ‘difficult to replace a senior person straight away’.
He added: ‘We are trying to come up with an arrangement that does not cost too much money.
‘It seemed more sensible to keep my experience on board, rather than spend a lot of money on someone who had no knowledge of the workings of the council.’
But the TaxPayers’ Alliance said the plan was ludicrous.
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US Military Will Stay in Georgia-Permanantly
The American military has been training and equipping the Georgian army since the spring of 2002.
Having trained three battalions of Georgian soldiers, US military instructors were due to leave in March.
Georgia's new president-elect has set the removal of Russian troops still based in the country as a major priority for his government.
On Saturday the US ambassador to Georgia said they had decided to continue training the Georgian army in a full-time programme.US 'security guarantee'
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Zero Privacy
The recent report by the Interception of Communications commissioner, Sir Paul Kennedy notes that 519,260 requisitions of communications data from telephone companies and internet service providers were made in Britain last year. It is very mysterious who is doing the bulk of this spying, since no statistical breakdown is offered. But Sir Paul suggests the procedures may be a bit much for local authorities and things ought to be made easier for them.
The Home Office is busy doing just that. It is shortly to compel telecoms companies and internet service providers to keep details of all your emailing, browsing and phonecalls for up to 24 months. And it will specify in what form the information is to be kept. It is heartening that press and public have woken up to this snoopers' charter just as the final piece of the picture is hammered into place. It is being introduced in the form of a Statutory Instrument enforcing an EU directive - which means it is unlikely to be even debated in parliament and cannot be amended by our elected representatives. Perhaps that is why this is being released while MPs are on holiday.
They don't matter to the process
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The Pentagon’s Alarming Project: Avian Flu Biowar Vaccine
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Dearth Of Sunspot Activity To Herald New Ice Age?
Observatory predicts two degree drop in temperatures over next two decades as solar activity dwindles
A top observatory that has been measuring sun cycles for over 200 years predicts that global temperatures will drop by two degrees over the next two decades as solar activity grinds to a halt and the planet drastically cools down, potentially heralding the onset of a new ice age.
While the mass media, Al Gore and politicized bodies like the IPCC scaremonger about the perils of global warming and demand the poor and middle class pay CO2 taxes, both hard scientific data and circumstantial evidence points to a clear cooling trend.
Following the end of the Sun’s most active period in over 11,000 years, the last 10 years have displayed a clear cooling trend as temperatures post-1998 leveled out and are now plummeting.
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U.S. to Take Control of Georgian Ports And Airports: Saakashvili
"You have heard the statement by the U.S. president that the United States is starting a military-humanitarian operation in Georgia," Saakashvili said in a television address.
"It means that Georgian ports and airports will be taken under the control of the U.S. defense ministry in order to conduct humanitarian and other missions. This is a very important statement for easing tension."
Grandfather's Fury as Binmen Refused to Walk 18 INCHES to Collect His Wheelie Bin
Under council rules wheelie bins must be within one metre of the kerb before they are collected.
But Gordon Morris, 70, said his wheelie bin would block the pavement if he adhered to the rule, instead setting his bin 18 inches away on his driveway.
Refuse collectors, however, in Southwick, Wiltshire, refused to take the bin, as the rules had been broken.
Now, after a fight with the council Mr Morris has been granted special dispensation to place the bin with only the wheels on the pavement.
Bin crews will now only have to walk an extra nine inches to collect the waste from outside the £400,000 home Mr Morris has shares with his wife Marion, 67, for 21 years.
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Iraq war veteran thrown off train after ticket row as conductor tells him: 'It's not as if you've taken a bullet'
Rifleman Zachary Hoyland, 19, had been unable to pick up his Services railcard from barracks and was told the cheaper ticket he had been bought was not valid without it.
But the official refused to show any leniency, instead telling him: 'I don't know what you are complaining about.
'It's not as if you've taken a bullet or anything.'
With the help of a friendly passenger, Rifleman Hoyland had already managed to find the extra £50.50 he needed to pay the full fare.
But he was understandably outraged by the 'bullet' remark and swore at the ticket inspector - who, to the disbelief of other passengers, ordered him off the train at the next station.
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View from Dubai: Prisoner No. 650
The woman who had been a star student and a topper throughout a remarkable career had to leave the United States when the authorities began harassing her and her husband for their charity activities in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001 upheavals.
The family settled down in Karachi and was never involved in any illegal activities. One day in March 2003, this talented young woman went missing with her three children when she was on her way to Karachi airport.
Dr. Siddiqui resurfaced this week after five years in a New York court as a "top al-Qaida terrorist." She was barely able to walk and speak, which was not surprising given the fact she had been recently involved in a "gun fight with FBI agents" in Afghanistan. The U.S. authorities claim Dr. Siddiqui was captured near the governor's offices in Ghazni, Afghanistan last month with a bag full of "suspicious liquids in tubes."
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“The Neocons Are Dying to Nuke Iran”
By Kathy Sanborn
Sanborn: When I read your article, “Marching Off Into Tyranny,” I was impressed by how you were able to concisely sum up one of the most important issues that we face as Americans, namely, the erosion of our civil liberties, mostly due to fabricated terrorism such as the anthrax scare and the attacks on 9/11. You talk about the Florida university professor, Al-Arian, who continues to be victimized by the Feds although a jury has cleared him of any terrorism charges. [As of August 8, 2008, the Associated Press states, “U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema postponed the trial indefinitely, questioning whether the government was overeager in filing charges.” –KS]What was your wake-up call, Dr. Roberts, to the fact that the current administration was determined to take away the civil liberties of Americans?Roberts: When they responded to 9/11 with the Patriot Act. That document was thick, and it would have taken months and months to prepare it, yet it came out shortly after the 9/11 attacks.Why does combating terrorism require an assault on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? It was clear to me that there was an undeclared agenda there.On the day of 9/11, I knew right away that something was wrong. I had been an engineering student at Georgia Tech, and things just didn’t add up. As I watched the towers fall, I could see that the buildings were blowing up from the top, at least initially. The airplanes caused asymmetrical damage, and I don’t think the planes were large enough to cause the buildings to topple. When you chop a tree down, it doesn’t blow up, it falls.The buildings were blowing up, not falling down.Then when I saw pictures of the alleged terrorists, most of them looked just like kids. They were small, and airplane passengers wouldn’t have hesitated to try to take them down. The average American male should have been able to take care of the hijackers. And how they could have fooled all of the intelligence agencies, outwit NORAD, and so on; it just didn’t make any sense. They were really after our civil liberties. That was their undeclared agenda. The effect is that no one has any protection under the law.
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Putin Walks into a Trap
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Navy Relieves Commander of Air Recon Squadron
Cmdr. Shawn Bentley was relieved of duty Monday by the Navy for loss of confidence in his ability to command, only three months after taking the job.
Capt. Brian Costello, commander of the Navy's Strategic Communications Wing One, removed Bentley from command, said Lt. Cmdr. Charlie Brown, a spokesman for the Naval Air Forces.
Brown said Bentley, who is based with the squadron at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, was removed after an investigation by the Navy's Inspector General. The Navy did not release any details about the investigation or about any possible allegations against Bentley.
But a source close to the investigation told The Associated Press that Bentley's removal regarded an undisclosed personal matter and was not related to the squadron's missions or duties. The source spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter.'
Probably Bush getting rid of another link in the chain that might spoil his plans. Watch, he will be replaced with a puppet!
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Media War Against Russia
But what if you take a closer look?
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Bush Sending Troops To Georgia
Mr Bush said military planes would deliver supplies in a move which would put American forces in the heart of the region.
The president said he was concerned that Russia might be violating the ceasefire in Georgia and he expected all Russian forces to withdraw.
He is also sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Paris for talks with EU
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THE MORON IS JUST TRYING TO PROVOKE DIRECT CONFLICT WITH RUSSIA
Martial Law in The USA?-Coming to a Town Near You
Bush--Back on The Bottle?
In one picture his face is flushed, his eyes droop, and his expression is dopey. In all fairness, that may be his normal expression. However, the bloody scrape on his arm suggests that he has recently taken a less than normal fall.
In the other picture, Bush appears to be having trouble remaining upright without considerable help. It takes three men to prop up the wobbly boozer-in-chief.
Don’t it make ya feel proud?
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US Boasts of Laser Weapon's 'Plausible Deniability'
The Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) is to be mounted on a Hercules military transport plane. Boeing announced the first test firing of the laser, from a plane on the ground, earlier this summer.
Cynthia Kaiser, chief engineer of the US Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate, used the phrase "plausible deniability" to describe the weapon's benefits in a briefing (powerpoint format) on laser weapons to the New Mexico Optics Industry Association in June.
John Corley, director of USAF's Capabilities Integration Directorate, used the same phrase to describe the weapon's benefits at an Air Armament Symposium in Florida in October 2007 As the term suggests, "plausible deniability" is used in situations where those responsible for an event could plausibly claim to have had no involvement in it.
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Trapped – Collective Punishment in Gaza
The blockade imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip over a year ago has left the entire population of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped with dwindling resources and an economy in ruins. Some 80 per cent of the population now depend on the trickle of international aid that the Israeli army allows in. This humanitarian crisis is man-made and entirely avoidable.Even patients in dire need of medical treatment not available in Gaza are often prevented from leaving and scores of them have died. Students who have scholarships in universities abroad are likewise trapped in Gaza, denied the opportunity to build a future. The Israeli authorities argue that the blockade on Gaza is in response to Palestinian attacks, especially the indiscriminate rockets fired from Gaza at the nearby Israeli town of Sderot. These and other Palestinian attacks killed 25 Israelis in the first half of this year; in the same period Israeli forces killed 400 Palestinians. However, the Israeli blockade does not target the Palestinian armed groups responsible for attacks – it collectively punishes the entire population of Gaza.
Town Hall Snoopers Want Bedroom Access to Check Tax Discount Pensioners are Living Alone
Officials say they need to enter and inspect properties where a council tax discount is claimed.
Seven and a half million people - a large number of them pensioners - are entitled to 25 per cent off their annual bill because they live on their own.
The Conservatives warned that householders are being pressured into signing a declaration agreeing to an internal inspection of their homes in order to prove they really are single.
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Council Snoopers To Get New Powers to Seize Phone and Email Records - With Taxpayers Footing the £50m Bill
Town halls, along with the police, security services, health authorities and other public bodies, will have access to ' communication' records of anyone suspected of involvement in even the most minor crime.
The powers, which stem from an EU directive supposedly designed to catch terrorists, will even allow police to track down those who have told friends they are planning to harm themselves.
But it will cost the taxpayer £46.58million over eight years to compensate mobile phone companies and internet firms for storing and providing the data.
Critics said the measure took Britain a step closer to becoming a surveillance state.
Shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve said: 'Yet again the Government have proved themselves unable to resist the temptation to take a power quite properly designed to combat terrorism to snoop on the lives of ordinary people in everyday circumstances.
'It is typical of this Government that they also intend to make the taxpayer pay extra for the privilege.'
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U.S. Cities Would be Locked Down, Quarantined Under Pandemic Flu Response Plan
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NYPD's 'Operation Sentinel' To Track EVERYTHING
It's called "Operation Sentinel" and it proves just how far the NYPD will go to protect this city from terrorists. The plan involves some high-tech tracking that is coming under fire from some groups. New York City is going to great lengths to make sure that bomb-toting terrorists can't reach us. "New York City is something special," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday. "It's not just a very big city in this world. It is, in many senses, the iconic city. It represents Western Democracy. As part of the plan the NYPD is creating a huge buffer zone, working with cops in a 50-mile radius of the city. Officials in New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Long Island are given radiation detectors to stop terrorists as far away from New York City as possible. Police also plan to track every vehicle that enters Manhattan. "We're going to be adding cameras as we go forward," NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said. That part of that plan calls for photographing and scanning license plates of cars and trucks at all bridges and tunnels. Even small ones like the Willis Avenue Bridge will also be used to detect radiation. "I don't think it's hyperbole to call this Big Brotherish," said Christopher Dunn of the New York Civil Liberties Union. "The New York City Police Department is creating a huge computer database of the movement of everyone in a vehicle in Manhattan."
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They must have got the idea from Londons 'Ring of Steel'
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
The UK Whole Truth Coalition
What is happening in Hull must be replicated all over the country in a very short period of time . There are already many localised groupings of enlightened people who can see the ‘Big Picture’ and who meet regularly to discuss how to stand up to this growing nightmare of a situation. What is being proposed here will not only complement all the good work that is currently going on, but will give the British truth movement as a whole a much sharper focus to work with. The most important thing is that whatever we do, we must not be hierarchical in our structure or thinking - if you have leaders and a pyramid command structure, you can be controlled by the Hidden Global Elite through their puppets and useful idiots … just as our MPs are. We must all do our own thing locally, backed up with support, encouragement, information and guidance from key websites such http://www.wholetruthcoalition.org/, http://www.truthforum.co.uk/ and http://www.davidicke.com/.
Certainly, it is the intention of those of us who are behind the UK Whole Truth Coalition that we simply act as an information clearing house with no control whatsoever over local groups. Where a group would like support for an event or action they are doing, then we would, using our considerable network of like-minded people, put the word out for that support and would help to co-ordinate the response, if that is helpful to the group concerned.
Local Truth Groups must spring up quickly in every city, town and community in the country. They must pursue their elected representative (MPs MEPs, MSPs, Members of the Welsh Assembly and local councillors) with the clear evidence that there is a Hidden Global Elite operating to worsen considerably the overall human condition. They must challenge and expose those senior elected representatives of our political establishment who are either actively involved with or knowingly compliant to the Hidden Global Elite. Those found with a case to answer must be brought to justice through the British courts for their treasonous and, in some cases, murderous acts.
Actual setting up of a Truth Group …
If you would like to set up a Truth Group in your area, or you have something similar already set up, please contact us at jrgwalker@aol.com and b.mckenzie@btinternet.com. Using our comprehensive network of contacts we will see if we can locate other like-minded people close to you to build up your numbers. For those starting out with just themselves or a friend and having never done anything like this before, here are just a few tips which you may find useful:
1. Have fun! The best way to get an active and effective group together is for everyone to become good friends. For your first meeting, consider hosting a small food and drinks party at your home and just have a great time getting to know each other. People who laugh and have fun show no fear … and it is the absence of fear that will turn you into an effective truth campaigner. Indeed, your positive and fearless attitude will put real fear into the guilty parties that you are seeking to expose.
2. Agree to meet at least twice a month and don’t get bogged down in formalities - take very brief minutes of the meetings to remind yourselves of the tasks that need doing but keep the meetings lighthearted with a minimum amount of formal ‘Chairing’. Find out the strengths of the people attending the meeting and encourage them all to get involved. All truthseekers have particular areas of interest - try and ensure that no one person dominates the meeting with their own area of expertise.
3. Set yourself the initial task of a basic political audit of the geographical area that you wish to cover. Check out the parliamentary constituency or constituencies in your area and who are the MPs. Find out who your MEP is and, if you are in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, who your other elected representatives are. Check out your local council to see which Party is in overall control, if any, and who are the key council officers and officials serving the councillors.
4. Using the internet, check the profile and voting behaviour of your MP. A useful resource is Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - just feed your MP’s name into a search engine and you will find the relevant page. It is a good idea that you all task yourselves with finding out as much as you can about your political representatives, and then meet up to swap notes and so build up consensus profiles that you can work with.
5. On the crucial issues already outlined above, prepare very polite letters to ask your representatives for their views. Monitor carefully their replies and please send copies to myself at jrgwalker@aol.com and b.mckenzie@btinternet.com so that we at the Whole Truth Coalition can build up an overall picture of how our MPs are reacting to the growing UK truth movement
6. Find out when your MP holds his or her surgery and go along - the ideal number is for three of you to go, two to politely ask the questions, the third to film the meeting with a camcorder. If the MP objects to being filmed and being put on record, make sure you film his or her objections - we at http://www.wholetruthcoalition.org/. will put it up on YouTube for the world to see!
7. Find out if any senior members of your MP’s political party are visiting your area - if they are, be ready to ambush them nicely with carefully prepared and polite questions, again filming this questioning for posterity. Entertaining or revealing responses will again be given a much wider airing with our help.
8. Also make contact with other similar campaigns in your area and again swap notes and so exert even more pressure on your elected representatives.
9. Contact your local newspapers and radio stations and brief them fully about your concerns. Suggest they do a feature on the grassroots truth movement spreading throughout your area and indeed the country. Take part in ‘phone-ins’ and make sure the ‘gatekeepers’ at the BBC have a hard time.
10. Thoroughly investigate organisations which would appear to be advancing the Hidden Global Elite’s agenda using stealth and deceit, especially the bogus ‘training’ charity ‘Common Purpose’ and the new ‘green’ grassroots organisation ‘Transition Towns’.
Conclusion …
We have reached a very crucial time in our battle with the Hidden Global Elite. The prison gate is starting to close with most of the inmates totally oblivious to what’s coming. The proverbial ‘Middle England’ Daily Mail readers can see a large number of the dots (people being fined for putting out their wheelie bins too early etc. etc. etc.) but very few of them, as yet, are joining the dots to see the ‘Big Picture’. The David Davis by-election fiasco has proved just how important it is that we target the ‘chosen one’, David Cameron, and so expose his future role in overseeing the final stage in taking Britain into the Orwellian nightmare of a Global Fascist Government. All politicians must now become answerable to their criminal inaction but the Conservatives, in particular, must be prevented from having a massive landslide at the next General Election - we all know what has been ‘achieved’ by the last young and charismatic Prime Minister with a huge majority! And we must also expect another massive 9/11 style ‘false flag’ attack to speed up this global agenda.
So please get involved … we have all the evidence we need, we now just have to get it out to the decent people for them to rise up in ‘lawful rebellion’ to derail this oncoming nightmare. If you need further prompting, have a look at these two short but inspirational videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVyQ1PCNlA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbk8XKcaM_Y
Israeli Military Exercise in The Golan Heights Aimed at Hezbollah
Neocons Now Love International Law
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Tel Aviv to Tbilisi: Israel's Role in the Russia-Georgia War
Spy More on Your Citizens, Councils Urged
They have been told to 'make much more use' of rules originally brought in to catch bombers, to secretly access private phone bills and e-mails.
Local authorities have already come under fire for using the powers to investigate dog fouling, littering and parents thought to live outside school catchment areas.
Under the 2004 laws, councils can also apply to use covert tactics to 'spy' on employees who are believed to be skipping work or making fraudulent overtime claims.
The latest call, by 'Interception of Communications Commissioner' Sir Paul Kennedy, comes despite the number of spying requests from councils, police and other officials to phone and internet companies jumping from 350,000 in 2006 to more than 500,000 last year
And i didnt even know we had an 'Interception of Communications Commissioner', Did you?
But i do now! And i know who he is. Watch This Space!
The Bear And The NWO
"What we are seeing from the Russians is the cold-blooded, calculated, premeditated murder of a small nation."
The Georgians attacked Russia and South Ossetia. Now this Globalist Zionist liar is trying to re-write the history of his own actions. Same old NWO head games: black is white, up is down, war is peace. And accountability is only for suckers and wimps.
On Tuesday, August 12, David Sackur of BBC Hardtalk was interviewing David Bakradze, chairman of the Georgian Parliament. None of the Georgian leaders will say WHY they invaded South Ossetia. As Hardtalk ended, Bakradze was asked if this confrontation with Russia would validate Georgia's bid to become a NATO member.
Bakradze made the clear statement "What is going on now in Georgia is a test case. This is about the Russian view of the New World Order versus the West view of the New World Order. If Russia wins it will validate the Russian view of the New World Order."
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Uproar at Plan to Hold Inquests in Secret
The provisions, under a clause in the Counter-Terrorism Bill, allow the Home Secretary to stop a jury being summoned, replace the coroner with a government appointee and bar the public from inquests if it is deemed to be in the public interest.
It could be applied to inquests similar to those into the deaths of the weapons inspector David Kelly, “friendly-fire” military casualties or Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed. In future, inquests similar to that into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, which is due to start next month with 44 police officers giving evidence anonymously, could also be subject to the secrecy clause.
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PEOPLE OF BRITAIN--IT'S YOUR 5.30AM WAKE UP CALL
Rothschild Heads to Russia on Peace Mission---Ooops I'ts Sarkozy (These Illuminati All Look The Same To Me)
Sarkozy was due to arrive in Moscow at 9:10 a.m. GMT (10:10 a.m. British time) and meet President Dmitry Medvedev before flying to Georgia on a day of intense diplomacy aimed at ending violence in a region key to international oil transit.
Use of Contractors in Iraq Costs Billions, Report Says
WASHINGTON — The United States this year will have spent $100 billion on contractors in Iraq since the invasion in 2003, a milestone that reflects the Bush administration’s unprecedented level of dependence on private firms for help in the war, according to a government report to be released Tuesday.
The report, by the Congressional Budget Office, according to people with knowledge of its contents, will say that one out of every five dollars spent on the war in Iraq has gone to contractors for the United States military and other government agencies, in a war zone where employees of private contractors now outnumber American troops.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski to be the real power behind an Obama throne
His recent call to declare Jerusalem the undivided capital of Israel, his denial of Palestinans’ right of return, and his support for a Bantustan Palestinian “state” which poses no threat to Israel show how completely he has caved in to the Zionist establishment on that issue.
As President George W Bush calls for early reductions in combat troops in Iraq, Obama’s position on Iraq -- a vow to bring troops home within 16 months, excepting a “residual force” -- looks less and less like a defining moment in his foreign policy. Whatever happens to troop levels, there is no explicit talk of overriding the plans for 14 permanent bases.
Obama is toeing the line in Afghanistan, too. As NATO casualties continue to mount, surpassing monthly Iraqi casualities as of June this year, he is proposing -- now seconded by McCain -- that the United States shift up to 15,000 more troops there from Iraq. Just prior to his trip to Afghanistan, he wrote in a New York Times Op Ed, “We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission there.” Please, will someone show me the silver lining in an Obama victory in November?
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Monday, August 11, 2008
Welcome to Nannyfornia
It was one o'clock in the morning. John Lutz had just left the Grand Palace Stadium cinema complex in the wealthy LA suburb of Calabasas and was standing next to his Mini, smoking a cigarette. As he did so, a massive SUV - the kind that does 10mpg - pulled up alongside him. The driver opened his window, leant out, and said: “Hey, buddy, you can't smoke here.” John, a staff writer for a popular American TV show, was unaware that an hour earlier, at midnight, the Calabasas Comprehensive Secondhand Smoke Control Ordinance - the most restrictive anti-smoking policy anywhere in the world-had gone into effect.
“You don't read the news?” chided the SUV driver, wagging his finger. “You can't smoke outdoors anymore. Put it out.” John paused for a second, unable to believe that his decision to smoke a Camel Light in an empty car park in the wee hours of the morning was of so much interest to a complete stranger. He exhaled slowly. He balled his fists. And then he told the driver - using language not suitable for publication in this newspaper, that no, actually, he wouldn't put it out.
Welcome everyone, to Nannyfornia: Birthplace of the Ban, Capital of the Clampdown, Mecca of the Moratorium. Or you could just call it the new Mild, Mild West.
Fury as pensioners targeted by graffiti-spraying vandals are told by council to clean up the mess themselves or face £1,000 fine
So they were astounded when local authority bureaucrats threatened them with court action and a £1,000 fine unless they cleared it up themselves.
Some of the pensioners were reduced to tears after receiving stern letters from a Bury Council official warning them they had 21 days to remove the mess.
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Dentist branded a terrorist after taking pictures of landmark shopping centre
But as he took pictures of one of the city's landmark buildings from the street outside, Dr Medina was approached by two security guards and accused of being a terrorist.
The dental surgeon told of his shock after the incident outside the imposing Mailbox development in the city centre.
The former Royal Mail sorting office is now a mix of designer shops, galleries, hotels, bars and restaurants, including the Malmaison hotel where Dr Medina was staying for the weekend with his girlfriend.
He said: 'I did what many thousands of people have done before: I walked out of the hotel and immediately, standing in the street I began to take photographs of this iconic Birmingham building, the building that myself and my girlfriend were happily paying to stay in.
'What happened next can only be described as horrible.'
He said he was confronted by two male security officers working for the Mailbox, and one of them proceeded to ask the 45-year-old dentist why he was taking photographs.
He described the demeanour of the security guard who questioned him as 'menacing' and said the other attempted to grab his camera. He was then told he was banned from entering the Mailbox.
Dr Medina, of Didsbury, South Manchester, said: 'I was then told that I must be a terrorist putting the Mailbox under surveillance
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US planes make secret landings in Kenya
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Operation Dagestan
These are death-throes desperation from BushCo and their Zionist thug partners-in-crime. Recognize it for what it is.
The US and its Zionist zhid killers and mercenary scum have also been trying to stir up shit for Russia in Dagestan as well as South Ossetia. This did not start recently - it has been going on for years.
Dagestan? What the Hell is 'Dagestan' and where is it, you ask?
Well, it has choice 'beach frontage' on the Caspian Sea. It is yet another part of Russia that the Zionist US and Zionist UK and Zionist Israel want to control.
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US War- A La Carte
Last week, Georgia launched a major military offensive against the rebel province South Ossetia , just hours after President Mikheil Saakashvili had announced a unilateral ceasefire. Close to 1,500 have been killed, Russian officials say. Thirty thousand refugees, mostly women and children, streamed across the border into the North Ossetian capital Vladikavkaz in Russia .
The timing - and subterfuge - suggest the unscrupulous Saakashvili was counting on surprise. "Most decision makers have gone for the holidays," he said in an interview with CNN. "Brilliant moment to attack a small country." Apparently he was referring to Russia invading Georgia , despite the fact that it was Georgia which had just launched a full-scale invasion of the "small country" South Ossetia, while Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was in Beijing for the Olympics. Twenty-seven Russian peacekeepers and troops have been killed and 150 wounded so far, many when their barracks were shelled by Georgian forces at the start of the invasion. Georgian State Minister for Reintegration Temur Yakobashvili rushed to announce that their mini-blitzkreig had destroyed ten Russian combat planes ( Russia says two) and that Georgian troops were in full control of the capital Tskhinvali.
War in the Caucasus: Towards a Broader Russia-US Military Confrontation?
The aerial bombardments and ground attacks were largely directed against civilian targets including residential areas, hospitals and the university. The provincial capital Tskhinvali was destroyed. The attacks resulted in some 1500 civilian deaths, according to both Russian and Western sources. "The air and artillery bombardment left the provincial capital without water, food, electricity and gas. Horrified civilians crawled out of the basements into the streets as fighting eased, looking for supplies." (AP, August 9, 2008). According to reports, some 34,000 people from South Ossetia have fled to Russia. (Deseret Morning News, Salt Lake City, August 10, 2008)
The importance and timing of this military operation must be carefully analyzed. It has far-reaching implications
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
George Soros and the Georgian Conflict
Soros installed Shevardnadze’s young protege, Mikhail Saakashvili, as the new and current President of Georgia. During the three months before the coup, Saakashvili, who was schooled and groomed in America, was glorying in lavis treatment from the Zionist led US State Department and the Jewish controlled media. And in the previous summer Soros had flown Saakashvili and his followers to a “revolution training seminar” in Belgrade Serbia.
Back in Georgia from his training by Soros in Belgrade, Saakashvili led thousands of demonstrators brandishing fresh red roses in their takeover of the President’s palace. This occurred in the freezing Georgian winter when fresh roses had to be flown in —courtesy of the Jew, George Soros, who had spent $42 million on his new Georgian puppet. No sooner had Saakashvili taken office that he vowed to bring the Russian supported South Ossetia & Abkhazia breakaway provinces back under Georgian control.
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George Soros
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
UK-Call over scope of Bill of Rights
The cross-party Joint Committee on Human Rights said a new Bill should take in new areas of international human rights, and contain a specific guarantee of the right to asylum.
It should also maintain peoples' rights to a "healthy and sustainable environment", the committee added.
But MPs and peers rejected the idea that any rights spelt out in the document could depend on individuals living up to their responsibilities. "We conclude that a Bill of Rights and Freedoms should not include directly enforceable duties," their report said.
Instead, the basic duties of a citizen to have a "civic duty" to their community, the country and future generations could be spelt out in a preamble to the Bill. It also rejected the idea that any new law could be called a "British Bill of Rights" and proposed the name "UK Bill of Rights".
We need to study this piece of proposed legislation every step of the way especially the Conservatives version and input.
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Anti-terror patrols secretly stepped up at power stations
The Mail on Sunday has learned that it will be transformed into the Critical National Infrastructure Police and mount armed patrols around all key installations nationwide, including power stations, phone and computer networks, oil and gas pipelines, ports and airports.
Secret negotiations also include taking over responsibility for protecting Government buildings and key economic targets.
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Bush And His Zionist Pals - Stupid Is As Stupid Does
I was wondering why Vladimir Putin was representing Russia at the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic Games. Within minutes, the news broke that Russia had moved an armored division into South Ossetia and Russian jets were pounding targets in Georgia.
Oops. There goes another Bush Pipedream up in smoke.
Of course, the Western Zionist media reported only the US/Zionist/CIA and Georgia side of what happened. Russia did NOT attack, Russia responded to an attack on Russian peacekeepers that killed 10 and injured more. Russia has also moved to protect Russian citizens who live in South Ossetia.
America, if you want to avert a major war you need to turn off the TV, get on the telephone and rock DC to its stupid evil core.
Call your Congressman, call both Senators and make it clear to them that YOU, AMERICA, WILL NOT TOLERATE AN ATTACK ON IRAN OR ANY MORE SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN. STAND DOWN...or get ready to pay the Zionist pipers, bigtime.
Zionist/BigOil/BushCo is desperate because it has accomplished NOTHING since 9-11 but pile up lies, debt, destroy and loot America, and commit mass genocide and war crimes.
By the stroke of a pen, Russia has taken over most of the entire Caspian Basin area's natural gas. Since I last reported on that - and Gazprom also cutting a major deal with Venezuela - Gazprom has now entered the Ireland market in force while BushCo is yet to acheive anything but one useless photo op after another, one lie after another, and one failure after another...militarily and diplomatically.
One of the reasons this new 'international' (oh, please) naval armada of FOUR US nuclear-powered carrier (floating coffin) strike forces is headed to the Persian Gulf area is supposedly a rotation of US carrier groups. The other reason is the BushCo/Big Oil/Zionists banksters intend to slap a naval embargo on Iran to try to knuckle them under to Zionist demands.
That is a MONUMENTALLY STUPID plan, so read on and I will explain why it is so.