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Saturday, February 21, 2009
Whitehall Spends £1bn Cutting Staff - Then Takes on 15,000 (the Number it Axed)
Ministers have blown almost £1billion axing an army of bureaucrats - only to rehire the same huge number.
Government departments have cut almost 15,000 civil servants in the last three years, according to figures released by Parliament.
Because of the generous redundancy packages given to Whitehall officials, the average payout was £60,000 - a total cost to the public purse of £882million.
But despite the cull of Government waste, it can be revealed that ministries are taking on almost as many staff as they have ditched.
Figures from just five departments - including the Home Office and Department of Health - show that about 5,000 permanent, temporary and agency staff have been taken on.
If this is extended across all Government departments, the number of new staff will be around 15,000.
Hundreds of civil servants have walked away with pay-offs worth tens of thousands of pounds, with some taking £100,000.
Most of those taking voluntary redundancy are high earners - sparking fears the most experienced staff are disappearing from Whitehall.
A Cabinet Office spokesman said Whitehall had made annual efficiency savings of £26.5billion.
He said: 'The civil service continues to meet the challenge of doing more with less, becoming leaner while remaining the driving force behind the excellent public service available to all.'
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Excellent public service available to all??
Don't make me laugh!
Just another excercise in lining the pockets of the criminal public sector cronies!
Government departments have cut almost 15,000 civil servants in the last three years, according to figures released by Parliament.
Because of the generous redundancy packages given to Whitehall officials, the average payout was £60,000 - a total cost to the public purse of £882million.
But despite the cull of Government waste, it can be revealed that ministries are taking on almost as many staff as they have ditched.
Figures from just five departments - including the Home Office and Department of Health - show that about 5,000 permanent, temporary and agency staff have been taken on.
If this is extended across all Government departments, the number of new staff will be around 15,000.
Hundreds of civil servants have walked away with pay-offs worth tens of thousands of pounds, with some taking £100,000.
Most of those taking voluntary redundancy are high earners - sparking fears the most experienced staff are disappearing from Whitehall.
A Cabinet Office spokesman said Whitehall had made annual efficiency savings of £26.5billion.
He said: 'The civil service continues to meet the challenge of doing more with less, becoming leaner while remaining the driving force behind the excellent public service available to all.'
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Excellent public service available to all??
Don't make me laugh!
Just another excercise in lining the pockets of the criminal public sector cronies!
Buying Some Wine? Spy Cameras Will be Watching
Big Brother CCTV cameras are to be fitted inside shops and supermarkets on the orders of the state to keep track on anybody buying alcohol.
A law is being quietly pushed through Parliament giving councils the power to order licensed premises to fit the surveillance cameras. Pubs will also be covered.
The footage of people innocently buying a bottle of wine in a shop or a pint of beer in a bar must be stored for at least 60 days, and be handed over to the police on demand.
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A law is being quietly pushed through Parliament giving councils the power to order licensed premises to fit the surveillance cameras. Pubs will also be covered.
The footage of people innocently buying a bottle of wine in a shop or a pint of beer in a bar must be stored for at least 60 days, and be handed over to the police on demand.
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Big Pharma Quietly Hikes Drug Prices 100 Percent or More
Without any fanfare, pharmaceutical companies have been raising the prices of many of their drugs by 100 percent or more, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Minnesota.
The researchers investigated cases in which drugs had their prices increased by 100 percent or more in a single cost adjustment, finding that drug companies had done so for 26 products in 2006.
Questcor Pharmaceuticals, for example, increased the price of its drug Acthar (used to treat spasms in infants) by 1,424 percent, from $1,650 per vial to a whopping $23,000.
The practice seems to be getting more common. In 2004, only 15 drugs had their prices so drastically increased. By only the first half of 2008, however, already the prices of 17 drugs had at least doubled.
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The researchers investigated cases in which drugs had their prices increased by 100 percent or more in a single cost adjustment, finding that drug companies had done so for 26 products in 2006.
Questcor Pharmaceuticals, for example, increased the price of its drug Acthar (used to treat spasms in infants) by 1,424 percent, from $1,650 per vial to a whopping $23,000.
The practice seems to be getting more common. In 2004, only 15 drugs had their prices so drastically increased. By only the first half of 2008, however, already the prices of 17 drugs had at least doubled.
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Keyes: Stop Obama or U.S. 'Will Cease to Exist'
Alan Keyes, a three-time presidential candidate, called President Obama a "radical communist" and a "usurper" and said with him in charge, America "is going to cease to exist" at a pro-life fundraiser Thursday."Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true," said Keyes who ran unsuccessfully against Obama for the Senate in 2004.
"He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist," said Keyes.
In an interview in Hastings, Neb. with a KHAS reporter at the fundraiser, Keyes called Obama an "abomination" for some of his pro-choice views."The man is an abomination," Keyes said, going on to accuse Obama of being supportive of infanticide. "That is a man with such a seared conscience, I can't even understand why anyone in their right mind would consider him worthy of political support."
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Growing List of Officials and Experts Warn of Depression-Induced Violence
The number of high-level officials and experts warning that the economic crisis could lead to revolt and revolution world-wide - even in the U.S. - is growing every day.
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From One Assault on the Constitution to Another
Now we have the Democrats, and the assault on civil liberty continues. President Obama doesn’t want to hold Bush accountable for his crimes and violations of the Constitution, because Obama wants to retain the powers that Bush asserted. Even the practice of kidnapping people and transporting them to foreign countries to be tortured has been retained by President Obama.
The civil liberties that Bush stole from us are now in Obama’s pocket.
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The civil liberties that Bush stole from us are now in Obama’s pocket.
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Government Wants School Children to "Think Like 7/7 Terrorists"
A government teaching pack, provided to secondary schools throughout the UK, has been strongly criticized for asking children as young as ten years old to imagine themselves as suicide bombers.
The teaching pack contains an exercise in which children are required to “prepare a brief presentation on the 7/7 bombings from the perspective of the bombers”.
The Well of Freedom is Running Dry
Nobody bothers about civil liberties until they've gone. As the old country song warns: "You don't miss your water till your well runs dry."
We are letting the well run dry, allowing little bits of our civil freedoms to be chipped away by paranoiac governments who assure us we can trust them – and consistently betray that trust.
We are gradually sacrificing what has taken hundreds of years of civilisation to achieve, which is a condition of some kind of liberty. It may not be evident to everyone yet, but we have lost so much freedom in the past 10 years. When the Government passed its "anti-terror" laws, it reassured those who campaigned against them that they would only ever be used in the most extreme circumstances.
But these are completely vague laws which enable a government to arrest almost anybody for almost everything.
Eurojust Supports Wire-tapping of Skype Conversations
EU's judicial cooperation agency Eurojust will take the lead in finding ways to help police and prosecutors across Europe to wiretap computer-to-computer phone conversations enabled by programs such as Skype."We will sit together with all member states to see how this can be done technically and legally," Joannes Thuy, Eurojust spokesman told this website.
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Another reason to be out of the EU! How many do you need before yo get off your arse and o something?
Latvian Government Falls
The Latvian prime minister and his government have resigned amid growing political and economic strife in the Baltic country.
Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis submitted his resignation to the president, Valdis Zatlers, on Friday (20 February) afternoon after the two largest parties in the ruling four-party coalition demanded he step down.
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Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis submitted his resignation to the president, Valdis Zatlers, on Friday (20 February) afternoon after the two largest parties in the ruling four-party coalition demanded he step down.
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Zionist Logic - Malcolm X on Zionism
The Zionist armies that now occupy Palestine claim their ancient Jewish prophets predicted that in the "last days of this world" their own God would raise them up a "messiah" who would lead them to their promised land, and they would set up their own "divine" government in this newly-gained land, this "divine" government would enable them to "rule all other nations with a rod of iron."
If the Israeli Zionists believe their present occupation of Arab Palestine is the fulfillment of predictions made by their Jewish prophets, then they also religiously believe that Israel must fulfill its "divine" mission to rule all other nations with a rod of irons, which only means a different form of iron-like rule, more firmly entrenched even, than that of the former European Colonial Powers.
These Israeli Zionists religiously believe their Jewish God has chosen them to replace the outdated European colonialism with a new form of colonialism, so well disguised that it will enable them to deceive the African masses into submitting willingly to their "divine" authority and guidance, without the African masses being aware that they are still colonized.
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If the Israeli Zionists believe their present occupation of Arab Palestine is the fulfillment of predictions made by their Jewish prophets, then they also religiously believe that Israel must fulfill its "divine" mission to rule all other nations with a rod of irons, which only means a different form of iron-like rule, more firmly entrenched even, than that of the former European Colonial Powers.
These Israeli Zionists religiously believe their Jewish God has chosen them to replace the outdated European colonialism with a new form of colonialism, so well disguised that it will enable them to deceive the African masses into submitting willingly to their "divine" authority and guidance, without the African masses being aware that they are still colonized.
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Bill Proposes ISPs, Wi-Fi Keep Logs For Police
Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations.
The Great Depression Has Arrived - Collapsing American Dreams
It almost seems amusing that we are still discussing the “coming” depression because of the fact that it is already arrived and settling in. Really, what this entire new “era” is all about is watching our dreams deteriorate right before our eyes.
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Brzezinski: ‘Hell, There Could Be Even Riots’
Brzezinski fears class warfare. Not Mika. Zbigniew. And not Barney-Frank-on-Meet-the-Press class warfare. Real, blood-in-the-streets riots.
Jimmy Carter’s former National Security Adviser expressed his concern about the possibility of riots on Morning Joe today. To stave them off, he proposes the creation of a voluntary National Solidarity Fund, whose contributors would be those who made out very well in recent times.
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Jimmy Carter’s former National Security Adviser expressed his concern about the possibility of riots on Morning Joe today. To stave them off, he proposes the creation of a voluntary National Solidarity Fund, whose contributors would be those who made out very well in recent times.
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The CIA Beyond Redemption and Should be Terminated
The Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) has confirmed the worst fears of its creator President Harry Truman that it might degenerate into “an American Gestapo.” It has been just that for so long it is beyond redemption. It represents 60 years of failure and fascism utterly at odds with the spirit of a democracy and needs to be closed, permanently.
Over the years “the Agency” as it is known, has given U.S. presidents so much wrong information on so many critical issues, broken so many laws, subverted so many elections, overthrown so many governments, funded so many dictators, and killed and tortured so many innocent human beings that the pages of its official history could be written in blood, not ink. People the world over regard it as infamous, and that evaluation, sadly for the reputation of America, is largely accurate. Besides, since President Obama has half a dozen other major intelligence agencies to rely on for guidance, why does he need the CIA? In one swoop he could lop an estimated 27,000 employees off the Federal payroll, save taxpayers umpteen billions, and wipe the CIA stain from the American flag.
If you think this is a “radical” idea, think again. What is “radical” is to empower a mob of covert operatives to roam the planet, wreaking havoc as they go with not a care for morality or, for that matter, the tenets of mercy implicit in any of the great faiths. The idea of not prosecuting CIA interrogators (i.e., torturers), as President Obama has hinted, is chilling. These crimes have to be stopped somewhere, sometime, or they will occur again.
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Over the years “the Agency” as it is known, has given U.S. presidents so much wrong information on so many critical issues, broken so many laws, subverted so many elections, overthrown so many governments, funded so many dictators, and killed and tortured so many innocent human beings that the pages of its official history could be written in blood, not ink. People the world over regard it as infamous, and that evaluation, sadly for the reputation of America, is largely accurate. Besides, since President Obama has half a dozen other major intelligence agencies to rely on for guidance, why does he need the CIA? In one swoop he could lop an estimated 27,000 employees off the Federal payroll, save taxpayers umpteen billions, and wipe the CIA stain from the American flag.
If you think this is a “radical” idea, think again. What is “radical” is to empower a mob of covert operatives to roam the planet, wreaking havoc as they go with not a care for morality or, for that matter, the tenets of mercy implicit in any of the great faiths. The idea of not prosecuting CIA interrogators (i.e., torturers), as President Obama has hinted, is chilling. These crimes have to be stopped somewhere, sometime, or they will occur again.
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Democracy = Socialism, i.e. Communism (The Perestroika Deception)
Without going into background on Trotsky in this article and the overthrow of the Tzar of Russia by the International Bankers - just know this: The Soviet Union was established by the same people who own the Federal Reserve and virtually every other central bank in the World. The Soviet Union was created to be an antithesis to capitalism (thesis). Besides making tons of money over the eventual conflict these two opposing dialectics would have on each other, they are the pro-genitive elements that would eventually lead to the preconceived "New Order" for the world. A synthesis of Capitalism and Communism, the China model if you will.Read more...
'Right to Die' Can Become a 'Duty to Die'
Imagine that you have lung cancer. It has been in remission, but tests show the cancer has returned and is likely to be terminal. Still, there is some hope. Chemotherapy could extend your life, if not save it. You ask to begin treatment. But you soon receive more devastating news. A letter from the government informs you that the cost of chemotherapy is deemed an unjustified expense for the limited extra time it would provide. However, the government is not without compassion. You are informed that whenever you are ready, it will gladly pay for your assisted suicide.
Think that's an alarmist scenario to scare you away from supporting "death with dignity"? Wrong. That is exactly what happened last year to two cancer patients in Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal.
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Think that's an alarmist scenario to scare you away from supporting "death with dignity"? Wrong. That is exactly what happened last year to two cancer patients in Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal.
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Netanyahu Warns of Iranian Nuclear Threat
Israel was set for the return to power of Binyamin Netanyahu after the Likud leader was invited to form a coalition government yesterday.
Immediately after he was invited to become the next prime minister by President Peres, Mr Netanyahu lost no time in restating his warnings about a nuclear-armed Iran, calling it the greatest existential threat faced by Israel since its creation. His words came a day after the UN announced that Tehran had acquired sufficient uranium to build a nuclear bomb — a “red line” development Israel has said it will not tolerate.
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What Netenyahu fails to mention in his scaremongering, just like the rest of the zionist mainstream media, is that whilst they may have enough uranium for a nuclear weapon that uranium is only enriched to the level that it needs for Nuclear power generation (5%), not the 95% needed to be a nuclear weapon. Mind Control!
Immediately after he was invited to become the next prime minister by President Peres, Mr Netanyahu lost no time in restating his warnings about a nuclear-armed Iran, calling it the greatest existential threat faced by Israel since its creation. His words came a day after the UN announced that Tehran had acquired sufficient uranium to build a nuclear bomb — a “red line” development Israel has said it will not tolerate.
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What Netenyahu fails to mention in his scaremongering, just like the rest of the zionist mainstream media, is that whilst they may have enough uranium for a nuclear weapon that uranium is only enriched to the level that it needs for Nuclear power generation (5%), not the 95% needed to be a nuclear weapon. Mind Control!
RBS Gets Around Promise to End Cash Bonuses
Royal Bank of Scotland is offering immediate payments to staff who are owed bonuses despite promising the Government that it would not give them cash payouts.
The Times has learnt that RBS, which is 68 per cent owned by taxpayers after a £20 billion government bailout, is offering its staff loans against the bonuses that they are owed but which have been deferred until 2010 under a deal with the Government.
RBS had lobbied hard to be allowed to pay a cash element of the bonuses and critics will see the loan scheme as a way to get around the Government’s refusal to allow it to do so. The bank, which will pay out about £1 billion of bonuses, had agreed to defer about £650 million of that after intense political criticism.
RBS employees who take up the loan offer will be entitled to upfront payments of up to 30 per cent of their bonus, spread over the next three years, with up to 12 per cent available now.
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They are proving they will do anything to stiff you the tax payer. It is so blatent, wake up and do something!
The Times has learnt that RBS, which is 68 per cent owned by taxpayers after a £20 billion government bailout, is offering its staff loans against the bonuses that they are owed but which have been deferred until 2010 under a deal with the Government.
RBS had lobbied hard to be allowed to pay a cash element of the bonuses and critics will see the loan scheme as a way to get around the Government’s refusal to allow it to do so. The bank, which will pay out about £1 billion of bonuses, had agreed to defer about £650 million of that after intense political criticism.
RBS employees who take up the loan offer will be entitled to upfront payments of up to 30 per cent of their bonus, spread over the next three years, with up to 12 per cent available now.
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They are proving they will do anything to stiff you the tax payer. It is so blatent, wake up and do something!
Friday, February 20, 2009
Pensioner Threatened With Fine For Feeding The Birds
When snow descended on the country earlier this month, Pam Todd was more determined than ever to make sure there was plenty of food available for the local birds.
The keen twitcher braved the elements to spread a few handfuls of bird seed in her back garden and on the front communal lawn outside her bungalow, as she has done for the last 20 years.
But the wildlife-loving pensioner has suddenly been told to stop her favourite pastime - or run the risk of a £2,500 fine and court conviction.
Milton Keynes Council claimed in a letter that by feeding the birds, Mrs Todd, who suffers from severe arthritis, is guilty of littering and can face punishment under 'clean neighbourhood' legislation within the Environmental Protection Act.
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The keen twitcher braved the elements to spread a few handfuls of bird seed in her back garden and on the front communal lawn outside her bungalow, as she has done for the last 20 years.
But the wildlife-loving pensioner has suddenly been told to stop her favourite pastime - or run the risk of a £2,500 fine and court conviction.
Milton Keynes Council claimed in a letter that by feeding the birds, Mrs Todd, who suffers from severe arthritis, is guilty of littering and can face punishment under 'clean neighbourhood' legislation within the Environmental Protection Act.
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On-the-spot Points for Careless Driving
Thousands more motorists will lose their licences under plans to give police the power to issue penalty points for careless driving without evidence being heard in court.
Police will be much less likely to give verbal warnings and will instead issue fixed-penalty notices for minor offences such as failing to signal, passing too close to a cyclist or not displaying lights at night.
Drivers will pay an automatic £60 fine and have three penalty points added to their licences.
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Another money making scam and plan to take more people off the roads so they can't get to non existant jobs!
Police will be much less likely to give verbal warnings and will instead issue fixed-penalty notices for minor offences such as failing to signal, passing too close to a cyclist or not displaying lights at night.
Drivers will pay an automatic £60 fine and have three penalty points added to their licences.
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Another money making scam and plan to take more people off the roads so they can't get to non existant jobs!
Schlesinger: Maximum 20% of IPCC Have Ever Had Any Dealings With Climate
Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of IPCC, a trained railway engineer
During the question and answer session of last week’s William Schlesinger/John Christy global warming debate, (alarmist) Schlesinger was asked how many members of United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were actual climate scientists. It is well known that many, if not most, of its members are not scientists at all. Its president, for example, is an economist.
This question came after Schlesinger had cited the IPCC as an authority for his position. His answer was quite telling.
First he broadened it to include not just climate scientists but also those who have had “some dealing with the climate.” His complete answer was that he thought, “something on the order of 20 percent have had some dealing with climate.”
In other words, even IPCC worshiper Schlesinger now acknowledges that 80 percent of the IPCC membership had absolutely no dealing with the climate as part of their academic studies.
This shatters so much of the alarmists’ claim, as they almost always appeal to the IPCC as their ultimate authority.
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'Absurd' Conspiracy Theories Abound in Afghanistan
Nato forces mistakenly supplied food, water and arms to Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, officials today admitted.
Containers destined for local police forces were dropped from a helicopter into a Taliban-controlled area of Zabul province.
To many in the Afghan capital, there’s an obvious explanation for the dramatic re-emergence of the Taliban — a force that seemed thoroughly dust-binned after the arrival of the world’s most powerful army seven years ago.
“Now,” as one 23-year-old Kabul shopkeeper, Qand Mohmadi, put it, “we think America is supporting both the Taliban and the Afghan government. That’s what everyone says.”
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Containers destined for local police forces were dropped from a helicopter into a Taliban-controlled area of Zabul province.
To many in the Afghan capital, there’s an obvious explanation for the dramatic re-emergence of the Taliban — a force that seemed thoroughly dust-binned after the arrival of the world’s most powerful army seven years ago.
“Now,” as one 23-year-old Kabul shopkeeper, Qand Mohmadi, put it, “we think America is supporting both the Taliban and the Afghan government. That’s what everyone says.”
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Man Pulled Over By Cops, Visited by Secret Service for Anti-Obama Sign
An Oklahoma City man was pulled over by police and later visited at home by the secret service for displaying an anti-Obama sign.
According to a report in The Oklahoman, the sign, which read “Abort Obama Not the Unborn,” was seized from motorist Chip Harrison’s car by police officers who cited it as a possible “threat against President Obama”.
A lieutenant supervisor later called Mr Harrison to inform him that the Secret Service had been contacted on the matter.
When Mr Harrison returned home he found secret service agents waiting for him.
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According to a report in The Oklahoman, the sign, which read “Abort Obama Not the Unborn,” was seized from motorist Chip Harrison’s car by police officers who cited it as a possible “threat against President Obama”.
A lieutenant supervisor later called Mr Harrison to inform him that the Secret Service had been contacted on the matter.
When Mr Harrison returned home he found secret service agents waiting for him.
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Is the U.S. Paying Off the Italian Government for Forging the Niger Documents
"Obama Confronts a Choice on Copters" read this week's New York Times. The President soon "will have to decide whether to proceed with some of the priciest aircraft in the world -- a new fleet of 28 Marine One helicopters that will each cost more than the last Air Force One....The choice confronting Mr. Obama encapsulates the tension between two imperatives of his nascent presidency, the need to meet the continuing threats of an age of terrorism and the demand for austerity in a period of economic hardship."
This is a gross misrepresentation of the choice Obama faces. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn) and others have alleged that the contract for 28 Marine One helicopters was awarded to the Italian firm Finmeccanica as a thank you for Italy's participation in the Iraq War. The evidence, however, indicates that the contract was more specifically a payoff to the Italian government for supplying the forged documents showing Saddam had obtained weapons grade uranium from Niger. President Bush famously used this fraudulent "yellowcake" intelligence to justify launching the war.
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This is a gross misrepresentation of the choice Obama faces. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn) and others have alleged that the contract for 28 Marine One helicopters was awarded to the Italian firm Finmeccanica as a thank you for Italy's participation in the Iraq War. The evidence, however, indicates that the contract was more specifically a payoff to the Italian government for supplying the forged documents showing Saddam had obtained weapons grade uranium from Niger. President Bush famously used this fraudulent "yellowcake" intelligence to justify launching the war.
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Nationalization: Code Word for Banker Takeover
It is now a mantra in the corporate media — the only way to fix the banking system is to “nationalize” the banks. “A touchy word has entered the public debate about the future of America’s economy. It’s a word that would shock the nation in normal times, but as even Republicans begin to whisper it, temporary ‘nationalization’ of troubled banks is increasingly seen as our last best hope for fixing our financial system,” declares Thomas Kelley, writing for Yahoo News.
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Phi beta Kappa and the Masonic Hierarchy
Want to see a who's-who list of the most powerful people in American history? Check out the list of members in the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. Elluminati points out in a recent blog posting that 5 out of the past 6 Presidents are either PBK initiates or sons of one (including Obama).
And yes, PBK is a very high step in the Masonic pyramid, far above the Freemies. From the Scottish Rite Journal:
(T)he very first fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa, was heavily influenced by the Craft: "A Masonic lodge had existed in Williamsburg as early as in the 1750s, and in 1773 it received a charter from the grand lodge in England…. Thomas Smith belonged to the Williamsburg lodge before joining Heath as one of the five Phi Beta Kappa founders... Nine other members of the society joined the Masonic lodge during the next year."
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And yes, PBK is a very high step in the Masonic pyramid, far above the Freemies. From the Scottish Rite Journal:
(T)he very first fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa, was heavily influenced by the Craft: "A Masonic lodge had existed in Williamsburg as early as in the 1750s, and in 1773 it received a charter from the grand lodge in England…. Thomas Smith belonged to the Williamsburg lodge before joining Heath as one of the five Phi Beta Kappa founders... Nine other members of the society joined the Masonic lodge during the next year."
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Netanyahu: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Why isn't Benjamin Netanyahu setting up a right-wing government? Why isn't he carrying out the voters' will to position the right wing in power? Why isn't he taking the opportunity that fell into his hands to form a government in tune with his doctrine?
Why is he talking about a broad coalition, knowing it would force him to compromise his principles? Because he is afraid. Now, at the moment of truth, when he has the ability to implement his ideology, he has gotten cold feet and wants to dilute his government with components that are alien to his doctrine.
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Why is he talking about a broad coalition, knowing it would force him to compromise his principles? Because he is afraid. Now, at the moment of truth, when he has the ability to implement his ideology, he has gotten cold feet and wants to dilute his government with components that are alien to his doctrine.
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Czech President Attacks EU Politics
Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president, has strongly criticised the European Union in a speech to its parliament, receiving applause from many politicians, and moving others to walk out.
Klaus, known for his euroscepticism, drew comparisons between supporters of greater EU integration and communists during the Soviet era.
The president said he rejected the "uncriticisable assumption that there is only one possible and correct future of ... deeper and deeper integration".
"Not so long ago in our part of Europe we lived in a political system that allowed no alternative and therefore no parliamentary opposition," Klaus said, referring to thecommunist regimes that fell two decades ago.
"We learned the bitter lesson that with no opposition, there is no freedom," he said.
"Here (in the European Parliament) there is only one single alternative, and those who dare think about a different option are labelled as enemies of European integration," Klaus said.
At least that man has the balls to stand up and fight for his beliefs, free from fear - What about you!!
Bailed-out Banks to Add £1.5 Trillion to Public Debt
Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB, the two banks bailed out by the Government, are to add between £1 trillion and £1.5 trillion to the public debt, the equivalent of between 70 and 100 per cent of GDP, the Office for National Statistics indicated this morning.
Britain’s public sector net debt is already a record high, hitting 47.8 per cent of GDP in January, official figures show. This is the highest level of debt recorded since the ONS started recording data in 1993.
The ONS said that it had decided to add the banks to the Government's books because "the Government has the ability to control the respective banks’ general corporate policy through the conditions associated with the agreements signed relating to recapitalisation."
However the dismal figures do not paint the whole picture, as all the liabilities of the banks are added to the public books, and only the liquid assets are taken into account. The capital assets are not included.
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Britain’s public sector net debt is already a record high, hitting 47.8 per cent of GDP in January, official figures show. This is the highest level of debt recorded since the ONS started recording data in 1993.
The ONS said that it had decided to add the banks to the Government's books because "the Government has the ability to control the respective banks’ general corporate policy through the conditions associated with the agreements signed relating to recapitalisation."
However the dismal figures do not paint the whole picture, as all the liabilities of the banks are added to the public books, and only the liquid assets are taken into account. The capital assets are not included.
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Mobile Phones: Tomorrow Will be Too Late
In spite of the dithering by the Ministry of Health and the delaying tactics of the phone operating companies, it is now becoming clear that the mobile phone is a virulent pathogen with damaging effects that we are only vaguely aware of. Recently it was scientifically proved that there is a connection between certain types of tumour and the intensive use of a mobile phone. Most in evidence are cases of acoustic neurinoma, a tumour that develops on the acoustic nerve, as well as malignant brain tumours. According to this study the risk is multiplied by two or more on the side where the phone is held.
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Operation Uptick: Obama Launches Afghan Surge
And so it begins: the great Obama "surge" in Afghanistan. Before withdrawing a single soldier from Iraq, Barack Obama is throwing 17,500 more troops into the boiling Afghan cauldron. The deployment is the first installment of what Obama aides affirm could be a much larger escalation down the road: as soon as the vaunted "strategic review" of Afghan policy – led by hawks like Joe Biden, Richard Holbrook and General David "Pre-President" Petraeus – is completed.
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
A Letter To Common Purpose by Justin Walker
To all employees of Common Purpose, please read:
My friends,
You are, I'm sure, already aware that your charity is controversial to a growing number of people. Now, it may be that you are not bothered by this and that you have been reassured by internal memos sent out by Julia Middleton and her central team, but I feel I must warn you that the Charity's inability to defend itself publicly when asked to do so by a TV channel, who very recently allowed air time to Brian Gerrish, one of your main detractors, is strange to say the least and not what you would expect from a respectable charity.
Please watch this
http://www.tpuc.org/node/538 and see for yourself the severe allegations being made against the organisation you work for.
As you will see from the emails below, I have attempted to persuade the Charity to accept their 'Right of Reply' made by the presenter of the programme. To date, I have had no reply. If Common Purpose has absolutely nothing to hide, then it should readily and enthusiastically accept this offer to restore the Charity's good name. It would be even better if Julia Middleton had the courage to debate live with Brian Gerrish and so sort out these allegations properly.
There are now millions of people in this country who know that the planned Orwellian European Union Superstate, after the full ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, is just a matter of time.....a case of 'when' not' if'.
However, there are now hundreds of thousands of ordinary decent people who know that 'Fifth Columnists' are actively weakening the UK internally and who are preparing, behind the scenes, new government structures, putting in place 'new leaders' or Quislings for when this dreadful time happens. Well, I have to tell you, the good people of this country are organising and Common Purpose, unless it publicly clears its name, will be brought to justice and account under Common Law.
Do not be surprised if you see citizen arrests of Common Purpose employees and graduates as we seek to flush out and expose the treason and criminal activities being done against our country.
Please, I urge you most earnestly, if you have absolutely nothing to hide, will you please take up this offer by Edge Media TV to clear yourselves of the accusations being made against you.
Failure to do so will mean we reserve our Common Law right to do the decent, lawful and honest thing to save our country.
With all best wishes and sincerity,
Justin WalkerCo-founder The Whole Truth Coalition www.wholetruthcoalition.org
'A Nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within' Marcus Tullius Cicero
My friends,
You are, I'm sure, already aware that your charity is controversial to a growing number of people. Now, it may be that you are not bothered by this and that you have been reassured by internal memos sent out by Julia Middleton and her central team, but I feel I must warn you that the Charity's inability to defend itself publicly when asked to do so by a TV channel, who very recently allowed air time to Brian Gerrish, one of your main detractors, is strange to say the least and not what you would expect from a respectable charity.
Please watch this
http://www.tpuc.org/node/538 and see for yourself the severe allegations being made against the organisation you work for.
As you will see from the emails below, I have attempted to persuade the Charity to accept their 'Right of Reply' made by the presenter of the programme. To date, I have had no reply. If Common Purpose has absolutely nothing to hide, then it should readily and enthusiastically accept this offer to restore the Charity's good name. It would be even better if Julia Middleton had the courage to debate live with Brian Gerrish and so sort out these allegations properly.
There are now millions of people in this country who know that the planned Orwellian European Union Superstate, after the full ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, is just a matter of time.....a case of 'when' not' if'.
However, there are now hundreds of thousands of ordinary decent people who know that 'Fifth Columnists' are actively weakening the UK internally and who are preparing, behind the scenes, new government structures, putting in place 'new leaders' or Quislings for when this dreadful time happens. Well, I have to tell you, the good people of this country are organising and Common Purpose, unless it publicly clears its name, will be brought to justice and account under Common Law.
Do not be surprised if you see citizen arrests of Common Purpose employees and graduates as we seek to flush out and expose the treason and criminal activities being done against our country.
Please, I urge you most earnestly, if you have absolutely nothing to hide, will you please take up this offer by Edge Media TV to clear yourselves of the accusations being made against you.
Failure to do so will mean we reserve our Common Law right to do the decent, lawful and honest thing to save our country.
With all best wishes and sincerity,
Justin WalkerCo-founder The Whole Truth Coalition www.wholetruthcoalition.org
'A Nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within' Marcus Tullius Cicero
Blueprint for EU Army to be Agreed
The plan, which has influential support in Germany and France, proposes to set up a "Synchronised Armed Forces Europe", or Safe, as a first step towards a true European military force.
The move comes as France, a supporter of an EU army, prepares to rejoin Nato and to take over one of the Alliance's top military posts. General Charles de Gaulle withdrew French forces in 1966.
Geoffrey Van Orden MEP, the Conservative European defence spokesman, warned that British ministers are "in denial".
He said: "They are sleepwalking towards a European army and seem to have little awareness of what is going on."
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The move comes as France, a supporter of an EU army, prepares to rejoin Nato and to take over one of the Alliance's top military posts. General Charles de Gaulle withdrew French forces in 1966.
Geoffrey Van Orden MEP, the Conservative European defence spokesman, warned that British ministers are "in denial".
He said: "They are sleepwalking towards a European army and seem to have little awareness of what is going on."
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Zionist Stooge Miliband 'Fears Over Palestine'
Following the recent Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Mr Miliband is said to have grown increasingly pessimistic about the prospect of securing a two-state solution to the crisis and the establishment of a viable Palestinian state.
Mr Miliband was asked whether he agreed with those who saw parallels between the Palestinians living in Gaza and the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto. He said: ``That's not just disproportionate, it's wrong.
"The Holocaust was a unique historical event. It was the attempt to wipe out an entire race. You don't need to compare it to the Holocaust to dramatise or engage with what happened in Gaza; 1,200 people lost their lives.''
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So the Israeli War Criminals aren't trying to wipe the Palestinian People off the map?
Miliband is just another 'Labour Friend of Israel' who licks the arse of his zionist masters.
Mr Miliband was asked whether he agreed with those who saw parallels between the Palestinians living in Gaza and the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto. He said: ``That's not just disproportionate, it's wrong.
"The Holocaust was a unique historical event. It was the attempt to wipe out an entire race. You don't need to compare it to the Holocaust to dramatise or engage with what happened in Gaza; 1,200 people lost their lives.''
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So the Israeli War Criminals aren't trying to wipe the Palestinian People off the map?
Miliband is just another 'Labour Friend of Israel' who licks the arse of his zionist masters.
Jacqui the Nazi to Face Inquiry Over Expenses
The Home Secretary was put under increasing pressure yesterday when an investigation began into claims that she is misusing her parliamentary housing allowance.
Jacqui Smith has been criticised for designating her sister's house in London as her “main home”, allowing her to claim more than £20,000 a year for her “second home”. She has claimed at least £116,000 in second-home allowances for her constituency home in Redditch, Worcestershire, where her family live.
John Lyon, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, said yesterday that he had accepted a complaint involving information from Ms Smith's London neighbours, who contacted David Cameron's office. Last week Mr Lyon turned down two earlier requests.
The decision to look into Ms Smith's housing arrangements follow allegations by a couple who live in the same street, Dominic Taplin, a businessman who used to be co-owner of the London nightclubs Abigail's Party and Legends, and his wife Jessica, a manager for a charity. They live four doors from Ms Smith and say that she is often there for as few as two nights a week and spends little time there during the long parliamentary recesses.
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Jacqui Smith has been criticised for designating her sister's house in London as her “main home”, allowing her to claim more than £20,000 a year for her “second home”. She has claimed at least £116,000 in second-home allowances for her constituency home in Redditch, Worcestershire, where her family live.
John Lyon, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, said yesterday that he had accepted a complaint involving information from Ms Smith's London neighbours, who contacted David Cameron's office. Last week Mr Lyon turned down two earlier requests.
The decision to look into Ms Smith's housing arrangements follow allegations by a couple who live in the same street, Dominic Taplin, a businessman who used to be co-owner of the London nightclubs Abigail's Party and Legends, and his wife Jessica, a manager for a charity. They live four doors from Ms Smith and say that she is often there for as few as two nights a week and spends little time there during the long parliamentary recesses.
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Cover Up At Pakistan's US Drone Base
2006: Now you see them
2008: Now you don't The US was secretly flying unmanned drones from the Shamsi airbase in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan as early as 2006, according to an image of the base from Google Earth.
The image — that is no longer on the site but which was obtained by The News, Pakistan's English language daily newspaper — shows what appear to be three Predator drones outside a hangar at the end of the runway. The Times also obtained a copy of the image, whose co-ordinates confirm that it is the Shamsi airfield, also known as Bandari, about 200 miles southwest of the Pakistani city of Quetta.
An investigation by The Times yesterday revealed that the CIA was secretly using Shamsi to launch the Predator drones that observe and attack al-Qaeda and Taleban militants around Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.
Colleges Told to Monitor Students' Web Use
Lecturers have criticised government anti-extremism guidance that says colleges must monitor what staff and students look at on the internet and report it to the police if necessary.
The University and Colleges Union said that it could lead to the arrest of innocent people carrying out genuine academic research.
Last year Rizwaan Sabir, 22, a student at the University of Nottingham, was arrested and detained for six days after downloading an al-Qaeda handbook and sending it to a member of staff in connection with his dissertation on terrorism.
A spokesman for the union said: “The last thing we need is people too frightened to discuss an issue or research a subject because they fear being arrested or institutions panicking and calling in the authorities.”
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The University and Colleges Union said that it could lead to the arrest of innocent people carrying out genuine academic research.
Last year Rizwaan Sabir, 22, a student at the University of Nottingham, was arrested and detained for six days after downloading an al-Qaeda handbook and sending it to a member of staff in connection with his dissertation on terrorism.
A spokesman for the union said: “The last thing we need is people too frightened to discuss an issue or research a subject because they fear being arrested or institutions panicking and calling in the authorities.”
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Tessa Jowell Should Be Charged With Money Laundering
David Mills has been given a jail sentence in Italy for corruption, though sadly he will probably escape jail as the rich and well connected normally do.Tessa Jowell actively participated in the laundering of the corrupt payments from Silvio Berlusconi, given to her husband David Mills in return for false testimony in court to cover up some of Berlusconi's endless crooked dealings. Tessa Jowell participated as a full partner in the three time remortgaging of her home, paying off the mortgage with cash and then remortgaging. She has stated that there was "Nothing unusual" in this.
Most people would think it was very unusual to be able to pay off a large mortgage with cash at all. To do it twice and remortgage again each time would strike most of us as very weird indeed.
Which illustrates the gap between the hierarchy of "New Labour" and the "Hard working families" who are Gordon Brown's favourite soundbite. This is illustrated by Mills' description of £500,000 as "not very much". http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/17/david-mills-berlusconi-trial-letterThis is of a piece with Jacqui Smith's ripping off the taxpayer of £150,000 by pretending her sister's home is her main residence, then wondering what the fuss is about. That would be ten year's salary for the British soldier killed today in Afghanistan.
Nobody who reads Mills' letter to his accountant (above link) can doubt that he is a crook. This particular Berlusconi deal was just one part of his bent practice, which included the financial arrangements for organised crime in Italy to sell on infected and condemned human blood from the USA into transfusion services in Europe. Tessa Jowell lived off these criminal earnings for decades and actively participated in laundering the cash.
Either Jowell did not notice she was living with a major criminal - in which case she is far too stupid to be a minister - or she was complicit - in which case she is far too corrupt to be a minister.
No ifs or buts are possible.
Only when Mills was exposed to the media did Jowell abandon her husband - sacrificing her marriage for her political career. If she had remained loyal to him it would have at least been some slight saving grace. In fact the woman is a total disgrace.
Craig Murray
Ashcroft: Obama, Bush Detainee Policies Exactly The Same
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has said that the Obama administration’s policies concerning the ‘war on terror’ represent a direct and unwavering continuation of the Bush administration’s approach.
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British Scientists Condemn Using Children in GM Food Trials as Unacceptable
Children have been used as 'lab rats' in GM rice trials that were carried out in breach of ethics rules drawn up in response to the medical crimes of Nazi Germany, it is claimed.
A group of 22 scientists are condemning a controversial trial involving feeding GM rice to children in China and the US. (photo: The Daily Mail)
Youngsters aged 6-10 were fed so-called Golden Rice, which has been modified to contain enhanced levels of beta carotene or vitamin A.
The rice is being developed to combat Vitamin A deficiency, which is linked to damage to the sight, poor brain development and immune system failure.
However high consumption can also have harmful toxic effects and cause birth defects.
Critics are furious that the GM rice was not put through animal feeding trials to ensure it was safe before being given to children.
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A group of 22 scientists are condemning a controversial trial involving feeding GM rice to children in China and the US. (photo: The Daily Mail)
Youngsters aged 6-10 were fed so-called Golden Rice, which has been modified to contain enhanced levels of beta carotene or vitamin A.
The rice is being developed to combat Vitamin A deficiency, which is linked to damage to the sight, poor brain development and immune system failure.
However high consumption can also have harmful toxic effects and cause birth defects.
Critics are furious that the GM rice was not put through animal feeding trials to ensure it was safe before being given to children.
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Twenty per cent of Caliornia's Public Workers to be Fired
The state of California was yesterday set to fire 20,000 public employees as it teetered on the brink of a total financial collapse.
The crisis in the Golden State, home to 37 million people and a $1.8 trillion economy, is now so intense that anyone who overpaid their 2008 taxes will receive an IOU instead of a refund cheque.
Meanwhile, all public works projects are being cancelled, schools are facing closure, the Department of Motor Vehicles has shuttered many of its offices and the state’s bonds are almost unsaleable on Wall Street, which has in turn pushed up the cost of borrowing, forcing the state into the kind of death-spiral that has laid waste to many businesses over recent months.
“We are dealing with a catastrophe of unbelievable proportions,” said the state Senator Alan Lowenthal, a Democrat, and chairman of the Senate transportation committee.
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Now who's the Economic Girlie Man eh Arnie?
The crisis in the Golden State, home to 37 million people and a $1.8 trillion economy, is now so intense that anyone who overpaid their 2008 taxes will receive an IOU instead of a refund cheque.
Meanwhile, all public works projects are being cancelled, schools are facing closure, the Department of Motor Vehicles has shuttered many of its offices and the state’s bonds are almost unsaleable on Wall Street, which has in turn pushed up the cost of borrowing, forcing the state into the kind of death-spiral that has laid waste to many businesses over recent months.
“We are dealing with a catastrophe of unbelievable proportions,” said the state Senator Alan Lowenthal, a Democrat, and chairman of the Senate transportation committee.
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Now who's the Economic Girlie Man eh Arnie?
Conquering The Abyss
There has always been this millennial battle between humanity's Quest for a better life and the temptations that Conquest seems to offer those that seek secret powers, in the mailed fist of Empire.
We are not even ten years into the Twenty-first Century, and already what remains of the world is racing back to barbarism at light speed: This is the price we shall continue to pay, if we allow puppets to dictate our values and our way of life, for just 'A Few Dollars More.'
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We are not even ten years into the Twenty-first Century, and already what remains of the world is racing back to barbarism at light speed: This is the price we shall continue to pay, if we allow puppets to dictate our values and our way of life, for just 'A Few Dollars More.'
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Israeli Tanks Enter Gaza City
Israeli tanks backed by helicopters have crossed the border with the Gaza Strip, triggering clashes in Gaza City. Witnesses told AFP that the military forces entered Gaza City early Thursday with Palestinian fighters exchanging fire with them. The military forces however left the strip after the fighters fired antitank rockets at them. No casualties have been reported in the attack. There was no comment by the Israeli military on the incident.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Now Manufacturing Companies Want a Bail Out
Emergency funding should be extended to manufacturing firms if the Government is serious about helping the "real economy", a new report urged today.
The Work Foundation said that because the strength of the UK's financial services sector was now in question, manufacturing represented one of the best chances for an economic upturn.
Companies should be given the same access to funds as the support announced for financial services, it was argued.
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Not a chance. If they are uncompetative they can go to the wall like they have always done!
More tax payers money for greedy businessmen NO WAY!!!
The Work Foundation said that because the strength of the UK's financial services sector was now in question, manufacturing represented one of the best chances for an economic upturn.
Companies should be given the same access to funds as the support announced for financial services, it was argued.
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Not a chance. If they are uncompetative they can go to the wall like they have always done!
More tax payers money for greedy businessmen NO WAY!!!
Abe Foxman's 'Anti-Semitic Pandemic'
If there were a Nobel Prize for Hypocrisy, Abraham Foxman would have been a great candidate. The director of the Anti-Defamation League, who once interpreted even International Holocaust Remembrance Day as an expression of the Gentiles' latent desire to see Jews dead, has published a new survey on anti-Semitism in Europe [.pdf].
One of the assertions respondents were asked to agree or disagree with was "Jews are more loyal to Israel than to this country"; an affirmative response was considered indicative of anti-Semitism.
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You just couldn't make it up!!!
One of the assertions respondents were asked to agree or disagree with was "Jews are more loyal to Israel than to this country"; an affirmative response was considered indicative of anti-Semitism.
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You just couldn't make it up!!!
EU Foiled in Bid to Force France, Greece to Allow GM Crop
The European Commission was foiled Monday in its bid to force France and Greece to allow genetically modified maize from US biotech giant Monsanto to be grown in their fields.Food chain experts from the EU member states, meeting in Brussels, could not reach agreement on whether to back or oppose the French and Greek refusal to allow the maize, which has been given the green light to be grown in Europe.
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Anti Defamation League Calls 'Smash-Me Bernie' Figurine Anti-Semitic
No sooner than a toy manufacturer introduced its 'Smash-Me Bernie' Madoff Doll at a toy fair in New York this week did the ADL's Abraham Foxman spring into action.
The ADL just issued this press release. The smashing of Jewish figurines is anti-Semitic regardless of how heinous the figurines underlying crime happens to be.
If figurine hate is allowed to stand the next thing you know the toy hate industry will be introducing 'Smash-Me Ehud', 'Smash-Me Bibi', and Smash-Me Ariel dolls. This is just unacceptable. What's next Gas-Me Dershowitz and Foxman dolls?
Congress is expected to unanimously vote in favor of Aipac sponsored toy hate crime legislation later this morning.
Liberal White Boy
The ADL just issued this press release. The smashing of Jewish figurines is anti-Semitic regardless of how heinous the figurines underlying crime happens to be.
If figurine hate is allowed to stand the next thing you know the toy hate industry will be introducing 'Smash-Me Ehud', 'Smash-Me Bibi', and Smash-Me Ariel dolls. This is just unacceptable. What's next Gas-Me Dershowitz and Foxman dolls?
Congress is expected to unanimously vote in favor of Aipac sponsored toy hate crime legislation later this morning.
Liberal White Boy
Homeless Families Face Strict New Rules
Less than two years after vowing to end homelessness in Massachusetts, the Patrick administration has proposed new regulations that it acknowledges could force hundreds of homeless families back on the street.The regulations, scheduled to take effect April 1, would deny shelter to families who in the last three years had been evicted from or had abandoned public or subsidized housing without good cause, and to those who fail to meet a new 30-hour per week work requirement and save 30 percent of their income.
They also would reduce from six months to three months the period families can remain in shelters after their incomes rise above state limits; force out families absent from shelters for at least two consecutive nights as well as those who reject one offer of housing without good reason; and deny benefits for families whose members have outstanding default or arrest warrants as well as those whose only child is between ages 18 and 21, unless the child has a disability or is in high school.
Advocates for the homeless decried the proposal, which comes at a time when more homeless families are seeking beds in state shelters and remaining there longer. This month, the state is providing shelter for a record of nearly 2,700 families - one-quarter of them cramming for weeks at a time in expensive, often unsuitable motel rooms.
We Are All Extremists Now
For most of the past century, Britain's secret state bugged, blacklisted and spied on leftists, trade unionists and peace campaigners, as well as Irish republicans and anyone else regarded as a "subversive" threat to the established order.
That was all supposed to have been brought to a halt in the wake of the end of the cold war in the early 1990s. MI5 now boasts it has ended its counter-subversion work altogether, having other jihadist fish to fry (it will have soon doubled its staffing and budget on the back of the 9/11 backlash).
Whether those claims should be taken at face value must be open to question. But it now turns out that other arms of the secret state have in any case been stepping up to the plate to fill the gap in the market.
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That was all supposed to have been brought to a halt in the wake of the end of the cold war in the early 1990s. MI5 now boasts it has ended its counter-subversion work altogether, having other jihadist fish to fry (it will have soon doubled its staffing and budget on the back of the 9/11 backlash).
Whether those claims should be taken at face value must be open to question. But it now turns out that other arms of the secret state have in any case been stepping up to the plate to fill the gap in the market.
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Is Israel Assassinating Iran's Nuclear Scientists?
Israel is assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists as part of a covert war against the Islamic Republic's illicit weapons program, the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday quoted Western intelligence analysts as saying.
The British daily said Israel's Mossad espionage agency was rumored to be behind the death of Ardeshire Hassanpour, a top nuclear scientist at Iran's Isfahan uranium plant, who died in mysterious circumstances from reported "gas poisoning" in 2007.
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The British daily said Israel's Mossad espionage agency was rumored to be behind the death of Ardeshire Hassanpour, a top nuclear scientist at Iran's Isfahan uranium plant, who died in mysterious circumstances from reported "gas poisoning" in 2007.
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Whitehall Devised Torture Policy For Terror Detainees
A policy governing the interrogation of terrorism suspects in Pakistan that led to British citizens and residents being tortured was devised by MI5 lawyers and figures in government, according to evidence heard in court.A number of British terrorism suspects who have been detained without trial in Pakistan say they were tortured by Pakistani intelligence agents before being questioned by MI5. In some cases their accusations are supported by medical evidence.
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Can Geo-engineering Rebuild the Planet?
In the 1960s, two Russian scientists set out ambitious plans to reshape the world around us: to reverse the flow of rivers, shoot tiny white particles into space to illuminate the night sky, and melt the Arctic to water fields of Soviet wheat. "If we want to improve our planet and make it more suitable for life," wrote NP Rusin and L Flit, "we must alter its climate."
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Redundant UK Bankers to be Offered Government Jobs
Bankers who lost their jobs in the credit crunch are to be offered work in the Treasury as Alistair Darling beefs up his department to try to keep pace with the financial crisis.
The chancellor is looking to hire up to 70 people, with a focus on sharpening up the Treasury’s dealings with the Square Mile. He is expecting a flood of applications from former bankers.
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The foxes guarding the henhouse!
The chancellor is looking to hire up to 70 people, with a focus on sharpening up the Treasury’s dealings with the Square Mile. He is expecting a flood of applications from former bankers.
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The foxes guarding the henhouse!
Holocaust Fundamentalism and the War on Dissent
An international court battle involving government-imposed restrictions on political expression has ensnared two right-leaning British intellectuals.Writers Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle stand convicted of violating modern British laws against "stirring up racial and religious hatred" for publishing, among other things, an allegedly anti-Semitic comic book called "Tales of the Holohoax" as well as a nativist-British pamphlet called "Don't Be Sheeple".
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Father-of-three Jailed After Confronting Drug Dealer Who Sold Heroin to His Family
When father-of-three Peter Drummond discovered that a drug dealer had sold heroin to a member of his family he decided to take matters into his own hands.
He stormed into pusher John Nellies' home and confronted him - before flushing the dealer's heroin down the toilet.
But yesterday it was Drummond - not Nellies - who found himself in court.
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He stormed into pusher John Nellies' home and confronted him - before flushing the dealer's heroin down the toilet.
But yesterday it was Drummond - not Nellies - who found himself in court.
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Is Political Correctness Really Just Mind Control
What have the Viet Cong, Khmer Rouge and the British Army got in common? They are all very hot on “re-education”, brainwashing and thought control. It is incredible, but there it is – now it’s Prince Harry’s turn to go on an “Equality and Diversity Awareness” training course put on by the Ministry of Defence. What a load of pure, unadulterated garbage.
But apart from the sheer anger all this causes with ordinary people – and it does – what a waste of money! The question I am asked, time and time again is – where does all this political correctness come from and how did we allow it to seep into every aspect of our lives? Particularly when “1984” and “Brave New World” are there to warn us all about the control freaks.
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But apart from the sheer anger all this causes with ordinary people – and it does – what a waste of money! The question I am asked, time and time again is – where does all this political correctness come from and how did we allow it to seep into every aspect of our lives? Particularly when “1984” and “Brave New World” are there to warn us all about the control freaks.
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Blair Wins $1 Million Dollar Israeli Leadership Prize
The Middle East peace envoy will receive the Dan David Prize for "his exceptional leadership and steadfast determination in helping to engineer agreements and forge lasting solutions to areas in conflict".The award is presented by the Dan David Foundation, which is based at Tel Aviv University. Previous recipients include former US presidential candidate and environmental campaigner Al Gore and playwright Tom Stoppard.
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Payment for services rendered or a downpayment on when he becomes President of Europe? You decide!
Spy Chief: We Risk a Police State
Dame Stella accused ministers of interfering with people’s privacy and playing straight into the hands of terrorists.
“Since I have retired I feel more at liberty to be against certain decisions of the Government, especially the attempt to pass laws which interfere with people’s privacy,” Dame Stella said in an interview with a Spanish newspaper.
“It would be better that the Government recognised that there are risks, rather than frightening people in order to be able to pass laws which restrict civil liberties, precisely one of the objects of terrorism: that we live in fear and under a police state,” she said.
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“Since I have retired I feel more at liberty to be against certain decisions of the Government, especially the attempt to pass laws which interfere with people’s privacy,” Dame Stella said in an interview with a Spanish newspaper.
“It would be better that the Government recognised that there are risks, rather than frightening people in order to be able to pass laws which restrict civil liberties, precisely one of the objects of terrorism: that we live in fear and under a police state,” she said.
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We Are a Nation of Junkies Hooked on Media-Fabricated Outrage
I'm not sure if it's because we're strung out on "Lost" episodes, or if it's because we're still suffering from a post-9/11 stress disorder that makes us crave "breaking news" alerts, or if it's because the economy has turned us into distraction junkies. But one thing is painfully obvious after Michael Phelps' marijuana "scandal" erupted last week: Our society is addicted to fake outrage -- and to break our dependence, we're going to need far more potent medicine than the herb Phelps was smoking.
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Resolutions to Affirm State Sovereignty May be Prelude to Secession
Nine state legislatures have either passed or introduced bills intended to reaffirm their state's sovereignty as laid out in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the Constitution. Another twenty states are expected to introduce similar measures this year. While the ramifications of these resolutions are still uncertain, one thing is clear. People are sick and tired of the federal government's usurpation of power not granted to it by the Constitution. They have had enough of fear based economic terrorism and underhanded promotion of policies and procedures that bypass public scrutiny and the will of the people.
Fast Food Companies Creating Thousands of Jobs in Britain
"Does one want to go large with ones chicken royale meal?"Bad News From America’s Top Spy
We have a remarkable ability to create our own monsters. A few decades of meddling in the Middle East with our Israeli doppelgänger and we get Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaida, the Iraqi resistance movement and a resurgent Taliban.
Now we trash the world economy and destroy the ecosystem and sit back to watch our handiwork. Hints of our brave new world seeped out Thursday when Washington’s new director of national intelligence, retired Adm. Dennis Blair, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
He warned that the deepening economic crisis posed perhaps our gravest threat to stability and national security. It could trigger, he said, a return to the “violent extremism” of the 1920s and 1930s.
Israel Gives Green Light For Major Expansion of West Bank Settlements
Some 1,700 dunams of land in the northern part of Efrat were declared state land last week, paving the way for the West Bank settlement to start the process of seeking government approval to build there.The Civil Administration issued the declaration after rejecting eight appeals by Palestinians against the move. A ninth appeal was accepted, and the land covered by this appeal was consequently removed from Efrat's jurisdiction.
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Vaccination Liberation
All states allow a medical exemption and some states allow philosophical and/or religious exemptions.However, the American Medical Association and ChildrensHealthCare.org are actively promoting the abolishment of religious and philosophical exemptions.
Likewise, other corporate fanatics are also challenging informed consent.
Information and Vaccine Exemption Forms Here...
Eastern Europe is About to Blow
Eastern Europe is about to blow. If it does, it could take much of the EU with it. It's an emergency situation but there are no easy solutions. The IMF doesn't have the resources for a bailout of this size and the recession is spreading faster than relief efforts can be organized. Finance ministers and central bankers are running in circles trying to put out one fire after another. Its only a matter of time before they are overtaken by events. If one country is allowed to default, the dominoes could begin to tumble through the whole region. This could trigger dramatic changes in the political landscape.
The rise of fascism is no longer out of the question.
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The rise of fascism is no longer out of the question.
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Gaza war: A Project to Test Israeli Radars
The defense officials, who were speaking on condition of anonymity, revealed that Israel launched Operation Cast Lead to gather data for the development of the 'Iron Dome' system which is currently under construction, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. They said that Tel Aviv sent its weapon-development teams to gather information about rockets fired into Israeli towns from the Gaza Strip.
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This just goes to show the nazi characteristics of The Zionist israeli war criminals!
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This just goes to show the nazi characteristics of The Zionist israeli war criminals!
Why Can't We Take Pictures of Policemen?
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Andrew Carter, a plumber from Bedminster, near Bristol, took a photograph of an officer who had ignored a no-entry road sign while driving a police van. This might have appeared a somewhat petulant thing to do, but taking a photograph in a public place is not a crime. Yet the policeman smashed the camera from Mr Carter's hand, handcuffed him, put him in the back of the van and took him to the police station, where he was kept for five hours. When he returned to answer bail the following week, he was kept at the station for another five hours. He was released without charge, despite an attempt by the police to claim some spurious offence of "assault with a camera".Read more...
Monday, February 16, 2009
David Miliband's 'Deceit' Over Guantanamo Bay Torture Claims
David Miliband was yesterday accused of an 'outrageous deception' after it emerged that his department engineered a threat from the U.S. which helped suppress torture allegations that might embarrass the British government.
The Foreign Office asked the U.S. State Department to write a letter which claimed that Britain's national security would be at risk if details about the alleged torture of a British resident at Guantanamo Bay became public.
The letter played a key role in the High Court's decision to prevent the publication of documents about Binyam Mohamed's alleged ordeal.
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The Foreign Office asked the U.S. State Department to write a letter which claimed that Britain's national security would be at risk if details about the alleged torture of a British resident at Guantanamo Bay became public.
The letter played a key role in the High Court's decision to prevent the publication of documents about Binyam Mohamed's alleged ordeal.
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The Howdy Doody President
I’m sure there are some readers who feel that I accentuate the negative over the positive in my postings here. My answer would be, “Do you want me to lie to you?” I’m not trying to get you to sleep with me. A lot of you can accomplish that without my help. Sometimes I feel like I’m in one of those zombie movies that I don’t watch because I am too busy avoiding the zombies in the street. Some things are very clear to me and they are clear to others as well. This gives me a confirmation about what I am seeing. I cannot understand why so many more people cannot see what is happening. I have to assume that it is because they are seeing what they want to see because
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September 11th, 2008-America's Economic 9/11?
In an admission stunning for its frankness (and particularly given the fact it originated with a politician whose country is held prisoner by foreign, criminal interests) Rep. Paul Kanjorski, (D, Penn) Chairman of the House’s Capitol Markets Subcommittee recently admitted on C-SPAN that the current economic problems faced by–not just the United States, but indeed the entire world–were the result of an “electronic run on the bank” that resulted in the hemorrhaging of $550 billion dollars in just “an hour or 2”.
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Comment By Michael Rivero of Whatreallyhappened.com
Here is the damning factor; those withdrawals all had to go someplace. The money transfer system has to know who issued the orders for those withdrawals and who wound up with that money.
Why is nobody saying who it is?
I think we can assume that had it been Iran or any other Arab nation that it would be headline news.
But our government does know who did this.
And their failure to respond to such an obvious attack says a great deal about who the attacker was.
And I will go you one more. In what must be the biggest betrayal of the American people ever, surpassing that of the cover-up of the USS Liberty and 9-11, our government decided that all the hardships we have suffered, the loss of jobs, the loss of homes, the flood of bankruptcies, the pouring of thousands of dollars in tax debt onto every American, ALL THAT WE HAVE SUFFERED FOR THE LAST FOUR MONTHS AND WILL SUFFER FOR MONTHS TO COME, was preferable to embarrassing the parties responsible for this new 9-11.
Treason is defined as giving aid to an enemy in time of war.The entire US Government and the corporate media concealed this attack from the American people, deciding that it was better for the people to be impoverished, rather than embarrass the nation that attacked us.
By any definition of the word, the Government and the media have committed the highest possible treason against the people of the United States.
Now Even The UN and World Bank Wants to Sink its Nose in the Bailout Trough
The UN and the World Bank are lobbying for a portion of the billions of dollars allocated to bailing out the West's banking systems to be diverted to prevent 400 million people sinking into poverty across Asia in the wake of the global economic crisis.
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MPs Fiddle While Parliamentary Democracy Burns
At the very least, you might expect Labour MPs to pay attention while they strip this country of its freedoms. But apparently we have gone beyond that stage. Of the eight or nine Labour members on the select committee discussing the Coroners and Justice Bill, three were using the opportunity to go through their correspondence.
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New Fight to Stop Mass Fluoridation
Opponents of the mass fluoridation of water will next week try to stop a government drive to add the chemical to supplies used by millions of people in England and Wales.The verdict on a small scheme covering 200,000 people in Southampton and southwest Hampshire will help shape public attitudes to far bigger proposals countrywide, and the South Central Strategic Health Authority's decision could potentially make ministers rethink plans to implement fluoridation. Authorities in northwest England are among those next in line to bring forward proposals.
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And it has been found that Fluoride targets, and where the largest deposits are found in the human body, is in the Pineal Gland.
Another attempt to keep your vibration low and keep you spiritually dumbed down!!!
Author Pratchett Blames His Alzheimer's on Mercury Fillings
Terry Pratchett has reopened the controversy about the safety of mercury-based tooth fillings by blaming them for his Alzheimer's disease.
The author of the Discworld series describes the fillings - which millions of Britons have - as "toxic waste".
"Having something like mercury in your mouth seemed to me to be a really bad idea and I got rid of the stuff," said Pratchett.
Dental amalgam fillings, which contain 50% mercury, are under renewed scrutiny, although there is no hard evidence to support his beliefs. More than three million were inserted last year in the UK. Sweden last month banned all mercury products, including fillings, and Norway and Denmark have done the same.
Campaigners including Dr Jenny Goodman, a London doctor who practises nutritional and environmental medicine, have linked the fillings to MS, chronic fatigue syndrome and gut problems. But the Department of Health said fillings containing mercury are not harmful, except for the small number of people who are allergic. However, it still recommends pregnant women to avoid having any inserted or removed.
Peter Ward of the British Dental Association said the safety of mercury fillings had been subjected to numerous reviews and none had found evidence that they increase the risk of developing serious illnesses.
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Maybe Peter Ward should read the FDA's admission in the US where they admit mercury fillings have a neurotoxic effect on children and pregnant women.
"Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetuses," reads a statement that has been added to the agency's Web site. "Pregnant women and persons who may have a health condition that makes them more sensitive to mercury exposure, including individuals with existing high levels of mercury bioburden, should not avoid seeking dental care, but should discuss options with their health practitioner."
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The author of the Discworld series describes the fillings - which millions of Britons have - as "toxic waste".
"Having something like mercury in your mouth seemed to me to be a really bad idea and I got rid of the stuff," said Pratchett.
Dental amalgam fillings, which contain 50% mercury, are under renewed scrutiny, although there is no hard evidence to support his beliefs. More than three million were inserted last year in the UK. Sweden last month banned all mercury products, including fillings, and Norway and Denmark have done the same.
Campaigners including Dr Jenny Goodman, a London doctor who practises nutritional and environmental medicine, have linked the fillings to MS, chronic fatigue syndrome and gut problems. But the Department of Health said fillings containing mercury are not harmful, except for the small number of people who are allergic. However, it still recommends pregnant women to avoid having any inserted or removed.
Peter Ward of the British Dental Association said the safety of mercury fillings had been subjected to numerous reviews and none had found evidence that they increase the risk of developing serious illnesses.
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Maybe Peter Ward should read the FDA's admission in the US where they admit mercury fillings have a neurotoxic effect on children and pregnant women.
"Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetuses," reads a statement that has been added to the agency's Web site. "Pregnant women and persons who may have a health condition that makes them more sensitive to mercury exposure, including individuals with existing high levels of mercury bioburden, should not avoid seeking dental care, but should discuss options with their health practitioner."
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Egypt Seizes Aid Supplies for Gaza
Egyptian police on Thursday seized 2,200 tons of food and medical aid destined for the region, AFP reported.
Two members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hossam al-Shurbagi and Kamel al-Shaarawi, were also arrested, accused of 'illegally' storing the food in three warehouses, a security official said. Shurbagi said the aid was being stored pending the reopening of the Rafah border crossing.
"No humanitarian, media or medical delegations will be allowed through, nor will medical aid deliveries be permitted," an Egyptian border official had told AFP.
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Two members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hossam al-Shurbagi and Kamel al-Shaarawi, were also arrested, accused of 'illegally' storing the food in three warehouses, a security official said. Shurbagi said the aid was being stored pending the reopening of the Rafah border crossing.
"No humanitarian, media or medical delegations will be allowed through, nor will medical aid deliveries be permitted," an Egyptian border official had told AFP.
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The Nightmare in Somalia
U.S.-BACKED Ethiopian troops withdrew from their remaining positions in Somalia at the end of January, bringing an end to a two-year occupation carried out in the guise of the "war on terror."The Ethiopian Army invaded Somalia in December 2006, overthrowing the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) government and installing the Transitional Federal Government (TFG). Two years later, approximately 10,000 people have lost their lives, and 1.1 million Somalis were turned into refugees, the victims of Ethiopian occupiers and an ongoing civil war.
Police: Israel's Kingmaker Corrupt to Bone
"The police source said there was no doubt about money laundering," Dep.-Cmdr. (ret.) Boaz Guttman, a former National Fraud Unit investigator quoted a senior police source as saying The Jerusalem Post, reported. "But he refused to talk about bribery."
Lieberman, the leader of Yisrael Beiteinu party, is under investigation over using Cypriot bank accounts for money laundering. He is also suspected of involvement in fraud and bribery.
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Lieberman, the leader of Yisrael Beiteinu party, is under investigation over using Cypriot bank accounts for money laundering. He is also suspected of involvement in fraud and bribery.
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Israeli Gunboats Hit Northern Gaza
Witnesses said Israeli gunboats attacked Al-Sudaniah region in the northern strip early Saturday morning after military jets struck two targets near a refugee camp overnight.
There were no reports of injuries in the Saturday's attack.
The overnight raid which struck two targets in the Jebalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip wounded at least six people.
The military confirmed the attacks on northern Gaza, saying the airstrikes destroyed two Hamas-related arms facilities.
On Friday, a Palestinian was killed and three others wounded in another attack on the southern town of Khan Yunis.
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There were no reports of injuries in the Saturday's attack.
The overnight raid which struck two targets in the Jebalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip wounded at least six people.
The military confirmed the attacks on northern Gaza, saying the airstrikes destroyed two Hamas-related arms facilities.
On Friday, a Palestinian was killed and three others wounded in another attack on the southern town of Khan Yunis.
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
Headteacher Paid to Run School That Doesn't Exist and Has No Pupils
It was supposed to be one of John Prescott’s flagship new towns designed to ease Britain’s housing crisis, creating homes for 10,000 people, with its own schools, shopping centre, library and sports centre.
But because of planning delays and the economic crisis, only a handful of houses have been built and just three people have moved in.
One thing it does have, though, is a headteacher who is being paid about £60,000 a year to run a school with no buildings and no pupils.
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But because of planning delays and the economic crisis, only a handful of houses have been built and just three people have moved in.
One thing it does have, though, is a headteacher who is being paid about £60,000 a year to run a school with no buildings and no pupils.
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Body in Charge of UK Policing Policy is Now an £18m-a-year Brand Charging The Public £70 for a 60p Criminal Records Check
Britain's most powerful police body is being run as a private business with an annual income of around £18million.The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), which oversees everything from anti-terrorism policy to speed cameras, was last night facing demands that it be disbanded, following a Mail on Sunday investigation into its activities which include:
Selling information from the Police National Computer for up to £70 – even though it pays just 60 pence to access those details.
Marketing ‘police approval’ logos to firms selling anti-theft devices.
Operating a separate private firm offering training to speed camera operators, which is run by a senior officer who was banned from driving.
Advising the Government and police forces – earning £32million of taxpayers’ money in the process.
Employing retired senior officers on lucrative salaries.
Until now, ACPO’s central role in policing has not been questioned as it is seen as an essential, if sometimes controversial, public body writing the rules on police operations as well as campaigning on key issues such as the proposed 90-day detention for terror suspects and the DNA database.
But the organisation is not a public body, nor is it a police trade union or even a campaign group. It is a private company – a self-styled ‘global brand name’ – paid millions of pounds a year by the taxpayer to effectively run the nation’s police forces.
Because ACPO is a private company, members of the public cannot use the Freedom of Information Act to scrutinise its operations. Last night it came under fire from politicians and human rights lawyers, who called for its immediate reform.
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Selling information from the Police National Computer for up to £70 – even though it pays just 60 pence to access those details.
Marketing ‘police approval’ logos to firms selling anti-theft devices.
Operating a separate private firm offering training to speed camera operators, which is run by a senior officer who was banned from driving.
Advising the Government and police forces – earning £32million of taxpayers’ money in the process.
Employing retired senior officers on lucrative salaries.
Until now, ACPO’s central role in policing has not been questioned as it is seen as an essential, if sometimes controversial, public body writing the rules on police operations as well as campaigning on key issues such as the proposed 90-day detention for terror suspects and the DNA database.
But the organisation is not a public body, nor is it a police trade union or even a campaign group. It is a private company – a self-styled ‘global brand name’ – paid millions of pounds a year by the taxpayer to effectively run the nation’s police forces.
Because ACPO is a private company, members of the public cannot use the Freedom of Information Act to scrutinise its operations. Last night it came under fire from politicians and human rights lawyers, who called for its immediate reform.
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