Eco-Fascists Call For Prison Cities

People who resist the state controlling every aspect of their existence will be forced to live in squalid ghettos while the rest of the population will be tightly controlled in high-tech prison cities – that’s the future envisaged by eco-fascists who are exploiting the contrived global warming fraud to openly flaunt their plan for the total enslavement of mankind.

The threat posed by the kind of scenario being promoted by Forum for the Future, the group responsible for the chilling video below, cannot be emphasized enough. The dictatorial hellhole of 2040, where cars will be banned, meat rationed, farming completely abolished and overtaken by the state, behavior catalogued on “calorie cards,” and careers ordained by the government, is the ultimate goal of the control freaks who have seized the reigns of the environmental movement.'

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The 10 Leading Theories For Dead Birds And Fish

As the mainstream media attempts to downplay the latest die-off event, which has now gone global, it is worthwhile to keep track of the story lines. Feel free to add your own to the comments section, and we will update accordingly.

Mainstream Explanations: Lightning, hail, mid-air collision, power lines, and New Year fireworks for the birds . . . but disease for the fish. This is even rolling eyes in the mainstream media. Birds are incredibly sensitive to their environment (think Canary in the coal mine), and the thought that they were caught by surprise, or that they "fowled" up their flight pattern is patently ridiculous. And where are the roasted birds from this lightning strike? And what about fish dying in the same region? Just a "disease" coincidence. One mainstream headline has to be enshrined as the saddest attempt at sensationalism, while revealing an obvious natural conclusion Falling Birds Likely Died From Massive Trauma. Really?

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The USDA’s Organic Deception

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Organic is organic, or is it? It would seem that it is all a matter of perspective when one takes a stroll through the mountains of documents on the FDA and USDA websites.

The word “organic” is fast becoming a high-dollar money-maker for corporations smart enough to jump on the bandwagon and start marketing their products as “made with organic ingredients,” or “certified organic.” Even Monsanto is taking advantage of this burgeoning market, and people naïve enough to believe that what we have traditionally thought of as pure, organic food, is still that way, are being duped.

It makes perfect sense, however, in a Machiavellian sort of way. Flood the food supply with poisons, then lead people to believe that the only safe choice left is USDA Certified Organic. Then buy up the organic companies one by one, and start changing the “organic” rules from the inside out via the bought and paid for government agencies so that you can reap the profits from those trying to escape the poisons.'

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Piers Corbyn: Warm Weather Not Causing Cold

Now Cameron Wants to Inject You With Old Swine Flu Vaccines Due to Current Shortages

David Cameron said the Department of Health was "working hard" to tackle the problem after reports that some areas have run out of the flu vaccine.

The government confirmed on Wednesday there were "local supply" issues, but denied there was a national shortfall.

It has also asked suppliers to see if there were spare vaccines in Europe.

But it is thought that there are only about 100,000 doses at most and so using the pandemic vaccine that was left over - there are millions of doses stockpiled - could provide the solution.

The vaccine is different from the jab being offered this year, but as swine flu is the dominant strain in circulation it could offer some protection.'

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Golden Voice' Homeless Man Finds Job, Home After Viral Video Success

End Democracy To Save Planet Says IPCC

A leading professor and member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has proposed that nations need to end democracy in order to solve the theory of man made climate change.

David Shearman, an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Adelaide, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University’s Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences and Law School, has authored several books on climate change, one entitled The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy. In this he declares that “…authoritarianism is the natural state of humanity”.'

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Blue Shield of California Seeks Rate Hikes of as Much as 59% for Individuals

Another big California health insurer has stunned individual policyholders with huge rate increases — this time it's Blue Shield of California seeking cumulative hikes of as much as 59% for tens of thousands of customers March 1.'

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Wall Street Fat-Cats Flip Public Service Workers the Bird

Obama Tells Federal Agencies to Spy on Their Own Employees

The Obama administration is telling federal agencies to take aggressive new steps to prevent more WikiLeaks embarrassments, including instituting “insider threat” programs to ferret out disgruntled employees who might be inclined to leak classified documents, NBC News has learned.

As part of these programs, agency officials are being asked to figure out ways to “detect behavioral changes” among employees who might have access to classified documents.'

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Oil and Gas Collection: Hydraulic Fracturing, Toxic Chemicals and the Surge of Earthquake Activity in Arkansas

The last four months of 2010, nearly 500 earthquakes rattled Guy, Arkansas. The entire state experienced 38 quakes in 2009. The spike in quake frequency precedes and coincides with the 100,000 dead fish on a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River that included Roseville Township on December 30. The next night, 5,000 red-winged blackbirds and starlings dropped dead out of the sky in Beebe. Hydraulic fracturing is the most likely culprit for all three events, as it causes earthquakes with a resultant release of toxins into the environment.

A close look at Arkansas’ history of earthquakes and drilling reveals a shocking surge in quake frequency following advanced drilling. The number of quakes in 2010 nearly equals all of Arkansas’ quakes for the entire 20th century. The oil and gas industry denies any correlation, but the advent of hydrofracking followed by earthquakes is a story repeated across the nation. It isn’t going to stop any time soon, either. Fracking has gone global.'

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Obama Names Vice Chairman of JP Morgan as White House Chief of Staff

William Michael Daley will be the long-standing successor to the former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who left the administration last year in the hope of running for mayor of Chicago.

W. Daley, a longtime Illinois political activist, will now hold the chief of staff in the White House, where he will have a part in the prospective staff's access to the Oval Office and what President Obama's Capitol Hill agenda should be.

Daley, as a top executive at JP Morgan Chase Bank, was paid as much as $5 million a year supervising the Washington lobbying efforts for JP Morgan -- the US second largest bank. He also served on the administration board at the giant defense contractor Boeing and Abbott Laboratories -- the global drug company.'

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Cables Reveal How US and UK Sought to Plunder Zimbabwe’s Resources

The cables track this human tragedy through the indifferent eyes of American diplomats, whose main concern was always for the potential profits to be made from Zimbabwe’s natural resources. They chart the efforts of US, British and European diplomats, often working through the UN, to establish a regime that will open up the country to international investment.

In reality, this was a tragedy largely manufactured by the international financial institutions that Washington sponsors. When the International Monetary Fund attempted to impose a structural adjustment programme in Zimbabwe at the end of the 1990s, Mugabe broke from it because he realised that it would mean dismantling the system of patronage on which he depended to remain in power. "Let that monstrous creature get out of our way," he declared, and attempted to find other sources of international finance.'

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HRW Demands Criminal Investigation Into Death Of 20 Year-Old Palestinian Patient Denied Permit By Israel

Human Rights Watch and other organizations have demanded a Criminal Investigation into the death of a 20 Year-Old Palestinian patient who was denied a permit by Israeli Authorities tolLeave Gaza. The Israeli authorities insisted that an unconscious patient appear for questioning by the Israel Security Agency; the patient died in Gaza while waiting for a response.'

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Kabul to Disband Private Security Firms

Hamid Karzai issued the order one day after rejecting US calls to nearly double private security firms in Afghanistan.

On Wednesday, the US Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl W. Eikenberry told Karzai thousands of extra private security guards needed to be recruited to provide security escorts to foreign workers in Afghanistan

"It turned into a serious discussion, the president said we are trying to dismantle private security firms but you want to add another 25,000 to the firms," AFP quoted an unnamed senior official at Karzai's palace as saying.

Karzai said the plan ran counter to the goals of strengthening Afghan forces and national institution-building, the official said.'

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Ouattara Calls for Military Intervention in Ivory Coast

The UN-recognized president-elect of the Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara has urged the West African special forces to remove the country's incumbent president.

Speaking from heavily guarded headquarters in Abidjan's Golf Hotel, Ouattara told the Associated Press on Thursday that the incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo cannot resist if the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) launches a military operation.

"I know Mr. Gbagbo. If he sees that ECOWAS troops are coming to capture him, believe me he will start running away. I know him well. He does not have the courage to face those type of situations," Ouattara said.'

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Britain Braces for More Civil Unrest

The British anti-cuts campaigners, students leaders and union officials as well as hundreds of online activists will meet next week to discuss ways to push forward their agenda.

The meeting on Saturday will focus on connecting local campaigns with anti-tax avoidance groups, student protesters, unions and anti-racism activists in a motion called NetrootsUK conference which has been organized by bloggers and received backing from the Trade Union Congress (TUC).

One of the organizers of the conference is Sunny Hundal, editor of the leftwing Liberal Conspiracy blog.

"There is widespread concern over what the coalition is doing to our economy and in recent months we've seen an enormous buildup of energy from across the country to do something about it. But most of it has been in separate campaigns. What we're trying to do here is bring together veteran campaigners with new movements so we can learn from each other, and use social media to keep on top of what works and what doesn't. It's the first time we have seen anything like this on such a scale", he said.'

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Cameron Defies Lib Dems on Terror Suspects: Control Orders Will NOT be Scrapped Say Tories

David Cameron has been forced to intervene to put national security ahead of civil liberties in a discussion on the future of control orders.

The Prime Minister will stage a crisis summit with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Home Secretary Theresa May to thrash out their differences over the treatment of terror suspects.

A furious row has broken out within the Coalition over control orders amid the ongoing review of Britain’s counter-terror legislation.'

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Action Alert—Now the FDA Is Going After Vitamin C!

The FDA has just notified small pharmacies that they will no longer be allowed to manufacture or distribute injectable vitamin C—despite its remarkable power to heal conditions that conventional medicine can’t touch. Please help reverse this outrageous decision!

Let’s get this straight. The government acknowledges the risk of a worldwide flu pandemic. It acknowledges that conventional drugs cannot cure big viruses-like the mononucleosis and hepatitis viruses, many influenza viruses, and many others. It acknowledges that many bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics and are killing increasing thousands. It acknowledges the risk of a worldwide drug-resistant TB pandemic.

Despite acknowledging all this, it now insists on wiping out one of the best potential treatments for these conditions and for certain cancers as well. And why is this being done? What possible rationale is offered? Because it’s dangerous? No. Because it can’t be patented and therefore won’t be taken through the standard FDA approval process. No matter that vitamin C is one of the least toxic components of our food supply and liquid forms of it have been used safely for decades.'

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Murdered Bush Aide Was An Expert In Chemical & Biological Warfare & Had Highest Security Clearances!

The ‘Scientific Consensus’ About Global Warming Turns Out to Have a Lot More to do With Manipulating the Numbers

How do we know there’s a scientific consensus on climate change? Pundits and the press tell us so. And how do the pundits and the press know? Until recently, they typically pointed to the number 2,500 — that’s the number of scientists associated with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Those 2,500, the pundits and the press believed, had endorsed the IPCC position.

To their embarrassment, most of the pundits and press discovered they were mistaken — those 2,500 scientists hadn’t endorsed the IPCC’s conclusions, they had merely reviewed some part or other of the IPCC’s mammoth studies. To add to their embarrassment, many of those reviewers from within the IPCC establishment actually disagreed with the IPCC’s conclusions, sometimes vehemently.'

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Is The New Madrid Fault Earthquake Zone Coming To Life?

What in the world is happening in the middle of the United States right now? Thousands of birds are falling dead from the skies, tens of thousands of fish are washing up on shore dead, earthquakes are popping up in weird and unexpected places and people are starting to get really freaked out about all of this. Well, one theory is that the New Madrid fault zone is coming to life. The New Madrid fault zone is six times bigger than the San Andreas fault zone in California and it covers portions of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. The biggest earthquakes in the history of the United States were caused by the New Madrid fault. Now there are fears that the New Madrid fault zone could be coming to life again, and if a "killer earthquake" does strike it could change all of our lives forever.'

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Europe Starts Confiscating Private Pension Funds

The most striking example is Hungary, where last month the government made the citizens an offer they could not refuse. They could either remit their individual retirement savings to the state, or lose the right to the basic state pension (but still have an obligation to pay contributions for it). In this extortionate way, the government wants to gain control over $14bn of individual retirement savings.'

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The American Dream

The (Bill) Gates of Hell Foundation

Why mince words when the planet's being destroyed and we're all being systematically murdered?

When it finally dawns on you what these New World Order elite globalists are up to it can be staggering. And it can't be more in your face than it is right now.

We have chemtrails continually 'playing' on the world's biggest screen, our skies--horrific displays of absolute disregard for all things living. And yet the majority doesn't even see them and there's total silence about it from authorities and the media.

Flocks of birds are falling from the sky and millions of dead fish are washing up on our shores, and they all act dumb, like they have no idea what the hell is going on.

The Gulf of Mexico has been killed, the vital loop current disrupted, the weather shot to hell, the food and water are deliberately poisoned and altered, and then they screw with the stratosphere and magnetosphere with a host of devilish devices.

Never mind the deliberately trashed economy and the fabricated 'war on terror' while the police state clampdown continues.

And we're not supposed to notice?..or think this is deliberate destruction of our world?

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Josie and the Pussycats: Blueprint of the Mind Control Music Industry

Josie and the Pussycats” is a “girl band” movie aimed at children and young adolescents, especially young girls. At first glance, the flick seems to be one of those generic, God-awful teen movies, but on closer look, its overall tone and message is in sharp contrast to its peers. “Josie and the Pussycats” is indeed an acerbic criticism of a morally bankrupt music business. The most surprising fact about this 2001 movie is its frighteningly accurate predictions regarding today’s pop music and its Illuminati agenda: mind controlled artists, hypnotized masses, subliminal messages … it’s all there. This article will look at the movie’s themes and see how it relates in today’s context.'

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New Research: Post-9/11 Architecture of Fear Turns Cities Into Police State Zones

Almost a decade after the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., significant downtown areas in some of this country's most prominent cities remain largely sealed off with metal gates and barriers. The explanation is that these urban areas allegedly need "security zones" to protect the populace from terrorist attacks. But a new study just published in the journal Environment and Planning A concludes this "architecture of fear" has done nothing but blight the landscape, limit public access and may promote paranoia.

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Leaked Document: EPA Knowingly Approved Bee-Killing Pesticide

A Colorado beekeeper recently obtained a leaked document revealing that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) knows a popular crop pesticide is killing off honey bees, but has allowed its continued approval anyway. Despite opposition from its own scientists, EPA officials first gave the a-okay to Bayer CropScience's toxic pesticide clothianidin in 1993 based on the company's own flawed safety studies. But now it has been revealed that the EPA knew all along about the dangers of clothianidin and decided to just ignore them.'

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Afghanistan: From The British Empire to the NATO Invasion: 'Blind Man Walking on a Roof.'

In 1839, British troops and Indian sepoys poured into Afghanistan in what turned out to be an unnecessary pre-emptive move to block a feared Russian expansion into the territory. Although the Russian envoy had failed to woo the Afghan ruler, the British authorities decided to err on the side of caution and invaded Afghanistan anyway.

Their intent was to put a pliant puppet on the Kabul throne to ensure that the northwest frontier of their lucrative Indian colony remained secure.

True to the historical pattern, the invading British made short work of the poorly armed Afghan defenders. However, once the occupation phase began, the British became overconfident in their military superiority.

Prior to the invasion, Britain’s East India Company had paid the border tribes a tribute — or bribe — to allow their trade convoys safe passage through the Khyber Pass. Now that they had defeated the ragtag Afghan army and set up shop in Kabul, the East India Company decided to save themselves some money and cancelled the tribute payments.

The result was that the Pashtun tribes along the border rose up in revolt and cut off the British supply lines from India.

Forced to retreat from Kabul in the fall of 1841, the British garrison suffered the most complete defeat in military history, with only one survivor — dressed as a woman — managing to elude the victorious Afghans.

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US Targets EU over GM Crops

The US embassy in Paris advised Washington to start a military-style trade war against any European Union country which opposed genetically modified (GM) crops, newly released WikiLeaks cables show.

In response to moves by France to ban a Monsanto GM corn variety in late 2007, the ambassador, Craig Stapleton, a friend and business partner of former US president George Bush, asked Washington to penalise the EU and particularly countries which did not support the use of GM crops.

"Country team Paris recommends that we calibrate a target retaliation list that causes some pain across the EU since this is a collective responsibility, but that also focuses in part on the worst culprits.'

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Electromagnetic Frequency Mind Control Weapons

Directed energy weapons include lasers, high power microwave, and millimeter wave ones among others. A relevant December 2007 Department of Defense (DOD) report called them a "transformational game changer in military operations, able to augment and improve operational capabilities in many areas," for both lethal and non-lethal purposes.

Among other applications, EMF weapons/devices are used for harassment, surveillance and mind control. Agencies like the Pentagon, CIA and NSA use them to monitor people, manipulate their minds, harm, and at times kill them. The Navy Times called them the "most feared and controversial weapon(s) of (the) modern age".'

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US Use of Depleted Uranium is a War Crime

Nuha al-Radi, an artist and author of Baghdad Diaries, shortly before her death due to leukaemia wrote in 2004: "Everyone seems to be dying of cancer. Every day one hears about another acquaintance or friend of a friend dying. How many more die in hospitals that one does not know? Apparently, over 30 percent of Iraqis have cancer, and there are lots of kids with leukaemia. The depleted uranium left by the US bombing campaign has turned Iraq into a cancer-infested country. For hundreds of years to come, the effects of the uranium will continue to wreak havoc on Iraq and its surrounding areas".'

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'Egypt Attack Price of Snubbing Israel'

The Lebanese Coptic leader says a recent deadly attack on an Alexandria church in north Egypt is the price paid by Egyptian Coptic Christians for their refusal to recognize Israel.

Archbishop Louis Urshalimi made the remark in a meeting with Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi.

Urshalimi said despite Cairo's ties with Tel Aviv, Coptics in Egypt have so far refused to recognize the Israeli regime as a state.'

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Israeli Rabbi Bans Women From Driving

The order by Rabbi Avraham Yosef prohibits women from driving, especially in Israeli cities predominantly inhabited by ultraorthodox Jews, Ahram Online news website reported.

Yosef is the chief rabbi in the city of Holon and is the son of Rabbi Afodia Yosef -- Shas' spiritual leader.

The Jewish figure justified the decree by saying that driving for women does not reflect modesty or chastity, especially in cities mostly inhabited by religious people.'

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Israel Clamps Down on West Bank Protesters

Israel's military has begun setting up gates near several villages in the occupied West Bank, buttressing them with barbed wire in an effort to further clamp down on anti-Tel Aviv protests.

The forces started leveling land and unloaded cement blocks on roads leading to the villages close to the central city of Ramallah on Tuesday, Xinhua reported.

The move targets protests against the massive separation wall, which Israel began building through the territory in 2002 to keep Palestinians out.'

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Britons Begin Popping Polypills Courtesy of the Rothschilds

The first trial of the polypill, a daily tablet combining several low-dose drugs that could protect against heart attacks and strokes, is launched in Britain.

It is the first trial of the drug among over-50s in the UK, The Guardian reported.

The idea was first put forward by two British professors in 2003.

Prof. Sir Nicholas Ward and Prof. Malcolm Law, from the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine at Queen Mary, University of London, suggested in a paper in the British Medical Journal that a pill combining low doses of several drugs to bring down cholesterol and blood pressure could save lives.

"The polypill strategy could largely prevent heart attacks and stroke if taken by everyone aged 55 and older and everyone with existing cardiovascular disease,” they wrote.'

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The Wolfson Institute is funded by a number of Zionist organisations including the City of London Corporation and the Rothschilds

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Pentagon in $9.1 Billion Fraud Case in Iraq

Iraq's Supreme Audit Court says the US Ministry of Defense has failed to account for the USD 9.1 billion misspent discretionary funds during Iraq's occupation.

The Pentagon received USD 9.1 billion back in 2004 from the US-led occupation authority funds set up to benefit Iraqi people with assets seized from the previous regime of Saddam Hussein.

According to Iraqi newspaper al-Bayanat al-Jadidah, this recent release follows the 2010 finding of USD 8.7 billion in Iraq funds not accounted for.'

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John P Wheeler III: Former Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, Member of Council on Foreign Relations, Consultant to Mitre Corporation Found Dumped in Landfill

A police investigation has been launched into circumstances surrounding the discovery of the body of a former Pentagon official in the US state of Delaware.

John P. Wheeler, who worked under three Republican presidents -- Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush -- was found dead at Wilmington's Cherry Island Landfill on December 31.

His body was found jutting out of a garbage truck by a worker at the dump.

The Delaware medical examiner's office has ruled the death of the 66-year-old a homicide.'

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Met Office Knew Big Freeze Was Coming But Hushed It Up

The Met Office warned ministers to expect an ‘exceptionally cold winter’ but then kept the prediction secret from the public.

The forecaster decided not to reveal the information because it was embarrassed after wrongly predicting a ‘barbecue summer’ in 2009, BBC analyst Roger Harrabin said.

Instead of a seasonal forecast, it offered only monthly snapshots.

Last night Mr Harrabin said: ‘With Britain shivering through a third winter in a row, shouldn’t the weather forecasters have warned us well in advance? Why didn’t the Met Office tell us?

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The Madness of a Lost Society: Final Warnings

Council Threatens Man with £1,000 Fine Over Lost Cat Posters

Mike Harding, 44, was issued with a 48 hour ''remove or pay up'' ultimatum by Bedfordshire Borough Council which accused the driving instructor of ''fly-posting''.

He was forced to drive around his local streets in the early hours of the morning ripping down his lost cat posters one by one to avoid the penalty.

He designed 20 posters in a last appeal to neighbours after seven-year-old Tabby cat Wookie disappeared in six weeks ago in November.'

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British Consulate Employees in Jerusalem Linked to Terror Attack

First of all read this article

Two Palestinians were charged by a court on Sunday with planning a rocket attack on Teddy Stadium, home to the Beitar football team.

Three more Palestinians, two of them maintenance men employed by the British Consulate General, were arrested on suspicion of supplying them with guns. All five were arrested in November but the details have only now emerged following Sunday’s court hearing.

A Foreign Office spokesman said that security and vetting procedures were being reviewed. He said all employees were vetted in co-ordination with the Israeli authorities “to a level appropriate to their job”.'

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UK fury as staff arrested in Iran

The UK has demanded the immediate release of Iranian staff at its Tehran embassy who were arrested on Saturday.

Iranian media earlier reported that eight local staff at the mission had been detained for their "considerable role" in post-election riots.

UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband called the arrests "harassment" and dismissed the allegations as baseless.'

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Eco-Bulb Cost to Treble: Makers Cash in as the Ban on Old-Style Bulbs Kicks In

The price of energy-saving light bulbs will treble as the final supplies of traditional bulbs dry up, industry experts have warned.

The Government has ordered energy companies to scrap the subsidies that have kept the price of eco-bulbs artificially low for the last few years.

At the same time, manufacturers are increasing wholesale prices to take advantage of the European ban on ‘energy guzzling’ old-style bulbs.'

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US Students Drown in Sea of Debt

GM Strain Blows Organic Status Away

Mutant canola crops genetically engineered to survive repeated sprayings of herbicide have been approved for planting.
This is despite the furore over GM contamination of an organic farm.

The West Australian Minister for Agriculture and Food, Terry Redman, has called on the organic industry to bend its rules to permit some GM material, declaring purity to be "unrealistic".

WA grain farmer Steve Marsh was stripped of his organic certification this week after GM canola seeds allegedly blew 1.5km over his boundary from a neighbouring property at Kojonup, southeast of Perth. He is now setting an Australian precedent by threatening to sue for damages.'

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Tensions Rise as Israel Strikes Gaza Refugee Camps

Tensions are on the rise again in the Gaza Strip after Israeli attacks on two refugee camps left at least two civilians wounded. Israel insisted the attacks were “retaliation” for rocket fire from the strip.

Israel insisted the attacks on the refugee camps were aimed at targeting Hamas and that they blame Hamas for the rocket fire, even though officials have repeatedly conceded that Hamas is not the ones firing the rockets and are indeed struggling to prevent such fire by their rivals.'

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H1N1 in the UK - Sickening Pro-Vaccine Propaganda Aimed at Our Children

The Little Red Book That Swept France

Take a book of just 13 pages, written by a relatively obscure 93-year-old man, which contains no sex, no jokes, no fine writing and no startlingly original message. A publishing disaster? No, a publishing phenomenon.

Indignez vous! (Cry out!), a slim pamphlet by a wartime French resistance hero, Stéphane Hessel, is smashing all publishing records in France. The book urges the French, and everyone else, to recapture the wartime spirit of resistance to the Nazis by rejecting the "insolent, selfish" power of money and markets and by defending the social "values of modern democracy".'

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Deceased Woman's Name Was Robo-Signed on Thousands of Affidavits

Martha Kunkle has come back to life.

She died in 1995. Yet her signature later appeared on thousands of affidavits submitted by one of the nation's largest debt collectors, Portfolio Recovery Associates Inc., in lawsuits filed against borrowers.

Some regulators complain that the use of Ms. Kunkle's name reflects an epidemic of mass-produced, sloppy and inaccurate documentation in the debt-collection industry. Lawsuits have surged as more borrowers fall behind on payments and collection firms turn to courts to get what they are owed.

After being sued for fraud, Portfolio Recovery Associates decided in early 2008 that any documents bearing Ms. Kunkle's name had "defects" and shouldn't be used when trying to collect debts, a company spokeswoman said.'

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Israel is Paying Internet Workers to Manipulate Online Content

BP-Paid Law Professor Vouches for Feinberg on Gulf Spill Work

A law professor being paid $950 an hour with BP's money has declared that the czar of the $20 billion claims fund for Gulf oil spill victims is independent of the oil giant.

Fund administrator Ken Feinberg said Thursday he has agreed to pay New York University professor Stephen Gillers for his advice. Since being hired, Gillers has written a letter stating that Feinberg is neutral and not subject to BP's direction or control.

Feinberg said the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, created to administer payments from the fund to people and businesses, is billing BP for Gillers' services.

Some victims, lawyers and state officials unhappy with the claims process have questioned Feinberg's independence and suggested he is a pawn in a BP effort to limit its liability.'

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J.P. Morgan Sued For Role In Hedge Fund Ponzi

A court-appointed receiver trying to recover funds for victims of Tom Petters' Ponzi scheme has sued JPMorgan Chase & Co. for more than $300 million, alleging the bank should have known that money it seized from Petters was the result of fraud.

The Minnesota businessman was convicted last year of perpetrating a $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme that counted hedge funds, pastors, missionaries and retirees among its victims. Prosecutors said the one-time owner of Polaroid Holding Co. and Sun Country Airlines orchestrated the plot, but Petters has blamed his associates and is appealing his 50-year prison sentence. JPMorgan, its affiliates and some individuals seized more than $300 million in assets from Petters in the wake of his arrest.



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Wayne Madsen: Sweden Co-opted by CIA/Pentagon to Launder Wikileaks Cables

WMR has learned from a long-time Republican Party consultant that the CIA used Sweden to launder the transfer to Wikileaks of carefully screened and redacted State Department cables and the subsequent release of the cables to pre-selected corporate news media entities. Sweden was chosen because of its so-called “press freedom and freedom of expression” traditions in an effort to make the release of the cables by Wikileaks appear to be unconnected to a covert CIA and Pentagon psychological operations program designed to place further controls on the Internet.'

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US State Governments Prepare Attacks on Jobs, Wages, Pensions

January 1 marked the beginning of a three-week period in which new governors take office in more than half the 50 American states, including three of the four largest—California, New York and Florida.

Whether Democratic or Republican, the new state chief executives are planning major attacks on public employees and public services, including huge budget cuts and mass layoffs. In the 26 states with new governors, 23 face budget deficits, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.'

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AIPAC Protests Disclosure of Its Secret Files

On Dec. 23, 2010, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee filed a 53-page motion asking Judge Eric Christian to sanction former employee Steven J. Rosen over the illicit possession and release of sensitive internal AIPAC documents. Rosen’s $20 million defamation suit against his former employer seeks compensation for derogatory public statements AIPAC made to justify firing him after he was indicted under the Espionage Act in 2005 and their joint defense agreement collapsed.'

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Russian Opposition Leader Jailed

Russian opposition leader and former first deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov has been sentenced to 15 days in prison for participating in an opposition rally on New Year's Day in Moscow.

Nemtsov was convicted in a Moscow court on Sunday for failing to follow police instruction during the demonstration at a central Moscow square, AFP reported.

Russian police arrested Nemtsov along with nearly 130 others during an opposition rally on Friday. At least 300 protesters participated in the demonstration, chanting anti-government slogans, AFP reported.'

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Israel Blames US for Settlement Issue

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed US President Barack Obama for cancelling a package of incentives in exchange for a three-month settlement freeze.

"The United States asked us to consider extending the freeze by three months and the truth is that we were prepared to do so," Netanyahu was quoted as saying by Ha'aretz on Monday.

The US agreed to give twenty F-35 warplanes to Israel and to veto any anti-Israeli resolution at the United Nations Security Council if Israel extends its partial settlement freeze for 90 days.'

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Cholera Spreads All Over Dominican Republic

The cholera outbreak has now spread to all provinces in the Dominican Republic as an outbreak of the water-borne disease in neighboring Haiti has claimed thousands of lives.

"The number of people receiving medical treatment in Haiti has exceeded 150,000 and over 3,300 people have died. Another 139 have contracted the disease in the Dominican Republic," RIA Novosti news agency quoted Russia's chief sanitary doctor, Gennady Onishchenko, as saying on Monday.

He also warned Russian tourists of the possibility of the epidemic spreading there from Haiti.'

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How the Government Wants to Change the Way We Think

Shame, vanity, laziness and the desire to fit in are all to be used as tools of Government policy by ministers acting on the advice of a new psychology unit in Whitehall.

The first glimpse into the confidential work of the Cabinet Office's Behavioural Insight Team came on Tuesday when ministers suggested members of the public should be able to make small charitable donations when using cashpoints and their credit cards.

On Friday, the Cabinet Office again followed the unit's advice in proposing that learner drivers be opted in to an organ donation scheme when they apply for a licence, and also floated the idea of creating a lottery to encourage people to take tests to prove they have quit smoking.

These initiatives are examples of the application of mental techniques which, while seemingly paradoxical to the Coalition's goal of a smaller state, are likely to become a common feature of Government policy.'

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Prospect of Fuel Protests Rises

A campaign group of farmers and hauliers which was behind the fuel blockades a decade ago has threatened new action against the rises, while a cross-party group of MPs has called for the Government to help motorists and essential road users by cutting fuel duty.

The Scottish and Welsh Assembly governments have also joined calls for a cut in duty.

On Saturday fuel duty rose by 0.76p a litre, while on Tuesday VAT will go up from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent.

The combination of both tax hikes will put around 3.5p on the average cost of a litre of unleaded petrol, which had already hit a record high of 124.16p last week – more than 14 per cent on a year ago.

Diesel stood at an average of 128.35p a litre. Further increases in fuel duties are planned in April.'

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Gerald Celente: What’s in Store for 2011

Bankers Trick? - Cell Phone Banking For The Poor

What stands in the way of global access to financial services? It may come as a surprise, but the single biggest obstacle is cash. In short, cash is expensive.

The poor tend to live in an entirely cash-based economy. But banks find it too costly to sustain branches in disadvantaged areas to collect the small amounts of hard cash that poor people can save. So poor customers have to travel miles just to make a deposit – wasting time and running up transport costs.

We can’t make cash go away. But we can make it easier to transform cash into electronic information, which is all a bank account is, really. Once money is “de-materialized,” it can be sent around electronically at very low cost. The fastest, most convenient way to achieve this transformation globally is to use the stores that exist in every neighborhood and every village as banking surrogates.'

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Obama Sidesteps Hill With EPA Carbon Limits

The Obama administration will use government agencies and the Clean Air Act to push through its global warming agenda after failing in Congress. FoxNews.com reports that on Jan.2 new carbon limits will be set and the Environmental Protection Agency will then draw up regulations requiring companies to get permits to release greenhouse gases.

Fox said the administration, which points to a 2007 Supreme Court ruling for its authority, plans to have preliminary rules in place by the summer with final rules set for 2012. American Enterprise Institute scientist Ken Green told Fox the regulations are “job killers".'

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