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Invasion of Pakistan Imminent

The US will invade Pakistan to deal with instability and Australia must send troops there, too, says independent MP Bob Katter.

Mr Katter told parliament yesterday the situation in Pakistan was increasing the likelihood of a US invasion, which Australia should support.

Speaking during the debate on Afghanistan, Mr Katter, who was once the proud owner of an AK-47 assault rifle, said the security situation in Pakistan was "highly volatile".

With the government of Pakistan under increasing threat from armed fundamentalist rebels, a US military invasion was inevitable, Mr Katter said.'

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State Dept: Iraqi Detainee Abuse Not America’s Problem

In the first official US State Department response to the massive WikiLeaks release of classified Iraq War documents, spokesman P.J. Crowley shrugged off the evidence that US troops were ordered to cover up detainee abuse by the Iraqi government, insisting the abuse wasn’t America’s problem.

"If there needs to be an accounting, first and foremost there needs to be an accounting by the Iraqi government itself, and how it treated its own citizens," Crowley added. Under Frago 242, US soldiers were ordered not to investigate any abuse by Iraqi government officials.'

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Humiliate, Strip, Threaten: UK Military Interrogation Manuals Discovered

The British military has been training interrogators in techniques that include threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness in an apparent breach of the Geneva conventions, the Guardian has discovered.

Training materials drawn up secretly in recent years tell interrogators they should aim to provoke humiliation, insecurity, disorientation, exhaustion, anxiety and fear in the prisoners they are questioning, and suggest ways in which this can be achieved.

One PowerPoint training aid created in September 2005 tells trainee military interrogators that prisoners should be stripped before they are questioned. "Get them naked," it says. "Keep them naked if they do not follow commands." Another manual prepared around the same time advises the use of blindfolds to put prisoners under pressure.'

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Israel Hails Commandoes Killing Activists

Israeli leaders have praised soldiers who killed pro-Palestinian activists on board an international aid ship bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lauded the commandos on Tuesday during a visit to the Atlit naval commando base. "The action taken was vital, necessary, legal and of the utmost importance," Netanyahu said.

On May 31, Israeli troops attacked the Mavi Marmara ship in international waters, killing nine Turkish peace activists and injuring dozens of others.'

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Indonesia Tsunami Death Toll Hits 108

At least 108 people have been killed and hundreds are missing after a tsunami triggered by a powerful seaquake hit Indonesia's west coast.

A 7.5-magnitude quake hit the coast of Sumatra late Monday. Local sources say the death toll from the devastating quake has reached over one hundred.

"Our latest data from crisis centre showed that 108 people have been killed and 502 are still missing." AFP quoted a regional lawmaker in the Mentawai Islands as saying on Tuesday.'

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American People To Democrats And Republicans: Get Out Of Office, You Don’t Speak For Us

A whopping majority of 62% of the American people believe it will be a good thing for the country if almost all incumbents from both parties were removed in the upcoming midterm election.

That is the finding of a new national poll that also reveals over a third would like to see a new political party formed to remove the establishment.

Only 27% said they felt their representative in Congress was the best person for the office.

Furthermore, 43% of the American people do not believe that either party in Congress represents them or their country.'

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Active and Reserve Marines Ordered to Get Flu Shot

All Marines, active and reserve, are due for a flu shot unless they are medically exempt, according to new Defense Department guidelines.

The [deadly] shot includes vaccine for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic strain as one of three seasonal influenza components. "Delinquent active and reserve personnel shall be identified and promptly immunized at earliest opportunity," the order states.

"Vaccination of unimmunized personnel will continue until vaccine supply is exhausted or the vaccine expiration date is reached".'

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The EU Is On Another Planet

Barking Brussels politicians have proved they live on another planet by pouring millions of pounds into the pointless European space programme.

As millions of Britons faced swingeing cuts, the draft EU budget reveals an extra £23million will be spent on space research next year, taking the annual total to £204million.

Taxpayers’ cash is also being funnelled into a £670million subsidy of pro-European documentaries and art-house films revelling in scenes of sex and violence.'

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Polling Places Removed From Native Reservation

Residents of Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota are protesting the county's decision to remove three polling places from the tribe's three precinct vicinity.

The Benson County Board of Commissioners cited the high costs of running the polls and training staff as reasons for their decision. Spirit Lake leaders offered to front the costs for recruiting and training poll workers as well as provide rent-free facilities, but the board declined, saying the costs would still be too high and that mail-in ballots are cheaper.

In a county where Natives account for 50 percent of all voters, this move will most certainly disenfranchise them. With only one poll location in the entire county, they will have to travel further and have a longer waiting time to cast their vote. While mail-in ballots may be cheaper, every voter should have the same methods available to cast their vote as every other voter in the U.S.'

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Treasury Hides $300 Billion Back-door Bailout to Citibank

The late Bloomberg News reporter Mark Pittman asked the U.S. Treasury in January 2009 to identify $301 billion of securities owned by Citigroup Inc. that the government had agreed to guarantee. He made the request on the grounds that taxpayers ought to know how their money was being used.

More than 20 months later, after saying at least five times that a response was imminent, Treasury officials responded with 560 pages of printed-out e-mails -- none of which Pittman requested. They were so heavily redacted that most of what’s left are everyday messages such as “Did you just try to call me?” and “Monday will be a busy day!” '

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L.A. Stimulus: $10 Million to Create One Job

When President Obama and Congress passed a multi-billion dollar jobs creation bill it was widely reported that tens of thousands of jobs would be saved or created as a result. Contrary opinions from opponents of the bill argued that only the free market, not government, is capable of creating sustainable, meaningful labor and that the billions spent would end up being more wasteful spending.

According to Los Angeles City Controller Wendy Greuel, the contrarians may have been right.

In a recent audit and follow-up press release, the city controller’s office says that of the $111 million in stimulus funds the city has already received of the $594 originally awarded, the city has created or retained a total 54.46 jobs.'

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University of Michigan Students Protest Against Israeli Soldiers Visit

MacAskill ‘Losing Control’ of Most Dangerous Paedophiles and Rapists

Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill was accused last night of losing control of the country’s most dangerous paedophiles and rapists after it emerged that laws brought in to curb their behaviour have been breached more than 300 times.

The number of Sexual Offences Prevention Orders (SOPOs) being flouted has almost doubled from 60 in 2006-07 to 110 this year.

Scottish Government figures show that the sanction – used to prevent offenders from contacting victims, taking part in certain activities or living in households with children – has been broken 312 times over that period.'

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GORDON DUFF: GADAHN CALL TO ATTACK AMERICANS COMES FROM ISRAEL

Adam Gadahn, the “American Taliban,” the lisping, overweight bungler continually calling for the murder of Americans is really named Adam Perlman from a family highly influential in the Anti-Defamation League. The group distributing his threats, SITE Intelligence, contracted to the American government, is run by a former IDF member whose father was executed in Iraq as a Mossad terrorist. SITE Intelligence is the source of the Osama bin Laden tapes long proven to be, not only the wrong voice, but to resemble bin Laden so little as to have become a joke.'

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'7/7 Tube Driver Raised Alarm on Own Mobile Phone' (how did he get it to work?)

A Tube driver whose train was blown up by one of the 7 July bombers raised the alarm using his mobile phone as his radio was not working.

Timothy Batkin said he had checked with passengers on the Aldgate train if they had a mobile phone signal.

He told the inquest into the 2005 atrocities that the cries for help still made his "blood run cold".

Station supervisor Celia Harrison said there were no trained first aiders working on the day of the bombings.'

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The Greatest Hypnotist of Them All

'David Icke and others explain how the control system controls the mass of humanity by programming their minds from an early age. Then, using tel-a-vision programming and mass media, they implant false belief systems and a false information about who we are and the nature of reality.'

Karzai: Blackwater Behind Terrorism

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said US private security firms, including Xe Services LLC, formerly known as Blackwater, are being behind terrorism in the country.

At a press conference in Kabul, Karzai said that US security companies have been behind explosions that have claimed the lives of women and children.

The Afghan president added that they have caused "blasts and terrorism" in different parts of Afghanistan over the past months.'

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International Tribunal: Canada Deadline to Repatriate Dead Aboriginal Children and Prosecute Guilty

A newly formed International Tribunal has informed the government of Canada that, in partnership with aboriginal people, it will commence forensic excavations at twenty eight mass grave sites near former Indian residential schools across Canada after March 1, 2011, if Canada continues to refuse to prosecute those responsible for the deaths of thousands of children in these schools.

In a letter to Prime Minister Steven Harper today, the Acting Secretary of the six-nation International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State, (ITCCS) Reverend Kevin Annett, gave Canada and its churches four months to begin repatriating the remains of children who died in these schools, and bring to trial those responsible for their deaths.'

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Water Poisoning Legacy?

22 years on, there are fears about the long term legacy of the Camelford water poisoning scandal. Next month an inquest will open into the death of a woman from the Cornish town who died from a rare form of Alzheimers. In an exclusive interview a leading scientist has told us that people in the area may be at risk from brain diseases.'

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Is Aspartame in All Soda?

I haven't heard this although Dr. James Bowen once told me every once in awhile they add it in some markets to see if people an tell. Dr. Bowen has ALS from aspartame and like most aspartame victims is chemically hypersensitive for life. An aspartame victim can always tell when aspartame is in a product, labeled or not.

The problem is the manufacturers know aspartame is addictive. Like in the case of Mars I called them and asked if aspartame were in their products and they told me "yes, in Mars Bars". I said, "But its not labeled," and they said, its under natural flavors. I tried one and sure enough immediately got a headache.

Because of the chemical hypersensitization I tell aspartame victims over and over never to use processed foods because this and MSG are so often hidden.'

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San Diego Diocese Sex Abuse Case: Lawyers Release 10,000 Unsealed Documents

Attorneys for nearly 150 people who claim sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests made nearly 10,000 pages of previously sealed internal church documents public Sunday, revealing at least one previously unknown decades-old case in which a priest under police investigation was allowed to leave the U.S. after the Diocese of San Diego intervened.

After a three-year legal battle over the Diocese of San Diego's internal records, a retired San Diego Superior Court judge ruled late Friday that they could be made public. The records are from the personnel files of 48 priests who were either credibly accused or convicted of sexual abuse or were named in a civil lawsuit.'

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'US Troops Beheaded Iraqi Detainee'

American forces decapitated an Iraqi last year on the order of their higher-up, show recently-exposed US military documents.

The troops operated under the command of an unnamed US major, who had been involved in the rape of an Iraqi female, showed one such document posted on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

The incident took place after the victim, the brother of the raped female, reportedly killed a military official in reprisal for the indecent assault.'

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25 Afghan Civilians Killed in US-led Airstrike

US-led forces have targeted a mosque in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 25 civilians during the airstrike, Afghan officials say.

Local officials said that the attack was carried out by US-led forces on Monday in Maigan village of Baghran district and added that the casualty figures could increase.

NATO officials have confirmed the airstrike, but denied any civilians death.'

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US Court Backs Secrecy on Bagram Jail

A US court has ruled that American military can keep secret key information about hundreds of its detainees taken and held at its prison facility in Afghanistan.

The ruling came in response to a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against the US Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency. The lawsuit sought the disclosure of information about detainees held at Bagram military base in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon has released the names of nearly 650 prisoners detained there as of September 2009.'

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Food in Uncertain Times: How to Grow and Store the Five Crops You Need to Survive

In an age of erratic weather and instability, it's increasingly important to develop a greater self-reliance when it comes to food. And because of this, more than ever before, farmers are developing new gardening techniques that help achieve a greater resilience. Longtime gardener and scientist Carol Deppe, in her new book The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times, offers a wealth of unique and expansive information for serious home gardeners and farmers who are seeking optimistic advice.

Do you want to know more about the five crops you need to survive through the next thousand years? What about tips for drying summer squash, for your winter soups? Ever thought of keeping ducks on your land?'

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The Grasdorf Pictogram Plates



Farmer Werner Harenberg woke up early in the morning of July 23, 1991 to discover Germany’s first spectacular crop circle near the village of Grasdorf, Lower Saxony in the historic Teutoburger Wald Area, not far from Hannover. This location is not far from the prehistoric site of Externsteine, part natural rock, part carvings, caves and bearing various signs of what seems like long and varied religious practices. After noticing that the straws were unbroken, merely bent, Harenberg stated that it could not have been made by amateurs such as had recently allegedly been at play further north in Schleswig-Holstein.

A visitor to the farm, a man wearing a house painter’s outfit and a hanging moustache, turned up nine days later bringing along his metal detector. He searched all nine parts of the pictogram dropping a handkerchief in three spots as mark...all of them had a spherical symbol, less than a semi-circle attached to it. Then he went to his car to pick up a digging tool and a bucket unearthing a bronze, silver and gold plates at the three areas he marked.'

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Massive Stretches of Weathered Oil Spotted in Gulf of Mexico

Just three days after the U.S. Coast Guard admiral in charge of the BP oil spill cleanup declared little recoverable surface oil remained in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana fishers Friday found miles-long strings of weathered oil floating toward fragile marshes on the Mississippi River delta.

The discovery, which comes as millions of birds begin moving toward the region in the fall migration, gave ammunition to groups that have insisted the government has overstated clean-up progress, and could force reclosure of key fishing areas only recently reopened.'

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Warmists Plot Secretly to Kill Off the Medieval Warming Period. Again

Remember how one of the great ambitions of the Climategate “scientists” was to “contain” the “putative” Medieval Warming Period? Well – guess what – they’re STILL at it.

Michael Mann, Phil Jones, Jonathan Overpeck, Eugene Wahl, Malcolm Hughes – just about anyone who’s anyone from the Climategate emails, in fact – have all been on a clandestine boondoggle to sunny Portugal, there to conspire how best to obliterate that embarrassing and inconvenient period of bounteous warmth between around 900 AD and 1280 AD known as the MWP.'

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City Councils Plan Social Cleansing Of London Poor

Ministers were accused last night of deliberately driving poor people out of wealthy inner cities as London councils revealed they were preparing a mass exodus of low-income families from the capital because of coalition benefit cuts.

Representatives of London boroughs told a meeting of MPs last week that councils have already block-booked bed and breakfasts and other private accommodation outside the capital – from Hastings, on the south coast, to Reading to the west and Luton to the north – to house those who will be priced out of the London market.

Councils in the capital are warning that 82,000 families – more than 200,000 people – face losing their homes because private landlords, enjoying a healthy rental market buoyed by young professionals who cannot afford to buy, will not cut their rents to the level of caps imposed by ministers.'

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September 11th---The Occult Connection

Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), the foremost occultist of the early 20th century, dedicated his life to the dark arts. A wealthy, Cambridge-educated world traveler, Crowley (rhymes with holy) associated with the artistic and cultural luminaries of his era, including such noted figures as Ernest Hemingway, W. B. Yeats and H. L. Mencken. Fully committed to the transformation and illumination of the entire world, Crowley (also known as the Great Beast) wrote numerous books detailing his vision of the ideal society: the strong over the weak, the maintenance of a patriarchal aristocracy ruling over a slave state, and the Darwinian killing of the unfit. According to the Beast, a small elite must rule over the masses: "You will observe that I am advocating an aristocratic revolution. And so I am!"

Is there a connection between Crowley, 9/11 and the New World Order that has been overlooked? Has Crowley influenced the ideology of the New World Order? Is there a secret numerical code in the events of 9/11 not understood by the general public? Is there a deeper meaning to the numbers used for the planes on the day of the event? Why are those numbers relevant to Crowley?'

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Is Jesus a Remake of Osiris?

Osiris...was successively god of the Nile, a life-giver, a sun-god, god of justice and love, and finally a resurrected god who ruled in the afterlife.... The most popular legend about Osiris is one of a resurrected god. He was killed by Set, the god of darkness... Osiris was then resurrected and went to live on high. Osiris became the first of a long line of resurrected deities—Tammuz, Mithras, Balder, Christ. Every spring the life of Osiris was re-enacted at Abydos in a stirring passion play, dating back to the eighteenth or nineteenth century before Christ. This play is the earliest record in history of drama.'

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Osborne 'Exaggerated Debt Crisis'

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has rejected claims that the coalition's swingeing spending cuts threatened the economic recovery.

Britain's new Nobel Prize winning economist, Professor Christopher Pissarides, has warned that the Government was taking "unnecessary risks" at a time when the economy remained weak.

He accused Chancellor George Osborne of having "exaggerated" the threat of a Greek-style sovereign debt crisis unless drastic action was taken to tackle the UK's record deficit.'

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Dr. Guillebaud Promotes Depopulation at Cambridge University

Being Bank Of America Means NEVER Having To Say You’re Sorry For Countrywide Fraud

The prospect of a second legal assault is more recent. Shortly before the earnings call, Bank of America (nyse: BAC) received a letter from a lawyer representing eight powerful institutional investors, including BlackRock, Pimco and — most amazing of all — the New York Federal Reserve. The letter was a not-so-veiled threat to sue the bank unless it agrees to buy back billions of dollars worth of loans that are in securitized mortgage bonds the investors own.

Mainly, they are saying that Bank of America was servicing loans in these bonds that the bank knew violated the underwriting standards that the investors had been led to believe the bank was conforming to. What’s more, they said, the bank had never come clean about all the bad loans, as it was required to do. Therefore, say the investors, the bank has a contractual obligation to buy back the bad loans.'

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The Hate Mongers Among Us

Lawsuit Alleges that MERS Owes California a Potential $60-120 Billion in Unpaid Land-Recording Fees

In creating MERS, these institutions actually changed the land-title system that this country - for much of its history - has relied upon to determine legal ownership status of land titleholders.

Not only did the lenders sidestep (read that to mean avoid) paying billions of dollars in fees to local governments, they paid themselves from the fees that MERS collected.'

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Ministers Plan Huge Sell-off of Britain's Forests

Caroline Spelman, the Environment Secretary, is expected to announce plans within days to dispose of about half of the 748,000 hectares of woodland overseen by the Forestry Commission by 2020.

The controversial decision will pave the way for a huge expansion in the number of Center Parcs-style holiday villages, golf courses, adventure sites and commercial logging operations throughout Britain as land is sold to private companies.

Legislation which currently governs the treatment of "ancient forests" such as the Forest of Dean and Sherwood Forest is likely to be changed giving private firms the right to cut down trees.'

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U.S. Seeks to Dismiss UBS Criminal Tax Evasion Case

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to dismiss a criminal prosecution against UBS AG that led to the Swiss bank paying a $780 million penalty and admitting it helped wealthy U.S. clients evade taxes.

In a filing on Friday in the U.S. district court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, prosecutors said UBS has complied with an 18-month agreement to defer prosecution, after helping roughly 17,000 clients with $20 billion of assets hide their accounts from the Internal Revenue Service.'

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Quadruple-Dose Seasonal Flu 'Super' Vaccine Now Being Aggressively Pushed Onto Senior Citizens

The vaccine industry has now decided that injecting senior citizens with the "standard" vaccine dose just isn't working. (Gee, really?) So now they've decided the way to make it work better is to offer a quadruple viral potency vaccine that packs 400% more viral fragments into one toxic shot.

The target for this quadruple vaccine injection? Senior citizens, of course -- the very people most likely to suffer the most serious side effects from a vaccine overdose. The FDA reportedly approved the new vaccine in April even though no scientific tests have ever been done to show it reduces flu symptoms. Then again, since when did vaccines have anything to do with real science in the first place?'

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Ongoing Iran War Preparations? Arabian Sea: Center Of West's 21st Century War

The monumental expansion of arms sales and the buildup of naval and air power in the Arabian Sea region are unprecedented. They are also alarming to the highest degree.

A quarter of the world's nuclear aircraft carriers will soon be in the Arabian Sea.'

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Almost 700 Civilians, Including Pregnant Women and the Mentally Ill, Killed for Coming Too Close to Checkpoints.

Israel Approves Plan to Judaize al-Quds

Israeli ministers have endorsed a plan to turn al-Quds (Jerusalem) into a national priority zone in another attempt to strengthen Tel Aviv's illegal claim to sovereignty over the holy city.

On Sunday, the Ministerial Committee on Legislation approved the plan, which was proposed by Israeli parliamentarian Uri Ariel, who had called it a "change in the government's approach," the Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported.

The occupied city's final status is one of the thorniest issues in the stalemated talks between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Tel Aviv.

Claiming all of al-Quds as its "eternal and indivisible" capital, Israel annexed the eastern part, where a number of sites sacred to Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, are located, following the Six-Day War of 1967.'

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Queen's £38 Million a Year Offshore Windfarm Windfall - Because She Owns the Seabed

The Royal Family have secured a lucrative deal that will earn them tens of millions of pounds from the massive expansion of offshore windfarms.
They will net up to £37.5 million extra income every year from the drive for green energy because the seabed within Britain’s ter­ritorial waters is owned by the Crown Estate.

Under new measures announced by Chancellor George Osborne last week, the Royals will soon get 15 per cent of the profits from the Estate’s £6 billion property portfolio, rather than the existing Civil List arrangement.'

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Torture, Killing, Children Shot – and How the US Tried to Keep it All Quiet

So now we begin to know the full extent of what Tony Blair called the blood price. A detainee tortured with live electrical wires here, children shot by US troops at a checkpoint there, insurgents using children to carry out suicide bombings somewhere else; on and on, through 391,832 documents. At the Pentagon, these messages were the day-to-day commonplaces of staff inboxes; for Iraqis, they detail, in the emotionless jargon of the US military, nothing less than the hacking open of a nation's veins.

Today, seven and a half years on from the order to invade, the largest leak in history has shown, far more than has been hitherto known, just what was unleashed by that declaration of war. The Iraqi security services tortured hundreds, and the US military watched, noted and emailed, but rarely intervened. A US helicopter gunship crew were ordered to shoot insurgents trying to surrender. A doctor sold al-Qa'ida a list of female patients with learning difficulties so they could be duped into being suicide bombers. A private US company, which made millions of dollars from the outsourcing of security duties, killed civilians. And the Americans, who have always claimed never to count civilian deaths, were in fact secretly logging them. At a conservative estimate, the new documents add at least 15,000 to the war's death toll.'

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Italian Women Face 500 Euro Fine for Wearing Miniskirts

In a move sharply at odds with a country which produced the likes of Monica Bellucci and Sophia Loren, the town of Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples, intends to prohibit women from wearing provocative clothing.

The town's council also wants to ban men and women from wearing low-slung jeans as part of a list of 41 new rules that "every good citizen must respect".

The centre-Right mayor, Luigi Bobbio, said it was all part of an effort to "restore urban decorum and improve coexistence" by targeting people who were "rowdy, unruly or simply badly behaved".

Playing football in parks and gardens and swearing in public will also be banned under new regulations which will be put forward for approval at a council meeting on Monday.'

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Double the Stimulus Double The Fun: $200 Million Spent on Stimulus Signs

Six Months Later, an Oil Disaster Spreads Across the Gulf

But there was one experience I'll always remember. I was at a Port Sulphur town hall meeting with BP money czar Ken Feinberg when news broke that the BP well was plugged. After 87 days of anxiety and repeated failures to tame the beast, the news was met with mere tepid applause. People were tired and scared of the future. They knew the real test was ahead of them.

Once the well stopped spewing crude, it didn't take long for the media to pull out. Without dramatic visuals of a volcano of crude gushing from the bottom of the sea, there were other stories to pursue. But even though most media left, the oil never did. It still washes in with the tide as tar balls and sheen, visible when boat engines kick up the mud in the shallow waters of the marsh.'

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Professor Michael Keefer: Criticize Israel - Go To Jail?

Face to Face with Jack Etkin: #46 Professor Michael Keefer: Criticize Israel - Go To Jail? from ICTV Victoria on Vimeo.