Fury Over £1 Billion Stealth Carbon Tax in Spending Review

About 5,000 large and medium-sized companies with bills of more than £500,000 per year will be hit by the new tax.

George Osborne, the Chancellor, did not mention the levy in his spending cuts speech. But the details were buried in Treasury documents setting out how money will be raised to pay down the deficit.

Starting in April 2012, the Treasury plans to collect money from all businesses forced to enter its Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme.

The green measure was due to be introduced in April 2011 to force companies to buy "allowances" at £12 for every tonne of carbon dioxide they emit.

Previously, the best performing businesses would have received rebates if they reduced emissions, while poor performers would pay in full. The scheme will now simply penalise companies according to the amount of carbon dioxide they produce.'

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Dining With the Enemy: Al Qaeda Leader Linked to 9/11 Hijackers 'Was Invited to the Pentagon for Lunch After Attacks'

An Al Qaeda leader who is one of the most wanted men in the world was invited for lunch at the Pentagon in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a new report has claimed.

New documents have been obtained which apparently detail how Anwar Al-Awlaki, the first American on the CIA's kill or capture list, rubbed shoulders with high-ranking military personnel just months after the atrocities.
Fox News claim to have acquired documents that state that Awlaki was taken to the U.S. Department of Defense's headquarters as part of the military's outreach program to the Muslim community in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks.

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Woman Receives $2,500 Bill for Damage to Guard Rail That Severed Her Leg in Horrific Car Crash

An Illinois woman has been left horrified after receiving a bill for the damages caused by a crash in which she lost part of her right leg.

Marzena Mulawka, 27, was driving on a snowy stretch of Interstate 80 in western Pennsylvania in January when she says a tractor trailer struck her car from behind.

The impact was so great that it sent her vehicle spinning into the end of a guardrail which pierced her car with such force that the driver's door was pushed over to the passenger side.'

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Snuggly The Wiretap Friendly Bear

INSIDE JOB: New Documentary Exposes How 'Banksters' Continue To Steal Our Money

ADA Study Confirms Dangers of Fluoridated Water, Especially for Babies

Advocates of fluoridated water insist that the chemical additive is good for teeth, but actual science routinely shows otherwise, including a new study published in the Journal of the American Dental Association confirming fluoride as a toxic substance that actually destroys teeth, particularly those of developing young children and babies.'

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Israel Torture Palestinian Children by Electric-Shocking

Gush Etzion settlement interrogator attached car battery jump leads to the genitals of a 14-year old boy in order to obtain a confession to stone throwing. Three documented cases of children reporting being given electric shocks by Israeli interrogators occurred in Ari'el Settlement. Each was accused of stone throwing. Electric shocking extracted confessions although the boys maintain their innocence.'

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James Cameron - Hypocrite

The Big Wall Street Banks Have Found A New Way To Strangle The American People: Predatory Property Tax Collection

It turns out that the big Wall Street banks have found a dirty new way to make loads of cash from U.S. homeowners, and they really, really don't want to talk about it. So what is this dirty new business? America's biggest financial institutions have become property tax collectors, and it is extremely lucrative.

From coast to coast, the big Wall Street banks are buying up thousands upon thousands of tax liens and are making a killing by socking distressed homeowners with predatory interest, outrageous penalties and almost unbelievable legal fees. In some areas, the big banks are able to foreclose on these homes in as little as six months. The elderly and the poor are the most common targets of these practices.'

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Viva Palestine Convoy Breaks Siege and Enters Gaza

7/7 Inquest: Government Offers New (Still Unbelievable) Version of Train Times

It needs to be understood that the government have created a new narrative for the bombers journey for this Inquest.

They had to.

The old one – promoted for a whole year after the event, written up in the Government’s Official Account (2006), and then by Andy Hayman, in his 2009 book “The Terrorist Hunters” - had become simply untenable.

The original narrative has them leaving Luton at 7.40, and then hopping into a CCTV frame at 8.26 at King’s Cross. The trouble was, I and James Stuart checked out the actual train times that day, which turned out all to have had massive delays (see the Table below) – the Four would have arrived at King’s Cross far too late to board the relevant trains.'

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Rawesome Foods Raw Milk Co-op Raid Conducted by Criminal Elements of Local, State and Federal Law Enforcement

On June 30, 2010, a group of armed government agents from local, state, federal and even the Canadian government illegally trespassed on private property and raided Rawesome Foods, a private food buying club in Venice, California. With guns drawn, these agents tore through the property stealing computers, raw dairy products and honey, all while holding some of the volunteer workers hostage for several hours. When the agents finally left, they took with them thousands of dollars in private property as well as the surveillance footage of their armed rampage.

Sounds like a scene out of a horror movie, right? Except this actually happened, though unless you're tuned in to the health freedom movement, you've probably heard nothing about it. Most of the mainstream media outlets would never touch a story like this because it exposes just how tyrannical and out of control our government has become on issues like raw milk and food freedom.'

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Researchers Suggest Viagra for Young Boys

New research out of the University of Washington (UW) has some astounding new propositions for the use of Viagra, an erectile dysfunction drug made by Pfizer Inc. According to the report, young boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) can benefit from taking the drug because it allegedly treats the heart problems that typically emerge as a result of the disease.

Eager to expand the scope of Viagra's prescribed uses, some researchers are now claiming that the drug helps to treat all sorts of diseases, even though it is linked to hearing loss, infertility and nerve damage among other things. But none of this has stopped co-authors Stanley Froehner, a professor of physiology and biophysics at UW, and Joseph Beavo, a professor of pharmacology at UW, from suggesting that Viagra now be used on adolescent boys.

DMD is a severe degenerative disease that eats away at spinal muscles, confining people who have it to wheelchairs by the time they are roughly ten years old. DMD can eventually cause heart failure as well, which is what the study authors claim Viagra will help prevent. But such a proposition is not only irresponsible based on the drug's many side effects, but insane when considering the repercussions.

Froehner and Beavo have even suggested that young boys between the ages of eight and twelve be given Viagra as a preventive measure, before they even show any signs of heart problems. And they say that the dosage amounts for such purposes will most likely be higher than those given to older men to treat erectile dysfunction.'

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Facing Death on Gaza's Border

Leading Rabbi Encourages Israeli Soldiers to use Palestinians as Human Shields

A leading rabbi in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar has encouraged Israel Defense Forces soldiers to make use of the outlawed "neighbor procedure" while operating in Palestinian areas.

"Anything you do to keep the war tough is permissible, and obligatory according to the torah," Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, headmaster of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva, wrote in fliers distributed to his students.'

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'Saudi Agents Behind al-Qaeda in Yemen'

"Our war today against al-Qaeda elements resembles fighting between and guerrillas and armed groups," Mohammad Khadhar, deputy director of the security office in the town of Mudia, told al-Alam news network on Wednesday.

Khadhar pointed to presence of foreign forces among al-Qaeda militants in Yemen and charged Saudi officials with providing the extremists with military training.

He further added that the Saudi agents have also been recruiting Yemeni youths in the southern region.'

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US Gets Israel's Permission for Saudi Arms Sale

The United States announced plans to sell the Arab kingdom up to USD 60 billion worth of arms, AFP quoted Andrew Shapiro, assistant secretary of defense for political-military affairs, as saying on Wednesday.

The package is to be delivered over 15 to 20 years and includes 84 F-15 jets, 70 Apache gunships, 72 Blackhawk helicopters, 36 light helicopters and thousands of laser-guided smart bombs.

The enormous package is said by the Pentagon to give Riyadh "a whole host of defensive" and "deterrence capabilities." The US Defense Department has also made clear that the deal will not affect "Israel's military upper-hand in the region".'

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Fannie, Freddie Bailout May Hit $363bn

According to government projections released on Thursday, the entire bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which has already cost US taxpayers $148 billion, can reach as high as $363 billion if the US falls into a double-dip recession, The Los Angeles Times reported.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency, which has been regulating the two enterprises since they were seized during the financial crisis in 2008, says in the best-case scenario the bailouts of Fannie and Freddie would reach $221 billion.

The current projections point at an estimated $238 billion combined bailout price tag, the agency said.'

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Iran War Would End Humanity: Castro

"Today there is imminent risk of war with the use of that kind of weapon and I don't harbor the least doubt that an attack by the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran would inevitably evolve towards a global nuclear conflict," Castro said in a video address released on the Cubadebate website on Thursday.

"The use of nuclear weapons in a new war would mean the end of humanity," he stated in the four-minute video.

The former Cuban leader also called on world powers to eliminate all nuclear weapons.'

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British Payments to EU Set to Rise £900m Next Year

A £6.5 billion EU budget rise that would increase EU spending by six per cent to £114.5 billion – of which £9.2 billion would be the British contribution – was voted through by MEPs in Strasbourg.

The increase, which Britain has so far failed to block, will cost the British taxpayer an extra £884 million and is a sum equivalent to the costs of employing an additional 14,000 NHS doctors, 29,000 nurses, 34,000 police constables or 52,000 Army privates.

David Cameron was questioned over the "obscene" Strasbourg vote by back-bench Conservative MPs during Prime Minister's Questions and pledged to oppose the increase during negotiations in Brussels next month.'

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Police Quiz Two Following Ayahuasca Drugs Swoop in Dartington

A couple have been arrested on suspicion of importing a powerful drug linked to a secretive religion, following a police raid on a Dartington home.

Officers from the Serious and Organised Crime Investigation Team headed up the raid which seized what is believed to be a quantity of ayahuasca — a liquid which contains the powerful hallucinogenic dimethyltryptamine, also known as DMT, a designated Class A drug in this country.'

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EU Leader To Dissenter: 'How Dare You Say I Was Not Elected, I Was Elected By The Commission In Secret'

In democratic politics there is a distinct difference between selection and election. However, according to European Commission President, José Barroso, the two are interchangeable.

Barroso tore into British member of European Parliament Nigel Farage today, after the UK Independence Party member accused Barroso of using illegitimate powers to implement a direct tax on all EU citizens.

“Well Mr Barroso, you’re certainly flexing your muscles, using the powers given to you by the Lisbon Treaty, which you pushed through using illegitimate means.” Farage said in a speech before the EC.'

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Violent Anarchists Help French Authorities Crush Pension Protests

Violent anarchists in France who have spent the last week pointlessly smashing shop windows and setting fire to cars have “shot the protest movement in the foot” by demonizing legitimate union demonstrators and allowing the government to crackdown with paramilitary forces, according to a leading French labor expert.'

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Prosecutor Proposes Jail for Parents Who Skip Kids’ School Conferences

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy is pushing for a law that calls for jail time for parents who skip parent-teacher conferences, a plan some call inspired and others consider the nanny state run amok.

Worthy pitched her plan Tuesday to the Detroit City Council and is shopping it to the Wayne County Commission and state Legislature. Drawing a link between parental involvement and youth crime, Worthy wants a sponsor to guide the idea to law.'

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911 Called to Help Stabbing Victim, Police Help by Shooting Stabbing Victim’s 15-Yr-Old Son

It happened at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday in the 4500 block of Brandie Glen Road in north Charlotte.

CMPD officers responded to a call for service in reference to a person stabbed. The victim, a woman, told officers her attacker might still be in the area.

While police were looking for the suspect, two people approached them. Officers saw that one person had a shiny object in his hand, and the officers told the person to drop the object.

According to police, the person kept approaching and did not drop the object, so police fired, hitting him several times.

Then, officers learned the person who was shot by the officer is the son of the woman who was stabbed, and was not part of the earlier assault.'

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Big Pharma Game Plan Revealed?

For those of us in the natural health field, any headline stating that B vitamins can help the brain, and be particularly useful for people with Alzheimer’s, certainly wouldn’t be considered ‘new’ or ‘ground-breaking’. We are repeatedly told by the media and mainstream medicine that vitamins are bad for you and even downright dangerous at dosages higher than the recommended daily allowances (RDA).

That is until a study comes along with such overwhelmingly strong evidence that even the diehards worshipping at the feet of evidence-based medicine (EBM) have to capitulate. So it is with the ‘new’ and ‘ground-breaking’ study conducted at Oxford University, UK, which found a staggering 53% improvement in 85 patients with brain shrinkage associated with 'mild cognitive impairment' (MCI) which, for many, precedes full-blown dementia and Alzheimer's disease. The drug's active constituents? You have it, the trio of good ol' B vitamins associated with lowering homocysteine: folic acid, B6 and B12.'

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Argentina Alert - Patagonia In Danger

Patagonia is the name of the southernmost region of Argentina comprising the provinces of Río Negro, Neuquén, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego, together with their Chilean counterpart regions on the Pacific Ocean side of the Andes Mountains. This article highlights the growing signs that this South American Region has been targeted by the Global Power Elite and will be lost by both Argentina and Chile. The Elite plan, in fact, can be traced back to over a century ago. No surprise when you consider that Patagonia has incalculable wealth ­ oil, gas, minerals, food, water, fish, grains and cattle.'

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You Cut Me Deep! UK Loses Global Ambition With Job & Budget Slashing

SO IT BEGINS -- Bank of America Accused of Racketeering in Class Action Foreclosure Lawsuit

Bank of America Corp. (nyse: BAC) and its Countrywide Home Loans unit were accused of racketeering in a lawsuit filed by two Indiana residents claiming that perjured affidavits were used to foreclose on their home.

Dwayne Ransom Davis and Melisa Davis filed the complaint yesterday in federal court in Indianapolis. Their lawyer, Irwin Levin, confirmed the filing in a phone interview. The filing couldn’t be independently verified.

“The defendants and their cohorts engaged in a pattern of racketeering activity in which they routinely and repeatedly prepared perjured affidavits in order to rapidly churn foreclosures,” the couple said in the complaint.'

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Nurse Exposes Toxic Flu Vaccine, Manufacturer Did NOT Research Side Effects

Big Pharma, fresh with a new trick up their sleeve, has added the swine flu and multiple other vaccines to the seasonal flu vaccine. Vaccine Propaganda is in full throttle. Grocery stores, commercials, government agents, and the corporate news have all pushed this eugenics operation on the American people.

Most people seem to think that if the vaccine is so toxic then more doctors would be speaking out against it. They are! Hundreds if not thousands of doctors have exposed the vaccine fraud and been literally blackballed by Big Pharma agents within the medical community.

Luckily, a patriot nurse has taken video of the actual package insert. What she found is horrific but should be no surprise to anyone reading this or the plethora of other alternative news outlets. No clinical tests, decreased fertility, and over 20 deaths.'

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Margrit Kennedy Speaks on an Interest Free Economy

In UK, Every Email and Website to be Stored by Government

It will allow security services and the police to spy on the activities of every Briton who uses a phone or the internet.

Moves to make every communications provider store details for at least a year will be unveiled later this year sparking fresh fears over a return of the surveillance state.

The plans were shelved by the Labour Government last December but the Home Office is now ready to revive them.'

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'Kicked, Set on fire, Beaten to Death': Rise of Violence Against America's Homeless

Over the past eleven years, advocates and homeless shelter workers from around the country have received news reports of men, women and even children being harassed, kicked, set on fire, beaten to death, and even decapitated. Since 1999, the National Coalition for the Homeless has issued an annual report on hate crimes against the homeless.

During this time, our network of advocates has tracked and 1,074 acts of violence committed by housed individuals, resulting in 291 deaths of homeless people and 783 victims of non-lethal violence in 47 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, DC.'

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Thyroid Cancer Patients Turned Into Walking Dirty Bombs After Drinking Radioactive Poison as Cancer Therapy

My, you look glowing today! Cancer patients who receive radiation of their thyroid glands by being given radioactive iodine are highly radioactive for up to a week following their release from the hospital -- and they end up irradiating not just hospital rooms but also other patients, friends and family members. Radiation levels are so high in these people that they have set off radiation alarms designed to detect terrorist threats, says a congressional report.

Pregnant women, elderly patients and cancer patients of all ages are right now being exposed to harmful levels of ionizing radiation from these "walking dirty bombs" known as thyroid cancer patients. A part of their "cancer treatment," they are instructed by doctors to drink a radioactive liquid containing iodine-131 (a radioisotope of iodine) which travels to their thyroid gland and burns it out with radiation. Believe it or not, this is called "scientific medicine." Really.'

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US Contractors Role in War

US troops numbers have increased since Barack Obama became president. But they are still outnumbered by private companies that have been hired to carry out some US operations.

A recent US senate report found many of these private contractors are funnelling funds to Afghan regional commanders.

Tom Ackerman reports on how the contractors themselves view their future.

US Demands End to Resisting Israel

The US has urged Palestinians to give up resistance against Israel and instead turn to negotiations as talks between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Tel Aviv remain deadlocked.

"Negotiations are not easy, but they are absolutely necessary. It is always easier to defer decisions than it is to make them," said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, quoted by Reuters on Wednesday.

The remarks come amid a stalemate in direct US-sponsored talks between the PA and Israel over Tel Aviv's refusal to renew a 10-month, partial moratorium on its settlement construction in the West Bank following its expiry on September 26.'

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500,000 Public Sector Jobs to Go: Danny Alexander Lets the Cat Out of the Bag on Spending Cuts

The coalition expects 500,000 public sector jobs to be lost as a result of the drastic spending cuts, it was revealed today.

Danny Alexander let slip the forecast when he was spotted driving into the Treasury with an open copy of the Comprehensive Spending Review on his lap.
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury - who has been nicknamed Beaker after the Muppets character - was reading the document, which was caught on camera by waiting photographers.'

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Sarkozy and Merkel: We Need a New EU Treaty

Following a meeting in France, the French President threw his weight behind calls from the German Chancellor for changes to the Lisbon Treaty in order to prevent future government debt crises threatening the euro zone.

The move is a serious setback for David Cameron because he has opposed any fresh EU institutional changes and recently renewed his "referendum lock" pledge to hold a popular vote on any future treaty that passes new powers to Brussels.

In a joint statement with Chancellor Merkel, President Sarkozy proposed revisions to the EU treaty in order to bring in tough sanctions against countries that threatened the euro's stability by running high levels of government debt and to set up permanent EU bail-out fund.'

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The Fifth Dimension

Beneath the many levels of the battle for control of the planet today there is a fifth dimension. The place where shadows move to turn back the current threat that seeks to consolidate the world into one massive fascist state wherein all power, all privilege and wealth, shall be owned by the very few that seek to own us all.

That realm is where I live and work and have for over half a century. This dimension does not seek to draw attention to itself; but it has many creative followers that keep its arrows sharpened. By its very nature this dimension lives and moves beneath the major events and seeks to draw attention to the root causes that have brought the world to her knees in these dark times. Several million people own this image in one form or another, but very few are aware of what this Citadel of Broken Dreams was really all about.'

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Secret Human RFID Implanting: How and Why

Among greatest violations of human rights and everything the United States stands for is secretly forcing RFID chips into humans without their knowledge or consent as James Walbert and an untold number of American children and adults are experiencing. In the Majestic Picture Productions documentary trailer below, a whistleblower explains how and why he was covertly implanted by a dentist.

The retired Sacramento, California firefighter paramedic whistleblower's filmed testimony reinforces the 4-Part Examiner series, "Secretly forced brain implants," including dentistry involvement in the new wave of criminal activity targeting innocent people of integrity.



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EU Dictators Plan Fresh Looting Of Tax Slaves

The sprawling, blood-sucking, dictatorial, EU is trying to fill its coffers at a time when everyone else is being told they must tighten their belts and accept draconian austerity measures, by preparing to impose a new direct tax on European citizens already financially destitute as a result of the economic collapse.

If you want a taste of how the global tax to fund the expansion of world government will be implemented, look no further than the European Commission, which has laid out no less than eight different forms of direct taxation that it wants to impose on citizens of all 27 member states, despite the fact that the majority of people in all of these countries would rather their governments cease all financial commitments to the EU entirely.'

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‘Foreclosure Mill’ Gave Employees Jewelry, Cars, Houses to Forge Documents

According to sworn statements released by the Florida Attorney General's office, one of the state's "foreclosure mills" bribed employees with jewelry, cars and houses to forge and alter documents required by courts conducting foreclosure proceedings.

Kelly Scott and Mary Cordova, two former employees of Florida attorney David J. Stern, were close to the process. Both described to investigators a secretive system designed to speed up foreclosures, and their testimonies seem to match up with claims made by Tammie Lou Kapusta, another former Stern employee.'

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History They Don't Teach You In School 2

Matt Taibi - Magic Money Printing Machine at The Fed

Dark Actors Playing Games

Maude’s relationship with Middleton is an interesting one. Whist Maude is at the centre of a Conservative government supposedly committed to achieving massive public spending cuts, Middleton is hoovering up public money for its socialist ‘leadership’ training. But alongside the common purpose money comes cronyism, if not fraud.

A damning 11 page Confidential Surrey County Council Audit report dated September 2009 was commissioned after an internal investigation could not justify a £48,000 Council deal with Common Purpose to send four senior officers and ten external delegates on a CP training course. Several senior council officers, including the Chief Executive Richard Shaw had previously served on Common Purpose advisory panels and the Council’s normal procurement processes were waived when the contract was awarded. Amongst other criticisms of the Council’s relationship with Common Purpose, the report states: “It is the opinion of the auditor that value for money could not be demonstrated on the subsidy of 10 places on the Surrey [Common Purpose] InsideOUT programme.”

Unreported by mainstream press and media, Sheffield City Council recently had its circa £1 billion public accounts frozen by the auditor due to irregularities concerning Common Purpose contracts. As with Surrey, Sheffield is already infested with Common Purpose graduates.'

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Council Tax, Rebellion, and a Day in Court

Friday 8th October 2010 – A Friday October morning at the Magistrates` Court in the small Welsh town of Brecon seems an unlikely setting for a case that promises to have a fundamental effect on the entire British legal and tax-collecting system. Amongst the usual run-of-the-mill cases that turn up in a small rural community was one involving Powys Council`s application over the non-payment of Council Tax, issued against John Hurst and his wife Tina.

Before anyone jumps to the wrong conclusion, John Hurst is no free-loader. He is a highly responsible and patriotic citizen, a former police officer with an impressive record. His decision not to pay is based on thorough research indicating that councils have no legal right whatsoever to levy such a tax on its citizens. Believing this to be true, John would have therefore committed an offence by actually paying the tax, as the majority of us already have. Given that ignorance of the law is no defence, it places the overwhelming majority of hitherto respectable British citizens in an invidious situation and the courts in an even worse one.'

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From Global Depression to Global Governance

We now stand at the edge of the global financial abyss of a ‘Great Global Debt Depression,’ where nations, mired in extreme debt, are beginning to implement ‘fiscal austerity’ measures to reduce their deficits, which will ultimately result in systematic global social genocide, as the middle classes vanish and the social foundations upon which our nations rest are swept away. How did we get here? Who brought us here? Where is this road leading? These are questions I will briefly attempt to answer.

At the heart of the global political economy is the central banking system. Central banks are responsible for printing a nation’s currency and setting interest rates, thus determining the value of the currency. This should no doubt be the prerogative of a national government, however, central banks are of a particularly deceptive nature, in which while being imbued with governmental authority, they are in fact privately owned by the world’s major global banks, and are thus profit-seeking institutions. How do central banks make a profit? The answer is simple: how do all banks make a profit? Interest on debt. Loans are made, interest rates are set, and profits are made. It is a system of debt, imperial economics at its finest.'

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Joe Miller's Private 'Guards' Were Active-duty Military

One of the more disturbing election incidents took place in Alaska on Sunday night, when private "guards" working for GOP Senate nominee Joe Miller forcibly detained and handcuffed a journalist as he tried to ask the candidate questions which he did not want to answer. This photograph shows the journalist, Alaska Dispatch's Tony Hopfinger, handcuffed in a chair, surrounded by Miller's guards.

This story became much worse yesterday when video was released that was taken by a reporter from the Anchorage Daily News showing that these guards thuggishly threatened at least two other reporters, from ADN, with physical detention as they tried to find out what happened, demanded that they leave or else "be handcuffed," and physically blocked them from filming the incident all while threatening to physically remove them from the event, which was advertised to the public.

But revelations today have made the story much, much worse still. ADN now reports that not only was Joe Miller's excuse for why he had hired private guards a lie, but two of the guards who handcuffed the journalist and threatened others are active-duty soldiers in the U.S. military.

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NATO Transfer Taliban Leaders to Kabul

US-led forces have provided transportation for Taliban leaders to cross Pakistan's border as secret talks begin between the Afghan government and the Taliban, Afghan officials say.

According to the officials, Taliban leaders have crossed the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and boarded a NATO aircraft bound for the Afghan capital city, Kabul.

NATO troops have reportedly secured roads to allow Taliban leaders to reach Afghan and NATO-controlled areas.'

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