Gordon Brown Calls For New World Order to Beat Recession 'Mr Brown will call on fellow world leaders to use the current worldwide economic downturn as an opportunity to thoroughly reform international financial institutions and create a new "truly global society" with Britain, the US and Europe providing leadership. His call comes ahead of an emergency summit of world leaders and finance ministers from 20 major countries, the G20, in Washington next weekend.' Council House 'Tenancies For Life' Likely To Be Scrapped to Ease Housing Shortage 'Council house tenancies for life are likely to be scrapped under radical Government plans to ease the chronic housing shortage. Tenants would instead be given fixed-term contracts with regular reviews to ensure their circumstances entitle them to subsidised housing, it was reported last night. Those whose financial situation improves will be forced to move into the private sector, purchase part-ownership of their home or face higher rents. The right to a council house could also be made conditional on tenants having or actively looking for a job.' RBS Throws Secret £300,000 Champagne Party... Weeks After £20bn Taxpayer Bail-out 'The Royal Bank of Scotland has blown £300,000 on a secret champagne junket for executives - less than a month after being given a £20billion handout by the taxpayer. Bankers and their partners enjoyed the lavish party to mark their 'success' after a year in which the collapse of the banking industry led to global financial meltdown. The supposedly stricken bank laid on the celebration amid extraordinary secrecy to try to prevent details reaching the public, even cancelling the original venue, a top hotel in Hampshire, and transferring the party 350 miles north to Edinburgh.' Cities, States Questioning Wisdom of Adding Fluoride Chemicals to Public Water Supplies Grand Rapids, Mich. has become the most recent city to question the practice of fluoridating public water, as part of a growing tendency for local governments to question the use of many chemicals that formerly been taken for granted. "I think this pattern has been growing because there is better environmental health research that draws connections between low levels of chemical exposure and changes in our bodies," said Dr. Howard Hu of the University of Michigan. "As the research has become more sophisticated, it shows that environmental toxicants can do other things beyond just kill you: they can stunt your growth, change behavior and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease." In Secret Agreement Shell Nets 25 Year Monopoly On Southern Iraq's Gas 'Royal Dutch Shell oil company and the Iraqi Oil Ministry have struck a secret, as-of-yet non-binding agreement that gives a monopoly over southern Iraq's natural gas to the energy giant. It marks the first time in over 35 years a Western oil company has played a major role in the country's most lucrative industry.' Obama's Council on Foreign Relations Crew 'Meet some of president elect Obama’s leading foreign and domestic policy advisors and likely administration members, every one of them a prominent member of the Council On Foreign Relations. Will these people bring about "change" or will they continue to hold up the same entrenched system forged by the corporate elite for decades?' MPs Seek To Censor The MediaMonday, 10 November 2008 Monday, 10 November 2008 Monday, 10 November 2008 Monday, 10 November 2008 Monday, 10 November 2008 Monday, 10 November 2008
Monday, 10 November 2008
'Britain's security agencies and police would be given unprecedented and legally binding powers to ban the media from reporting matters of national security, under proposals being discussed in Whitehall. The Intelligence and Security Committee, the parliamentary watchdog of the intelligence and security agencies which has a cross-party membership from both Houses, wants to press ministers to introduce legislation that would prevent news outlets from reporting stories deemed by the Government to be against the interests of national security.'
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