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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 Parents Believe Watching Television Is Good For Children 'Despite the negativity often associated with children watching television, eight out of 10 parents questioned believed it has a positive effect on their child's development, including helping them to expand their imagination (63 per cent) and broaden their vocabulary (60 per cent). Three quarters of parents do not feel guilty about their child watching television and when appropriately managed and supervised, believe it can have a positive influence in a child's life, according to psychologist Tanya Byron.' Read more...   Wednesday, 19 November 2008 Did Hitler Really Die In the Bunker or in Argentina? 'After WW II, at least five German U-boats reached Argentina with no less than 50 high ranked Third Reich officials on board. During the trip they sunk a US battle ship and the Brazilian cruiser Bahia with a death toll of more than 400, including US citizens.  Both the US and the British Government have systematically covered up the operation. Why? Did they take Hitler to Patagonia?' Read more...   Wednesday, 19 November 2008 Irish Times Lisbon Poll Fools Public - Deception Has Set in For Referendum 2 'An Irish Times poll asked 1000 people how would they would vote again on the Lisbon treaty if it was modified regarding “neutrality, abortion and taxation” also allowing Ireland to keep it’s EU commissioner. A misleading question; the EU said it will not modify the treaty as it would have to be ratified again by the other 26 national parliaments.' Read more...   Wednesday, 19 November 2008 Beijing Propaganda Chief Hatches Plan to Combat Age of Internet News 'China’s propaganda officials are experimenting with a revolutionary new policy to manage their message in the age of the internet: reporting the news as it happens. The move marks an important shift for the ruling Communist Party, which is accustomed to deciding what will be reported and when. However, far from being a move towards freedom of the press, the aim is to maintain control of the information available to China’s 1.3 billion people.' Read more...   Wednesday, 19 November 2008 Mass Manipulation of Gold and Silver Prices Exposed 'Commodities experts are in agreement that the price of gold and silver is being manipulated by bankers and government officials in order to halt a mass abandonment of paper currencies and the debt based economy.' Read more...   Wednesday, 19 November 2008 Entire BNP Membership List Leaked On Internet 'The entire membership list of the BNP has been posted on the internet. More than 10,000 members of the far-Right organisation are listed, including a serving police officer, a Church of England vicar, members of the Armed Forces, an actor, leading businessmen and former civil servants. Children are also named.' Read more...   Wednesday, 19 November 2008 Bungling Officials Wrongly Issue 300,000 Visas to 'Illegals' Every Year, MPs Told 'Almost 300,000 foreigners a year are allowed into Britain with wrongly approved visas. Up to 15 per cent of short term visas issued by British embassies abroad are given in error, MPs were told.  Once here, migrants with dubious credentials are free to stay on illegally.  The visas are granted because it is easier for staff trying to hit processing targets to approve an application than reject one, explained Linda Costelloe Baker, who monitors Government visa refusals.' Read more... Wednesday, 19 November 2008 Soros Think Tank Pulling Obama's Strings 'Thanks in part to funding from benefactors such as billionaire George Soros, the Center For American Progress has become in just five years an intellectual wellspring for Democratic policy proposals, including many that are shaping the agenda of the new Obama administration.' Read more...   Wednesday, 19 November 2008 Pilots Threaten to Strike Over ID Cards 'The first wave of ID cards to be issued to British citizens has prompted airline pilots to threaten a strike rather than accept the documents. Aviation workers have warned that proposals to make airport staff register for the cards from next year would do little to improve security. The British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa), which represents 10,000 of the 12,000 commercial pilots and flight engineers in Britain, said its members were being treated as "guinea pigs". Jim McAuslan, Balpa's general secretary, said the Government's "early warning system should be flashing" over opposition to the plans.' Read more...   Wednesday, 19 November 2008 Australia Planning To Block 10,000 Websites 'The websites will be blocked as part of a government-sponsored trial of its filter technology that will start before Christmas and last six weeks. The government has already identified 1300 websites that it wants to black list as part of the clean feeds scheme. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the sites mostly contained child pornography and other unwanted content, including images and videos.' Read more...   Wednesday, 19 November 2008 British Judge Calls US, UK World Vigilantes ''One of Britain's most authoritative judicial figures has declared that the US and the UK have acted like 'world vigilantes' in their war against Iraq. "It was not plain that Iraq had failed to comply in a manner justifying resort to force and there were no strong factual grounds or hard evidence to show that it had," said Lord Bingham.' Read more...