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Saturday, 11 April 2009 Obamanoids ... For Real! 'This doesn't seem so farfetched after all. It surfaced during the presidential campaign. "An Examination of Obama's Use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in His Speeches" purports to contain "over 60 pages of evidence and analysis proving Barack Obama's use of a little-known and highly deceptive and manipulative form of 'hack' hypnosis on millions of unaware Americans, and reveals what only a few psychologists and hypnosis/NLP experts know." It deserves a serious look in light of the following.' Read more...

Saturday, 11 April 2009 Liquidate the Banks; Fire the Executives 'On Tuesday, a congressional panel headed by ex-Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren released a report on Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's handling of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Warren was appointed to lead the five-member Congressional Oversight Panel (COP) in November by Senate majority leader Harry Reid. From the opening paragraph on, the Warren report makes clear that Congress is frustrated with Geithner's so-called "Financial Rescue Plan" and doesn't have the foggiest idea of what he is trying to do. Here are the first few lines of "Assessing Treasury's Strategy: Six Months of TARP": "With this report, the Congressional Oversight Panel examines Treasury's current strategy and evaluates the progress it has achieved thus far. This report returns the Panel's inquiry to a central question raised in its first report: What is Treasury's strategy?" Six months and 1 trillion dollars later, and Congress still cannot figure out what Geithner is up to. It's a wonder the Treasury Secretary hasn't been fired already.' Read more...

Saturday, 11 April 2009 Obama Uses Bush Funding Tactics to Finance Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan 'Antiwar congressman and activists who played a key role in Mr Obama's election campaign criticised him for deploying the same "off the books" funding tactic that were introduced by his predecessor George W Bush.' Read more...

Saturday, 11 April 2009 Britain Stopped us From Vetting People, says Pakistan Envoy 'Phil Woolas, the Immigration Minister, has rejected claims that Britain was failing to co-operate with Pakistani authorities on checking applicants for student visas in Britain. He was reacting to an assertion by the Pakistani High Commissioner in London that the British authorities would not allow Pakistan to help to carry out background checks on applicants for student visas.' Read more...

Saturday, 11 April 2009 Metropolitan Police Chiefs Ordered to Justify Tactics at G20 Protests 'The Metropolitan Police has been ordered to review the crowd-control tactic known as the "kettle", which was used to pen in 5,000 people protesting over the G20 summit in London last week. The Times has learnt that senior Scotland Yard officers who led Operation Glencoe, the plan to protect the summit and prevent disorder, have been summoned to explain their tactics to members of the force's watchdog body.' Read more...

Saturday, 11 April 2009 Ireland Archbishop Admits Child Abuse Report 'Will Shock us All' 'One of Ireland's most senior clergyman admitted yesterday that an imminent report on the sexual abuse of children by clergy will shock the country and reveal that thousands of children were abused by priests.' Read more...

Saturday, 11 April 2009 Raids on 'Bomb Plotters' Finds Absolutely Nothing! 'Raids to foil an alleged al-Qa'ida bomb plot, hurriedly brought forward after a blunder by a senior police officer, are yet to uncover any explosives or firearms, according to senior security sources. But further pressure was growing on the government last night after after it emerged that the suspects being questioned today may have exploited lax student visa regulations to enter the UK from Pakistan.' Read more...

Friday, 10 April 2009 Panetta: CIA No Longer Using Secret Prisons 'The CIA is "no longer" operating secret prisons used by the intelligence agency to interrogate terror suspects, and plans to shut all remaining "black sites," the spy agency's director said Thursday. The statement by the Central Intelligence Agency chief confirmed the spy service was carrying out an order from President Barack Obama to shut down the secret prisons that have been condemned at home and abroad as a flagrant violation of human rights.' Read more...

Friday, 10 April 2009 Openness of Family Courts is a 'Con Trick' 'Jack Straw has been accused of a confidence trick over plans to open the family courts to the media. John Hemming, a Liberal Democrat MP, has warned that although the Justice Secretary's new rules will allow the media to attend family court proceedings for the first time, reports cannot be published without the judge's permission. The media, groups campaigning for justice for families and the English public had each been taken in, he said. "Whether it is by Jack Straw or by forces of reaction in the judiciary - we have all been hoodwinked".' Read more...

Friday, 10 April 2009 British Dental Health Founation Boss Nigel Carter Pushes For Mass Fluoridisation of Water Supplies 'We encourage the fluoridation of water supplies and welcome the planned consultations on the move in the North West and Yorkshire, where decay figures have been higher in the past.' Read more...