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Iraq: The War Was Illegal 'The Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war will consider a letter from Lord Goldsmith, then Mr Blair's top law officer, advising him that deposing Saddam would be in breach of international law, according to a report in The Mail on Sunday. But Mr Blair refused to accept Lord Goldsmith's advice and instead issued instructions for his long-term friend to be "gagged" and barred from cabinet meetings, the newspaper claimed. Lord Goldsmith apparently lost three stone, and complained he was "more or less pinned to the wall" in a No 10 showdown with two of Mr Blair's most loyal aides, Lord Falconer and Baroness Morgan. Mr Blair also allegedly failed to inform the Cabinet of the warning, fearing an "anti-war revolt".' Read more...

Criminal Checks for All Sixth Formers 'Every teenager is likely to face a criminal record check under plans for all young people to take part in compulsory community service.' Read more...

Schools Vet Parents for Christmas Festivities 'Parents who want to accompany their children to Christmas carol services and other festive activities are being officially vetted for criminal records in case they are paedophiles. In the latest expansion of the government’s child protection agenda, parents are checked against a database of people banned from working with children for sex offences and for other reasons. Among those affected are parents at a village primary school who have been told they must be vetted before they can accompany pupils on a 10-minute walk to a morning carol service at the local church.Other primaries have instituted vetting for parents attending Christmas discos on school premises. Some schools require checks on parents who volunteer to walk with children from the school to post letters to Father Christmas.' Read more...

Irish Government and Media Collude to Carry Out Biggest Crime in Country's History 'The swine flu vaccination programme will begin in schools on Monday, the HSE has confirmed. A spokeswoman said larger schools would be visited first by vaccination teams “to get higher numbers done in the first batches”. The HSE has written to the first schools being targeted and others will be written to in coming weeks. All school staff will also be offered the vaccination.' Read more...

WHO-Linked Scientists Mixing Swine And Bird Flu To Create Deadly Virus 'In one of the safest laboratories in the world, scientists are intent on mixing one of the most contagious viruses in this world with one of the most deadly ones, she writes. The goal is to find out whether swine flu and bird flu can end up as a deadly mixture, writes the Norwegian news agency ANB. Swine flu (H1N1) is very contagious, but ends up only killing a minority of the persons who actually get the flu. Bird flu (H5N1), on the other hand, kills more than 60 percent of its human victims, but only in rare cases spreads from person to person. Should those two viruses mix or mutate, a new horror virus might appear: A virus as devastating as the avian flu virus and as contagious as the swine flu virus.' Read more...

World 'Leaders' Totally Ignore Climategate, Says: 'Momentum Building on Climate Change' 'Leaders of the Commonwealth countries called Saturday for a legally binding international agreement on climate change and a global fund with billions of dollars to help poorer countries meet its mandates.The 53-nation meeting was the largest gathering of world leaders before next month's global climate summit in Copenhagen. The leaders said a deal should be adopted no later than next year and the support money should be available simultaneously, providing up to $10 billion a year starting in 2012.' Read more...

Why I Believe Blair Should Stand Trial - And Even Face Charges for War Crimes, by General Sir Michael Rose 'For it is not just Blair who should be held to account. In the run-up to the Iraq war, it is clear that MPs failed sufficiently to question the validity of the intelligence used by Blair to justify the war - choosing to believe what they were told and supinely accepting the conclusions of the infamous 'dodgy dossier' which warned that Saddam could launch an attack on the West within 45 minutes. During the debate on the dossier on September 24, 2002, they failed to challenge the Prime Minister even though it would have been a simple matter to determine whether the missiles that Saddam supposedly possessed were tactical or strategic weapons.' Read more...

Mandelson Faces Probe Over His 'Favours' to Oligarch 'Lord Mandelson is facing a fresh inquiry into accusations that he did 'improper' favours for his Russian billionaire friend, Oleg Deripaska. A German MEP has demanded that the European Commission investigate what she claims is the Business Secretary's 'conflict of interest' when he twice lowered aluminium tariffs during his time as Brussels Trade Commissioner. Those moves directly benefited Mr Deripaska, whose company Rusal is the world's largest aluminium concern.' Read more.. ClimateGate Who's Who Obama, Maurice Strong, Al Gore Key Players Cashing in on Chicago Climate Exchange ' “Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Program He Is Now Pushing Through Congress” is a FOXNews story by Ed Barnes. In short, “While on the board of a Chicago-based charity, Barack Obama helped fund a carbon trading exchange that will likely play a critical role in the cap-and-trade carbon reduction program he is now trying to push through Congress as president.” ' Read more... How the Bank of England Made £62bn 'Disappear' 'How easy is it to hide £62 billion? That is the question that has been flummoxing the City today. For it transpires that last autumn, to the almost complete ignorance of most of the City (and, I admit, most of the journalists who, like myself, keep a pretty close eye on the UK economy), the Bank of England lent a staggering amount of cash to Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS.' Read more... Fed Audit Would Hurt US Economic Prospects, says Bernanke 'Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said yesterday congressional proposals to audit the Fed and strip it of regulatory powers as part of post-crisis reforms could damage prospects for economic and financial health in the future.' Read more... Swine Flu Alert -- Shocking Vaccine Miscarriage Horror Stories 'U.S. health authorities have made pregnant women one of the highest priority groups for getting the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, but is it actually safe for pregnant women and their babies? In fact, the package inserts for the swine flu vaccines actually say that the safety of these vaccines for pregnant women has not been established. And miscarriage reports from pregnant women who have taken the H1N1 swine flu vaccine are starting to pour in from all over the nation. The link below contains stories that will shock and anger you. If you are a pregnant mother, please do not take the H1N1 swine flu vaccine. Instead, do everything that you can do to avoid public places and make sure to wash your hands more than you usually would. Research the many great natural ways there are for fighting the flu.' Read more... Climate Change: This is the Worst Scientific Scandal of Our Generation 'Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with a whitewash regarding statistics for global warming. A week after my colleague James Delingpole, on his Telegraph blog, coined the term "Climategate" to describe the scandal revealed by the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, Google was showing that the word now appears across the internet more than nine million times. But in all these acres of electronic coverage, one hugely relevant point about these thousands of documents has largely been missed. The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).' Read more...