Occupiers Involved in the Drug Trade: Afghan Minister 'The Afghan minister of counter narcotics says foreign troops are earning money from drug production in Afghanistan. General Khodaidad Khodaidad said the majority of drugs are stockpiled in two provinces controlled by troops from the US, the UK, and Canada, IRNA reported on Saturday. He went on to say that NATO forces are taxing the production of opium in the regions under their control.' Cameron Drops Pledge For EU Lisbon Treaty Referendum It doesn't matter who you vote for, the flight plan never changes 'David Cameron is poised to abandon his party’s commitment to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty if it is ratified later this year. The Tory leader, who had previously pledged that he ‘would not let matters rest’ if the treaty came into force, is expected to declare instead that a future Conservative Government would fight to regain control over social and employment laws, and would stop any further transfer of British powers to Brussels.' Copenhagen Agreement is a Plan For World Government 'We can only hope that world leaders will do nothing more than enjoy a pleasant bicycle ride around the charming streets of Copenhagen come December. For if they actually manage to wring out an agreement based on the current draft text of the Copenhagen climate-change treaty, the world is in for some nasty surprises. Draft text, you say? If you haven't heard about it, that's because none of our otherwise talkative political leaders have bothered to tell us what the drafters have already cobbled together for leaders to consider. And neither have the media.' 1,600 Names Suggested Daily For Terror Watch List 'Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation's terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list. During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified for the list because they presented a "reasonable suspicion," according to data provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee by the FBI in September and made public last week.' Dangerous People Needed 'On Thursday night I had the privilege of viewing a premier of a film together with its star. The theater was in the U.S. Capitol, and the film was "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers". This is a powerfully and engagingly constructed film about one of the most effective instances of whistle-blowing in our nation's history. Ellsberg risked life in prison to expose the lies that had taken this nation into war in Vietnam, lies from Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. And Nixon believed that Ellsberg had incriminating documents on his own lies, which led Henry Kissinger to call Ellsberg "the most dangerous man in America".' 'Fear Detector' Being Developed That Will Be Able to Sniff Out Terrorists 'A device that smells human fear is being developed by British scientists and could soon be sniffing out anxious terrorists. The technology relies on recognising a pheromone - or scent signal - produced in sweat when a person is scared. Researchers hope the 'fear detector' will make it possible to identify individuals at check points who are up to no good.' Why Are We Paying Child Benefit in Poland? 'Here's a puzzle for you: what are we doing paying benefits for children who do not live in Britain, and may have never visited our shores? The Treasury says it cannot put a figure on the amount, but the best guess is that about £20 million in child benefit was coughed up by British taxpayers last year to support almost 38,000 children living in Poland.' California to Withhold a Bigger Chunk of Paychecks 'Reporting from Los Angeles and Sacramento - Starting Sunday, cash-strapped California will dig deeper into the pocketbooks of wage earners -- holding back 10% more than it already does in state income taxes just as the biggest shopping season of the year kicks into gear. Technically, it's not a tax increase, even though it may feel like one when your next paycheck arrives. As part of a bundle of budget patches adopted in the summer, the state is taking more money now in withholding, even though workers' annual tax bills won't change.' Palestinians Accuse U.S. of Killing Peace Prospects 'Pointing an accusing finger at the United States, the Palestinians on Sunday said Washington's backing for Israeli refusal to halt Jewish settlement expansion had killed any hope of reviving peace negotiations soon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, buoyed by new-found support from the Obama administration, urged the Palestinians to "get a grip" and drop their settlement freeze precondition for restarting talks suspended since December.' Latvia – The Shame of Europe! Russian Children Taken From Parents to be Re-educated by the State 'One of the Latvian government’s main priorities is the complete assimilation of the Russian minority, which constitutes almost half of the population. To achieve this goal they have resorted to every trick in the book: from all sorts of promises to blatant discrimination. But, despite all the tricks, the Russian do not want to become Letts. But Latvian officials do not give up, and continue to seek new ways to naturalize “the occupiers”. They have resorted to the most extreme and devious methods, for example, in the city of Daugavpils they use the juvenile court system to place Russian children into State care for the flimsiest of reasons. In countries where this system already operates, parents not only cease to be the childs legal guardians, in many cases the child is no longer allowed to live with their natural parents.' No Shot , Sick Since H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccination Clinton: U.S. Taxes 'Everything That Moves and Doesn’t Move' 'In an effort to convince Pakistan to raise taxes on its impoverished masses, Secretary of State Clinton told government officials the United States enforces punitive and confiscatory taxation on the American people. “The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world… We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan,” she told newspaper editors in Lahore.' Are Populations Being Primed For Nano-Microchips Inside Vaccines? 'It's almost surreal, like something out of a sci-fi flick, but nano-microchips invisible to the naked eye are a reality that are already being hosted in wide-range of applications. The question is, how long will it take governments and big pharma to immerse nano-microchips inside of vaccines to tag and surveil global populations?'
Monday, 2 November 2009
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