Monday, 08 March 2010 09:32 'Almost 1,700 people, also including car park attendants and dog wardens, already have powers to hand out a string of fines and even take photographs of low level offenders under the Community Safety Accreditation Scheme. But the Government has quietly announced it plans to review the scheme with chief police officers to see how it can be expanded further. Read more: Hundreds More Town Hall Staff to Get Police-style Powers Monday, 08 March 2010 09:21 'British journalists and TV crews are to be banned from the Afghan front line once a date for the election has been set, while senior officers will be prohibited from making public speeches and talking to reporters. MoD websites will also be “cleansed” of any “non-factual” material including anything containing troops’ opinions of the war, according to a memo leaked to The Daily Telegraph. The edict comes as Gordon Brown was accused of using British troops as “political props” by visiting Afghanistan the day after giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq War. The war in Afghanistan is likely to be a sensitive political issue in the election campaign.' Monday, 08 March 2010 09:12 'Put that camera away. Yes, you, put it away right now. This is a public place, you can’t take pictures here. What right have you got to take photographs? People might not like it. Did they say you could take photographs? Did they? No. Are you some sort of paedo? A terrorist? Gimme that camera. Delete those images. Delete your rights, delete trust, delete innocence before guilt. You’re nicked. Perhaps I exaggerate a little: nevertheless, the days when you could photograph freely in public spaces are disappearing fast. In the eyes of many, the camera has become an offensive weapon, as Peter Dunwell discovered when he travelled from Grimsby to London in January. Coming down by train with a work colleague, Dunwell planned to make a photo-journal of their trip. At King’s Cross he took out his Sony Handycam and started to photograph the arrivals board and station. Two police community-support officers approached and told him to stop. Sure, PCSOs are agents of the state whose job it is to stand by while others drown (as happened in the case of a 10-year-old boy) but intervene in anything none too dangerous. And yes, King’s Cross is sensitive to the threat of terrorism because the London bombers arrived there before going their separate ways on the Tube to murder 52 people in 2005. But Dunwell, a middle-aged man of middle build with middling-brown hair, doesn’t look much of a terrorist. He looks more like the manager of a Jessops camera shop, which is what he is. Though his colleague has dyed blonde hair and pierced ears, there’s no law against that, yet.' Read more: Photography Under Threat: The Shooting Party’s Over Monday, 08 March 2010 08:56 'Congressman Dennis Kucinich invoked a procedural rule to help protect Americans from endless war to compel members of Congress to debate and vote whether to continue US war in Afghanistan. The war in Afghanistan is unlawful in Orwellian degree; tragic-comic in its violations of US war laws (useful analogy to well-understood laws for individual self-defense here). Although the laws of war are crystal-clear, complicit corporate media lies by omission and commission to explain what these laws have meant for 65 years and how they apply to unlawful US invasion of Afghanistan: The US is the principle author of the UN Charter, a treaty that under the US Constitution has equal power with all US law that requires all nations to eliminate wars of choice. The only lawful uses of war are self-defense upon armed attack by a nation’s government (or imminent threat of such) and/or authorization of the UN Security Council (UNSC).' Read more: Kucinich Orders Afghan War Debate, Vote: 'Trillions For War, No Money For Americans!' Monday, 08 March 2010 08:47 DAVID ICKE'S SENSATIONAL NEW BOOK NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER TO ENSURE A COPY FROM THE FIRST PRINT RUN The book is estimated to be ready for shipping at the end of April Nearly 700 pages, 355,000 words, 325 illustrations and 32 pages of original colour art by Neil Hague. A Monumental Work What is the 'Moon Matrix'? Monday, 08 March 2010 08:42 Monday, 08 March 2010 08:35 'As we know, one man once got on one plane in a pair of exploding hiking boots and as a result everyone else in the entire world is now forced to strip naked at airports and hand over their toiletries to a man in a high-visibility jacket. In other words, the behaviour of one man has skewed the concept of everyday life for everyone else. And we are seeing this all the time. Last month a Birmingham couple pleaded guilty to starving their supposedly home-schooled daughter to death. Now, of course, there are calls for parents who choose to educate their children at home to be monitored on an hourly basis by people from the “care” industry, and possibly to have their toiletries confiscated.' Read more: What a Daft Way to Stop Your Spaniel Eating the Milkman by Jeremy Clarkson Monday, 08 March 2010 08:07 'Social workers have placed the five-year-old daughter of a professional couple on the child protection register for “emotional abuse” after the mother told the girl she was delivered by caesarean. Other allegations against the mother include cuddling her daughter for too long when dropping her off at nursery. The intervention by Birmingham social services prompted the mother, Shahnaz Malik, to go into hiding with her daughter, Amaani, for two months, fearing the girl would be taken away. An alert was put out to all British ports, and police conducted raids on a string of properties in the West Midlands. Two weeks ago police battered down the door of the family’s home in an apartment block in an attempt to find Amaani. She had been moved elsewhere by her mother, but her father, Vijay Bansal, 42, an IT consultant, was later arrested and held in a cell overnight for “obstructing” the search. Officers also seized Malik’s car, took toothbrushes from the bathroom to analyse for DNA and raided the homes of relatives in the middle of the night, looking for the mother and girl.' Read more: Mother Branded as Abuser for Telling Daughter of Caesarean Monday, 08 March 2010 07:53 'The man who wrote the infamous ‘dodgy dossier’ for Tony Blair about Saddam Hussein’s weapons is now a £100,000-a-year adviser working at the nerve centre of Barack Obama’s military and foreign policy establishment. The intelligence dossier produced by Downing Street weeks before the Iraq War, which included out-of-date research cut and pasted from the internet, has played a key part in the Chilcot Inquiry into the conflict. And today The Mail on Sunday can reveal for the first time how the man who wrote the document used it to launch a career that has put him on the fast-track to making a personal fortune.' Read more: Dodgy Dossier Aide Now the £100,000 Boss of White House Lobbying Firm Monday, 08 March 2010 07:34 'At the annual session of the legislative National People’s Congress in Beijing, Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China, said that the days of the “special yuan” policy were numbered. He described the dollar peg as a “temporary” response to the global financial crisis, but gave no timescale for any change in policy. The currency has been pegged at about 6.83 yuan per dollar since July 2008.' Read more: China Ready to End Dollar Peg Monday, 08 March 2010 06:50 Is it melting glaciers? nooooo Is it dying polar bears? noooooo Is it rising sea levels? nooooo It’s worse than all of that combined…. it’s Evil Ahmadinejad blowing up our troops in Iraq!!! That’s right. Pass a Clean Energy Climate Plan to keep those evil Iranians from blowing up our Troops! Read more: More Fear Mongering from the Global Warming Alarmists Monday, 08 March 2010 06:49 All tickets were gone six months in advance for David Icke's all-day event at the O2 Brixton Academy in May this year and another event has been arranged to meet the demand to see David's most advanced presentation yet. This second event is at the O2 Brixton Academy all day on Saturday, September 11th. Monday, 08 March 2010 06:44 'Every single day, minimal volume pushes the futures index higher. Good news, bad news, it don’t matter to the Goldman S&P and Russell 1000 futures desk: they just lift every micro offer, giving the impression that the market is unstoppable, often leapfrogging each other as the latest viagra’ed GDP or unemployment rumor is spread. Come morning, it is time for the HFT brigade to come in and scalp their trillions of pennies while leaving the market unchanged, then at 4pm handing it off again to leveraged futures manipulation and dark pools. In a nutshell, this is the secret of the past quarter’s phenomenal market performance.' Monday, 08 March 2010 06:35 Annexation of Sudetenland 'The devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti threw the country into the international spotlight, and simultaneously highlighted its desperate need for help, even before the disaster. In the weeks and months after the quake, some have begun to question whether the event opens new opportunities for restructuring of Haiti's government and economy, literally from the ground up. But what sort of role should the US or other international organizations play in Haiti? Among the spectrum of international responses—from indirect aid and development programs to a Puerto Rico-style annexation—the best answer is bound to lie somewhere in between. Paul S. Adams, Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, sees a big opportunity to reshape Haiti's political system after the earthquake. "This is the chance for Haiti to rewrite the rules of its government," he says, "it really wasn't working before the quake, and with most basic services provided by the UN... the Haitian government didn't exist in most ways".' Monday, 08 March 2010 06:33 Monday, 08 March 2010 06:16 'The withdrawal of a popular painkiller from the market in the United Kingdom has led to a dramatic decrease in the number of suicides and accidental overdoses in that country, according to a study conducted by researchers from Oxford University's Centre for Suicide Research and published in the British Medical Journal. The drug in question is a combination of the narcotic painkiller dextropropoxyphene (in the opioid family) with the over-the-counter painkiller acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol or Tylenol. In the United Kingdom, the drug was marketed as co-proxamol, but it is also known as Darvon with APAP, Capadex, Di-Antalvic, Di-Gesic and Lentogesic. In 2005, the British Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) decided to remove co-proxamol from the market after statistics emerged suggesting that the drug was particularly dangerous, causing between 300 and 400 self-poisoning deaths every year. Approximately 80 percent of these deaths were intentional suicides.' Read more: Ban of Controversial Painkiller Dramatically Cuts Suicides in UK Sunday, 07 March 2010 18:02 'Canada and U.S. authorities are talking about extending cross-border security measures that were implemented for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and were to end with the closing of the Winter Games. The RCMP and the U.S. Coast Guard have jointly patrolled the waters off Vancouver since the beginning of the month, boarding nearly 200 vessels and interviewing about 500 people in their efforts to maintain security, RCMP Sergeant Duncan Pound of the border integrity program said in an interview. Almost every small craft in the vicinity of the maritime border has been contacted to confirm the legitimacy of its voyage. Although some arrests on outstanding criminal warrants have been made and some vessels have been sent back to port for not being safe, none of the incidents involved a threat to Olympic security.' Read more: Canada, U.S. to Extend Security Measures Past Games Sunday, 07 March 2010 17:56 'A video has emerged of strange lights in the Chilean sky on the day before the massive 8.8 earthquake, causing speculation about whether the apparition was a HAARP projection or UFO warning related to the impending disaster. Others point to similar videos taken in China and Haiti prior to the recent earthquakes in those countries, and the possibility that shifts in the earth's crust have a dramatic effect on the atmosphere. Whatever the case, there is at least one eyewitness account of strange lights being present in the sky at the time that the ground opened up in Chile. Cecelia Lagos, a Chilean reporter, was interviewed by CNN and described seeing the sky change colors outside her window as her house shook. Although the CNN clip wasn't available, here's an MSNBC video of her telling a similar story and the transcript from the actual CNN interview, in which she compares what she saw to a seen out of the big blockbuster disaster film, 2012.' Sunday, 07 March 2010 17:49 'The police paid for by the people of London will be deployed during the 2012 Olympics to stop punters carrying "non-sponsor items" into venues. Moves to safeguard company trademarks and stamp out ambush marketing, to preserve the monopoly of official advertisers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) logo, are raising concerns among civil liberty groups. Police will have powers to enter private homes and seize posters, and will be able to stop people carrying non-sponsor items to sporting events.' Read more: 2012 London Olympics Will See Deployment Of ‘Copyright Cops’ Sunday, 07 March 2010 17:46 An NYPD officer breaks his silence and admits that innocent people are set-up and falsely arrested and ticketed in order to meet funding quotas. Sunday, 07 March 2010 17:30 'A sharp-eyed viewer has noticed that when I was debating George Monbiot on TV yesterday and I mentioned that his cherished “peer-reviewed science” had been discredited by Climategate he bared his teeth like a cornered cur. Says my body language expert John Lish: “It was a quite aggressive and defensive gesture which was noticeable when he was attempting to dismiss you (talking about peer review). A definite body-language sign of being rattled. He’s definitely uncomfortable about what’s occurring and others will have spotted that as well.” Monbiot isn’t the only one.' Read more: Warmists Overwhelmed by Fear, Panic and Deranged Hatred as Their 'Science' Collapses Sunday, 07 March 2010 17:26 'Two weeks ago the Foreign Secretary David Miliband lost his long legal battle to suppress a section (known as paragraph 168) from a court decree revealing that MI5 officers were involved in the torture of ex terror suspect and British resident, Binyam Mohamed. Up until now the testimonies of released British Residents Omar Deghayes, Mozzam Begg and Binyam Mohamed have not been fully absorbed by the British public. This is despite the fact Omar Deghayes entered Cuba with two eyes but came home with one. Many news consumers prefer to maintain that detainee accounts of asphyxiation, physical torment, sexual and religious abuse, were either deserved, fabricated or necessary. Others can not contemplate that a nation proudly branding itself on civil liberties, tolerance and 'fair play' could willfully throw us back into the medieval barbarism of the Norman Conquests. Yet, as Miliband's credibility crumbles in the light of his failed cover-up, so the plausibility of Binyam Mohammed's testimony gains ground. The tide is changing.' Read more: Suppressing Evidence, David MIliband And UK Complicty In Torture Sunday, 07 March 2010 17:09 'You'd think the Obama administration is busy enough controlling the banks, insurance companies and automakers, but thanks to whistleblowers at the Department of the Interior, we now learn they're planning to increase their control over energy-rich land in the West. A secret administration memo has surfaced revealing plans for the federal government to seize more than 10 million acres from Montana to New Mexico, halting job- creating activities like ranching, forestry, mining and energy development. Worse, this land grab would dry up tax revenue that's essential for funding schools, firehouses and community centers.' Sunday, 07 March 2010 16:19 'Believe it or not: For the first time in three decades, the Zionist entity feels threatened in its mere existence… For the first time since the Israeli enemy ended its hugest wars with the Arabs in 1973, the “existential threat” appeared again in the Israeli discussion battlegrounds at all levels… At least, this “threat” seems to be very well reflected in the Israeli media outlets, mainly concerned with the new balances set by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah and consolidated by the Damascus meeting that joined the Resistance leader with the Syrian and Iranian Presidents Bachar Assad and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad… The stances delivered by Sayyed Nasrallah as well as various Iranian and Syrian leaders without neglecting the other Resistance factions in the region couldn’t pass un-noticed especially after being reflected in the latest Damascus summit…' Read more: For First Time in Three Decades,Israel’s Existence Is Threatened Sunday, 07 March 2010 16:03 'Vaccines given to dogs are making them ill, a pet charity claimed yesterday. Profit-hungry drug companies and vets are 'frightening' dog owners into inoculating their pets more often than necessary, according to Canine Health Concern. Some puppies have developed conditions including autism and epilepsy after a raft of injections, it warns. Catherine O'Driscoll, from the charity, said: 'We are not anti-vaccination. What we are saying is that currently our pets are receiving far too many.' Read more: Vaccines 'Are Making Our Dogs Sick as Vets Cash In' Sunday, 07 March 2010 15:51 'Smedley Butler was the most honored man in Marine Corps history. He wrote and spoke that the purpose of US wars is millions and billions in profits for America’s leading “bankers, industrialists, and speculators.” War is a “racket:” a deception whereby its purpose of blood money from American taxpayers to “insiders” is always disguised as noble and necessary ventures to keep Americans propagandized into paying again and again.' Sunday, 07 March 2010 15:44 'The feasibility of introducing the food tax is being raised informally between civil servants, industry bodies and retail insiders. So politically-sensitive is the move that all the talks are occurring "under the radar", according to retail industry insiders. Basic supermarket groceries are currently immune from VAT, along with books, newspapers and children's clothes. However a VAT levy on food of between three and five per cent would raise billions of pounds in tax and help reduce Government borrowings, which are expected to hit £180 billion this year.' Sunday, 07 March 2010 15:30 'Partial results from a referendum in Iceland suggest voters have given a resounding "no" to a deal in which Iceland would have paid Britain and the Netherlands billions of euros. Read more: Icelandic Voters Say 'No' to Neoliberal Debt Payback Deal
This would have been to cover the compensation the two countries paid to their citizens who lost money due to the collapse of the Icesave bank. However, with nearly a third of the votes counted, more than 90 percent of Icelandic voters have rejected the deal.'
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