Sunday, 08 August 2010 07:46 'A student and four of his friends are facing years in a Greek prison after a holiday turned into a nightmare. Ben Herdman, 20, was due to start his final year studying business at Brighton University soon. Instead he and his friends were extradited this week, accused of attacking a man outside a nightclub in Crete two years ago and leaving him in a coma. They were flown to Athens yesterday. Lawyers for the five claim the case against them is 'ridiculously weak', but they were powerless to prevent the extradition as the Greek authorities used the controversial European Arrest Warrant to force them to stand trial.' Sunday, 08 August 2010 07:38 'Global Chaos. A report published by the British Military of Defence Called “Strategic Trends 2007 until 2036” is an outline of how they see the future in those years. Its only 2010 and its scary how spot on their predictions are. Here are just a few of them. As global interdependence increases every aspect of human life will change. Climate Change, food and water shortages, competition for resources, and the constant threat of pandemics will keep people around the world in a constant state of shock and fear.' Read more: What’s to Come – The Gospel According to the British Ministry of Defence Sunday, 08 August 2010 07:26 'Accident data shows that in the first nine months after the devices were scrapped in Swindon, there were 315 road casualties in the area as a whole, compared with 327 in the same period the previous year. In total there were two fatalities – compared with four in the same period previously – and 44 serious injuries, down from 48.' Sunday, 08 August 2010 07:14 'As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how to cut Social Security, Medicare, and now even to freeze military pay. But a new New York Times article today illustrates as vividly as anything else what a collapsing empire looks like, as it profiles just a few of the budget cuts which cities around the country are being forced to make.' Sunday, 08 August 2010 06:55 '(NaturalNews) A recent study published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine has revealed that industry-funded clinical trials -- that is, drug trials funded by pharmaceutical companies -- almost always show positive results for the drugs they test. In contrast, only about half of government-funded studies show the same drugs to be safe and effective.' Read more: Report Finds Drug Industry Funded Studies Almost Always Yield Good Result
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