Monday, 04 October 2010 09:28 'The US's warning to Americans to be vigilant in Europe added fresh impetus to the scares. The Foreign Office upgraded its threat warning to Britons going to France and Germany, although the terror threat level in Britain remained the same. European officials again made it clear yesterday they were "irritated" with the US for leaking stories before they could gather more intelligence. There was no evidence that a plot was imminent, and intelligence was described by a well-placed Whitehall official as "ill-defined".' Monday, 04 October 2010 09:14 'The results of Pusztai’s work were supposed to become the required testing protocols for all of Europe. But when he fed supposedly harmless GM potatoes to rats, things didn’t go as planned. Within just 10 days, the animals developed potentially pre-cancerous cell growth, smaller brains, livers, and testicles, partially atrophied livers, and damaged immune systems. Moreover, the cause was almost certainly side effects from the process of genetic engineering itself. In other words, the GM foods on the market, which are created from the same process, might have similar affects on humans. With permission from his director, Pusztai was interviewed on TV and expressed his concerns about GM foods. He became a hero at his institute -- for two days. Then came the phone calls from the pro-GMO prime minister’s office to the institute’s director. The next morning, Pusztai was fired. He was silenced with threats of a lawsuit, his team was dismantled, and the protocols never implemented. His Institute, the biotech industry, and the UK government, together launched a smear campaign to destroy Pusztai’s reputation.' Read more: This Supermarket 'Health Food' Killed These Baby Rats in Three Weeks Monday, 04 October 2010 09:06 'The first town to switch off its speed cameras is celebrating the decision after accident rates and fines plummeted. There have been no deaths on Swindon’s roads since the fixed cameras were turned off in August last year. In the past 12 months, the town has had just two serious accidents and 14 slight accidents.' Monday, 04 October 2010 08:42 'The Pentagon will not tell the public what it costs to locate, target and kill a single Taliban soldier because the price-tag is so scandalously high that it makes the Taliban appear to be Super-Soldiers. As set out in this article, the estimated cost to kill each Taliban is as high as $100 million, with a conservative estimate being $50 million. A public discussion should be taking place in the United States regarding whether the Taliban have become too expensive an enemy to defeat.' Read more: Killing Each Taliban Soldier Costs $50 Million Monday, 04 October 2010 07:26 'In a reprise of the crypto wars of the 1990s, the U.S. secret state is mounting an offensive that would force telecommunication companies to redesign their systems and information networks to more easily facilitate internet spying. Touted as a simple technical "fix" that would "modernize" existing legislation for wiretaps, government security officials will demand that telecommunication firms and internet service providers provide law enforcement with backdoors that would enable them to bypass built-in encryption and security features of electronic communications. With the Obama administration rivaling, even surpassing antidemocratic moves by the Bush regime to monitor and surveil the private communications of the American people, The New York Times reported last week that "federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet".' Read more: Crypto Wars! Obama Wants New Law to Wiretap the Internet Monday, 04 October 2010 07:08 'The United States government has issued a warning to its citizens traveling in Europe citing friars of terror attacks in major European cities. The warning, posted on the State Department's official travel advisory website on Sunday, did not name any specific countries but security sources have named cities in Germany, France, and the UK in recent days. Last week, media reports suggested that an alleged plot to carry out commando-style attacks in crowded cities across Europe had been foiled.' Read more: US Issues Travel Warning for Europe
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