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1. The Internet War
WikiLeaks recent release of the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. military history has turned the Internet into a war zone. On one side, WikiLeaks has assembled the brightest and most dedicated hacker-activists in an effort to turn the Internet into a bastion of transparency and information freedom. On the other side, the United States has combined its Department of Defense, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency in an attempt to clamp down on the Internet with censorship and encryption-banning laws. Both parties, however, have fully realized the importance of the Internet and the outcome of their battle will change the face of the world. The U.S. has recently been feeling attacked by the Internet in the only way the Internet could ever wage a war: with information. Uniting towards their ideal, the world’s most talented hackers have gravitated towards WikiLeaks and what it represents, forming the largest political hack tivist group in history. Unlike the Internet, the U.S. has rulers, and those rulers aren’t yet accustomed to how the people of the Internet see knowledge as free. In fact, they are threatened by it. The United States seeks to use its dominance of space as an advantage over the Internet. The Internet, on the other hand, is seeking to use a complete opposite: the lack of space, the lack of time, in order to have complete control over what matters: information. The U.S. found itself facing an enemy it had never prepared for. The Internet has become a nation, a state, a perfect meritocracy—one that is currently in a state of war.
Nadim Kobeissi, The Link
2. The 'War On Terror' Is Now In Its Tenth Year. What Is It Really All About?
Does anyone remember the “cakewalk war” that would last six weeks, cost $50-$60 billion, and be paid for out of Iraqi oil revenues? Does anyone remember that White House economist Lawrence Lindsey was fired by Dubya because Lindsey estimated that the Iraq war could cost as much as $200 billion? Does anyone remember that just prior to the US invasion of Iraq, the US government declared victory over the Taliban in Afghanistan? Does anyone remember that the reason Dubya gave for invading Iraq was Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, weapons that the US government knew did not exist? Are Americans aware that the same neoconservatives who made these fantastic mistakes, or told these fabulous lies, are still in control of the government in Washington? The “war on terror” is now in its tenth year. What is it really all about? The bottom line answer is that the “war on terror” is about creating real t errorists. The US government desperately needs real terrorists in order to justify its expansion of its wars against Muslim countries and to keep the American people sufficiently fearful that they continue to accept the police state that provides “security from terrorists,” but not from the government that has discarded civil liberties. The US government creates terrorists by invading Muslim countries, wrecking infrastructure and killing vast numbers of civilians. To silence WikiLeaks and to prevent any more revelations of American war crimes, the “freedom and democracy” government in DC has closed down WikiLeaks’ donations by placing the organization on its “watch list” and by having the Australian puppet government blacklist WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks is now akin to a terrorist organization. The American government’s practice of silencing critics will spread across the Internet.
Dr Paul Craig Roberts, Global Research
3. Outcry As Coalition Government Collides With Civil Liberties In Plan To Spy On Every British Citizen
Hugely controversial ‘Big Brother’ plans to store details of every internet click, email and telephone call that we make are being revived by the Coalition, it emerged last night. Police, security services and other public bodies would be able to find out which websites a person had visited, and when, where and to whom a text or call was made. The plan – which was kicked into the long grass by Labour amid a public outcry – will put the Government on a collision course with civil liberties groups. They argue it is a snoopers charter which will allow the state to spy on millions of innocent citizens. Ministers have been persuaded of the case to give the police and security officials enhanced rights to access the public’s communications.
James Slack, Daily Mail
Related Links:
* The UK Database State Scandal
The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust
4. Vive La France! Why Aren't The British Taking To The Streets?
A French student on a protest in Paris against pension changes
The French – students and workers, men and women, citizens all – are out on the streets again. A rise in the pension age? Impossible. The barricades are up, oil supplies running out, trains and planes on a skeleton schedule and the protests are still escalating. More than three million people a week ago. Hundreds of thousands out this week and more expected this weekend. And what a joyous sight: school students marching in defence of old people's rights. There is growing anger and bitterness here too, but it is being recuperated by a petrified bureaucracy. The rot of Blairism goes deep in the Labour party. There is growing bitterness and growing anger in England, too, but not much else so far. It could change. The French epidemic could spread, but nothing will happen from above. Young and old fought against Thatcher and lost. Her New Labour successors made sure that the defeats she inflicted were institutionalised. An extra-parliamentary upheaval is not simply necessary to combat the cuts, but also to enhance democracy that at the moment is designed to further corporate interests and little more. Bailouts for bankers and the rich, an obscene level of defence expenditure to fight Washington's wars, and cuts for the less well off and the poor. A topsy-turvy world produces its own priorities. They need to be contested. These islands have a radical past, after all, that is not being taught in the history modules on offer. This is a country without an official opposition.
Tariq Ali, The Guardian
5. UK Coalition Government Set To Fund Killer BioLab Beside Europe's Largest Train Terminal
With the comprehensive public spending review yet to be announced, a recent article on Sky.com website suggests possible continued Government support for massive funding for the UKCMRI project at a time of proposed brutal cutbacks to public services. Help stop possible haemorrhaging of Government money by supporting Stop Camden Lab who are opposing the UKCMRI massive laboratory project proposed for central London.
Information Release, Stop Camden Lab!
Related Links:
* ! STOP INSANITY ! Level 3 Bio Lab Set Be Built In Heart Of Central London
Information Release, Stop Camden Lab
* Bird And Swine Flu 'Super-Lab' At St Pancras Site
Mark Blunden, London Evening Standard
6. Temperatures Soar In Australia Over Deadly Flu Vaccine Controversy
Temperatures are rising in the stoush between federal and state health officials over who was to blame for an inadequate response when evidence began to emerge that young children in WA were suffering febrile convulsions after having the influenza vaccine Fluvax. As previously reported at Croakey, in August a report by a former WA chief medical officer, Professor Bryant Stokes, raised many concerns about surveillance and reporting of adverse events and communications between state and federal health authorities. The report made a number of recommendations, including calling for the federal Department of Health and Ageing to “formally review and address any perceived or real concerns in peak bodies with regard to conflict of interest” and also called for consumers to be given more accurate information about vaccine content, testing and safety. The TGA has finally released a detailed response to the report, and it takes a hefty swipe at Stokes a nd his conclusions. The TGA’s response seems unlikely to achieve progress on at least one of the Stokes review’s recommendations – the development of “an open, trusting and transparent partnership” between federal and state health authorities. This was needed, his report suggested, as the current relationships “are not functional”.
Melissa Sweet, Croakey, the Crikey health blog
Related Links:
* Australia Suspends Flu Vaccine After Children Fall Critically Ill
ABC News
7. Doctors Ignored Report On Drugs Causing Brain Damage
A 30-year-old document revealing doctors’ fears about the number of people addicted to benzodiazepine drugs has been uncovered by the Beat the Benzos group. And Oldham campaigner Barry Haslam says it is a scandal that the medical profession ignored warnings, including evidence of brain damage, so many years ago. Mr Haslam, who was himself left brain damaged after 10 years addicted to Ativan, discovered through a Freedom of Information request that experts at the Medical Research Council met in 1981 to debate the problems of benzodiazepine addiction and withdrawal. Documents show that a study of 14 patients who were long-term benzodiazepine users underwent CT scans which showed that two had brain atrophy and five had borderline brain damage. Mr Haslam, who is an adviser to APPGITA, and campaigned to open the country’s only NHS-funded benzo-withdrawal service in Oldham, said: “It is a scandal that the medical profession ignored a report showing half the people in the study were brain damaged. The report may have gone into medical journals but nothing seems to have happened after that. Words fail me. It is incredible that this was being discussed 30 years ago. If this had been acted on perhaps I would not have had to suffer brain damage and all the other people affected might have been saved.”
Janice Barker, Oldham Evening Chronicle
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