Wednesday, 05 January 2011 13:01 Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer paying victims of BP Plc’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill, said he anticipates about half the $20 billion fund set up by the company should be adequate to cover claims for economic losses. Feinberg said on Bloomberg Television yesterday that it is too early to project how much of the fund will be needed to pay individuals and businesses. He said $10 billion may be enough to compensate victims. “It remains to be seen, but I would hope that half that money would be more than enough to pay all the claims,” Feinberg said. Feinberg, whose law firm receives $850,000 a month from BP to administer the claims facility, released an eight-page letter from Gillers on Dec. 30 that concluded Feinberg and the facility were independent. “You are not subject to its direction or control,” said Gillers, who was also compensated by BP to review the company’s agreement with Feinberg.' Read more: Feinberg Says Half of $20 Billion BP Fund Should Cover Claims Wednesday, 05 January 2011 12:49 'David Cameron has been forced to intervene to put national security ahead of civil liberties in a discussion on the future of control orders. Wednesday, 05 January 2011 12:26 'The FDA has just notified small pharmacies that they will no longer be allowed to manufacture or distribute injectable vitamin C—despite its remarkable power to heal conditions that conventional medicine can’t touch. Please help reverse this outrageous decision! Let’s get this straight. The government acknowledges the risk of a worldwide flu pandemic. It acknowledges that conventional drugs cannot cure big viruses-like the mononucleosis and hepatitis viruses, many influenza viruses, and many others. It acknowledges that many bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics and are killing increasing thousands. It acknowledges the risk of a worldwide drug-resistant TB pandemic. Despite acknowledging all this, it now insists on wiping out one of the best potential treatments for these conditions and for certain cancers as well. And why is this being done? What possible rationale is offered? Because it’s dangerous? No. Because it can’t be patented and therefore won’t be taken through the standard FDA approval process. No matter that vitamin C is one of the least toxic components of our food supply and liquid forms of it have been used safely for decades.' Read more: Action Alert—Now the FDA Is Going After Vitamin C! Wednesday, 05 January 2011 11:39 Wednesday, 05 January 2011 11:24 'How do we know there’s a scientific consensus on climate change? Pundits and the press tell us so. And how do the pundits and the press know? Until recently, they typically pointed to the number 2,500 — that’s the number of scientists associated with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Those 2,500, the pundits and the press believed, had endorsed the IPCC position. To their embarrassment, most of the pundits and press discovered they were mistaken — those 2,500 scientists hadn’t endorsed the IPCC’s conclusions, they had merely reviewed some part or other of the IPCC’s mammoth studies. To add to their embarrassment, many of those reviewers from within the IPCC establishment actually disagreed with the IPCC’s conclusions, sometimes vehemently.' Wednesday, 05 January 2011 10:38 What in the world is happening in the middle of the United States right now? Thousands of birds are falling dead from the skies, tens of thousands of fish are washing up on shore dead, earthquakes are popping up in weird and unexpected places and people are starting to get really freaked out about all of this. Well, one theory is that the New Madrid fault zone is coming to life. The New Madrid fault zone is six times bigger than the San Andreas fault zone in California and it covers portions of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. The biggest earthquakes in the history of the United States were caused by the New Madrid fault. Now there are fears that the New Madrid fault zone could be coming to life again, and if a "killer earthquake" does strike it could change all of our lives forever.' Read more: Is The New Madrid Fault Earthquake Zone Coming To Life? Wednesday, 05 January 2011 10:27 'The most striking example is Hungary, where last month the government made the citizens an offer they could not refuse. They could either remit their individual retirement savings to the state, or lose the right to the basic state pension (but still have an obligation to pay contributions for it). In this extortionate way, the government wants to gain control over $14bn of individual retirement savings.' Wednesday, 05 January 2011 10:08 Wednesday, 05 January 2011 10:02 'And so they trot out a "friendly, respectable face" for this deliberate destruction and depopulation, hoping we won't notice the havoc being wreaked in front of our eyes, all the while making us think they're doing us a favor and 'pioneering our future'. ..And with a message straight from the Bilderbergers which seems to say.. 'It's time to step up the depopulation plan.' Read more: The (Bill) Gates of Hell Foundation Wednesday, 05 January 2011 09:31 'Josie and the Pussycats” is a “girl band” movie aimed at children and young adolescents, especially young girls. At first glance, the flick seems to be one of those generic, God-awful teen movies, but on closer look, its overall tone and message is in sharp contrast to its peers. “Josie and the Pussycats” is indeed an acerbic criticism of a morally bankrupt music business. The most surprising fact about this 2001 movie is its frighteningly accurate predictions regarding today’s pop music and its Illuminati agenda: mind controlled artists, hypnotized masses, subliminal messages … it’s all there. This article will look at the movie’s themes and see how it relates in today’s context.' Read more: Josie and the Pussycats: Blueprint of the Mind Control Music Industry Wednesday, 05 January 2011 09:19 'Almost a decade after the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., significant downtown areas in some of this country's most prominent cities remain largely sealed off with metal gates and barriers. The explanation is that these urban areas allegedly need "security zones" to protect the populace from terrorist attacks. But a new study just published in the journal Environment and Planning A concludes this "architecture of fear" has done nothing but blight the landscape, limit public access and may promote paranoia.' Read more: New Research: Post-9/11 Architecture of Fear Turns Cities Into Police State Zones Wednesday, 05 January 2011 09:10 'A Colorado beekeeper recently obtained a leaked document revealing that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) knows a popular crop pesticide is killing off honey bees, but has allowed its continued approval anyway. Despite opposition from its own scientists, EPA officials first gave the a-okay to Bayer CropScience's toxic pesticide clothianidin in 1993 based on the company's own flawed safety studies. But now it has been revealed that the EPA knew all along about the dangers of clothianidin and decided to just ignore them.' Read more: Leaked Document: EPA Knowingly Approved Bee-Killing Pesticide Wednesday, 05 January 2011 09:01 'In 1839, British troops and Indian sepoys poured into Afghanistan in what turned out to be an unnecessary pre-emptive move to block a feared Russian expansion into the territory. Although the Russian envoy had failed to woo the Afghan ruler, the British authorities decided to err on the side of caution and invaded Afghanistan anyway. Their intent was to put a pliant puppet on the Kabul throne to ensure that the northwest frontier of their lucrative Indian colony remained secure. True to the historical pattern, the invading British made short work of the poorly armed Afghan defenders. However, once the occupation phase began, the British became overconfident in their military superiority. Prior to the invasion, Britain’s East India Company had paid the border tribes a tribute — or bribe — to allow their trade convoys safe passage through the Khyber Pass. Now that they had defeated the ragtag Afghan army and set up shop in Kabul, the East India Company decided to save themselves some money and cancelled the tribute payments. The result was that the Pashtun tribes along the border rose up in revolt and cut off the British supply lines from India. Forced to retreat from Kabul in the fall of 1841, the British garrison suffered the most complete defeat in military history, with only one survivor — dressed as a woman — managing to elude the victorious Afghans. Read more: Afghanistan: From The British Empire to the NATO Invasion: 'Blind Man Walking on a Roof. Wednesday, 05 January 2011 08:30 'The US embassy in Paris advised Washington to start a military-style trade war against any European Union country which opposed genetically modified (GM) crops, newly released WikiLeaks cables show. In response to moves by France to ban a Monsanto GM corn variety in late 2007, the ambassador, Craig Stapleton, a friend and business partner of former US president George Bush, asked Washington to penalise the EU and particularly countries which did not support the use of GM crops. "Country team Paris recommends that we calibrate a target retaliation list that causes some pain across the EU since this is a collective responsibility, but that also focuses in part on the worst culprits.' Wednesday, 05 January 2011 08:20 'Directed energy weapons include lasers, high power microwave, and millimeter wave ones among others. A relevant December 2007 Department of Defense (DOD) report called them a "transformational game changer in military operations, able to augment and improve operational capabilities in many areas," for both lethal and non-lethal purposes. Among other applications, EMF weapons/devices are used for harassment, surveillance and mind control. Agencies like the Pentagon, CIA and NSA use them to monitor people, manipulate their minds, harm, and at times kill them. The Navy Times called them the "most feared and controversial weapon(s) of (the) modern age".' Read more: Electromagnetic Frequency Mind Control Weapons Tuesday, 04 January 2011 10:36 'A police investigation has been launched into circumstances surrounding the discovery of the body of a former Pentagon official in the US state of Delaware. John P. Wheeler, who worked under three Republican presidents -- Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush -- was found dead at Wilmington's Cherry Island Landfill on December 31. His body was found jutting out of a garbage truck by a worker at the dump. The Delaware medical examiner's office has ruled the death of the 66-year-old a homicide.' Tuesday, 04 January 2011 10:50 Tuesday, 04 January 2011 07:33 'Russian opposition leader and former first deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov has been sentenced to 15 days in prison for participating in an opposition rally on New Year's Day in Moscow. Nemtsov was convicted in a Moscow court on Sunday for failing to follow police instruction during the demonstration at a central Moscow square, AFP reported. Russian police arrested Nemtsov along with nearly 130 others during an opposition rally on Friday. At least 300 protesters participated in the demonstration, chanting anti-government slogans, AFP reported.' Read more: Russian Opposition Leader Jailed Tuesday, 04 January 2011 07:41 'January 1 marked the beginning of a three-week period in which new governors take office in more than half the 50 American states, including three of the four largest—California, New York and Florida. Whether Democratic or Republican, the new state chief executives are planning major attacks on public employees and public services, including huge budget cuts and mass layoffs. In the 26 states with new governors, 23 face budget deficits, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.' Read more: US State Governments Prepare Attacks on Jobs, Wages, Pensions Tuesday, 04 January 2011 08:08 'Petters' Ponzi scheme has sued JPMorgan Chase & Co. for more than $300 million, alleging the bank should have known that money it seized from Petters was the result of fraud. The Minnesota businessman was convicted last year of perpetrating a $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme that counted hedge funds, pastors, missionaries and retirees among its victims. Prosecutors said the one-time owner of Polaroid Holding Co. and Sun Country Airlines orchestrated the plot, but Petters has blamed his associates and is appealing his 50-year prison sentence. JPMorgan, its affiliates and some individuals seized more than $300 million in assets from Petters in the wake of his arrest.' Read more: J.P. Morgan Sued For Role In Hedge Fund Ponzi Tuesday, 04 January 2011 08:04 'WMR has learned from a long-time Republican Party consultant that the CIA used Sweden to launder the transfer to Wikileaks of carefully screened and redacted State Department cables and the subsequent release of the cables to pre-selected corporate news media entities. Sweden was chosen because of its so-called “press freedom and freedom of expression” traditions in an effort to make the release of the cables by Wikileaks appear to be unconnected to a covert CIA and Pentagon psychological operations program designed to place further controls on the Internet.' Read more: Wayne Madsen: Sweden Co-opted by CIA/Pentagon to Launder Wikileaks Cables Tuesday, 04 January 2011 08:26 'Take a book of just 13 pages, written by a relatively obscure 93-year-old man, which contains no sex, no jokes, no fine writing and no startlingly original message. A publishing disaster? No, a publishing phenomenon. Indignez vous! (Cry out!), a slim pamphlet by a wartime French resistance hero, Stéphane Hessel, is smashing all publishing records in France. The book urges the French, and everyone else, to recapture the wartime spirit of resistance to the Nazis by rejecting the "insolent, selfish" power of money and markets and by defending the social "values of modern democracy".' Read more: The Little Red Book That Swept France Tuesday, 04 January 2011 08:37 'Two Palestinians were charged by a court on Sunday with planning a rocket attack on Teddy Stadium, home to the Beitar football team. Three more Palestinians, two of them maintenance men employed by the British Consulate General, were arrested on suspicion of supplying them with guns. All five were arrested in November but the details have only now emerged following Sunday’s court hearing. A Foreign Office spokesman said that security and vetting procedures were being reviewed. He said all employees were vetted in co-ordination with the Israeli authorities “to a level appropriate to their job”. Read more: British Consulate Employees in Jerusalem Linked to Terror Attack 'The UK has demanded the immediate release of Iranian staff at its Tehran embassy who were arrested on Saturday. Iranian media earlier reported that eight local staff at the mission had been detained for their "considerable role" in post-election riots. UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband called the arrests "harassment" and dismissed the allegations as baseless.' Read more: UK Fury as Staff Arrested in Iran Tuesday, 04 January 2011 09:02 'The price of energy-saving light bulbs will treble as the final supplies of traditional bulbs dry up, industry experts have warned. Read more: Eco-Bulb Cost to Treble: Makers Cash in as the Ban on Old-Style Bulbs Kicks In Tuesday, 04 January 2011 08:47 Tuesday, 04 January 2011 08:43 'Mutant canola crops genetically engineered to survive repeated sprayings of herbicide have been approved for planting. This is despite the furore over GM contamination of an organic farm. The West Australian Minister for Agriculture and Food, Terry Redman, has called on the organic industry to bend its rules to permit some GM material, declaring purity to be "unrealistic". WA grain farmer Steve Marsh was stripped of his organic certification this week after GM canola seeds allegedly blew 1.5km over his boundary from a neighbouring property at Kojonup, southeast of Perth. He is now setting an Australian precedent by threatening to sue for damages.' Read more: GM Strain Blows Organic Status Away Tuesday, 04 January 2011 10:11 'The Met Office warned ministers to expect an ‘exceptionally cold winter’ but then kept the prediction secret from the public. The forecaster decided not to reveal the information because it was embarrassed after wrongly predicting a ‘barbecue summer’ in 2009, BBC analyst Roger Harrabin said. Instead of a seasonal forecast, it offered only monthly snapshots. Last night Mr Harrabin said: ‘With Britain shivering through a third winter in a row, shouldn’t the weather forecasters have warned us well in advance? Why didn’t the Met Office tell us? Read more: Met Office Knew Big Freeze Was Coming But Hushed It Up Tuesday, 04 January 2011 09:50 'Mike Harding, 44, was issued with a 48 hour ''remove or pay up'' ultimatum by Bedfordshire Borough Council which accused the driving instructor of ''fly-posting''. He was forced to drive around his local streets in the early hours of the morning ripping down his lost cat posters one by one to avoid the penalty. He designed 20 posters in a last appeal to neighbours after seven-year-old Tabby cat Wookie disappeared in six weeks ago in November.' Read more: Council Threatens Man with £1,000 Fine Over Lost Cat Posters
The Prime Minister will stage a crisis summit with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Home Secretary Theresa May to thrash out their differences over the treatment of terror suspects. A furious row has broken out within the Coalition over control orders amid the ongoing review of Britain’s counter-terror legislation.'Murdered Bush Aide Was An Expert In Chemical & Biological Warfare & Had Highest Security Clearances!
Today these words apply to everyone - no matter what their creed or colour
British Consulate Employees in Jerusalem Linked to Terror Attack
Compare it with this from June 2009
UK Fury as Staff Arrested in Iran
Britain, America and Israel (and the rest) use their embassies as centres for spying and manipulation of other nations, always have, always will. These are just two examples
The Government has ordered energy companies to scrap the subsidies that have kept the price of eco-bulbs artificially low for the last few years. At the same time, manufacturers are increasing wholesale prices to take advantage of the European ban on ‘energy guzzling’ old-style bulbs.'
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