Saturday, 09 February 2008
Starvation as a Method of Warfare
In January 2007, the Iraq Solidarity Campaign informed the international community about the damage which the growth of poverty has caused to the children of Iraq, through the much- publicised paper “Western Civilisation – The Unspoken Fate of Iraqi Children”.
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Bush tries to sabotage openness
In his new book, former New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis says that one hallmark of the Bush administration is that it has worked “to exclude press scrutiny – and hence public accountability – by the most sweeping secrecy in American history.” This intense secrecy has been borne out in the administration’s open hostility toward requests under the Freedom of Information Act and in the multitude of ways it has attempted to shut down public access to information.
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Why Has Ron Paul All But Suspended His Presidential Campaign?
Congressman Ron Paul’s decision to essentially suspend his presidential campaign and focus instead on safeguarding his Congressional seat will confuse and disappoint many of his supporters, while delighting establishment media debunkers, but the truth of how far we have progressed and the reality of the battles that lie ahead show that the campaign has made a shrewd decision.
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Calls for probe into prison bugging
An inquiry has been demanded into claims lawyers’ legally-protected conversations with clients in jail are routinely bugged.
Opposition parties said such a practice would strike “at the heart” of the justice system and suggested it could only have been sanctioned by ministers. And one leading QC warned that the courts could let violent offenders walk free if it was shown their meetings with lawyers had been taped.
Saturday, 09 February 2008
U.S. heading to war in Iran, says former inspector
The former chief United Nations weapons inspector and a retired Middle East diplomat recently warned that America was heading straight toward imminent war with Iran.
And while both talked about wrong-headed U.S. policy in Iraq and Iran, they also criticized Israel for its role.
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Waterboarding should be prosecuted as torture: U.N
The controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding and used by the United States qualifies as torture, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday.
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Torture Is Impeachable and Has Been Confessed to
Now that George Bush and Michael Hayden have publicly confessed to government waterboarding in a press conference on February 6, 2008, and in testimony before Congress on February 5, 2008, you may find the following information useful
Saturday, 09 February 2008
6 at Guantánamo Said to Face Trial in 9/11 Case
Military prosecutors are in the final phases of preparing the first sweeping case against suspected conspirators in the plot that led to the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, and drew the United States into war, people who have been briefed on the case said.
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Bush Budget Cuts Federal Health Programs Vital to the Health of All Children
President Bush’s Fiscal Year 2009 budget cuts federal health programs vital to the future of health and health care for all children. On top of an $18.2 billion cut in Medicaid, the nation’s single largest payer of children’s health care for working families, the President’s budget also cuts $700 million from discretionary health programs that children depend on, ranging from poison control hotlines to funding for training children’s doctors.
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Can’t Pay Your Mortgage? Trash Your House And Leave
As housing markets tank, “trash-outs” are on the rise, leaving owners,
lenders and banks fighting over who should pay the clean-up bill.
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Recruiting Kids to Kill
The US military is appalled and disturbed because some Iraqi insurgent groups (that may or may not have anything to do with Al Qaida in Iraq) are using videos to propagandize among adolescents in the hope that they will enlist. Meanwhile, the US military, which is engaged in the same type of operations as the Iraqi insurgency only as the occupying force, glorifies its mission of bloodshed, intimidation, and killing in videos, video games, in schools, on the television, at shopping malls and through the mails. Naturally, these methods are not training the US adolescents that they are targeting for operations, but they are definitely “meant to spread the US military’s message among the young (to borrow Admiral Smith’s words.)”
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Blaze ravages Camden
Up to 100 firefighters are tackling a major blaze that is spreading rapidly through the famous market area in Camden Town, north London.
The fire is reportedly centred on Camden Canal Market, to the east of Chalk Farm Road.
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Some Of The Outrageous Lies About 9/11
It is hard to pick a place to start in terms of talking about the most outrageous lies that the Bush administration and the 9/11 Commission have presented to the people in this country as a reason to attack Afghanistan and Iraq and to launch a fake war on terror.
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Inside A Chemtrail Sprayer? Not!
What you are looking at is an ordinary commercial aircraft configured for flight certification.
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Huge rise in British UFO sightings
Clusters of up to 100 mysterious objects, bright white lights and strange, triangular shaped objects are just some of a huge surge in UFO sightings reported to the Ministry of Defence last year.
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Microchip future not sci-fi
Here’s a vision of the not-so-distant future
Saturday, 09 February 2008
CIA Monitors YouTube For Intelligence
In keeping with its mandate to gather intelligence, the CIA is watching YouTube.
U.S. spies, now under the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), are looking increasingly online for intelligence; they have become major consumers of social media.
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Anti-depressants to carry suicide warning
Warnings of the dangers of suicidal thoughts and behaviour are to be included in the packages of anti-depressants. Warnings will be carried in the patient information leaflet in the packets from October this year
Saturday, 09 February 2008
FBI program alleged to prepare businesses for martial law
A public-private partnership program on infrastructure preparedness and protection run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation allegedly has briefed its corporate members on the possibility of martial law and the use of lethal force, according to an exclusive report in the magazine The Progressive.
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Photographer accused of helping MI6 kill Diana was found dead in burnt-out BMW with a hole in his head
The photographer accused of helping MI6 to murder Princess Diana was found in a burnt-out BMW with a hole in his head, a court heard today.
James Andanson died after boasting to friends of having secretly taken “explosive” photos of the Paris crash scene, the Diana inquest was told.
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Woman is stripped naked and abused by Start County Sheriff Dept
The is absolutely nothing unusual about women being stripped naked and left without covering of any kind in cold jail cells for hours at a time.
It’s a popular humiliation technique used in corrupt police departments throughout the country.
Friday, 08 February 2008
McCain: Sanctions, attacks await Iran
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain says the US and its European allies will adopt unilateral sanctions against Iran.
Friday, 08 February 2008
DARPA 2009: Brains-on-a-Chip
Brains-on-a-chip, robotic rescue choppers, see-through displays those are just a few of the projects that the Pentagons mad science division has hatched up for next year.
In it are dozens of new programs one more far-reaching than the next.
Friday, 08 February 2008
Veterans not entitled to mental health care, U.S. lawyers argue
Veterans have no legal right to specific types of medical care, the Bush administration argues in a lawsuit accusing the government of illegally denying mental health treatment to some troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Friday, 08 February 2008
Waterboarding is legal, White House says
Two laws passed by Congress in recent years — as well as a Supreme Court ruling on the treatment of detainees — were widely interpreted to have banned the CIA’s use of the extreme interrogation method.
Friday, 08 February 2008
Time travellers from the future ‘could be here in weeks’
Physicists around the world are excitedly awaiting the start up of the £4.65 billion Large Hadron Collider, LHC – the most powerful atom-smasher ever built – which is supposed to shed new light on the particles and forces at work in the cosmos and reproduce conditions that date to near the Big Bang of creation.
Thursday, 07 February 2008
MP first probed by MI5 over 9/11
Bugging scandal MP Sadiq Khan was first probed by security services over his association with a 9/11 terrorist. And it has emerged that Justice Secretary Jack Straw knew of concerns over the Muslim MPs visits to another jailed terror suspect TWO MONTHS ago.
Thursday, 07 February 2008
Government Accused Of Lying About Fluoride
Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, has been accused of overstating the benefits of adding fluoride to water in the fight against dental disease.
Tooth decay in children across Europe has fallen irrespective of whether there is fluoride in the water, authors of a report have said.
Thursday, 07 February 2008
AP Confirms Secret Camp Inside Gitmo
Somewhere amid the cactus-studded hills on this sprawling Navy base, separate from the cells where hundreds of men suspected of links to al-Qaida and the Taliban have been locked up for years, is a place even more closely guarded – a jailhouse so protected that its very location is top secret.
Thursday, 07 February 2008
What’s Really in the U.S. Military Budget?
Before deconstructing this budget, let us consider just how massive it is. Even the smaller figure of $515.4 billionwhich does not include money for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistanis roughly equal to the total military budgets of all the rest of the world’s nations combined.
Thursday, 07 February 2008
U.S. acknowledges use of waterboarding
Senate Democrats demanded a criminal investigation into waterboarding by government interrogators Tuesday after the Bush administration acknowledged for the first time that the tactic was used on three terror suspects.
Wednesday, 06 February 2008
9/11 widows call for new investigation
The widows whose political activism was largely responsible for the establishment of a commission to investigate the September 11 attacks say a new book revealing the backstory of the 9/11 Commission proves that their initial concerns about its executive director were correct and demonstrate the need for another investigation.
Wednesday, 06 February 2008
9/11 inquiry head ‘tried to shield George Bush’
Philip Zelikow, the 9/11 Commission’s executive director, allegedly attempted to intimidate staff to avoid findings that would be damaging to President George W Bush, who was running for re-election, and Condoleezza Rice, his then National Security Adviser.
Wednesday, 06 February 2008
U.S. Troops Asked If They Would Shoot American Citizens
U.S. troops are being trained to conduct round-ups, confiscate guns and shoot American citizens, including their own friends and family members, as part of a long-standing program to prepare for the declaration of martial law, according to a soldier who recently returned from Iraq.
Wednesday, 06 February 2008
Scientist reveals clue to wormholes
Gateways to parallel universes or distant parts of our own cosmos may be found if astronomers look for the right signs, a Russian physicist claims.
Wormholes to other worlds can be recognised by the unusual way they bend light, according to Dr Alexander Shatskiy, from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow.
Wednesday, 06 February 2008
FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping
The bureau is expected to announce in coming days the awarding of a $1 billion, 10-year contract to help create the database that will compile an array of biometric information — from palm prints to eye scans.
Tuesday, 05 February 2008
Debunked: Cambridge University WTC Theory
British academic, Dr. Keith Seffen of the University of Cambridge, published a new mathematical analysis of the collapse of the World Trade Centre however the paper contains several ridiculous claims.
Now the paper has been debunked but will the University of Cambridge correct the errors?
Tuesday, 05 February 2008
Bush Admits He Plans to Attack Iran
Tuesday, 05 February 2008
Iran’s Oil Bourse Could Topple The Dollar
Two weeks ago George Bush was sent on a mission to the Middle East to deliver a horse’s head. We all remember the disturbing scene in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” where Lucca Brassi goes to Hollywood to convince a recalcitrant movie producer to use Don Corleone’s nephew in his next film
Tuesday, 05 February 2008
Policeman ‘pressured’ to bug MP
An ex-police officer who allegedly bugged an MP’s visit to a jailed constituent said the Met Police put him under “significant pressure” to do so.
Former Thames Valley Police officer Mark Kearney, who faces charges over leaking stories, said he had felt it was not justified to bug MP Sadiq Khan.
Tuesday, 05 February 2008
Willie Nelson: Twin Towers Were Imploded On 9/11
Straight talking American icon Willie Nelson today told a national radio show that he thought the twin towers were imploded like condemned Las Vegas casino buildings, as the country music superstar forcefully voiced his doubts about the official 9/11 story.