Edition 1 (7th March 2008)

News items from the last week from radical websites like the BBC & the New York Times (plus a little added sarcasm)

White House denies Bush stifling dissent on Iran
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1218353020080312?sp=true
Remember when oil was $10 a barrell back before 9/11, and now it's $110 pb......just imagine how high the price (profits) will be after we go to war in Iran

Top Iraq contractor skirts US taxes offshore
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2008/03/06/top_iraq_contractor_skirts_us_taxes_offshore/
do you reckon the IRS will chase them? Sure they will. War, huh! What is it good for? (other than profit obviously)

Parents' fury after police blast schoolgirls as young as 13 with CS gas to break up school fight
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=527509&in_page_id=1770
conditioning children for the future?

Why cash is doomed
http://money.uk.msn.com/creditcards/articles/article.aspx?cp-documentid=7690809
I know let’s have a microchip inserted into ourselves that would be so much more convenient than carrying cash

MPs consider fallout from EU vote
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7277644.stm
The end of British democracy?

"Brain Reading" Device Can Predict What People See
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080305-brain-scan.html
- not scary in any way

Vaccines, Depression and Neurodegeneration After Age 50
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/pages/vaccines-depression-and-neurodegeneration-after-age-50.aspx
another reason not to eat Chinese food…or in fact most pre-processed food for that matter

NHS Confidentiality campaign
http://www.nhsconfidentiality.org/?page_id=3
Its all perfectly secure, there’s nothing to worry about (unlike with the UK Child Benefit database etc)

MSNBC Reporter: "I hope there a secret prison for all 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists
http://www.infowars.net/articles/march2008/030308MSNBC.htm
Ok now I’m scared....

Glaxo escapes prosecution on Seroxat disclosure
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/glaxo-escapes-prosecution-depression-drug/story.aspx?guid=%7B3689F3DC-6EE8-4750-ADAC-B65AFFA63833%7D
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More families are shunning Immunizations
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/02Rvaccine.html?_r=3&st=cse&sq=shunning+vaccinations&scp=1&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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How To Legally Avoid Unwanted Immunizations Of All Kinds
http://www.mercola.com/article/vaccines/legally_avoid_shots.htm
Big pharma has only your best interests at heart really…..as long as you are a shareholder

UN warns on food price inflation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7281686.stm
What a quandry - we must grow biofuels to combat CO2, even if the benefit of them is negligable, but CO2 causes global warming, something that has never happened before and is nothing to do with the sun honest...so what if millions starve?