Open Your Eyes News - Edition 38

Areas Covered Each Week:
Civil Liberties - Health - Environment - Democracy & International Relations - Economics - Science - The War on Terror - The Next War
Stories of the week:
While the asset stripping of the West by the mega-corporations continues apace, as they realign themselves eastwards, all this happened.....
Australian Internet Censorship (Daily Telegraph UK)
Israeli Air-Force ready to attack Iran (Jerusalem Post)
China to buy 4,000 tonnes of Gold (International Business Times)
No way out of UK DNA database (Northern Echo)
WA lifts ban on uranium mines (The Australian)
UK Carbon Permit Auction raises £54m (The Times - UK)
100 million tonnes of plastic in North Pacific alone (Canada.com)
UK Government secret GM Crop trials (The Independent - UK)
LA Port security sold to Chinese Presidents son (LA Times)
Vaccinations Causing Early Alzheimer’s Disease? (Natural News)
Gulf War illness is real (Reuters)
Americans Know ‘American Idol’ Star Better than American History (CNS News - USA)
VeriChip & Micrsoft Tie Up on human micro-chipping (MarketWatch)

Plus rumors of the largest US military recall since 1941.........

Civil Liberties:
Australia planning to block 10,000 websites
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/3456216/Australia-planning-to-block-10000-websites.html
The questions you need to ask yourself are: Who decides what is "unwanted"? What appeals process will there be? Who monitors the new guardians of the internet? What happens if in a time of crisis anti-Government websites are deemed "unwanted"? And will you know if it has even happened as the news information you receive is censored in itself (either enforced or by self censorship)?

OpenNet Initiative: Australia’s content filtering “frightening”
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/267938/opennet_initiative_australia_content_filtering_frightening

Under cover of racist myth, a new land grab in Australia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/24/australia-aborigine-howard-rudd
Though technically this isn't from the last week it slipped under the radar when published a few weeks ago, but is a powerful polemic and worth reading especially for Australian's. Funnily enough it didn't get re-printed in the Australian Press.......

Big Brother only wants to "help" you
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5200949.ece
There's nothing to worry about, go back to sleep

NSW Ombudsman calls for freeze on Taser guns
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24678451-5013871,00.html

Ombudsman's Taser report 'inaccurate'
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/21/2425780.htm
Well it was hardly going to admit responsibility was it? Just as a Tobacco company won’t admit responsibility over a smokers lung cancer.

Maldives Police To Introduce Taser Guns
http://www.minivannews.com/news_detail.php?id=5498
Taser Corp is running out of police forces to sell this to...will have to start selling more to the general public next....

Autopsy Says Man Tased By Deputies Died "Naturally"
http://www.witn.com/home/headlines/34689104.html

Australian Federal Police reversal on Haneef
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24661247-2702,00.html

Beijing propaganda chief hatches plan to combat age of internet news
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5181300.ece
As other nations look on eagerly for tips

British travelers could be banned from flying to America
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/global/2008/11/14/noindex/banned.xml
You could always swim the Rio Grande from Mexico.....

Revealed: The car key that will pay your petrol bill
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1086152/Revealed-The-car-key-pay-petrol-bill.html
another step towards a cashless society...at which point your life will be entirely in the hands of computers and those who control them.....

Innocents face 'almost impossible' task to remove DNA from UK database
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/3862399.Innocents_face__almost_impossible__task_to_remove_DNA_from_database/

UK city being 'bullied' by Government into accepting road tolls
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article5168114.ece
Tracking your every move.......

UK Government ‘Sneak’ plan for mandatory ID cards
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5162669.ece

UK taxpayers face paying millions in compensation for identity card project
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3463137/Taxpayers-face-paying-millions-in-compensation-for-identity-card-project.html

Pilots threaten to strike over ID cards
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pilots-threaten-to-strike-over-id-cards-1023098.html

Scots vote out ID cards
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/20/scots_say_no_idcards/
Hollow victory.....

Huge fines if ID card details wrong
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20081121/tuk-huge-fines-if-id-card-details-wrong-6323e80.html

UK identities sold for £80 online
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7732569.stm
and it’ll be so much easier when everyone is on just one big DNA / ID card database

US court slams door on sale of spyware
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/35340

Councils to be banned from using anti-terror powers to snoop on people who overfill bins or drop litter
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1087543/Councils-banned-using-anti-terror-powers-snoop-people-overfill-bins-drop-litter.html
Sure they will...

Frightening new UK police powers
http://www.fsf.org.uk/news/Policing-of-Stoke-fans-raises-serious-concerns.php?id=

Judge orders release of 5 Algerian Guantanamo prisoners
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-guantanamo21-2008nov21,0,851025.story
And it will be ignored just as with the Chinese prisoners ordered to be released last month

US acknowledges it held 12 juveniles at Guantanamo
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hAEfHc4NtIu0vu0My2wjyWMymdTQD94G9CBG1

VeriChip Corporation Selected by Microsoft to Offer Personal Health Record through Microsoft HealthVault
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/verichip-corporation-selected-microsoft-offer/story.aspx?guid={909FC348-E61F-4EAC-98C4-1F57AD9B9D81}&dist=TQP_Mod_pressN

Environment:
Western Australia lifts its ban on uranium mines
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24667265-2702,00.html

Protests as UK carbon permits auction raises £54m
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article5192585.ece
Ever wondered why Governments & Corporations like "man made climate change"?

Irish film-makers taking on our 'global warming hysteria'
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/1115/1226408678797.html

Bush 'seeks to ease wildlife law'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7738933.stm

Greens at G-20 Summit Call for ‘Rich’ Nations to Fund Underdeveloped Countries
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=39415
Sure they will...

The world has never seen such freezing heat
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/16/do1610.xml
As reported in slightly less mainstream press last week.

Agent Orange’s toxic legacy lingers on
http://www.russiatoday.com/features/news/33361

Have a break, have a Kit Kat – and wreck rainforests
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5162535.ece

UK Government to defy critics with secret GM crop trials
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/government-to-defy-critics-with-secret-gm-crop-trials-1021675.html

Continents of garbage adrift in oceans
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=30fae34a-c866-4f54-aed5-a0bf85810e26

Move to tax cow and pig methane emissions
http://www.wyfb.org/NewsFeeds.aspx?file=Links/NWS281b9276fe1f.htm&ID=530&from=front
I kid you not

Why are Europe's bees dying?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7739798.stm
Interestingly no mention of GM crops and yet colony collapse is show to closely follow GM introductions....

Recycled rubbish being kept in storage because no one will buy it
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1088448/The-recycled-rubbish-kept-storage-buy-it.html

Democracy & International Diplomacy:
Kevin Rudd's 'Asian EU' plan dims
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24673572-2702,00.html
for the time being....the people just need “persuading”

Soros-Funded Democratic Idea Factory Becomes Obama Policy Font
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aF7fB1PF0NPg&refer=home
I'm sure multi-billionaire George Soro's heart is in the right place......

2025: the end of US dominance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/20/barack-obama-president-intelligence-agency

'I have a sixth sense' claims UK science minister
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/3467725/I-have-a-sixth-sense-claims-science-minister-Lord-Drayson.html
He first came to political attention in 2002 when it emerged that his company had been awarded a large government contract to supply vaccines, shortly after he had donated £50,000 to the Labour Party. That’s not a 6th Sense that’s just corruption.

Irish voters may approve new Lisbon Treaty, poll reveals
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2008/1117/1226700659487.html
If at first you don't succeed.........

EU is costing Britain £106K a MINUTE - that's £900 for each man, woman and child in the UK
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1087944/EU-costing-Britain-106K-MINUTE--thats-900-man-woman-child-UK.html

DNA dirty tricks loom in future elections
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16082-dna-dirty-tricks-loom-in-future-elections.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Hillary Clinton accepts post as Secretary of State in Obama administration
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/3498735/Hillary-Clinton-accepts-post-as-Secretary-of-State-in-Obama-administration.html

Thousands of rioters attack police in China
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/3482934/Thousands-of-rioters-attack-police-in-China.html

Obama calls Georgian leader Saakashvili
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/11/19/worldupdates/2008-11-18T154902Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-365626-1&sec=Worldupdates
This is the same Georgian leader who started an unwinnable war with Russia in August.....

Korea-Madagascar Land Deal - 21st Century colonialism?
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/7280

With all eyes on Obama, Port of Los Angeles security under control of Chinese President’s son!
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/6378

Health:
Fluoride in Drinking Water may Negatively Affect Health of Fetuses and Infants
http://www.naturalnews.com/024872.html

Are Vaccinations Causing Early Alzheimer’s Disease?
http://www.naturalnews.com/024867.html

Gulf War illness is real, report finds
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4AG6HU20081117?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Australian welfare lobby pushes for Gulf War Syndrome recognition after US study
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24679972-2702,00.html

Do Flu Shots Work? Ask A Vaccine Manufacturer
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/11/18/do-flu-shots-work-ask-a-vaccine-manufacturer.aspx

Rat Poison Chemical Found in Ingredient List For HPV Vaccine
http://www.naturalnews.com/024872.html

Use of Antipsychotics in Children Is Criticized
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/health/policy/19fda.html?_r=2

Gordon Brown defies advice and threatens opt-out law to solve donor crisis
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article5171918.ece

Millions of Chinese facing smoking related deaths
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7726770.stm

Alzheimer's Disease Now Striking Americans in Their 40's
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000484_Alzheimers_disease_cognitive_function_health_trends.html

Big Pharma Promoting Highly-Addictive Schedule-III Painkiller Drugs to Little Boys
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000485_painkillers_drug_addiction_drug_marketing.html

Teenagers to receive jabs to cut abortions
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5162705.ece

Parents believe watching television is good for children
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/3481625/Parents-believe-watching-television-is-good-for-children.html Sure it is......

Boy dies after using too much deodorant
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/boy-dies-after-using-too-much-deodorant/2008/11/21/1226770737888.html

Young Children Now Being Targeted For Statin Drug Use
http://www.naturalnews.com/024840.html

Finance & Economics:
China to buy 4000 tonnes of gold?
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/once-upon-a-time-in-the-gold-market.htm
Is the (manipulated) collapse of the US dollar imminent?

Goldman Sachs Targeted by Investor Complaints of Naked Short-Selling
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=as3PwfEfBlhk&refer=home

Shadow Chancellor fears sterling collapse
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7730803.stm
There's always the option to join the Euro.......

General Motors to Invest $1 Billion in Brazil Operations -- Money to Come from U.S. Rescue Program
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=320909&CategoryId=12396

Bank of America Buys Stake in China Construction
http://cpnmhn.typepad.com/cpn/2008/11/334m-in-commercial-mortgages-are-likely-to-default-bank-of-america-buys-stake-in-china-construction.html
What is happening now is nothing less than the realignment of the world from West to East and the corporations are asset stripping the West as they jump ship

Rothschild pays out record bonuses to staff
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article5192894.ece

Citibank could collapse due to £13.3billion losses, warn financial experts
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1088312/Citibank-collapse-13-3billion-losses-warn-financial-experts.html
A bargain for someone or another tax-payer handout?

Prophesy of economic collapse 'coming true'
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16058-prophesy-of-economic-collapse-coming-true.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac halt some foreclosures until “early 2009”
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4AJ90520081120?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Once Obama is in the Oval Office in late January the “realignment” will begin

UK Energy firms 'profit from poor'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7730658.stm

Crash of US carmakers risks three million jobs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/nov/16/automotive-us-joblosses

Automakers beg for aid as bailout bill stalls
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081118/D94HDR202.html

US Jobless Claims Hit 16-Year High, Above Forecast
http://www.cnbc.com/id/27819472

'Close to 3m UK unemployed' by 2010
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7732223.stm

Gold Continues to Consolidate after G20 Meeting; "Smart Money" Traders Now More Bullish Than At Any Time in 7 Years
http://news.goldseek.com/BullionVault/1226932296.php

US housing starts expected to hit half-century low
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Housing-starts-seen-lowest-over/story.aspx?guid=%7B4CA0BEBE-9AAF-4F47-AEE8-86042D8CEB2D%7D

Lehman's administrators paid more than the bankers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/3460876/Lehmans-administrators-paid-more-than-the-bankers.html

Consumer prices drop record 1 percent in October
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081119/economy.html
Don't worry inflation will be back with a vengeance when those trillions of newly printed dollars start filtering through.

Wall Street sinks to lowest since 2003
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN02ELLSNA20081120?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Science & Technology:
US warned of China 'cyber-spying'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7740483.stm

Searaser device in uphill battle for clean energy
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5167812.ece

Education:
Canadian conversation cops step in to school students
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081119.wlanguage19/BNStory/National/home

Americans Know ‘American Idol’ Star Better than American History
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=39715
The dumming down of the population seems to be going well

The War on Terror:
Top judge: US and UK acted as 'vigilantes' in Iraq invasion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/18/iraq-us-foreign-policy

Iraq cabinet backs US troops deal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7731971.stm
Do you think Iraq’s bookies took bets on it not being passed? There will still be thousands of US troops permanently stationed in bases on Iraqi soil after “the withdrawal” – will they be a free & sovereign state therefore?

Iraq pact raises withdrawal hopes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7732528.stm (See above)

Iraq war 'violated rule of law'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7734712.stm

A Ticket to The Hague for Dick Cheney?
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/11/hbc-90003846
We can but dream

Experts See Security Risks in Downturn
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/14/AR2008111403864_pf.html

Barack Obama: US must capture or kill Osama bin Laden
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5170644.ece
According to Benazir Bhutto. just before assassination, he already is dead - see the interview by David Frost with her cataloged a few weeks back.

Blackwater gunboats will protect ships
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/blackwater-gunboats-will-protect-ships-1024582.html
The biggest private army in the world isn't going to close it's doors once peace comes...because it will make sure it never happens

CIA lied about shoot-down of missionary plane, report says
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-shootdown21-2008nov21,0,1271777.story
I didn't think the CIA would do things like that....

The Next War:
Largest US Military Recall Since 1941 Possibly In Progress Right Now
http://rightsoup.com/breaking-largest-military-recall-since-1941-possibly-in-progress-right-now/

Israeli Air-Force ready to attack Iran
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404771120&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-foreign-policy20-2008nov20,0,1380983.story

Israel instructs Britain to "stop" Iran
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=75747&sectionid=351020104

Prospect of Israel war on Iran "stronger"
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=76137&sectionid=351020104

Britain's Foreign Secretary calls Iran world threat
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5im-w_hxH0PecLA02Lqog8RAsF8LgD94JH0S00

Pakistan The Next US Target?
http://www.daily.pk/local/other-local/8161-pakistan-the-next-us-target.html
The CIA has already orchestrated a regime change and has free reign to bomb at will in the north. Plus it has no oil (just a pipeline - the same one as in Afghanistan). So probably not the main show therefore.

Pakistan and U.S. Have Tacit Deal On Airstrikes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/15/AR2008111502656.html?hpid=topnews

US again misfires on Iranian arms in Iraq
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JK18Ak03.html

Iran pushes for further oil cut
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7731317.stm

The Greatest "Conspiracy theories" in history:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/3477148/The-greatest-conspiracy-theories-in-history.html?image=4
Typical lazy mainstream journalism. Of the ones that aren’t crackpot, frauds or false flags:
- The FEMA coffins – probably perfectly innocent, however we won’t know if it is not until too late. Anyway Governments have never lied throughout history have they........
- Fluoridation – read my blog & the links last week. Plenty of scientific evidence against it, and remember Britain is very rare amongst western countries to forcibly medicate its population through fluoridation. Gotta ask yourself why.....
- Pearl Harbour – Without doubt the US had cracked the Japanese naval codes. Plenty of evidence. Its just not the way that it is taught in schools. Very convenient for Roosevelt to get US into war in Europe that he could never have done otherwise
- Peak Oil – Debatable when, but inevitable that it will happen, just it may be a while down the track, however cost of production of hard to access resources will push prices up inexorably
- Black Helicopters – no one believed stealth existed until it became public.. plenty of hi-tech military stuff out there we don’t know about, so more than possible
- Moscow apartments – almost definitely KGB. Its not as though Vladimir would have any qualms about it, and they “have a lot of form” as a cop would say
- July 7th – the jury is out, though a lot of inconsistencies not least the blast patterns in trains pushing the metal up into the carriage (whereas it should have gone out – therefore bomb under not in train). Have the UK secret services got "form"?
- Shergar – IRA. They found the horse's body recently
- Shakespeare - interesting one, but there will never be enough evidence either way to say whether he was a front for Christopher Marlow or not. Not bad for a lowly educated boy from Brum who never went overseas but based many of his plays in Italy.....
- North American Union – Very real. Just as real as the EU, which evolved from the EEC, just as NAU is coming from NAFTA. If you had told a German 20 years ago that within a decade he’d have had currency union with the Italians and Greeks what would he have said? Its all about business.
- Princess Di – I actually believe it was an accident. Bloody convenient for the multi-billion dollar arms (landmines) industry however.........
- Jesus married – It is actually more unlikely that he wasn’t
- New World Order – Don’t get me started
- Fake Moon Landings – Amazing jump forward in special effects for 2001 Space Odyssey filmed in 1968 by Kubrick who went into self imposed exile and seclusion in St Albans straight after moon landings. All of a sudden in 1969 the US, after losing every other step so far, “wins” the space race using technology with less umph than your old BBC computer....and never been back in 40 years.....or indeed man has never again ventured outside the earth’s magnetic zone which protects us from all the solar radiation
- JFK & 9/11 – The so called truth is a damn sight less plausible and these after-all are “conspiracy theories” in themselves


Quote of the Week:

"It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas and the myths that surround it"
- John Pilger



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