If this is your first visit I would suggest that, after viewing the articles in this page, you click onto the "Blog Archive" on the right hand panel. Have a look at some of the previous editions too. That will give you a much fuller picture of what is happening than by simply reading what has happened in the last week.
Areas Covered Each Week:
Civil Liberties - Health - Environment - Democracy & International Relations - Economics - Science - The War on Terror - The Next War
Stories of the Week:
Britain wins appeal over Chagos islanders' return home
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hdjVkpT6_bzQxOkAQiXHQRIerOtw
Events like these make me ashamed to call myself British. What kind of “democracy” steals the island homes of some of its citizens, dumps them to live in abject poverty 1000 miles away for 40 years, and then uses every legal move in its arsenal to deny them both their home or recompense? (to find out more about the Chagos islanders plight watch John Pilger’s award winning 2004 documentary “Stealing A Nation” http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3667764379758632511 )
US scientists perfect targeted memory erasure
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j5CfwHrqltBheh9dhfY_L4zb68gQ
Are you concerned by this? You should be as used for nefarious purposes the possibilities are endless.........where did that smoking gun from?
Civil Liberties:
UK Government plans broad new 'Big Brother' surveillance powers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/3202766/Jacqui-Smith-plans-broad-new-Big-Brother-surveillance-powers.html
Terrorism laws can be abused to stifle dissent: UN rights expert
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20081023/tuk-terrorism-laws-can-be-abused-to-stif-a7ad41d.html
Interpol wants facial recognition database to catch suspects
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/20/interpol-facial-recognition
British courts despair at extradition requests
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/20/immigration-extradition-poland-lithuania-law
Passports will be needed to buy mobile phones
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4969312.ece
and to get a passport you'll need to get a bio-metric ID card...it's totally "voluntary" however (unless you are an immigrant obviously)
Student arrested for "terrorist" English class story
http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=2989614
15 anti-war protesters arrested at presidential debate
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-usprot1016,0,3632140.story
New law to allow UK police to collect DNA in secret from teacups
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078821/New-law-allow-police-collect-DNA-secret-teacups.html
Security fears 'erode free press'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7683359.stm
Australia ranked 28th, UK 23rd and US 40th
Europe delays airport X-ray eye
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7687126.stm
Pentagon Wants to See Inside Your House
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=018aba37269393caea5e01e25833888f&_cview=0&cck=1&au=&ck
The Pentagon wants to be able to peer inside your home- picking out where all the major rooms, stairways, and dens of evil-doers are - and presumably then they can wipe your memory so you don't remember the invasion of your privacy (see earlier article).
Microsoft lodges patent to ban freedom of speech?
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,437,290.PN.&OS=PN/7,437,290&RS=PN/7,437,290
Pentagon researching robots that with detect "non-cooperative humans"
http://www.dodsbir.net/SITIS/display_topic.asp?Bookmark=34565
Democracy & International Diplomacy:
Riots feared if Obama loses
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/283501.asp
As The Simpsons clip I referenced a fortnight ago showed it is still more than possible for McCain to "win" this sham election. Could the resulting civil disobedience be then used as the excuse to instigate the martial law clamp down that I have frequently warned about (and shown on these pages) is being prepared for in the USA?
American Civil Liberties Union files a Freedom of Information Act request on army units deployed on American streets
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/37274prs20081021.html
European Central Bank council member sees Global `Tri-Polar' Currency System Evolving
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=apjqJKKQvfDc&refer=home
As I have warned since the very first edition, the end goal has always been the creation of one world currency & government. The global "financial crisis" is just one step along that path, and here is its natural evolution coming to fore. This is the New World Order that that tiny minority who control the system (as they own it) so crave as it will give them absolute power over all of us, and minimal democratic scrutiny to keep the excesses of corporations in check. Twenty years ago would German's have every believed that within a decade they would have given up the Deutschemark to go into a currency union with the Italians or Greeks?
EU leaders call for Global Currency
http://www.reuters.com/article/americasDealsNews/idUSTRE49F4AG20081016
Sarkozy calls for 'economic government'
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24534492-12335,00.html
Sovereignty? What's that?
UN head seeks crisis aid for poor
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7690437.stm
Don't hold your breath.....
20bn barrel oil discovery puts Cuba in the big league
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/18/cuban-oil
Do you reckon that all of a sudden Cuba might get itself back to be the USA's "Enemy Number One" after dropping down the league table in recent years?
Donors pledge $4.5bn to Georgia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7683413.stm
Picking an unwinnable fight on behalf of your Western friends sure can be profitable (this is on top of the $1b that Dick Cheney gave them straight after the war.
Another Osama October surprise?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7684782.stm
Much more likely is that either a/ he is dead (see Bhutto article) or b/ he will be “captured”
Forgotten candidates for US president may still impact race http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081024/ts_alt_afp/usvotecandidates;_ylt=ApmD3HchTze_aT0FWhGeS0psnwcF
Not that it really matters whoever win's however despite what the media sell you daily, there are more than 2 candidates in the US election
David Frost interview with Benazir Bhutto: Bin Laden was Murdered
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=IRJ1tdTW0nk
Two weeks later she was murdered herself.............
Time To Fasten Seat Belts For A New World Order
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2008/oct/22/economy
D-notice slapped on MoD's history of censorship, Secrecy and the Media http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article5003394.ece
UK opposition leader 'met Murdoch on free trips'
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5goEMudF4P014uZwbVtolEL2pql0A
The Rothschild's and their 200 years of political influence
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-rothschilds-and-their-200-years-of-political-influence-969772.html
Abu Nidal, notorious Palestinian mercenary, 'was a US spy'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/abu-nidal-notorious-palestinian-mercenary-was-a-us-spy-972812.html
Deathbed confession of former CIA operative JFK assassination confession video
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=c6u9z-OX_I8
Hunt was a Watergate whistleblower. He was dying of throat cancer when he filmed the confession. Funnily enough the mainstream media who feted him over Watergate have ignored this.
Nuclear incident would make 9/11 'insignificant'
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gtW4R5X16sSsWPtKlo-SCugZ42qg
Health:
Will knowing your genes change your behavior?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026782.800-will-knowing-your-genes-change-your-behaviour.html
The problem is not you knowing your genes, it is potential insurers or employers. As soon as this path becomes "usual" a whole new and sinister form of discrimination will emerge in our society.
UK poorest 'living shorter lives'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7679234.stm
UK doctors paid bonus to NOT send you to hospital
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078796/How-sick-GPs-paid-bonus-NOT-send-hospital.html
Discovery could slow spread of cancer
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/20/2396491.htm?section=justin
Brain stimulator treats depression by beaming magnetic pulses through the skull
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1079322/Brain-stimulator-treats-depression-beaming-magnetic-pulses-skull.html
FDA Running Extortion Racket: Natural Supplement Companies Threatened with Arrest if They Don't Pay Up
http://www.naturalnews.com/024567.html
FDA Conspired with Chemical Industry to Declare Bisphenol-A Harmless
http://www.naturalnews.com/024593.html
FDA Protects Chinese Supplier of Tainted Heparin, Refuses to Release Names
http://www.naturalnews.com/024550.html
Have you noticed a trend here with the US government body that brought you such "health giving" toxins as aspartame (aka NutraSweet)
Avoid Flu Shots With the One Vitamin that Will Stop Flu in Its Tracks
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/10/21/avoid-flu-shots-vitamin-d-is-a-better-way.aspx
Depression 'doubles' early birth
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7683757.stm
Fluoride is added to children's milk in 42 primary schools
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/localnews/Dental-action-targets-children.4588538.jp
What an excellent idea! Put an industrial waste product with highly insubstantial claims of health benefits (but bloody expensive to dispose of) into children's milk, thus poisoning them and rotting their brain cells. Charming.
Hospitals Push Tdap Vaccine On New Mothers
http://www.naturalnews.com/024575.html
Many pesticides in EU may damage human brain: study
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE49N38O20081024
A stroll in the park is as good at calming children as Ritalin, study finds
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1080447/A-stroll-park-good-calming-children-Ritalin-study-finds.html
Damn sight less profitable for certain companies however.
Drug company publishes identical data on new antidepressant drug - twice over, in two entirely separate scientific papers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/25/medical-research-science-health
Action call over maternal deaths
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7690434.stm
Papers show how tobacco companies stopped airline’s smoking ban
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/337/oct01_1/a1887
Diet Soft Drink Makers Not Required to Disclose Chemical Sweetener Ingredients in Restaurants
http://www.naturalnews.com/024531.html
Anti-obesity drug use suspended
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7687311.stm
Finance & Economics:
Global recession fears intensify, markets dive
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE49N5VU20081024
As I have warned on many occasions previously the markets still have a long way to go. Human beings are a predictable lot, especially when scared. Those with the ultimate power over the markets, politics and the media know that all too well.
'Worst financial crisis in human history': Bank of England boss's warning as pound suffers biggest fall for 37 years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080172/Worst-financial-crisis-human-history-Bank-bosss-warning-pound-suffers-biggest-fall-37-years.html
You just wait to see the mess when the US dollar collapses
The death of the dollar?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7684397.stm
As I have warned many times before this is pre-planned and part of the “big picture”. The demise of the dollar will lead to the birth of the Amero (NAFTA currency union, mirroring the Euro) which will eventually lead to one world government and one world currency. Notice how many times there has been talk over the last few weeks by politicians for the need for a “New Financial World Order”. This is not a conspiracy, this is psychology. The psychology of wealth, power and corporations.
OPEC Agrees on Sharp Output Cut, Oil Slide Goes On
http://www.cnbc.com/id/27356328
Remember where you heard this prediction first - Oil will drop below US$50 in the near future, however within the next two years it will be above $200 - that is the ultimate game plan and that is what is going to happen as those with the plan control the game.
Britain's hidden debt
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/21/economy-creditcrunch
CNBC Economist Blames " Paulson And The Illuminati" For The Economic Chaos
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=902540383
The statement comes at 3.13 into the video and is well worth waiting for.
Gold Market Disinformation Specialists Ply Their Trade
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article6943.html
Despite there being unprecedented demand for gold at mints worldwide, the price is falling - is it being kept artificially low? Whatever is clear, it will rise when inflation takes hold, as it historically always does, and it will soar when the bombs start falling on Iran.
Paulson plans buying stakes in Regional US banks
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aXGtkUB_OG0U&refer=home
Don't forget that Paulson used to be CEO of Goldman Sachs, and historically these downturns always result in further accumulation of power by the large banks, like Goldman Sachs, as they snap up the small banks on the cheap, thus accumulating ever increasing power and control over the system that they already dominate.
Environment:
How our economy is killing the Earth
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg20026786.000-special-report-how-the-economy-is-killing-the-earth.html?DCMP=ILC-arttsrhcol&nsref=specrt12_head_Beyond%20growth
Sun's protective 'bubble' is shrinking
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3222476/Suns-protective-bubble-is-shrinking.html
A warning sign that the earth's magnetic poles are about to swap around?
Less Ice In Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 Years Ago
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081020095850.htm
Of course to ensure further funding the report ends with "but this time it is different - its man's fault" - Now, what is exactly “different” about the climatic factors today and 6,000 years ago? From any geological perspective, 6,000 years is simply nothing; it is one part per million of Earth’s history. The sun is still the source of virtually all our energy, and CO2 still, as then, consists of less that 0.04% of the earth's atmosphere.
Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/20/lorne-gunter-thirty-years-of-warmer-temperatures-go-poof.aspx
Discoverer of Great Pacific Garbage Patch speaks in Honolulu
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20081021/GETPUBLISHED/81021056/-1/SPORTSFRONT
The 2008 Top Ten World's Worst Pollution Problems
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/2008-top-ten-worlds-worst/story.aspx?guid=%7BBFCCBAA4-0291-4E16-9811-F6C1BBE42DF9%7D&dist=hppr
How many of these do you hear debated about in the mainstream media on a daily basis? You hear lots about CO2 however.......funny that.
eBay ivory ban is good news for elephants
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn15007-ebay-ivory-ban-is-good-news-for-elephants.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
Do we need to go nuclear to stay green?
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn14999-do-we-need-to-go-nuclear-to-stay-green--.html
No, but a small group over rich and powerful people want you to think otherwise – so that they can become even more rich & powerful, and our descendants for a thousand generations can deal with the results
Texaco Ordered Destruction of Oil Spill Documents
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/amazon-defense-coalition-texaco-ordered/story.aspx?guid=%7B46485A34-44C3-4232-9850-0CEB3F6503CC%7D&dist=hppr
Toxic waste verdict disappoints
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7687612.stm
Congressional investigators find "alarming weaknesses in security" 2 top bio-warfare laboratories
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/opinion/23thu3.html?_r=4&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Science & Technology
US to restart work on space based missile defenses
http://www.dailytech.com/US%2Bto%2BRestart%2BWork%2Bon%2BSpaceBased%2BMissile%2BDefenses/article13231.htm
Microsoft accused of hacking in piracy clampdown
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn15009-microsoft-accused-of-hacking-in-piracy-clampdown.html
MPs vote to allow human-animal hybrids
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/3242706/MPs-vote-to-allow-human-animal-hybrids.html
The Manchurian microchip
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/4092/53/
How to get extreme mileage from ordinary cars
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg20026796.800-interview-how-to-get-extreme-milage-from-ordinary-cars--.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
Invention: Hurricane pacifier
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14988-invention-hurricane-pacifier.html
Religion:
Creationists declare war over the brain
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026793.000-creationists-declare-war-over-the-brain.html
We can’t work out how it came about therefore it “must be God” – no you just haven’t worked it all out yet.
Education:
Sex education lessons will start at the age of seven in new UK Government curriculum
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1079882/Sex-education-lessons-start-age-seven-new-Government-curriculum.html
Does anyone else see anything wrong with a state doing this?
The War on Terror:
Private army Blackwater sends warship to Gulf of Aden
http://lloydslist.com/ll/news/blackwater-sends-warship-to-gulf-of-aden/20017581692.htm
Condoleezza Rice says Bush made the Middle-East a better place
http://www.kazakhstannews.net/story/420738
For? Halliburton? Chevron? General Dynamics? Blackwater? Human beings?
MoD scientists 'deployed in UK'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7681743.stm
'US missiles' hit Pakistan school
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7685593.stm
The Next War:
US & European military leaders hold secret meeting in upstate New York
http://adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/503035.html?nav=5008&showlayout=0
It is lucky that there at least a few investigative journalists out there, even if they are tucked away in small regional papers
US-Russia commanders meet to mend ties
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=72869§ionid=351020602
US: So it's agreed then, you're okay with us bombing your former ally Ian now?
Russian arms exporter sanctioned over Iran
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-sanctions25-2008oct25,0,4411802.story
US can start war but not end it - Iranian General
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=72963§ionid=351020101
Iran believes economic crisis prevents war breaking out http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=72888§ionid=351020104 I wouldn't hold your breath on that I'm afraid
Iran bank denies weapons charges by U.S. Treasury
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE49M7O120081023
Biden predicts "international crisis" within first 6 months of Obama presidency
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/biden-to-suppor.html
Quote of the Week:
"The thing that we need in the world today, is a group of men and women who will stand up for right and be opposed to wrong, wherever it is. A group of people who have come to see that some things are wrong, whether they're never caught up with. Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not."
- Martin Luther King Jr
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