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Open Your Eyes News - Edition 44

2009-01-04T11:07:00.002+09:00

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Areas Covered Each Week:
Civil Liberties - Health - Environment - Democracy & International Relations - Economics - Science - The War on Terror - The Next War
Stories of the week (away from the Old Testament style retribution in Gaza) :
No evidence Lashkar-e-Taiba responsible for Mumbai attack (AFP)
More than 100,000 civilians massacred by allies during Korean War (Daily Telegraph)
Let students take drugs to boost brainpower, says leading academic (The Times)
Gordon Brown wants to build "a global coalition for change" with Obama (The Guardian)
Private firm may track all UK email and calls (The Guardian)
CCTV used to 'spy' on pupils in schools (Daily Telegraph)
Hundreds of children's details added to UK Government database every day (Daily Telegraph)
Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979 (Daily Tech)
U.S. In Depression, Not Recession (The Economist)
Gulf states agree on monetary union (Al Jazeera)
More money, less Gold to push gold price to $2000 (Commodity Online)
Chickenpox jab for all children and pregnant women (Daily Mail)
Iran on full alert in wake of Israeli raids (Press TV)
US bombing raids kills 20+ in Pakistan this week (Reuters & AFP)

Gaza:
White House blames Hamas for violence
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28413489/
The Historian - Obviously if your homeland had been taken from you and you had been kept in a state of siege by an overwhelming military power what would you do? Warfare in all its forms is evil, however there are always two sides to every story.

Israeli media trumpets ruse used to surprise Hamas, kill more Palestinians
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=98727

Israel mulls "humanitarian" pause in Gaza assault as massive ground invasion looms
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/30/israel-pause-bombing-campaign-gaza
The Historian - How charming, a humanitarian pause in killing their fellow human beings

Gaza aid boat damaged by Israelis reaches Lebanon
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BT2BI20081230
The Historian - it was deliberately rammed by the Israeli Navy

In Dense Gaza, Civilians Suffer
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/world/middleeast/01gaza.html?hp

Palestinian death toll rises to 325 as Israeli strikes continue
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/29/gaza-israel-palestinians-middle-east

Israeli strike kills senior Hamas leader (and his family)
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSLS69391620090102?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Bush stance on cease-fire shows support for Israel
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MIDEAST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
The Historian - Well there's a turn up for the books!

Israeli tanks and soldiers invade Gaza Strip
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSLS69391620090103?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Six children among 12 killed in mosque blast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/04/mosque-blast-gaza
The Historian - Just postulating at this stage, but perhaps one of the causes of this brutal piece of Old Testament vengeance is an attempt by Israel/USA to provoke the Iranians to react (perhaps taking a more aggressive stance in supporting Hamas and getting Hezbollah in Lebanon to attack Israel) thus giving Israel the excuse for bombing Iran - they will do it soon anyway, but if the Iranian's "start it" then the international come back will be lessened.

Bush - Hamas rocket attacks on Israel an "act of terror"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28476147
The Historian - Unlike killing 100 times the amount of people in retribution.

Democracy & International Diplomacy:
Eisenhower's Farewell Address - Warning of a Military Industrial Complex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUXtyIQjubU

JFK speaking on Secret Societies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnkdfFAqsHA&eurl=http://www.davidicke.com/content/blogcategory/30/48

Top opposition MP's role at firm that plugs Government health policy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1102185/Top-Tory-8217-s-role-firm-plugs-Labour-health-policy.html

Brown vows new alliance with Obama
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brown-vows-new-alliance-with-obama-1213840.html

Is the ‘New World Order’ Changing Yet Again?
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/articles/2008/12/26/siddiqi_is-the-new-world-order-changing.html

Russia and China hook up military hotline
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/30/2456471.htm

More than 100,000 civilians massacred by allies during Korean War
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/4015742/More-than-100000-massacred-by-allies-during-Korean-War.html
The Historian - Of course we are different nowadays and this would never happen in our name now......

Slovakia becomes eurozone member
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7806430.stm

Hurdle for Rudd Asia-Pacific plan
http://www.theage.com.au/national/hurdle-for-rudd-asiapacific-plan-20090102-794q.html?page=-1

Gulf states agree on monetary union
http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2008/12/20081230153346616980.html

Gordon Brown wants to build "a global coalition for change" with Obama
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jan/01/gordon-brown-new-year-message
The Historian - A.K.A "A New World Order"

Why has Barack Obama picked Napolitano for secretary of homeland security?
http://spectator.org/archives/2008/12/31/changing-of-the-guard

CNN - Russian professor predicts US to disintegrate by 2010
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3yRzQz0KMyI

Three Quarters of Britons Against The Euro
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1103866/Majority-voters-oppose-Britain-joining-euro--10-years-introduced.html
The Historian - Expect that figure to reduce considerably (as planned) over the next year as the pounds vale plummets, the depression bites and the massive increase in Government (taxpayer) debt comes home to roost

Icelandic TV Program Featuring Prime Minister Forced Off Air By Protestors
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5htieYqASzIvKOfKAGOO7BvxEjzsgD95DUANO0
The Historian - You may wonder what has Icelandic politics got to do with me? Iceland was the first First World country to be completely bankrupted by the 2nd Great Depression we are falling into. What happens there may well be a microcosm of what will happen when the USA, Britain and others follow

Ethiopia begins withdrawal from Somalia
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/03/2458557.htm
The Historian - Does this mean that China (Somali Islamists) has won the unofficial 3rd party war with USA (Ethiopia) for control of Somalia's massive and un-tapped oil reserves?

Civil Liberties:
Private firm may track all UK email and calls
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/31/privacy-civil-liberties

CCTV used to 'spy' on pupils in schools
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/3983081/CCTV-used-to-spy-on-pupils-in-schools.html

Automatic speed-limiting devices should be fitted to cars, says report
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/4028967/Automatic-speed-limiting-devices-should-be-fitted-to-cars-says-report.html
The Historian - Oh and by the way the same technology will also monitor everywhere you go in your car, always. But Big Brother care's.....

Russia restricts jury trials for treason, terror
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/01/01/europe/EU-Russia-Jury-Trials.php

UK ‘Spy-in-sky’ gets go-ahead despite Government promise to scrap road-pricing plan
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1103999/Spy-sky-trials-ahead-despite-Government-promise-scrap-road-pricing-plan.html

Now British Banks Jump On The Big Brother Bandwagon
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5429773.ece

Muslim family thrown off US jet for 'remarks'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/03/airtran-flight-muslim-passengers

Hundreds of children's details added to UK Government database every day
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4075545/Hundreds-of-childrens-details-added-to-database-every-day.html

Teams of 'litter officers' film residents in case they drop litter
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4076676/Teams-of-litter-officers-film-residents-in-case-they-drop-litter.html

UK Police Community Support Officers solve less than one crime every four years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4077921/Blunketts-Bobbies-solve-less-than-one-crime-every-four-years.html
The Historian - However in the case of a "national emergency" they will be issued with firearms and have full powers of arrest (and even more worryingly so will Traffic Wardens)

Environment:
2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/3982101/2008-was-the-year-man-made-global-warming-was-disproved.html

Eco-town proposals receive fresh blow
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3966142/Eco-town-proposals-receive-fresh-blow.html

Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver
The Historian - By an amazing coincidence this 'secret' report has been made public now, rather helpfully strengthening the hand of the soon to be incoming President Obama (or as his worshipers should call him O-baaaaa-ma) to introduce ludicrous policies to 'fight climate change' when, in fact, human-generated carbon emissions are not affecting the climate - the culprit is primarily the source of all our heat and light, THE SUN, as the Pentagon well knows.

EPA 'Cow Tax' Could Charge $175 per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20081230165231.aspx

Northern Irish Environment Minister: I still think man-made climate change is a con
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/environment/environment-minister-sammy-wilson-i-still-think-manmade-climate-change-is-a-con-14123972.html

Global warming: Reasons why it might not actually exist
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/4029837/Global-warming-Reasons-why-it-might-not-actually-exist.html

Climate scientists: it's time for 'Plan B'
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/climate-scientists-its-time-for-plan-b-1221092.html
The Historian - What's the betting that "Plan B" involves a massive increase in funding for "scientific research", "radical policies" that will further impoverish the poorest billions of the world's population, and generally stand at the waters edge like King Canute ordering the tide to stop.

2008 Ends Spotless and with 266 Spotless Days, the #2 Least Active Year Since 1900, Portends Cooling
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog

Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979
http://www.disclose.tv/frameset.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailytech.com%2FSea%2BIce%2BEnds%2BYear%2Bat%2BSame%2BLevel%2Bas%2B1979%2Farticle13834.htm

How to opt out of the system
http://www.countrysidemag.com/issues/89/89-6/L_Kevin+Donna_Philippe-Johnson.html

Yellowstone Earthquakes Raise Fears
http://news.aol.com/article/yellowstone-earthquakes-raise-fears/292261
The Historian - Yellowstone is the largest volcano on earth. If it blows in the first minute more so called "greenhouse gases" will be released into the upper atmosphere than man has been able to put out in the last 500 years., plus tones of debris - the likely effect will be an new ice age

Finance & Economics:
Obama economic plan to cost between 675 and 775 bln
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gZHkLM8Lvcx_YZHSEyY0vpjXQfzQ
The Historian - Yeah sure, we've got a bit more to spare after the $8.5 trillion of taxpayers money already handed out to the poor old corporations.

U.S. In Depression, Not Recession
http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12852043

UK on brink of second bailout for banks
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article5434660.ece

Crude Oil Rises as Israeli Attacks on Gaza Roil Middle East
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a9Zb0LUTFWhk&refer=home

Veterans of ’90s Bailout Hope for Profit in New One
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/us/29bank.html?hp

Employment & Dollar Collapse is Coming
http://www.cnbc.com/id/28416981
The Historian - The plan always has been to devalue the dollar so to "persuade" the American people to adopt the NAFTA currency union, the Amero. All the while the US & EU is asset stripped (through "bailouts") by the corporations as they relocate their focus to the future source of their wealth & power, the East.

Pound hits new low against euro
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7802981.stm
The Historian - Expect lots of articles and commentators suggesting ditching the pound for the Euro....exactly as planned in fact. Remember if you had told a German in 1990 that within a decade he would have ditched the DM to go into a currency union with the Greeks, Italians and Portuguese, what would he have said? Germany only adopted the plan due to the costs of unification. Just as the British & US populations will ditch their currencies because of the economic hardships that have been foisted on them by the same forces who want reduced democratic scrutiny and currency fluctuations upsetting profits.

Dollar Heads for Biggest Annual Drop Against Yen in Two Decades
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=akfD0ncOQqNE&refer=home

US consumer confidence and home prices hit grim records
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN3033992420081231?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

FTSE 100 facing worst ever year
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7805008.stm

Tokyo shares end 2008 42% lower
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7804624.stm

Commodity price movements 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7789538.stm

Record stock market falls in 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7805644.stm

Half of UK middle class home owners fear their properties could be repossessed next year
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/houseprices/4016367/Half-of-middle-class-home-owners-fear-their-properties-could-be-repossessed-next-year.html
The Historian - Oh to be a bank eh? You can't lose. You own the game, you set the rules, and worse case scenario you get the assets back and/or get taxpayers to pay you directly through bailouts - result!

Average Briton Spends Over 2 Hours a Day Worrying About Depression
http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKTRE4BT08Q20081230?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

Decision to award bailout money to City National Bank probed
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bailout2-2009jan02,0,1154279.story

More money, less Gold to push gold price to $2000
http://www.commodityonline.com/news/More-money-less-Gold-to-push-gold-price-to-$2000-13796-3-1.html

U.S. Government Sanctioned Gold Price Manipulation
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article8014.html

Corporate and Government Policies Spark Food Crisis in America
http://www.naturalnews.com/025213.html

Chrysler gets $4bn emergency loan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7809212.stm

Private equity group buying IndyMac assets
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5014DP20090103?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
The Historian - There are great bargains to be had by those who manipulated this crash in the first place - the private banks that own the US Federal Reserve & the Bank Of England

U.S. governors seek $1 trillion federal assistance
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5014F120090102?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

U.S. Debt Expected To Soar This Year
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR2009010202322.html

Health:
Let students take drugs to boost brainpower, says leading academic
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article5428560.ece
The Historian- What the ?!!!**!***??? As Glaxo & friends shareholders rub their hands with glee.....

Thiamine (vitamin B1) 'reverses kidney damage'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7796073.stm

Too much beer, wine linked to cancer
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2008/12/27/Too_much_beer_wine_linked_to_cancer/UPI-76351230408247/

China fish imports raise melamine fears
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/12/24/China_fish_imports_raise_melamine_fears/UPI-58941230130461/

Report Shows Long Term Use of Cell Phones Linked to Brain Tumors
http://www.naturalnews.com/025181.html

Cholera deaths soar in Zimbabwe
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7802943.stm

Keep taking the fruit and veg: Vitamin pills do not reduce cancer risk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/dec/30/vitamins-antioxidants-supplements-cancer

Additives used in bacon, ham and chicken 'could make cancers grow'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1102368/Additives-used-bacon-ham-chicken-make-cancers-grow.html

Test could offer lung cancer clue
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7806199.stm

Report Shows Long Term Use of Cell Phones Linked to Brain Tumors
http://www.naturalnews.com/025181.html

Grape extract kills cancer cells
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7803619.stm

Marinating 'may cut cancer risk'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7804571.stm

Pediatricians Demand Annual Flu Shots for Infants as Vaccine-Pushing Doctors Descend into Extremist Quackery
http://www.naturalnews.com/025203.html

Early birth linked to depression
http://www.theage.com.au/national/early-birth-linked-to-depression-20090101-78jx.html

Chickenpox jab for all children and pregnant women
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1104555/Chickenpox-jab-children-pregnant-women.html
The Historian - Do you see a pattern yet?

TV Stunts Verbal Communication In Children
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/4074606/Two-year-olds-to-be-screened-for-speech-problems.html

Science & Technology:
Scientists plan to ignite tiny man-made star
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3981697/Scientists-plan-to-ignite-tiny-man-made-star.html

Cyborg cockroaches could power own electric 'brains'
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126884.200-cyborg-cockroaches-could-power-own-electric-brains.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Second Qantas jet strikes problems over WA
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,27574,24864822-2761,00.html
The Historian - I wonder if they will attribute this one to "someone switching on their mobile phone" and "definitely not" the top secret US Naval base that it was flying over which just happens to communicate with naval submarines worldwide.

'Magical' Gravity Wave Weapons No Threat, Panel Says
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/12/grav-wave-threa.html
The Historian - Oh well if the Pentagon says its okay that's fine then.....

Obama Moves to Counter China With Pentagon-NASA Link
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aGMy_XFWN_VY&refer=home

The War on Terror:
Restoration of Iraq's sovereignty
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hwK_CSpBxsNuVUEaDuOwmSSCiqGwD95EC4M00
The Historian - "Sovereignty" is an interesting word. In its correct definition does it count if all your country's major assets and infrastructure have been "privatised" (taken) and are now owned by a foreign power which has an overwhelming and permanent military presence in your country?

Iraq signs foreign troops deals
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7805529.stm

Suicide car bomb in Afghanistan kills 14 primary school children
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/28/suicide-car-bomb-attack-afghanistan

US to harness Afghan militias against Taliban
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/31/afghanistan-us-foreign-policy
The Historian - In other words the old Roman tactic of divide & conquer

The Next War:
John Bolton: Gaza Conflict Could Lead To U.S. Attack On Iran (Fox News 31/12/08)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEebpnYLVa4

Iran on full alert in wake of Israeli raids
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=80037&sectionid=351020101

Suspected U.S. drones kill 7 in Pakistan
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BL0DN20081222?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Five dead in suspected US missile strike in Pakistan
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gVtjG_ujlT8d881_E3K7EhUm7FiA

'Three dead' in Pakistan missile strike
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090102/twl-three-dead-in-pakistan-missile-strik-2802f3e.html

Pakistan calls for calm with India
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jwBEQRpiTcUNs7qKfMKIUtuTUT1A

US, Ukraine risk irking Russia with strategic accord
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hJTaVBZdnCpMevQ5gF1M0rEnHhsg

Pakistan says no war with India, US leads diplomatic efforts
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20081227/twl-pakistan-says-no-war-with-india-us-l-3cebad0.html

Pakistan urges India to resume dialogue, relocate troops
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jZNVjEO-vh09nOsk0pPmP42DLDYA

Pakistan: India moves troops toward shared border
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i_THH84S9bUIhGGUr1Hqcm5ssBVAD95D73782

No evidence Lashkar-e-Taiba responsible for Mumbai attack
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iazNx59e-BbHT6I_7FBE7LnZfJ3w
The Historian - Was it therefore yet another U.S. and/or Israeli false flag operation? It is not as though neither have "form".

CIA, Mossad Infiltrated Muslim Organizations
http://www.daily.pk/world/middle-east/8827-cia-mossad-infiltrated-muslim-organizations.html

North Korea may stage nuke test to tame Obama team: study
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i10biPtQJS3aWkHO5wDz404cl8-A

Suicide attack rocks SE Iran
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=79839&sectionid=351020101

US 'concerned' over Russia-Ukraine gas dispute
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hCkwihSN_DcCOyUBc55Gd5-hc1OQ

Quote of the Week:

"We have closed our eyes to the crimes committed worldwide by our representatives with our own money against our legacy to the world. Can we live with this failure of our leadership, not only domestically but globally? And personally, can we stand this contradiction?"
- Naomi Wolf, "Give Me Liberty"

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.

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Open Your Eyes News - Edition 43

2008-12-28T14:12:00.004+09:00

Open Your Eyes News Radio Show - RTR FM on Tues 30th December 4am-6am WST (UK - 7pm-9pm Mon 29th GMT) http://www.rtrfm.com.au/listen Unfortunately due to the wheels of community organisations moving slowly this will be a "lite" version of the planned show with just a run through of headlines & some music, but not in-depth analysis of issues. Hopefully full sign off will be given early in the New Year.
**STOP PRESS ** New Open Your Eyes News website coming soon. Updated daily. Easier navigation. Improved layout. News for information, not entertainment.
Areas Covered Each Week:
Civil Liberties - Health - Environment - Democracy & International Relations - Economics - Science - The War on Terror - The Next War
Stories of the week:
The year of the hungry: 1,000,000,000 afflicted (The Independent)
West Australia Approves Commercial Trial of GM Canola (The West Australian)
Pilot killed in Ohio crash was Bush IT consultant (Associated Press)
Arrested UK Opposition Minister was secretly recorded by police (The Times)
Fatal flaws in Australian website censorship plan, says report (The Age)
US army ready if downturn gets out of hand (New York Post)
Prominent Scientist Fired By Gore Says Warming Alarm ‘Mistaken’ (The US Senate)
The end of the British honeybee? (The Guardian)
IMF warns of 2nd Great Depression (Associated Press)
FDNY Lieutenant admitted plan to "take down" World Trade Centre 7 live on TV on 9/11(MSNBC)
KBR knowingly exposed troops to toxic dust (CBS News)
North Korea says South seeking war, threatens "sea of fire" (AFP)

Democracy & International Diplomacy:
The year of the hungry: 1,000,000,000 afflicted
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/year-of-the-hungry-1000000000-afflicted-1213843.html
The Historian - Does your local news outlet tell you this, or feed you a diet of petty politics, reality TV, celebrities and sport?

Obama the most admired man in the world, American poll says
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/26/barack-obama-most-admired-man
The Historian - The fact that he was put there by exactly the same people/corporations who put Bush there is beside the point. I'm sure British & Australian readers will see the irony in the slogan "Time for change" (which incidentally never comes). And as the sheep are herded into their pens what do they say but "O-baaaaa-ma"

Secret of the Lusitania: Arms find challenges Allied claims it was solely a passenger ship
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1098904/Secret-Lusitania-Arms-challenges-Allied-claims-solely-passenger-ship.html
The Historian - But that means the USA & Britain were lying over the principle cause for the USA to join a war which had previously been very unpopular with the American people. At least things like that don't happen these days eh?

Pilot killed in Ohio crash was Bush IT consultant
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iv1YXgRc_JuC50GZ7oqT1tcBGF0QD956TJF80
The Historian - How "unfortunate an accident". 'Mike Connell's untimely death will haunt Karl Rove and the Republican Party. As the key witness in investigations into election fraud and the firing of US attorneys, Mike Connell informed investigators that he had received death threats. Connell's testimony threatened to lead to the indictment of Karl Rove. Key allegations in the cases that were converging on Rove were to the effect that Connell was ordered to manipulate election returns in 2004 to deliver the presidency to George W. Bush instead of John Kerry who was leading the pre-election polls. Connel was under investigation in the case of thousands of missing emails relevant to the probe into the politically motivated firing of US attorneys. Oh well never mind eh....

Speaker of House of Commons blocks inquiry into his handling of MP's arrest
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/3867599/Speaker-Michael-Martin-blocks-inquiry-into-his-handling-of-Damian-Green-arrest.html

General George S. Patton was assassinated to silence his criticism of allied war leaders
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3869117/General-George-S.-Patton-was-assassinated-to-silence-his-criticism-of-allied-war-leaders-claims-new-book.html

Japan asked US to prepare for nuclear strike on China
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/3899290/Japan-asked-US-to-prepare-for-nuclear-strike-on-China.html

UNICEF says 6,000 child soldiers in Darfur
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jeUuAi4rcLUUfvylTzjlB-InsDMQ

Bush E-Mails May Be Secret a Bit Longer
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/20/AR2008122002102.html?hpid=topnews

Lord Mandelson goes on holiday again with Nat Rothschild
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/3918609/Lord-Mandelson-slopes-off-with-Nat-Rothschild.html

Arrested UK Opposition Minister was secretly recorded by police
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5394014.ece

Riots push Greece to the edge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7798056.stm

Bush pardons 19, commutes sentence of meth dealer
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/23/bush.pardons/?iref=mpstoryview
The Historian - "Democracy" in action.

China begins anti-piracy mission
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7799899.stm
The Historian - We will look back on events like this as the changing of the international guard as China begins to flex its military muscles on the international stage and eventually gains supremacy over the (soon to be bankrupt) USA

UK Government planning secret tax on 'nice houses'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/3950038/Labour-planning-secret-tax-on-nice-houses.html

Kissinger & Nixon celebrated 1972 bombing of North Vietnam, new transcripts show
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB263/index.htm

EU spends £2bn each year on 'vain PR exercises'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/3965512/EU-spends-2bn-each-year-on-vain-PR-exercises.html
The Historian - Remind me, how many people in the 3rd World could you feed or educate for £2 billion?

Civil Liberties:
Fatal flaws in Australian website censorship plan, says report
http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/web/fatal-flaws-in-website-censorship-plan/2008/12/22/1229794328860.html

Australian Government denies trialling flawed internet filter
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24840273-15306,00.html

Web sites could get film-style ratings
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20081227/tuk-oukin-uk-britain-websites-fa6b408.html

Americans prefer news from Web to newspapers: survey
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081224183017.jxmbrdyb&show_article=1
The Historian - All the more reason for the powers that be to control the internet "more closely"

Australia reviews anti-terror laws
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5h_e8UbeZngWBPCl2sq22WleL3zJw

U.S. Military Preparing for Domestic Disturbances
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/military_domestic_use/2008/12/23/164765.html

US army ready if downturn gets out of hand
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12232008/business/us_army_ready_if_the_downturn_gets_out_o_145522.htm

Indian parliament passes tough new terrorism laws
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/indian-parliament-passes-tough-new-terrorism-laws/2008/12/18/1229189805491.html

Tasers are an outrage we must resist
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letters/johann-hari-tasers-are-an-outrage-we-must-resist-1207401.html

Mugabe unleashes wave of terror with mass abductions
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/mugabe-unleashes-wave-of-terror-with-mass-abductions-1207395.html

UK bailiffs get power to use force on debtors
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5375668.ece

Clown strip-searched by airport security guards - because they thought he was a terrorist
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1099322/PC-Konk-clown-strip-searched-airport-security-guards--thought-terrorist.html

Credit crunch Britain must learn the lessons of Nazi Germany, warns Archbishop
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1099636/Credit-crunch-Britain-learn-lessons-Nazi-Germany-warns-Archbishop.html

"Please give me an ID card" say UK citizens
http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39368026,00.htm?r=4
The Historian - Yeah, sure they do

US police could get 'pain beam' weapons
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16339-us-police-could-get-pain-beam-weapons.html

Brazil to Equip All New, Imported Cars with Tracking Devices
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7792469.stm

German Journalists Worry 'Big Brother Law' Will Kill Press Freedom
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0%2C1518%2C596807%2C00.html

Naked Man Dies After 4 Shocks From Taser Gun
http://www.click2houston.com/news/18352822/detail.html

US police use excessive force, ER docs say
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081224/hl_nm/us_police_er

NSW bus drivers angry over 'spy cameras'
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24849695-2702,00.html

Environment:
West Australia Approves Commercial Trial of GM Canola
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=admjqvHS2QKk&refer=australia

West Australian farmers eye GM wheat
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=146&ContentID=115010

Facts melted by 'global warming'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3883550/Facts-melted-by-global-warming.html

Blight hits world's vanilla supply
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026874.800-blight-hits-worlds-vanilla-supply.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

EU plans to impose fish quotas on amateur sea anglers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5375688.ece
The Historian - Yes clearly individuals with a single line are the problem and not drift net trawlers

Beijing's coldest December day in 57 years
http://www.danwei.org/front_page_of_the_day/beijing_winter.php

Prominent Scientist Fired By Gore Says Warming Alarm ‘Mistaken’
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=5ef55aa3-802a-23ad-4ce4-89c4f49995d2

How kangaroo burgers could save the planet
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026873.100-how-kangaroo-burgers-could-save-the-planet.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
The Historian - Yes they probably are, though not because of "methane emissions causing global warming". More that they are 100% free range, aren't pumped full of steroids and vaccines, they are very lean, and very abundant. (and currently mainly put into pet food!)

Farmers raising a stink about possible law that could tax cow 'emissions'
http://www.gastongazette.com/news/farmers_28456___article.html/dairy_tax.html
The Historian - The "argument" is being slowly manipulated to that of mankind being the problem - (after all you emit methane and CO2, and consume all these animals. Wouldn't it be a lot better if there were a whole lot less human's - say a manageable 500 million? Slowly the mindset of the world's population is being twisted by this false religion. The question is how to get rid of the other 7.5 billion "useless eaters"?

Children's Books Use Christmas to Push Global Warming Agenda
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,472164,00.html

Fix For Global Warming? Scientists Propose Covering Deserts With Reflective Sheeting
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081222114546.htm
The Historian - Boy this global warming lark is great for gaining those hard to find research grants isn't it?

Food needs 'fundamental rethink'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7795652.stm

The end of the British honeybee?
http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=869&catID=4
The Historian - not to mention the introduction of GM crops & new pesticides that coincided with the bee disappearances

UK's holiday waste smashes all records
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/uks-holiday-waste-smashes-all-records-1213858.html

Finance & Economics:
IMF warns of 2nd Great Depression
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h6Os57hYEifFkfS0_4tWaYPMVJxQ

Japan recession deepens, China cuts rates
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4B70ME20081222?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

US housing crisis worsens as economy weakens
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BL2XS20081222?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

IMF warns of 'disturbing' UK debt
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7794294.stm

Where'd bailout money go? Shhhh, it's a secret
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iaxth_ZtIpwsATVdQfVYmiuZDUigD957O4VO0

World faces "total" financial meltdown: Bank of Spain chief
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h2SsVV8JJZk5ooieD_bfpKcrg_qw

Hedge funds gain access to $200bn Fed aid
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/989db158-ce30-11dd-8b30-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1

Britain's job 'bloodbath'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britains-job-bloodbath-1207378.html

Repossession threat even when mortgage repayments have been paid
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/property_and_mortgages/article5385975.ece

The Federal Reserve Bank is the Reason for America's Downfall
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article7920.html

U.S. Economy: Home Prices Fall Near Depression Pace
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aQ7HBEgYCzUE&refer=economy

Central banks revolution gathers pace
http://ft.onet.pl/0%2C18977%2Ccentral_banks_revolution_gathers_pace%2Cartykul_ft.html

Britain's GDP will decline at fastest pace since the 1940’s
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/britains-gdp-will-decline-at-fastest-pace-since-the-1940rsquos-1212877.html

Gold Rises Most in a Week on Middle East, South Asia Tensions
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a6ziiuAEeEes&refer=home
The Historian - You just wait until the bombing of Iran starts in the next few months

Global oil supply will peak in 2020, says energy agency
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/dec/15/global-oil-supply-peak-2020-prediction

Health:
Leading Psychiatrist denied Emory University Chairmanship after Revelation of Secret Financial Ties to Big Pharma
http://www.naturalnews.com/025171.html

Hairspray Exposure in Pregnant Women Increases Risk of Common Birth Defect in Boys
http://www.naturalnews.com/025168.html

Radiation 'threat' to air crews
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7775405.stm

Science & Technology:
'Sex chip' being developed by scientists
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3886862/Sex-chip-being-developed-by-scientists.html
The Historian - Away from the obvious about this article however is the worrying realisation that mind-control and manipulation technology is well advanced and is nearly at nano size. The possibilities for nefarious usage are terrifying.

Did warfare drive out-of-Africa migration?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16321-did-warfare-drive-outofafrica-migration.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Minerals suggest life could have survived on Mars
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/3836365/Minerals-suggest-life-could-have-survived-on-Mars.html

Religion:
Saving humanity from gays as important as saving the rainforest from destruction, says Pope
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1100422/Saving-humanity-gays-important-saving-rainforest-destruction-says-Pope.html
The Historian - You could never tell that he spent his formative years in the Hitler Youth could you?

Bishops attack 'immoral' British Government
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7801667.stm

The War on Terror:
FDNY Lieutenant admitted plan to "take down" World Trade Centre 7 live on TV on 9/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KQA1KOKrPc
The Historian - The key bit is the interview that takes place after the collapse, about a minute in. Ask yourself how could anyone have organised to bring down a 40 storey skyscraper over the course of a few hours, while WTC 1 & 2 collapsed around them?

Iraq shoe-thrower to go on trial amid new torture claims
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jekhMlbHXKWLp1_o0YVVouYrSzug

Afghan parents selling their sons to survive
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/3901941/Afghan-parents-selling-their-sons-to-survive.html

KBR knowingly exposed troops to toxic dust
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/22/cbsnews_investigates/main4683471.shtml

No evidence to convict 10,000 detainees– U.S. commander
http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=105044

Many killed by Baghdad car bomb
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7801093.stm

Afghan police die in suicide bomb
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7801381.stm

Homeland Security forecasts 5-year terror threats
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i_jXJ7v4NrGgkJXDMZgAHrlB86tAD95A1JLO0

The Next War:
Suspected U.S. drones kill 7 in Pakistan
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BL0DN20081222?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

US, Ukraine risk irking Russia with strategic accord
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hJTaVBZdnCpMevQ5gF1M0rEnHhsg

Russia orders 70 strategic nuclear missiles by 2011: Report
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Rest_of_World/Russia_orders_70_strategic_nuclear_missiles_by_2011_Report/articleshow/3877857.cms

Georgia’s attack was no surprise – Rice
http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/35137

Budget will decide whether Israel attacks Iran
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1048358.html

Iran urges ECO to drop dollar
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=79320&sectionid=3510213

2 alleged U.S. spies killed in Pakistan's tribal region
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-12/22/content_10539552.htm

USA needs nuclear explosion to turn the world into dictatorship
http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/106864-0/

North Korea says South seeking war, threatens "sea of fire"
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hmQFcH6EFYn4OV0in8W0lbyFvG2w

Pakistan cancels army leave as India tensions rise
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BP16V20081226?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Iranian ship to break Israel' siege of Gaza
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=79544&sectionid=351020101
The Historian - The trigger that the Israeli's have been waiting for?

Quote of the Week:

"Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians"
Robin Cook MP, British Foreign Secretary 1997 - 2001, Leader of The House of Commons 2001-2003. Writing in The Guardian, 8th July 2005.

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.

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Open Your Eyes News - Edition 42

2008-12-21T12:06:00.003+09:00

**STOP PRESS** Open Your Eyes News Radio Show - RTR FM 92.1 on Tues 23rd December 4am-6am WST (UK - 7pm-9pm Mon 22nd GMT) http://www.rtrfm.com.au/listen Unfortunately due to the wheels of community organisations moving slowly this will be a "lite" version of the planned show with just a run through of headlines & some music, but not in-depth analysis of issues. Hopefully full sign off will be given early in the New Year.
**STOP PRESS 2** New Open Your Eyes News website coming soon. Updated daily. Easier navigation. Improved layout. News for information, not entertainment.
Areas Covered Each Week:
Civil Liberties - Health - Environment - Democracy & International Relations - Economics - Science - The War on Terror - The Next War
Stories of the week:
US says piracy resolution allows for air strikes in Somalia (Associated Press)
Most of us would torture others if ordered to - Study (Daily Mail UK)
Severed Mediterranean undersea cables cause internet traffic jams in Middle East (Sydney Morning Herald)
Asia to North America undersea cables cut (The Times - UK)
'Thousands made slaves' in Darfur (BBC)
World Bank President warns bailouts may hurt world's poor (Reuters)
General Electric wins $3 billion Iraqi power deal (Associated Press)
Russian air defence systems for Iran (The Hindu - India)
Netanyahu: 'Iran - greatest historical challenge' (Jerusalem Post)
Cheney authorized CIA torture tactics (LA Times)
Goldman Sachs loss not as bad as feared (Reuters)
Anger over £6.4bn bonus bonanza at four City banks (The Guardian -UK)
Nobel prize row over (HPV vaccine) pharmaceuticals firm link (Daily Telegraph - UK)
U.S. debt approaches insolvency; Chinese currency reserves at risk (Asia News)
The Bill Nobody Noticed: US National DNA Databank (Natural News)
VeriChip partners with Microsoft HealthVault (RFID News)

Democracy & International Diplomacy:
'Thousands made slaves' in Darfur
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7786612.stm

Henry Kissinger calls for a new international political order
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bKwH3kJew4&eurl=http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=kissiger&emb=0&aq=f&feature=player_embedded

World Bank President warns bailouts may hurt world's poor
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4BD0YB20081214

In Athens, middle-class rioters are buying rocks. This chaos isn't over
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/14/greece-riots-youth-poverty-comment
The Historian - The taste of things to come world-wide

IMF chief issues stark violent unrest warning on economic crisis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/dec/16/imf-financial-crisis

Could Greece's Riots Spread to France?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1866458,00.html

UN empowers land operations against Somali pirates
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g2By-gJLrbPT2jlDBpo0ux4TKQjA
The Historian - If you read the small print Somalia is now a free-fire zone for all the major powers, irrespective of the affect this will have on Somali citizens

US says piracy resolution allows for air strikes in Somalia
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081217/pl_afp/somaliapiracyunus

Gaza families eat grass as Israel locks border
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5338014.ece

£130 million refurbishment bill for UK Ministry of Justice's new offices
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3741400/130-million-refurbishment-bill-for-Jack-Straws-new-offices.html

Nicolas Sarkozy attacks Czech refusal to fly EU flag
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/3796547/Nicolas-Sarkozy-attacks-Czech-refusal-to-fly-EU-flag.html

Canadian pro-sovereignty party pledges reluctant allegiance to the Queen
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081218.wswearing18/BNStory/politics/home

Civil Liberties:
The Bill Nobody Noticed: US National DNA Databank
http://www.naturalnews.com/025116.html

Taser's 'potentially lethal and inherently open to abuse', human rights campaigners warn, 350 dead
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/16/taser-police-guns

Taser stun gun kills California man
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/397586/1/.html

Parents, Law Enforcement Spar Over Tasers In Schools
http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2008/12/15/story_taser.html?sid=102

A nose bleed, then children were in care
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article5355521.ece
The Historian - The state knows best........

Welsh bus drivers to use DNA swabs to catch yobs
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2008/12/16/north-wales-bus-drivers-to-use-dna-swabs-to-catch-yobs-55578-22483701/

Former soldier held against will in care home 'treated like dissident in Stalin's Russia'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/3833598/Former-soldier-held-against-will-in-care-home-treated-like-dissident-in-Stalins-Russia.html

US children forced into cell-like school seclusion rooms
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/12/17/seclusion.rooms/index.html

Queensland Police defend baby swinging video charge
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/police-defend-baby-swinging-video-charge/2008/12/11/1228584982919.html

UK Town halls banned from using spy laws for petty offences
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3777902/Town-halls-banned-from-using-spy-laws-for-petty-offences.html
The Historian - As if that’ll stop them.

Discrimination against white males will soon be encouraged
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0%2C21985%2C24771759-2862%2C00.html
The Historian - Discrimination against any group, no matter how well intentioned, nearly always has unpleasant side effects, not least in the alienation of the discriminated group.

UK Police elections plan is dropped to avoid further politicisation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7789046.stm

Russian treason bill could hit Kremlin critics
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D954K4Q80&show_article=1

Russian police arrest 150 at opposition protests
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gJf4uxLpJxQdF4BN_hizEP6PRs7g

Most of us would torture others if ordered to - Study
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1097941/Most-torture-ordered-study-reveals.html

Environment:
Chocolate in peril
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026873.400-chocolate-in-peril.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
This Historian - Just when you thought there was no other angle the man made climate change religion could use...no more chocolate! This anti-CO2 message was brought to you by the Mars Corporation, which incidentally has a very strong track record of rainforest deforestation....but that’s not a problem, CO2 is...focus!

EU faces battle over fish quotas
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7789182.stm

Obama' Nomination as Agriculture Secretary Has Some Wondering: Agribusiness as Usual?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/12/vilsacks-nomina.html

Kids Wildly Out of Touch with Natural World, BBC Survey Reveals
http://www.naturalnews.com/025064.html
However they have been well and truly indoctrinated that CO2 is the source of all environmental evil

EU leaders reach new climate deal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7778787.stm
The Historian - And in doing so appease the environmental concerns of the people they should represent, and turn the attention away from the real environmental destruction that is carried out by the corporations they really represent

Australia sets new climate target
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7782919.stm ditto

Obama picks Gore advisors to drive his environmental policy
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/obama-picks-dream-green-team/2008/12/16/1229189623217.html
The Historian - Expect the mass CO12 fraud to continue apace...and all the while real pollution goes on un-noticed and un-abated

Genetically Modified Hawaii
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=genetically-modified-hawaii
The Historian - spot the Monsanto Corp press release

GM crops an aid to coping with new climate, says report
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuId=2&ContentID=113625
The Historian - another another Monsanto Corp sponsored report

Platinum-free fuel cell promises cheap, green power
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16275-platinumfree-fuel-cell-promises-cheap-green-power.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Is the Exxon Valdez spill site finally clean?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16280-is-the-exxon-valdez-spill-site-finally-clean.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Agent Orange found in soil in Brisbane
http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=537272
The Historian - This was being sprayed in Australia right up until the 1980's, long after its dangers were known. Hundred's of Aboriginals and farm laborers have died as a result.

Scientists Call Associated Press Report on Global Warming 'Hysteria'
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,468084,00.html

Australian Coral Reefs blooming "despite global warming"
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/20/2424897.htm

The vanishing bees
http://www.metroactive.com/metro/12.17.08/cover-colony-collapse-disorder-0851.html

Brazil maps partially destroyed areas of Amazon
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/19/news/LT-Brazil-Amazon-Destruction.php

Massive crackdown on the use of scores of toxic pesticides opposed by Prime Minister
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/massive-crackdown-on-the-use-of-scores-of-toxic-pesticides-1206399.html

UK councils dumping more than 200,000 tonnes of recycling every year
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3852372/Councils-dumping-more-than-200000-tonnes-of-recycling-every-year.html

Finance & Economics:
Shock waves spread from Madoff scandal
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSLF62253520081216?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
The Historian - Though this itself was a huge multi-billion dollar pyramid scheme, however it is just one part of a much larger pyramid scheme – our entire financial system. Just think about the root value of the (promissory) notes in your pocket and the electronic “wealth” in your bank account. The system itself, like all pyramid schemes is unsustainable without occasional “realignments” just as the world is experiencing at the moment. And think where the winners always are in a pyramid whenever the crashes happen. You can bet your bottom (soon to be worthless) dollar that you will be no-where near that pinnacle.

Madoff millions vanish into thin air
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7783386.stm

Goldman loss not as bad as feared
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BF3FF20081216?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
The Historian – lucky they got their bailout multi-billions before they announced this eh?

Anger over £6.4bn bonus bonanza at four City banks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/dec/21/executive-salaries-bonuses-city-finance

Analysts say Federal Reserve has fired all shots in its armory
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article5355599.ece

US offers $19bn to rescue car giants
http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,27753,24826919-462,00.html
The Historian - So $8.5 trillion, plus $19 billion equals ????? Oh yes, currency collapse, hyper-inflation, poor corporate practice, relocation of wealth from the West, and taxpayer debt from cradle to the grave.

U.S. debt approaches insolvency; Chinese currency reserves at risk
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14054&geo=1&size=A

UK government still offers refuge to pinstriped pirates through its legacy of Empire tax havens
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/16/tax-avoidance-regulators-havens

UK supermarkets' emergency plans to keep shelves full
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/dec/14/retail-supermarkets-suppliers-credit-crunch

Alternative Currencies Grow in Popularity
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0%2C8599%2C1865467%2C00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-biztech
The Historian - Soon to be replaced by an electronic "cash-less" society. When that comes you really will become a slave to your masters who control the system (and the IT) - and ultimately the plan I'm afraid

UK house prices 'to fall by 30%'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7782939.stm

Pound 'buying less than a Euro'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7782234.stm
The Historian - The crucial paragraph: “As the pound has moved close to parity with the euro, some analysts have raised the possibility of the UK adopting the single European currency” – as I have been warning for a long time, this has always been the plan

Credit-Card Users Feel Pain as U.S. Banks Reap Gain
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=ap_9fTPViwzU&refer=us

Americans rich and poor pawn more to pay bills
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE4BE10920081215

Health:
Nobel prize row over (HPV) pharmaceuticals firm link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3849620/Nobel-prize-row-over-pharmaceuticals-firm-link.html

Mystery illness paralyses girl given cervical cancer jab
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5337885.ece
The Historian - According to the official clinical research statistics which got this pharmaceutical cash-cow approved there were "no adverse reactions.....other than teenage girls being hysterical"

The Proven Cure and Prevention for Cancer the Medical Establishment Doesn't Want You to Know
http://www.naturalnews.com/025079.html

Depression hits young women in record numbers
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24811777-2702,00.html
The Historian – The two questions we must ask ourselves as a society are: 1/ How much profit are the pharmaceutical companies making out of this and what will they be prepared to do to ever increase that profit? and 2/ What wrong are we doing as a so called civilization that this is happening in the first place?

Fears raised over new vCJD wave
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7788627.stm

Nestle removes artificial additives from Australian Smarties colouring
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/classic-junk-food-gets-a-health-makeover/2008/12/19/1229189886151.html
The Historian - You as an an individual do have the power to change, you are not as somebody close to me said "An Ant, and therefore powerless" This change in Nestle's policy has been brought about by the constant campaigning of a small group of Australian parents. As Gandhi said "Whatever you do is insignificant, but it is very important that you do it"

Doctor Cleared of Harming Man to Obtain Organs
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/health/19doctor.html?em

FDA Stuns Scientists, Declares Mercury in Fish to be Safe for Infants, Children, Expectant Mothers!
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000622_mercury_FDA_fish.html

Exercise Improves Health of Elderly with Dementia
http://www.naturalnews.com/025123.html

Children and Teenagers Found to Have Arteries of Middle Aged Adults
http://www.naturalnews.com/025096.html

Faulty gene makes children who live near power lines more likely to develop leukemia
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1099077/Faulty-gene-makes-children-live-near-power-lines-likely-develop-leukaemia.html
The Historian - Oh, so its all our fault! That's okay then.

Science & Technology:
VeriChip partners with Microsoft HealthVault
http://www.rfidnews.org/2008/11/24/verichip-partners-with-microsoft-healthvault
The Historian - There is a lot of profit to be made by micro-chipping all of us

Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/16dec_giantbreach.htm?list149424

Robot wars: The rise of artificial intelligence
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/robot-wars-the-rise-of-artificial-intelligence-1203693.html

Education:
Religion in Victorian schools to go God-free
http://www.theage.com.au/national/religion-in-schools-to-go-godfree-20081213-6xxs.html?page=-1

The War on Terror:
Cheney authorized CIA torture tactics
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-cheney16-2008dec16,0,4343941.story

Pentagon looks at plan for Guantanamo closure
http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed2/idUSN18417475
The Historian - Great PR for Barak but look behind the headlines. Where will the detainees go now? Will it be less exposed to media attention? Will they now receive free and fair trials? Will some be sent onto regimes that have an even worse record of torture than the USA? Will those that are released be compensated for their years of false imprisonment?

Larry Silverstein to sue airlines' over his 9/11 losses
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/bc2a102fca052df941033e0e4c3a4ade.htm

Revisionist history about the Iraq war
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/14/EDDO14KPM8.DTL&feed=rss.news

Shoes thrown at Bush In Iraq
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20081214/twl-bush-in-the-line-of-fire-in-iraq-3fd0ae9.html
The Historian - What the mainstream media isn't telling you is what the chap said - “This is the farewell kiss you dog….this is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.” Of note also why the very slow reaction of the secret service agents, who normally would have had Dubya bundled away under a mass of bodies within seconds.

Nobody threw shoes at Brown – but his guilt is still undeniable
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/matthew-norman/matthew-norman-nobody-threw-shoes-at-brown-ndash-but-his-guilt-is-still-undeniable-1202268.html

'I was still holding my grandson's hand - the rest was gone'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/16/afghanistan-taliban-us-foreign-policy
The Historian - More Afghani collateral damage

British troops in 'mock execution' claim
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-troops-in-mock-execution-claim-1067056.html

Terrorism adviser to Metropolitan Police is on Interpol wanted list
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5342730.ece

Blackwater 'could lose Iraq role'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7788641.stm
The Historian - Sure it could, and I’m the Queen of Sheba

Cheney still insists that Saddam Hussein could have produced weapons of mass destruction
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/dec/16/dick-cheney-iraq-war-wmd

Despite the optimism, Iraq is close to the edge
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/21/iraq-georgebush

General Electric wins $3 billion Iraqi power deal
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j7152EDjg4GkdC1s7FTsbSxwCjGA

Up to 30,000 new U.S. troops in Afghanistan by summer
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BJ15K20081220?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

The Next War:
India 'entered Pakistan airspace'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7782101.stm

Pakistan 'linked to 75% of all UK terror plots', warns Gordon Brown
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5339975.ece

U.S. and UAE forge nuclear cooperation deal
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-gulfnukes16-2008dec16,0,7245940.story
The Historian - Do you think the Iranians and Russians see the irony here?

Severed cables cause internet traffic jams in Middle East
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/severed-cables-cause-internet-traffic-jams/2008/12/20/1229189923604.html
The Historian - The same thing happened last year and it later emerged that it was the US military. Is this preparing the ground for the war with Iran?

Asia to North America undersea cables cut
http://timesonline.typepad.com/technology/2008/12/is-the-internet.html

Iran says has proof U.S., UK back police killer group
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081213/ts_nm/us_iran_jundollah

Barak claims Iran would nuke US
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=78785&sectionid=351020202

Russian air defence systems for Iran
http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/19/stories/2008121977771500.htm

Netanyahu: 'Iran - greatest historical challenge'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728256365&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Iran says has proof U.S., UK back police killer group
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BC15X20081213
The CIA and MI5 have never done anything like before have they?

Quote of the Week:

"It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free"
- Robert F.Kennedy

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.

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Open Your Eyes News - Edition 41

2008-12-13T17:48:00.003+09:00

**STOP PRESS** Open Your Eyes News Radio Show to commence on RTR FM on 23rd December. More details to follow
Areas Covered Each Week:
Civil Liberties - Health - Environment - Democracy & International Relations - Economics - Science - The War on Terror - The Next War
Stories of the week:
Nearly 1 billion people are starving, UN food agency says (Daily Telegraph - UK)
And now for a world government (The Financial Times)
Perth protestors rally against internet censorship (The West Australian)
Rumsfeld linked to Abu Ghraib abuse (Reuters)
Sun's Magnetic Field May Impact Weather And Climate (Science Daily)
Bush relaxes wildlife law limits (BBC)
Plastic is polluting our oceans to a terrifying degree (Edmonton Sun)
Federal Reserve Refuses to Disclose Recipients of $2 Trillion (Bloomberg)
US arms sales- $32b in 2008 (The Times of India)
US Dollar Devaluation To Fix The Great Recession (Forbes)
Poor Families in Third World Pressed Into Vaccine Trials by Drug Companies; 12 Babies Die (Natural News)
Iraq in midst of ‘agricultural disaster’ (The National - Dubai)

Civil Liberties:
Perth protestors rally against internet censorship
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=113052
I am proud to say that attended and said a few words to the crowd. Next time we need 10 times that number to make the effort however.

Telstra says no to ISP censorship pilot
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24768352-2702,00.html
however Optus are taking part......

De Menezes jury damns police 'cover-up' and rejects officers' claims that they shouted a warning before firing
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1093190/De-Menezes-jury-damns-police-cover-rejects-officers-claims-shouted-warning-firing.html

September 11 families denounce Guantanamo trials
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4B96HA20081210?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Last week, a dear friend of the UK's freedom was laid to rest
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/07/damian-green-id-civil-liberties

UK DNA database court ruling - and 857,000 records must be now wiped clear
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/dec/05/dna-database-civilliberties
Yeah, sure they will.

Arresting MP’s and nationalising banks happen in dictatorships not Britain surely?
Http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/12/01/do0102.xml

Committee to investigate MP arrest
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20081209/tuk-committee-to-investigate-mp-arrest-6323e80.html

Australia looking into anti-torture legislation
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24778104-2702,00.html

How the government plans to record intimate information on every child in Britain
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1092513/has-child-cafed--how-government-plans-record-intimate-information-child-britain.html

UK runs 'Guantanamo camps', says detainees
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-runs-guantanamo-camps-says-detainees-1061291.html

'Back door' amnesty for 180,000 asylum seekers who slipped through the net
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1093324/Back-door-amnesty-180-000-asylum-seekers-slipped-net.html
The planned back-lash against immigrants across the Western World is getting closer, and stoked up more and more each day. When it happens a further excuse for authoritarian clampdowns will be a reality. Problem > Reaction > Solution (for explanation scroll down)

Your complaint will be resolved – by force-feeding you drugs
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Your-complaint-will-be-resolved.4773200.jp

Rumsfeld linked to Abu Ghraib abuse
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20081212/twl-uk-usa-abuse-bd5ae06.html

UK support for identity cards falls
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20081211/tuk-support-for-identity-cards-falls-6323e80.html

Stop the music torture, rock bands tell U.S. military
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/latest-world-news/2008/12/10/stop-the-music-torture-rock-bands-tell-u-s-military-91466-22445771/

Mind-reading' software could record your dreams (or your thoughts)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16267-mindreading-software-could-record-your-dreams.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Mexico to fingerprint mobile-phone owners
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hbIC6ZYe2A2fSIe1q-1dnh4TphiwD94VK6K81

Spying on pacifists, environmentalists and nuns
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-na-cop-spy7-2008dec07,0,1237214.story
The Ten Steps to a Closed Society - Number 5. Infiltrate Citizens' Groups (full list below)

Should Australian police have Tasers? Poll
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22073824-5013404,00.html
Taser Corp's PR agency earns their money

Defence Department admission it lied to Parliament over Habib rendition
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24792756-31477,00.html

Most Britons think UK is turning into police state
http://www.politics.co.uk/news/opinion-former-index/legal-and-constitutional/most-britons-think-uk-turning-into-police-state-$1254029.htm

Democracy & International Diplomacy:
Nearly 1 billion people are starving, UN food agency says
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/3698225/Nearly-1-billion-people-are-starving-UN-food-agency-says.html

And now for a world government
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/05c36962-c594-11dd-b516-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
and a few hours later, presumably after being hauled over the coals this appeared
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7a71b070-c729-11dd-97a5-000077b07658.html

Canadian PM wins suspension of Parliament
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4B34BC20081204

Canada's Harper Bushier than Bush
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/05/canada

Sudan build-up in oil-rich state
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7770065.stm

Un-manned drones to patrol part of border with Canada
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/us/08drone.html?_r=1

Clinton builds loyalist empire
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5299035.ece

Irish to vote (again) on EU treaty again as experts warn Britain could be signed up within a year
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1092720/irish-vote-eu-treaty-experts-warn-britain-signed-year.html

Irish ready to hold new EU vote
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7776961.stm

EU leaders agree on 'bribes' to convince Irish voters to vote yes to Treaty at second referendum
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1093813/Lisbon-adopted-EU-leaders-agree-bribes-convince-Irish-voters-vote-yes-Treaty-second-referendum.html

Are the Greek riots a taste of things to come?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/are-the-greek-riots-a-taste-of-things-to-come-1064479.html Yes

Environment:
Sun's Magnetic Field May Impact Weather And Climate: Sun Cycle Can Predict Rainfall Fluctuations
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081202081449.htm
An inconvenient truth?

Bottom drops out of recycling industry
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081207/ap_on_bi_ge/recycling_bust
all that recycling you have been doing over the years has been driven not by our collective conscience, but by the profit motive. Now expect landfills to be doing great work no matter how you sort your waste out for collection.

Bush relaxes wildlife law limits
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7778749.stm

Canada's 'dirty oil' challenge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7763365.stm

Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan & Morgan Stanley Buy Into Carbon Offsets
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/goldman-sachs-buys-into-carbon-offsets/
Carbon trading is a scam. Until you realise that they will keep making billions out of your green guilt,

Science paves way for climate lawsuits
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/09/oil-business-climate-change-flooding
Another scam / witch hunt

Houston ties earliest snowfall record
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/12/11/houston-ties-earliest-snowfall-record/#more-4497
all man's fault apparently. Nothing to do with the sun

Britain shivers through coldest start to winter for 30 years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1094190/Britain-shivers-coldest-start-winter-30-years-bookies-slash-odds-white-Christmas.html

Plastic is polluting our oceans to a terrifying degree
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2008/12/07/7659651-sun.html

UK promises £100m to help reduce tropical deforestation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/12/deforestation-britain-aid-climate-change
Unfortunately statistically only 1/3rd of such pledges ever gets handed over

Finance & Economics:
Federal Reserve Refuses to Disclose Recipients of $2 Trillion
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=apx7XNLnZZlc&refer=home

US arms sales- $32b in 2008 - undermine global human rights: Study
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/USA/US_arms_sales_undermine_global_human_rights_Study/articleshow/3825188.cms

Obama vows strong new financial regulations
http://www.reuters.com/article/topnews/idusn0545867820081207?feedtype=rss&feedname=topnews
yes, he’ll give all the recent recipients of trillions of taxpayers money a good smack to teach them a lesson

Eight really scary predictions (from the man who predicted the credit crunch)
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0812/gallery.market_gurus.fortune/index.html

Dollar Devaluation To Fix The Great Recession
http://www.forbes.com/finance/2008/12/09/dollar-devaluation-gold-pf-ii-in_fb_1209soapbox_inl.html
As I have been warning this has always been the game plan. This massive devaluation will then lead to the US joining its NAFTA fellows in creating the AMERO currency union.

Obama to Borrow China’s Wealth, Clout in Effort to Steady World
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a8RcQQDb19c0&refer=home

Hyperinflation forces Zimbabwe to print $200 million notes
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/world/africa/12/06/zimbabwe.currency/index.html

How to unplug from the electricity grid
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026851.600-how-to-unplug-from-the-grid.html?full=true

Massive riots in Greek cities – banks amongst those targeted
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/aleqm5hbflggep5p_xn83bw3plwj020a-qd94umigo2

Anger as government threatens to sue HBOS merger challengers
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2473559.0.0.php

Bank of America to cut up to 35,000 jobs
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BA6ZD20081211?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
It’s lucky those bailout billions paid the Directors bonuses before this happened isn’t it?

US Auto bailout fails
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4B50CL20081212?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Of course once more people lose their jobs and the markets plummet I'm sure those reluctant senators will be "persuaded" to hand over yet more taxpayers billions

Goldman Sachs predicts fall in oil prices to $45 a barrel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/dec/12/oil-prices-goldman-sachs
And then a rise to $200+ once the bombs start dropping on Tehran

Iceland’s Meltdown
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200812/map-iceland

Treasury Bills Trade at Negative Rates as Haven Demand Surges
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aOGXsWKEI6F4&refer=home

$385bn to halt Japan downturn
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24792868-2703,00.html

Health:
Poor Families in Third World Pressed Into Vaccine Trials by Drug Companies; 12 Babies Die
http://www.naturalnews.com/025032.html

Irish pork recalled in contamination scare
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/07/2439919.htm

Daily nuts may help boost health
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7767753.stm

Fertility drugs increase cancer risk
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026864.700-fertility-drugs-increase-cancer-risk.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

More than 10% of US kids use alternative treatments
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-12-10-alternative-medicine_N.htm

Statin drugs cause eye disorders
http://www.naturalnews.com/025058.html

Chemical Used on Crops could Make You Fat
http://www.naturalnews.com/025022.html

Fluoride gets green light in Gold Coast
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/3966813.Fluoride_gets_green_light_Down_Under/
Another victory for the corporations who profit from poisoning the water supply with their industrial waste

Science & Technology:
Scientists get closer to creating artificial life: study
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5go629KWLWPNdSh9LdpJLDkVJcf4w
Just as Huxley warned in "A Brave New World"

Religion:
How to stop creationism gaining a hold in Islam
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16258-how-to-stop-creationism-gaining-a-hold-in-islam.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Pope speaks out against greedy money-men who sparked credit crisis
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/3710447/Pope-speaks-out-against-greedy-money-men-who-sparked-credit-crisis.html
Remind me who is official head of the Vatican Bank and one of the biggest property & land holding organisations in the world?

Assisted suicide broadcast on TV
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7776323.stm

Education:
Aboriginal kids 'risk losing identity'
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24764268-2702,00.html
the loss of 60,000 years of cultural knowledge will be to the detriment to all mankind

Traditional subjects go in schools shake-up
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article5304304.ece
the dumming down of the British continues. I mean why would you need to know anything about something as irrelevant as history? It is not as though we can learn from it or anything.

The UK 'ministry of truth' censors children’s dictionary
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3569045/words-associated-with-christianity-and-british-history-taken-out-of-childrens-dictionary.html

The War on Terror:
Pentagon preparing for Afghan surge
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/world/middleeast/12gates.html?_r=2

Pentagon approves Iraq sales worth up to $6 billion
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE4BA06E20081211

Taliban in 72 percent of Afghanistan, think-tank says
http://www.reuters.com/article/topnews/idustre4b70yb20081208?feedtype=rss&feedname=topnews
let’s look at the track record of all those who have invaded Afghanistan since Alexander the great. Mongols (lost), Persians (lost) British (lost), Russians (lost). All this for an oil pipeline that incidentally needs to then go through Pakistan..........

Iraqi restaurant blast kills 50
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7777342.stm

Babylon's history swept away in US army sandbags
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jvUpUKpfGU3mupF7Xpyb-WMQGQAg

Iraq in midst of ‘agricultural disaster’
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081212/FOREIGN/439906308/1002

Blackwater soldiers 'machine-gunned Iraqis as they tried to surrender'
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Security--guards-39machinegunned-.4773217.jp

Taleban tax: allied supply convoys pay their enemies for safe passage
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5327683.ece

The Next War:
US Nuke umbrella for Israel
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=78162&sectionid=351020202

NATO jets shadow Russian bombers over North Sea
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081212/118828766.html

Russia's 2nd military drill in the USA's "backyard"
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=78211&sectionid=351020706

Thousands Call For Peace In India
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20081212/twl-thousands-call-for-peace-in-india-3fd0ae9.html

Obama's nuclear remark was 'cowboy' talk: Tehran
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hhHfwT7aq0TSPZNxkD5JbRTqGjrA

Israel's Netanyahu upbeat on Obama plans for Iran
http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed2/idUSL8304909

Quote of the Week:

"Yes, the situation is dire. But history shows that when an army of citizens, supported by even a vestige of civil society, believes in liberty.....no power on earth can ultimately suppress them"
- Naomi Wolf, "Give Me Liberty"

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Open Your Eyes News - Edition 40

2008-12-06T15:05:00.005+09:00

**STOP PRESS**
Open Your Eyes News Radio Show to commence on RTR FM on 23rd December. More details to follow
Areas Covered Each Week:
Civil Liberties - Health - Environment - Democracy & International Relations - Economics - Science - The War on Terror - The Next War
Stories of the week:
Report: Israel Preparing to Strike Iran Without U.S. Consent (Fox News)
20,000 more US troops to be deployed for domestic security (Washington Post)
President George W. Bush Receives 'International Medal of PEACE' (Market Watch)
UK 'closer' to adopting the euro (BBC)
Rich countries carry out '21st century land grab' (New Scientist)
Personal data on British citizens to be swapped by civil servants (Daily Telegraph)
High levels of lead found in Esperance seafood (The West Australian)
Australian farmers group labels GM crops report misleading (ABC)
European Central Bank cuts to 2.5pc and mulls "printing money" (Daily Telegraph)
Sick babies denied treatment in DNA patent row (Sydney Morning Herald)
Company tries to get gun classed as medical device (New Scientist)
Mind control by mobile phone (Scientific American)
ABC Schedules a ‘Homeland Security’ Reality TV Series (New York Times)
Berlusconi plans to use G8 presidency to 'regulate the internet' (The Register - UK)

Democracy & International Diplomacy:
President George W. Bush Receives 'International Medal of PEACE'
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/President-George-W-Bush-Receives/story.aspx?guid=%7B375C7988-1926-4726-8FF5-42F7E3F06DAA%7D
No seriously it is true!!!

UK 'closer' to adopting the euro
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7757830.stm
As I have been warning for a long while. Expect lots more articles like this as the effects of Gordon's spending starts to hit, the pound (and dollar) devalue, and the idea of spreading out your debt burden amongst your "friends" become's more attractive. If you had told a German in 1990 that within a decade he would have ditched the Deutschmark and gone into currency union with the Italians, Greeks and Portuguese what would he have said? (after he had finished laughing that is).

Gordon Brown’s secret plot to join the EURO
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/73859/Secret-plot-to-join-Euro

Venezuela Proposes New Regional Currency During ALBA Summit
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/3994

Obama puts faith in Bush's defence secretary http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2008/nov/26/barackobama-democrats
Clinton named secretary of state http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7758673.stm
Obama names Richardson as Commerce Secretary http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4B25V820081203?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Volcker to advise Obama http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i3OXSD3mwAj9USW_oQuCcFHA2L-g
Interestingly all four of these appointments have had highly prominent roles in previous administrations, and are all members of the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission and the Council for Foreign Relations – hardly a new start under Barak then is it?

Alleged Home Office mole questioned at high-security police station
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3535885/Alleged-Home-Office-mole-questioned-at-high-security-police-station.html
The assault on the UK's democracy continues

No 10 blocks inquiries into suspect donation
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5258473.ece

Canada halts parliament amid row
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7765206.stm

Up the state workers: public sector spawns UK ‘Soviet’ towns
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5258247.ece

Rich countries carry out '21st century land grab'
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026854.200-rich-countries-carry-out-21st-century-land-grab.html

Fury over executive paid £1m a year by UK Government to reduce Third World poverty
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1092023/Fury-executive-paid-1m-year-Government-reduce-Third-World-poverty.html

Nations sign cluster bomb treaty
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7762031.stm
Seeing as China, Russia, USA and Israel have refused to sign however it is a hollow victory. It would be interesting to see would it have happened sooner and been more effective had Princess Diana not died in 1997.

Civil Liberties:
20,000 more US troops to be deployed for domestic security
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113002217.html

US State Secret: Thousands Secretly Sterilized
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Health/story?id=708780

UK is a police state here & now
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/columnists/kavanagh/article1989128.ece

An historic attack on the UK’s liberty and democracy
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/william_rees_mogg/article5263357.ece

UK DNA database 'breach of human rights'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7764069.stm

Australian Government's web censorship will hurt economy, group says
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/05/2439048.htm
Not to mention potentially have a very detrimental effect on Australian civil liberties if it “evolves” beyond its current scope, as these things have a tendency to do

Berlusconi plans to use G8 presidency to 'regulate the internet'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/03/berlusconi_g8_internet/

The UK Big Brother state – by stealth
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-big-brother-state-ndash-by-stealth-1050576.html

UK lie detector tests to catch benefit cheats
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/3543784/Nationwide-lie-detector-tests-will-catch-benefit-cheats.html

Kafka has a rival. Today, the Foreign Office lectures us on human rights
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/01/foreign-office-human-rights

Arrest... or assault? British judges disgust after soldier is held down and hit EIGHT times
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090655/Arrest--assault-Judges-disgust-soldier-held-hit-times-POLICE.html

Big brother British police to get power to stop you in the street to demand ID... refuse and you'll face jail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1091448/Big-brother-police-power-stop-street-demand-ID--refuse-youll-face-jail.html

London musicians must give police personal information in order to be allowed to perform
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/how-form-696-could-pull-the-plug-on-the-capitals-music-scene-1028240.html

Anti-terror laws used to swoop on paperboys - for not having the correct paperwork
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1092264/New-target-anti-terror-spies-Village-paperboys--having-correct-paperwork.html

Wrongful death suit filed over use of Taser by L.A. County deputies
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-taser4-2008dec04,0,5604927.story

Amnesty urges moratorium on Taser use after CBC/Radio-Canada probe
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/12/04/amnesty-tasers.html

MP raid police 'had no warrant'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7762005.stm

Personal data on British citizens to be swapped by civil servants
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/3547060/Personal-data-on-British-citizens-to-be-swapped-by-civil-servants.html

Greyhound introduces security screening of Canadian passengers
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2008/12/02/greyhound-security-screening.html

Croatian Police Arrest Facebook Opposition
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=6400577&page=1

Iraqi court orders U.S. to free Reuters photographer
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4AT21D20081130?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Environment:
Lawyers call for international court for the environment
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/3530607/Lawyers-call-for-international-court-for-the-environment.html
Time to start arresting those horrid climate change "deniers" - free speech? What's that?

GM Crops Climb to Nearly One-Tenth of Global Crop Production
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000584_GM_crops_genetic_modification_infertiliy.html

Perth has one of the coldest, wettest Novembers on record
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,27574,24733718-2761,00.html

High levels of lead found in Esperance seafood
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=111790
Soon to be shipped from Fremantle instead

2008 will be coolest year of the decade
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/05/climate-change-weather
And this is despite much of the data used by climate change groups being discredited as reported in previous editions

Farmers target Environment Protection Agency report they say might tax cows for "greenhouse emissions"
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iSklPDE9hZwHP3EXsezjC_wjuRLgD94SRJT80

Australian farmers group labels GM crops report misleading
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/02/2435449.htm

70% deforestation cuts for Brazil
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7759192.stm
Unfortunately Brazil has made many similar promises in the past too

Finance & Economics:
UN: World economy 'weakest since 30s'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7757506.stm

Rothschild calls for action
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7754768.stm
I know how about a New World Order?

Icelanders Storm Central Bank
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/01/europe/EU-Iceland-Meltdown.php

US job losses worst since 1974
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4B437520081206?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Congress and White House agree on auto aid plan
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4B50CL20081206

House to push $500 billion stimulus bill
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4B05QP20081201?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Ever asked yourself where this $8 TRILLION (and rising) is all coming from?

President-elect Barack Obama proposes economic suicide for US
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/30/do3010.xml

European Central Bank cuts to 2.5pc and mulls "printing money"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/interestrates/3551387/ECB-cuts-to-2.5pc-and-mulls-printing-money.html

Bank of England mulls "nuclear option" of cash injection
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/interestrates/3551328/Bank-of-England-mulls-nuclear-option-of-cash-injection.html
One way or another these massive Western state debts will have to be paid back by you, either through higher taxes or hyper-inflation. Judging by the last two articles it looks like it will largely be the latter.

Metal prices fall further than during Great Depression
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/mining/3543370/Metal-prices-fall-further-than-during-Great-Depression.html

Former WorldCom CEO asks Bush to shorten sentence
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/12/05/ap5785583.html

BAE accused of £100m secret payments to seal South Africa arms deal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/06/bae-arms-trade

Health:
Sick babies denied treatment in DNA patent row
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/sick-babies-denied-treatment-in-dna-row/2008/11/28/1227491827171.html

Pharmaceutical companies "delaying cheaper drugs"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/pharmaceuticalsandchemicals/3534740/Pharmaceutical-companies-delaying-cheaper-drugs.html

Evidence suggests CIA funded experiments at state hospital
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008811300299

Antioxidants 'cannot slow ageing'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7754644.stm

90 Percent of U.S. Infant Formula May Be Contaminated with Melamine; FDA Abruptly Declares Chemical Safe for Babies
http://www.naturalnews.com/024947.html

Doctors Abandoning Vaccines That Don't Make Them Money
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000569_vaccines_doctors_vaccination.html

FDA sees asthma drug risks
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE4B463T20081205

Toronto Bans Bottled Water Sales, but Junk Sodas Remain Legal
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000578_Toronto_bottled_water_plastic.html

Sick babies denied treatment in DNA row
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/sick-babies-denied-treatment-in-dna-row/2008/11/28/1227491827171.html

Heart disease 'reversed in mice'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7750855.stm

FDA Reluctantly Admits Mercury Fillings Have Neurotoxic Effects on Children
http://www.naturalnews.com/024993.html

Warning over internet painkillers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7764971.stm

Science & Technology:
Human brain is taken in by scientists’ body swap illusion
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5274756.ece

Ocean currents can power the world, say scientists
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/renewableenergy/3535012/Ocean-currents-can-power-the-world-say-scientists.html
That's the last time you'll hear of this piece of non-re-billable technology

Company tries to get gun classed as medical device
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16207-company-tries-to-get-gun-classed-as-medical-device.html

Missile shield test to be most realistic yet, officials say
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/12/04/us.missile.test/index.html

Pentagon hires British scientist to help build robot soldiers that 'won't commit war crimes'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3536943/Pentagon-hires-British-scientist-to-help-build-robot-soldiers-that-wont-commit-war-crimes.html

Mind control by mobile phone
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=mind-control-by-cell

Memories may be stored on your DNA
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026845.000-memories-may-be-stored-on-your-dna.html

Education:
'Educate girls to stop world population soaring'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/educate-girls-to-stop-population-soaring-1050580.html

The War on Terror:
Iraq civilian death toll up, U.S. deaths down
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4AR1TT20081201?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Panel warns biological attack likely by 2013
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28006645
I wonder what new infringements on our civil liberties we need to protect us?

ABC Schedules a ‘Homeland Security’ Reality TV Series
http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/abc-schedules-a-homeland-security-series/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Troop Pullout to Leave U.S. And Britain as Iraq Force. Occupation beyond 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/world/middleeast/06iraq.html

Blackwater guards charged in shooting
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=2&ContentID=111807
What are the odds that they will get off scot free?

Dozens killed in Iraqi bombings
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7758432.stm

The Next War:
Pakistan Tensions Increase in Aftermath of Attack - move 100,000 troops to border
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122802582217866921.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Chances of WMD attack in big city greater. Pakistan biggest threat - US report
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4B11EG20081202

Bush says Iran's nuclear program still a threat
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE4B441O20081206

Iran holds naval war games in strategic waterway
http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/12/02/africa/OUKWD-UK-IRAN-WARGAMES.php

Israel willing to go it alone on Iran attack
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/3551079/Israel-willing-to-go-it-alone-on-Iran-attack.html

Report: Israel Preparing to Strike Iran Without U.S. Consent
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,461588,00.html

Commission Recommends U.S. Use ‘Direct Force’--If Needed--to Stop Iran, N. Korea Nuke Programs
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=40263

Quote of the Week:
"We are still under the sway of the destructive and thoroughly vain belief that man is the pinnacle of creation, and not just a part of it, and that therefore everything is permitted. There are still many who say they are not concerned for themselves but for the cause, while they are demonstrably out for themselves and not for the cause at all. We are still destroying the planet that was entrusted to us, and its environment. We still close our eyes to the growing social, ethnic and cultural conflicts in the world. From time to time we say that the anonymous mega-machinery we have created for ourselves no longer serves us but rather has enslaved us, yet we still fail to do anything about it."
Address by President Vaclav Havel to a Joint Session of the United States Congress Washington, D.C. February 21, 1990

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Open Your Eyes News - Edition 39

2008-11-30T15:52:00.004+09:00

Areas Covered Each Week: Civil Liberties - Health - Environment - Democracy & International Relations - Economics - Science - The War on Terror - The Next War
Stories of the week:
UK Opposition Minister arrested over leaks (BBC)
Private Investigators monitor activists online for Australian police (news.com.au)
US Government bailout hits $8.5 trillion (San Francisco Chronicle)
US puts pressure on Israel to refrain from attacking Iran until Obama in office (Time)
Bush 'very pleased' with Iraq war outcome: report (Associated Press)
US Court Backs Warrantless Searches Abroad (New York Times)
Amazon Deforestation accelerates (BBC)
AIDS patients face microchip monitoring (International Herald Tribune)
Italian judge - Blogs are illegal (The Register - UK)
US intelligence 'kept files on Tony Blair's private life' (The Guardian)
Study links birth defects to mothers' use of cosmetics (The Independent)
Citigroup says gold could rise above $2,000 next year as world unravels (The Daily Telegraph - UK)
Food Prices Will Rise, Causing Export Bans, Riots (Bloomberg)
Vatican told bishops to cover up sex abuse (The Guardian)
Britain 'bribes Afghans to fight Taliban' (The Scotsman)

Plus an analysis of the backgrounds of Obama's economics team, and the geo-political implications of the Mumbai attacks.

Democracy & International Diplomacy:
UK Opposition Minister arrested over leaks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7753557.stm
The Ten Steps to a Closed Society – Number 4: Target Key Individuals (full list below) Exposing a sitting Government’s policies to public scrutiny is the job of the opposition in a healthy democracy. This is just another example of the multitude of tiny steps that a society takes as it’s democracy is systematically eroded – will opposition MP’s in the UK be quite as vocal and probing in their actions in the future after this? I fear not.

Police accused of using phone calls from Home Office mole in bid to entrap UK Shadow Minister
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bugging-scandal-inside-the-commons-1041637.html

Violent clashes in Iceland
http://itn.co.uk/news/ed92770f8bb95702d07e1dfb0642db8f.html
The shape of things to come in the USA & UK? And those countries have more than 300,000 citizens too

America's hidden war in Somalia
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-shadow_war2nov24,0,4720127.story

EU "plans to dump" milk, butter in Africa
http://www.afrol.com/articles/31751
Thereby destroying the local farming industries, creating new captive markets for the EU, and increasing poverty and 3rd World Debt. "Free Trade" in action.

Apec leaders make free-trade vow
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7744311.stm
Question to the 400m residents of the country called the EU: What do free trade zones evolve into? Question to the residents of the 3rd World (excluding their leaders)? And what happens to your livelihoods when complete free trade destroys your farming base and fledgling industries? Nothing wrong with free trade in principal but it has to be conducted on equal terms.

MPs fear British National Party take control of police
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5209809.ece
The alienation of the indigenous working class through uncontrolled immigration over the last decade has been kept in check to date by economic growth and near full employment...that is no longer the case and unsurprisingly the far right is on the rise, not just in the UK but across Europe...thus giving those in control the motivation to "do something". That something will involve erosion of democratic and civil liberties. Exactly to plan then.

'China is a threat to democracy'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7719420.stm
Corporations realised that democracy was a burden to commerce long ago

US intelligence 'kept files on Tony Blair's private life', claims ex-US navy operator
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/nov/24/tony-blair-united-states-intelligence
I wonder what they had on him that "persuaded him" to go along with illegal mass murder?

Russia says U.S. mercenaries, others fought for Georgia
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081124/ts_nm/us_georgia_ossetia_mercenaries
As I said back when it was happening in August

Germany declines comment on Kosovo spy report
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4AL2TI20081122

NATO Still Killing People in Kosovo?
http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=204500

Rich countries launch great land grab to safeguard food supply
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/22/food-biofuels-land-grab

Russian analyst predicts decline and breakup of U.S.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20081124/118512713.html
A damn sight more likely is the collapse of the dollar (following the dumping of dollar holding by China and the asset stripping and selling off of the country’s assets which is happening now), leading to civil unrest and clampdown, followed by a merger of the NAFTA currencies to form the Amero – all exactly to plan therefore.

Ex-Georgian ambassador blames Georgia for war with Russia
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5itefRLYb9OvXIY84r-iHHUPY_6pQD94MQPN00

Civil Liberties:
Private Investigators monitor activists online for Australian police - report
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24709180-5014239,00.html

Privacy concerns over New Zealand baby database
http://news.theage.com.au/world/privacy-concerns-over-baby-dna-database-20081126-6hx2.html

Foreign nationals given UK ID cards
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7747303.stm
Always start with the foreigners. Popular with the public that way.

Italian judge - Blogs are illegal
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/26/italian_law_kills_blog/

Law Lords block police bid to stop cyclists protest
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/law-lords-block-police-bid-to-stop-critical-mass-cyclists-1036014.html

Former US Presidential Green Candidate, Cynthia McKinney prevented from leaving US
http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/11/cynthia-mckinney-prevented-from-leaving-us/
The USA's "Watch List" is now about 3/4 million people in length

US Cops Taser 54 Year Old Woman For Sitting In Wrong Seat At Football Game
http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9412105&nav=menu1362_2_1
Don't worry its not fatal...oh sorry potentially it is.

US Court Backs Warrantless Searches Abroad
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/nyregion/25embassy.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

UK Police to get 10,000 Taser guns
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5204516.ece
have you bought some shares in Taser Corp yet?

Home Secretary’s Taser plan suffers blow after Met Police Authority's rejection
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5224058.ece
shame

Social services 'set up CCTV camera in couple's bedroom'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3507238/Social-services-set-up-CCTV-camera-in-couples-bedroom.html

Online fraudsters 'steal £3.3bn'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7742455.stm
You just wait till they have your bio-metrics

AIDS patients face microchip monitoring
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/24/asia/AS-Indonesia-AIDS-Tagging.php
More human trials before it is rolled out worldwide?

“Minority Report” CCTV Predicts Crime
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20081127/tuk-sci-fi-film-cctv-predicts-crime-45dbed5.html

MySpace Hoax Verdict Means YOU Could Go to Prison for Not Reading "Terms of Service" Agreements
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000552_MySpace_suicide_computer_crimes.html

Community Support Officers to be given powers of detention by UK Home Secretary
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090408/8216-Blunkett-8217-s-bobbies-given-powers-detention-Home-Secretary-Jacqui-Smith.html
As I have referenced previously, traffic wardens in the UK have also been issued with Warrant (powers of arrest) cards in advance, "in case of a time of emergency"

Environment:
Amazon deforestation accelerates
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7756241.stm

Rising brown clouds blotting Asian sun out
http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Nov252008/environmet20081124102548.asp

Stubborn glaciers fail to retreat, awkward polar bears continue to multiply
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/23/do2310b.xml

Last great US fishery, the eastern Bering Sea, in danger of collapse
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16131-last-great-us-fishery-in-danger-of-collapse.html

GM companies 'behave like Hitler'
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,24697839-949,00.html

EU condemned on tuna 'mockery'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7746965.stm

Climate law 'could cost billions'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7747167.stm
and all the while real pollution will go un-noticed and un-dealt with.

Marine life faces 'acid threat'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7745714.stm

British kids have become pint-sized Eco-Nazi’s
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1089951/They-moan-lights-whine-dont-recycle-nag-using-car--Our-kids-pint-sized-Eco-Nazis.html
And all based around the false religion of “man made climate change”

Glaciers in Norway growing again
http://www.dailytech.com/Glaciers%2Bin%2BNorway%2BGrowing%2BAgain/article13540.htm

Cold snap fails to cool protagonists of global warming
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24723425-11949,00.html

Washington plans mass slaughter of America's mustangs
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/washington-plans-mass-slaughter-of-americas-mustangs-1041659.html

Finance & Economics:
US Government bailout hits $8.5 trillion
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/26/MNVN14C8QR.DTL
I bet you thought it was "just" $700 billion didn't you?

Obama Picks New York Fed Chief to Lead Treasury
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/21/AR2008112102811.html?hpid=topnews
Reading his biography his 1st job was with Henry Kissinger's Consulting firm, and later he worked at the Council for Foreign Relations, and then the IMF and the Federal Reserve of New York and is a member of the Group of Thirty (founded by the Rockefeller Foundation) - you don't get anymore Illuminati than that.

Obama appoints Lawrence Summers to Head National Economic Council
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Lawrence-H-Summers-Head-National/story.aspx?guid=%7B2E6ED23A-1B64-47B3-8C80-172BC59C60C4%7D
Larry Summers, was Clinton's treasury secretary, will head the National Economic Council - the president's senior economic adviser. It was Summers who forced through the deregulation of financial markets in the 1990s and imposed disaster capitalism on Russia. Considering that he is a chief architect of the current financial meltdown, we should be wondering why Obama isn't preparing an arrest warrant for him, instead of offering him the most powerful economic role in the world. As chief economist for the World Bank, Summers wrote a memo saying the WB should actively encourage the dumping of toxic waste in developing countries, particularly "under-polluted countries in Africa," since poor people in developing countries rarely live long enough to develop cancer, making him a particularly bizarre appointment for Obama. Do you still believe things will change under Obama?

Obama names his economic team
http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/24/news/economy/obama_economic_team/index.htm?postversion=2008112413?cnn=yes
Timothy Geithner & Lawrence Summers – See above
Christina Romer – Another Harvard economist and protégé of former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin (now Director of Citigroup)
Melody Barnes – Former attorney for Wall Street Law firm Shearman & Sterling

Fed Risks ‘Spitting in the Wind’ With New Aid Pledges
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=ag3TJyGD73qk&refer=home

Roll up, roll up for the UK Government's fire sale
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/pbr/article5233868.ece

Perth Mint suspends orders amid rush to buy bullion
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,24687337-643,00.html

Only drastic action now will save us, says Gordon Brown
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5209553.ece
So much for talking things up

Junk Bond Yields Reach Record 20% - Higher than Great Depression
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aec7wvoKeNEM&refer=home
In other words, corporate bond yields are in the stratosphere right now. Either investors are over-reacting to corporate default risk (thus driving up the yields), or this could get very dark indeed.

After Citigroup, is Bank of America next?
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-3754235,flstry-1.cms

Citigroup says gold could rise above $2,000 next year as world unravels
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/3526645/Citigroup-says-gold-could-rise-above-2000-next-year-as-world-unravels.html

US rescues ailing Citigroup bank
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7745168.stm

Banks ‘need extra £110bn of public money to start lending again’
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/pbr/article5219252.ece
Taxpayer: “That’s lucky I kept 110bn under the mattress to help out a friend in a time of need isn’t it?”

Obama pledges 'jolt' to economy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7747289.stm
I think it is safe to say that mass unemployment and the collapse of the currency can be described as “a jolt”

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
Thank goodness GM were given all that US taxpayer money eh? The asset stripping of the West continues apace

As mortgages went bad, bank executives cashed out
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-newcent26-2008nov26,0,94233.story

Food Prices Will Rise, Causing Export Bans, Riots
http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aC.nz4FiZpkg&refer=home

Poverty spreading in suburbs: study
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4AR60M20081128

First credit crunch traced back to Roman republic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/nov/28/credit-crunch-roman-republic-lecture

UK house prices 'to plunge like US'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/nov/30/house-prices-shiller-subprime-markets-us

Health:
Hairspray linked to birth defect
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7741998.stm

'Heavy water' could help us live longer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3529878/Heavy-water-could-help-us-live-longer.html Hmmmmmm

Human medical experimentation in the United States: The shocking true history of modern medicine and psychiatry (1833-1965)
http://www.naturalnews.com/019189.html

FDA Scientists Revolt Against Corrupt Food and Drug Administration Officials
http://www.naturalnews.com/024910.html

Genetic disease testing advance
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7742873.stm
Of course how and where that information is stored could also affect that child’s future prospects re employment, insurance etc if it was accessible.

Bad bosses may damage your heart
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7745324.stm

U.S. officials find trace of melamine in baby formula
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4AO9FZ20081126?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Cholera epidemic hits crumbling Zimbabwe
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16134-cholera-epidemic-hits-crumbling-zimbabwe.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

'Bad syrup' kills 25 Nigerian babies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7750464.stm

Pfizer Implicated in Human Drug Experimentation on Critically ill Children in Nigeria
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000544_Pfizer_Nigeria_medical_experiments.html

Study links birth defects to mothers' use of cosmetics
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/pregnant-women-warned-off-makeup-1041649.html

Statin Drugs: Another Industry-Sponsored Study, Another Deceptive Result
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/11/27/statin-drugs-another-industry-sponsored-study-another-deceptive-result.aspx

Fluoridation of southeast Queensland water begins
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24727027-3102,00.html

Science & Technology:
The eco machine that can magic water out of thin air
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/23/water-mill-eco-invention
As referenced in a very early OYE edition, a Western Australian invention (originally) that works using the same principals as an air-con unit (in reverse), can be run on solar power and keeps popping up in the media and then disappearing again....it is as though certain vested interests don’t want it going mainstream for some reason.

Religion:
New York City Churches Ordered Not To Shelter Homeless
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/church.homeless.shelter.2.871184.html

Vatican told bishops to cover up sex abuse
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/aug/17/religion.childprotection#history-byline

Religious leaders gather for climate change summit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7753784.stm
Worshiping the false god of man-made climate change

The War on Terror:
Bush 'very pleased' with Iraq war outcome: report
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081123/pl_afp/usiraqmilitarybush
Potentially 100,000 deaths, 2 million refugees fled, depleted uranium all over the country, a wrecked infrastructure, all the utilities & assets sold off cheaply to foreign companies (including oil), age old religious tensions stoked, no WMD found, a 5 year low level civil war, and a massive drop in standard of livings, education rates and overall health – You’ve got to wonder how bad it would have been for him not to be “very pleased”?

Barack Obama plans 20,000 troop surge to boost Afghan effort
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/3527638/Barack-Obama-plans-20000-troop-surge-to-boost-Afghan-effort.html

Britain 'bribes Afghans to fight Taliban'
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Britain-39bribes-Afghans-to-fight.4730623.jp

Top UK civil servant to fight release of Iraq war records
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5219185.ece

Iraq parliament passes U.S. security pact
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSLQ17155120081128
Now there’s a surprise

Terrorists could strike Britain by infecting country with bird flu
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3527575/Terrorists-could-strike-Britain-by-infecting-country-with-bird-flu.html
And where would this weapons grade bio-weapon come from.........

The Next War:
US Puts Pressure on Israel to Refrain from Attacks until Obama in office
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1861524,00.html?imw=Y

Shah's exiled son bids to unite fractured Iran
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/world-focus-shahs-exiled-son-bids-to-unite-fractured-iran-1028255.html

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

Solana 'worried' by Iran's lack of cooperation on nuclear issue
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5igdfpJYv6o46VWYN0G3fJgFAJWSg

Israel to bomb Iran through Turkey?
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=76831§ionid=351020104

Russia to complete Iran nuclear plant in 2009
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-36735220081127

Trains between Koreas stop, North restricts border
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4AR0TJ20081128?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Czech senators approve US shield
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7752941.stm
Stoking up Cold War 2.0

Russia seeks new missiles due to U.S. shield plans
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE4AR3S120081128

Terror attacks in Mumbai
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/world/asia/28group.html?_r=3&hp
Don’t be at all surprised when this is “linked” back to Pakistan and used as a pretext for increased US military bombing of that country, and possibly as launch pad for a rather costly, in human terms, but profitable, little war between the two nuclear weapon states of India and Pakistan

Quote of the Week:
"Even the smallest spark of freedom could set (an) entire world ablaze. That's why dissidents were held in isolation, dissident books were confiscated, and every typewriter had to be registered with the authorities. The regime knew the volatile potential of free thought and speech, so they spared no effort in extinguishing the spark...dissidents understood the power of freedom because it had already transformed our lives."

Natan Sharansky, "The Case for Democracy"

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.

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Open Your Eyes News - Edition 38

2008-11-22T16:55:00.006+09:00

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

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- John Pilger

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