Areas Covered Each Week:
Civil Liberties - Health - Environment - Democracy & International Relations - Economics - Science - The War on Terror - The Next War
Story of the Week:
Coming to Britain - the Australian flu virus that has already killed hundreds
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1063737/Coming-Britain--Australian-flu-virus-killed-hundreds.html
As one of the comments accurately sums up "That's news to us here in Australia. I live in Melbourne and I also work for respiratory specialists and we have never heard of this Brisbane flu. There has been no adults or children dropping dead from this flu - this is just scare tactics from the NHS" - And I live in Western Australia and there has been no mention or signs of this over here either - More likely the culprit of these scare tactics is not the NHS but the PR departments of the big pharmaceutical companies that are looking to flog lots of flu vaccines the coming Northern winter.
Environment:
New scientific study proves solar activity impacts climate
http://news.research.ohiou.edu/news/index.php?item=503
"Stating the bleeding obvious" fact of the week
Spotless Sun: Blankest Year of the Space Age
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/30sep_blankyear.htm?list878321
Ever wondered why global temperatures dropped so fast over the last year according to NASA's own figures?
Meat should be rationed to four portions a week to beat climate change, says Government-funded report
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1065230/Meat-rationed-portions-week-beat-climate-change-says-Government-funded-report.html
Barmy idea of the week, paid for by taxpayers and their guilt over the "climate change that they caused" (see picture of the week)
Party Like It's 1984
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=307841054215714
Imagine a society in which children are encouraged to be informants against their families over a phony issue? Imagine no longer.
Last gasp’ for many WA species
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=101053
Made made global warming, sorry its now called climate change isn't it, is a smokescreen to take your eye off the real environmental damage that governments are allowing and corporations are perpetrating. Wake up before it is too late.
The Nonsense of Global Warming
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/1006/025.html
But what would the writer, a historian, know about such things?
Green” Light Bulbs Could Hurt the Environment, Study Says
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/10/01/dim-bulbs-those-squiggly-green-light-bulbs-could-hurt-the-environment-study-says/
Confused? Yes. That's the intention. All you need to be aware of is that at the end of each strand of "fact" you are sold someone is making money out of your guilt.
Bayer Pesticide Chemicals Linked to Devastating Collapse of Honeybee Populations
http://www.naturalnews.com/024362.html
There is also a very strong link to the introduction of GM crops in areas and colony collapse. Either way our greed will lead to very big problems if there are no bees left.
Tiny Plastic Bits Pose Marine Hazard
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/02/marine-plastics.html
This is real and massive man made pollution. And it has nothing to do with your breathing emissions (CO2)
Mixed views on new nuclear build
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7642067.stm
Have you ever wondered why those behind the nuclear power industry have been so effusing about "man made global warming" which has been the best PR their industry has had since Chernobyl?
Brazil government 'worst logger'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7643346.stm
Never under-estimate the greed and self interest of man, even from those charged with protecting our invaluable environment
Civil Liberties:
US Troops in Homeland "Crowd Control" patrols from October 1st
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
The totalitarian takeover of the USA is underway. First the economy is handed on a platter to the corporate baron's of wall street by Congress, then homeland "security" is ramped up...all you need is a spark....another financial crash and/or invasion of Iran and it’s after-effects should do the trick.
US Satellite-Surveillance Program to Begin Despite Privacy Concerns
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122282336428992785.html
Economic Eugenics?
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/economic-eugenics/
The eugenics movement didn't end with the Nazi's
Councils use Google Earth to snoop
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=100124
Exactly as I warned would happen in earlier editions.
Terror threat in UK 'approaching critical'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3124098/Terror-threat-in-UK-approaching-critical.html
Even if this is genuine, and not another attempt to push through some more civil liberties eroding legislation, is it any wonder when for decades integration of minorities has been discouraged in the UK thanks to the ethos of "multi-culturalism", then a minority has been alienated and targeted by the civil liberties clampdown of the "war on terror", and high unemployment in the inner city ghettos - all of which has created a feeding ground for radicalization of the alienated young male Muslim population.
Father arrested and held in a cell for five hours after police claim he stole his own car
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1065969/Father-arrested-held-cell-hours-police-claim-stole-car.html
The 10 Steps to a Closed Society - Number 6. Arbitrarily detain and release citizens (scroll down for the list in full)
EU to introduce 'virtual strip searches' at airports by 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2008/10/01/noindex/scanner.xml
Australian airport trials full-body X-rays
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24432963-5006787,00.html
Plane travellers back fingerprint, eye scan checks
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/plane-travellers-back-fingerprint-eye-scan-checks/2008/09/29/1222650979414.html
Fancy a holiday in the next few years?
Tasering of mom with baby 'necessary,' police say
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=3363cc2a-e922-4d0f-8444-d72e485dcba6
As I say every week, these are NOT non-lethal weapons, and yet are being given out like candy to police forces worldwide, all to the benefit of the shareholders of The Taser Corporation www.taser.com/
Canadian man dies after being tasered by police
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080930.wbctasered01/BNStory/National/home
Cop commits suicide after Taser death
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/02/taser.officer.dead.ap/index.html
Russia's Dissident Bloggers Fear for Their Lives
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/world/2008/09/30/russias-dissident-bloggers-fear-for-their-lives.html?s_cid=et-1001
The 10 Steps to a Closed Society - Number 8. Restrict the press. Don't forget last week's article on the EU's legislation to restrict blogging.
Mr. Average Briton breaks the law at least once a day
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1059071/Mr-Average-breaks-law-day-speeding-illegal-downloading.html
You are all criminals, you are all potential terrorists, we must control you to "protect you".
Australia's Cops want mass surveillance system
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,,24387179-15306,00.html
UN report criticises Britain's 'demonising' and jailing of children
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/04/justice.youthjustice
New mental health powers threaten rights, claim lawyers
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/new-mental-health-powers-threaten-rights-claim-lawyers-944770.html
Mobile phones to track carbon footprint
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/29/carbonfootprints.travelandtransport
Don't worry they are already tracking far more than that. They are tracking you and potentially everything you say too. They are a 2 way radio device after-all. Watch the documentary Suspect Nation on the side panel to see how.
Skype admits China privacy breach
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/03/2381259.htm
As if the professional management of a corporation would ever let ethics come between it and a healthy profit?
Health:
Sanlu cover up over tainted milk
http://news.smh.com.au/world/sanlu-cover-up-over-tainted-milk-memo-20080928-4pfr.html
It's lucky that only corporations from China would ever seek to bribe people to cover up their fatal poisoning of the food supply isn't it? Corporations in democracies would never do such things......
Cannabis linked to depression: stats
http://news.theage.com.au/national/cannabis-linked-to-depression-stats-20080929-4puh.html
Women warned of talcum powder cancer risk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/3091174/Women-warned-of-talcum-powder-cancer-risk.html
Big Pharma Ties Want to Shut Down Vaccine 'Conspiracy Theories'
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/10/02/big-pharma-ties-wants-to-shut-down-vaccine-conspiracy-theories.aspx?source=nl
Following hot on the heels of last week's reports about the EU legislating against blogging. Freedom of information transfer is against the interests of corporations and governments. Why do you think they want to close down the debate?
FDA Approved Human Medical Experiments with Artificial Blood; Hundreds Died
http://www.naturalnews.com/024351.html
In a healthy democracy a Government agency is there to protect the people not to make profit for corporations.
US approves test for human and bird flu
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gO15NKZ4lWPBRxv7tZjtrDiByxxQ
The next "big scare"?
9/11 health bill opposed by NY mayor is shelved
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--sept11-health0928sep28,0,5355734.story
Thousands of New Yorkers have died or are dying of lung related diseases after breathing in the poisonous dust from the 3 skyscraper collapses that day (yes three - watch the documentaries on the side panel), primarily because they were told within 24 hours that the air was fine to breath....by Government officials.
Health chief backs fluoridation plans
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/3706984.East_Lancs_health_chief_backs_fluoridation_plans/
What a great idea! Let's dumb down the population by polluting their water-supply with an industrial waste-product despite it having very debatable heath benefits (tooth decay rates are lower in countries and regions that don't fluoridate)
Mobile Phone Use While Pregnant Causes Neurological Problems in Babies
http://www.naturalnews.com/024386.html
China lung disease 'to kill 83m'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7652140.stm
But boy are those profits good or what?
Australian Adult obesity swells by a third
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24438310-2702,00.html
Anything to do with all the "diet" drinks (which do the opposite) and under educated population that is unable to eat anything unless it is pre-processed perchance?
Breastfeeding 'cuts cancer risk'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7641384.stm
Vitamin 'may blunt cancer drugs'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7643533.stm
A medical breakthrough or another PR assault on the “alternative” sector by the pharmaceutical corporations who are unable to break into that market as you can’t patent a vitamin (yet)?
Finance & Economics:
President Bush signs historic $700 billion plan aimed at stemming credit crisis.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/03/news/economy/house_friday_bailout/?postversion=2008100314
The handing over of the US Government to Wall Street and the Corporations is complete, as thought up by Henry Paulson (previous job CEO of Goldman Sachs), and best thing is that, as I referenced last week, the US Treasury has admitted that the $700b is a made up figure and the actual real figure that the US people will have to pay could well be many times bigger than that. And also ask yourself where will all that money come from?
France seeks €300bn rescue fund for Europe
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/article4864032.ece
The European Governments too are acting to help out their "indebted" friends in the financial services sector with tax payers money
Citigroup to buy US bank Wachovia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7642126.stm
Bargain hunting part 1- always made easier when you are a part owner of the Federal Reserve (see the Federal Reserve Act 1912) manipulate the market to crash, then pick off your smaller competitors (who aren't on the inside) for a bargain - just like 1929 all over again in fact.
WaMu Is Seized, Sold Off to J.P. Morgan, In Largest Failure in U.S. Banking History
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122238415586576687.html
Bargain hunting part 2
UK PM under pressure to reveal details of his £1.9trillion bank bail-out gamble
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1065453/Brown-pressure-reveal-details-1-9trillion-bank-bail-gamble.html
Proportionately this is potentially a much bigger hangover the UK population is about to feel than their US cousins.
How UK Opposition leaders secretive donors bet on the collapse of Bradford & Bingley
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1063358/How-Camerons-secretive-donors-bet-collapse-Bradford-amp-Bingley.html
Who Predicted U.S. Economic Collapse Years Ago?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/09/30/who-predicted-u-s-economic-collapse-one-year-ago.aspx?source=nl
This is the same Ron Paul who tried to become Republican Presidential candidate but got no media coverage. This is the same Ron Paul who warned Congress this week that representatives had been told to vote for the bailout billions or martial law would have to be declared in America. But what would he know?
Global authority can fill financial vacuum
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7caf543e-8b13-11dd-b634-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1
Yes one world currency and government is the only solution, says a man who is a Council on Foreign Relations member, former policy planner under Henry Kissinger, a former managing director of Lehman Brothers and now a professor of business at Yale. Funny that's a very similar message from another well networked chap, Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, back in June http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto060820081850443845
Central banks favor gold as crisis unfolds
http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSTRE4913GT20081002
As I have said in many previous editions the smart money is already moving to the safety of gold which will soar once the bombing of Iran starts in the next few months.
US taxpayers are being enrolled in an economic chain gang
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/26/do2606.xml
Basically yes.
China banks told to halt lending to US banks
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSPEK16693720080925
The Chinese are playing the strategic long game. Their domination is almost at hand, however at the end of the day it isn't about nationality or religion, it is, and always has been about wealth, control and power, concentrated in the hands of a tiny political and corporate elite (see the next article)
Bank of China buys into Rothschild Bank
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122176457130753313.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
There Might Be a Financial Crisis, But the World's Arms Dealers Are Doing Just Fine
http://www.alternet.org/story/100801/
War is great for business. Remember that when the bombing of Iran commences in the next few months.
The War on Terror:
U.S. to Fund Pro-American Publicity in Iraqi Media
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100204223_pf.html
As if the Iraqi people haven't suffered enough
British envoy says mission in Afghanistan is doomed, according to leaked memo
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4860080.ece
Do you reckon he's going to be looking for a new job soon? Anyway he's wrong. As long as whoever is in control of Afghanistan maintains the big pipeline that's just been built across the country, and keeps the opium flowing then "everyone" will be happy.
Bush had no plan to catch Bin Laden
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JJ01Df05.html
You don't say! However don't be at all surprised if old Osama is "captured dead or alive" this side of the US elections - hence all the Pakistan attacks by the US
Continuing US losses will lead to military strikes on Pakistan
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C09%5C30%5Cstory_30-9-2008_pg7_63
Several killed in US drone attack
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7645368.stm
Pakistan blames US raids for hotel bombing
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistan-blames-us-raids-for-hotel-bombing-938952.html
Iraqi military deaths up
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081001/NATION/810010334/1020
US threatens to steal Iraq oil money
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=71202§ionid=351020201
The Next War:
Ahmadinejad accepts Israel's right to exist
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/29/iran.israel.ahmadinejad
Funny this has had virtually no mainstream news coverage anywhere in the Western World. Could it be that some people out there want a war perhaps?
US sends advanced radar system to Israel in advance of Iran attack
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j5vbbS6-L6gmmmN3yQjLke729qsw
Israel; Air Force to halt use of US cluster bombs & make own
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3603935%2C00.html
They may well be using a lot of them in the near future so it makes economic (but not moral) sense.
N Korea 'restoring nuclear plant'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7651687.stm
But luckily for them they don't have any oil.
Education:
Primary school axes spelling tests because they are too 'distressing' for pupils
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1067078/Primary-school-axes-spelling-tests-distressing-pupils.html
The dumber the general population, the more subservient they will be to their master's designs, and more ignorant to the plight of their fellow inhabitants of this planet.
Democracy & International Diplomacy:
How China has created a new slave empire in Africa
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1063198/PETER-HITCHENS-How-China-created-new-slave-empire-Africa.html
The unpalatable truth behind the 2nd "Scramble for Africa"
The Simpsons parody fraud using electronic voting machines
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=1aBaX9GPSaQ
as if that would ever happen......
Cyber-security expert on why voting systems are inherently insecure
http://blogs.computerworld.com/cybersecurity_expert_on_why_voting_systems_are_inherently_insecure
North America Must Integrate for Trade, Mexican President Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aErWCiaM5aJk&refer=latin_america
What is happening in the world currently, not least the financial crisis, is being manipulated by the global elite to create the stepping stones towards a One World Government. The creation of a North American Union (just the the EU) with its own currency is the next logical step in that path, a path that is so beneficial to business, and so un-beneficial to humanity, freedom and democracy.
CIA ‘backed’ Irish battle against Brussels treaty
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4837672.ece
US under Martial Law? – Not yet, but...
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/75831
Princess Mary follows Diana in mine sweep
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/a-new-princess-walks-dianas-dangerous-path/2008/10/03/1222651336347.html
She'd better be careful. Remember what happened to the last high profile princess who campaigned against this rather profitable part of the global armaments industry.
Quote of the Week:
"In whatever way a democratic system might be sick, terrorism does not heal it, it kills it. Democracy is healed with democracy."
- Viginio Rognoni - that goes for state terrorism, like war, too
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