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, just above the "Film & Documentary Recommendations" section.. 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 viewing whatever has happened in the last week.
Civil Liberties:
Emergency evidence law takes effect in UK
http://news.aol.co.uk/emergency-evidence-law-takes-effect/article/20080720212706169478259
Yet another worrying step in the wrong direction for the UK justice system. The hope is that when the term of the act ends that it is not renewed. However the way the trend has been for the erosion of the criminal justice system over the last decade, hopes should not be high.
Home Office list of our 1,000-plus Big Brother laws
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1036570/In-Home-Office-list-1-000-plus-Big-Brother-laws.html
The closing down of any free society is never done in one fell swoop. It is always a metaphorical "death by a thousand cuts". It's lucky the politicians only debate about 10% of all the laws that get passed isn't as otherwise they would actually have to work 24/7.
Police spied on activist groups - Protesters added to database of terrorist suspects
http://washtimes.com/news/2008/jul/18/maryland-troopers-spied-on-activist-groups/
The Ten Small Steps To A Closed Society - Number 5: Infiltrate Citizens groups.
Bluetooth used to track people's movements
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/07/21/dlblu121.xml
The technology is there already. Don't for one second think that the "security" forces wouldn't use it. And whether you "have nothing to hide" or not, the invasion of your privacy and the possibility for abuse is very real.
Police use taser on blind woman with cancer
http://www.wdtn.com/Global/story.asp?S=8693659
Yet another story of cops worldwide getting trigger happy with their new toys.
Man dies after cop hits him with Taser 9 times
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/22/taser.death/index.html
Collateral damage is the official term I believe
Child curfew plan begins summer run
http://news.aol.co.uk/child-curfew-plan-begins-summer-run/article/20080725045705536722222
Conditioning of the youth to see curfew's as a normal part of life?
CCTV Cameras installed in cinemas
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2448829/CCTV-Cameras-installed-in-cinemas.html
Why not stick them into peoples living rooms too and then George Orwell's dystopian nightmare will become a full reality?
Airport scanners see through clothes
http://www.miamiherald.com/519/story/613021.html
Make sure you are wearing clean underwear. But it's not an invasion of your privacy, honest, because the operator and the customer (victim) will never be able to directly see each other....bar the fact that the operator will have access to plenty of CCTV of course.
Health:
Epilepsy study incriminates Aspartame in Medications
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Epilepsy-Study-Incriminate-by-Dr--GLEN-MABSON--P-080718-636.html
Yet another reason why NutraSweet is bad
10 things you should eliminate from your diet today
http://www.abc15.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=c0437975-6777-4664-911c-51ca437286e3
Skin cancer fear 'may harm bones'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7514197.stm
As I have said on many occasions, the campaigns over the last few decades led by sun cream manufacturers have generated billions of dollars revenue and persuaded everyone to rub toxic chemicals into their semi-permeable skin for their own protection. Everything, sun included in moderation. Beyond that wear a hat and long sleeves. At least your body won't absorb potential toxins that way.
Fresh scent may hide toxic secret
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/371779_toxicfragrance23.html
As usual corporate gain comes considerably higher up the pecking order than your health. And get this they don't smell that good anyway!
Advice to drop condom use is HIV 'disaster'
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/dn14397-advice-to-drop-condom-use-is-hiv-disaster.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
And who has been perpetuating the myth that anti-viral drugs as opposed to condoms are the answer? The PR machine’s of the drug companies that stand to sell far more of them, and the religious fanatics who are so wrapped up in their own dogma that that cannot see the devastation on humanity they wrought.
Soy foods 'reduce sperm numbers'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7519459.stm
Discovery may boost statin safety
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7521330.stm
A bit of pharmaceutical PR I fear to counter the negative reaction to their suggestion to give Statin to children a fortnight ago
Trans-fats banned in California
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7526624.stm
Is it time you started asking your local politicians to do the same?
This is your brain on cell phone radiation.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/30295?t51hb&hpg1=mp
But they are so convenient aren't they.
Environment:
Leading Australian Climate Change Scientist: No Evidence CO2 Causes Global Warming
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24036736-7583,00.html
It is a scam people. The Governments love it because you actually want to pay their CO2 taxes; Corporations love it because you don't have time to see all the real pollution they are inflicting upon our eco-system; the "free" media is either indelibly linked to the same corporations and Governments; and the majority of scientists go along with it because it ensures their lifeblood funding and to go against the tide and endure a witch hunt has throughout history always had a cowering effect on academia.
Arctic 'has 90bn barrels of oil'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7523118.stm
In the unlikely event that they actually believe their own spin that CO2 is causing climate change I suspect the oil companies might actually quite keen of you burning a bit more so that they don't have to drill through that pesky ice.
The buzz over disappearing bees
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080721.wlhannon21/BNStory/lifeMain/home
NO BEES = NO FOOD = NO HUMAN'S. Take your pick as to why they are disappearing from industrial pesticides, GM Crops or viruses (the first 2 would very much be our fault)
Buildup of plastic debris fouling oceans
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=aaa6d96d-1dc8-41fc-9767-176609366517
CO2 isn't pollution. This however very much is - and it isn't just in the North Pacific either, it is building up in the doldrums in all of the major oceans of the world.
Science & Technology:
Death of Free Internet is Imminent - Canada Will Become Test Case
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9627
An interesting thesis, that if correct means that the brief flowing of knowledge that the free internet has delivered to mankind will soon be shut firmly tight.
Material that turns heat to power gets efficiency hike
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14398-material-that-turns-heat-to-power-gets-efficiency-hike.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
A future without oil does not have to be powered by nuclear fission?
'Fuel battery' could take cars beyond petrol
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14401-fuel-battery-could-take-cars-beyond-petrol.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
Ditto
Finance & Economics:
Fed Asks for Blank Check for Fannie and Freddie in Flawed Rescue Plan
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article5532.html
So the Fed will pick up the tab will they? Yeah, sure they will. They are a private bank after-all. The US taxpayer will pick up the tab. Ands just so we are clear what kind of sums we are talking about, if the 2 FM's go under it would double the US Government's already multi-trillion dollar debt - and what way out would there be then - The Amero (the planned NAFTA currency union with Mexico & Canada). In normal times the US people will never give up the greenback. Therefore what you need is a good old fashioned case of Problem > Reaction > Solution. The 2FM's are just the first part of the "Problem" phase.
Evidence of the US Banking System Teetering on the Brink of Collapse
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article5594.html
The private banks that own the Federal Reserve & the Bank of England (amongst others) have manipulated a collapse that when finished will have great similarities to 1929 - numerous smaller banks going to the wall and their assets swallowed up on the cheap by the very banks that control the system and set up their over-extension in the first place (JP Morgan, Rockerfeller, Rothschild etc)
The global economy is at the point of maximum danger
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/07/21/ccview121.xml
British Nuclear Energy close to sale deal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7523498.stm
If you sell off key infrastructure in major countries to other countries, then democratic accountability and control by the people is greatly reduced, and therefore they can't stand in your way. Standard global business strategy.
Democracy & International Diplomacy:
Missing Semtex 'left unguarded'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7515829.stm
What's the betting that this will be used in some atrocity at some point, which will be then be used by President Sarkozy to further clamp down on the French freedoms that he has been working hard to erode over the last year.
Sarkozy denies pressurising Irish
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7516254.stm
What’s the point anyway. He can use the tried & tested EU tactic of just bringing the legislation in via the back door should people vote against it.
Big Crowd Gathers For House Judiciary Hearing On Bush "impeachment"
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/25/politics/politico/thecrypt/main4292489.shtml
Much as it would be lovely to see Bush and his master Cheney impeached I think it is fairly safe to say that they will avoid being dragged away in chains to be tortured indefinitely at Guantanamo
New E Africa food crisis warning
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7522060.stm
The world food crisis isn't over by a long shot. And yet millions will have to die as the West uses up more and more arable land for the immoral con that is bio-fuels
The War on Terror:
Bush law chief seeks conflict declaration on Qaeda
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2140857120080721?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
What a great idea! That way Dubya can arrest and torture pretty much anyone worldwide that he wants to, as long as they can be attributed to Al Qaeda, which is everyone seeing as it was a name invented by the CIA while aiding the Islamists against the Russians in Afghanistan during the 1980's anyway. In fact virtually the same legal premise that Hitler brought in after the Reichstag fire...and look how quickly German opposition disappeared then.
If they hadn't shot down the fourth plane it would've hit the dome
http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKN2227257920080723
HOLD UP A SECOND THERE! The military lawyer the trial of Bin Laden's "driver" is saying that Flight 93 was shot down? If that is the case that means that the great patriotic story of the passengers overpowering the terrorists is a lie.
US military jails 'black holes', say US lawyers for Afghan reporter
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hc5zHmGFnUL-ww3pWRz-DzsIQb8Q
There are obviously a few bad guys left for Sherriff Bush to round up which is still in town - perhaps some journalists who go off message would be a good place to start (The Ten Small Steps To A Closed Society - Number 7: Target key individuals )
The US will not prosecute Bush
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/18/warcrimes.terrorism?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
There truly is no justice
Karzai 'impeding Afghan drug war'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7523285.stm
Well of course he is. He is a CIA place man after all. He used to work for Unocal (who are building a big pipeline across Afghanistan now that the Taliban are out of the way) and his boss at Unocal is now the US Ambassador (small world) - meanwhile the CIA has long had a great sideline in drugs dating back from "Air America" during the Vietnam War.
Radioactive Waste From Iraq Wars Dumped in U.S.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/waste_from_iraq_143.html
On the plus side the US and Britain are cleaning up a bit of the low level nuclear war they have been conducting in Iraq since 1990. On the downside the US people are now going to have the none to pleasant side effects too to deal with for the next few tens of thousands of years.
Britain accused of supporting Pakistan abductions
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/2448687/Britain-accused-of-supporting-Pakistan-abductions.html
But I thought Britain was a free loving democracy that didn't do this kind of stuff?
The Next War:
Iran has two-week deadline for nuclear answer
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gsh8ayhpc3RDFGJMHSRd2MobGrggb
Do you remember the good old days not so long ago when when the USA gave Iraq week deadline to hand their WMD's? I forgot, what was the upshot of all that again?
New Oilfield discovered in south Iran
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=64252§ionid=351020103
What is the one thing that you really don't want to announce when negotiating with the USA?
Massive Naval Exercise Underway Off US Coast In Possible Preparation For Strike On Iran
http://www.infolive.tv/en/infolive.tv-26169-israelnews-massive-naval-exercise-underway-us-coast-possible-preparation-strike
While the rest of the world mainstream media remains silent, why would only Israeli media run with the not inconsequential story that the US, Britain & France are conducting a large naval training exercise with the great biblical name "Operation Brimstone"?
Obama says nuclear Iran poses "grave threat"
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSL23104041320080723?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&rpc=22&sp=true
As I have said many times before, though the bombing of Iran will commence while Dubya is still in the White House, his successor will carry on the agenda just fine.
Quote of the Week:
"If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.”
- William Wilberforce
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Open Your Eyes News - Edition 20
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, just above the "Film & Documentary Recommendations" section.. 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 viewing whatever has happened in the last week.
What is History?:
The first draft of history is always written by those who either win, or have vested interest in maintaining the myth of this received wisdom. Nowadays anyone who goes against this received wisdom (in other words the 1st Draft) is often branded a "conspiracy theorist" which is a modern sully to portray those questioning the 1st draft as completely mad, as can be seen here in an opinion piece in a major UK newspaper this week:
So, you believe in conspiracy theories, do you? You probably also think you're the Emperor of Pluto http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/14/september11.usa
First of all, all history is theory. To have "fact" you have to have 100% knowledge of all information relating to an event, including protagonists thoughts and motivations, which is clearly not possible in any circumstances. Writing on history, whether it is about events from a thousand years ago or yesterday, is like being in court, and trying to judge the most likely "truth", and then decide whether you make your judgment on the principal of "beyond reasonable doubt" (as in criminal cases), or "on the balance of probabilities" (as in a civil case).
Using the vexed case of US Government involvement in 9/11 as an example you could weigh up the facts like this:
- Does accused have form, or as American law show's would say "priors"? It does - lots. For example The Gulf of Tonkin incident that sparked the American phase of the Vietnam War, The Zimmerman Telegram and the sinking of the Lusitania that helped get America into WW1 against public opinion; or breaking the Japanese naval communications code and yet still allowing the attack on Pearl Harbor that got the US into WW2 against public opinion.
- Have the accused (and its associates, such as the defence industry, Halliburton and the Oil industry) got motive? - Yes, plenty of it, most beginning with a $ sign, but also the ability to increase Executive Power through things like the "Patriot Act" that
- Does the accused have the where with all to pull it off? - without doubt. But remember the case of the murder of Thomas The Beckett in 1170. King Henry II didn't directly ask for the murder to happen, he simply said out loud "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?", and the rest as they say was history.
- Does the official story have any inconsistencies in it? - Three (yes 3) steel framed skyscrapers collapsing in on their own foot prints at near free fall speed as if there was no friction; the hole in the side of the Pentagon (before the wall collapsed) being smaller than the size of the plane that was supposed to have hit it; the BBC & CNN reporting WT7 collapsing 18 minutes before it happened; the vaporizing of Flight 93, the first time ever that a large passenger plane literally disappeared into pieces no bigger than the PC keyboard in front of you, no engines, no tail planes, nothing, all gone; and George Bush Snr having breakfast with Osama's brother in Washington at a Carlyle Group (Venture Capital Fund) meeting as it was happening!
- Has the accused benefitted from the incident? - again without doubt. No 9/11 = No war on Terror, No invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, No Patriot Acts 1 & 2, No surveillance society, No massive war profits for Halliburton, No increase of oil prices from $20 a barrel to more than $120 a barrel.
Now decide where is the most likely "truth" is based on conflicting and incomplete evidence;
- whether it be beyond reasonable doubt - turning an official blind eye (or can it all be put down to "institutional incompetence"?), and wasn't it fortunate what we wanted to happen in the Project for a New American Century think tank (that Rumsfeld and Cheney chaired before 2000) actually did happen?
- or the balance of probabilities - at the very least turning a blind eye, the financial support of the Pakistan secret service (ISI) chief who was in Washington when it happened, the official story already worked out in advance (and the Patriot Act already drafted in advance); "terrorists" passports surviving the crashes; covering up any loose ends with Pentagon and World Trade Centre 7 (home to New York branches of FBI, CIA, NSA amongst others) being destroyed.
.......but the point is, that just like the suspicious deaths of JFK, RFK, Stalin and Alexander the Great I suspect we will never know for sure either way. Anyone who ever tells you a debate is over, or attacks those who question the official story of any event, will always have motivation (in this case the prospect of future journalistic promotion perhaps?) to maintain the status quo. Why do you think new history books come out daily all giving a new interpretation of events that often happened hundred's or even thousands of years ago?
PS: Rather tellingly about 90% (n.1790) of the public comments after the article were rather less than impressed with this journalists dismissive summing up of any and all who might dare shed a different light on an event which has made all our lives more scrutinized and oppressed under the guise of feeling 'safe'.
Civil Liberties:
U.S. terrorism watch list tops 1 million
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1447675120080714?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
That’s one million people who are potentially being spied on (officially) and lives impeded by the state. This includes many independent journalists, intellectuals and academics. The first groups that anyone trying close a society down needs to silence, by one way or another
Big Brother database recording all our calls, texts and e-mails will 'ruin British way of life'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035361/Big-Brother-database-recording-calls-texts-e-mails-ruin-British-way-life.html
So exactly the same technology which, by an amazing co-incidence, is being used to do the same thing to spy on the US population as we reported a few weeks back. I think the line "the public’s traditional freedoms were under grave threat from creeping state surveillance" pretty much sum it up.
Sarkozy Moves to Control French Media
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0%2C1518%2C565062%2C00.html
Meanwhile in France another screw is tightened in the erosion of freedoms there too.
President Nicolas Sarkozy 'turning France into monocracy'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/2304263/President-Nicolas-Sarkozy-turning-France-into-monocracy%2C-say-critics.html
Yet another mention for Nicholas who has been very busy recently in his concerted effort to erode French (and European) democracy.
MoD admits loss of secret files
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7514281.stm
Yet another "oops" moment from the UK government. And of course at some later point after an "event" its loss could be used to back up the official story of the event so to justify the subsequent further clampdown on freedoms.
Obama's 'civilian national security force'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69601
The Ten Steps To Create a Closed Society. Number 3 - Create a paramilitary force. (for all 10 steps read the bottom of this page). I'm afraid McCain will be no better so don't get your hopes up on that front.
Italy to fingerprint all to avoid discrimination
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL1676461820080716
As previously reported here they were originally just going to finger-print the Roma (gypsy) minority for "their own protection". But hey this is the next best thing. Speeds up the process of fully controlling the sheep, sorry population, which the plan after-all.
Caught On Camera: Teen Dies After Shot With Taser Gun
http://www.nbc4.com/news/16919904/detail.html
Taser's are not "non-lethal" weapons. And yet they are being handed out like candy to police forces across the world with far less operational rules governing their use than guns
Health:
12 Babies die during vaccine trials in Argentina http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1750553/
But its all okay GSK shareholders, full & legal "consent forms" were signed first.
Fluoridated water now reaches nearly 70% of U.S. population http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/11/content_8525930.htm
Slightly misleading article when they say that Fluoride is naturally occurring. Yes it is, but the stuff they actually pump into your water is actually the waste product from the Aluminum industry, which otherwise would have to be carefully and very expensively disposed of (because its highly toxic). That is until some bright spark came up with idea of it's "health benefits" - which are questionable to say the least as countries that don't fluoridate water have lower tooth decay rates than those that do! Hence why even the American Dental Association even advise parents not to make up baby formula with fluoridated water as there is a harmful level of consumption on a body weight ratio (same goes for mercury ingestion by the way via vaccinations)! http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/positions/statements/fluoride_infants.asp
Climate pain ahead for folk in the 'kidney stone belt'
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/dn14307-climate-pain-ahead-for-folk-in-the-kidney-stone-belt.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
You couldn’t make this stuff up could you? The latest angle on “it’s all man’s fault” argument, appealing to the sufferers of kidney stones and telling them that they may get more kidney stones if they don’t combat their CO2 emissions!! Perhaps they could stop breathing as that would cut CO2 emissions. Alternatively perhaps I could suggest, as a previous sufferer of kidney stones myself, that they could simply try eating a better diet so not getting so much heart burn which they combat with calcium antacid tablets, and of course just drink lots of water instead of fizzy drinks.
Parents and teachers urged to diagnose ADHD
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,24046035-661,00.html
Don't give them drugs - period. Once they go on, when do they come off. Most cases of ADHD are caused by the processed rubbish the kids are being fed, or misdiagnosis. However where's the profit margin in that for the drug companies?
Environment:
Monsanto patent fight ensnares Missouri farm town http://www.kansascity.com/382/story/699820.html
Monsanto's takeover of US food production continues apace. With now the majority of Europe's food production being subject to patent (thanks to that cross-fertilisation we were told would never happen) Europe will soon be under it’s control. The question now is how long can the other major world food producers like Australia hold out against the corporate onslaught that seeks to control everything we eat, both meat & arable?
Bush lifts offshore drilling ban
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7506346.stm
Them good ‘ol boys down Texas way must be rubbing their hands with glee. Nothing stifles the people’s environmental consciences like being hit in the back pocket. Environmental impact? What environmental impact? Just think of them there profits boys.
Forests to fall for food and fuel
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7503304.stm
Human “civilisation” continues on its headlong drive to destroy the planet, and in doing so itself. Is it any wonder that at this rate our “civilisation” will last for 10,000 years, and yet the Australian Aborigines managed to survive 50,000 years by living in harmony with the harshest environment on earth.
What Global Warming?
http://www.newsmax.com/brennan/Global_Warming/2008/07/17/113657.html
This is the biggest scam in history. Look at the motivations: Big Business wants to you to forget about all the real and very damaging pollution they are inflicting on the eco-system; the Nuclear Power and Bio-Tech industries want you to see them as your saviors and not evil; Governments want to tax you with "ethical" taxes you you don't mind paying (a politicians wet dream), and they also strategically don't mind you being weaned off your reliance on fossil fuels; The oil industry wants it because you will be more accepting of artificially high prices (through the controlled limitation of supply in a time of rising demand - thus higher profits) as you will be "saving the planet"; Many academics go along with it for the fear of politicians or business withdrawing funding, the ever present fear of academia, if they go "off message"; and what is left of the free and independent media and opinion formers dare not put their head's on the block and go against the official story for fear of being targeted by the ever present McCarthyism like witch hunts that this era has created - Climate Change has always happened, and often much more rapidly and severely than it is in our brief lifetimes. There is a hell of a lot of real pollution going on and we are destroying the fragile environment that we live in putting our entire existence in jeopardy, and yet we are being thrown a red herring and all looking the other way.
Channel 4 to be censured over controversial climate film
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/19/channel4.climatechange
This is what happens if a broadcaster does go against the official mantra on "man made" climate change. Funny there hasn't been any similar witch hunt as a result of the numerous inaccuracies in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth". At least there are still some people thinking for themselves out there as can be seen from the fact that Channel 4 received a record number of phone calls that were six to one in favour of the arguments made.
Evidence doesn't bare out alarmist claims of global warming
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24036602-5000117,00.html
Enough said really
The Inexorable Comeback of Nuclear Energy http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,565363,00.html
It wasn't so long ago when public opinion rightly saw Nuclear Power as a bad idea, not least due the near never ending pollution and cost, but thanks to "Man Made Climate Change" it is now our savior. Just remember a lot of very rich, powerful and influential people are going to make a hell out of money out of this, and their motivations are not philanthropic in the slightest.
UN warns on biofuel crop reliance
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7514677.stm
Millions are going to die through the effects of starvation caused by this giant scam. And get this - it actually increases CO2 emissions so isn't any help in that monumental scam anyway!
A World Without Bees
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/scienceandnature/0,,2291845,00.html
This isn't the review of a sci-fi novel, this is hard fact and it is happening right now.
Science & Technology:
Scientists: Humans and machines will merge in future http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/15/bio.tech/index.html
Nano-technology and AI (artificial intelligence) are no longer 7the stuff of science fiction, they are very close and their moral, ethical and threat implications have not been examined nearly enough. We must have that debate sooner, rather than later.
Cern lab goes 'colder than space'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7512586.stm
As noted in earlier edition, there is a theoretical, if small, mathematical chance that when this thing is fired up in August it will create a black hole that will destroy the earth.
Finance & Economics:
OPEC warns against military conflict with Iran
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/10/business/opec.php
Are you ready for an "unlimited" rise in the price of oil?...our friends in Saudi & Texas, and in the board rooms at BP, Shell and Exxon can't wait!
Banks 'pushing' families into debt
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24048493-643,00.html
And the banks response to that slanderous accusation? "Are we bothered?"
Democracy & International Diplomacy:
China 'is fuelling war in Darfur'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7503428.stm
So no different from what America does currently, and Britain used to do in it's heyday then. Divide an conquer. Sell both sides arms to kill each other, and then take their raw materials (in this case lots of oil) on the cheap from whichever side is on top. Result (unless you are Sudanese obviously)
Irish wary of 'second vote' idea
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7509374.stm
And so they should be wary. Because woe betide them and their position on the EU gravy train should the people democratically vote the wrong way a second time
Saudi king appeals for tolerance
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7510208.stm
This is from the leader of a country that still conducts frequent public executions, including for those who convert to another religion other than Islam, and cuts the hands off thieves! You couldn't make it up.
The War on Terror:
Book Cites Secret Red Cross Report of C.I.A. Torture of Qaeda Captives
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/washington/11detain.html?bl&ex=1216008000&en=48af597fcdabd556&ei=5087%0A
Much as I would love justice to be done, I fear the chances of Bush and his puppet master Cheney ever being successful prosecuted in an International War Crimes Court are less than zero.
Bin Laden driver lawyers can interview witnesses
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1737143420080718?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Don't they know we're at war here? Letting defence lawyers talk to the defendant? We're going soft on terror here people! I mean this guy used to drive Osama around and we know what a threat he is. After-all the FBI's spokesman, Rex Tomb, said in 2006 "The FBI has no hard evidence connecting Osama Bin Laden to 9/11". Let's just torture him, find him guilty, execute him and have done with it.
UK 'must check' US torture denial
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7515517.stm
What, so that means Governments lie? Surely not?
The Next War:
President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4322508.ece
Do you believe me yet that this was planned a long, long time ago and is part of a much bigger agenda?
Saudis offer Moscow billions to break with Tehran
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/darticlen.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2008/July/theworld_July897.xml§ion=theworld&col
Buying off any potential flies in the ointment for this lovely little war they are planning. Interestingly Prince Bandar bin Sultan is the same Saudi prince who was referred to as "Bandar Bush" in the documentary Fahrenheit 911 due to his close links with the Bush family - what a small world it is (see Photo of the Week at the bottom of the page)
Ron Paul: "Some Big Events Are About To Occur"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/14/inside-the-beltway-68678558/?page=2
What the hell would the Republican Congressman from Texas know about such things. I mean it's not as if he was standing to be the next President very recently was it? Oh wait he did, just the mainstream media, including the BBC, completely forgot to mention him when they were running through this list of all the politicians in the primaries.
US set for historic Iran meeting
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7515104.stm
Don't get your hopes up folks. There is far, far too much money and control to be made out of this war to stop it now.
Quote of the Week:
"By early October 1940, we (the USA) had broken many of the Japanese military codes, specifically parts of the Kaigun Ango: the twenty nine separate naval codes that gave us a pretty good idea of what their fleet was up to during the entire year before Pearl Harbour......On Saturday, November 15 1941, General Marshall, the US Army Chief of Staff, called in various Washington newspaper chiefs. After swearing them to secrecy, he told them that we had broken Japan's naval codes, and that war with Japan would start sometime during the first ten days of December" (in the end it started on the 8th December 1941)
- Gore Vidal, The Last Empire
What is History?:
The first draft of history is always written by those who either win, or have vested interest in maintaining the myth of this received wisdom. Nowadays anyone who goes against this received wisdom (in other words the 1st Draft) is often branded a "conspiracy theorist" which is a modern sully to portray those questioning the 1st draft as completely mad, as can be seen here in an opinion piece in a major UK newspaper this week:
So, you believe in conspiracy theories, do you? You probably also think you're the Emperor of Pluto http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/14/september11.usa
First of all, all history is theory. To have "fact" you have to have 100% knowledge of all information relating to an event, including protagonists thoughts and motivations, which is clearly not possible in any circumstances. Writing on history, whether it is about events from a thousand years ago or yesterday, is like being in court, and trying to judge the most likely "truth", and then decide whether you make your judgment on the principal of "beyond reasonable doubt" (as in criminal cases), or "on the balance of probabilities" (as in a civil case).
Using the vexed case of US Government involvement in 9/11 as an example you could weigh up the facts like this:
- Does accused have form, or as American law show's would say "priors"? It does - lots. For example The Gulf of Tonkin incident that sparked the American phase of the Vietnam War, The Zimmerman Telegram and the sinking of the Lusitania that helped get America into WW1 against public opinion; or breaking the Japanese naval communications code and yet still allowing the attack on Pearl Harbor that got the US into WW2 against public opinion.
- Have the accused (and its associates, such as the defence industry, Halliburton and the Oil industry) got motive? - Yes, plenty of it, most beginning with a $ sign, but also the ability to increase Executive Power through things like the "Patriot Act" that
- Does the accused have the where with all to pull it off? - without doubt. But remember the case of the murder of Thomas The Beckett in 1170. King Henry II didn't directly ask for the murder to happen, he simply said out loud "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?", and the rest as they say was history.
- Does the official story have any inconsistencies in it? - Three (yes 3) steel framed skyscrapers collapsing in on their own foot prints at near free fall speed as if there was no friction; the hole in the side of the Pentagon (before the wall collapsed) being smaller than the size of the plane that was supposed to have hit it; the BBC & CNN reporting WT7 collapsing 18 minutes before it happened; the vaporizing of Flight 93, the first time ever that a large passenger plane literally disappeared into pieces no bigger than the PC keyboard in front of you, no engines, no tail planes, nothing, all gone; and George Bush Snr having breakfast with Osama's brother in Washington at a Carlyle Group (Venture Capital Fund) meeting as it was happening!
- Has the accused benefitted from the incident? - again without doubt. No 9/11 = No war on Terror, No invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, No Patriot Acts 1 & 2, No surveillance society, No massive war profits for Halliburton, No increase of oil prices from $20 a barrel to more than $120 a barrel.
Now decide where is the most likely "truth" is based on conflicting and incomplete evidence;
- whether it be beyond reasonable doubt - turning an official blind eye (or can it all be put down to "institutional incompetence"?), and wasn't it fortunate what we wanted to happen in the Project for a New American Century think tank (that Rumsfeld and Cheney chaired before 2000) actually did happen?
- or the balance of probabilities - at the very least turning a blind eye, the financial support of the Pakistan secret service (ISI) chief who was in Washington when it happened, the official story already worked out in advance (and the Patriot Act already drafted in advance); "terrorists" passports surviving the crashes; covering up any loose ends with Pentagon and World Trade Centre 7 (home to New York branches of FBI, CIA, NSA amongst others) being destroyed.
.......but the point is, that just like the suspicious deaths of JFK, RFK, Stalin and Alexander the Great I suspect we will never know for sure either way. Anyone who ever tells you a debate is over, or attacks those who question the official story of any event, will always have motivation (in this case the prospect of future journalistic promotion perhaps?) to maintain the status quo. Why do you think new history books come out daily all giving a new interpretation of events that often happened hundred's or even thousands of years ago?
PS: Rather tellingly about 90% (n.1790) of the public comments after the article were rather less than impressed with this journalists dismissive summing up of any and all who might dare shed a different light on an event which has made all our lives more scrutinized and oppressed under the guise of feeling 'safe'.
Civil Liberties:
U.S. terrorism watch list tops 1 million
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1447675120080714?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
That’s one million people who are potentially being spied on (officially) and lives impeded by the state. This includes many independent journalists, intellectuals and academics. The first groups that anyone trying close a society down needs to silence, by one way or another
Big Brother database recording all our calls, texts and e-mails will 'ruin British way of life'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035361/Big-Brother-database-recording-calls-texts-e-mails-ruin-British-way-life.html
So exactly the same technology which, by an amazing co-incidence, is being used to do the same thing to spy on the US population as we reported a few weeks back. I think the line "the public’s traditional freedoms were under grave threat from creeping state surveillance" pretty much sum it up.
Sarkozy Moves to Control French Media
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0%2C1518%2C565062%2C00.html
Meanwhile in France another screw is tightened in the erosion of freedoms there too.
President Nicolas Sarkozy 'turning France into monocracy'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/2304263/President-Nicolas-Sarkozy-turning-France-into-monocracy%2C-say-critics.html
Yet another mention for Nicholas who has been very busy recently in his concerted effort to erode French (and European) democracy.
MoD admits loss of secret files
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7514281.stm
Yet another "oops" moment from the UK government. And of course at some later point after an "event" its loss could be used to back up the official story of the event so to justify the subsequent further clampdown on freedoms.
Obama's 'civilian national security force'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69601
The Ten Steps To Create a Closed Society. Number 3 - Create a paramilitary force. (for all 10 steps read the bottom of this page). I'm afraid McCain will be no better so don't get your hopes up on that front.
Italy to fingerprint all to avoid discrimination
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL1676461820080716
As previously reported here they were originally just going to finger-print the Roma (gypsy) minority for "their own protection". But hey this is the next best thing. Speeds up the process of fully controlling the sheep, sorry population, which the plan after-all.
Caught On Camera: Teen Dies After Shot With Taser Gun
http://www.nbc4.com/news/16919904/detail.html
Taser's are not "non-lethal" weapons. And yet they are being handed out like candy to police forces across the world with far less operational rules governing their use than guns
Health:
12 Babies die during vaccine trials in Argentina http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1750553/
But its all okay GSK shareholders, full & legal "consent forms" were signed first.
Fluoridated water now reaches nearly 70% of U.S. population http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/11/content_8525930.htm
Slightly misleading article when they say that Fluoride is naturally occurring. Yes it is, but the stuff they actually pump into your water is actually the waste product from the Aluminum industry, which otherwise would have to be carefully and very expensively disposed of (because its highly toxic). That is until some bright spark came up with idea of it's "health benefits" - which are questionable to say the least as countries that don't fluoridate water have lower tooth decay rates than those that do! Hence why even the American Dental Association even advise parents not to make up baby formula with fluoridated water as there is a harmful level of consumption on a body weight ratio (same goes for mercury ingestion by the way via vaccinations)! http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/positions/statements/fluoride_infants.asp
Climate pain ahead for folk in the 'kidney stone belt'
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/dn14307-climate-pain-ahead-for-folk-in-the-kidney-stone-belt.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
You couldn’t make this stuff up could you? The latest angle on “it’s all man’s fault” argument, appealing to the sufferers of kidney stones and telling them that they may get more kidney stones if they don’t combat their CO2 emissions!! Perhaps they could stop breathing as that would cut CO2 emissions. Alternatively perhaps I could suggest, as a previous sufferer of kidney stones myself, that they could simply try eating a better diet so not getting so much heart burn which they combat with calcium antacid tablets, and of course just drink lots of water instead of fizzy drinks.
Parents and teachers urged to diagnose ADHD
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,24046035-661,00.html
Don't give them drugs - period. Once they go on, when do they come off. Most cases of ADHD are caused by the processed rubbish the kids are being fed, or misdiagnosis. However where's the profit margin in that for the drug companies?
Environment:
Monsanto patent fight ensnares Missouri farm town http://www.kansascity.com/382/story/699820.html
Monsanto's takeover of US food production continues apace. With now the majority of Europe's food production being subject to patent (thanks to that cross-fertilisation we were told would never happen) Europe will soon be under it’s control. The question now is how long can the other major world food producers like Australia hold out against the corporate onslaught that seeks to control everything we eat, both meat & arable?
Bush lifts offshore drilling ban
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7506346.stm
Them good ‘ol boys down Texas way must be rubbing their hands with glee. Nothing stifles the people’s environmental consciences like being hit in the back pocket. Environmental impact? What environmental impact? Just think of them there profits boys.
Forests to fall for food and fuel
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7503304.stm
Human “civilisation” continues on its headlong drive to destroy the planet, and in doing so itself. Is it any wonder that at this rate our “civilisation” will last for 10,000 years, and yet the Australian Aborigines managed to survive 50,000 years by living in harmony with the harshest environment on earth.
What Global Warming?
http://www.newsmax.com/brennan/Global_Warming/2008/07/17/113657.html
This is the biggest scam in history. Look at the motivations: Big Business wants to you to forget about all the real and very damaging pollution they are inflicting on the eco-system; the Nuclear Power and Bio-Tech industries want you to see them as your saviors and not evil; Governments want to tax you with "ethical" taxes you you don't mind paying (a politicians wet dream), and they also strategically don't mind you being weaned off your reliance on fossil fuels; The oil industry wants it because you will be more accepting of artificially high prices (through the controlled limitation of supply in a time of rising demand - thus higher profits) as you will be "saving the planet"; Many academics go along with it for the fear of politicians or business withdrawing funding, the ever present fear of academia, if they go "off message"; and what is left of the free and independent media and opinion formers dare not put their head's on the block and go against the official story for fear of being targeted by the ever present McCarthyism like witch hunts that this era has created - Climate Change has always happened, and often much more rapidly and severely than it is in our brief lifetimes. There is a hell of a lot of real pollution going on and we are destroying the fragile environment that we live in putting our entire existence in jeopardy, and yet we are being thrown a red herring and all looking the other way.
Channel 4 to be censured over controversial climate film
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/19/channel4.climatechange
This is what happens if a broadcaster does go against the official mantra on "man made" climate change. Funny there hasn't been any similar witch hunt as a result of the numerous inaccuracies in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth". At least there are still some people thinking for themselves out there as can be seen from the fact that Channel 4 received a record number of phone calls that were six to one in favour of the arguments made.
Evidence doesn't bare out alarmist claims of global warming
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24036602-5000117,00.html
Enough said really
The Inexorable Comeback of Nuclear Energy http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,565363,00.html
It wasn't so long ago when public opinion rightly saw Nuclear Power as a bad idea, not least due the near never ending pollution and cost, but thanks to "Man Made Climate Change" it is now our savior. Just remember a lot of very rich, powerful and influential people are going to make a hell out of money out of this, and their motivations are not philanthropic in the slightest.
UN warns on biofuel crop reliance
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7514677.stm
Millions are going to die through the effects of starvation caused by this giant scam. And get this - it actually increases CO2 emissions so isn't any help in that monumental scam anyway!
A World Without Bees
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/scienceandnature/0,,2291845,00.html
This isn't the review of a sci-fi novel, this is hard fact and it is happening right now.
Science & Technology:
Scientists: Humans and machines will merge in future http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/15/bio.tech/index.html
Nano-technology and AI (artificial intelligence) are no longer 7the stuff of science fiction, they are very close and their moral, ethical and threat implications have not been examined nearly enough. We must have that debate sooner, rather than later.
Cern lab goes 'colder than space'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7512586.stm
As noted in earlier edition, there is a theoretical, if small, mathematical chance that when this thing is fired up in August it will create a black hole that will destroy the earth.
Finance & Economics:
OPEC warns against military conflict with Iran
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/10/business/opec.php
Are you ready for an "unlimited" rise in the price of oil?...our friends in Saudi & Texas, and in the board rooms at BP, Shell and Exxon can't wait!
Banks 'pushing' families into debt
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24048493-643,00.html
And the banks response to that slanderous accusation? "Are we bothered?"
Democracy & International Diplomacy:
China 'is fuelling war in Darfur'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7503428.stm
So no different from what America does currently, and Britain used to do in it's heyday then. Divide an conquer. Sell both sides arms to kill each other, and then take their raw materials (in this case lots of oil) on the cheap from whichever side is on top. Result (unless you are Sudanese obviously)
Irish wary of 'second vote' idea
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7509374.stm
And so they should be wary. Because woe betide them and their position on the EU gravy train should the people democratically vote the wrong way a second time
Saudi king appeals for tolerance
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7510208.stm
This is from the leader of a country that still conducts frequent public executions, including for those who convert to another religion other than Islam, and cuts the hands off thieves! You couldn't make it up.
The War on Terror:
Book Cites Secret Red Cross Report of C.I.A. Torture of Qaeda Captives
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/washington/11detain.html?bl&ex=1216008000&en=48af597fcdabd556&ei=5087%0A
Much as I would love justice to be done, I fear the chances of Bush and his puppet master Cheney ever being successful prosecuted in an International War Crimes Court are less than zero.
Bin Laden driver lawyers can interview witnesses
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1737143420080718?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Don't they know we're at war here? Letting defence lawyers talk to the defendant? We're going soft on terror here people! I mean this guy used to drive Osama around and we know what a threat he is. After-all the FBI's spokesman, Rex Tomb, said in 2006 "The FBI has no hard evidence connecting Osama Bin Laden to 9/11". Let's just torture him, find him guilty, execute him and have done with it.
UK 'must check' US torture denial
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7515517.stm
What, so that means Governments lie? Surely not?
The Next War:
President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4322508.ece
Do you believe me yet that this was planned a long, long time ago and is part of a much bigger agenda?
Saudis offer Moscow billions to break with Tehran
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/darticlen.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2008/July/theworld_July897.xml§ion=theworld&col
Buying off any potential flies in the ointment for this lovely little war they are planning. Interestingly Prince Bandar bin Sultan is the same Saudi prince who was referred to as "Bandar Bush" in the documentary Fahrenheit 911 due to his close links with the Bush family - what a small world it is (see Photo of the Week at the bottom of the page)
Ron Paul: "Some Big Events Are About To Occur"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/14/inside-the-beltway-68678558/?page=2
What the hell would the Republican Congressman from Texas know about such things. I mean it's not as if he was standing to be the next President very recently was it? Oh wait he did, just the mainstream media, including the BBC, completely forgot to mention him when they were running through this list of all the politicians in the primaries.
US set for historic Iran meeting
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7515104.stm
Don't get your hopes up folks. There is far, far too much money and control to be made out of this war to stop it now.
Quote of the Week:
"By early October 1940, we (the USA) had broken many of the Japanese military codes, specifically parts of the Kaigun Ango: the twenty nine separate naval codes that gave us a pretty good idea of what their fleet was up to during the entire year before Pearl Harbour......On Saturday, November 15 1941, General Marshall, the US Army Chief of Staff, called in various Washington newspaper chiefs. After swearing them to secrecy, he told them that we had broken Japan's naval codes, and that war with Japan would start sometime during the first ten days of December" (in the end it started on the 8th December 1941)
- Gore Vidal, The Last Empire
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