Thursday 28th February 2008: -

• Home Office laptop and data sold on eBay: Yet more stupidity on the part of a government department revealed after laptop with confidential Home Office data hidden under the keyboard is first sold on the auction web site, then discovered when its new owner took it to a repair shop - The Home Office is today under well-deserved scrutiny after a disc containing confidential data from the government department was discovered hidden under the keyboard of a laptop that had been sold on the internet auction site eBay. The disc, concealed under the keyboard of the laptop was discovered by a Machester-based PC repair centre when the machine was brought in for a problem to be investigated. "This seemed like just another repair" said Lee Bevan, the managing director of LeapFrog Computers, the computer repair company that made the discovery. "The customer said he bought it on eBay and seemed quite innocent. It was only when we opened it up we found the disc with the words Home Office Confidential written on it hidden under the keyboard. We tried to read it, but couldn't as it was encrypted."

• Fluoride May Damage the Brain, New Report Says - "It is not clear that the benefits of adding fluoride to drinking water outweigh risks of neurodevelopment or other effects such as dental fluorosis," according to an Institute for Children's Environmental Health report. Fluoride chemicals are added to 2/3 of U.S. public water supplies ostensibly to reduce tooth decay. Fluoride is found in dental products, supplements and virtually all foods and beverages. "Excessive fluoride ingestion is known to lower thyroid hormone levels, which is particularly critical for women with subclinical hypothyroidism; decreased maternal thyroid levels adversely affect fetal neurodevelopment," reports a prestigious committee of scientists and health professionals in a Scientific Consensus Statement on Environmental Agents Associated with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Studies they reviewed and others link fluoride to brain abnormalities and/or IQ deficits.

• Lawyer Says Bin Laden Did Not Orchestrate 9/11 During Terror Trial: Al-Qaeda leader never claimed responsibility for attack, Van de Wiel tells Australian Supreme Court - Skepticism towards the 9/11 official story reached the Australian Supreme Court this week after a lawyer asserted that the attacks were not orchestrated by Osama bin Laden during the trial of an alleged terror group in Melbourne. "To say that this was all orchestrated by Osama bin Laden is a silly thing to do. He's never claimed responsibility for it," Remy van de Wiel QC told the Australian jury. Unless you accept the credibility of a dodgy videotape of a fat Bin Laden doppelganger "miraculously discovered" in a house in Jalalabad by U.S. troops and pushed as authentic by the ever-honest U.S. government, then van de Wiel has a point.   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• Betrayed and Ignored: The Bush Outrage Against the 9/11 First Responders - This week I posted a piece called "Betrayed" about the many 9/11 first responders whose health and lives have been shattered by their work at Ground Zero, and the government's 77 percent cut in healthcare for them in the new Bush budget. At first they were lied to by a government that assured them that there was little or no risk to the work, in order to get Wall Street up and operating; then, once so many came down with respiratory diseases and cancers, they were lied to again by this same government that promised to help them get through the tremendous costs of injuries connected to 9/11. Some of these men and women rallied in Washington yesterday on the capitol steps, hoping to get passage of James Zagroda's bill which attempts to alleviate some of their medical bills and the economic suffering that has resulted from their illnesses.

• Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court - Now What? - After years of insisting there is no evidence to link vaccines with the onset of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the US government has quietly conceded a vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims. The unprecedented concession was filed on November 9, and sealed to protect the plaintiff's identify. It was obtained through individuals unrelated to the case. The claim, one of 4,900 autism cases currently pending in Federal "Vaccine Court," was conceded by US Assistant Attorney General Peter Keisler and other Justice Department officials, on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services, the "defendant" in all Vaccine Court cases.

• Latest Jersey finds 'significant' - Police searching a former children's home following child abuse allegations say they have discovered "a couple of finds of some significance". The finds were made in a cellar under Haut de la Garenne in Jersey, where 160 people have said they were abused. Lenny Harper, Jersey's deputy police chief, said: "They are items which witnesses have said were in there when offences were committed against them." On Saturday a child's skull was discovered on the premises.

• Israeli air raid kills 4 kids - Israeli military forces have killed four Palestinian children in the latest air strike on the Gaza Strip, medics say. The children aged eight, nine, eleven and twelve, were killed while they played in a field in the town of Jabaliya in the north of the territory on Thursday. Another Israeli aircraft struck two targets in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday afternoon, killing at least one person and wounding two others, Palestinian medics said. Eleven other Palestinians, including a six-month-old baby, were killed in the Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.

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• Bourne set to return for one last adventure - Jason Bourne will return for one last job after Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon signed up to make a fourth film in the hit franchise. The actor and director at the heart of the series' two most recent films had previously played down the idea of a third sequel, saying that they would only consider it if the other one came on board. But Hollywood studio Universal recently announced that a Bourne 4 is on its slate, although it gave no firm deadline for a release.

Tuesday 26th February 2008: -

• Taking Prozac for depression is mostly a waste of time, say scientists - NEW-GENERATION antidepressants, such as Prozac and Seroxat, are largely a waste of time, research suggests. A review of clinical trials found that they worked no better than a dummy pill for mildly depressed patients and for most people suffering severe depression. Even trials suggesting that the drugs helped severely depressed people provided no evidence of clear clinical benefit, the researchers said. Dr Tim Kendall, the deputy director of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' research unit, said the findings were "fantastically important".

• Hawaii Senate Health Committee "Defers" Bill to Ban Aspartame, thus killing it for 2008! - Hawaii Senate Committee "deferred" bill to Ban Aspartame on 2/25. Pathetic! Many of the 5 Committe members were not even there during the heart of the testimony, and then stated that the FDA should take care of it, not them. It seemed that only one out of five had actually read all of the testimony, who spoke favorably of "some kind of Resolution," but didn't know what it should contain. I am the person behind much of this effort. Maybe we will try a Resolution. No other chances remain during this legislative session in Honolulu. Here are a few thoughts on that: RESOLUTION COULD ASK THE NEW FDA COMMISSIONER AFTER NOVEMBER TO RESCIND APPROVAL? THAT HAS SOME TEETH, EH? AND ASK HAWAII HEALTH DEPT TO CREATE REPOSITORY FOR VICTIMS and PHYSICIAN TESTIMONIES AND OBSERVATIONS DURING THE NEXT YEAR?

Monday 25th February 2008: -

• US funding militia to destabilize Iran - The United States is clandestinely funding militant groups within Iran's borders to destabilize the country, The Daily Telegraph says. According to the daily, CIA officials are secretly funding militias among the numerous ethnic minorities clustered in Iran's border regions in order to mount pressure on the country to give up its nuclear program. Funding for their separatist causes comes directly from the CIA's classified budget but is now "no great secret", according to one former high-ranking CIA official in Washington speaking anonymously to The Sunday Telegraph. "The latest attacks inside Iran fall in line with US efforts to supply and train Iran's ethnic minorities to destabilize the Iranian regime," said Fred Burton, a former US State Department counter-terrorism agent.   (RELATED: See our Problem > Reaction > Solution archive.)

• Now the taxman can bug your home and phone calls to catch payment dodgers - Tax inspectors have been given wideranging new powers to bug people's homes and private phone calls. They also have the go-ahead to intercept emails and plant listening devices in suspects' cars and offices. The move is the latest expansion of surveillance powers which, until recently, were only available to the police and intelligence services. Revenue officers used to work to a set of strict rules that even banned them from looking in cupboards at a home or business during a visit without express permission.

Sunday 24th February 2008: -

• Sniffer dog hunts for bodies in Jersey care home - Police are hunting for more bodies at a former care home in Jersey where a child's skull was discovered yesterday. A sniffer dog, previously used in the search for Madeleine McCann, helped to make the first discovery and is now being used in co-ordination with radar equipment to locate any more remains buried in the building’s foundations. Police began searching the island's Youth Hostel, formerly the Haut de la Garenne home, four days ago as part of a investigation into alleged child abuse.

• Barack Obama criticised over 'cult-like' rallies - For many it is simply a sign of his charisma. But for a growing number of Barack Obama sceptics, there is something disturbing about the adulation with which the senator and Democratic presidential frontrunner is greeted as he campaigns for the White House - unnervingly akin to the hysteria of a cult, or the fervour of a religious revival. Thousands wait in line to see him wherever he stops. Members of the audience have taken to rushing the stage during campaign rallies, forcing the public-address announcer to plead with them to back off. And when Mr Obama eventually takes the platform to rhythmic chants of his mantra-like slogan, “Yes we can, yes we can!” fans swoon with euphoria. Now critics are quietly voicing the fear that Mr Obama and his campaign have deliberately adopted the tone and tactics of an evangelical preacher, whipping up “Obamamania” at the expense of more serious discussion of policy and government.

• Diana's former butler asked to explain 'lies' at inquest - The Coroner at the inquest into the death of Princess Diana has recalled her former butler Paul Burrell to explain inconsistencies in his testimony. Lord Justice Scott Baker has asked the former butler to return to the witness box to explain whether he held back facts and introduced "red herrings" during his evidence at the inquest, following a report in a British tabloid. "The Coroner has asked Mr Burrell to return to court to explain discrepancies between the evidence he gave to the inquest and the material which is contained in the transcripts of the recording taken by The Sun newspaper," the British media quoted a spokesperson for the inquest as saying.

Thursday 21st February 2008: -

• CBC: Canadians greet Karl Rove with charges of 9/11 being an inside job! No US media coverage? - When a former President’s aid is greeted in a friendly nation by protesters claiming he had a role in the most horrific attack on the United States in modern history, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation covers it . . . wouldn’t that be a newsworthy item for US media? One would think so if they lived in a democracy with a vibrant fourth estate. However if they lived in a corporatocracy, they sadly would accept that media was part of a new propaganda art, that enables the rule of corporate government over people's needs for truth.

• Willie Nelson Re-Iterates Comments About 9/11 WTC "Implosion" - Willie Nelson re-iterated comments first made on The Alex Jones Show about the implosion of the World Trade Center twin towers on 9/11, telling Democracy Now that he has questions about the official story. "Well, I have a lot of questions. I think a lot of people have a lot of questions. I think 85 or 90 percent of the people in this country say, “What?” I mean, a plane hit this building, and it fell kind of like that. And another plane hit that building, and it fell kind of like that. About the same time it fell, this one fell the same way. It looked like an implosion somewhere, you know? And then, all of a sudden, the third building fell, and no plane hit it. So, naturally, I’ve got questions."    (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• FBI Says Barbara Olsen Did Not Call Ted Olsen: Bush Solicitor General LIED !! - Nationally syndicated talk show host Charles Goyette uncovered blockbuster information in his drive-time interview with author David Ray Griffin. A center piece of the increasingly apparent BULLSH*T story our government and corporate media have fed us for six long years was a complete fabrication! We were fed a lie by Ted Olsen who served as Solictor General for the Bush Administration, when on 9/11 he held a press conference to tell America and the world that his dead wife had called him before her demise from the jet she was on that had just been hijacked. Personally, I thought it was odd at the time that a man would decide to hold a press conference minutes after hearing of his own wife’s death, when it happened on 9/11. If my own wife had just died, the last thing I’d want to do would be to talk to anyone, let alone call a press conference. It didn’t “smell” right. Now we know why it didn’t smell right. It was a lie. The FBI has reported that no such call between Barbara Olsen and Ted Olsen ever took place on 9/11/2001. It was part of the rapidly unraveling scam that is the official story of 9/11. In fact, Griffin went on to explain that there is zero evidence that any hijackers had commandeered a plane at all. True Bush believers will say, whao, wait a minute, we all know they did. How do you know? Because Bush told you.

• CIA confirms using British territory for refueling of rendition flights - In tones freighted with frustration, the British foreign secretary, David Miliband, told the House of Commons on Thursday that the United States had confirmed using a U.S.-run airfield on the British-ruled island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean for the refueling of two American rendition flights carrying terrorist suspects in 2002. The American acknowledgment of the flights, each carrying a single detainee, contradicted previous U.S. assurances that no such flights had landed on British territory or passed through British airspace. Miliband's statement prompted angry protests from members of Parliament and from British-based human rights groups that had contended for years that Britain had been a knowing or unknowing partner in the Bush administration's use of rendition flights.

• Police bugged Muslim MP's prison meeting twice - Police twice bugged private prison conversations between a Muslim MP and a terrorism suspect who was his constituent, an official report said on Thursday. Ministers ordered an enquiry earlier in the month after media reports said police had bugged Labour MP Sadiq Khan when he met Babar Ahmad who was awaiting extradition to the United States. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the surveillance was targeted at Ahmad not Khan and was authorised by senior police officers not ministers. "It is absolutely clear from ... the report that my honourable friend was not the target of surveillance," she told parliament. "The procedures for surveillance operations of this kind were properly and lawfully applied." But she said a review had been ordered and that in future MPs' conversations should be treated in the same way as legally privileged meetings with lawyers. The bugging report outraged Muslim groups who said it would damage already sometimes strained relations with the police since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and July 2005 suicide blasts in London.

• Diana coroner in contempt warning - The coroner in charge of the inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and her lover Dodi Fayed has issued a warning to anyone commenting on the value of the hearing. International interest and demands for the hearing to be shut down spiked this week with evidence from Mohamed al Fayed and former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove. Lord Justice Scott Baker told the central London court: "These inquests which are an inquiry into two deaths and are being heard by a jury ... They will continue to be heard by a jury on evidence they hear in this court and nothing else. Comments made outside this court, often about a limited aspect of the evidence, may tender the maker or publisher liable to contempt of court." He went on: "I again urge great care that nothing is said, written or published that may influence the jury."

Wednesday 20th February 2008: -

• Ex-MI6 chief admits agents do have a licence to kill but denies executing Diana - The former head of MI6 admitted today that the intelligence service can be granted the power to assassinate people, but gave a point-blank denial that Diana, Princess of Wales had been executed by secret agents. Sir Richard Dearlove revealed his fury at the "personal allegations" when he attended the inquest in a rare exception to the rule within the intelligence services never to comment on any claims made against it. He admitted that Secret Intelligence Service agents are able to use "lethal force" but only with authorisation.   (RELATED: See our popular Diana Assassination archive.)

• Ex-MI6 boss denies killing Diana - MI6's former chief has denied that the intelligence service murdered Diana, Princess of Wales. At the inquest into her death, Sir Richard Dearlove insisted he had not been aware of MI6 assassinating anyone in his 38-year career there. He rejected claims by Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed that Diana was killed by MI6 on the orders of Prince Philip. Mr Al Fayed's son Dodi and driver Henri Paul were also killed in a car crash in Paris in August 1997.   (COMMENTARY: He denied it?  Okay well case closed then! / BACKGROUND: So who is Richard Dearlove?  Well our filmmaker friend Dean Puckett of We Are Change UK has an interesting video to show you here / PERSPECTIVE:  We Are Change UK wastes Sir Richard Dearlove, ex head of MI6 ...scroll down for more info)

SIR RICHARD DEARLOVE...

MURDERER BY PROXY... LIAR... ALL PURPOSE BAD GUY BASICALLY...

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• FLASHBACK TO 20TH MARCH 2005: MI6 chief told PM: Americans ‘fixed’ case for war - THE HEAD of MI6 told Tony Blair that the case for war against Iraq was being “fixed” by the Americans to suit the policy, according to a BBC documentary that will reignite its battle with the government. Blair followed the US lead by failing to reveal publicly doubts about the quality of intelligence that he had requested to support the case for war, the programme claims. Sir Richard Dearlove, head of MI6, briefed Blair and a select group of ministers on America’s determination to press ahead with the war nine months before hostilities began. After attending a briefing in Washington, he told the meeting that war was “inevitable”. Dearlove said “the facts and intelligence” were being “fixed round the policy” by George W Bush’s administration. The allegations against Blair just weeks before a general election are likely to reopen the feud between the government and the BBC that came to a head over the death of Dr David Kelly, the former weapons inspector. It led to the resignations of Gavyn Davies, its chairman, and Greg Dyke, its director-general.

• Data blunder sparks urgent manhunt - An urgent manhunt is under way for 17 wanted foreign criminals left at large in Britain for up to a year because of a data blunder by the Government. Police forces across the country have been mobilised to track down the suspects - who are all believed to have committed serious offences in the Netherlands. Gordon Brown has announced a full inquiry into why the CPS failed to act after Dutch authorities sent them a disc containing DNA profiles of more than 2,000 individuals linked to serious crimes, including murderers and rapists. Although the crucial information arrived in London in January last year, it apparently lay untouched on a desk until last month. By that time, at least 11 of the individuals had committed crimes including assaults in this country.

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• America’s economy risks mother of all meltdowns - “I would tell audiences that we were facing not a bubble but a froth – lots of small, local bubbles that never grew to a scale that could threaten the health of the overall economy.” Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence. That used to be Mr Greenspan’s view of the US housing bubble. He was wrong, alas. So how bad might this downturn get? To answer this question we should ask a true bear. My favourite one is Nouriel Roubini of New York University’s Stern School of Business, founder of RGE monitor. Recently, Professor Roubini’s scenarios have been dire enough to make the flesh creep. But his thinking deserves to be taken seriously. He first predicted a US recession in July 2006*. At that time, his view was extremely controversial. It is so no longer. Now he states that there is “a rising probability of a ‘catastrophic’ financial and economic outcome”**. The characteristics of this scenario are, he argues: “A vicious circle where a deep recession makes the financial losses more severe and where, in turn, large and growing financial losses and a financial meltdown make the recession even more severe.”

Tuesday 19th February 2008: -

• 'Replace Castro with democracy': Bush - US President George Bush said on Tuesday that Fidel Castro's decision to step down should begin a "democratic transition" in Cuba, eventually culminating with free and fair elections. "I believe that the change from Fidel Castro ought to begin a period of democratic transition," said Bush, who signalled no change in a half-century of tough US policies towards America's socialist one-party neighbour. The US president, here on the third leg of an Africa tour, said the "first step" was for Havana to release political prisoners, and urged the international community to help build democratic institutions in Cuba. "And we're going to help. The United States will help the people of Cuba realise the blessings of liberty," Bush said after Castro, 81, permanently gave up Cuba's presidency, ending five decades of ironclad rule. "Eventually this transition ought to lead to free and fair elections. And I mean free, and I mean fair - not these kinds of staged elections that the Castro brothers tried to foist off as being true democracy," he said.   (COMMENTARY: That's rich coming from a guy who's family blatantly cheated the election results in both 2000 and 2004... seriously, Bush is taking the piss big time with his comments - REFERENCE: A few helpful links: New Florida vote scandal feared / What really happened in Florida? / VIDEO: BBC Newsnight - BUSH election fraud)

• Glaxo, Myodil and The UK Regulator - Seroxat/Paxil users will know that GlaxoSmithKline have known for some considerable time that use of the drug can cause suicide/ideation in both adults and children - some say they have known for as long as 15 years but failed to warn the public or medicine regulators. They did pretty much the same with another of their drug, Myodil. What was Myodil?

Sunday 17th February 2008: -

• Machines 'to match man by 2029' - Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted. Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people's brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil. The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health. "It's really part of our civilisation," Mr Kurzweil explained. "But that's not going to be an alien invasion of intelligent machines to displace us." Machines were already doing hundreds of things humans used to do, at human levels of intelligence or better, in many different areas, he said.

• Mohamed Al-Fayed security chief admits to lying in public about driver’s drinking - Mohamed Al Fayed’s personal security chief admitted yesterday to lying in public, as he was cross examined in the inquest of Diana, Princess of Wales. John Macnamara, a retired Scotland Yard detective chief superintendent, conceded that he had told less than the whole truth about Henri Paul, who was driving on the night of the fatal crash in 1997, in an interview to ABC television ten days later. He told viewers that Paul had been drinking only pineapple juice when he knew that he had consumed at least two Ricard spirit drinks in the bar of the Ritz Hotel in Paris. At the inquest yesterday, in which Mr Al Fayed claims that there was a conspiracy to murder his son, Dodi, and the Princess, Mr Macnamara, who headed Mr Al Fayed’s private investigation into the crash, said that he believed that his duty had been to assist the French police in their inquiries, and that he did not necessarily want to share information with anyone else.   (COMMENTARY: To say that we are very wary of Al Fayed's integrity on this issue is an understatement.  You would think that his quest for justice in the death of his son would be taken more seriously, but he seems bent on making straw-man arguments such as 'Prince Philip ordered the assassination' and 'Diana WAS pregnant and GOING to marry my son Dodi'.  All of which are highly questionable.  It would be more sensible to say that it was BELIEVED by many (including those tied to the Secret Services) in the days leading up to 31st August 1997, that Diana was pregnant and planning to marry a Muslim... that that speaks to a motive and can also be proven (it is admitted!!!).  But no no, Mohamed Al Fayed's job is to ruin the case.  Why?  Somebody had better ask him maybe / RELATED: See our popular Diana Assassination archive.)

• GPs' leader hits out at plans for Soviet-style 'polyclinics' - Plans to create Soviet-style polyclinics, with several GPs and specialists under one roof, have come under attack from a doctors' leader who warned they could waste huge amounts of public money. Dr Richard Vautrey, of the British Medical Association, accused the government of trying to force a 'London-centric' model on the rest of the country and undermining the role of the family doctor. Larger clinics were already emerging where they were needed, but were not appropriate in rural areas, he argued.

• These catch-all terror laws are killing off British justice - Slowly, oh so slowly, Britain’s judges are rescuing Britain’s values from the depths to which Tony Blair and his home secretaries plunged them in the knee-jerk response to terrorism. The acts passed by Jack Straw, David Blunkett and Charles Clarke from 2000 onwards did not create a British Guantanamo Bay, but they did signal a shocking collapse in British justice. The present home secretary, Jacqui Smith, wants to further that collapse. Last week the Court of Appeal handed down two trenchant verdicts in an attempt to inject common sense into nonsensical terror laws. One implicitly demanded an apology and compensation from the government for a wholly innocent airline pilot imprisoned in 2001 after the police and Crown Prosecution Service lied to a court that he was the “lead instructor” of the 9/11 hijackers. He had merely been an Algerian who once trained in Florida. Every shred of evidence appeared to have been fabricated by police in America – possibly obtained under torture – and used without question by the British police. The pilot was released after five months of being treated as a terrorist in Belmarsh jail, without explanation, apology or even exoneration. His career, reputation and family were in ruins.

• Pilot Wrongly Accused Of 9/11 Role Could Get Millions In Compensation - THE pilot wrongly accused of training the 9/11 terrorists could be in line for a multi-million-pound payout after winning the right to claim compensation from the Government. Algerian Lotfi Raissi said he "wept with relief" when three appeal court judges overturned earlier rulings barring him from suing for wrongful arrest and imprisonment Under the rules, there is no cap on the amount the 33-year-old can be awarded. Justice officials say the largest sum ever paid out was £2.4 million. Mr Raissi was taken from his home in September 2001, 10 days after the World Trade Centre atrocity. Police acted after a US extradition request from the FBI. He was kept in London's Belmarsh jail for four and a half months before being freed when no evidence was put forward.

• 'CIA set up ill-conceived firms to snag terrorists post 9/11' - Post September 11 attacks in the US, the CIA set up a number of bogus companies in Europe and elsewhere to penetrate terrorist organisation and proliferation networks, but the plan proved ill-conceived, a media report has said. "The CIA set up a network of front companies in Europe and elsewhere after the September 11 attacks as part of a constellation of 'black stations' for a new generation of spies, according to current and former agency officials," Los Angeles Times reported. However, after putting hundreds of millions of dollars into setting up as many as 12 of the companies, the agency had to close down 10 of them as the plan could not deliver due to various reasons.

• Fingerprint scan at nursery door - A nursery has installed fingerprint scanning at its entrance to increase the safety of its young pupils. The biometric security system at Mes Enfants nursery in Mumbles, Swansea, allows only authorised parents and staff to access the building. When registered people swipe their finger, their details also flash up on a computer so staff know who is there. Nursery owner Rebecca Treharne said the aim was to give parents and staff added confidence.

• Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images of the Prophet - Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia, is refusing to remove medieval artistic depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, despite being flooded with complaints from Muslims demanding the images be deleted. More than 180,000 worldwide have joined an online protest claiming the images, shown on European-language pages and taken from Persian and Ottoman miniatures dating from the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, are offensive to Islam, which prohibits any representation of Muhammad. But the defiant editors of the encyclopaedia insist they will not bow to pressure and say anyone objecting to the controversial images can simply adjust their computers so they do not have to look at them.

Friday 15th February 2008: -

• Lack of kit blamed for UK soldier's death - A British soldier died after being sent into combat in Afghanistan with a lack of basic equipment, a coroner said on Friday. Captain James Philippson of 7 Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery was shot in the head in a gunfight with the Taliban in June 2006. The 29-year-old from Hertfordshire was the first casualty after troops were deployed to the violent southern province of Helmand, where the Taliban remains strong. Assistant coroner for Oxfordshire Andrew Walker said he died after an unforgivable "breach of trust between the soldiers and those who govern them". The inquest at Oxford heard that troops had repeatedly complained about a lack of proper equipment, in particular standard night-vision kits. Four kits had to be shared between as many as 30 men, the inquest heard.

• 9/11 Timeline Obtains Major New FBI Document - “A contributor to the History Commons has obtained a 298-page document entitled Hijackers Timeline (Redacted) from the FBI, subsequent to a Freedom of Information Act request. The document was a major source of information for the 9/11 Commission's final report. Though the commission cited the timeline 52 times in its report, it failed to include some of the document's most important material. The printed document is dated November 14, 2003, but appears to have been compiled in mid-October 2001 (the most recent date mentioned in it is October 22, 2001), when the FBI was just starting to understand the backgrounds of the hijackers, and it contains almost no information from the CIA, NSA, or other agencies. This raises questions as to why the 9/11 Commission relied so heavily on such an early draft for their information about the hijackers.”

• Obama Pushes Bill That Would Mandate Global Tax: Senate to vote on legislation that would cost U.S. $845 billion, also enables UN to implement gun bans - Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama is pushing a bill that will lead to the implementation of a UN global tax, costing the U.S. at least $845 billion dollars over thirteen years in the name of fighting worldwide poverty, as well as banning "small arms and light weapons". The "Global Poverty Act," which is sponsored by Obama, is up for a Senate vote today, and if passed would mandate the U.S. to spend 0.7 percent of the gross national product on foreign aid, on top of the money being sent out of the country already.

• £10 government permit plan to deter smokers - A ban on the sale of cigarettes to anyone who does not pay for a government smoking permit has been proposed by Health England, a ministerial advisory board. The idea is the brainchild of the board's chairman, Julian Le Grand, who is a professor at the London School of Economics and was Tony Blair's senior health adviser. In a paper being studied by Lord Darzi, the health minister appointed to oversee NHS reform, he says many smokers would be helped to break the habit if they had to make a decision whether to "opt in".

• $150,000 for a pet dog, just like your last one - A Californian dog-lover has agreed to pay $150,000 to have her dead pit bull recreated in the world’s first commercial pet cloning project. The dog, named Booger, died a year and a half ago but his owner kept part of his ear in cold storage and South Korean scientists will now attempt to create an exact replica of the pet.

Tuesday 12th February 2008: -

• Egomaniac Thug Cop Assaults 14 Year Old Kid: Don't call him "dude" or he may "kill you" - Is it a man? Is it a dude? No, it's officer Rivieri of the Baltimore Police Department who is the latest small membered thug cop to believe that it is his duty to go around bullying and wrestling discipline into innocent children. Unfortunately for this PC podge, he is also the latest cop caught on camera and made famous by Youtube. On the video, the officer, Salvatore Rivieri, puts the boy in a headlock, pushes him to the ground, questions his upbringing, threatens to "smack" him and repeatedly accuses the youngster of showing disrespect because the youth refers to the officer as "man" and "dude." reports the Baltimore Sun.

• Rights group attacks US over trials for 9/11 accused - Human rights groups and lawyers in the United States have criticised the decision to use special military commissions to try six men accused of organising the September 11 terrorist attacks. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff has promised a fair trial for the defendants who are being held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Lawyers from the Centre for Constitutional Rights are representing one of the defendants. Organisation executive director Vincent Warren says the six men should be tried in criminal courts. "With respect to the rights that the general is saying the detainees have, it's really problematic on a number of levels," he said. "First of all, while they may have a right to remain silent in this process, they didn't have the right to remain silent when they were being waterboarded over a period of time and held in CIA facilities."   (RELATED: See our 9/11 archive and our affiliated site 911truthskipton.com)

• Tortured Patsies To Take Fall For 9/11: Pentagon hopes executed scapegoats will make questions disappear - After half a dozen years of waterboarding, genital zapping, sleep deprivation and brainwashing, the Pentagon has finally found six patsies who will readily welcome their 72 virgins and take the fall for 9/11, providing debunkers with ample ammunition to dismiss questions about the gaping holes in the official story of the terror attacks. "Among those held at Guantanamo is Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the attack six years ago in which hijacked planes were flown into buildings in New York and Washington. Five others are expected to be named in sworn charges," reports the Associated Press. The fact that KSM's confession included a plan to target the Plaza Bank building in Washington state, which was not founded until 2006, four years after the alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind's arrest, should provide a clue as to the reliability of the "terror mastermind's" culpability for 9/11.

• 9/11: OBAMA IN FAVOUR OF DEATH PENALTY WITH 'FLAWLESS TRIALS' - Obama Barack is in favour of the death penalty for the terrorists who should turn out to be responsible for 9/11, but he also pretends flawless procedures at the Guantanamo military commissions. 'Obviously, we need to make sure that the organisers and executors of those terror attacks should be brought to justice and death penalty is appropriate for such heinous crimes,' said the senator of Illinois in order to comment the Pentagon request for a death penalty against six Guantanamo prisoners. 'However, these trials must be flawless.' Hence the request that terrorists should not be judged by the controversial Guantanamo military commissions: 'Those trials are too important, the system of military commissions has many faults, all those who have been condemned for 9/11 so far deserved an appeal.' John McCain, the favourite Republican candidate for the White House, is tougher on this issue. According to him, the trial involving the six people accused of being responsible for 9/11 should have started long ago: 'I am sorry that it took so long, let's get this trial started,' he said and reiterated in an interview that - should he be elected - he will close the Guantanamo detention centre and transfer prisoners to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

• Diana inquest told palace swept for bugs - Security agents regularly swept Buckingham Palace for hidden bugging devices, her former private secretary told the inquest into Princess Diana's death on Tuesday. The checks were made to ensure conversations and phone calls by the royal family and staff remained confidential, Robert Fellowes said. Fellowes, the most senior royal aide to have given evidence to the inquest into the deaths of Diana and her lover Dodi al-Fayed, also denied allegations that he was in Paris on the night they died and that he helped arrange their "murder".

• Travelers to Europe May Face Fingerprinting - The European Commission will propose tomorrow that all foreign travelers entering and leaving Europe, including U.S. citizens, should be fingerprinted. If approved by the European Parliament, the measure would mean that precisely identifying information on tens of millions of citizens will be added in coming years to databases that could be shared by friendly governments around the world. The United States already requires that foreigners be fingerprinted and photographed before they enter the country. So does Japan. Now top European security officials want to follow suit, with travelers being fingerprinted and some also having their facial images stored in a Europe-wide database, according to a copy of the proposal obtained by The Washington Post.

• Campaign to ban dispersal device - The Children's Commissioner for England Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green has joined civil liberties campaigners in a call for a ban on a device which disperses young people by emitting a high-pitched sound. The gadget, known as the Mosquito, exploits young people's ability to hear very high frequencies, a power which declines once they reach their 20s. Campaigners say an estimated 3,500 of the devices are in use in England to disperse children and young people in areas such as parks, shopping centres and around shops. Launching the "Buzz Off" campaign, Professor Aynsley-Green said the devices were indiscriminate and created a divide between young and old. "I have spoken to many children and young people from all over England who have been deeply affected by ultra-sonic teenage deterrents," he said.

Sunday 10th February 2008: -

• Wanted By The FBI: Everyone's Data? - In the beginning was the fingerprint. It was in the 19th century that scientists realized the ridged whorls on the tip of the finger constituted a unique marker that could be used to tell one person from another. And eventually, the FBI built a massive database of fingerprints. Then came DNA. In the 20th century, scientists learned to use the double helix nucleic acid molecule as a means of identification even more definitive than the fingerprint. And the FBI built a DNA database as well. Now the feds are building yet another database. And it has some folks worried. Maybe you missed it in the run-up to Super Duper Tuesday when the Associated Press reported last week that the FBI will soon award a $1 billion, 10-year contract for construction of an electronic file that would store not just fingerprints and DNA, but a vast compendium of other physical characteristics. We're talking eye scans, facial shape, palm prints, scars, tattoos and other biometrics, all for the purpose of identifying and capturing bad guys. But at least one privacy advocate thinks even good guys — and gals — have cause for concern.

• BIG BROTHER'S WATCHING YOU: PEOPLE investigation reveals astonishing number of ways THEY can spy on US - We are bugged and spied on more than anyone else in the free world - and it's all LEGAL, a shock People investigation can reveal. More than 800 bodies - from Whitehall departments to supermarkets - can check intimate details of our lives. And the movements, habits and even genetic profiles of every one of us are logged an average of 300 times a day. But as cyber-crooks learn to hack into Big Brother's information goldmines, we are all at risk from blackmail, bullying and the erosion of liberties. Some snooping is vital to thwart crime. But polls show 80 per cent of Brits no longer trust the Government to keep our personal details secret.

• Egypt allows converts to revert to Christianity on ID - An Egyptian court in an "historic decision" on Saturday authorised 12 converts to Islam who then reverted to Christianity to have their original faith marked on their ID cards, judicial sources said. They said the court allowed the Coptic plaintiffs to mark "Christian" on their compulsory identity cards, in place of the "Muslim" mention which was used after their conversion. But their IDs will have to specify that they had "adopted Islam for a brief period", the sources said. The court of administrative justice ruled that the mention would "prevent any manipulation or concealment with judicial or social consequences" following the conversion to Islam.

• Why Has Ron Paul All But Suspended His Presidential Campaign?: Congressman makes a shrewd decision to safeguard amazing progress made by retaining Congressional seat - Congressman Ron Paul's decision to essentially suspend his presidential campaign and focus instead on safeguarding his Congressional seat will confuse and disappoint many of his supporters, while delighting establishment media debunkers, but the truth of how far we have progressed and the reality of the battles that lie ahead show that the campaign has made a shrewd decision. After months of media censorship, smear attacks and dirty tricks, Ron Paul was essentially left with four choices.

• Police set to search for guns at homes - As Boston police prepare to go into some of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods, knock on doors of private houses, and ask if they can search for illegal guns without a warrant, officials are trying to pitch the idea of the plan as friendly cooperation to residents who still see it as a threatening intrusion. A friendly looking logo - a drawing of a house surrounded by the sun - adorns the brochure police have drafted to explain and promote the initiative, "Safe Homes." Photos of officers playing baseball with children and chatting with teenagers dot the pamphlet. Twice, police have taken calls from listeners on a black radio station in Roxbury.By the time they start going door to door next month, police hope they will have reassured clergy, neighborhood leaders, and parents who still see the program as a way to violate the privacy of residents in neighborhoods with a large population of minority-group members and and immigrants.

Friday 08th February 2008: -

• Photographer accused of helping MI6 kill Diana was found dead in burnt-out BMW with a hole in his head - The photographer accused of helping MI6 to murder Princess Diana was found in a burnt-out BMW with a hole in his head, a court heard today. James Andanson died after boasting to friends of having secretly taken "explosive" photos of the Paris crash scene, the Diana inquest was told. The Frenchman owned a white Fiat Uno, which Mohamed Al Fayed claims he used to cause the fatal collision that killed the princess and his son Dodi. The Harrods boss believes the photographer was planning to go public with his "involvement" in the alleged British secret service plot when his charred body was found in a forest near his home in the South of France in May 2000. French Investigating officer Jean-Michel Lauzun told the London hearing that he arrived while the vehicle was still ablaze and saw the corpse alight at the steering wheel with a two inch hole in his left temple.   (RELATED: See our popular Diana Assassination archive.)

• FBI program alleged to prepare businesses for martial law - A public-private partnership program on infrastructure preparedness and protection run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation allegedly has briefed its corporate members on the possibility of martial law and the use of lethal force, according to an exclusive report in the magazine The Progressive. "One business owner in the United States tells me that InfraGard members are being advised on how to prepare for a martial law situation—and what their role might be," writes Matthew Rothschild in the Feb. 7 report, quoting an anonymous whistleblower on the program. "'Then they said when—not if—martial law is declared, it was our responsibility to protect our portion of the infrastructure, and if we had to use deadly force to protect it, we couldn’t be prosecuted,' he says."

• UK police fail to quell Bhutto doubts - Scotland Yard's report into the murder of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto is likely to fuel, rather than settle, the controversies surrounding the issue. British investigators said on Friday they believed Ms Bhutto was killed by the bomb blast and not a bullet. They also said there was possibly only one assassin and not a group who carried out the attack. Ms Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) says it will give a detailed response to Scotland Yard's report after its lawyers and the central executive committee have debated it. But the initial response from party members suggest that is unlikely that the party will be satisfied with what the British sleuths have come up with.

• Mum's fury at MMR jab claim - A campaign group has rubbished new claims there is no connection between the MMR jab and autism. Jackie Fletcher, founder of Jabs support group for vaccine-damaged children, says the results of the latest study are misleading. The mum-of-three from Golborne, said: "It's appalling how the Department of Health (DoH) has sprung to its conclusions. They have not compared like-with-like which proves nothing. "The children in the original study had regressive autism, bowel problems and had suffered an adverse reaction to the MMR – nothing like the group used in this latest study." The new report refutes earlier work by Dr Andrew Wakefield who suggested there was a link between the triple vaccine and autism in a 1998 paper.

• Time for honest assessment of MMR vaccine's risks - Another weak scientific research paper is paraded as definitive proof that no link exists between the controversial MMR vaccine, bowel disease and autism (your report, 5 February). Accompanied by a barrage of well-orchestrated government propaganda this "new" research attempts to draw a line under what must be the longest-running public health scandal ever. This latest paper is nothing but another layer of deceit in a litany of dissimulation. The wrong children have been tested, the wrong tests carried out, the wrong hypothesis explored and the wrong conclusion reached.

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We here at Louder Than Words and Alex Jones productions are proud to officially release "Loose Change Final Cut" on Google Video in the highest quality possible. Encouraging people to copy these films and hand them out, as well as hold screenings in Coffee Houses and Churches was a good start, but has not been enough in the past. Our success in spreading awareness about the truth behind September 11th, 2001 is in large part with our ability to share our films freely through internet. We are hoping that all of you who have not seen the Final Cut will not only watch it, but email it to everyone you know, embed it on your Myspace or personal website, blog it, and post it on forums worldwide.

With The former Italian President saying it is well known within the intelligence community that 9/11 was a CIA and Mossad Op, and the Prime Minister of Japan and his cabinet being questioned about Insider Trading and the implosion of World Trade Center 7 by the opposition party, global interest in 9/11 truth is exploding. If you decide today to share this information with everyone, family members may finally recieve answers to their many questions, and those who were criminally complicit may be tried and exposed. Its as easy as sending a link folks. Loose Change Final Cut puts the official government fable of 9/11 to rest, it truly is the nail in the coffin if you decide to be the hand that holds the hammer.

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• 'Gym visits left me elated': Exercise is increasingly being prescribed for people with depression, mental health campaigners have found - Jamie Stevenson, 37, says getting active has helped him cope with the illness. He first became ill seven years ago, when working 16-hour days as a journalist meant he stopped looking after himself. "I couldn't maintain any balance between my home life and my emotional life because I was working such long hours and under a lot of pressure." Initially, he did not seek any help but in 2002, he began to feel low again and couldn't even go to the supermarket. "I became more withdrawn. My relationship broke down and I began living on my own. "I didn't really want to leave the house." Jamie started taking the antidepressant Seroxat, but found it made him feel "very sedated".

• Anti-depressants to carry suicide warning - WARNINGS of the dangers of suicidal thoughts and behaviour are to be included in the packages of anti-depressants. Warnings will be carried in the patient information leaflet in the packets from October this year. The direction was issued yesterday (Tuesday) by the Government's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. (MHRA) A notice has been sent to drug manufacturers. It mentions a review by the Food and Drugs Agency in America, which looked at bupropion, citalopram, duloxetine, escitalopram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, mirtazapine, nefazodone, paroxetine, sertraline and venlaxfaxine.

Thursday 07th February 2008: -

• Bill O'Reilly Smears An American Icon And Declares Himself A Patriot In The Same Breath: Brands Willie Nelson a "pinhead" and says he is a patriot for guessing football scores - Fox News bigot Bill O'Reilly took time on his "factor" last night to call music legend Willie Nelson a "pinhead" for supporting 9/11 truth, while declaring himself the ultimate patriot for being able to guess football scores. In his cutting edge segment entitled "Pinheads and Patriots" O'Reilly first took time to extol the virtues of his own fierce patriotism.

• Why hasn't Ron Paul done better? - Here are some quick thoughts. My optimism about Ron Paul was based on my view that he would start out with a base of about ten percent, the soft libertarian vote. In a sharply divided field with an extremely mediocre group of rivals, it seemed possible that if he caught fire, he could get to the mere 25-30 percent he needed to win some early primaries. Then, anything could happen. Actually, that base projection was not far off. Leaving aside caucuses, he did get 8% in New Hampshire and even at a later date he got nearly 7% in NY! In caucus states, he has in fact done very well and that's no surprise. His caucus numbers are: 17, 8, 16, 25 (2nd), 21, 10, and 10: average--15! The media of course has ignored those strong performances. But leaving caucuses aside, Ron has not done well in primaries. He has not broken into double digits. Why? First, there has been a nearly-total media blackout since about three days before the Iowa Caucuses. Ron did get some press before that but it suddenly stopped. Most voters tune in a few days before the election so it appeared to the causal voter than he wasn’t even running anymore or never was.

• What Should Ron Paul Do Now? - By many criteria, the Ron Paul campaign has exceeded everyone’s expectations: a $20 million fourth-quarter haul, second- and third-place finishes after an initial field of eleven, and such officially anointed candidates as Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson left in the dust. But in the wake of Super Tuesday, what is the campaign’s future? We don’t know, of course, but here are a few possible routes that could be taken. Sticking with the GOP. For the campaign to continue to raise serious money after New Hampshire (and especially now), the campaign team needed shaking up, even if only for psychological impact, and a new slate of professionals brought in. Professional Republican operatives are essential – they are loathsome and couldn’t care less about the issues, to be sure, but they know how to run a national campaign. The campaign should also bring Trevor Lyman and Vijay Boyapati into the campaign and give them veto power over ads and strategy in order to restore the grassroots approach that made the movement so successful.

Wednesday 06th February 2008: -

• Police officer 'forced' to bug prison visit MP - A police intelligence officer who recorded prison conversations between an MP and his constituent told friends that he had been forced to break the law. Mark Kearney, a former detective sergeant with Thames Valley Police, operated the listening device that eavesdropped on Sadiq Khan and Babar Ahamad, a terror suspect, in the visiting hall at Woodhill prison in Buckinghamshire. Mr Kearney, 49, told Sally Murrer, a close friend: “They made me do something illegal.”

• Brown backs phone-tap evidence plan - Prime Minister Gordon Brown has paved the way for some phone-tap evidence to be used in court - provided strict safeguards are met. He said work would begin on finding ways to meet the conditions laid down by the Chilcot report on intercept evidence. But Mr Brown warned MPs this would involve "a substantial programme of work covering legal, operational and technical issues". An unnamed "implementation team" within Whitehall will work alongside members of the Chilcot committee, led by former top civil servant Sir John Chilcot, to try to find a way of using evidence including phone-taps and the interception of other electronic communications, in prosecutions in England and Wales. The report makes clear that agencies such as MI5 or the police should have a veto over whether material could be used in prosecutions.

• Bush's budget may cut 9/11 health funds - U.S. President George Bush's new budget would cut health funding for people affected by the 9/11 terrorist attacks by more than 75 percent, a report said. Monday's budget release came a day before the publication of a study in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, which cites continued emotional distress and sleeping problems for preschool children who witnessed New York's 9/11 terrorist attacks, the New York Daily News reported Tuesday. "It looks like we found the children the president wants to leave behind," Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said. The study reportedly shows preschool children who saw the attacks on 9/11 are three times more susceptible to anxiety and depression and five times more susceptible to sleeping difficulties than kids who did not witness the events.

Tuesday 05th February 2008: -

• Willie Nelson questions Sept. 11 on local talk radio show - Willie Nelson went on a nationally syndicated radio show Monday, and questioned the official story of what happened on Sept. 11. Nelson said the collapse of the World Trade Center towers reminded him of a hotel implosion in Las Vegas. “The day it happened, I saw one fall and it was just so symmetrical,” Nelson said on Alex Jones' talk show. “I said, ‘Wait a minute, I just saw that last week at the casino in Las Vegas’, and you see these implosions all the time, and the next one fell and I said, ‘Hell, there’s another one.' They’re trying to tell me that an airplane did it and I can’t go along with that.”

• Audio: Alex Jones Interviews American Icon Willie Nelson - Alex welcomes American "outlaw country" music icon Willie Nelson to the show. Mr. Nelson discusses social and political issues, the drug war, the war in Iraq, 9/11, Willie's activism in the field of alternative energy and much more.

• Man Dies after Being Tasered by Deputy - Rankin County deputies used Taser guns on a man who resisted arrest Sunday night, and the man later died. Rankin County Sheriff Ronnie Pennington says he does not believe the Taser killed the man, but an autopsy will have to determine that. Pennington has had a Taser used on him and all of his deputies who use them. Pennington said deputies were responding to a call from a woman who said her neighbor was exposing himself and trying to force his way into her home. She ran to a nearby house with her child.

• FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping - The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people's physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists. But it's an issue that raises major privacy concerns -- what one civil liberties expert says should concern all Americans. The bureau is expected to announce in coming days the awarding of a $1 billion, 10-year contract to help create the database that will compile an array of biometric information -- from palm prints to eye scans. Kimberly Del Greco, the FBI's Biometric Services section chief, said adding to the database is "important to protect the borders to keep the terrorists out, protect our citizens, our neighbors, our children so they can have good jobs, and have a safe country to live in." But it's unnerving to privacy experts.

• Should fluoride be forced upon us? - Health Secretary Alan Johnson is calling for fluoride to be added to England's water supplies in the hope of reducing tooth decay among some of society's poorest and most vulnerable. For a public which has grown accustomed to health interventions - from seat belts to smoking bans - it may seem curious that such a laudable aim could prove so contentious. But fluoridation strikes a particular ethical nerve. While the smoker can still nip outside for his cigarette, no-one can escape regulations which alter the water they drink.   (RELATED: The Truth About 'Fluoride' (or what every Mother should know))

Sunday 03rd February 2008: -

• Paul would change fraudulent system - One of the biggest scams ever brought about against the American people has been the Federal Reserve System, fraudulently created in 1913. It is not federal and it has no reserves. It is a group of private bankers who basically print money out of thin air and then loan it to the United States government at interest. They also control the interest rates for our economy. The "booms" and "busts" of our economic cycles are scientifically created by the "Fed." Their goal is to make a profit for their shareholders. This powerful entity has never been audited. Our Constitution states that Congress is to be the one to coin our money and regulate its value. We don't need the private bankers as "middlemen" who have fleeced American citizens out of trillions of dollars over the years.

• Mentally Disabled Women Used in Bombings - Two women described as mentally disabled and strapped with remote-control explosives — and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers — brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at least 99 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring. Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, Iraq's chief military spokesman in Baghdad, said the women had Down syndrome and may not have known they were on suicide missions, but gave no further details on how authorities pieced together the evidence. He also said the bombs were detonated by remote control. The coordinated blasts — coming 20 minutes apart in different parts of the city — appeared to reinforce U.S. claims al-Qaida in Iraq may be increasingly desperate and running short of able-bodied men willing or available for such missions.

• MIND CONTROL AFTER-EFFECTS OF 9/11: 9/11 Attacks Changed Way Americans Dream - The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, not only caused huge political and social changes, they also altered the dreams of Americans. That's the suggestion from a small study published in the February issue ofSleep. Dr. Ernest Hartmann of Tufts University and Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Boston looked at 11 men and 33 women, aged 22-70, who'd been recording their dreams for at least two years. Each of the participants provided information about 20 consecutive dreams, 10 before 9/11 and 10 after 9/11. The study found that dreams after 9/11 showed more intense images, but weren't longer, more dreamlike or more bizarre than those before terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In addition, the dreams after 9/11 did not contain more images of airplanes or buildings. None of the participants had dreams involving airplanes flying into buildings, even though they'd all seen such images many times on TV. "The more intense imagery is very consistent with findings in people who have experienced trauma of various kinds," Hartmann said in a prepared statement. "The idea is that we all experienced at least some trauma on (9/11)."

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  Loose Change Final Cut is an entirely new film, built from the ground up to present irrefutable evidence of the lies behind 9/11.  It explores new information in a polished way, including all new clips, interviews, and animations. It is intended as a supplement to Loose Change 2, which continues to be a valid expose of the truth behind 9/11.  Loose  Change Final Cut is not a replacement, but rather an extension of the research and information, so we encourage you to see both films to get the whole picture. (Visit the Loose Change Store to order Final Cut now!)
  
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Friday 01st February 2008: -

• Key 9/11 Commission Staffer Held Secret Meetings With Rove, Scaled Back Criticisms of White House - A forthcoming book by NYT reporter Philip Shenon — “The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation” — asserts that former 9/11 Commission executive director Philip Zelikow interfered with the 9/11 report. According to the book, Zelikow had failed to inform the commission at the time he was hired that he was instrumental in helping Condoleezza Rice set up Bush’s National Security Council in 2001. Some panel staffers believe Zelikow stopped them from submitting a report depicting Rice’s performance prior to 9/11 as “amount[ing] to incompetence.”

• Bill Clinton Undeterred By 9/11 Hecklers - ABC News' Sarah Amos Reports: Former President Bill Clinton took the phrase "on-message" to a new level in Denver yesterday, when hecklers began shouting about how September 11th was a conspiracy theory that needed further investigation. Clinton had just begun his speech to the crowd, when a man towards the front of the crowd began shouting about re-opening the 9/11 investigation and the war in Iraq. When the crowd tried to boo the man into silence, Clinton continued: "Let him talk." The heckler's exact wording wasn't quite audible from the press risers, but the tone was apparent to everyone in the arena, including Clinton. “Are you one of those it was an inside job guys?" the former president asked. Continuing, "Hillary agrees we should end the war, but we have heard from you now, now you hear from me. I let you be rude and interrupt me screaming at the top of your lungs. Nine-eleven was NOT an inside job, it was an Osama Bin Laden job with 19 people from Saudi Arabia, they murdered 3000 Americans and others foreigners including Muslims and we look like idiots, that the people who murdered our fellow citizens did it, when they are continuing to murder other people around the world. So we heard from you, you go away," Clinton said to the cheering crowd. (NOTE: Former President Bill Clinton made a mistake when he cited the nationalities of the 9/11 hijackers. In fact, 15 out of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.)

• MSNBC: Key 9/11 Commission Report Testimony Based on Torture - The 9/11 Commission suspected that critical information it used in its landmark report was the product of harsh interrogations of al-Qaida operatives - interrogations that many critics have labeled torture. Yet, commission staffers never questioned the agency about the interrogation techniques and in fact ordered a second round of interrogations specifically to ask additional questions of the same operatives, NBC News has learned. Those conclusions are the result of an extensive NBC News analysis of the 9/11 Commission’s Final Report and interviews with Commission staffers and current and former U.S. intelligence officials.

• Demise Of Al-Qaeda Leader Championed For Second Time: U.S. government, corporate media celebrate death of man they told us had been captured three years ago, succeed in out-Orwelling George Orwell - The death of "senior Al-Qaeda leader" Abu Laith al-Libi is being celebrated by Neo-Cons as a reason for continuing the endless war on terror - absent one crucial detail - the corporate media widely reported that another "senior Al-Qaeda leader" named al-Libi had been arrested back in May 2005. The American people have been fooled again in another case of mass public deception.

• Rogue trader cashed in on 7/7 bombings - Jérôme Kerviel claims to have got his first taste of unauthorised trading after making a €500,000 profit as a result of the London bombings 2½ years ago. Mr Kerviel told investigators that he had placed a bet that the share price of the German insurer Allianz would fall. It paid off in July 2005 when the Tube attacks, which killed 52 people and injured more than 700, triggered a sharp fall in share prices across Europe. “My first experience of this kind goes back to 2005, when I took a position on Allianz shares, betting on a drop in the market,” Mr Kerviel said in comments published in Le Monde and confirmed as genuine by a judicial offical. “It so happened that a little later the market fell as a result of the attacks on London and it was a jack-pot of €500,000,” he said.

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