Technology to drive revolution in road safetyAn array of technology is being developed across Europe that will radically change the way in which road safety laws are enforced.
Motorists who already regard speed cameras as evidence of the encroachment of the Big Brother state should brace themselves for devices that will not only tell police how they drive, but make legal retribution swifter.
Several of the initiatives already up and running in countries from Sweden to Italy are being monitored by the Departmen... (more)
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ADHD advice secretly paid for by drugs companiesSupport and advice groups for parents of children with so-called behavioural disorders are being secretly funded by pharmaceutical firms, it can be revealed.
The groups give out advice on stimulant drugs and other controversial medical treatments for young children diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Their internet sites provide extensive details of medications that doctors can prescribe.
But at the same time they are also being secretly ... (more)
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Blair's baby Asbos: Families face being removed from their homes and housed in special 'sin bin' residential units guarded by security officers and monitored by CCTVSweeping powers to clamp down on young offenders and problem families are being drawn up as Tony Blair steps up his war on the "yob culture" plaguing the streets.
The Prime Minister has ordered his officials to prepare radical measures to drive through his "Respect" agenda, including "baby Asbos" to be targeted at problem children who could be younger than 10.
Downing Street staff, working under the guidance of Louise Casey, the controversial anti-social behaviour "... (more)
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GM crop 'ruins fields for 15 years'GM crops contaminate the countryside for up to 15 years after they have been harvested, startling new government research shows.
The findings cast a cloud over the prospects of growing the modified crops in Britain, suggesting that farmers who try them out for one season will find fields blighted for a decade and a half.
Financed by GM companies and Margaret Beckett's Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the report effectively torpedoes the Governm... (more)
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Weather War?: New evidence suggests US & Russia are embroiled in an illegal race to harness the power of hurricanes & earthquakesTHE huge mushroom cloud soared skywards, the captain was gripped by fear, believing his plane was about to be engulfed by the fall-out from a nuclear explosion. After declaring mayday and ordering his crew to don oxygen masks, the experienced pilot had the presence of mind to record that the cloud measured an estimated 200 miles in diameter and was tipped by an eerie light, like nothing he had seen before. Eventually, it soared harmlessly into the atmosphere, leaving the passenger jet to continu... (more)
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Wal-Mart Turns in Student’s Anti-Bush Photo, Secret Service Investigates HimSelina Jarvis is the chair of the social studies department at Currituck County High School in North Carolina, and she is not used to having the Secret Service question her or one of her students.
But that’s what happened on September 20.
Jarvis had assigned her senior civics and economics class “to take photographs to illustrate their rights in the Bill of Rights,” she says. One student “had taken a photo of George Bush out of a magazine and tacked the picture to a... (more)
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Bush will veto anti-torture law after Senate revoltThe Bush administration pledged yesterday to veto legislation banning the torture of prisoners by US troops after an overwhelming and almost unprecedented revolt by loyalist congressmen.
The mutiny was the latest setback for an administration facing an increasingly independent and bloody-minded legislature. But it also marked a key moment in Congress's campaign to curtail the huge powers it has granted the White House since 2001 in its war against terrorism.
The lat... (more)
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Spychips Sees an RFID ConspiracyA new book by privacy advocates makes the case that corporations and government agencies are in collusion to put tiny radio transmitters on nearly everything we buy. Companies say it's about providing thought leadership, not the Mark of the Beast.
Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre hope to become the twin Erin Brockoviches of RFID, by revealing the threat posed by the radio tag replacements for barcode labels.
They may get their wish, if readers believe the conclu... (more)
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Breaking America's grip on the net: After troubled negotiations in Geneva, the US may be forced to relinquish control of the internet to a coalition of governmentsYou would expect an announcement that would forever change the face of the internet to be a grand affair - a big stage, spotlights, media scrums and a charismatic frontman working the crowd.
But unless you knew where he was sitting, all you got was David Hendon's slightly apprehensive voice through a beige plastic earbox. The words were calm, measured and unexciting, but their implications will be felt for generations to come.
Hendon is the Department for Trade and ... (more)
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Pentagon man guilty in spy probe: A former Pentagon analyst has pleaded guilty to passing classified information to pro-Israel lobbyists.Larry Franklin said he had been unhappy with aspects of US foreign policy and hoped the lobbyists would use their contacts to get things changed.
Franklin, 58, said he had also given information to an Israeli diplomat, but played down its importance.
He has agreed to help prosecutors, which means his sentence could be reduced when it is decided in January.
Israel has denied any involvement.
'Nothing new'
Franklin told the... (more)
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Bush Cites Military Takeover In Case Of Flu OutbreakPaul Joseph Watson | October 4 2005
During this afternoon's White House press conference President Bush confirmed that he would attempt to impose military curfews and quarantines in case of a flu pandemic occurring in the United States.
The comes on the heels of a majority of the nation's governors rejecting the Bush administration's proposal to use active-duty military assets in provid... (more)
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Five Develop Nerve Disorder After Receiving Meningitis VaccineFive teenagers developed a serious neurological disorder within two to four weeks after receiving the vaccine Menactra, which prevents a severe and deadly form of meningitis, the Food and Drug Administration reported yesterday.
All have recovered or are recovering from the illness, Guillain-Barré syndrome, which causes weakness in the arms and legs and can spread to the chest and impair breathing. The drug agency said in a news release, "It is not yet known whether these cases wer... (more)
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Peak Oil is a Corrupt Globalist ScamThey make the profits on creating artificial scarcity.
"Peak oil" is pure military-industrial-complex propaganda.
Publicly available CFR and Club of Rome strategy manuals from 30 years ago say that a global government needs to control the world population through neo-feudalism by creating artificial scarcity. Now that the social architects have de-industrialized the United States, they are going to blame our economic disintegration on lack of energy supplies.
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'Thought police' are hereTHE bracelet. Last week I must have discussed, presented or written about 50 technologies, but I couldn't get that one out of my head.
Always in the background, always nagging, bothering me, worrying me. Just like it would if I was wearing it.
Australia just became a place where a citizen can be detained for two weeks without charge, and where a person convicted of no crime at all can be forced to wear an ankle bracelet that continuously broadcasts their movements t... (more)
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I saw Nazis test A-bomb, says author, rewriting historyA book published in Italy is set to reignite a smouldering controversy over how close the Nazis came to manufacturing a nuclear device in the closing stages of World War II.
The author, Luigi Romersa, 88, is the last known witness to what he and some historians believe was the experimental detonation of a rudimentary weapon on an island in the Baltic in 1944.
Hitler's nuclear program has become a subject of intense dispute in recent months, particularly in Germany. ... (more)
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Sweetener manufacturer disputes validity of new health researchAspartame, the artificial sweetener used in more than 6,000 food and drink products around the world, is the subject of renewed controversy this week after the results of the latest research into whether it can cause cancer.
Scientists at the independent European Ramazzini Foundation for cancer research in Bologna presented new results from its long-term, large-scale study of the effect of aspartame on 1,800 rats, at its international conference on cancer and environmental science... (more)
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OK expected for sale of beef from cloned cows, offspringWASHINGTON -- The federal government is nearing a decision to allow the sale of meat and milk from cloned cows and their offspring, according to officials from government, industry and consumer groups.
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to take a major step toward approval soon, proposing to permit the sales, subject to 60 days of public comment and some additional review.
That could lead to choice cuts of steak and cartons of milk produced from cloned cat... (more)
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Florida Law Lets Citizens 'Meet Force With Force': Civilians may stand their ground with a firearm if they feel threatened by another.MIAMI — Welcome to Florida, the Sunshine State. Please avoid unnecessary arguments with locals. Starting today, they may be more inclined to shoot you — at least that's essentially the message from a national gun-control organization as a Florida law goes into effect empowering people who feel threatened to use force, including firearms, to protect themselves.
Before, if possible, they were supposed to back down or run away.
"It's unlike any supposed self-defense s... (more)
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Fire Dept. Chaplain Resigns After Remarks About 9/11Even before he was sworn in, the Fire Department's new Muslim chaplain resigned yesterday after remarks that he made about 9/11 in a newspaper article threatened to cause a furor.
The chaplain, Imam Intikab Habib, was quoted in Newsday yesterday saying he doubted that hijackers were responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center, which killed 343 firefighters. He said that a broader conspiracy might have been necessary to bring the buildings down so quickly.
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Met chief wanted Army rules for policeSir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, asked the Home Office to draw up "rules of engagement", similar to those issued to the military, for use by armed officers confronting suspected suicide bombers, it was disclosed yesterday.
He also pressed Tony Blair to give officers the maximum legal protection against prosecution.
The requests emerged with the publication under the Freedom of Information Act of letters written immediately after the shooting of a... (more)
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New Flu Vaccine is Loaded With MercuryGlaxoSmithKline's new flu vaccine Fluarix was approved Wednesday for sale in the USA this fall under an accelerated FDA approval process. Another flu vaccine manufacturer, Chiron, moved closer to getting their license back; it was suspended when their flu vaccine was found to be contaminated with bacteria.
Chiron's license was suspended by British regulators in October, and the FDA barred U.S. distribution of the vaccine, cutting the nation's expected supply of flu vaccine in half... (more)
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Inside the secretive Bilderberg GroupHow much influence do private networks of the rich and powerful have on government policies and international relations? One group, the Bilderberg, has often attracted speculation that it forms a shadowy global government. As part of the BBC's Who Runs Your World? series, Bill Hayton tries to find out more.
The chairman of the secretive - he prefers the word private - Bilderberg Group is 73-year-old Viscount Etienne Davignon, corporate director and former European Commissioner.... (more)
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Hyperactive disorder drug 'raises risk of suicidal thoughts in children'A drug taken by 15,000 children in the UK has been found to increase the risk of suicidal thoughts, the Government's medicines safety watchdog says.
Strattera, which is manufactured by Lilly and is used to treat attention deficit and hyperactive disorder (ADHD), was licensed in the UK in July 2004.
Yesterday's warning was issued by the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which said it would re-examine the risks and benefits of the drug. It follows the... (more)
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Car which will book you for speeding: Vehicles will automatically cop themselves for speedingRoadside speed cameras will be redundant eventually because vehicles will automatically cop themselves for speeding.
This is the plan of the Department for Transport, which has commissioned companies to develop aircraft-style black boxes for cars.
They will record every aspect of a vehicle's performance and automatically issue a ticket every time the vehicle exceeds a speed limit.
The black boxes will be linked to central computers via the Global Posi... (more)
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Bohemian Grove Employee Blows the Whistle on Inside EventsYesterday Alex Jones was joined on air by a guest who worked inside Bohemian Grove and got up close and personal with the macabre rituals of the elite and their homosexual tendencies. These new revelations have been heard nowhere else.
"Kyle" has worked at the Grove for their Spring Jinx for the "neophytes", the newcomers or outsiders, and for the official fifteen day Summer encampment festival.
The Grove is a private 2,700 acre redwood retreat on the Russian River ... (more)
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Is Normal Now A Mental Illness?Is your child easily distracted? Or perhaps he talks excessively, or can become impatient?
Most, if not all, parents would perhaps answer yes to these questions, as they are, what many of us believe to be, normal expressions of child behaviour.
Not so, according to Psychiatry. It could be that your child has "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder", a "disease" of the mind that could require medical treatment.
The American Psychiatric Association's ... (more)
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Martial Law: The Pretext Is Now SetSteve Watson / Infowars | Sept 28 2005
In the Aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita it has become obvious that not only will another terror attack on US soil provide the pretext for a police state crackdown, so will a natural disaster.
I'm not going to once again go over in depth the police state showcase that was New Orleans in the days after Katrina, but let us recap a few key points:
FEMA has been deliberately sabotaging relief efforts in Ne... (more)
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Martial Law: Police State America - We're So Close NowSteve Watson / Infowars | Sept 27 2005
For years we have warned that the police state is coming, how Martial Law will become the norm, how ancient laws, rights and freedoms are being overturned and replaced with repressive mechanisms of control.
For years we have presented the evidence, the Army War College documents, the domestic military takeover drills, the draconian legislation, officials left right and centre calling for more centralized military control domest... (more)
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Depleted uranium tests for US troops returning from IraqUS troops returning from Iraq are for the first time to be offered state-of-the-art radiation testing to check for contamination from depleted uranium - a controversial substance linked by some to cancer and birth defects.
Campaigners say the Pentagon refuses to take seriously the issue of poisoning from depleted uranium (DU) and offers only the most basic checks, and only when it is specifically asked for. But state legislators across the US are pushing ahead with laws that will ... (more)
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Oil reserves are double previous estimates, says SaudiSaudi Arabia, the biggest oil producer, and Exxon Mobil, the largest oil company, yesterday declared that the world had decades' worth of oil to come, in an attempt to calm fears about the record prices experienced in recent weeks.
Forming a powerful alliance, the Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi said, at an industry conference in Johannesburg, that the country would soon almost double its "proven" reserve base, while Exxon's president, Rex Tillerson, spoke of 3 trillion or more ba... (more)
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