Everyone must love the EU... says Tony Blair A multi-million pound propaganda war to force the British people to love the European Union and Brussels bureaucrats is to be launched by Tony Blair as part of his legacy as Prime Minister, it has been revealed. The operation to overcome strong opposition to the EU in Britain and soften them up in the event of fresh moves to forge closer links with Brussels was secretly agreed by Mr Blair and his Ministers at last week's Cabinet meeting.
Details of the pl... (more)
|
|
Corporate Media Uses Fuzzy Math to Minimize Size of Lebanese DemonstrationsAs usual, here in America, the corporate media has a problem counting. “A siege on Lebanon’s American-backed government continued Saturday with tens of thousands of demonstrators sympathetic to the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah militia and its allies packing downtown Beirut and calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and his cabinet,” reports the Mercury News.
Meanwhile, closer to the “siege,” actually a widespread call for the neol... (more)
|
|
Millions may resist database, says poll The first signs of a significant popular revolt against the Government's identity card scheme have been uncovered by a YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph.
click to enlarge
It suggests that hundreds of thousands of people, maybe even millions, would refuse to register on the proposed database that will underpin ... (more)
|
|
Held in darkness for the rest of his natural life Five years ago this month Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, tried to blow up a transatlantic flight. Here Jacqui Goddard gives an exclusive account of his days in the Alcatraz of the Rockies At six feet four inches tall, Richard Reid makes a forbidding figure, even from behind the iron grates, steel doors and automated locks that separate him from his prison guards in this place they call Terrorist Central.
Hunched on a stool that is moulded to the floor of h... (more)
|
|
Sixth Grader Tasered At Middle School JONESBORO -- Officials at Jonesboro Middle School say police tasered an 11-year-old student Wednesday as a last resort. The incident immediately prompted an internal police investigation.
Channel 2 was told the incident began after something happened at lunch to spark a verbal argument between two 6th graders. The verbal argument turned physical and a school resource officer with the Jonesboro Police Department says she had to resort to using a taser.
Channel 2 came... (more)
|
|
Mind Control, Prisoner Experiment OkaysHeads up, Navy scientists! If you want to perform "severe or unusual intrusions, either physical or psychological, on human subjects," you're going to need approval from the Under Secretary of the Navy.
According to a memo unearthed by Secrecy News, that goes for "consciousness-altering drugs or mind-control techniques," as well. Ditto for experiments on "prisoners" -- even though the document says earl... (more)
|
|
Media Cranks Up Hard Sell of Biometric and RFID Microchipped FutureI don’t watch a lot of television. But no sooner did I flip on MSNBC last night a coiffured talking head appeared gabbling about the insecurity of ATM machines.
If we are to believe Algorithmic Research, an Israeli company, there is a flaw in the average ATM regarding PINs, account numbers, encryption, and decryption, that is to say there is a window of opportunity to snatch this information—over the internet, of course—by an unscrupulous hacker.
... (more)
|
|
Newsweek: Gov't. motion to silence Padilla defenseU.S. citizen Jose Padilla was infamously accused by John Ashcroft of wanting to set off a "dirty bomb" for Al Queda. After being held incommunicado in solitary confinement for three years, and tortured, the government dropped the bomb charge and now wants to put him away on vague charges of supporting terrorism.
But, as Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball report, the government wants to silence Padilla's attorneys, not allowing them to bring up Padilla's treatment by the govern... (more)
|
|
KILLING HABEAS CORPUS: Arlen Specter’s about-face.President Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in Maryland on April 27, 1861, two weeks after the Confederate attack on the Union garrison at Fort Sumter. “Lincoln could look out his window at the White House and see Robert E. Lee’s plantation in Virginia,” Akhil Reed Amar, a professor at Yale Law School and the author of “America’s Constitution,” said. “He was also facing a rebellion of so-called Peace Democrats in Maryland, meaning there was a real ... (more)
|
|
Why The Quiet Release Of The Doubletree 9/11 Video? There has been a total media blackout on the release of the Doubletree Hotel video that shows the explosion at the Pentagon on 9/11 but does not reveal any footage of the impact. This may suggest that the corporate media has adopted a new strategy of ignorance towards questions concerning the official 9/11 story.
View Two versions of the video below, the second has a close up zoom in on the explosion.
|
|
Bush faces legal double whammy in terror war WASHINGTON: Two court decisions in two days have seriously jeopardised President George W Bush’s authority to carry out pre-emptive actions against anyone he suspects to be a terrorist or a collaborator inside the United States. In the first judgment given by a known radical judge in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Bush’s authority to designate groups as “terrorist organisations” was struck down while in another case in Portland, Oregon, the Bush adminis... (more)
|
|
ID cards don't work -- even Tony says so On this page a few weeks ago, Tony Blair set out his case for the ID card scheme that his Government is preparing to foist upon the British people over the next eight years or so. This was, presumably, a different Tony Blair from the one whose thoughts I stumbled across at the weekend while digging out books for the local Christmas fair. New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country, published in 1996, was a collection of newspaper articles and speeches that encapsulated ... (more)
|
|
New 9/11 Pentagon video released, shows explosion and no plane
Add to My Profile | More Videos
Hotel security video shows 9/11 Pentagon blast, but no plane
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A ... (more)
|
|
Funding Continues for Illness Scientists DismissFifteen years after the end of the 1991 war with Iraq, a Texas researcher is in line to get as much as $75 million in federal funding to press his studies of "Gulf War syndrome," even though most other scientists long ago discounted his theories.
Epidemiologist Robert W. Haley has been trying for 10 years to prove that thousands of Persian Gulf War troops were poisoned by a combination of nerve gas, pesticides, insect repellents and a nerve-gas antidote. With the help of $16 milli... (more)
|
|
There's just no escape from these snoopsAs a rural town installs official surveillance, in London they experiment with secret microphones on the street. Not a nightmare. Paranoid Britain today In Dawlish (for heaven's sake), where there are black swans, cream teas and an annual display by the Red Arrows, where a recent excitement involved the long-billed murrelet, a bird associated with the North Pacific which turned up just off Boat Cove... In Dawlish, Devon, they are about to install a £70,000 CCTV sy... (more)
|
|
Big Brother Is Watching YouThey are everywhere, most of the time they are inconspicuously placed, secretly watching our every move. Other times they are placed out in the open with signs announcing their presence in an attempt to scare us to comply with the established rules. Surveillance cameras are now a part of our everyday life.
We expect to see, or not see, these cameras in banks and other secure areas, such as airports and courthouses. Convenience stores and shopping centers have cameras scattered all... (more)
|
|
'In trouble,' Bush Administration returns to FOX News again "In trouble," the Bush Administration again appears to be turning to the friendlier shores of Rupert Murdoch's Fox empire.
President Bush met with Fox News anchor Brit Hume on Sunday for a "sit down" interview, Fox News Channel is reporting, and the full interview is scheduled to be aired early Monday evening, beginning at 6 PM EST.
The cable news channel is promoting the interview as Bush's first "sit down" since Democrats triumphed over his part... (more)
|
|
Conservative media site claims Bush will seek funding of orbital anti-missile satellitesA story on a conservative media site is claiming that the Bush Administration will ask Congress to fund development of an "orbital battle station," aimed at destroying missiles launched against the United States.
The article, published by Pajamas Media, attacks Democrats' opposition to an missile defense system and alleges that such orbital "stations" would actually be satellites carrying 40 to 50 small "kill vehicles" that would attack enemy missiles during their initial ascent.<... (more)
|
|
'Violent video games make children lose self-control'Playing violent video games makes children lose their self-control, a shocking new study has revealed.
An analysis of brain activity demonstrates they become more emotionally charged after using the graphic technology.
At the same time there is a marked decrease in activity in parts of the brain which are linked to self-control, focus and concentration.
The findings will refuel concern about the effects of violent video and computer games on children.... (more)
|
|
Forget shopping, this could turn into a crashThe last time the pound was at this level against the dollar was in the uneasy days of 1992 between John Major's April election victory and the cataclysm of Black Wednesday, when the markets realised that Britain's economic policy was based on smoke and mirrors.
With the economy deep in recession and unemployment heading to 3 million (again), Britain badly needed deep cuts in interest rates to stimulate growth. Yet the foundation stone for the government's anti-inflation policy wa... (more)
|
|
| 
