| LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top policeman warned on Friday that the country faced the risk of an attack by Islamist militants over Christmas. Full Article |
 | RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani court adjourned a hearing on Friday into charges against a Pakistani-British man suspected of being a key figure in a plot to blow up airliners over the Atlantic Ocean, his lawyer said. Full Article |
Is It Now Illegal To Link To Other Websites?
Landmark Sydney legal ruling sets precedent for wholesale devastation of Internet news websites and blogs
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
A landmark legal ruling in Sydney goes further than ever before in setting the trap door for the destruction of the Internet as we know it and the end of alternative news websites and blogs by creating the precedent that simply linking to other websites is breach of copyright and piracy.
Neocon Lapdogs: "Round Up Traitors And Put Them In Camps"
Congress preserves and improves internment camps and neocon critics call for them to be used to contain "traitors"
Steve Watson & Paul Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
In a discussion concerning Joy Behar comparing Donald Rumsfeld to Hitler, a Fox News guest yesterday asserted that people like her should be rounded up and put in detention camps because they are traitors.
McVeigh Video Destroys OKC Bombing Official Story
Shows McVeigh was in military receiving instruction in "explosives and demolition" over a year after official story says he was discharged, whistleblower harassed for years while unknowingly in possession of bombshell tape
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Prison Planet
Monday, December 18, 2006
A video that shows Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh at a U.S. military base that specializes in explosives and demolition training over a year after he supposedly left the army puts the official story of the April 19 1995 federal building bombing under serious doubt and mandates a re-opening of an investigation into the terror attack that killed 168 people.
Cops Caught Stealing Protestors' Cameras
NYPD refuses to return stolen property despite video documentation
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, December 18, 2006
In the latest attack on the first amendment, a shocking video has emerged of the NYPD attacking a protestor and stealing his camera and footage at a demonstration demanding justice for an independent video journalist who was shot and killed earlier this year.
Knew people in FAA on day of hijackings who said intercept procedures should have been enacted as normal
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, December 14, 2006
A former Boston Center air traffic controller has gone public on his assertion that 9/11 was an inside job and that Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon tracked three of the four flights from the point of their hijacking to hitting their targets. In an astounding telephone interview, Robin Hordon claims air traffic controllers have been ignored or silenced to protect the true perpetrators of 9/11.
Why Was This Russian Pilot Allowed To Fly Up To And Right By The WTC AFTER It Was Under Attack On 9/11?
Amazing New Pictures Raise Questions
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Thursday, December 14, 2006
First Take A look at this amazing sequence of images taken from the air on 9/11.
N.B. Once these children have the surgery the will then be totally dependant on special food supplements.
 | LONDON (Reuters) - The country's former top soldier has accused the government of failing to give its troops, many of whom are risking their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, the right resources and support. General Sir Mike Jackson, speaking late on Wednesday, also warned against cutting and running from the two conflict zones. Jackson, who led the army during the March 2003 invasion of Iraq but retired earlier this year, said the Ministry of Defence had difficulty adjusting plans for what it thought was needed before an operation to the reality on the ground.
"There is a mismatch therefore between what we do and the resources with which we are given to do it," he said, giving the BBC's annual Dimbleby lecture. Jackson, who spent almost 45 years in the army, criticised the defence ministry for failing to put its troops "wholeheartedly in the forefront" during his time as army chief. He noted that modest improvements had been made, but said an extra 1,000 pounds a month pledged by the government to soldiers on operation was "hardly an impressive figure". "And some accommodation is still, frankly, shaming and hemmed around by petty regulation," he added. Soldiers have a contract with their country, which involves the need to take risks, and possibly die, in return for a wage It is our soldiers who pay the cost in blood; the nation must therefore pay the cost in treasure," Jackson said. As for Britain's operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, he said: "What we cannot do is cut and run from these strategic campaigns before it is right to do so." He advised against setting a specific timetable for pulling out of Iraq, noting that a report by the Iraq Study Group, published on Wednesday, said U.S. combat troops not needed for force protection could be out by the first quarter of 2008. "I understand the attraction of putting a date to actions -- it concentrates the mind -- but a date must remain subordinate to achieving the right conditions."
The Ministry of Defence said in a statement Jackson was entitled to give his opinion on "these important issues". "We are always striving to make things better for our forces and we are always open to informed criticism," it said. |
Investigative Reporter Breaks Israeli 9/11 Foreknowledge
FBI refused to protect source of Ed Haas in June 2001 when he told them planes would be used to attack New York
Alex Jones & Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Alex Jones was joined on air this week by investigative reporter Ed Haas to discuss an important story he has broken concerning direct evidence of Israeli prior knowledge of and possible complicity in the 9/11 attacks of 2001.
One Third Of Jailed Journalists Are Bloggers
Increasing authoritarian trends as governments target Internet for regulation, censorship, control
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, December 7, 2006
A new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists warns of increasing authoritarian attitudes towards the free flow of information on the Internet as statistics reveal that of the estimated 134 journalists jailed for their work worldwide, a full third are Internet writers and bloggers.
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Friday, November 24, 2006
If Alexander Litvinenko's poisoning is, as we are led to believe by a small cadre of prominent Internet bloggers and their cheerleaders, some kind of elaborate set-up on behalf of Zionists and Neo-Cons to drag Putin's name through the mud, then why do today's major Israeli newspapers carry scant mention of the former spy's death?
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, November 24, 2006
Newly released documents show that the Australian government knew a US led military invasion was on the cards 13 months before it went ahead, and gave unequivocal support with a promise to participate in the occupation.
Americans To Be Tortured For Refusing To Show ID?
Student shocked, tortured for defending constitutional rights
By: Paul Joseph Watson
Source: Prison Planet
Thursday, November 16, 2006
A horror video that wouldn't look out of place in Maoist China or Nazi Germany shows a student being repeatedly shot with a stun gun by UCLA police for the crime of not showing his ID. As similar cases begin to pile up how long will it be before Americans are routinely tortured for noncompliance and refusing to have their 4th amendment violated?
"A cell phone captured video of a 23-year-old student being administered multiple Taser shocks by UCLA police on Tuesday. The UCLA student was hit with the Taser shocks multiple times while he was in the Powell Library Computer Lab. According to the paper, (Mostafa) Tabatabainejad did not show ID to community service officers who were conducting a random check," reports NBC.
Watch the video above and witness as the cops bark at Tabatabainejad to get to his feet as simultaneously shock him over and over until he begins crying and screaming for them to stop.
Police are given extensive training on the use of stun guns and in most cases that training involves taking a taser shot and feeling the effects. Depending on each individual's physiology, it takes at least a minute to be able to even stand after a single Taser shot. Over a hundred deaths have occurred in America as a result of taser shocks and Taser's own manual discourages repeated shocks, yet the history of their use tells us that police simply administer repeated shocks until "compliance is gained." This is a euphemism for torture.
The video and the eyewitness reports describe multiple taser shots as Tabatabainejad begs and pleads while at one point screaming, "Here's your Patriot Act, here's your f---ing abuse of power."
The officers repeatedly order Tabatabainejad to stand even as they administer further shocks - sending 50,000 volts of current that override the nervous system and temporarily paralyze muscles shooting through his system again and again. He can't stand and the cops know it, they just get off on the maniacal ego power trip of torture and this is why Tabatabainejad is hit again and again despite his screaming and the protests of the onlookers.
Similar cases abound in the so-called land of the free, including the video above in which a housewife, Abbey Newman, is assaulted and arrested for simply refusing to tell the gestapo her name at an unconstitutional checkpoint. Another case in which an Alex Jones listener, Ferrell Montgomery, was tasered and had a dog set on him again underscores the brutal and sadistic nature of the police. Like Tabatabainejad, Montgomery was repeatedly told to put his hands behind his head and stand up while he was electric shocked and a dog savaged him for not complying.
In November 2005, Deborah Davis was reading a book on a Denver bus when a guard of a nearby federal building got on board and demanded everyone show their ID. Davis refused, leading the guard to "call on federal cops, who then dragged Davis off a public bus, handcuffed her, shoved her into the back seat of a police car and drove off to a police station within the Federal Center."
How long before Americans are tortured with taser weapons on the streets for refusing to show identification on a routine basis?
How long before we are forced to wear shock collars like some bizarre science fiction movie, where our masters can discipline us on a whim for not obeying orders?
It may be a lot sooner than we think.
Every indication suggests that there are moves afoot to implement these measures on every major street corner and transport system. A year ago we were told that Federal air marshals were to expand their work beyond airplanes, launching counter-terror surveillance at train stations and other mass transit facilities. So called "Visible Intermodal Protection and Response" teams — or VIPER teams, may soon be permanently deployed to check ID's under the banner of counter-terrorism.
We need to set a precedent now whereby police who use taser stun guns and any other kind of unreasonable force as implements of torture, simply if an individual refuses to have their 4th amendment right illegally violated, are instantly fired, sued and can never work in any sector of government, policing or security again.
Watch this space for further updates on the Tabatabainejad case.
New Law: NO FLY FOR ALL AMERICANS!
The Truth Will Set You Free | November 6, 2006
Sourced: Infowars.com
Now: US Citizens to be Required ''Clearance'' to Leave USA International
If Uncle Sam gets its way, beginning on Jan. 14, 2007, we'll all be on no-fly lists, unless the government gives us permission to leave-or re-enter-the United States.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (HSA) has proposed that all airlines, cruise lines-even fishing boats-be required to obtain clearance for each passenger they propose taking into or out of the United States.
It doesn't matter if you have a U.S. Passport - a "travel document" that now, absent a court order to the contrary, gives you a virtually unqualified right to enter or leave the United States, any time you want.
When the DHS system comes into effect next January, if the agency says "no" to a clearance request, or doesn't answer the request at all, you won't be permitted to enter-or leave-the United States.
Consider what might happen if you're a U.S. passport holder on assignment in a country like Saudi Arabia. Your visa is about to expire, so you board your flight back to the United States.
But wait! You can't get on, because you don't have permission from the HSA. Saudi immigration officials are on hand to escort you to a squalid detention center, where you and others who are now effectively "stateless persons" are detained, potentially indefinitely, until their immigration status is sorted out.
Why might the HSA deny you permission to leave-or enter-the United States?
No one knows, because the entire clearance procedure would be an administrative determination made secretly, with no right of appeal.
Naturally, the decision would be made without a warrant, without probable cause and without even any particular degree of suspicion.
Basically, if the HSA decides it doesn't like you, you're a prisoner - either outside, or inside, the United States, whether or not you hold a U.S. passport.
The U.S. Supreme Court has long recognized there is a constitutional right to travel internationally. Indeed, it has declared that the right to travel is "a virtually unconditional personal right." The United States has also signed treaties guaranteeing "freedom of travel."
So if these regulations do go into effect, you can expect a lengthy court battle, both nationally and internationally.
Think this can't happen? Think again.
It's ALREADY happening.
Earlier this year, HSA forbade airlines from transporting an 18-year-old a native-born U.S. citizen, back to the United States. The prohibition lasted nearly six months until it was finally lifted a few weeks ago.
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are two countries in recent history that didn't allow their citizens to travel abroad without permission.
If these regulations go into effect, you can add the United States to this list. For more information on this proposed regulation, see:
http://hasbrouck.org/IDP/IDP-APIS-comments.pdf
The family of the Brazilian electrician killed in London after being mistaken for a terrorist reacted with fury yesterday to reports that one of the police marksman involved in his death has shot dead another man.
The firearms officer involved in the latest shooting - of a suspected armed robber - was one of two men who shot Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Tube station in July last year. The two officers were cleared to return to full operational duties in July this year after the Crown Prosecution Service decided no individual officers should be charged.
In the latest incident, a team from Scotland Yard's CO19 firearms unit were supporting detectives as they tried to stop a raid on the Nationwide building society in New Romney, Kent, on Tuesday night. A 42-year-old man who allegedly opened fire on officers was shot during the operation and died later in hospital.
A spokeswoman for the family of Mr Menezes said the relatives had "expressed shock and disbelief at the news that officers involved in the killing of Jean Charles have killed again. Family members were horrified to learn that the same officers have been given a licence to kill again even before the investigative process into Jean's death is complete."
Alex Pereira, Mr de Menezes' cousin, added: "We are shocked that someone responsible for the death of an innocent man has been given a licence to kill again. The investigations into Jean's killing haven't finished but the same officers have been handed back their guns as if nothing has happened. Sir Ian Blair might have hoped he could sweep Jean's death under the carpet but when the same mistakes keep being made, he has to be held responsible."
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched an investigation into the Romney shooting. Scotland Yard refused to confirm details of who was involved in the incident.
Damian Hockney, a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, said: "It's hard to know what the officer could have done. But in the context of Stockwell, it raises some awkward questions about the context in which you put an armed officer back on the street after an incident. How long do you leave it?"
Richard Thomas, who said he raised concerns two years ago, spoke after research found people's actions were increasingly being monitored.
The Surveillance Studies Network report said there are up to 4.2m CCTV cameras - about one for every 14 people.
Other techniques are used to record work rate, buying habits and movements.
Surveillance will increase in the next decade, the report added.
'Looser laws'
The report's co-writer Dr David Murakami-Wood told BBC News that, compared to other industrialised Western states, the UK was "the most surveilled country".
"We have more CCTV cameras and we have looser laws on privacy and data protection," he said.
"We really do have a society which is premised both on state secrecy and the state not giving up its supposed right to keep information under control while, at the same time, wanting to know as much as it can about us."
| People grumble about data protection, but boy is it important in this new age Richard Thomas Information Commissioner |
The research says surveillance ranges from the US national security agency monitoring all telecommunications traffic passing through Britain to key stroke information used to gauge work rates and global positioning satellite information tracking company vehicles.
The report also highlights "dataveillance" - the combination of credit card, mobile phone and loyalty card information for marketing purposes.
Mr Thomas called for a debate about the risks if information gathered is wrong or falls into the wrong hands.
"We've got to say where do we want the lines to be drawn? How much do we want to have surveillance changing the nature of society in a democratic nation?" he told the BBC.
"We're not luddites, we're not technophobes, but we are saying not least don't forget the fundamental importance of data protection, which I'm responsible for.
"Sometimes it gets dismissed as something which is rather bureaucratic, it stops you sorting out your granny's electricity bills. People grumble about data protection, but boy is it important in this new age.
"When data protection puts those fundamental safeguards in place, we must make sure that some of these lines are not crossed."
'Balance needed'
The report will be presented to the 28th International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners' Conference in London on Thursday, hosted by the Information Commissioner's Office.
The office is an independent body established to promote access to official data and to protect personal details.
The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) said there needed to be a balance between sharing information responsibly and respecting the citizen's rights.
A spokesman said: "Massive social and technological advances have occurred in the last few decades and will continue in the years to come.
"We must rise to the challenges and seize the opportunities it provides for individual citizens and society as a whole."
Graham Gerrard from the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) said there were safeguards against the abuse of surveillance by officers.
"The police use of surveillance is probably the most regulated of any group in society," he told the BBC.
"Richard Thomas was particularly concerned about unseen, uncontrolled or excessive surveillance. Well, any of the police surveillance that is unseen is in fact controlled and has to be proportionate otherwise it would never get authorised." Have you been affected by the UK's "surveillance society"? If so, contact us using the form below. If you don't mind talking to us further, please include contact details.
Armed Men Terrorize School
Michigan raid part of unfolding agenda to mould schools into prisons and students into obedient slaves
By Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
A recent incident in which armed riot police raided a Michigan junior and high school as part of a drill that the children were not aware was about to take place raises the bar in the pursuit of an agenda to fully transform public schools into prison training camps set up to breed continuous generations of obedient slaves.
In a flu pandemic, millions of people are expected to take the antiviral drug Tamiflu, but new research shows that ultimately much of the drug will pass through the people taking it and end up in waterways. Chances are it will then linger long enough to promote Tamiflu-resistant flu viruses in wild birds.
As a vaccine tailored to the particular pandemic flu strain is unlikely to be widely available in the early days of an outbreak, emergency plans specify that sick people and, in some cases, people who have been exposed to the virus should be treated with Tamiflu.
A dozen countries have stockpiled more than three billion capsules of the drug. Andrew Singer and colleagues at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Oxford, UK, estimated how much of this could potentially be flushed into lakes and rivers.
The team used detailed sewage runoff models of 16 river catchment areas in the US and UK, and also a model of the expected number of cases of flu per day in a pandemic (see Only drugs and vaccines will deflect bird flu pandemic).
Previous studies have shown that Tamiflu is unusually resistant to being broken down in the body – about 80% of it is excreted in its active form. The drug also dissolves readily in water, and is not broken down in sewage sludge or by common chemical reactions in nature.
Putting all this together, the researchers found that all the UK catchments, and most in the US, developed high enough concentrations of the drug to stop a flu virus from replicating, for weeks or months.
Avian flu viruses normally live in the guts of birds. In ducks that drink Tamiflu-contaminated water, the drug concentration that the team predicted would prevent susceptible viruses from replicating, giving drug-resistant viruses a selective advantage.
Such viruses may not make much difference to ducks. But flu viruses regularly swap genes, so Tamiflu resistance could end up spreading to human strains of flu, they warn.
“We recommend more research to study how Tamiflu behaves in water, and to determine cheap and easy ways to break it down before it reaches the river,” says Singer, who led the research. The team suggests that perhaps some chemical that destroys Tamiflu might be put down the toilet by people taking the drug.
Journal reference: Environmental Health Perspectives (DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9574)
| By Darren Waters Technology editor, BBC News website, Athens |
It has been set up by the UN to give governments, companies, organisations and individuals space for debate.
Nitin Desai, chair of the organising body for IGF, has said the forum needed "dialogue in good faith".
He warned that the biggest challenge in making the IGF successful was a "potential culture clash".
In a column for the BBC News website, Mr Desai said: "The forum will give voice to the citizens of the global net and help identify emerging issues which need to be tackled in the formal processes."
| [The forum] is about the future, the net as it will be some years from now and how we can give a voice to all who use it Nitin Desai |
The forum is not a decision-making body but instead is designed to give stakeholders in the internet a chance to form consensus around key areas.
More than 1,500 delegates from the around the world will be attending the meeting.
The four key agendas for the conference are security, diversity, openness and access.
Emily Taylor, the legal director of Nominet, the UK body in charge of the .uk domain name, said the forum was important to internet users because it would be tackling issues that matter to them.
'Issues'
"Issues around spam, cybersecurity, openness, what are the blocks to freedom of speech? - they speak to all internet users directly."
| Everybody has an experience of spam, sadly a lot of people have an experience of phishing attacks Emily Taylor, Nominet |
She added: "Everybody has an experience of spam, sadly a lot of people have an experience of phishing attacks.
"People have got experience of viruses. They might be aware that internationally there are different approaches to freedom of speech - not just the obvious examples of regimes cracking down on content.
"Within Europe there are issues around dealing with content that is perhaps not illegal but distasteful to some countries and not to others.
"These are issues that matter."
The IGF was borne out of the World Summit on the Information Society meetings, the last of which was held in Tunis.
Overshadowed
Some felt that the aims of WSIS were overshadowed by debates around the control of the internet and controversy over internationalised domain names - ie giving countries which do not use or understand the Latin alphabet the ability to navigate the internet in their own script.
The move towards internationalised domain names is being overseen by Icann, the body appointed by the US Department of Commerce to oversee domain names such as .com and .org.
Tina Dam, director of Icann's IDN program, said the body had taken a "huge step forward" in resolving the issue.
It has recently started testing internationalised domain names with its engineers.
"People have been waiting for us to start testing for some time," she said.
Ms Taylor said the forum was there to debate issues that relate to the use and misuse of internet.
'Ordinary users'
"I know, from speaking to ordinary users, that these issues are much more on their minds than discussions about who manages the internet and what is exactly the role of the US government."
Mr Desai said the forum was important because it gave people the chance to discuss how the internet was evolving.
"The net has outgrown its origins as a network run by and for computer specialists.
"[The forum] is about the future, the net as it will be some years from now and how we can give a voice to all who use it."
Ms Taylor said: "The key thing is that anyone who is interested can take part - whether they rock up in Athens or take part via blogs.
"That's a major change of process from the past."
| Another Tax on the UK people by our Labour Government, now why am I not surprised? Clive ################################## Miliband draws up green tax plan | ||
| Environment Secretary David Miliband has confirmed the government is holding discussions on tackling climate change using green taxes. Source: BBC News He refused to confirm details, shown in a leaked letter, which may include "pay as you drive" tax, cheap-flight tax and levies on energy-wasting appliances. He told Sky News that "the longer we wait, the more costly it will be". Meanwhile Conservative leader David Cameron has told the BBC he would be prepared to tax air travel. Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, said "hard choices" had to be made to combat climate change. The comments come ahead of a report expected to warn climate change may cut global annual economic output by up to 20%. The influential report by economist Nicholas Stern is due to be published on Monday. The Mail on Sunday quotes a leaked letter from Mr Miliband to Chancellor Gordon Brown from 18 October, which it says calls for urgent action in next month's public spending review and next year's Budget. In the letter, Mr Miliband calls for measures to combat "car use and ownership", and a "substantial increase" in road tax, the paper claims. He also calls for a new pay-per-mile pollution tax. The paper said leaked proposals suggest families with big cars could end up paying more than £1,000 a year in additional tax. 'Tax flights' Changing people's behaviour is only achieved by "market forces and price signals," Mr Miliband wrote. He added: "As our understandings of climate change increases, it is clear more needs to be done." The minister also suggests making flights subject to VAT, for either domestic flights or "better still all EU flights," the Mail says. Mr Miliband also told Sky News that the UK was responsible for "two per cent of global emissions" and that it was "vital that this is a global response, not just a national response". He said: "In the UK I think we should be proud that our country is leading the way in the reduction of the greenhouses gases, the carbon dioxides that are so dangerous. "It's very significant that the economics revealed by Sir Nicholas Stern's report should be that the longer we wait - and certainly the longer we wait beyond the ten to 15 year timeframe that's set by the scientists - the longer we wait, the more costly it will be. "I think it's good that the Conservatives have come out of the Stone Age, they want to debate these issues. "I look forward to the next election when all parties are competing to show that they can make a difference on the climate." Tax hikes Sir Menzies told BBC One's Sunday AM programme: "We have absolutely no option but to deal with the problem of climate change and nothing but hard choices will do it." Meanwhile Mr Cameron spoke about green levies in an interview for the BBC One's The Politics Show. He told the programme: "Some green taxes do hit the poorest in our society, so we have to think about that very carefully before we make taxation decisions. "If it means putting a tax on air travel, then yes, that's something we'd be prepared to do." But he said budgetary decisions should be made closer to budgetary times. "We'll come up with those ideas closer to a general election - but green taxes will go up." Mr Cameron also gave his backing to Liberal Democrat-controlled Richmond council's plans to charge the drivers of the most polluting vehicles higher parking fees. He also said he would put a wind turbine and solar panels on top of Downing Street if he became prime minister. 'Grave threat' BBC political correspondent Robin Brant said there was general agreement amongst senior politicians that climate change is "really posing a grave threat to the future of the world". He said: "It's David Cameron's the new-look Conservatives who have made this issue the centre very much of their agenda now - somewhat surprising. "It was the Liberal Democrats who were the party who were going on about this for a long, long time before." And he added that Labour was likely to finalise its green tax plans over the coming weeks and would release further details in next year's budget. The Stern Review, due out on Monday, will examine economic, not environmental, arguments of global warming. Sir Nicholas's report is expected to claim that at the very best the cost of tackling global warming would be 1% of annual economic output. The report looked at the impact of global warming on economic output, or gross domestic product (GDP), until 2100. A new report, Up In Smoke 2, based on research from a coalition of UK aid agencies and environmental groups, says climate change is already affecting Africa. | ||
US airstrike kills six in Iraq
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Saturday 28 October 2006 12:45 PM GMT
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| Gunmen took to the streets of Ramadi earlier in the month |
Six Iraqis, including three women and two children, have been killed in a US air strike in the city of Ramadi in western Iraq, a doctor said.
Kamal al-Ani, a doctor at Ramadi hospital, said the bodies of six members of a single family killed in the attack had been brought in, before being released to relatives for burial. Police Brigadier Hamid Hamad Shuka confirmed that there had been an air strike in the south of the city at dawn. He said five civilians were killed in the hit. Asked about the report, the US military said that the troops came under attack several times on Friday and responded with tank fire and "precision munitions" - a phrase commonly associated with air-launched missiles. "Coalition forces also noted two unexplained explosions that were possible IED and rocket-propelled grenade misfires," it said, adding that it was not able to assess civilian casualties in the incident. US troops have blocked entrances On Friday, gunmen attacked three military positions in the city with rocket-propelled grenades, mortar rounds and machine-gun fire, police said. Soldiers captured In Udhaim, 50km north of Baquba, gunmen at a fake checkpoint seized 11 Iraqi soldiers travelling in a minibus. The soldiers, who were wearing civilian clothes, were taken out of the bus at gunpoint after the gunmen found their military IDs. On Thursday, 28 policemen were killed in an ambush near Baquba. That attack followed a separate ambush on Sunday on a convoy of buses in which 13 police recruits were killed and several more were reported kidnapped. In Baghdad, one person was killed and 35 wounded when a rocket hit an outdoor market in the southern neighbourhood of Dura, according to police. A second person was killed and nine wounded when a bomb went off in a minibus in an eastern Baghdad district, another police spokesman said.
US forces killed "numerous insurgents", including some waiting in an ambush and gunmen firing at a US outpost, the military said.
Asked to clarify whether the US military was referring to the same incident as reported by Iraqi officials, a spokeswoman said there were no reports of airstrikes around dawn on Saturday.
'Aggressive approach'
Earlier this week, a senior US general had said that the US and Iraqi security forces were taking "an aggressive, offensive approach" to reclaim Ramadi from fighters. 
to the city of Ramadi
Last week, dozens of al Qaeda-linked gunmen took to the streets to announce that the city was joining an Islamic state comprising Iraq's mostly Sunni Arab provinces.
Shuka said US forces had taken control of the street where the fighters made their demonstration, ordering some families to evacuate their homes and setting up sniper positions.
Residents reported further clashes on Saturday and said that the US troops were using loudspeakers to order people to stay in their homes. The US forces also reportedly blocked entrances to the city.
Agencies
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You can find this article at:
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Neo-Fascists Threaten Terror Unless Voters Approve Dictatorship
Bush junta deploys Osama campaign videos to frighten sheep into tacitly supporting unitary decidership
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | October 20 2006
The Bush junta has potentially unveiled its "October surprise" in a desperate last gasp effort to salvage its power monopoly, a rash of lavishly funded campaign videos in which Osama Bin Laden is used to threaten Americans with terror attacks unless they vote Republican in the mid-term elections.
The Associated Press reports,
"The Republican Party will begin airing a hard-hitting ad this weekend that warns of more cataclysmic terror attacks against the U.S. homeland."
"The ad displays an array of quotes from bin Laden and his top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, that include bin Laden's Dec. 26, 2001 vow that "what is yet to come will be even greater."
The Neo-Fascists have employed their most loyal servant - Osama Bin Laden - to star in campaign videos threatening the American people with armageddon unless they tacitly approve the occupational dictatorship of George W. Bush.
When questioned on exactly what he meant in promising an "October surprise," Karl Rove made reference to the formulation and massive investment into the production and dissemination of these ads.
The fact that the terrorists within the Bush administration would again threaten terror unless the dissenters and the waverers got back in line is hardly a surprise. The only real stunner is that they still have the temerity to believe this lowest common denominator propaganda still has a significant impact on the body politic of the nation - in the face of example piled atop example of hoax terror alerts that have left the public fatigued to the rumor mill of "the inevitable attack."
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Recent polls show only a third still support the war in Iraq and just 16% of the population believes the entirety of the government's version of what happened on 9/11.
In saying that however, the massive voting block of the elderly, ostracized from the red pill of the Internet, largely still buy the scam that only cokehead Bush can protect them from his business partner Osama.
Karl Rove is messianically clinging to the belief that he can scare enough soccer moms and pensioners into helping the Neo-Fascists retain both Houses - or at least get close to it and let the CIA run electronic voting machines do the rest.
If there's a manufactured scare around election day the threat of chaos and the need for a focused government response could quickly silence enough vote fraud naysayers to re-entrench the power monopoly of Bush's unitary decidership.
A leaked November 2005 GOP memo which discussed ways of avoiding a comprehensive defeat in the mid-terms touted a terror attack as one of the few ways Republicans could reverse Bush's sagging fortunes. Another suggested scenario was the announcement of the capture or death of Osama Bin Laden.
The Neo-Cons are threatening violence in an attempt to influence the actions and democratic participation of the citizens of the United States of America.
That is the very definition of terrorism.
ter-ror-ism –noun 1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.
2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
3. a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | October 26 2006
Bush administration efforts to infiltrate, misdirect, regulate and pollute the Internet with Neo-Con propaganda, as well as their openly stated agenda to target American bloggers as terrorists, is now being aped by the British government across the pond as well as other major European countries.
Home Secretary John Reid met with ministers from the six largest European Union countries and, according to a BBC report, "agreed to work together to make the internet a "more hostile" place for terrorists."
How will they accomplish this? By initiating a crackdown on people who use the Internet to "spread propaganda." The very website you are now reading would be considered propaganda by these neo-fascists- no matter the fact that the criminal syndicates Bush and Blair front for are the most deceitful progenitors of lurid propaganda since the third reich.
The purge also aims to use the Internet and other media to target young audiences with state approved indoctrination PR spin on how the war on terror is really not about imperial hegemony and crushing liberties at home.
Reid himself is no stranger to the strong arm tactics of despots, a former hardcore Stalinist, member of the Scottish Communist Party and an alcoholic bully with a penchant for thumping people in the face - he could also become the next Prime Minister.
The British government's paranoid fear of anyone "spreading propaganda" that could compete with their own is perhaps one of the reasons why they outlawed the right to protest under the 2005 Serious and Organized Crimes Act. Now Brits are only allowed to protest against the government with the government's permission - in other countries they would call that a police state and in others besides - like Zimbabwe or China - it's the de rigueur of tyranny.
Similarly, the Glorification of Terror legislation is so broadly defined that disagreeing with the government's "official explanation" of a terrorist event could be seen as enemy propaganda.
The only remaining outlet for the groundswell of dissent in opposition to the Neo-Fascist takeover of the west is the Internet, and it keeps these jack-booted bastards awake at night to think you can sit in front of your computer and broadcast your outrage to the four corners of the earth on a whim.
The fact that the U.S. government demanded access to the Google search queries of around 150 million Internet active Americans under the umbrella of the NSA eavesdropping program (recall the surveillance trucks in V For Vendetta that tuned into home conversations) proves that the elite are deliriously nervous about the last remaining outpost of freedom and its potential to influence change.
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G6 Globalists scheme to destroy Internet freedom throughout Europe.
In addition, the European Union has moved to completely regulate Internet freedom. The first step is the introduction of licensing laws where you would be required to register, pay tax and only receive permission to operate a website if your material didn't violate the broad ranging "hate speech" laws legislated by the EU - win hich criticizing the EU itself is deemed "hate speech."
The development of "Internet 2" is also designed to create an online caste system whereby the old Internet hubs would be allowed to break down and die, forcing people to use the new taxable, censored and regulated world wide web. If you're struggling to comprehend exactly what the Internet will look like in five years unless we resist this, just look at China and their latest efforts to completely eliminate dissent and anonymity on the web.
Last week we highlighted similar efforts in the U.S. to mobilize resources in the war on terror to target bloggers as terrorist sympathizers and propagandists.
The White House has made it perfectly clear that it will target American citizens for propagating information harmful to the interests of the U.S. government and classify them as enemy combatants. This is codified in sub-section 27 of section 950v. of the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
Bush's own strategy document for "winning the war on terror" identifies "conspiracy theorists," meaning anyone who exposes government corruption and its lies about major domestic and world events, as "terrorists recruiters," and vows to eliminate their influence in society.
In a speech given last Monday, Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff identified the web as a "terror training camp," through which "disaffected people living in the United States" are developing "radical ideologies and potentially violent skills."
Chertoff has pledged to dispatch Homeland Security agents to local police departments in order to aid in the apprehension of domestic terrorists who use the Internet as a political tool.
A program on behalf of CENTCOM is also underway to infiltrate blogs and message boards to ensure people, "have the opportunity to read positive stories,"presumably about how Iraq is a wonderful liberated democracy and the war on terror really is about protecting Americans from Al-CIAda.
It’s become an inevitable fact that Western media is biased against Islam and Muslims: every Muslim or Arab who reads the daily papers, watches TV coverage of daily events, or listens to the radio can clearly see that.
Last week, Robert Cottage and David Jackson, both former British National Party members, have been arrested for having a "master plan" to cause mayhem after a police recovered a "record haul" of chemicals used to make explosives.
Officers also recovered rocket launchers, BNP literature and a nuclear and biological suit. The police say this is the largest haul ever found at a house in Britain.
And while the world media's busy with the Muslims’ reaction to ignorant remarks made by a British official and Pope Benedict, the incident involving the arrests in Britain went unreported, except by local papers; Burnley Citizen and Pendle Today.
Cottage, charged under the Explosives Substances Act 1883 last Monday, reportedly drives disabled children to school.
His Peugeot car has been taken away for examination.
The police recovered 22 chemical components from his house.
On the other hand, David Jackson, 62, of Trent Road, Nelson, was charged with similar offences.
Christiana Buchanan, who appeared for the prosecution in Jackson's case, asserts that both men had "some kind of master plan".
However, the police tried to reassure neighbours that they had not discovered “a bomb making factory.”
Brian Parkinson, a local BNP councilor, distanced his party from Cottage, arguing “it certainly wouldn't condone the sort of thing he is allegedly being connected with”.
UK and Worldwide media preferred to keep the focus on the protests and the anger of Muslims sparked initially by those who have been insensitive to them, making ignorant and silly remarks against their faith.
First it was Pope Benedict XVI, who angered the world's more than one billion Muslims in one of his recent lectures in which he cited a passage attacking Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The passage originally appeared in the “Dialogue Held With A Certain Persian, the Worthy Mouterizes, in Anakara of Galatia”, written in 1391 as an expression of the views of the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus, saying;
“Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”
And second it was former foreign secretary Jack Straw, now Leader of the House of Commons. Straw said that the Muslim women’s veil was "a visible statement of separation and difference".
It was natural that Straw’s remarks, which demonstrate total ignorance of the Islamic culture and utter disrespect for its followers, to anger the world Muslims, not just the British Muslim Community.
Muslims obviously do not need advice from Mr. Straw. They don't need need lessons in dress from him.
"He has once again shown that for Cabinet ministers it is open season on Muslims and Islam," said Nazreen Nawaz, of the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization.
There is an inherent media bias against Muslims and Arabs, that always tends to focus on unrest and anger in the Arab and Muslim communities rather than discussing the source of their anger, in most cases the West’s insistence not to respect their culture and sovereignty.
Magistrates fined Swansea journalist Michael Reeves £200 after finding him guilty of putting paper in a recycling sack for bottles and cans.
The 28-year-old denied putting an item of junk mail in the bag.
Julian Rosser, from Friends of the Earth (FoE), said: "I think what we really need to do in recycling at the moment is to encourage people to
recycle."
He added: "Local authorities need to be putting in good schemes and publicising them well to people so that more and more people are recycling.
| We don't want to create the idea that recycling is difficult - recycling is not difficult Environmentalist Howie Watkins |
"It seems very much that prosecuting somebody for what appears to be a little slip is not going to help that and is going to put people off recycling and that's bad news."
Environmentalist Howie Watkins said he sympathised with Mr Reeves and Swansea Council, but warned that local authorities should not make recycling appear too complex.
He said: "[The authorities] have developed an infrastructure to allow us to recycle and as part of that there's an element of responsibility on everybody to separate their waste, so it gets recycled in the proper manner.
"But I suppose the other side of the coin in all of this is that we don't want to create the idea that recycling is difficult - recycling is not difficult, it's quite a simple process."
Strict rules
Mr Reeves, a sports writer with the city's Evening Post, was served with a warning notice in April this year when he put his bins out a day early because he was going on holiday.
Then in June a green recycling bag was found outside his ground floor flat in the Mount Pleasant area of the city containing both paper and bottles and cans.
The court heard on Tuesday that the letter, which was addressed to him, "contaminated" the other items put out for recycling.
| I have not recycled since I received the summons Michael Reeve |
Magistrates in the city were told under the Environmental Protection Act, councils could impose strict rules on their refuse collection services.
They found him guilty and fined him £100 and ordered him to pay £100 costs.
After the hearing, Mr Reeves described the case as "crazy".
"I don't believe they proved beyond reasonable doubt that I put the paper in the bag - I did not," he said.
"I have not recycled since I received the summons.
"People are not going to recycle if they end up in court and it costs them £200."
Swansea Council said it was increasing efforts to educate people about recycling and the rules.
"Legal action is the last resort and in Mr Reeve's case he failed to comply with an enforcement notice drawing his attention to the existing recycling arrangements," said a spokesman.
