Gas Prices to customers forced up whilst record Profits grow for Suppliers

Centrica announces that it's British Gas customers Gas prices will increase today by a (disgusting) 32%. Yet at the same time it drops this bomb shell on it customers, it announces a £992 Million profit for its half-year profits.

But Centrica tries to get us to feel sorry for them because their profits dropped 20%.

 

With BP, Shell Oils and Centrica announcing such high profits whilst they insist that we have to pay more because of increases in the price of Oil and Gas seems to indicate that there never was any crisis with our fuels.

 

 

Centrica says had to raise gas prices as profit falls
31 JUL 2008 08:59 BST
LONDON (Reuters) - British Gas-owner Centrica said on Thursday it had been "absolutely necessary" to raise household gas prices as first half operating profit fell nearly 20 percent to 992 million pounds.

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Centrica hit by high energy costs
British Gas owner Centrica reports a fall in half-year profits following Wednesday's record price rises.

 

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British Gas parent company makes £992m profit
Centrica provokes fury among its 16 million customers with biggest ever price hike.

 

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Innocents' DNA 'should be erased'

31/07/2008

BBC News

The DNA of innocent people should be deleted from the national database, a government-funded inquiry has found.

 

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3,000 passports and visas stolen

3,000 passports and visas stolen

 

29/07/2008

About 3,000 blank British passports and visas are stolen while being taken from Manchester to London in a van.

 

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BP benefit from the soaring oil and Gas price

BP reported the biggest-ever quarterly profit for a British company

 

29 Jul 2008

 

Soaring oil and gas prices helped push underlying net profit up 56 per cent to $8.6bn (£4.3bn) in the second quarter.

BP's quarterly profit will remain the UK's biggest ever if, as expected, Royal Dutch Shell reports an underlying net profit of about $8.3bn tomorrow.

 

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BP boss warns of more pain for consumers from oil prices

29 Jul 2008

*BP boss Rubs it in the faces of all its customers by warning of more pain for consumers from oil prices after announcing record quarterly profits.

The chief executive of BP, Tony Hayward, has warned that the long term trend for oil and gas prices spells more pain for consumers. Earlier this year, Mr Hayward said that the era of cheap energy was over, at least for the medium term. Today he added: "Events are playing out even faster than any of us expected."

Despite the crude price falling from recent record highs, the boss of Britain's biggest company said that there was "an increasing likelihood that oil and gas prices will be stronger for longer.

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Cat Infected With Bird

The recent report in the Korea Times of a Cat dying of Bird Flu is nothing new. Reports as far back as 2006 show cases in Germany also.

 

 

Cat Infected With Bird Flu H5N1, Germany

 

German experts (Friedrich Loeffler Institute) have confirmed that a cat, found in the island of Ruegen, off northern Germany, tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus strain. This is the first non-bird-animal to have become ill with bird flu in the European Union.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/38567.php

 

German pet owners advised to take precautions after cat dies of bird flu

 

German officials warned cat owners yesterday not to sleep accompanied by their pets, and to keep them indoors, following confirmation that a cat has died of the H5N1 avian flu virus.

The cat was found at the weekend on the Baltic island of Rügen, near to where most of Germany's 121 cases of H5N1-infected wild birds have been found. Tests carried out on the animal by scientists at Germany's Friedrich-Loeffler institute confirmed H5N1, probably from having eaten infected birds.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/mar/01/health.germany

 

 

 

"Scientists fear the virus will eventually mutate into a form that is much more easily transmissible between humans, triggering a global pandemic."

 

 

 

Cat infected with deadly virus

 

Seoul - A cat found dead in a South Korean city was infected with a virulent strain of bird flu, the first mammal in the country known to have had the H5N1 virus, health officials said on Tuesday.

They said it was the first report of a cat having had the virus since a case in Thailand in 1996, but that there was little risk to humans as there has never been a known transmission of the virus from a cat to other mammals.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2365897,00.html

 

Cat Infected With Bird Flu Virus

Date 28/07/2008

Source: The Korea Times

 

A cat found dead in April had been infected with the virulent strain of the bird flu influenza, the government confirmed Monday. The National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service (NVRQS) said tests conducted by Chungnam National University showed the cat, found in Gimje located 262 kilometers south of Seoul, died of the H5N1 virus that swept through the country from early April to mid-May.

 

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EDF Energy leads energy price hikes

25 JUL 2008 18:35 BST

 

LONDON (Reuters) - EDF Energy on Friday increased household power and gas prices for the second time this year, while its competitors said they had no immediate plans to hike rates in response to soaring wholesale costs.

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Missouri Police taser injured boy 19 times

28/07/2008

 

http://www.youtube.com/v/pSNri3c_4P0

 

Passing motorists called Ozark police out of concern for the teen as he walked along the busy overpass. When the police arrived, the young man was lying on the shoulder of the highway directly underneath the 30 foot high overpass with a broken back and foot.

Doctors believe 16-year-old Mace Hutchinson broke his back and heel after falling, as his injuries are consistent with such a fall. The boy's family does not understand why police would have tasered the the teen 19 times after he was so seriously injured.

The teen's father said that the use of the taser caused Mace to develop an elevated white blood cell count, leading to a fever that delayed the young man's otherwise immediate surgery by two days.

Ozark Police Capt. Thomas Rousset attempted to explain why the taser was used:

"He refused to comply with the officers and so the officers had to deploy their Tasers in order to subdue him. He is making incoherent statements; he's also making statements such as, 'Shoot cops, kill cops,' things like that. So there was cause for concern to the officers."

Ozark police say that while there remains unanswered questions in the case, the reason for the use of the Taser is not one of them.

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'Nuclear bomber base' raises fears of a new Cuban crisis

'Nuclear bomber base' raises fears of a new Cuban crisis

 

25 Jul 2008

 

The Russian military, furious at American plans to install a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe, is talking up the prospect of turning Cuba into a base for its long-range nuclear bombers. Defence chiefs in Moscow are said to be pressing for the Kremlin to retaliate against the missile shield by placing strategic bombers off the American coast. The move threatens a rerun of the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.

 

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Pc convicted of assaulting child

26/07/2008

BBC News

A police officer is convicted of assaulting a 12-year-old boy at a Manchester police station.

 

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Britians authorities have gone mad with power...

A postcard from killjoy Britain ...

 

Last updated at 9:36 PM on 24th July 2008

Source: The Daily Mail

With the summer holidays getting into full swing this weekend, I suppose it was inevitable that someone would find a way of banning ice cream vans.

Worcester Council has decreed that no van can play its chimes for more than four seconds every three minutes.

That's barely enough time to belt out the first bar of the Teddy Bears' Picnic. Cough and you'll miss it. And the noise mustn't exceed 80 decibels at a distance of 25ft.

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Trader is fined £300 by council for using black bin bags instead of grey

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:56 AM on 25th July 2008

A boutique has been fined £300 for throwing away rubbish in the wrong coloured bin bags.

Shopkeepers in Muswell Hill are ordered to put their waste out in special grey sacks.

However, the company that supplies the sacks had run out of them, so staff at Charli, a designer fashion store, were forced to use normal black bags instead.

To their horror, Haringey council officials patrolling the area spotted the four bags left outside the store and imposed a £75 fine for each.

Shop owner Sangita Ibrahim, 47, said: 'The shop was really busy and they came in like the Gestapo.

'Staff were told they would face criminal prosecution and receive a criminal record for the bags. I felt like I was going to be frogmarched away.'

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Painter given £30 fine for smoking 'at work'...in his own van

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:28 PM on 24th July 2008

For painter and decorator Gordon Williams, his van is simply a means of getting from A to B.

But council officials chose to give the vehicle a more lofty status.

When they spotted him behind the wheel with a cigarette, they handed him an on-the-spot fine of £30 - for smoking in his place of work.

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Pentagon eyes sending hundreds of troops to Afghanistan

24 Jul 2008

 

Top Pentagon leaders are expected to recommend soon that Defence Secretary Robert Gates order hundreds of additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan over the next month or so, according to a senior military official. Officials have not ruled out a larger, brigade-sized unit before the end of the year that could be shifted to Afghanistan from a planned deployment to Iraq or moved from another location.

 

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Radioactive leak contaminates 100 in France

Do we in the UK really want to go Nuclear for our Energy? It does not sound like a good idea to me. But TPTB will still have us believe it is a good option because they need a front to start building their new Nuclear weapons to replace our aging arsenal, which will soon be meeting it's use by date.

 

Radioactive leak contaminates 100 in France

 

24 Jul 2008

Source: Press TV

 

A spokeswoman for Electricite de France says radioactive particles discharged from a nuclear reactor slightly contaminated 100 employees. The incident took place on Wednesday at a French nuclear reactor in Tricastin. This latest episode brings the number of leak incidents to four in the recent weeks and the second in five days, AP reported.

 

A spokeswoman for Electricite de France says radioactive particles discharged from a nuclear reactor slightly contaminated 100 employees. 

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Senate Republicans preventing crackdown on oil speculators

Seems like some Americans in power do not want a clamp down on the US speculators that have forced the price of Oil up so high. The main stream media keep telling the popular that the high prices are down to high demand and stability in oil producing regions yet the facts are that it is the US speculators that were responsible for it all along and even though we now know they still don't want to stop it.

 

 

Senate Republicans preventing crackdown on oil speculators

 

23 Jul 2008

 

GOP efforts in the Senate Wednesday threatened to sink a bill meant to crack down on oil speculators. On Wednesday, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND), one of the main sponsors of the bill, pleaded for Republicans to help "wring excessive speculation" from the oil markets, which he says is responsible for 71 percent of the price of a barrel of oil this year. Some analysts say speculation has added between $40 to $60 dollars to a barrel of oil.

 

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Top Rocket Scientist: No Evidence CO2 Causes Global Warming

Another major man-made climate change advocate recants

 

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

 

The campaign to force people to accept that "the debate is over" and that man-made CO2 emissions are driving climate change is in deep trouble, with another top global warming advocate - rocket scientist and carbon accounting expert Dr. Richard Evans - completely reversing his position.

 

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2008 Bohemian Grove Guest List Obtained By 9/11 Truth Activists

Guests included George H. W. Bush, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger

Steve Watson & Paul Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, July 21, 2008

An official guest list for Bohemian Grove's 2008 midsummer encampment along with a map of the Grove's facilities has been obtained by a San Francisco based action group who held protests and information drives outside the entrance to the elite summer retreat.

 

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Now there are 1,000 laws that will let the state into your home

By Simon Walters
Last updated at 8:56 AM on 20th July 2008

 

The march of the Big Brother state under Labour was highlighted last night as it was revealed that there are now 1,043 laws that give the authorities the power to enter a home or business.

Nearly half have been introduced since Labour came to power 11 years ago. They include the right to:

• Invade your home to see if your pot plants have pests or do not have a 'plant passport' (Plant Health England Order 2005).

• Survey your home and garden to see if your hedge is too high (Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003).

• Check that accommodation given to asylum seekers is not being lived in by non-asylum seekers (Immigration and Asylum Act 1999).

• Raid a house to check if unlicensed gambling is taking place (Gambling Act 2005 Inspection Regulations 2007).

• Seize fridges without the correct energy rating (Energy Information Household Refrigerators and Freezers Regulations 2004).

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Met Police chief in quiz over panel that gave £3m contract to skiing pal

Date: 20/07/2008

Source: Daily Mail

 

Britain's top policeman, Sir Ian Blair, is to be questioned following allegations that Scotland Yard contracts worth more than £3million were awarded to a firm run by a close personal friend.

 

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Brown to begin Middle East talks

Brown to begin Middle East talks

 

20/07/2008

Gordon Brown arrives in Tel Aviv for two days of talks with Israeli and Palestinian political leaders, following his trip to Iraq.

 

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Global Warming Conclusively Debunked As Gore Calls For CO2 Tax

The seven graphs that dispel alarmist claims about climate change

 

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Friday, July 18, 2008

 

The world is cooling, sea levels are falling, ice is spreading, there are fewer extreme weather events, and it was hotter 1000 years ago, yet the myth of global warming is providing governments the excuse to micromanage every aspect of our lives, with Al Gore now openly calling for a carbon tax on the energy we use.

 

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Conservatives use £1.5m of taxpayers' money a year to pay relatives

By: Daily Mail Reporter
Date: 17th July 2008

 

Nearly a third of Tory MPs pay relatives from their taxpayer-funded expenses - at a total cost of £1.5million a year.

New figures show 61 Conservatives employ members of their family out of their £102,000 staffing perk. Sixteen of them pay relatives as much as £40,000 to help run their parliamentary or constituency offices.

They include chief whip Patrick McLoughlin's wife Lynne, who earns up to £39,999 as a constituency secretary. Frontbencher Laurence Robertson employs both his wife, Susan, from whom he has separated, and Anne Adams, the girlfriend whose affair with him was said to have led to the breakup.

The details were revealed yesterday as the Tories published the most extensive breakdown of MPs' expenses of any party at Westminster.

The information includes second homes allowances, travel and office costs. The biggest mortgage interest claim was £9,600 from Eleanor Laing, MP for Epping Forest. The highest car mileage claim - £3,542 - was from Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater).

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Bush Says Economy Sound As Inflation Rises To Record Levels

Destructive economic policies Joseph Stiglitz, Ron Paul warned of start to take effect

 

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

 

With three more financial outlets collapsing under the economical meltdown last week, queues of angry people outside banks with no access to their money, inflation at its highest rate for 27 years and scores of economists predicting a recession may tip into a full blown depression, president Bush reacted by declaring that the economy is still fundamentally sound.

 

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Two Peer-Reviewed Scientific Papers Debunk CO2 Myth

Global warming consensus takes another battering

 

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

 

Three top scientists have once again contradicted the claim that a "consensus" exists about man-made global warming with research that indicates CO2 emissions actually cool the atmosphere, in addition to another peer-reviewed paper that documents how the IPCC overstated CO2's effect on temperature by as much as 2000 per cent.

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Bank of England warns: 'There's NOTHING we can do to stop the pain of prices soaring'

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Mortgage Giants' Collapse Could Herald 1930's Style Depression

William Rees-Mogg says economic tsunami could sweep away democratic form of government

 

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Monday, July 14, 2008

 

Veteran London Times journalist William Rees-Mogg predicts that the collapse of U.S. mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could herald a downturn into a 1930's style depression that threatens to sweep away democratic governments.

 

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Media Ignores Ron Paul March For Liberty

Thousands shut down streets of Washington D.C. in peaceful rally

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, July 14, 2008

 

 

Thousands of people marched peacefully in Washington D.C. on Saturday, to honor Texas Congressman Ron Paul's campaign for liberty, yet the mainstream media uniformly failed to issue a single written report on the event in its aftermath.

 

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Iran's Photoshopped Missiles Are "Glorified Scuds"

Ridiculous merry-go-round over fake photos and the real facts behind Iran's non existent weapons program

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, July 11, 2008

The events of the last two days surrounding the Iranian missile tests once again highlight that the perception of any threat Iran poses to the U.S. and even to Israel is wholly manufactured and has been blown out of all proportion by the Western media and, by proxy, the two presidential candidates.

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Bush, McCain & Obama To Visit Bohemian Grove?

Annual get-together of global elite kicks off tonight in Monte Rio, California

 

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Friday, July 11, 2008

 

Outgoing President George W. Bush and both of his presumptive replacements John McCain and Barack Obama are rumored to be in attendance at this year's Bohemian Grove gathering, an annual get-together of the global elite staged inside a sprawling forest encampment which kicks off tonight and runs until July 27.

 

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Why poorer families will be 'hardest hit' by steep rises in car tax

By: Michael Lea

Source: Daily Mail
Date: 11th July 2008

 

Hundreds of thousands of car owners earning less than £15,000 a year will be hit with road tax rises of up to £245, new estimates have revealed.

Almost 400,000 of the poorest drivers will pay an average £80 more, equal to two days' take-home pay, under controversial Government plans to overhaul vehicle excise duty.

Around 140,000 will be stung for at least £100, while those with the most polluting vehicles will be subjected to the maximum £245 increase  -  more than a week's wages.

The figures come a day after the Treasury revealed that almost half of all motorists - 9.4million - will be worse off once the scheme is fully implemented in 2010.

And they are certain to stoke further anger from rebel MPs furious that another Labour tax change will hit the poorest hard following the 10p tax fiasco.

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U.S. military to patrol Internet

10/07/2008

Source: UPI.com

 

 

WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. military is looking for a contractor to patrol cyberspace, watching for warning signs of forthcoming terrorist attacks or other hostile activity on the Web.

"If someone wants to blow us up, we want to know about it," Robert Hembrook, the deputy intelligence chief of the U.S. Army's Fifth Signal Command in Mannheim, Germany, told United Press International.

In a solicitation posted on the Web last week, the command said it was looking for a contractor to provide "Internet awareness services" to support "force protection" -- the term of art for the security of U.S. military installations and personnel.

"The purpose of the services will be to identify and assess stated and implied threat, antipathy, unrest and other contextual data relating to selected Internet domains," says the solicitation.

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Judge who sentenced animal rights activist was fan of blood sports

Seems all Kirtley was guilty of was running animal rights activists material on his website for which he got 4 1/2 years imprisonment. The Judge, a life long fan of Blood sports, said "he considered his interest did not disqualify him from presiding over a fair trial". Fair trial, 4 1/2 years for providing information on his website about a campaign against an animal research facility????? They call that fair. Mind you it was under one of Mr Blair's 3,000 new laws he bought in during his term in office so it makes sense that it would favour a company that experiments and inflicts pain on living animals in the name of making health products safe rather then an individuals rights to peacefully protests against said cruelty.

An Apt legacy of Tony Blair's terms as Prime Minister of the UK

 

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Judge who sentenced animal rights activist was fan of blood sports

 

By Jonathan Brown
Thursday, 10 July 2008

Source: The Independent

A man found guilty at the end of the longest animal rights trial in legal history has launched an appeal, claiming the judge should not have heard the case because of his interest in blood sports.

Sean Kirtley, 42, was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail for his part in a prolonged campaign against Sequani Ltd by Judge Peter Ross at Coventry Crown Court earlier this year.

The case, which has been unreported until now, has become a cause célèbre among anti-vivisection campaigners after the activist became the first person to stand trial accused of conspiring to interfere with an animal research establishment under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act.

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G8 agree emissions cuts needed

09 JUL 2008 07:33 BST

TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - The world's biggest polluters agreed on Wednesday on the need for "deep cuts" in greenhouse gas emissions, but differences between developed and emerging economies kept them from setting specific targets. Full Article

Terror Stopped For Putting My Hand In My Pocket

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

 

"YOU. STAND OVER THERE."

 

This past Sunday night I was subjected to another stark reminder of how far the UK has descended into a total police state when I was stopped on the street by "Police Community Support Officers" for putting my hand in my pocket.

 

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'Big Brother' government costs us £20billion

07 Jul 2008

 

The cost of Britain's "surveillance society" measures is now running at £20 billion, a new report reveals today. The amount is equivalent to £800 per household and includes £19 billion for the planned ID card system and £500 million for CCTV cameras. The report by the TaxPayers' Alliance was highlighted by David Davis, the former shadow home secretary, who stands in a by-election this week on the issue of civil liberties. Mr Davis resigned as an MP after the opposition failed to defeat Government plans to hold terrorism suspects for 42 days.

 

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Oil prices fall heavily as Iran tensions ease

07 Jul 2008

 

Oil prices fell sharply Monday in a move some traders attributed to an ease in geopolitical tensions related to Iran's nuclear program and a strengthening US dollar. New York's main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for August delivery, slumped a hefty 3.92 dollars to close at 141.37 dollars.

 

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US exports to Iran increased over tenfold under Bush

08 Jul 2008 U.S.

Sourced: CLG

 

Exports to Iran from the US grew more than tenfold during President Bush's years in office even as he accused Iran of nuclear ambitions and helping terrorists.

Other surprising shipments to Iran during the Bush administration possibly included weapons. The U.S. government's own figures show that at least $148,000 worth of unspecified weapons and other military gear were exported from the United States to Iran during Bush's time in office. That includes $106,635 in military rifles and $8,760 in rifle parts and accessories shipped in 2004, the data shows. Also shipped to Iran were at least $13,000 in "aircraft launching gear and/or deck arrestors," equipment needed to launch jets from aircraft carriers, according to U.S. records.

 

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G8: New energy forum to tackle oil crisis

08/07/2008

The G8 industrial nations today announced the creation of a new world energy forum as a response to the threat posed to their economies from a doubling in the price of crude over the past year.

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Benn confirms TB cull rejection

08/07/2008

 

The government confirms it will not permit badger culling to curb cattle TB in England, following scientific advice.

 

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G8 vows to halve greenhouse gases

08/07/2008
World leaders at the G8 summit in Japan agree aggressive targets to cut carbon emissions in an effort to tackle global warming.

 

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Muslim nations warn of food and fuel disaster

08 JUL 2008 10:51 BST

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Warning that escalating food and fuel prices could lead to disaster, a group of developing Muslim nations called on Tuesday for urgent measures to lift food and oil output and a rethink on biofuels. Full Article

EU begins budget discipline procedure against UK

08 JUL 2008 11:40 BST

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union finance ministers started disciplinary budget steps against Britain on Tuesday, saying its deficit was set to exceed the country's fiscal commitments. Full Article

G8 wants U.N. deal to halve emissions

08 JUL 2008 11:39 BST

TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - The G8 rich countries said on Tuesday they want to work with the nearly 200 states involved in U.N. climate change talks to adopt a goal of at least halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Full Article

Afghanistan Accuses "Foreign Intelligence Agency" Of Deadly Embassy Bombing

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Monday, July 7, 2008

 

Attack that killed 41 could be "false flag" to justify continued occupation of Afghanistan, CIA control of lucrative opium trade

 

Afghanistan's interior ministry has accused a "foreign intelligence agency" of being behind today's deadly suicide bombing that ripped apart the country's Indian embassy in Kabul, killing 41 people. Could the event represent another "false flag" run by American intelligence as a means of maintaining a military presence in Afghanistan and control of the country's lucrative opium trade?

 

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Biochemistry Students' Violent Deaths Shock Police

Date: 04 Jul 2008

 

Two biochemistry students had come to London to develop their skills as specialists in infectious disease and environmental engineering.

 

As two talented biochemistry students and close friends, Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez had come to London to develop their skills as specialists in infectious disease and environmental engineering... The bodies of Mr Bonomo and Mr Ferez, both 23, were found late on Sunday evening, bound, gagged and with hundreds of stab wounds and other injuries. They had been tortured and beaten repeatedly with a blunt instrument. Yesterday officers described the killings, which took place in Mr Bonomo's flat in southeast London, as the most vicious they had seen. Mr Bonomo, a student in the proteins that cause infectious disease, had been stabbed 196 times, with up to half the wounds inflicted after he was dead. Mr Ferez had 47 separate injuries. Police said that their ordeal had lasted a considerable time before the flat, and possibly the bodies, were covered in accelerant and set alight.

 

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See: List of Dead Scientists -- Microbiology, what a dangerous profession! Most have died since 9/11. By Steve Quayle

 

G8 accused of backtracking on Africa pledges

Date: 07/07/2008

 

TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - G8 leaders lunched and talked with African heads of state at a luxury hotel on Monday as activists accused the rich nations' club of backpedalling on pledges to double aid to the world's poorest continent.

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Brown calls on public to cut food wastage

Brown calls on public to cut food wastage

Date: 07/07/2008

LONDON (Reuters) - Britons can help bring food prices down by cutting the amount they waste every year, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday.
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UK-Government accused over bonuses

Source: BBC News

Date: Sunday, 6 July 2008 14:55

The government is criticised by the Tories after it was revealed civil servants banked more than £128m in bonuses.

Ministers are running a "something for nothing" culture in handing civil servants bonuses of £128m , the Conservatives have said.

The 2007-8 figures show the average senior civil servant banked a bonus of more than £7,000, they said.

Top level staff at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport earned the most, at £11,000.

 

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War veteran, 84, in suicide bid after energy firm hounded him for £6,600 that he didn't owe

By Liz Hull
Last updated at 4:28 PM on 05th July 2008

Source: Daily Mail

A war veteran driven to despair by soaring electricity prices tried to commit suicide when a power company broke into his home and installed a pre- payment meter he did not know how to use.

Walter Bargate, 84, swallowed 100 sleeping pills and painkillers after spending three freezing days without heating, lighting or cooking facilities in the middle of winter.

The great-grandfather, who has impaired vision and is physically disabled, left a heartbreaking suicide note to his children, scrawled in the pitch dark.

He said he had been pushed to take his life when engineers from German-owned power firm E.ON installed a pre-payment meter after claims that he had failed to pay his bills of £6,600.

But unknown to Mr Bargate, who served as a navigator on Lancaster bombers in the Second World War, E.ON had been wrongly calculating his electricity costs for years. In fact, the retired civil servant had overpaid his account by thousands of pounds because the firm had wrongly wired his meter.

He didn't owe it a penny. He was discovered unconscious by a relative the following morning and has since recovered.

Mr Bargate's plight has emerged at a time when experts have warned that average household heating and electricity bills are likely to rise by more than £400 in the next few months to around £1,400 a year.

Last night Mr Bargate's daughter, Sarah Hayes, 50, said the power firm had treated her father with nothing but contempt. 'E.ON have behaved in the most outrageous manner from beginning to end,' she said.

'It chokes me to think how desperate he must have felt. I'm disgusted with this company. They broke into his home while he was in bed upstairs and, despite his age and frailty, could not recognise that he was a vulnerable customer.

'Even now, when it has been proved that they wired the meter incorrectly, he is still waiting for an apology.

'Where the Germans failed during the war, E.ON almost succeeded in killing my father 60 years later.

'They have a moral and legal duty to compensate him for all that he has been through.'

Mr Bargate's ordeal began around four years ago when he started struggling to pay the large electricity bills.

As a fiercely independent man, the divorced pensioner refused to ask his two grown-up children for help.

He assumed the inexplicably high bills were correct and he was simply out-of-touch with soaring prices.

In fact, there was a long-standing technical problem. The off-peak meter had been wired through the main meter, which meant he was being charged more than double for the energy he was using.

Fearful of his mounting debts, Mr Bargate stopped opening correspondence from E.ON.

In February last year three engineers, armed with an official warrant, broke into his semidetached home in Stockport to install a pre-payment meter.

When the electricity supply ran out a few days later Mr Bargate could not fathom how to top it up.

He desperately tried to contact E.ON - hanging on the phone to a customer service representative for three hours on one occasion - but failed to get any help.

After three days days and two freezing nights without heating, lighting or cooking facilities he had reached the end of his tether and took the overdose.

Doctors warned Mrs Hayes that her father was unlikely to survive, but he pulled through.

Mrs Hayes then discovered her father's suicide note and unopened correspondence demanding £6,600 in unpaid bills.

She referred the matter to the energy-supply ombudsman, who discovered the faulty wiring and said E.ON UK should write off the debt and £500 compensation.

The ruling suggested that while the faulty wiring dated from 2002 when the meters were installed, the problem could go back to 1983 when E.ON took over his supply.

Mrs Hayes, of Burnage, Greater Manchester, is taking legal action to try to recoup £10,000 she estimates her father overpaid and to secure compensation.

Adam Scorer, director of campaigns at the utilities watchdog Energywatch, said the case was a 'catalogue of crass errors' by E.ON.

'They have a legal and moral obligation to acknowledge the horrendous impact of their actions on Mr Bargate's quality of life and to provide suitable redress,' he added.

E.ON said there was no evidence of overcharging before 2002. A spokesman added: 'We had not received payment for over two years, despite our numerous calls and letters. We were therefore granted a warrant to fit a pre-payment meter at Mr Bargate's property.'

The spokesman added: 'As soon as we were aware of the fault on Mr Bargate's meter we corrected it and offered our sincere apologies to the customer and his family.

'We were not aware of Mr Bargate's medical condition. Had we known of this we obviously would have taken it into full consideration. Had we been made aware of the severity of this situation by Mr Bargate or his family we would have acted upon it immediately.'

Mr Bargate's story will feature on ITV1's Tonight programme on Monday at 8pm.

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Ron Paul: I hear members of Congress saying "if we could only nuke Iran"

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, July 4, 2008

Congressman Ron Paul has warned millions of radio listeners that the US is heading into a deadly confrontation with Iran, revealing his disbelief at members of Congress who have openly voiced support for a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the country.

 

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