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BRITAIN: Artificial UK Trees To Consume Co2 Proposed

PhysOrg.com – A new study on how technology could help to regulate climate change has studied hundreds of ideas, and selected three considered practical and able to be implemented quickly. The report’s authors propose the construction of forests of artificial trees and installing tubes of algae on the sides of buildings to absorb carbon dioxide. They also proposed painting the roofs of buildings white to keep the Earth cool by reducing the amount of solar radiation absorbed.

NOTE: More pseudo science driven by politics and economics [carbon tax] rather than real science. Carbon [Co2] is an essential ingredient for natural plant growth. Humans produce very little carbon compared to dying vegetation, wildfires, and volcanic activity. – Max

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HOLLYWOOD: Glorifying communism and a communist

Devvy Kidd – “If you think this sounds as if Al Gore wrote the script for “Avatar,” not James Cameron, you may be right. This theme of kill all the humans, especially the pro-American, capitalist humans, has long been an underlying message of the left-wing, environmentalist movement, beginning with Rachel Carson’s hysterical plea to ban DDT, even though, to this day, there is no evidence that DDT is harmful to humans or the environment, and even though the use of DDT can save millions of human lives from the deadly disease of malaria…

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GLOBALISM: Scientific Manipulation of Our Reality

No World System – The following quotes are from Bertrand Arthur-William Russell who was a renowned British philosopher, a supporter of eugenics and World Government. He’s had a huge influence in the scientific dictatorship that we all live in today. The following quotes will describe how governments use propaganda in public schools, TV and movies to shape public opinions and beliefs to manage large populations for the benefit of the elite.

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REVIEW: Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby

Martin Webster – Is there a revolt against the Israel Lobby brewing in Britain? A review of Peter Oborne’s TV report “Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby”

It is not often that one can, with pleasure, place on record that one was wrong in expressing a particular opinion. But I can do this in the case of a TV documentary film, Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby, by the journalist and political commentator Peter Oborne, broadcast on Monday 16th November by Britain’s Channel 4, an independent network, as part of its Dispatches series.

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GLOBALISM: The Strategy Behind Same-Sex Marriage

Henry Makow – Traditional marriage has been under attack for a long time. In the past decade, the main battleground has been same-sex marriage.

My state, Maine, was one of of the six states where it was legal. But then, in a referendum last month, a majority of voters overturned the law. Now it’s only five states.

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ECONOMICS: New Underground Economy

CATO Institute – Tax revenues are falling far more rapidly at the federal, state and local level than would be expected by the small drop in real gross domestic product (GDP) and changes in tax law that have occurred since the recession began. The currency in circulation outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve banks and the vaults of depository institutions – that is, the currency held by individuals and businesses – has grown by 13.3 percent in the last two years, while real nominal (not inflation-adjusted) GDP has not grown at all, and real (inflation-adjusted) GDP incomes have fallen by more than 3 percent. With the growth of electronic means of payment and financial service providers, it would be expected that the currency component of GDP would fall, not rise.

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BRITAIN: Queen Elizabeth Worth $33 Trillion

Elizabeth also controls URAINIUM just as De Beers controls the diamond trade, but she does it through direct ownership. Think it through. Check out where it is mined and she owns the land or controls the companies one way or another.

The more you know about the Royal holdings the more you shake your head in amazement. She does control Canada and not long ago shut down the government.

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PALESTINE: Israeli War Crimes In Gaza

DESERTPEACE – Although ignored by much of the Western media, a battle which echoes the biblical story of David and Goliath is taking place in The Hague. In the modern-day version, young David is personified by a soft-spoken 15-year-old girl named Amira Alqerem. Goliath takes the form of the world’s fourth most powerful, nuclear-armed military state: Israel. At stake is victims’ rights the world over and the international commitment to “never again.” It is this commitment—as well as to international law, as laid down in the Fourth Geneva Conventions and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—that Amira is asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) to recognize and uphold.

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EUROPE: EU/IMF Revolt?

Web of Debt – Greece, Iceland, Latvia may lead the way.

Europe’s small, debt-strapped countries could follow the lead of Argentina and simply walk away from their debts. That would shift the burden to the creditor countries, which could solve the problem merely by a change in accounting rules.

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AMERICA: The Depth and Trauma of Joblessness

NY Times – Joblessness has wreaked financial and emotional havoc on the lives of many of those out of work, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll of unemployed adults, causing major life changes, mental health issues and trouble maintaining even basic necessities.

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EMERGENCY: Suggested Survival List

Chuck Baldwin – One does not have to be a prophet to know that we are on the precipice of some potentially catastrophic–or at the very least, challenging–days. In fact, most of us are already in challenging days, and some are already enduring catastrophic events. That is, if one would call being out of work, losing one’s home, facing life-threatening medical conditions without any prospect of medical insurance, several families being forced to live in one house due to homes being foreclosed, etc., catastrophic.

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SCIENCE: Are Salt Ponds A Clue to Life on Mars?

SAN FRANCISCO — A scientist who searches for extraterrestrial life will use a zeppelin airship to watch red salt ponds turn green while the environment is changed from near-Martian conditions into wetlands.

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BRITAIN: McKinnon’s Mum Pleads with Queen

Computer Weekly – The Queen was today presented with a letter setting out how the royal prerogative had been used to shield parliament from the terms of an extradition treaty with the US, the same treaty now being used against self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon.

“I am sure the queen would not have knowingly sold out her own citizens,” Janis Sharp, McKinnon’s mother, told Computer Weekly.

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PALESTINE: Israel’s Leaders on the Run

Gilad Atzmon – Senior officials in Israel confirmed reports on Monday that a British court issued a warrant against opposition leader Mrs. Tzipi Livni for her role in orchestrating Israel’s military offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip last December.

British sources reported that though a British court had issued an arrest warrant for Livni over war crimes committed in Gaza, it annulled it upon discovering she was not in the U.K.

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IRAN: Scientist Who ‘Vanished’ Gave ‘Nuclear Secrets to CIA

Telegraph – An Iranian scientist who vanished six months ago has revealed secrets of his country’s nuclear programme with international weapons inspectors, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.

Shahram Amiri briefed United Nations nuclear monitors in a clandestine meeting at Frankfurt airport just hours before they flew to Iran to inspect a hidden uranium enrichment plant, according to French intelligence sources.

NOTE: This reminds me of the stories planted in the press about Iraq’s alleged ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ that were supposedly provided by Ahmad Chalabi who is now a warlord and runs death squads in Iraq. – Max

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IRAN: Russia and China Pressed by West for Tougher Sanctions

Times – The United States, Germany, France and Britain will push Russia and China at a meeting expected to be on Friday to agree to new UN sanctions against Iran.

Britain, France and the United States all issued blunt warnings at a Security Council meeting on Thursday that Iran faced fresh sanctions for defying UN demands to halt uranium enrichment. “If it continues to refuse the slightest confidence measures, to refuse dialogue, transparency … we must draw all of the necessary conclusions and that means that we must move on to a new resolution involving sanctions,” Gérard Araud, the French ambassador, told the council. “There is no longer any reason to wait.”

NOTE: Another story planted by western intelligence. Also the same move they made against Iraq on the phantom WMD that caused the deaths of countless Iraqi children through malnutrition. This is all bullshit to gain complete control over oil resources. The UN is a western stooge. – Max

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BRITAIN: Miliband Strives To Hide Proof of Torture

Guardian – Foreign secretary claims security would be harmed by disclosing CIA files on UK involvement in abuse of terror suspects abroad

Efforts will be stepped up tomorrow to suppress evidence of British involvement in the unlawful treatment of a UK resident, Binyam Mohamed, who says he was tortured in Pakistan, Morocco, and Afghanistan before being secretly rendered to Guantánamo Bay.

NOTE: Miliband is a staunch Zionist supporter… if this was a British Jew he would be singing a very different song. – Max

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AMERICA: US Refuses To Allow Monitoring Of WMD

Examiner – First, the length of a headline prevents me from including the damning introduction of treaty violation of torture, legal war, use of depleted uranium, and refusal to make antipersonnel landmines illegal. Now, to substantiate the headline’s shocking and factual lead:

President Obama rejected inspection protocol for US biological weapons, in Orwellian contradiction to his statement to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). This comes after increased US investment in bio-weapons during the Bush Administration with multiple reports of secret and illegal programs.

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MIDDLE EAST: American Mercenary Death Squads

Times – Mercenaries have been taking part in American raids on al-Qaeda militants in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to newspaper reports that will intensify pressure on Congress to curtail the use of private security guards in war zones.

The disclosure that former Navy Seals and other US special forces soldiers employed by Blackwater Worldwide took part in CIA raids may also prompt fresh scrutiny of General Stanley McChrystal. The senior Nato commander in Afghanistan was head of the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command between 2003 and 2008, when he directed covert attacks on al-Qaeda’s leadership in Iraq.

NOTE: All this crap about ‘al-Qaeda’ is merely to mask the fact that these are hostile invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. It is the American and other foreign forces that are the ‘insurgents’ not those defending their own homelands… they are FREEDOM FIGHTERS! – Max

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MIDDLE EAST: Israel-Bound Turkish Ship Capsizes off Lebanon

BEIRUT (Reuters) – All but one of 12 crew members were missing after a cargo ship capsized in international waters some 80 km (50 miles) off the Lebanese coast, the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon said on Saturday.

An Israeli military source identified the ship as a Togolese-flagged Turkish cargo vessel that was bound for Israel.

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CANADA: Mounties ‘A Tarnished Icon’

The Ottawa Citizen – The more light that is shed on the events of Oct. 14, 2007 at the Vancouver International Airport, the worse the actions of Royal Canadian Mounted Police involved look. And, two years later, not enough has been done by the RCMP to improve the situation.

The latest report on the conduct of four RCMP officers the night Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski died after being Tasered comes from Paul Kennedy, chairman of the commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP.

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COPENHAGEN: 200 Detained In Climate Protest

Karl Ritter – Danish police outnumbered protesters on Sunday, detaining more than 200 people on a second day of demonstrations as environment ministers met for informal talks to advance negotiations on a new pact.

Meanwhile, church bells in Denmark and other countries rang 350 times, a number that refers to what many scientists consider a safe level of carbon dioxide in the air.

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GLOBALISM: Drug Money Saved Banks In Crisis

Guardian – Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations’ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.

Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were “the only liquid investment capital” available to some banks on the brink of collapse last year. He said that a majority of the $352bn (£216bn) of drugs profits was absorbed into the economic system as a result.

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AFGHANISTAN: Taliban Terrorise Kabul’s ‘Ruling’ Class

Taliban ‘insurgents’ [resistance] who have infiltrated Kabul are nailing “night letters” to the doors of policemen, soldiers and government workers, warning them to leave their jobs or face punishment.

The militants are being welcomed in the Afghan capital’s poorer areas among inhabitants who are disaffected with corruption, and who supply them with food, cash and weapons.

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AMERICA: ‘Welcome to Obamaville’

Residents of Colorado Springs, Colorado, have a mystery on their hands: Who came up with the idea to erect a sign reading “Welcome to Obamaville” on the site of a homeless tent camp in the city?

The sign, which was visible from the Cimarron Street ramp to Interstate 25, clearly conveyed a political jab at rising unemployment under President Barack Obama, for it read in full, “Welcome to Obamaville – Colorado’s fastest growing community.”

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MIDDLE EAST: Radioactive Weapons Have Far Reaching Effects

Palestine Telegraph – We have seen the terrible consequences to human life and the environment that has been caused by weapons that contain uranium components. Genetically speaking the US and UK have destroyed the DNA of the Iraqi people as well as causing catastrophic effects on the environment.

Presidents and Prime Ministers really have a lot to answer for when they started the wars in the Balkans, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Gaza and now Pakistan. We are now seeing their continued aggression and intimidation against Iran and North Korea and one wonders that they have up their sleeve.

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GLOBALISM: Bayer Admits GMO Contamination Disaster

Greenpeace – welcomes the United States federal jury ruling on 4 December 2009 that Bayer CropScience LP must pay $2 million US dollars to two Missouri farmers after their rice crop was contaminated with an experimental variety of rice that the company was testing in 2006.

Bayer has admitted it has been unable to control the spread of its genetically-engineered organisms despite ‘the best practices [to stop contamination]‘(1). It shows that all outdoors field trials or commercial growing of GE crops must be stopped before our crops are irreversibly contaminated.

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BRITAIN: ‘I would have invaded Iraq anyway’ – Tony Blair

Guardian – Tony Blair has said he would have invaded Iraq even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction and would have found a way to justify the war to parliament and the public.

The former prime minister made the confession during an interview with Fern Britton, to be broadcast on Sunday on BBC1, in which he said he would still have thought it right to remove Saddam Hussein from power.

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PALESTINE: Jewish Squatters Attack West Bank Mosque

Suspected extremist Jewish settlers [land thieves] today attacked a mosque in the northern West Bank, burning holy books and spraying threatening graffiti in Hebrew on the building, Palestinian officials and Israeli police said.

Extremists broke into the mosque in the village of Yasuf, near the city of Nablus, and burned Korans and copies of the Hadith, or sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, and prayer carpets, while spraying slogans on the floor reading “Price tag – greetings from Effi.”

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MIDDLE EAST: The dark side of Dubai

Independent – Dubai was meant to be a Middle-Eastern Shangri-La, a glittering monument to Arab enterprise and western capitalism. But as hard times arrive in the city state that rose from the desert sands, an uglier story is emerging. Johann Hari reports…

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AMERICA: Bigfoot in the Northwoods?

Tim Kedrowski and his sons, Peter and Casey, are not pushovers for Bigfoot stories, but a frame on a game trail camera set up on their hunting land north of Remer has left them in a quandary.

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AMERICA: Heroes of the Resistance

Henry Makow – Throughout the 20th century, voices that cut a little too close to the core of the New World Order, were silenced, slandered, and discredited. One such voice, was Father Charles Coughlin (1891-1979.) A Roman Catholic priest of Canadian birth, Coughlin pioneered use of the radio to reach vast numbers of people during the 1930s era of Roosevelt’s New Deal. While his message was not without flaws, Father Coughlin spoke the truth in key areas which led to his consignment to the “wrong” side of history in official accounts.

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AMERICA: DHS Orders 200 Million Rounds of Ammunition

WASHINGTON DC – Winchester Ammunition was recently awarded a contract by the Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security to supply a maximum of 200 million, 40 cal. rounds over the next five years.

The load selected for this contract is a 135-grain, hollow point designed for the office of Field Operations of Customs and Border Protection. It will fall under the Winchester Ranger line.

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EMERGENCY: 100 Things You’ll Wish You Had

How To Be Prepared – In order to get through any major catastrophe you need to think in terms of survival, protection, food, water, clothing and shelter. Now I’m not Ewell Gibbons but, I don’t need to be. Here is one person’s opinion on what you will need in the event of a “financial collapse” or other disaster.

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AMERICA: 100-Yr Old Child Molester To Be Freed

Everything that pedophile Theodore Sypnier has to show for his 100 years on Earth is packed in a single duffel bag as he prepares to begin a new chapter in life: freedom. It’s a chapter that prosecutors, judges and others who know him never wanted – or expected – to see written.

New York’s oldest registered sex offender is scheduled to move by week’s end out of a Buffalo halfway house for released inmates and into a place of his own, after completing his latest term in state prison for molesting little girls.

The judge who sentenced him said at the time that she expected him to die behind bars.

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SCIENCE: Does Death Exist? New Theory Says ‘No’

Robert Lanza, M.D. – Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think.

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AMERICA: Land of the Puppet People

Manuel Valenzuela – It oftentimes boggles the mind to try and understand the ease with which the Establishment can manipulate the American citizenry into another warmongering escapade, this time an ominous foray into the Persian lands of Iran, a nation rich in history, culture, location and most importantly to the Evil Empire, oil and gas.

Yet upon further inspection it is easy to comprehend this phenomenon, for we live, as Gore Vidal has labeled it, inside the United States of Amnesia, a country where all semblance of the yesterday becomes but a haze of blatant forgetfulness and convenient whitewash, a black hole of Alzheimer’s-like darkness from where no recollection of past lessons, mistakes, errors or history can be seen or touched.

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PALESTINE: Israeli PM Offers New Benefits To Settlers

JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister on Thursday offered additional funds and new social benefits to tens of thousands of Jewish settlers in a move seen as an attempt to soothe tensions over new restrictions on construction in the West Bank.

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GLOBALISM: UN May Curtail 400 Yrs Of ‘Freedom Of The Seas’

The 400-year-old freedom of the high seas would be lost under United Nations plans to limit environmental damage.

Military forces of several nations are in discussions with conservationists over pooling surveillance resources to enforce the changes.

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GLOBAL: Climate Deal Likely to Bear Big Price Tag

WASHINGTON — If negotiators reach an accord at the climate talks in Copenhagen it will entail profound shifts in energy production, dislocations in how and where people live, sweeping changes in agriculture and forestry and the creation of complex new markets in global warming pollution credits. So what is all this going to cost?

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AMERICA: Report Questions “Suicides” at Guantanamo

On the night of June 10, 2006, three Guantanamo detainees were found dead in their individual cells. Without any autopsy or investigation, U.S. military officials proclaimed “suicide by hanging” as the cause of each death, and immediately sought to exploit the episode as proof of the evil of the detainees. Admiral Harry Harris, the camp’s commander, said it showed “they have no regard for life” and that the suicides were “not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetric warfare aimed at us here at Guantanamo”; another official anonymously said that the suicides showed the victims were “committed jihadists [who] will do anything they can to advance their cause,” while another sneered that “it was a good PR move to draw attention.”

UPDATE: Scott Horton has an interview with Law Professor Mark Denbeaux, the primary author of the report, in which he elaborates on why the military’s claims and “investigation” are so suspect.

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PALESTINE: Targeting Civilians in Gaza

Stephen Lendman – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is an “independent legal body dedicated to the protection of human rights, the promotion of the rule of law, and the upholding of democratic principles in the Occupied Territories.” It issues frequent press releases, statistics, fact sheets, documents, and reports like its October 22, 2009 English version of “Targeted Civilians: A PCHR Report on the Israeli Offensive against the Gaza Strip (27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009).”

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BRITAIN: Blair Ignored ‘Crucial WMD Reports’

Times – Tony Blair received two secret intelligence reports saying that Saddam Hussein did not have working weapons of mass destruction just days before ordering the invasion of Iraq.

Sir John Scarlett, the former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, told the official inquiry into the war yesterday that the Prime Minister then did not respond to the reports, which had crucial military significance.

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BRAZIL: Police ‘Kill 11,000 in Six Years’

Telegraph – Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many in execution-style murders, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch.

Few of the officers have been charged in the extrajudicial killings, which are often labelled in police reports as the deaths of suspects who resisted arrest, the report said.

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GLOBAL: I was a Caddy for the Elite

Toby Moreland – Having tripped across the truth about 9/11, central banks, etc. in 2006, I set out to get a grasp on the elite class in order to understand their collective mindset.

For three summers, I caddied at one of the most exclusive private golf clubs in the Northeast and had the opportunity to spend four hours at a time with some of the most recognizable stars of the business world and their families. I was not out there asking direct questions like a journalist, just going where the conversations went. Here are some of the impressions these experiences left me with…

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DENMARK: Obama Takes Power to Cut Greenhouse Gases

Copenhagen – President Barack Obama has taken powers to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from cars, factories and power plants across the United States.

NOTE: These ‘Carbon Taxes’ are simply a way of financing the New World Order through the UN.

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GLOBAL: Yahoo Sells Users Private Information to U.S. Agencies

After earlier reports this week that Yahoo had blocked an FOIA Freedom of Information release of its “law enforcement and intelligence price list”, someone helpfully provided a copy of the Yahoo company’s spying guide to the whistleblower web site Cryptome.org

The 17-page guide, which Yahoo has tried to suppress via legal letters to the Cryptome.org site run by freedom of information champion John Young, describes Yahoo’s policies on keeping the data of Yahoo Email and Yahoo Groups users, as well as the surveillance and spying capabilities it can give to the U.S. government and its agencies.

The Yahoo document is a price list for these spying services and has already resulted in many people closing down their accounts in protest. However, closing a Yahoo account is not as easy as one might expect: users have reported great difficulty in finding the link to delete their account, and, Yahoo will still keep data for another 90 days. [Mathaba.Net]»

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AFGHANISTAN: More Than 300 US Soldiers Killed This Year

Telegraph – A bomb killed a US soldier in Afghanistan, bringing the number of American troops killed in the war this year to more than 300.

An improvised explosive device (IED) exploded in eastern Afghanistan, killing the soldier, who was serving in the NATO-run International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

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BRITAIN: Army Tackles Hoax Bombs Outside Belfast Banks

Henry McDonald – Republicans believe dissident groups responsible for fake bomb alerts just hours after Derry riots.

Banks have become the latest target in the republican dissident campaign after two devices which later turned out to be hoaxes were left outside banks in south Belfast today.

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DENMARK: Police Prepare Cages for Protestors

COPENHAGEN — At an abandoned beer warehouse in this city’s Valby district, law enforcement officials have constructed an elaborate holding facility with three dozen steel cages to accommodate more than 350 potential troublemakers during a United Nations climate conference that gets under way here on Monday.

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PALESTINE: Native Rights Versus Squatters’ Demands

Jerusalem (CNN) – In 1954, Mahmmoud Hujaij was born with the help of a mid-wife in a small East Jerusalem house. Half a century later, he is fighting for the right to continue living in the city of his birth.

On a 2006 trip to visit his sister and ailing mother, Israeli [Occupation] authorities informed Hujaij that his residency permit in Jerusalem had expired.

“They called me and said ‘oh, you are not living in Jerusalem you are living outside the country,’” Hujaij recounts. “They said you have to give up your ID and leave within 30 days.’”

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ECONOMICS: Shock Waves from Dubai Default About to Hit

Clive Maund – You’ve seen the flash – now get ready for the shock wave…

What happened in Dubai just over a week ago was the bright flash, and the media have used the intervening period before the shock wave hits to reassure everyone that everything is going to be just fine – “You just relax, nothing will come of it, it’s only $60 billion down the drain or whatever – have a cup of tea”. The trouble is that it’s not $60 billion at all – the reality is that this is a default on a massively larger scale.

Expect Deflation, Dollar Rally, Gold Retreat

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BRITAIN: Gordon Brown Snubbed by Soldiers ‘Curtain’ Protest

Steven Swinford – Gordon Brown was snubbed by badly injured Afghan veterans when they closed curtains round their beds during a hospital visit and refused to speak to him.

More than half the soldiers being treated at the Selly Oak hospital ward in Birmingham either asked for the curtains to be closed or deliberately avoided the prime minister, according to several of those present.

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AFRICA: Western Sahara Campaigner Still Blocked from Returning Home

Western Sahara – campaigner still blocked from returning home by Moroccan authorities; on twentieth day of hunger strike

Moroccan authorities have for the second time refused to allow Western Sahara campaigner Aminatou Haidar, who is on the twentieth day of her hunger strike in Spain, to return home until she apologises for refusing to state her nationality as Moroccan upon receiving a prize.

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RUSSIA: Pyrotechnics Nightclub Fire Kills 109

MOSCOW — The master of ceremonies at the nightclub was cracking jokes late on Friday, surrounded by hundreds of people eating sushi and dancing with drinks in hand, when a pyrotechnic display ignited a plastic ceiling decorated with twigs. “Ladies and gentlemen!” the M.C. shouted. “We are on fire! Leave the hall!”

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AMERICA: Obama The War Monger Honored For ‘Peace’

WASHINGTON – He’s the Nobel Peace Prize winner who just ordered 30,000 more troops to war. He’s the laureate who says he doesn’t deserve the award. He’s not quite 11 months on the job and already in the company of Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama.

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ISRAEL: IOF Forces Attack Homes and Fishing Boats

GAZA (PIC) – Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and Israeli gunboats fired at Rafah homes and Palestinian fishing boats south of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, local sources reported.

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UNITED NATIONS: “Plans For World Government Are Scary”

JANET ALBRECHTSEN – We can only hope that world leaders will do nothing more than enjoy a pleasant bicycle ride around the charming streets of Copenhagen come December. For if they actually manage to wring out an agreement based on the current draft text of the Copenhagen climate-change treaty, the world is in for some nasty surprises. Draft text, you say? If you haven’t heard about it, that’s because none of our otherwise talkative political leaders have bothered to tell us what the drafters have already cobbled together for leaders to consider. And neither have the media.

Enter Lord Christopher Monckton…

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HEALTH: Pregnant Women Must Learn About Vitamin D

NHS chiefs have said that pregnant women must be educated about the importance of taking vitamin D supplements.

A plan of action is now to be put in place, in light of a campaign by 14-year-old Glasgow schoolboy Ryan McLaughlin after he saw his mother with MS.

He believes vitamin D can help prevent the condition and has appealed for free vitamin D supplements for children and pregnant women, taking his case to Holyrood’s petitions committee.

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AMERICA: Blackwater Chief Erik Prince Was CIA Agent

TIMES-ONLINE: In private, he was a CIA operative, with his own file as a “vetted asset” at the agency’s headquarters, and a mission to build “a unilateral, unattributable capability” to hunt down and kill al-Qaeda militants for the US Government wherever they could be found.

These claims, made by Mr Prince and supported by others who knew of his activities, form part of a potentially explosive investigation into the life of America’s best-known mercenary…

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BRITAIN: Tony Blair Funded By Obscure Oligarch

TELEGRAPH – Tony Blair’s new paymaster is an obscure oligarch with business links to Syria, Iran and Afghanistan, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.

Nizami Piriyev, an Azerbaijan-based millionaire, paid Mr Blair to fly to Baku, the capital, earlier this week to open his new “methanol plant” funded by a British government-backed bank.

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CLIMATEGATE – Greenhouse Gas Carbon Dioxide Ramps Up Aspen Growth

The study, by scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Minnesota at Morris (UMM) and published today (Dec. 4) in the journal Global Change Biology, shows that elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide during the past 50 years have boosted aspen growth rates by an astonishing 50 percent.

NOTE: Apparently plants absorb CO2 and convert it to sugar and oxygen.

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BRITAIN: Docs Demand Inquest to ‘Prove Dr David Kelly Was Murdered’

TELEGRAPH: Six eminent doctors have launched a legal action to reopen the inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly in an attempt to prove he was murdered.

They plan to publish a report which they claim proves the weapons expert did not commit suicide, as the Hutton Report decided, and have hired lawyers to call on Baroness Scotland, the Attorney General, and the coroner Nicholas Gardiner to re-examine the circumstances of his death.

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Canadian Judge Torpedoes ‘Hate Speech’ Ruling

EDMONTON — A Court of Queen’s Bench judge has ruled an anti-gay letter written by a former Alberta pastor in 2002 was not a hate crime and is allowed under freedom of speech.

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Killer Carp – A Fish Experiment Gone Wrong

The Frankenstein Fish – The Asian carp native to north and northeast Asia. It was introduced to North America in the 1970s to control algae growth in aquaculture and municipal wastewater treatment facilities. They escaped from captivity soon after their importation. They are considered a highly invasive species and by 2003 had spread into the Mississippi, Illinois, Ohio and Missouri rivers and many of their tributaries in the US. They are now (April 2007) abundant in the Mississippi River watershed from Louisiana to South Dakota and Illinois.

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£1bn UK Warship With Missiles That Don’t Work

HMS Whoops! It’s Britain’s new £1bn super-ship,with iPod stations and luxury quarters. One problem… the state-of-the-art missiles don’t work.

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EU ‘House Grab’ Law Applied To UK Homes?

British citizens could have their homes snatched from them on the orders of a European court under a new Brussels power grab.

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