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- BBC Takes Flack Over 9/11
While I might not think this is the best place to drive a wedge into the public version of ‘what really happened’ on 9/11, I must say that
this piece is quite interesting. The sheer amount of comments makes rather a mockery of the idea that the BBC in any way represents the views of […] - Food Price Shock: Genetic Modification or Starvation
I may soon be able to start making a new film with the co-operation of the South Centre. This excerpt from a piece by Naomi Klein (”
Disaster Capitalism: State of Extortion“) is very pertinent. The whole article is worth reading even if Naomi’s writing suffers a little from the artificial mass-publishing inspired ’shock’ filter. These […] - Links To Go #9
Long time, no LTG.
1. SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL
1.1 The Times:
Brussels to sign away your private details to US; The Mail:
US to get access to your personal files - bank details, visited websites, salaries…
Summary: An internal report leaked to The New York Times yesterday said the EU was on the verge of agreeing to give […] - Links To Go #8
1.
AAMVA to build REAL ID verification hub
Via
Homeland Stupidity, the US is using organisations responsible for issuing driving licenses to create the massively expensive, cross-state, “Real ID” card.
2.1
Staged Terror Attacks In Iraq
According to Andrew Marshall, the allied forces’ Task Force Black has been caught a few times detonating vehicles while posing as Iraqis. […] - Links To Go #7.2
Okay, it’s not still Wednesday, but here are the rest of the LsTG anyways.
1.
Monbiot on Prison Population
[’Mind Forged Manacles’, in The Guardian, via
Rinf.com]
On Friday, the government released new figures for the prison population(2). It broke all records, yet again. It has risen by 38% since Labour came to power(3), and now stands at […] - Links To Go #7.1
There will probably be two LTGs today, hence the 7.1 title. It’s one of those days.
1.
Next Stop, Crash
[in The Guardian, UK]
“The fact is we are no longer in a downturn, we are hurtling into a crash…
Yesterday, Savills warned that prices in London might fall 25% in the next 18 months; and that would reverberate […] - Links To Go #6
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Food Riots Disorder in Milwaukee
Please read back to LTG #5 for more on food and how close to a crisis we are, one that will touch ordinary people. Then read this and realise that it’s already happening.
“About 3,000 people turned out for the assistance beginning at 3 a.m. Monday, creating a line that stretched […] - Scientist “Creates Cold Fusion”?
Why isn’t this on Slashdot yet?
Scientist Creates Cold Fusion For the First Time In Decades.
Yoshiaki Arata, a highly respected physicist in Japan, demonstrated a low-energy nuclear reaction at Osaka University on Thursday. In front of a live audience, including reporters from six major newspapers and two TV studios, Arata and a co-professor Yue-Chang Zhang, […] - Prominent Structural Engineers Say Official Version of 9/11 “Impossible” “Defies Common Logic” “Violates the Law of Physics”
[via
George Washington’s Blog]
Numerous structural engineers now publicly challenge the government’s account of the destruction of the Trade Centers on 9/11, including:
Two professors of structural engineering at a prestigious Swiss university (Dr. Joerg Schneider and Dr. Hugo Bachmann) said that,
on 9/11, World Trade Center 7 was brought down by controlled demolition (translation
here)
Kamal S. […] - Do We Need Copyright Cops? (More on ACTA)
I would like to write up ACTA for a UK mainstream outlet. Please contact me if you’re interested in this.
[by
Matthew Ingram, in The Globe and Mail]
Are you sure that all of the songs on your iPod were legally acquired? What about the music or movies or other digital content on your laptop? You could […]