“After so many years of setting the tone, bribing UK politicians and controlling the BBC they (Zionists) are used to being untouchable.” (Gilad Atzmon, “Britain Must de-Zionist Itself Immediately,” Nov. 17, 2009, MWC News).

Cory Doctorow has the scoop on BoingBoing and if accurate, the new legislation will be a disaster for the privacy of all Internet users while giving unprecedented powers to the entertainment industry. Under the new bill the Secretary of State would be able to pass secondary legislation without Parliamentary oversight in order to protect rights holders.

These tankers have been parked off our shores for months, refusing to unload their oil until prices have risen even higher. The delay makes millions for speculators... and keeps your petrol costs soaring.

Parents of five-year-olds starting school have been sent an 83-point questionnaire that probes personal details of their lives.

It asks whether their children tell lies or bully others, and if they steal at home or from shops.

Parents are questioned over whether they have friends, if they can speak freely with others in their family and how well they did at school themselves.

The form also delves into family routines, questioning whether they eat takeaways and if the children drink water with their meals.

Isn't it strange how governments ignore the 'carbon footprint' associated with the manufacture and distribution of these bullshit forms...

More than half of Britons being offered vaccination against pandemic H1N1 flu are turning it down because they fear side-effects or think the virus is too mild to bother, a survey of doctors showed on Wednesday.

Many of the 107 family doctors polled by Britain's Pulse magazine said there was widespread resistance from patients and on average only 46 percent of those offered the vaccination agree to have it.

Health and safety inspectors are to be given unprecedented access to family homes to ensure that parents are protecting their children from household accidents.

Nine in 10 savings accounts are paying such a paltry interest rate that their customers are 'losing' money, shocking research revealed today.

Financial experts said savers have become the 'sacrificial lambs' of the Bank of England's desperate attempts to rescue the economy.

Banks which are part-owned by taxpayers such as Halifax and Lloyds are among the worst of the so-called 'savings sinners' paying rates as low as 0.05 per cent.

For a basic rate taxpayer with a £10,000 nest egg, this is worth a pathetic £4 after tax - or £3 for a higher rate taxpayer.

A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for "doing his duty".

Paul Clarke, 27, was found guilty of possessing a firearm at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday – after finding the gun and handing it personally to police officers on March 20 this year.

The jury took 20 minutes to make its conviction, and Mr Clarke now faces a minimum of five year's imprisonment for handing in the weapon.

In a statement read out in court, Mr Clarke said: "I didn't think for one moment I would be arrested.

"I thought it was my duty to hand it in and get it off the streets."

If its storage facilities are full, the UK has enough gas supplies for about 16 days, based on average demand. France's storage capacity would last a maximum of 91 days and Germany's 73 days.

But National Grid has told energy companies that they only need to fill tanks by a minimum of 2.3% this winter. If all gas imports to the UK ground to a halt, for example if Gazprom turned off supplies to Europe, and supplies from the North Sea were disrupted, this amount would keep the country's households and businesses supplied for just six hours on a cold day.

The new post-Lisbon Soviet European Union is a deliberate construct of International Zionism. The modern jaundice-skinned Israelis, whom we already know are in no way related to the ancient People of the Land, the Palestinians (the true descendants of the Children of Israel), intend to rule Europe from Jerusalem. They, like Menachem Begin, a terrorist who participated in the 1946 murder of 91 British soldiers and civilians, insist that the body of an Ashkenazi (non-Semitic) ‘Jew’ is in every respect physiologically superior to that of all other races of the human species and claim special ‘Master Race’ status for themselves.

CCS is a massive undertaking, potentially expanding the size of a coal station by a half. The process has two stages: pre- and post-combustion. Technology for the former is far more advanced. As a result, demonstration projects for post-combustion are not expected to be completed until 2025.

Translation: carbon capture is a complex waste of money which will seriously crank up the cost of electricity generation.

Seven out of 10 Britons back The Independent on Sunday's call for a phased withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan as a landmark report by Oxfam this week exposes the real human cost of the war.

The powerful dossier by the aid agency reveals how women and children in Afghanistan are bearing the brunt of the ongoing conflict, undermining the international community's claims that they are the very people being helped by the West's activities.

Its contents will add to mounting concerns among the public, and in some quarters of the military and the House of Commons, that the US and the UK are fighting an ill-conceived and ill-judged war that has left as many as 32,000 Afghans dead and 235,000 displaced.

The number of estimated new swine flu cases has fallen significantly in the past week, the Health Protection Agency has announced.

The latest figures show there have been an estimated 64,000 new cases in England over the past week, a 24% decrease from the previous week.

Pregnant women are being urged to have the swine flu vaccine that is being offered as part of a national immunisation programme.

Sir Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer, said that all mothers-to-be should consider having a vaccine in order to protect themselves and their baby from serious complications of illness.

See also: Shocking H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Miscarriage Stories From Pregnant Women

Nowadays,Brussels is celebrating the signing and ratification of the Lisbon Treaty,which has been long awaited. This treaty simplifies and consolidates the older treaties and also reforms a number of administrative issues related to voting and other aspects. However, most importantly this Treaty introduces a key post which is that of the President of the European Council.

President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel met in Paris to discuss this issue and agreed to support Mr. Blair to run for the EU presidency. Although Sarkozy and Merkel withdrew diplomatically from their previous full support to the British candidate, Blair remains one of the strong candidates for the post given the intensive support he is getting from the U.K.

Ministry of Defence bureaucrats have pocketed nearly £300 million in bonuses while soldiers have been dying from lack of equipment.

The civil servants have seen 'good performance' payments - including rewards for saving money - double.

The pen-pushers also won extra cash for hitting targets for promoting diversity and improving health and safety.

In one shocking example, two mandarins collected bonuses of £17,000 each - more than a year's basic pay for a squaddie in Helmand.

Drivers, households and holidaymakers should be hit with a carbon tax to tackle global warming, the head of the Environment Agency will say today.

Lord Smith, the former culture secretary, wants to see personal carbon allowances for individuals to cut greenhouse gases by penalising people for using too much fuel.

Every time someone used their car, took a flight or turned their central heating on, their personal allowance would go down.

If it hit zero, they would have to pay to get more carbon credits.

EXPERTS last night admitted they did not know whether the second wave of swine flu has peaked.

The latest figures suggest that the number of people infected by the virus is falling.

It is not yet clear whether this is the end of the second wave or a temporary lull in the numbers, caused by the school half-term.

Dr Roland Salmon, who is director of the communicable disease surveillance centre for the National Public Health Service for Wales, has predicted that swine flu may be over by the end of the Christmas holidays.

Every phone call, text message, email and website visit made by private citizens is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by government bodies.

All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer’s personal communications, showing who they have contacted, when and where, as well as the websites they have visited.

Despite widespread opposition to the increasing amount of surveillance in Britain, 653 public bodies will be given access to the information, including police, local councils, the Financial Services Authority, the ambulance service, fire authorities and even prison governors.

THIS IS INFORMATION PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING THIS FLU SEASON

A non-alarmist, thorough presentation. Unbiased. Uninvested. In Spanish, with subtitles. Full transcript below, video at the link and at Youtube.

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A woman who was banned from making loud noises during sex has lost an appeal against her conviction.

Caroline and Steve Cartwright's love-making was described as "murder" and "unnatural" at Newcastle Crown Court.

GPs are in line for huge bonuses if they manage to persuade large numbers of their patients to sign up to the swine flu jab, it has emerged.

NHS managers in Birmingham have told family doctors they will be able to get extra payments - on top of the £5.25 they already get per jab - if they meet targets on vaccination rates.

If they vaccinate more than 90 per cent of those deemed at risk of the disease in their area, they will get 50 per cent more per jab, meaning they will be paid £7.88 for every person they vaccinate.

Even if they achieve an uptake of 40 per cent, they will get an extra 10 per cent on top.

Three more scientists have resigned from the Government's drugs advisory body in the wake of the sacking of Professor David Nutt, its chairman.

The trio quit the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs following a crunch meeting with Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, who earlier this month told Prof Nutt to step down after criticising Government policy.

They are understood to be Dr John Marsden, Dr Ian Ragan and Dr Simon Campbell and their departure follows the resignation of two other members as the row over the future role of the ACMD deepens.

Families will pay a new levy on electricity bills for at least the next 20 years to fund technology designed to capture the carbon from coal-fired power stations.

Plans to store information about every phone call, email and internet visit in the United Kingdom have in effect been abandoned by the Government.

The Home Office confirmed the "Big Brother" scheme had been delayed until after the election amid protests that it would be intrusive and open to abuse. Although ministers publicly insisted yesterday that they remained committed to the scheme, they have decided not to include the contentious measure in next week's Queen's Speech, the Government's final legislative programme before the election.

Have a good look at the mess which Brown defines as a "condolence letter"

A new generation of nuclear power stations will today be approved by ministers, who insist they are a necessary source of energy to combat global warming.

Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, is expected to give the green light to most of the 11 potential sites unveiled earlier this year - and could even back all of them.

The Government will also introduce planning laws to make it quicker and easier for future sites to get the go-ahead.

Note that nuclear power costs four times as much as power derived from gas or coal.

Family homes could be invaded by health and safety inspectors checking that parents are keeping their children safe.

Whitehall is recommending that inspectors make sure parents have fitted smoke alarms, stair gates, locks on medicine cupboards, windows and ovens, and temperature controls to stop bath water getting too hot.

The proposed scheme was condemned by critics yesterday as a nightmarish intrusion into family life.

This year's commemorations were given added poignancy by events in Afghanistan.

The call comes as the death toll has reached 154 in the UK, although latest figures show little increase in the number of weekly new swine flu cases.

In England, new infections rose by only 6,000 to an estimated 84,000 - still some way short of the summer peak.

In Scotland there was a small fall to just over 17,000.

Levels in Wales and Northern Ireland were much lower.

Every family in the country is now facing a tax liability of £4,350 to prop up Britain’s banking system after Alistair Darling announced the biggest bail-out in history.

All healthy schoolchildren may be vaccinated against swine flu, the Department of Health revealed today, as it issued guidance on how to help pregnant women who catch the infection.

Confirmation that the government is considering extending the vaccination programme came as the Conservatives called for all pupils to be immunised against the H1N1 virus.

Cases of the disease in England increased only marginally this week to 84,000, according to official estimates.

The British mercenary Simon Mann today vowed to testify in court against Sir Mark Thatcher and the oil tycoon Eli Calil, the two men he alleges were co-conspirators in the failed attempt to take over Equatorial Guinea in 2004.

The Bank of England has opted to pump more money into the economy in a clear sign that it does not believe that Britain is out of the woods yet.

Balfour Declaration
Statement issued by the British government in 1917, which is often seen as the initiation of the process leading to the establishment of the State of Israel.
Issuing of the statement is believed to have been motivated just as much by British interests, as by the sympathy for the Zionist cause. At the eve of the World War I Britain needed the support from the World Jewry, which had been neutral, and which represented a large part of the population of Germany and Austria-Hungary. The declaration was drafted with the help of US President, Woodrow Wilson, who was a strong supporter of Zionism.

The Home Secretary has become dependent on something very nasty.

Surveillance powers to counter terrorism will be used to track absent parents who fail to pay child support, the Government said yesterday.

Officials will be allowed access to telephone and e-mail information stored by telephone companies and internet service providers. The powers will also be given to officials in Northern Ireland to help to identify who is dumping hazardous waste.

Ministers last night pulled the plug on funding to bring the care of the sickest babies up to the standard for adults, in a sign of the impact of the credit crunch on the NHS.

"We need the money to continuously bail out banks."

The UK is “skint” and the next Government could be forced to raise VAT beyond 17.5pc as it sets about “refilling the coffers”, Sir Stuart Rose, the executive chairman of Marks & Spencer, has warned.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Tuesday criticized Israel’s construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank as “illegal” and said they represented an “obstacle” in the path of peace.

“Settlements are illegal in our view and an obstacle” that impedes efforts which seek to work out a final settlement between the Israelis and Palestinians, Miliband told a press conference at the end of a one-day visit to Jordan and talks with King Abdullah II.

Miliband supported the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with occupied East Jerusalem as its capital and expressed concern over Israeli violations in East Jerusalem, which Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War.

SECRET plans to seize more than £4billion a year from Britain and make its citizens pay taxes direct to Europe emerged last night.

The leaked proposals, seen by the Daily Express, state that Britain should lose the billions of pounds in rebate that was agreed by Margaret Thatcher 25 years ago.

The plans – with a foreword by European Union Commissioner Jose Manuel Barroso – would cost every British family at least £155 a year.

They would also mean Brussels being given the power to dip straight into taxpayers’ pockets.

In today's ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton decided that: "A belief in man-made climate change, and the alleged resulting moral imperatives, is capable if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations." Under those regulations it is unlawful to discriminate against a person on the grounds of their religious or philosophical beliefs.

More wasted taxpayer money...

Tuesday 3 November 2009
London protesters face jail for standing up for Gaza
by Siân Ruddick
Thousands took part in a mass national demonstration in solidarity with Gaza on 10 January this year in central London....Now 69 people arrested during and after the marches against the Israeli assault on Gaza that began at the end of last year face jail terms of up to five years.Many of the accused were arrested months after the demonstration, some as late as July.One defendant had his house raided at 4.30am. His father accompanied him to court and spoke to Socialist Worker.He said, “I’ve been in this country for 47 years and I’ve never seen anything like that – 25 officers to come and get a boy. The police are treating people like they’re nothing.

A few weeks ago I posted an entry about a meeting in the House of Commons in London. The second meeting will be monday 2nd November.

With great support from a fairtrade coffee business, a full page advert was placed in one of our national newspapers, the Independent, on Saturday 31st October

As winter approaches, households around the UK will be invaded by a sticky and foul-smelling invader.

Harlequin ladybirds first arrived in Britain from Asia in the summer of 2004 and quickly spread across England and into Wales. They have been spotted as far north as the Orkney Islands.

Now scientists say their numbers across the country have dramatically escalated.

The mini-beasts, which push themselves through household cracks as the weather turns cold, emit a yellow chemical when disturbed that stains walls and furnishings.

Called 'reflex blood' it is packed full of chemicals that give off a bad odour.

A grieving father whose son died alongside the most senior soldier to be killed in Afghanistan has called on the Prime Minister to resign.

Peter Hammond said Gordon Brown was either lying or incompetent when he insisted that a shortage of helicopters had not led to British deaths.

Mr Hammond, whose teenage son Josh died alongside Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, said: 'Brown's either a liar or hasn't a clue about what's going on. He should do the right thing and quit.'

Mass swine flu vaccinations are expected to be extended to all children under the age of 18 by the end of the year.

The youngest soldier to win the George Cross has criticised Gordon Brown for ‘betraying’ the Armed Forces and revealed he now works in a call centre, selling insurance.

‘My medal says I am a hero of the Iraqi conflict, a man of extraordinary valour and strength of character,’ says Chris Finney. ‘But now I work in a call centre. My life has gone from one extreme to the other.’

A top Scotland Yard officer who was personally criticised for failings in the Jean Charles de Menezes shooting has been appointed to the leadership of the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

Commander Moir Stewart will be the IPCC's new director of investigations and a member of its management board.

Flight taxes are being raised to help bail out the banks, Alistair Darling admitted yesterday.

In an extraordinary intervention, the Chancellor said the higher air passenger duty being introduced tomorrow was needed to plug gaps in the national finances.

He made no attempt to justify the move - which will add £340 to the ticket for a family of four flying long haul - on environmental grounds, the official reason for the tax.

The most senior soldier to be killed in Afghanistan foreshadowed his own death in a damning memo about the shortage of helicopters.

Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe told his superiors that British troops would die because they were being forced to make trips by road.

Less than a month later, he was blown up by a roadside bomb.

Peter Mandelson confirmed yesterday that illicit file-sharers could have their Internet connections severed as part of the government’s aims to reduce piracy by 70% in 2 years. TalkTalk, the UK’s second largest ISP, is said to be dismayed at the decision and is now threatening legal action over what it claims is a breach of human rights.

Secret court seizes £3.2bn from elderly... and even forces furious families to pay to access own bank account

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3,000 complaints in first 18 months of new system
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Families made to pay to access own bank account
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Homes of elderly raided in search for documents

The Court of Protection

Threatening: The Court of Protection's anonymous London tower block

A secret court is seizing the assets of thousands of elderly and mentally impaired people and turning control of their lives over to the State - against the wishes of their relatives.

SECRET plans to seize more than £4billion a year from Britain and make its citizens pay taxes direct to Europe emerged last night.

The leaked proposals, seen by the Daily Express, state that Britain should lose the billions of pounds in rebate that was agreed by Margaret Thatcher 25 years ago.

The plans – with a foreword by European Union Commissioner Jose Manuel Barroso – would cost every British family at least £155 a year.

They would also mean Brussels being given the power to dip straight into taxpayers’ pockets.

People who persistently download illegal content will be cut off from the net, Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has announced.

He confirmed that it would become government policy, following months of speculation.

It means persistent pirates will be sent two warning letters before facing disconnection from the network.

ISP TalkTalk said the plans were "ill-conceived" and said it was prepared to challenge measures "in the courts".

"What is being proposed is wrong in principle and won't work in practice," the firm said.

A proposed green tax to cut carbon emissions would lead to an £800 increase in the average annual household energy bill over the next decade

Plans put forward by the Green Fiscal Commission (GFC), a Government-supported think tank, would see the tax on gas and electricity rise every year.

By 2020, the new levy would amount to 80 per cent of the cost of the average gas bill and 30 per cent of the average electricity bill.

The tax forms part of a £150 billion package of proposed measures, including a tripling of fuel duty over the next decade and a tax of up to £3,300 on new cars.

Workers who spend little or no time with children may come under pressure to register with the government's anti-paedophile database, the head of the scheme has said.

There has been mounting public anger over the plan, under which an estimated 11.2million people - including parents - would be forced to register with the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) quango before giving neighbours or friends' children a lift to sports clubs or events under threat of a £5,000 fine and a criminal record.

Doctors and nurses in London were today urged to get themselves vaccinated against swine flu.

Some health chiefs are asking hospital consultants to act as role models amid concerns that many staff will refuse to have the jab.

This is sickening!

More than 500 officers smashed their way into thousands of safety-deposit boxes to retrieve guns, drugs and millions of pounds of criminal assets. At least, that's what was supposed to happen.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1222777/The-raid-rocke...

A secret court is seizing the assets of thousands of elderly and mentally impaired people and turning control of their lives over to the State - against the wishes of their relatives.

The draconian measures are being imposed by the little-known Court of Protection, set up two years ago to act in the interests of people suffering from Alzheimer's or other mental incapacity.

The court hears about 23,000 cases a year - always in private - involving people deemed unable to take their own decisions. Using far-reaching powers, the court has so far taken control of more than £3.2billion of assets.

A serving soldier today accused politicians of abusing the trust of the army and serving soldiers.

Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, who is facing a court martial for refusing to return to Afghanistan, made his comments before an anti-war demonstration in central London.

Lance Corporal Glenton is leading former colleagues, military families and anti-war protesters in the march, calling for British troops to be brought home.

Anti-BNP protesters breached security and broke into BBC Television Centre tonight ahead of Nick Griffin’s controversial appearance on Question Time.

Around 30 people rushed through the main gates of the BBC’s broadcasting headquarters in West London. Ten were dragged out of the car park by police officers but at least 20 more made it inside the building where the leader of the British National Party will take part in the political panel show tonight.

Income tax should rise by 7p in the pound or alternatively the state pension age should be increased to 70 to plug the black hole in the government's finances, a leading economic thinkthank said today.

One of the City's leading figures has suggested that inequality created by bankers' huge salaries is a price worth paying for greater prosperity.

Yeah, just look at how prosperous we all are because of them.

An astonishing £380 a minute will be spent on surveillance in a massive expansion of the Big Brother state.

The £200million-a-year sum will give officials access to details of every internet click made by every citizen - on top of the email and telephone records already available.

It is a 1,700 per cent increase on the cost of the current surveillance regime.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Homebuyers could be forced to provide detailed information about the amount of money they spend on alcohol each month to qualify for a new mortgage under a new clampdown on reckless lending.

In a sweeping review of the mortgage market published today, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) said lenders needed to be far more rigorous about their financial checks of potential borrowers.

It said lenders should delve deeper into homebuyers' personal spending including the amount they spend on alcohol and tobacco.

Ministers have abandoned a ' backdoor' bid to let police store the DNA of innocent people for up to 12 years.

They had planned to use an obscure Parliamentary rule to change the law, but dropped the idea in the face of overwhelming opposition in the Lords.

Now a full Bill on the subject will be in the next Queen's Speech.

Campaigners hope it will lead to a significant watering-down of the plan.

The government programme aimed at preventing Muslims from being lured into violent extremism is being used to gather intelligence about innocent people who are not suspected of involvement in terrorism, the Guardian has learned.

The information the authorities are trying to find out includes political and religious views, information on mental health, sexual activity and associates, and other sensitive information, according to documents seen by the Guardian. Other documents reveal that the intelligence and information can be stored until the people concerned reach the age of 100.

A couple from Hull have been told that a 4lb (1.8kg) chunk of metal which smashed through the roof of their home may have come from space.

The RAF investigated the unidentified falling object after it landed in Peter and Mair Welton's loft in July.

It was not known where the metal had come from but it seemed likely that it was "space debris", investigators said.

They are notoriously quick to slap tickets on unsuspecting motorists for the most minor infringement.

But when it comes to their own parking it seems ticket attendants are a little more free and easy.

These photos were taken by furious trader Tim Mannering who spotted a parking attendant's council-owned car abandoned at an angle in a disabled bay in Sevenoaks, Kent.

While the majority of motorists would be slapped with an instant £60 fine for illegally parking in a disabled bay without a valid badge, Sevenoaks Council said the inspector was within his rights.

The US is expected to announce a significant surge of up to 45,000 extra troops for Afghanistan after Gordon Brown said that 500 more British troops would be sent to the country.