Archive for January 7th, 2009

2008 was the year that the British government released what they ‘claim’ to be all their secret UFO documents, including one referring to me. Some of the released documents relate to a period in the 1980s when I was putting
pressure for government openness about the crop circles and
the UFO during a lot of International television and radio interviews. I asked what the governments involvement was and if they were actively involved in investigations? I stated that their aircraft had been seen over the circles. I released video of British Ministry of Defence Helicopters hovering over a strange ‘org’ near a large crop circle.  After the Government publicly denied any interest or involvement, I showed some of the media the police and Ministry of Defence’s own photographs which I had in his possession, but
not all of my document
ed evidence - which you will see here for the first time.

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Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn’t exist. And I am not the only one trying to make people open up their eyes and see the truth. But few listen, despite the fact that I was one of the first Canadian Ph.Ds. in Climatology and I have an extensive background in climatology, especially the reconstruction of past climates and the impact of climate change on human history and the human condition.

Few listen, even though I have a Ph.D, (Doctor of Science) from the University of London, England and was a climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg. For some reason (actually for many), the World is not listening.

Here is why.

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Demonstrators demanding an end to Israeli airstrikes on Gaza hurled their shoes at the gates of Downing Street yesterday during a wave of global protests.

Riot police were also pelted with missiles and fireworks as about 5,000 pro-Palestinians descended on the Israeli Embassy in London in the evening.

Earlier in the day, around 12,000 people marched through the centre of the capital, including singer Annie Lennox, human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger and former mayor Ken Livingstone.

Elsewhere in Britain, 2,000 demonstrators took to the streets in Manchester and 500 braved the cold in Edinburgh.

Paris held the world’s biggest protest, with 25,000 people showing up to condemn the Israeli offensive, which has killed at least 436 Palestinians since December 27th.

The death toll includes 75 children, according to Gaza medics. And almost 2,300 people have been wounded inside the territory.

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The small print of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill, which is currently going through Parliament, gives sweeping power to new organisations to control transport policy, including the power to levy taxes, the Conservatives said last night.

They have accused the Government of trying to impose road pricing “via the back door”.

Under the terms of the Bill, new ‘combined authorities’, made up or two or more local authority areas will be created. They will control economic development, regeneration and transport policy. They will not be directly elected, and the rules on appointments to the quangos will be made up by the Government.

In the small print of “schedule 6″ of the Bill are plans for the new authorities to impose ‘local charging schemes’. The Conservatives warned that Labour will use the new unelected quangos to force through new taxes on driving and parking.

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The aerial bombings and the ongoing ground invasion of Gaza by Israeli ground forces must be analysed in a historical context. Operation “Cast Lead” is a carefully planned undertaking, which is part of a broader military-intelligence agenda first formulated by the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2001: 

“Sources in the defense establishment said Defense Minister Ehud Barak instructed the Israel Defense Forces to prepare for the operation over six months ago, even as Israel was beginning to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.”(Barak Ravid, Operation “Cast Lead”: Israeli Air Force strike followed months of planning, Haaretz, December 27, 2008)

It was Israel which broke the truce on the day of the US presidential elections, November 4: 

“Israel used this distraction to break the ceasefire between itself and Hamas by bombing the Gaza strip.  Israel claimed this violation of the ceasefire was to prevent Hamas from digging tunnels into Israeli territory.

The very next day, Israel launched a terrorizing siege of Gaza, cutting off food, fuel, medical supplies and other necessities in an attempt to “subdue” the Palestinians while at the same time engaging in armed incursions. 

In response, Hamas and others in Gaza again resorted to firing crude, homemade, and mainly inaccurate rockets into Israel.  During the past seven years, these rockets have been responsible for the deaths of 17 Israelis.  Over the same time span, Israeli Blitzkrieg assaults have killed thousands of Palestinians, drawing worldwide protest but falling on deaf ears at the UN.” (Shamus Cooke, The Massacre in Palestine and the Threat of a Wider War, Global Research, December 2008)

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Children and pregnant women could be routinely vaccinated against chickenpox.

Options being considered by government advisers include combining the jab with the MMR triple vaccine, creating a four-in-one shot.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation is also considering vaccinating adults against shingles, which is caused by the same virus.

Recommendations made by the expert panel of doctors, nurses and scientists are almost always turned into health policy.

Child health specialists say mass vaccination is the best defence against chickenpox, which claims to up to 50 lives a year, 40 of them children.

But critics fear the vaccination will overload the immune systems of infants, who are already given 25 vaccines in ten shots by the age of 13 months.

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The Government claims that the partnerships are “proving effective in improving behaviour and attendance” and help tackle criminal and anti-social behaviour - including knife, gun and drug crime - among pupils.

A total of 5,000 UK schools have already signed up to the scheme. To encourage more to join, a series of conferences for teachers, police and children’s groups are to be held around the country.

The partnerships are also aimed at nurturing a better relationship between young people and the police, and establishing officers as role models.

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A poll of police forces also showed that PCSOs handed out just one fine every eight months.

Dubbed ‘Hobby Bobbies’ or ‘Blunkett’s Bobbies’ after the Home Secretary who introduced them, PCSOs were intended to be a reassuring presence on the streets, and are able to issue fixed penalty notices for low-level crimes including public disorder and anti-social behaviour.

Several of the forces who provided figures to a Freedom of Information request - in Gwent, Bedfordshire and Leicestershire - admitted that their PCSOs failed to detect a single crime in the year.

Of the 43 police forces in England and Wales, 30 provided details of their PCSOs’ performance, and 10 gave their crime detection rates. Of those, only 433 crimes were detected by 1,748 PCSOs in a year up until March 2008. A larger sample of 11,884 PCSOs gave out 17,163 fixed penalty notices during the same period - fewer than 1.5 each year.

A Home Office spokesman said: “Issuing penalty notices is just one of many things PCSOs can do to tackle the crimes that concern communities. To judge them on how many they issue is not an effective measure of their ability to tackle crime.”

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Alistair Darling has been forced to consider a second bailout for banks as the lending drought worsens.

The Chancellor will decide within weeks whether to pump billions more into the economy as evidence mounts that the £37 billion part-nationalisation last year has failed to keep credit flowing. Options include cash injections, offering banks cheaper state guarantees to raise money privately or buying up “toxic assets”, The Times has learnt.

The Bank of England revealed yesterday that, despite intense pressure, the banks curbed lending in the final quarter of last year and plan even tighter restrictions in the coming months. Its findings will alarm the Treasury.

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