Cindy Sheehan on Alex Jones Tv:Obama’s Policy Way Worse Then Bush!!
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan talks about her campaign at the elite playground on Martha’s Vineyard where the Obamas are on vacation. Vodpod videos no longer available. |
Half of UK’s Family Doctors or GPs Refuse Swine Flu Vaccine Over Testing Fears
![]() Of the GPs surveyed, almost a third thought the swine flu vaccine had not been tested enough Up to half of family doctors do not want to be vaccinated against swine flu. GPs will be first in the line for the jabs when they become available but many will decline, even though they will be offering the vaccine to their patients. More than two thirds of those who will turn the jab down believe it has not been tested enough. Most also believe the flu has turned out to be so mild in the vast majority of cases that the vaccine is not needed. Last night Government experts criticised GPs who decide not to have the jab, saying they will put vulnerable patients needlessly at risk. A week ago, a poll of nurses showed that a third would turn down the opportunity of being vaccinated against swine flu. News that medics are unconvinced by the need for a vaccine will cause grave concern to patients who will be invited for the jab over the next few months. A poll of doctors for Pulse magazine found that 49 per cent would reject the vaccine with 9 per cent undecided. A separate survey for GP magazine found that 29 per cent would definitely opt out of having the jab, while a further 29 per cent were unsure. Just 41 per cent said they would definitely have the jab. Of those who said they did not want to jab, 71 per cent said it was because of safety concerns. Richard Hoey, editor of Pulse, said: ‘The medical profession has yet to be convinced by the Government’s whole approach to swine flu, with most GPs now feeling that the Department of Health overreacted in its policy on blanket use of Tamiflu. ‘Inevitably, that has coloured feelings about the planned immunisation campaign. ‘The view among many doctors is that the Government hasn’t yet made its case for why such a huge vaccination programme needs to be rushed in for what seems to be an unusually mild illness.’ But Professor David Salisbury, the Department of Health’s director of immunisation, told GP magazine that frontline health workers had a duty to themselves regarding vaccination. ‘They have a duty to their patients not to infect their patients and they have a duty to their families,’ he said. The Pulse survey questioned 15 doctors, while GP spoke to 216. The poll raised further questions over the Government’s planned mass vaccination programme. The jab, currently being processed, will be fast tracked and will not be fully tested before it is administered to patients. There are also concerns the jab can spark cases of Guillain Barre Syndrome, which can lead to paralysis and even death. A mass swine flu vaccination programme in the U.S. in 1976 caused far more deaths than the disease it was designed to combat, and the Health Protection Agency watchdog has asked doctors to look out for cases of GBS when the vaccinations begin. Earlier this month, Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson announced that the jab will be given to people in high-risk groups, such as those with asthma or diabetes, as well as health workers such as GPs and nurses. Some 14million people will be covered by the first wave of the vaccination programme, with everyone else following over the next few months. The BMA is still negotiating with doctors over how they should be paid to give out the jabs. The union is demanding £7 for every injection. A spokesman for the BMA said: ‘The new vaccine has been thoroughly tested and we believe it should provide good protection against swine flu. ‘It is important that doctors are among the first to be offered the vaccine as it will not only protect them but the patients they care for. However, doctors like all individuals have the right to decide whether they are vaccinated or not.’ Source: Mail Online.com, 25th August 2009 |
Authorities Prepare To Seize Kids During Swine Flu Pandemic
![]() Authorities are preparing to seize children from schools, set up quarantines and morgues, conduct mass vaccinations, and deal with riots and unrest, according to an international swine flu summit recently held in Washington DC which was attended by distinguished scientists, industry leaders and top health officials from all over the globe. A conference first discussed by this website three weeks ago has now taken place, with health authorities meeting at the end of last week to finalize response plans to a swine flu pandemic that has been all but guaranteed to occur this coming fall. According to a PDF information leaflet released before the meeting, attendees were briefed on how to “conduct morgue operations,” manage an interruption in food supplies and “manage panic caused by sudden disruption of services & interruptions in essential goods & services”. During a swine flu pandemic, their duties would also include dealing with civil disturbances, controlling and diffusing social unrest and public disorder, carrying out mass vaccination programs and enforcing quarantines, according to the conference documentation. One of the most shocking modules of the conference deals with “School / University Pandemic Planning” and strongly implies that authorities will usurp parental rights over children in the event of a swine flu pandemic. “Concurrent Breakout Session #10? outlines plans to “train teachers to screen for symptoms & know what to do when students / teachers fall ill,” before then transporting ill students, which presumably means transporting them to quarantine zones with or without the consent of parents. The use of schools as “shelters” or quarantine centers is also mentioned. Earlier this month we reported on how a Maine high school was taken over by National Guard in a drill focused around riots during a mass vaccination program. In this scenario, the rioters were begging for the vaccine, but obviously the opposite is likely to be the case if a mandatory vaccination program is announced, if there are riots then they will consist of people refusing to take the shot. A You Tube user posted the following video which covers some of the issues raised by the swine flu conference. Source: Info Wars.com, August 24, 2009 |
Larry Flynt: Obama Can’t Stand Up To The Bankers
The American government — which we once called our government — has been taken over by Wall Street, the mega-corporations and the super-rich. They are the ones who decide our fate. It is this group of powerful elites, the people President Franklin D. Roosevelt called “economic royalists,” who choose our elected officials — indeed, our very form of government. Both Democrats and Republicans dance to the tune of their corporate masters. In America, corporations do not control the government. In America, corporations are the government.
This was never more obvious than with the Wall Street bailout, whereby the very corporations that caused the collapse of our economy were rewarded with taxpayer dollars. So arrogant, so smug were they that, without a moment’s hesitation, they took our money — yours and mine — to pay their executives multimillion-dollar bonuses, something they continue doing to this very day. They have no shame. They don’t care what you and I think about them. Henry Kissinger refers to us as “useless eaters.” But, you say, we have elected a candidate of change. To which I respond: Do these words of President Obama sound like change? “A culture of irresponsibility took root, from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street.” There it is. Right there. We are Main Street. We must, according to our president, share the blame. He went on to say: “And a regulatory regime basically crafted in the wake of a 20th-century economic crisis — the Great Depression — was overwhelmed by the speed, scope and sophistication of a 21st-century global economy.” This is nonsense. The reason Wall Street was able to game the system the way it did — knowing that they would become rich at the expense of the American people (oh, yes, they most certainly knew that) — was because the financial elite had bribed our legislators to roll back the protections enacted after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Congress gutted the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial lending banks from investment banks, and passed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which allowed for self-regulation with no oversight. The Securities and Exchange Commission subsequently revised its rules to allow for even less oversight — and we’ve all seen how well that worked out. To date, no serious legislation has been offered by the Obama administration to correct these problems. Instead, Obama wants to increase the oversight power of the Federal Reserve. Never mind that it already had significant oversight power before our most recent economic meltdown, yet failed to take action. Never mind that the Fed is not a government agency but a cartel of private bankers that cannot be held accountable by Washington. Whatever the Fed does with these supposed new oversight powers will be behind closed doors. Obama’s failure to act sends one message loud and clear: He cannot stand up to the powerful Wall Street interests that supplied the bulk of his campaign money for the 2008 election. Nor, for that matter, can Congress, for much the same reason. Consider what multibillionaire banker David Rockefeller wrote in his 2002 memoirs:
Read Rockefeller’s words again. He actually admits to working against the “best interests of the United States.” Need more? Here’s what Rockefeller said in 1994 at a U.N. dinner: “We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis, and the nations will accept the New World Order.” They’re gaming us. Our country has been stolen from us. Journalist Matt Taibbi, writing in Rolling Stone, notes that esteemed economist John Kenneth Galbraith laid the 1929 crash at the feet of banking giant Goldman Sachs. Taibbi goes on to say that Goldman Sachs has been behind every other economic downturn as well, including the most recent one. As if that wasn’t enough, Goldman Sachs even had a hand in pushing gas prices up to $4 a gallon. The problem with bankers is longstanding. Here’s what one of our Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, had to say about them:
We all know that the first American Revolution officially began in 1776, with the Declaration of Independence. Less well known is that the single strongest motivating factor for revolution was the colonists’ attempt to free themselves from the Bank of England. But how many of you know about the second revolution, referred to by historians as Shays’ Rebellion? It took place in 1786-87, and once again the banks were the cause. This time they were putting the screws to America’s farmers. Daniel Shays was a farmer in western Massachusetts. Like many other farmers of the day, he was being driven into bankruptcy by the banks’ predatory lending practices. (Sound familiar?) Rallying other farmers to his side, Shays led his rebels in an attack on the courts and the local armory. The rebellion itself failed, but a message had been sent: The bankers (and the politicians who supported them) ultimately backed off. As Thomas Jefferson famously quipped in regard to the insurrection: “A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Perhaps it’s time to consider that option once again. I’m calling for a national strike, one designed to close the country down for a day. The intent? Real campaign-finance reform and strong restrictions on lobbying. Because nothing will change until we take corporate money out of politics. Nothing will improve until our politicians are once again answerable to their constituents, not the rich and powerful. Let’s set a date. No one goes to work. No one buys anything. And if that isn’t effective — if the politicians ignore us — we do it again. And again. And again. The real war is not between the left and the right. It is between the average American and the ruling class. If we come together on this single issue, everything else will resolve itself. It’s time we took back our government from those who would make us their slaves. Source: Huffington Post.com, August 20 2009 |
Mass Graves Could Be Dug for Autumn Bout of Swine Flu
The government is planning to create a series of mass graves to cope with a second outbreak of swine flu in the autumn. A Home Office document warns that a mass burial site may be needed to cope with the potential crisis. The proposals were discussed between government officials and council bosses last month, and will affect those areas where there may not be enough graves for victims of the illness. Within weeks of a full-blown pandemic, the number of burials could more than double and inner city areas “may experience a shortage of grave space”, according to the report.
Official: plan for ‘multiple graves’ in swine flu pandemic The Framework for Planners Preparing to Manage Deaths – a -page document – discusses using “a grave that is for a number of unrelated persons, excavated mechanically in advance and designed for efficient preparation and use.” During the meeting, in which a senior official from Westminster council, gave a presentation, officials discussed the need for cemeteries and crematoriums to work seven days a week and the hiring of extra staff to cope.
Whitehall officials are also speaking to coffin makers to see if they could meet demands. Source: Mail Online.co.uk, August 19 2009 |
Paranoid Suspicion, Obsessive Surveillance and A Land of Liberty Destroyed by Stealth
![]() Obsessive surveillance: A huge number of CCTV cameras are in public places Returning to Britain from a summer holiday abroad, you begin to notice things that perhaps escaped your attention before – the huge number of CCTV cameras that infest our public spaces and, much less obviously, the atmosphere of watchfulness and control that has now become a way of life. This is the regime that 12 years of New Labour have imposed on Britain, a place of unwavering suspicion, paranoia – and obsessive surveillance. We have become the sort of society that we would unhesitatingly have railed against a few years ago. But, because the change has been brought about with such stealth, we are the very last to see it. Last year alone, there were 504,073 new cases of state-sanctioned surveillance, the equivalent of one adult in 78 being watched – and a rise of 44 per cent over two years. Whatever happened to our centuries- old traditions of freedom? Voltaire called England ‘the land of liberty’. Until New Labour materialised, with its intrusive and ‘character improving’ agenda, that description rang true. The English preferred freedom and tolerance to ideological and religious fanaticism. The currency of our society was common sense. No longer. Common sense has been replaced by officially sanctioned mistrust, mistrust that allows anyone invested with the tiniest bit of authority – often in the form of a high-visibility jacket – to throw their weight around. Britain is now a place where terror laws have been used by councils to spy on people breaching smoking bans, making a fraudulent application for a Police routinely stop anyone who photographs a public building, in one instance deleting the pictures taken by a 69-year-old Austrian tourist who admired the architecture of Vauxhall bus station. And if the authorities are behaving like this today, what will they subject us to in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics? Wardens in Brighton already habitually seize drink from people on the mere suspicion that they plan to consume it in a public place. And in Edinburgh, a swimming pool attendant stopped the 85-year-old mother of TV presenter Nicky Campbell from taking pictures of her grandchildren. These stories have become part of our national life – and there are thousands of them each year. I know this because my researcher trawls local and national newspapers for examples every morning. What they add up to is a depressing account of a nation infantilised by micro-management and fear. We are losing something essential to our national identity. Foreigners who know what is going on here cannot believe that the British show such little regard for their freedoms. Even Americans, the most jumpy people in the world, are unsettled by Britain’s paranoia. Government policy is largely to blame. Labour has instilled an endemic culture of suspicion in Britain, which is manifest in the 3,500 new criminal offences brought in over its 12 years in office.
The scale of this project is vast. ‘The state and its agencies are amassing increasing quantities of data about its citizens,’ writes Jill Kirby, the director of the Centre for Policy Studies, in a recent pamphlet. She lists them as including the DNA database, centralised medical records and the children’s database Contact-Point. This data, she says, has ‘proliferated to levels previously unseen in peacetime Britain’. An institutionalised pessimism has taken over. The clear message of Government is that we are incapable of managing our lives and must be watched and regulated by ministers and civil servants from dawn to dusk. More sinister is the assumption that we are all in some way guilty of harbouring the worst intentions. Up to 11 million people who work with children – music tutors, babysitters, football coaches and even parents who have exchange students to stay – will now have to join a new database at the cost of £64 and undergo criminal checks. Writers such as Philip Pullman and Anthony Horowitz, who regularly visit schools, are among those who have roundly condemned the scheme. Earlier this year, I calculated from published figures that Britain’s expenditure on databases and surveillance systems would amount to a staggering £32 billion. But the absurd amounts spent on these schemes are not the only concern. The threat they pose to our privacy – and the incompetent way in which the Government handles our personal data – are even more worrying. We know, for example, that more than 30 million separate personal files have been lost by government agencies. Recently, a Freedom of Information request by Computer Weekly magazine revealed that nine local authority staff have been sacked for accessing the personal records of celebrities and acquaintances. This largely unpublicised breach should warn us that a government obsessed with hoarding our information and watching us cannot be trusted to keep our details safely. A similar security lapse in ContactPoint could be disastrous. But even this doesn’t compare to the real possibility of the systems that watch our movements, monitor our behaviour and tap into the communications data linking up into one great apparatus of surveillance. This would allow the authorities more or less to monitor our every movement and transaction in real time. Nothing would remain private. If this happens, we can kiss goodbye to a functioning free society in the United Kingdom. We are not there yet – but we can see the seeds everywhere, from the spread of CCTV, and the flood of government regulations to the expropriation of our personal information. We have to consider the distinct possibility that the obituary for the ‘land of liberty’ is being composed at this very moment. • The Dying Light by Henry Porter is published by Orion at £12.99. |
Pink Floyd frontman narrates UN film on Israeli Barrier
![]() The 15-minute film entitled “Walled Horizons” was made in honour of the fifth anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) opinion that the barrier’s meandering route through the occupied West Bank is illegal. The film opens with a wide shot of Waters, the songwriter behind Pink Floyd’s hit 1979 album “The Wall,” walking along a towering concrete segment of the barrier beneath the painted silhouette of a giant lying on its back. “The reason for walls is always fear, whether the personal walls that we build around ourselves or walls like this that frightened governments build around themselves,” Waters says. “They are always expressions of a deep-seated insecurity.” Israel credits the barrier, which it began constructing in 2003, with helping to halt the wave of deadly suicide bombings unleashed on the Jewish state at the height of the latest Palestinian uprising in 2002. The film concludes with a shot of scores of Palestinians packed into a fenced-in corridor waiting to pass through an Israeli checkpoint. Organisers of the project said they made the film out of concern that international awareness of the barrier’s effect on Palestinians may be waning five years after the court’s decision. The film features top Israeli security officials involved in the wall’s construction who defend the overall project as a desperate response to the violence of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, which erupted in 2000. “This might be an opportunity to reflect if the reasons still prevail for continued construction at the expense of tens of thousands of Palestinians.” Source: Raw Story.com, August 19, 2009 |
‘If I didn’t confess to 7/7 bombings MI5 officers would rape my wife,’ claims torture victim
A British man spoke publicly for the first time yesterday to accuse MI5 officers of forcing him to confess to masterminding the July 7 bombings. Jamil Rahman claims UK security officers were behind his arrest in 2005 in Bangladesh. He says he was beaten repeatedly by local officials who also threatened to rape him and his wife. Mr Rahman, who is suing the Home Office, said a pair of MI5 officers who attended his torture and interrogation would leave the room while he was beaten. He claims when he told the pair he had been tortured they merely answered: ‘They haven’t done a very good job on you.’ Mr Rahman told the BBC: ‘They were questioning me on the July 7 bombings, showing me pictures of the bombers. ‘They showed me maps, terrains … they asked me to draw things out and write names next to pictures. ‘They threatened my family. They go to me, “In the UK, gas leaks happen, if your family house had a gas leak and everyone got burnt, there’s no problems, we can do that easily”.’ He says he eventually made a false confession of involvement in the July 7 bomb plots.
The extraordinary allegations will add to pressure on UK ministers to come clean over the way Britain’s intelligence agencies have been allowed to gather evidence around the world in the eight years since the September 11 attacks. Jamil Rahman, a former civil servant from South Wales, is a British citizen who moved to Bangladesh in 2005 and married a woman he met there. He returned to the UK last year. He said: ‘It was all to do with the British. Even the Bengali intelligence officer told me that they didn’t know anything about me, that they were only doing this for the British.’Mr Rahman, 31, says he was released after three weeks but re-arrested and mistreated repeatedly over the next two years. He described how two men he believes were British agents would leave the room for ‘a break’ while he was beaten.
‘The first time they tried to be friendly, they came in trying to show they were my friends, calm and relaxed, nothing wrong. I tried to demonstrate my innocence. I thought this is wrong, because they were British I might get some justice.’ A Home Office spokesman said: ‘We firmly reject any suggestion that we torture people or ask others to do so on our behalf. ‘Mr Rahman has made a lot of unsubstantiated allegations. They have not been evidenced in any court of law.’ Jamil Rahman is one of a number of former detainees who accuse the British Government colluded in their torture abroad. The 30-year-old Ethiopian says he was beaten and deprived of sleep to try to make him confess to an Al Qaeda ‘dirty bomb’ plot, and his treatment is now the subject of an unprecedented police investigation into MI5’s conduct. Source: Mail Online.co.uk, 25 June 2009 |
Swine flu jab link to killer nerve disease: Leaked letter reveals concern of neurologists over 25 deaths in America
Swine flu jab link to killer nerve disease: Leaked letter reveals concern of neurologists over 25 deaths in America
![]() Prevention: Is the swine flu jab safe? A warning that the new swine flu jab is linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the Government to senior neurologists in a confidential letter.
Concerns have already been raised that the new vaccine has not been sufficiently tested and that the effects, especially on children, are unknown. Within days, symptoms of GBS were reported among those who had been immunised and 25 people died from respiratory failure after severe paralysis. One in 80,000 people came down with the condition. In contrast, just one person died of swine flu. ![]() Halted: The 1976 US swine flu campaign It says: ‘Traditionally, the BNSU has monitored rare diseases for long periods of time. However, the swine influenza (H1N1) pandemic has overtaken us and we need every member’s involvement with a new BNSU survey of Guillain-Barre Syndrome that will start on August 1 and run for approximately nine months. ‘This is a belt-and-braces approach to safety and is not something people should be substantially worried about as it’s a rare condition.’ I COULDN”T EAT OR SPEAK… IT WAS HORRENDOUS![]() Victim: Hilary Wilkinson spent three months in hospital after she was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre SyndromeWhen Hilary Wilkinson woke up with muscle weakness in her left arm and difficulty breathing, doctors initially put it down to a stroke. But within hours, she was on a ventilator in intensive care after being diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Hotline staff given access to confidential recordsConfidential NHS staff records and disciplinary complaints could be accessed by hundreds of workers manning the Government’s special swine flu hotline. The hotline staff work for NHS Professionals, which was set up using taxpayers’ money to employ temporary medical and administrative staff for the health service. Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley described the revelations as ‘disturbing’. Source: Mail Online.co.uk, 15th August 2009 |
“IT’s a TRICK, WE ALWAYS USE It” – Calling ALL Critics Anti SEMITIC – Shulamit ALONI Fmr ISRAELI MINISTER
The words of Shulamit ALONI – Former Minister in the ISRAELI Government exposes the DEFAMATION Tactic of calling someone as: “Anti-SEMITIC!” [Whenever there is DISSENT]
“It is a TRICK [DECEIT] we ALWAYS USE it!” “When from EUROPE someone criticises Israel we bring up the HOLOCAUST!” “When someone from the US does, we call them Anti-SEMITIC!” Vodpod videos no longer available.
“It is VERY easy to BLAME people who criticise certain acts of the Israeli Government as ANTI-SEMITIC and to bring up the HOLOCAUST and the suffering of the Jewish people and that justifies everything we do to the Palestinians.” [The Crafty way is to act “THE VICTIM” and to brand the REAL Victim as the PERETRATOR – a Tactic used very successfully by HITLER!] From this deliberate policy is derived the ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE (ADL) – which is very well funded whose Honorary Chairman is Edgar BRONFMAN who was to control SEAGRAMS Spirits in Montreal, Canada From the time the acquisition of SEAGRAM was completed in December 2000 and its prized liquor assets sold off, until Messier’s departure a little more than 18 months later, the company added an astonishing $1 BILLION worth of DEBT a month, to pay for a dizzying MEDIA and TELECOM spending spree that left the Bronfmans and other investors shaking their heads in disbelief. The inevitable result was a liquidity CRISIS of monumental proportions. [AS TELECOMS are the means to CONTROL the World – as long as others (that control the money) provide the FUNDING!] PS. Seems to me that honesty is for sheep only. |
Lord Peter ‘Mandy’ Mandelson goes to war on teenagers downloading their music and movies … just days after dining with anti-piracy billionaire
![]() Shake on it: Peter Mandelson and David Geffen meet in Curfu last week Lord Mandelson launched a crackdown on internet piracy just days after meeting a leading Hollywood critic of illegal file sharing. The business secretary plans to criminalise the estimated seven million people – one in 12 of the population – who illicitly download music and films over the internet. In what critics describe as a gross attack on civil liberties, those flouting new laws could see their internet accounts suspended and face fines of up to £50,000. Parents could even be thrown off the net even if it is their children are caught downloading tracks upstairs in their bedrooms, not them. Lord Mandelson ordered officials to draw up the draconian regulations days after dinner with David Geffen, who founded the Asylum record label which signed Bob Dylan. The pair dined on 7 August at the Rothschild family villa on Corfu, while Mandelson was holidaying on the Greek island. Tory backbencher David Davies The controversial new laws, set to be announced in a ‘Digital Britain’ bill to be published next month, would target broadband users who persistently download music and films for nothing. But former digital engagement minister Tom Watson is leading a campaign against the legislation, which is due to form a key plank of this autumn’s Queen’s Speech. Writing in the Independent on Sunday, Mr Watson called for people who upload illegal content should be targeted, rather than downloaders. ‘Not only do the sanctions ultimately risk criminalising a large proportion of UK citizens, but they also attach an unbearable regulatory burden on an emerging technology that has the power to transform society, with no guarantees at the end that our artists and our culture will get any richer,’ he said. ‘Working on the safe assumptions that (a) people like downloading music from the internet, and (b) most people would prefer not to break the law, we should aim to map a way forward for businesses to take financial advantage of the digital market.’ Last week the Pirate Party, which won a Swedish European Parliament seat in June on a platform of legal file sharing, announced it would be standing in the General Election. Andrew Robinson, leader of the Pirate Party UK, who will be standing against Worcester Labour MP Michael Foster, said the proposed laws represented an attack on civil liberties. ‘This is about proving to the major parties that there are so many votes to be had in adopting policies like ours,’ he said. A spokesman for Lord Mandelson said file sharing was not discussed at the dinner with Mr Geffen. ‘Work has been ongoing on these issues for a matter of weeks,’ he said. ‘Lord Mandelson does not believe Digital Britain is even on David Geffen’s radar.’ But a source at his business department said: ‘Until the past week, Mandelson had shown little personal interest in the Digital Britain agenda. Suddenly Peter returned from holiday and effectively issued this edict that the regulation needs to be tougher.’ Yesterday a poll for the Sunday Mirror showed that Lord Mandelson was emerging as a favourite to succeed Gordon Brown as Labour leader. Party members place him second behind David Miliband as their choice. BIG PLAYER IN HOLLYWOODDavid Geffen is one of the most important figures in the U.S. film and music business. Worth around £3billion, the 66-year-old (pictured) has been feted as one of the most powerful gay people in America. He set up Asylum Records in 1970, which signed up Bob Dylan and the Eagles. Ten years later he established Geffen Records, which brought out John Lennon’s final album Double Fantasy. Other artists included Nirvana and Elton John. In the 1980s he set up the Geffen Film Company which brought out Risky Business and Little Shop of Horrors. In 1994 he joined with Steven Spielberg to set up Dreamworks, which produced Saving Private Ryan, Shrek and Gladiator. He is also a noted art collector, philanthropist – giving millions to universities and AIDS charities and theatre impresario. Source: Daily Mail Online.co.uk, 17th August 2009 |
Military EATR Robot Could Feed On Dead Bodies On Battlefield
Huffington Post, Aug 15 2009![]() It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology — and a 20th-century horror movie. A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies. |