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Led By The Emperor Obama, The United States, Israel, and Europe are moving closer to war with Iran

Nobody wants war and particularly not with a nation of 80 million people that numbers Russia and China among it's allies. Nobody that is except the totally bonkers Barack Hussein Obama who seems to think Iran, backed by two of the world's military superpowers, will be a pushover as pariah state Libya with its population of five million was.

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Led By The Emperor Obama, The United States, Israel, and Europe are moving closer to war with Iran

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Led By The Emperor Obama, The United States, Israel, and Europe are moving closer to war with Iran

by Ian R Thorpe

What Obama - felching leaders to lily livered to stand up to the idiot Obama and risk him or his cultish following accusing them of racism are doing is squeezing Iran with unprecedented economic sanctions which will not work as long as Russian China and Pakistan are prepared to supply all the rogue nation's needs and buy it's oil through the back door. Western leaders know full well the penalties will not cause Tehran to abandon its nuclear program, the publicly stated objective of the sanctions.

What Western leaders, parroting Obama, tell us they are doing is doing is drawing "lines that may not be crossed” thus backing themselves into untenable and dangerous corners as well as cornering Iran. What they are not doing is offering a way to escape these economic and military pressures with a negotiating proposal that can curtail Iran’s nuclear-bomb-making capabilities without war.

But the rising tensions are not really about Iran's nuclear ambitions, they are about removing a theocratic regime that as long as it survives will be an immovable obstacle standing in the way of establishing a system of global governance, the so called New World Order that puppet leaders like Barack Obama, Tony Blair and Nicolas Sarkozy were shoehorned into power to facilitate. All these leaders came from nowhere, all are elitists and internationalists and all cruised to power after a series of unlikely coincidences smoothed the way for them.

Unfortunately Obama is a semi literate political ignoramus who should have stayed in the Indiana state senate and whiled away his days as a closet homosexual hanging around the queer clubs of Chicago. There was never a politician so incompetent, so out of his depth and so unfitted for office. Still so long as when his Goldman Sachs puppeteers say jump he is prepared to ask "How high you want me to jump Massa," the rest of the global political elite will keep following him towards disaster.

As Western leaders back Iran into a corner and as they are locking themselves into a war policy the likely consequences of which they haven’t seriously thought through and don’t really want to think about. If they had they would offer a deal something like this: Iran keeps its uranium facilities but with the ability to enrich nuclear fuel only to levels fit only for civilian use. Tehran also agrees to the tightest international controls. The West lifts sanctions gradually as Iran complies with these demands and accepts UN supervision.

To see why economic sanctions alone will not bring about Tehran’s capitulation, try to look at the situation through Iranian eyes. Pakistan, a country that has already traded nuclear secrets to terrorist and renegade states and which itself could be heading toward a Muslim extremist takeover, is already a nuclear power as is it's southern neighbour India. North Korea, the ultimate rogue state has also given nuclear knowledge to Syria and several other nations who as a result of the Obama inspired Arab Spring now have extremist Islamic governments, also possesses nuclear weapons. Israel has long had substantial nuclear strike capability courtesy Washington secretly. Israel is a state that exists on a war footing as it is surrounded by hostile neighbours including Syrian and Egypt what want to see its destruction. Israel and Iran are sworn enemies.

The west has done nothing about North Korea, India and Pakistan developing nuclear capability so why the fuss about Iran? Washington and Israel say Iran is a special case because Tehran is supposedly more likely to use its nukes. Why? North Korea and Pakistan are even less predictable than Iran. Another reason is that if Iran gets nukes this will cause its neighbors, in particular Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to go nuclear. But just as Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have restrained themselves regarding North Korea, so too can Iran’s Arab neighbors. American security advisers, mostly sycophants who tell Bammy what he wants to hear will say the factor that will keep the Middle east peace is confidence in the U.S. deterrent power. If Pyongyang so much as twitched a nuclear finger, its existence would be a thing of the past. Iran would face the same fate they say. This is a short sighted view. Russian and China are allies of Iran while China backs North Korea, a buffer state covering it's larger neighbour's back door. Nobody in their right mind wants to mess with Russia or China let alone both.

Barack Hussein Obama however, the many who imagines himself President of the entire universe and everything else besides, as well as being a closet queer is a closet Muslim and a crypto - Trotskyite. And as for being in his right mind, he is quite clearly stark raving bonkers in the head, a narcissistic megalomanic who thinks he only has to speak and the world will fall into line and agree with him.

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Updated : Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:29:06 GMT

How does stress affect your teaching and working life? – open thread

A survey reveals teachers to be constantly tired and stressed. Does this sound like you?

Finding a teacher who doesn't feel stressed is possibly like trying to find a needle in a haystack. In fact, a recent survey found that 100% of teachers asked said they suffered with stress and that it had a detrimental impact on their lives, both inside and outside the classroom.

The survey, by Teachers Assurance, also discovered that 83% of teachers feel constantly tired because of their worries; 42% feel less able to do their job as a result and 66% said stress caused them to be less patient with others. Moreover, 84% of teachers surveyed felt they would probably be a better teacher if they were less stressed.

Stress levels are also having detrimental impact on health, with teachers taking on average 13.2 days sick leave, and 76% of teachers agreeing that stress was affecting their health and lifestyle. More men (31%) than women (26%) admitted to suffering stress due to health related concerns.

Some 51% of respondents said work issues had the biggest impact on their wellbeing, creating higher levels of stress than any other area. Changes to pay and benefits were another contributory factor towards high stress levels in the profession, with changes such as pay freezes and pension reforms having an effect on overall stress levels. Some 43% of teachers said they were definitely more worried about finances as a result of the recent changes.

The survey also discovered that secondary school teachers rate themselves as slightly more stressed than those in the primary sector. Teachers were more likely to feel the impact of stress than heads of years, subject co-ordinators, deputy heads and headteachers, with 79% of the 31-40 age group being most keenly aware that stress was having an impact on their lives.

How does stress affect you, both at school and beyond the classroom? Do you feel constantly tired and worry about the impact stress has on your teaching abilities? And how do you cope with the stresses of your job? Please share your experiences with us in the comments below.

This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional. Looking for your next role? Take a look at Guardian jobs for schools for thousands of the latest teaching, leadership and support jobs.


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Publ.Date : Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:05:00 GMT

Technology brings postgrads in from the cold

Smartphones and laptops mean students on field trips can interact with universities

A postgraduate student is on a field trip to the Orkney Islands collecting data for her PhD in cultural heritage. She checks her RSS feed on her smart phone over breakfast, honing in on the most relevant reports from hundreds of professional journals and blogs that she follows.

Her working day begins with a Skype meeting with supervisors in Leicester and Glasgow. Together they edit an article via Google Docs. She then publishes a blog via Wordpress, which she uses to share and test ideas-in-progress with peers and experts worldwide. Some critically appraise her thoughts, linking their own knowledge and research. She tweets about her blog, asking for ideas.

She shares her data with research team members via data storage Dropbox. She uploads a video of her field excursion to one of the most remote islands on YouTube, alongside other clips she's archiving for her dissertation.

This is a model postgraduate, employing technology to the full, according to Prof Allison Littlejohn, director of the Caledonian Academy at Glasgow Caledonian University. While all higher education institutions now have some sort of virtual learning environment (VLE), learning technology is only as good as its users, she says. VLEs have been criticised as a clunky "dumping ground" for resources – material often with low production values and unsuited to online learning. Universities tend to try and replicate face-to-face conventional teaching on their technology platforms "but this strategy doesn't exploit the potential of technology to transform learning," says Littlejohn. Academia would do well to look at the world of professional learning, which is adept at connecting with and provoking others to learn online.

Collaborating and communicating with other people in your field is motivating and productive at a postgraduate level – akin to the buzz successful social media users might feel. Postgraduates already tend to do this quite naturally, say education experts, using tools such as Twitter and Facebook – the online equivalent of the student bar – mixing social and academic chit chat, drawing attention to research, exchanging notes.

And when cohorts get together in more orchestrated online settings, results can be inspirational, says Debbie Lawley, managing director of digital learning company WillowDNA, which creates and facilitates professional and academic learning environments. She remembers the excitement around spontaneous learning as a group of young advertising professionals approached their final assessment for a postgraduate course run for the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising. "I was watching discussions emerge online – the intensity of the dialogue was superb. The online environment is perfect for emergent knowledge and peer reviewing."

Social media rules apply

The golden rules of social media apply equally to academia, says Niall Sclater, director of learning and teaching at the Open University, industry-recognised experts in online study. Expect social networking to become more sophisticated, he says. Pairing up with "study buddies" at postgraduate level already happens on an ad-hoc basis but he expects technology to improve to facilitate this with more ease.

Naturally the OU excels at coaxing collaboration between distant learners – and this is especially important at postgraduate level, with active forums, unofficial social groups, moderation of discussions "students like to feel they are being listened to" and one-to-one communication with tutors.

"Email is still an excellent tool for that," he says. "Many elements of technology make study more interesting and easy in a way it wasn't before," says Sclater. "Expect a gradual evolution as these means become easier and easier to use."

Technology and learning – the future

Expect internet search tools for online academic repositories to become more responsive. Engines such as "Google scholar" are becoming more sophisticated in suggesting content that might be of interest and allowing researchers to build a profile.

Eventual applications of Google Glass within higher education are anticipated – think enhanced collaboration between research teams, virtual field trips, possibilities of contributing your own input to augmented reality. "Imagine an architecture student looking at a building or historian at a battlefield, listening and adding their own knowledge to resources," says Sclater.

Dissertations and theses may contain more multimedia based elements in the future.

Gesture-recognition technology might be used to create immersive environments teaching surgical procedures for example. "Speculative at the moment," says Sclater.

Hologram technology being developed by Cisco allows three-dimensional real-time presence – think guest lecturers available worldwide.

Resources

mendeley.com – academic content management and social network for nearly 2.4 million users

knodium.com - online open social platform for students and academics across universities

busuu.com – language teaching exchange

scholar.google.co.uk Google scholar

academia.edu – share and follow research


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Publ.Date : Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:00:00 GMT

How is technology transforming the role of teachers?

Exams where you can Google the answers; is research all it's cracked up to be; plus our new hub for parents of students … all on our online education communities this week

Guardian Teacher Network

Moving beyond the well-worn debate about the potential of technology in the classroom, this week the Guardian Teacher Network is running a special series to explore how technology is transforming the role of a teacher.

For starters, head of ICT Mike Britland will examine how technology allows students to become more independent in the classroom and whether this is a positive for the teaching profession. Mike's brother, Matt Britland, will look at the emerging trend of social learning in his piece, What is the future of technology in education? Britland says schools need to forget devices, the future is all about the cloud.

"iPads and other mobile technology are the 'now'. Although they will play a part in the future, four years ago the iPad didn't even exist," he says."The future is about access, anywhere learning and collaboration, both locally and globally. Teaching and learning is going to be social."

We will also have highlights from a recent debate hosted by the British Council: Is teaching obsolete? Here, Prof Sugata Mitra, professor of education technology at Newcastle University, shared his own ideas for exam reform: putting an internet-connected tablet into an exam hall. Imagine, he says, no more need for memorisation. "If you do that, the entire system will change," he writes. "Teachers are intelligent people; they will teach differently. They will insist that you don't memorise, you can look it up on Google."

Wonder how that would go down with Michael Gove ...

Guardian Higher Education Network

Each week, we invite a PhD or post-doctoral researcher to wax academic on topics ranging from staying sane and healthy at thesis time to the challenges of saying "no" to unpaid work.

This Friday's blogger tackles the big question: when times are tough and funding tougher, should she stay or should she go? Is a career in research all it's cracked up to be? Read more on guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/series/early-career-researchers, then tune into our live web chat from 12-2pm on Friday to share your own experiences, advice and encouragement with wannabe academics.

Also this week: forget Boris bikes. Students in the north-east of England have their own set of (two) wheels. Lighter, cheaper and greener than their London counterparts, Scratchbikes were developed at Newcastle University and made their debut at neighbouring Sunderland University this summer. We speak to the brains behind the spokes about their plans to conquer campuses nationwide.

Guardian Students … and their parents

Universities are telling us that parents are more involved than ever before in helping their children choose a path in life. This is why we've just launched a special section designed to help the parents of students aged 16 and over.

As your child decides whether to go to college, university or train as they work, we're here to provide advice. We'll cover topics from the psychological to the financial, the philosophical to the practical. To kick things off, we'll be guiding you through the university league tables and government websites that can help you pick a university. What does NSS mean? And how reliable are employability stats? We talk to careers advisers and academics to find out.

Also online this week

• We look at the financial difficulties facing student nurses.

• A student from Sussex University blogs about the challenges facing his institution after it tumbled down the Guardian University Guide league table.

• Picture galleries showcasing graduate art work by students across the country.

• Considering postgraduate study? Join our panel of lecturers and students to discuss the pros and cons of doing a master's, in a live chat today, 1-3pm.

Wendy Berliner


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Publ.Date : Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:00:01 GMT

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Publ.Date : Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Robert Schuck obituary

My friend Robert Schuck, who has died of a heart attack aged 58, was a polymath with a deep interest in philosophy and music.

Educated at St Paul's school, London, and St Peter's College, Oxford, in 1977 Bob won a prestigious Italian government music scholarship to the Accademia Musicale Chigianna in Siena. He went on to study the clarinet with Alan Hacker and performed in the UK premieres of works by Luciano Berio and Michael Finnissy, broadcast on the BBC.

Although he was an outstanding clarinettist, he changed direction when he developed breathing difficulties. He qualified in Alexander technique (and became head of Alexander technique at the junior school of the Guildhall school of music and drama), did a music BA at King's College London in 1996, trained as a teacher and in music technology, and taught and examined woodwind, piano and theory. After studying the piano with Peter Gellhorn, he became an accompanist and repetiteur, assisting Sir Charles Mackerras at the reopening of the Prague Estates theatre in 1991.

He sang in a choir at the Royal Opera House, played with the Great Western Railway Band, collected woodwind instruments and trained as a piano tuner. He was humble and modest; he called himself a "craftsman".

From 2010 onwards, he embarked on a project with the violinist Marianne Olyver, Postcards from Europe, dedicated to retrieving the music of the "lost" 20th-century composers who suffered war, exile and genocide. Together Bob and Marianne researched and performed rare works by Franz Schreker, Mieczysław Weinberg, Erwin Schulhoff and Hans Gál.

Born in Hampstead, north London, to Jewish parents who had fled Prague in the 1930s, Robert grew up in a cultured, musical, multilingual environment. In many ways he was an outsider in conventional English life – he had to find exactly the right vocabulary, especially for abstract concepts, and had frequent run-ins with bureaucracy, especially educational. He was a displaced Mitteleuropean intellectual – and therein lay a great part of his charm.

He was an abstract thinker drawn to arcane philosophies, to alternative and holistic health systems. He studied Hebrew, the Kabbalah and Buddhism. He grew organic food. He helped organise Bates method workshops to improve eyesight, played for Rudolf Steiner Eurythmy performers, taught modal music using the Kodály system and worked in Gurdjieff groups for over 20 years. He struggled to cope with the compromise and cynicism that seemed – to him – part of English life.

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible," he would say, "is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

He is survived by his sister, Caroline, and a niece and nephew.


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Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, the land of the free, defends corporate fascism, even when it threatens the future of western civilisation. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, a nation with a long history of authoritarianism and tyranny, stands up for human rights and putting protection of the environment ahead of corporate power and profit. What's going on?

The Fog In The Ruins: A ghost story by Sharon Pribble
A short, very atmospheric story of an ancient civilization reaching into the present, or suggesting perhaps that time is not linear as we have always been happy to believe.

Was The Banks' Cypriot Smash And Grab A Rehersal
When I started here at Bubblews back in early March the big story was the financial meltdown in Cyprus and the international response that shocked the world. The political leaders and international bankers whose incompetence and irresponsibility caused ...

The Perfect Killing Machine
In Greek myth Atlas was the giant who held up the sky on his shoulders (it's a common misconception that he held up the world which is why pictures usually show him with a globe on his back). He was not a killing machine, not even a ...

University of BC Doctors Expose Vaccination Cover-up: Official Documents Released From The UK
Don't get cerried away, there have been studies that exposed the vaccine scam before and the Big Pharma - government partnership managed to squash them. So long as mainstream media refuse to do their job and call corrupt politicians and rent seeking scientists to account, the corporations will get away with murder, literally.

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Sold You Out To Big Government Then Lied To You About It.
The U S Government has been engulfed by scandals over the past few months and the latest one, which dates back to before the current administration took office is the snooping on citizens' internet, emain and cellphone records.

The Planned Green Holocaust, Depopulation Needed To Save The Planet
The science tits, The Watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside) and even the raffia mafia are happy to talk about Carbon Dioxide but nobody wants to talk about the biggest threat to human civilization, overpopulation. Some hope the surplus billions will go away, others have a much more brutal final solution in mind.

War On Cash Begins, It Is Not About Keeping You Or Your Money Safe From Muggers
Government and big busin.ess has been nudging us towards abandoning cash for electronic money for a long time. Now the Frech government has become the first to move towards making cash illegal (because government can't keep tabs on what you do with your money when cash passes from hand to hand ...

Obama Secret Trade Deal That Will Destroy The American Economy Attention Americans. Did you know that your esteeemed President Barack Obama has not been spending all his time goofing around with the gayboys, playing golf and snorting cocaine (OK, these things are only rumours but what else could he be doing while he's not running the country). The President has been busy working on behalf of the people who ...

Obama Administration Seizes Cellphone Data - All Your Business Are Belong Us.
Some of us tried to warn back in 2008 that Barack Obama was a tyrant in waiting. People looked at his colour instead of hearing his words and now the USA has it's most autocratic and tyrannical President ever. The Obama administration's seizure of Verizon cellphone user data is the latest act in an accelerating dash to fascism.

Nestle Put 53 MILLION per cent mark up on patent water
OK, my headline is not quite true but it got your attention. The Nestle Corporation have not patented water yet (though they have patented several species of wildflower with medicinal uses) but as I reported in my Little Nicky Machiavelli blog a few weeks ago, the Nestle CEO does think water is a commodity that should be owned by corporate interests ...

Is The Day Coming When Courts Will Determine Innocence Or Guilt From Brain Scans
Scientists are really out of control and out of touch with reality when it comes to recognising the limtations of science. When we have people talking about using brain scans to determine innocence or guilt in criminal tries, its time to cut off their research grants, amongst other things.

Bilderberg News
Tomorrow will see the start of the notorious Bilderberg Group annual meeting, held this year at The Grove country House Hotel near Watford, UK. The area around the Grove is already in security lockdown, people living nearby can only reach their homes by showing security passes that they had to submit to ...

No Good Deed Should Go Unpunished
The politically correct way to deal with bullying. Bullying is a horrible thing many of us are subjected to in childhood and some in adult life. Bullies are basically cowards, they victimise the people they think are most vulnerable. I was a rather small boy. Unfortunately I did not submit to being bullied easily. Well if I'm honest I did not submit ...

Monsanto Hi Jack Scientific Peer Review Process
Monsanto have tried tyo ram their poisonous G M foods down our throats but even in america where the Genocidally Modified Food corporation have the government, the legal system, education and academics in their pocket, public opinion is still strongly against Frankenstein Food. Now Monsanto are trying to rig the scientific review process.

Electronic Tattoos To Replace Passwords and Pin Numbers?
Science was ever fascism's whore. A warning about the latest wheeze the science tits have developed for their Fascist bosses, RFID tattoos. The plan is these things will keep tabs on everything you do all the time and you will not be able to access the internet, your mobile phone or your bank and credit card accounts without one.

Carbon Dioxide Is Greening The Planet, Not Killing It
How wrong were the science tits with all their scaremongering about how Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activity were going to destroy all life on the palnet. Carbon Dioxide you see is a vital plant nutrient, without it plants cannot live. In fact the optimum CO2 level in the earth's troposphre (the atmosphere layer we live in) at which plant life can flourish is 2000 parts per ...

Everything you Do Is A Sign Of Mental Illness
For years now the criteria defining mental illness have been steadily expanding. This has resulted in more and more people who were previously considered to be sane are now capable of being diagnosed as mad. Conditions like attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Aspergers syndrome, depression, and even common anxiety are increasingly being diagnosed, particularly among children between the ages of three and 17.

Pastor Promised Congregation His Penis Contained Holy Milk Brazilian Evangelical Christian Pastor Valdeci Sobrino Picanto has been arrested after convincing followers of his 'mission' that his penis contained holy milk., "He has been arrested after deceiving the faithful into believing these foolish lies by using the name of the Holy Spirit", one of his victims told Brazilian prosecutors ...

Globalisation, Misinformation, Deception, False Store Fronts ...
Enniskillen (pop 14,000) will shortly host a meeting of the G8 global economic forum. Now G8 has declined in importance since the formation of the G20 group so you might think its precipitous fall down the league table of political influence is why they have ended up in little, out of the way Enniskillen.Or cynics amongst us (me for example) might thing the great and good have chosen ...

Obama Will Sign U.N. Firearms Treaty After It Was Rejected by Senate
Once again The Emperor Obama has ignored Amerca's democratically elected congress and done what he wanted to in spite of the measure having been voted down.

Internet Monitoring System To Stalk Social Media Users Who Question Safety Of Vaccines
Bill Gates smiles creepily as he prepares a vaccine. What most people don't know is super - rich elitist and bulderberger Gates was videoed not long ago talking about how vaccine can be used to DEPOPULATE the planet No wonder he has that creepy leer on his face.

Education Is Out, Indoctrination Is In.
This is about a teacher in america who has quit the profession in disgust at the way left wing indoctrination is replacing neutral education in schools. Many British teachers have said similar things and Daily stirrer occasional contributor Sally Redfern quit the teaching profession for the same reason.

Europe Kicks Monsantos Arse Over GMOs
While the politicians and bureaucrats are mad to push GMOs down our throats (literally) publich opinion hostile to Franlenstein Foods has pushed Monsanto out of Europe ... for the present.

Forget Recession, US banks Post Record Profits
Do you feel the value of your savings has been eroded and the buying power of your earnings reduced by higher taxes and austerity measures governments have introduced to 'save the economy.'Yeah but ... we're all in this together aren't we and everybody is making sacrifices, you might well reply. Except we're not all in it together, not everyone is ...

The Most Secretive And Oppressive regime In The Modern World.
When talk turns to the suppression of free speech by totalitarian regimes, we think of Soviet Russia, Maoist China, Nazi Germany, the theocratic dictorships of the middle east and the regimes of bemedalled buffoons with a taste for killing their country's citizens. but increasingly it is governments in the west that are suppressing freee speech.

What Happened To The Idea Of Financiasl Privacy
Not long ago I posted a report here about the near - criminal Payday Loans industry, their usurious interest rates and implacable pursuit of defaulters. I have never had any dealings with loan sharks so a little research was necessary, a few clicks and I was ready to write.Since then, although I gave no personal details to anybody I have received a steady stream of ...

Time For The New World Order Says U.S. Elder Statesman In the video below, former U.S. Secretary Of State and perpetual Bilderberg Group attendee Henry Kissinger calls for the United States to cooperate with authoritarian regimes such as China to create a globalist totalitarian government. Now maybe those who habitually scream "Conspiracy Theory"

The Bio Tech Rape Of India
Not long ago a Tweet from Dr. Vandana Shiva ( tv.greenmedinfo.com/category/vandana-shiva/ ) generated quite a stir within the blogosphere by comparing Genetically Modified Organisms to rape. The Tweet read: "@drvandanashiva #MarkLynas saying farmers shd be free to grow #GMOs which can contaminate #organic farms is like saying rapists shd have the freedom to rape." Predictably the tweet provoked outrage, not least among ...

Obama's Lust For War Could Turn Out Very Badly For The West
For two years the great peacemaker and joybringer, Mr. Hopey Changey Man himself, Brack Hussein Obama has been trying to find a way to intervene in the Syrian civil war on the side of the anti Assad rebels and fanatical Islamic Jihadists without pissing off Russia and China too much.

In Scotland's Brave New World Every Child Will Have A State Nanny
The putative government of Scotland is trying to push tough laws which will appoint to every child a Nanny State nanny to ensure parents and not abusing their kids. If we think in terms of beating and neglect that seems reasonable but when you remember social workers have yelled abuse because parents kept children off school, let them ...

The Importance Of Free Speech And A Free Press
Politicians around the developed world including leaders of the two most powerful democracies, Barack Obama and David Cameron have been falling over themselves to join the attack on free speech. On subjects as diverse as climate…

Rioting In Sweden: Unrest may spread across Europe, warns Red Cross chief
As the systemic problems in the Eurozone exacerbate the effects of the global economic crisis for European nations, the inevitable civil unrest has erupted in the last place we would expect, Sweden.

Does New Obama Speech Signal The End Of Internet Freedom?
From when I first started reading of Barack Obama I recognised in his vacuous words, in the speeches crammed with cliche and banalities that we were told was "soaring rhetoric", a man of little ability with a huge desire for power. When it became apparent that he was being pushed towards the U S Presidency by the unseen political forces that really rule our planet ...

Stupid (Swedish) Coppers Of The Week Fail To Quell Stockholm Riots
An amazing reaction from Swedish Police to a week of rioting prompted this satire on Swedish Politically correct thinking.

Amsterdam's twin Prostitutes, The Fokkens Twins Retire At 70
Either of the Fokkens sisters (yes that really is their name) could be the oldest working prostitute in the world, they are certainly the oldest twin prostitutes in the world. And now they are to retire.

Chemical Cosh For Kids That Do Not Conform
Indiscriminate prescription by doctors of Ritalin and similar drugs to children whose behavioural traits from brashnes to shyness were falsely (not wrongly, falsely) diagnosed as ADHD has always been controversial. Now an admission from the father of ADHD reveals something very shocking ...

The Banksters Bullion Heist: How The Gold Market Was Hi Jacked And The Banksters Robbed Us All
The rapid drop in gold prices recently has been said by some to be a sign a new economic crisis is imminent while others say it is a sign economic confidence is returning and the slump is over. It is neither, but rather a demostration of how banksters rig the markets in gold, commodities, currency ans shares, and rob us all.

Fears Of Violence And Unrest As English Town Prepares For Bilberberg Rally
The shadowy and secretive Bilderberg Group will hold their annual meeting at The Grove country house hotel complex just outside watford, England in early June. As usual this gathering of the super - rich and super - powerful will be accompanied by levels of secrecy and security never seen elsewhere.

Global Warming Theory Debunked By NASA
NASA, America's National Aeoronautical And Space Agency was in the forefront of the Anthropogenic Global Warming scare. Do you remember 'The Science Is Settled'? Well it wasn't, a trickle of thoise really awkward bastards who insist on thinking for themselves became a torrent and now even NASA are admitting it was all a hoax based on dodgy statistics and fraudulent physics.

What Is All That Aid Money Really being Used For
The marketing hype accompanying wars becomes progressively more boring and predictable. Whenever a "coalition of the willing" of western governments and their rather unsavoury regional allies deploys military intervention, it is certain the European Union will host or participate in a “donors’ conference”. These grotesque charades have become a feature Afghan campaign since 2001. When Gaza was bombed for three weeks in late 2008 and early 2009, the EU rushed...

Angelina's Tits: Was the world too quick to celebrate the unnecessary double mastectomy
Was the world right to make Angelina Jolie a hero for having her healthy breasts removed? Now the commercial motivations behind the move are coming to light, it seems Ms. Jolie's double mastectomy on the strength of manmmograms that revealed patented genes that contribute little to cancer risk but much to corporate profits could have been a career destroying misjudgement.

Prescription of dangerous antidepressants that cause sudden death is rapidly expanding
The criminality of Big Pharma goes on and on. Stop them committing one crime, they start another ten scams, frauds or deceptions to make up for the lost profits.

'The list of antidepressants that can cause sudden death is growing exponentially, with citalopram - under the brand names ...

Two stories that show how the banksters plant to control your cash and how you spend it
I have written many articles over the years about how machines and technology are talking over our lives. Slaves To The Machine ( www.scribd.com/doc/117509296/Slaves-To-The-Machine ) is a keynote article for all my websites and blogs and new stories bringing more evidence to support the predictions I make in it are emerging constantly. Two new ones appeared this week ...

He Who Controls The Food Controls The Universe.
A reference to Frank Herbert's Dune in the title, but this is not a fan piece. While the US Administration bends, lifts its shirt and invites fascist biotech corporate to fuck the American public up the arse, it's good to know some people are stll fighting to keep some democratic control of what goes into our bodies.

All Your Gene Are Belong Us - You Don't Own Your Body, Obama's Government Does Barack Hussein Obama is rapidly becoming known as the sellout President, he has welched on every electoral promise and bent over backwards (and forwards we hear) to accomodate his corporate paymasters. Well some of us did try to warn you he was The New World Order's houseboy. Now he is even giving the corporations rights over citizens bodies.

He Who Controls The Food Controls The Universe Remember that famous line from Frank Herbert's science fiction novels in the Dune series, "He who controls the spice controls the Universe"? Just substitute the word food for spice and the line is starting to look eerily prophetic. Greenpeace the environmental protection group claimed a rare victory against the march of corporate fascism when

Washington Signals Fears Over Dollar
Over the past month there have been some bizarre movements in financial marketsthat can only be explained as a conspiracy to protect the US dollar from the inevitable consequences Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing (QE) which has been going on since the financial crisis began in 2008.

Economic Insanity: We Spend $11 million to create each green job
Cast you mind back to the last round of elections where you live. Do you remember al those politicians promising to make the economy greener, to create...

Lies, Damned Lies and ... umm... Those Other Things ... oh yeah, statistics.
Were I able to muster the kind of blind faith Mr. Chivers and other "science" nerds place in statistics I would invest it in one of the traditional religions and at least be able to convince myself there is a chance of being resurrected into the life eternal. As it is, unlike Science fans who proclaim their atheism but have a zealots faith in science, I am a true sceptic...

Children Given Chemical Cosh For Fictitious Disease

Critics of the Ritalin disaster which saw many lived ruined by the prescription of 'bonkers' drug Ritalin for "ADHD" are now getting support from an unexpected quarter. The German weekly Der Spiegel quoted in its cover story on 2 February 2012 the US American psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg, born in 1922 as the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, who was the “scientific father of ADHD” and who said at...

Looming Health Crisis: Wireless Technology and the Toxification of America
As a multitude of hazardous wireless technologies are deployed in homes, schools and workplaces, government officials and industry representatives continue to insist on their safety despite growing evidence to the contrary. A major health crisis looms that is only hastened through the extensive deployment of “smart grid” technology.

Scientific Dictatorship: The Total Surveillance Society Is Coming Soon.
Just because you're paranoid, it does not mean they are not watching you. The totall surveillance society is spreading as fast as your freedom is disappearing. CCTV, Drones, Google data snooping, giant databases, everything you do is monitored and logged.

War On Terror, War On Drugs, Jihad Against Junk Food
why have the elite taken against 'junk food' a concept for which their is no accepted definition. Well there has been talk of a tax on fatty foods but that went quiet when it was pointed out pate de fois gras, Chateaubriand, Steak Diane and other gourmet treats were very fatty.

Monsanto Owns The Life Reproducing Process Says U S CourtPoliticised Judges show bias in finding for the Corporate giant and helping advance its agenda to control the food supply. This is the corporation that wants to make sure nobody ever eats ant product, plant or animal, that is not genertically modified. And the shits who have hijecked our societies, the politicians, lawyers, bankers and scientists are happy to sell us out to these fascists and help create their Brave New World.

Eat Insectes, good food is only for elitists says United Nations

Very survivalist, very Soylent Green. The scientific advisers of that hotbed of elitism where the politicians, international lawyers, bankers and top academics, the U N (United Nazis) has been thinking about the incipient food crisis. And they say the food shopping list of all us ordinary punters in future will include Bread, Milk, Grubs, Beetles, Maggots, Locusts, Worms and Spiders.

The Jihad On Junk Food
You must have grown tired of all the wars governments are fighting. Not shooting wars (although the war on terror is war on an abstract concept) but war on smoking, war on drugs, war on crime, war on anti - social behaviour and the one they will never win, the war on alcohol. Government's must have grown tired too, or maybe