Polar bears are shrinking, along with the ice on which they live – and are turning to cannibalism – as global warming increasingly stops them getting enough to eat.

WeAreChange founder and activist Luke Rudowski was arrested at the Hilton Hotel on Manhattan today for attempting to question New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg about his refusal to pay for the health care of 9/11 first responders. Rudowski had Infowars press credentials and a video camera when he was singled out by Bloomberg’s security in the lobby of the hotel located at West 53rd Street and Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue).

High on the Bilderberg agenda will be how to manipulate the global economic crisis for their selfish interests. They will pressure both European and North American nations to pull back from “protectionism” in the later meetings of heads of state. Since the international financiers and high officials of government see themselves as “citizens of the world” and scorn “nationalism,” their only loyalty is bankrolls, not their country. They love free trade, essential for world government.

MEDIEVAL recyclers may have helped themselves to parts of Gloucester’s Roman wall to build their own homes. That’s one of the more unusual theories to come out of an archaeological investigation in the centre of Gloucester.

Tens of thousands of ancient human bones found in Germany suggest that victims were not killed just to satisfy hunger, writes Pierre Le Hir in Le Monde.

Local councils have used powers intended for serious crimes to spy on residents over 10,000 times, new figures have revealed.

The figures confirm that councils are using the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) to spy on dog fouling littering and other trivial offences.

The figures were released by the Liberal Democrats, who say the Act has become a ‘snooper’s charter’.

Wireless messages sent on a BlackBerry are so hard to intercept that the smartphones have become the device of choice for both criminals and law enforcement, police say.

While some police admit that level of security makes the BlackBerry their preferred handheld device, they also say that also makes it hard for them to listen in on suspected criminals.

“It does limit our abilities to intercept, which in turn minimizes our abilities to prevent the crimes,” said Supt. Pat Fogerty of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia, a division of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo and MySpace will be the latest method of communication targeted for government surveillance.

The revelation came in a Commons committee session with Home Office minister Vernon Coaker, who mentioned adding the sites to an EU directive designed to monitor communications.

It is now clear the government wishes to add the sites to pre-existing plans to put all Britons’ communications on a central database, including emails, text messages and phone calls.

The death of a young boy in America after being shot by a Taser has prompted calls for a rethink of government plans to introduce the weapon in the UK.

According to police reports, the 15-year-old was killed when he “attempted to fight” Bay City officers responding to reports of an argument between two males in an apartment. He is reported to have been unarmed.

Since June 2001, the total number of deaths after the use of Taser guns in the US has risen to 351.

The uproar that ensued as a result of our original story about a document issued by the Missouri Information Analysis Center which smeared third party supporters as potential domestic terrorists has forced the Missouri Department of Public Safety to issue an apology to Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr. However, references to people who are anti-abortion, anti-gun control, knowledgeable about the Constitution and even those who simply display political bumper stickers will remain.

THE remains of a hilltop home believed to be about 5,000 years old have been discovered on the outskirts of Edinburgh, The Scotsman can reveal.

The Neolithic roundhouse, found on a site where a quarry is due to be expanded, is one of the oldest prehistoric buildings to be discovered in the capital.

Excavation of a proposed park-and-ride site in Taunton has revealed one of the largest prehistoric roundhouses in Britain and a number of Roman burials.

ATHENS, Greece — A Greek fisherman must have been expecting a monster of a catch when he brought up his nets in the Aegean Sea last week. Instead, Greek authorities say his haul was a section of a 2,200-year-old bronze statue of a horseman.

Once again, YouTube has engaged in now classic censorship. On YouTube’s “Most Viewed” page, we see a number of popular videos. The number one most viewed video comes in a 364,715 views, the second most viewed at just over 200,000.

Alex Jones’ high quality encode of The Obama Deception, posted on ChangeDaChannel’s page, is not included, even though it blows the other videos away at 462,032 views (as of 1:30 PM Central) — an obvious effort by Google’s YouTube to make sure people remain unaware of and do not watch the video. In essence — and not unlike the old Soviet Union — YouTube is acting as a political police goon squad for the establishment, attempting to make sure as few people as possible see this important documentary.

In recent years, there’s been a dramatic increase in the number of children being diagnosed with serious psychiatric disorders and prescribed medications that are just beginning to be tested in children. The drugs can cause serious side effects, and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. “It’s really to some extent an experiment, trying medications in these children of this age,” child psychiatrist Dr. Patrick Bacon tells FRONTLINE. “It’s a gamble. And I tell parents there’s no way to know what’s going to work.”

THE LATE President Milosevic’s secret police chief and organiser of Serb death squads during the genocidal ethnic cleansing of disintegrating Yugoslavia was the United States’ top CIA agent in Belgrade, according to the independent Belgrade Radio B92.

The claim that from 1992 until the end of the decade, Jovica Stanisic, head of Serbia’s murderous DB Secret Police, was regularly informing his CIA handlers of the thinking in Milosevic’s inner circle has shocked the region.

Stanisic is said to have loyally served his two masters for eight years. He is facing war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court at The Hague.

The vast majority of government databases are unnecessary and possibly illegal, a damning new report into ‘Database Britain’ has found.

The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust hired a team of leading academics, industry and privacy experts to look into government databases managing major public service functions.

The group found that over eight out of ten databases present serious dangers to privacy and should either be scrapped completely or face a major overhaul.

“This survey shows just how vast the database state has grown while your back was turned,” said Phil Booth, national coordinator of NO2ID.

‘Heavy handed’ police are using powers meant to stop terrorists and other serious criminals against peaceful protestors and journalists, a report released today has said.

The highly critical report by the Joint Select Committee on Human Rights raises concerns about the ability of the police to distinguish when it is appropriate to use the powers at their disposal.

Andrew Dismore, Labour MP for Hendon and chair of the committee, said: “The right to protest is a fundamental democratic right and one that the state and police have a duty to protect and facilitate.”

High-voltage power lines mess with animal magnetism. Researchers, who reported last year that most cows and deer tend to orient themselves in a north-south alignment, have now found that power lines can disorient the animals.

When the power lines run…

Children as young as three are being trafficked to Wales from China, Bangladesh and Nigeria for sex, drugs and domestic servitude, a study shows.

Of 32 cases referred to, there were more instances of boys than girls.

The children were described as being victims of sexual exploitation, street crime, domestic servitude, cannabis production and forced labour.