Archive for September, 2009
Tripping Up Trump
Tripping Up Trump is a fresh energised movement standing up for the people and environment threatened by Donald Trump’s development in Aberdeenshire.
This real life story is no longer just about whether you agree or not with the controversial housing and golf complex. This is now about the human rights of the local people threatened by Donald Trump’s aggressive use of power. Trump is pushing to use compulsory purchase to clear families from their land, not for a school, or a hospital, but for his profit.
Startling evidence of a Stone Age structure in the Solent.
DIVING almost blind in the Solent’s murky waters, the team of maritime detectives could just make out the shape of a wooden plank protruding from the muddy seabed.
While it might have been dismissed as underwater junk by the untrained eye, the archaeologists soon realised they had discovered a vital clue to a lost civilisation.
The timber was not isolated. In fact they found another 23 pieces of all shapes and sizes intersecting throughout the underwater cliff off Bouldnor, on the north coast of the Isle of Wight.
Americans threatened with jail time, huge fines for refusing to buy health insurance
There’s a popular video circulating on the ‘net right now about how to escape handcuffs without using a key. Americans are watching the video to bone up on essential skills that will soon be needed for health care reform, it seems, since the new laws that are about to be put in place call for Americans to be arrested and thrown in jail if they refuse to buy health insurance.
This has now been confirmed by Tom Barthold, the Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. And it’s not merely about jail time; it’s also about the $25,000 fine that could be levied by the IRS against individuals who refuse to buy health insurance.
Montana Town Occupied By Private Paramilitary Security Force
A private security force whose biggest role is helping the U.S. government to “combat terrorism” is now patrolling the streets of a town in Montana, acting as law enforcement but accountable to nobody and operating completely outside the limitations of the U.S. constitution in a chilling throwback to the brownshirts of Nazi Germany.
According to Two Rivers Authority officials, having the private security force patrol the streets was not part of the contract. “I have no idea. I really don’t because that’s not been a part of any of the discussions we’ve had with any of them,” Two Rivers Authority’s Al Peterson told KULR 8 News. Peterson said that patrolling the streets was on the “wishlist” of APF’s Captain Michael.
Treasure visited by 10,500 people
A display of the UK’s largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure has attracted 10,500 visitors in three days.
Some of the 1,300 gold and silver items went on show at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on Friday.
The artefacts, which may date to the 7th Century, were discovered by Terry Herbert, 55, using a metal detector in a farmer’s field in Staffordshire.
The display will be at the museum until 13 October and will then be taken to the British Museum for valuation along with the rest of the items.
Scandinavians are descended from Stone Age immigrants
Today’s Scandinavians are not descended from the people who came to Scandinavia at the conclusion of the last ice age but, apparently, from a population that arrived later, concurrently with the introduction of agriculture. This is one conclusion of a new study straddling the borderline between genetics and archaeology, which involved Swedish researchers and which has now been published in the journal Current Biology.
Rare coins find excites experts
Four silver coins dating from Norman England have been found in Gloucestershire.
Poland to enforce chemical castration of paedophiles
Poland is to become the first EU country to impose chemical castration on convicted paedophiles.
Legislation is being pushed through the country’s parliament to make the procedure compulsory for all sex criminals who pose a risk to others.
The method involves giving convicted paedophiles drugs which take away their sexual urges.
Calls for the introduction of chemical castration have arisen following a recent incest case that shocked the country.
Male breast cancer patients blame water at Marine base
The sick men are Marines, or sons of Marines. All 20 of them were based at or lived at Camp Lejeune, the U.S. Marine Corps’ training base in North Carolina, between the 1960s and the 1980s.
They all have had breast cancer, a disease that strikes fewer than 2,000 men in the United States a year, compared with about 200,000 women. Each has had part of his chest removed as part of his treatment, along with chemotherapy, radiation or both.
And they blame their time at Camp Lejeune, where government records show drinking water was contaminated with high levels of toxic chemicals for three decades, for their illnesses.
More news on the Anglo-Saxon treasure hoard discovery
“The two most striking features of the Hoard are that it is unbalanced and it is of exceptionally high quality. Unbalanced because of what we don’t find. There is absolutely nothing feminine. There are no dress fittings, brooches or pendants. These are the gold objects most commonly found from the Anglo-Saxon era. The vast majority of items in the Hoard are martial – war gear, especially sword fittings.
“The quantity of gold is amazing but, more importantly, the craftsmanship is consummate. This was the very best that the Anglo-Saxon metalworkers could do, and they were very good. Tiny garnets were cut to shape and set in a mass of cells to give a rich, glowing effect; it is stunning. Its origins are clearly the very highest-levels of Saxon aristocracy or royalty. It belonged to the elite.
Military Police Kidnap G20 Protester, Shove Him Into Unmarked Car
It’s a shocking scene that wouldn’t have looked out of place on the streets of Nazi Germany or Maoist China in humanity’s darkest historical period – a protester is shoved into an unmarked car by military thugs and driven away to whatever Godforsaken fate awaits him. And yet this is America in 2009, where the First Amendment is now officially a criminal offense and people who dare exercise it are attacked and abducted by military police in broad daylight.
Protesters scream “what the fuck is wrong with you” as the Sedan disappears into a cloud of tear gas.
From the Horse’s Mouth: Lisbon Treaty Insider Admits It Destroys Democracy
A leading Labour Party European Union insider and former member of the European Convention’s 13-strong presidium has finally confessed that the treaty breaches fundamental democratic principles and makes EU leaders unaccountable.
Huge Anglo-Saxon gold hoard found
The UK’s largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure has been discovered buried beneath a field in Staffordshire.
Large families 'protect' mother's health
