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Composer Pete Wyer 'dismayed' at action by British Council and English National Ballet

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Common Purpose marxist front group Demos says state needs to “fight back” against people who question the authorities to “increase trust in government”

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The best way to “increase trust in government” is have government servants take lie-detector tests. The proposal by this think tank (fishbowl) is similar to what Cass Sunstein, Obama's information czar, suggested not long ago: The creepy mindset behind Cass Sunstein's creepy proposal. Governments always make an effort to get you to think and do and pay for what they want, but do nothing about anything themselves. ABN

A close relative of Dr David Kelly broke the family's silence yesterday to voice fears that he was murdered.

Wendy Wearmouth said she found it 'incredibly unlikely' that he committed suicide and suggested he was assassinated.

She said that committing suicide would have been 'totally against his whole way of being'.

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I give British scientists and the public credit for keeping this in the news and probably getting a new—a real—inquiry into his death eventually. There is so much counter evidence against the official story one wonders why it takes so long to get anything done. But then one knows precisely why it takes so long. In the USA we have similar problems with 9/11, WMD in Iraq, Bruce Ivins, and the massive fraud that was the housing bubble and subsequent "bailout" of Wall Street. It is obvious that the official stories about these events are either patently false or so incomplete it amounts to the same thing. ABN

Finance Minister Sammy Wilson is losing his inner peace over a health trust's decision to offer "happy, calm and content" sessions with a Buddhist monk.

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London, England (CNN) -- A video has emerged showing French police evicting African immigrants with babies and children during a housing protest in a Paris suburb.

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Christopher King calls on Britain’s coalition government to release the postmortem report – so far kept secret – on the death of Iraq war whistleblower and UN weapons inspector David Kelly, who allegedly committed suicide but is suspected of having been murdered by US or Israeli agents.

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The Swedish Pirate Party, who are at the forefront of anti-copyright lobbying in Sweden, are planning to shake up the country’s ISP market. After taking over the supply of bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, Piratpartiet will now partner in the launch of Pirate ISP, a new broadband service that will offer anonymity to customers and provide financial support to the Party.

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Britain was taken to war in Iraq on the basis of “lies”, scaremongering and deliberate exaggeration, a former UK diplomat told the Iraq inquiry.

Carne Ross claimed that Britain and the United States privately did not believe that Iraq's weapons programmes posed a “substantial threat” before launching the 2003 invasion.

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It is good to have former British officials saying this, but it was obvious at the time, just as it is obvious today that Iran poses no threat to the USA or any of our allies. These are and were wars of aggression to satisfy the desires of a select few, who do not seem be thinking clearly even on their own terms. ABN

FRANKFURT — The sovereign debt crisis would seem to create worry enough for European banks, but there is another gathering threat that has not garnered as much notice: the trillions of dollars in short-term borrowing that institutions around the world must repay or roll over in the next two years.

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Polish authorities are investigating whether “artificial fog” could have caused the April plane crash that killed president Lech Kaczynski and 95 others, according to reports.

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DG Information Society and Media has launched a public consultation on key questions arising from the issue of net neutrality. European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, announced in April 2010 her intention to launch this consultation in order to take forward Europe's net neutrality debate. The consultation is part of the Commission's follow-up to its commitment – one of the prerequisites for the successful conclusion of the 2009 EU telecoms reform package – to scrutinise closely the open and neutral nature of the internet and to report on the state of play to the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers.

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This is especially relevant for European readers as this is an EU initiative, but the topic concerns all of us. Decisions made now will have major effects on world history for years to come. In my view, the answers to the questions they are considering are obvious. We need net neutrality laws that will ensure an Internet free of corporate or government control. Here is one of the questions the EU is asking: whether internet providers should be allowed to adopt certain traffic management practices, prioritising one kind of internet traffic over another The answer is NO. ABN

Finland has made access to broadband connections to the internet a legal right for every one of its citizens in the first legislation of its kind anywhere in the world.

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After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient BitTorrent site switched to a new ISP. That host, the Swedish Pirate Party, made a stand on principle. Now they aim to take things further by running the site from inside the Swedish Parliament.

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Whatever you think about this move, it is in our best interest to support it because more variety and more varieties of freedom on the Internet help ensure that anti-free speech forces in governments around the world do not gain control of the Internet. Iceland's new media laws fall into this same category. Rules for the Internet are constantly changing, and even changes that may look good can harbor traps that end up stifling free speech and the free flow of information. There are many reactionary forces in the US and Europe, to say nothing of China and other nations. The Internet is still in its infancy. We should be very wary of allowing changes that smell even slightly of censorship or government control. ABN

Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband a legal right for every citizen.

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Dostoevsky said something like "you can judge a nation by how its prison system is run." True enough, and still true today. Something else that is true today is you can judge a government by how much it seeks to truly inform its citizens by protecting an open Internet and providing inexpensive service for all. Basically, anyone who seeks to shutdown, censor, or control the Internet is an enemy of human progress. Period. ABN

Gilad Atzmon

A few weeks ago the Jewish Chronicle published a list of Jewish MPs in the UK parliament. It named 24 in total, encompassing 12 Conservatives, 10 Labour, and two Liberal Democrats. Author and peace activist Stuart Littlewood elaborated on these figures and presented the following analysis:

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87 Senators Tell Obama: Stand Behind Israel!

Hospital bosses have banned a support group from calling stillborn babies ‘angels’ in case it upsets non-religious families. They have told organisers that not all faiths believe in an afterlife and their literature could cause offence.

But Michelle Taylor, who founded the Essex-based Whisperers bereavement group, is shocked by the ruling.She said: ‘The word angel is not meant to have a religious sense whatsoever. It is just a word we call our children when we lose them. ‘It is a beautiful word and it fits perfectly.’

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Jerzy Popieluszko, a Polish priest tortured and killed in 1984 by the country’s communist secret police, was beatified recently in Warsaw.

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Four Russian soldiers have been charged with stealing bank cards from the wreckage of the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others.

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Recall the video allegedly showing Russians shooting survivors of the crash: Footage of Polish air crash emerges claiming to show Russian-speaking men shooting survivors. Do the charges of theft explain the shots? Were they being chased or arrested? Or do the low characters of the soldiers at the site show how sloppy the investigation was? Does this raise yet more questions about why the plane crashed? Recall also that: Man Who Shot Polish Plane Crash “Gunshots” Footage Stabbed To Death. I cannot find a source corroborating this claim, but my memory is that it has been more or less accepted as true. Could be a coincidence, but a strange one. ABN

Tall security agents have been discreetly advised not to apply for a job guarding Nicolas Sarkozy, police sources have claimed.

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Obama says ready to "kick ass" over Gulf oil spill

Similar gestures. ABN

The investigation into the death of weapons inspector David Kelly is likely to be reopened, it has emerged.

The case has 'concerned' Attorney General Dominic Grieve and - as the highest ranking law officer in England - he is considering an inquiry to review the suicide finding, Whitehall sources say.

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Taoiseach Brian Cowen has today warned Israel that if it harms any Irish citizens there will be "serious consequences".

Mr Cowen also said that the Government is "very unhappy" with the current situation, and that the Israeli government hasn't "a leg to stand on" in their detention of Irish citizens, who he says must be released immediately.

"If any harm comes to any of our citizens, it will have the most serious consequences," said the Taoiseach.

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Irish Nobel Peace Laureate, Former U.N. Diplomat Sail for Gaza

The Legal Position on the Israeli Attack

German President Horst Koehler resigned Monday in a surprise move after being criticized for reportedly linking military deployments abroad with the country's economic interests -- creating a new headache for Chancellor Angela Merkel.

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A Newsday article from 2005 details the dirtbags, including Neil Bush, who served on Pope Ratzinger's 'ecumenical foundation' -- all protected from on 'High.' Also in 2005, Pope Rat asked US President [sic] George W. Bush to 'declare the pontiff immune from liability' in a lawsuit that accused him of conspiring to cover up the molestation of three boys by a seminarian in Texas. In September 2005, the U.S. asserted that the lawsuit should be dismissed, as the Pope enjoys immunity as head of state of the Holy See.

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LONDON (AP) - Six weeks of vacation a year. Retirement at 60. Thousands of euros for having a baby. A good university education for less than the cost of a laptop.

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Dozens of American soldiers and a battery of Patriot missiles have arrived in Poland, as the Polish military will be taught how to operate the advanced guided missile system at a base just a few miles from the Russian border.

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British defense secretary: 'We are not a global policeman'

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By Mazher Mahmood, Investigations Editor, 23/05/2010

THE Duchess of York is shamelessly plotting to sell access to her trade envoy ex-hubby Prince Andrew for £500,000.

Greedy Sarah Ferguson, 50, was filmed on Tuesday night taking a $40,000 (£27,000) cash down-payment from an undercover News of the World reporter.

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This link has a complete version of the video. ABN

The Duchess of York is "devastated" and "regretful" following newspaper claims she offered to sell access to ex-husband Prince Andrew, a source says.

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Here is a link to the video: Sarah Ferguson's secret filming. ABN