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  • UK pension ’near lowest in West’
    25 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UK pension ’near lowest in West’
    Britain’s state pension is one of the lowest among the richest nations, a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development claims.
    In a comparison of pensions in OECD countries, Britain’s state pension ranks 26th out of 30 in the percentage of average post-tax salary it pays out.
    A Briton on average pay of £22,000 could expect their pension to be less than 48% of their post-tax earnings.
    The average pay-out from other advanced (…)

  • Police gun down worker in London subway: another tragic consequence of Blair’s war policy
    25 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Police gun down worker in London subway: another tragic consequence of Blair’s war policy
    The public state execution of Jean Charles de Menezes in a London subway carriage on July 22 marks a watershed.
    England, the country of the Magna Carta, is now one in which innocent civilians can be shot dead on the capital’s streets at the discretion of the police, without any explanation, much less justification, and with the only outcome being a brief statement of regret.
    Eyewitnesses have (…)

  • Scary Police State emerges in UK and USA
    25 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The powers that be are taking us down another notch towards a total police state. What should cause public outrage is being swept aside as par for the course in today’s world of terror attacks.
    London police just chased down a man and shot him- after they had him detained and he did NOT appear to be a threat.
    He was pinned down on the floor and shot through the head five times- is that ok with you?!
    If he had a bomb strapped on him, why didn’t the police remove his coat to prove it? (…)

  • Cook: War in Iraq boosted terrorism
    24 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Former foreign secretary Robin Cook has said the invasion of Iraq had "undoubtedly" boosted terrorism around the world.
    Mr Cook, who quit the Cabinet over his opposition to the war, said that unless the Government addressed the issue it would struggle to win over young Muslims in Britain.
    He stressed that he was not arguing that the attacks on London would not have occurred if Britain had not joined the invasion.
    However he said intelligence agencies had warned Tony Blair on the eve of (…)

  • How Black Ops Staged the London Bombings
    24 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Staged terror events —like magic tricks— rely on misdirection to throw people off the track. The first step in uncovering how the London bombings were carried out by a Western black operations team -is to see through the key misdirections they built into the operation.
    Here’s the official spin on what happened:
    Key evidence of the movements of the four alleged bombers comes from a single CCTV image of four similar-looking individuals entering Luton Station to catch a London-bound train. (…)

  • Blair spends thousands on make-up
    24 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Prime Minister Tony Blair has spent more than £1,800 of taxpayers’ money on cosmetics and make-up artists since coming into office, it has emerged.
    Between 1999 and 2005 Downing Street paid £1,050.22 for cosmetics for Mr Blair’s media appearances.
    Another £791.20 was spent over the past two years on make-up artists.
    But this seems modest compared with Irish premier Bertie Ahern, who is reported to have spent more than £115,000 on his appearance since 1997.
    The Independent reported in (…)

  • Shot man was not bomber - police
    24 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Shot man was not bomber - police
    Jon Dennis, Mat Smith and agencies
    The man shot dead in Stockwell tube station yesterday was not connected to the attempted bombings of London on July 21, police said tonight.
    A police spokesman named the dead man as Jean Charles de Menezes, a 27-year-old Brazilian who had been living in London for the last three years, working as an electrician.
    Police said the shooting was a "tragedy" and they expressed "regret".
    In a statement, the Metropolitan (…)

  • UK Police: Man Killed Unrelated to Probe
    23 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UK Police: Man Killed Unrelated to Probe
    By JILL LAWLESS
    LONDON (AP) - The man shot and killed on a subway car by London police in front of horrified commuters apparently had nothing to do with this month’s bombings on the city’s transit system, police said Saturday in expressing their regrets.’’
    A day earlier, the police commissioner said the man wasdirectly linked’’ to Thursday’s attacks, in which bombs on three subway trains and a bus failed to detonate properly. No one was injured. (…)

  • Truth Struggling
    23 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Pilger
    In all the coverage of the bombing of London, a truth has struggled to be heard. With honourable exceptions, it has been said guardedly, apologetically. Occasionally, a member of the public has broken the silence, as an East Londoner did when he walked in front of a CNN camera crew and reporter in mid-platitude. "Iraq!" he said. "We invaded Iraq and what did we expect? Go on say it."
    The Scottish MP Alex Salmond tried to say it on BBC radio. He was told he was speaking "in (…)

  • Shoot-to-kill guidelines for UK police
    23 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Shoot-to-kill guidelines for UK police
    By Jimmy Burns and Frederick Studemann in London
    Police in LondonPolice have been given secret new shoot-to-kill guidelines in recent weeks, it emerged on Friday after officers shot a man dead on an Underground train at Stockwell, south London.
    The new guidelines for armed police and surveillance officers confronting suspected suicide terrorists advise them to shoot to the head and not the body in case the suspect has a bomb.
    Friday morning’s (…)