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Scotland Yard missing cash claims

Mick Meaney November 11, 2007 0

The pressure on Sir Ian Blair has intensified after it emerged that Scotland Yard was probing allegations that millions of pounds in “expenses” had gone missing. The Met’s professional standards watchdog has launched a

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Blair ‘knew Iraq had no WMD’

Mick Meaney November 11, 2007 0

David Cracknell TONY BLAIR privately conceded two weeks before the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein did not have any usable weapons of mass destruction, Robin Cook, the former foreign secretary, reveals today.John Scarlett, chairman

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Blair accused of ‘gold-digging’

Mick Meaney November 11, 2007 0

Tony Blair has been accused of “gold-digging” and “money-sucking” after he reportedly charged £240,000 for giving a speech in China. The China Youth Daily newspaper said the address had been like “listening to some

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9/11 Truth – We’ve got the BBC on the run

Mick Meaney November 11, 2007 1

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News Since July 2007 British scientist, member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice and RINF science correspondent, John A. Blacker, has been in an ongoing battle with the

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Sir Ian Blair’s behaviour is simply criminal

Mick Meaney November 11, 2007 0

By Simon Heffer Can you imagine the shamelessness and moral depravity of someone who is paid a huge sum of money to do a job, singularly fails to do it, is rebuked by those

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Bill to Oulaw ‘Voter Caging’ Introduced in U.S. Senate

Mick Meaney November 11, 2007 0

Greg Palast  In 2004 for BBC TV the Palast team broke the story of voter caging by the Republican Party now in 2007 a Democratic congress is getting to doing something about it, led

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The helmet that will give fighter pilots X-ray vision

Mick Meaney November 11, 2007 0

The helmet, currently at prototype stage, is being developed by Vision Systems International and Helmet Integrated Systems Limited

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New Study On Respiratory Problems For 9/11 Workers

Mick Meaney November 11, 2007 1

A new study released this month shows state employees who worked at the World Trade Center site after the toxic dust cloud cleared are suffering from the same respiratory problems as workers who were

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MoD accused over spy plane deaths

Mick Meaney November 11, 2007 1

Internal report into explosion above Afghanistan supports claims that safety fears were ignored Mark Townsend The Observer A dozen major deficiencies in the repair and maintenance of the RAF’s Nimrod spy planes were identified

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Iraqi fighters ‘grilled for evidence on Iran’

Mick Meaney November 11, 2007 0

David Smith in Baghdad The Observer Micah Brose, privately contracted interrogator working for US forces in Iraq. Photograph: David Smith   US military officials are putting huge pressure on interrogators who question Iraqi insurgents

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BBC on brink of internal war

Mick Meaney November 11, 2007 0

Staff accuse ‘arrogant’ new trustees of standing in the way of radical reform By Tim Luckhurst   The cuts endorsed by the BBC’s controversial new governing body, the BBC Trust, have started to bite.

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Journalists must challenge government

Mick Meaney November 11, 2007 0

By Keith Robinson Journalists must continue to aggressively challenge authority in government even though the public does not hold the news media in such high regard as it once did, the editor of USA

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Home Office reveals first projects for ID Scheme

Mick Meaney November 11, 2007 0

Ian Grant The Home Office will call for bids for the first two pieces of work on the National Identity Scheme in May 2008. The mini projects are for the biometric database and application

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