0 Libyan children killed by NATO bombs, Extremely graphic footage

(WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC SCENES)
Just a day after admitting killing 9 civilians in a bungled airstrike, NATO has been accused by the Libyan authorities of causing at least another 15 deaths. The Alliance confirmed it had carried out another bombing, but has not responded to the allegations of civilian casualties. RT crew in Tripoli has shot some shocking footage of bodies mutilated in NATO bombings.

0 World Revolution Not Seen on TV- Rallies Around the World

0 10 Congressmen Take Obama To Federal Court

Ten US congressmen, Republican and Democrat, are suing Barack Obama arguing that he exceeded his powers in authorising the operation in Libya.

They are:

Dennis Kucinich of Ohio

John Conyers of Michigan 

Michael Capuano of Massachusetts

Walter Jones and Howard Coble of North Carolina

Tim Johnson and Dan Burton of Indiana

Jimmy Duncan of Tennessee

Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland 

and Ron Paul of Texas. 

Earlier, the U.S House Speaker, John Boehner, had warned Obama that he was skating on thin legal ice by keeping U.S. forces involved in Libya for nearly three months without the authorization of Congress.

Boehner accused Obama of “a refusal to acknowledge and respect the role of Congress” in military operations and a “lack of clarity” about why the U.S. was still involved in Libya. He asked Obama to explain the legal grounds for the war by Friday, adding that by Sunday, Obama would be in violation of the 1973 War Powers Resolution if nothing changed.

The Constitution says that Congress declares war, while the president is commander-inchief of the armed forces. The War Powers Resolution sought to resolve the tensions in these roles and was passed by Congress over a veto by President Richard Nixon.
 

No sitting president has ever recognized the resolution, which prohibits U.S. armed forces from being involved in military actions for more than 60 days without congressional authorization, and includes a further 30-day withdrawal period. Boehner said the 90 days expires on Sunday. “It would appear that in five days, the administration will be in violation of the War Powers Resolution unless it asks for and receives authorization from Congress or withdraws all U.S. troops and resources from the mission,” Boehner said in the letter, which was released by his office.
“Have you ... conducted the legal analysis to justify your position?” he asked. “Given the gravity of the constitutional and statutory questions involved, I request your answer by Friday, June 17, 2011.” Obama notified Congress in March that the United States was taking part in a multinational operation conducting air strikes to protect Libyan civilians from Muammar Gaddafi’s forces. Obama did not ask for congressional authorization.

0 U.S. officially drop all charges against Osama bin Laden

A U.S. judge has dismissed all criminal charges against Osama bin Laden following the al Qaeda leader's death in a military raid in Pakistan.

Cleared: Due to his death.

U.S. District Court judge Lewis Kaplan, who had been presiding over the bin Laden case in Manhattan federal court, issued an order called 'nolle prosequi', which means 'do not prosecute' in Latin, a typical legal move once a defendant is deceased.

It closed the case after 13 years.

Bin Laden was indicted back in 1998 in the Southern District of New York for his role in the al Qaeda attack on the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, which killed more than 200 people, including a dozen Americans.

The indictment was later revised to charge bin Laden in the dual bombings of two American embassies in East Africa that killed 224 on August 7, 1998, and in the suicide attack on the USS Cole in 2000. None of the charges involved the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The court filing included an affidavit by a senior U.S. Department of Justice official describing the U.S. military raid on bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May.

According to ABC, after reciting Bin Laden's multiple aliases and then listing the counts against him for ten pages, Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Lewin noted: 'On or about May 1, 2011, while this case was still pending, defendant Usama Bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in the course of an operation conducted by the United States.'

Lewin then provides evidence that bin Laden was actually killed in the raid, including the confirmation of his identity by DNA analysis and facial recognition analysis, eyewitness confirmation by one of bin Laden's wives, video of bin Laden found in the Abbottabad compound and the 'significant quantity' of other al Qaeda material seized by U.S. Navy Seals during last month's raid.

The papers detail the CIA's painstaking efforts to make sure the man killed May 2 during a Navy SEALs raid of his compound in Pakistan was indeed bin Laden.

Osama's charge sheet did not list the September 11th terror  attacks as one of his crimes.

The statement said: 'The possibility of a mistaken identification is approximately one in 11.8 quadrillion.'

The document also makes a passing reference to a 'significant quantity' of terrorist network material recovered at the hideout, including 'correspondence between Osama bin Laden and other senior al Qaeda leaders that concerns a range of al Qaeda issues'.

Also named as a defendant was Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian eye doctor and longtime bin Laden deputy who has become al Qaeda's new leader.

The charges included conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction against U.S. nationals and conspiracy to damage and destroy U.S. property.

Around the time the charges were first filed, the CIA's bin Laden unit was pursuing a plan to use Afghan operatives to capture bin Laden and hand him over for trial either in the United States or in an Arab country, according to the 9/11 Commission.

Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/U-S-officially-drop-charges-Osama-bin-Laden
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After consulting the "book of knowledge" wikipedia, here is a better explanation of "Nolle prosequi" relevant parts highlighted:

Nolle prosequi is a declaration made by a prosecutor in a criminal case or by a plaintiff in a civil lawsuit either before or during trial, meaning the case against the defendant is being dropped. The declaration may be made because the charges cannot be proved, the evidence has demonstrated either innocence or a fatal flaw in the prosecution's claim, or the prosecutor no longer thinks the accused is guilty, and/or the accused has died. 
It is generally made after indictment, but is not a guarantee that the person will not be reindicted.

In civil cases, a nolle prosequi may be entered as to one of several counts or to one of several defendants. In a criminal case, it has been held improper for a court to enter an order of nolle prosequi on its own without a motion by the prosecutor. As long as a jury trial has not been commenced, the entry of a nolle prosequi is not an adjudication on the merits of the prosecution, and the legal protection against double jeopardy will not automatically bar the charges from being brought again in some fashion.

Nolle prosequi is similar to a declination of prosecution, which is an agreement not to prosecute which may be made by an attorney, but also by the aggrieved party. In contrast, nolle prosequi is usually made after a decision to prosecute has already been made.  
A declination of prosecution may be made for many reasons, such as weak evidence or a conflict of interest.

Not such an "open and shut" case if you are able to read between the lines of what has actually happened here...
it stinks.

0 Emergency exercise in the new A3 Hindhead Tunnel...Planning for a Major news story mabey?

A full scale, live emergency exercise in the new A3 Hindhead Tunnel has been successfully completed today (Tuesday 14 June). 

The exercise, which simulated two multi-vehicle collisions, one including a fire in the tunnel, allowed the Highways Agency and emergency services to practise their response to a major incident as well as testing some of the tunnel’s cutting edge safety technology.
Members of the police, fire and rescue, ambulance services and local authorities joined forces with the Highways Agency’s tunnel operators and project team for the test, which was carried out in the tunnel itself, under the Devil’s Punchbowl in Surrey, before it opens to traffic next month.
Paul Arnold, Highways Agency senior project manager for the A3 Hindhead major improvement scheme, said:
“Today’s exercise was the last big milestone before the new road opens to traffic in a few weeks time. It was a good opportunity to put the tunnel’s emergency plan into action and make sure that the joint response to a major incident in the tunnel is well practised.
“Safety is our top priority, and we have built some state of the art features into the tunnel, including the UK’s first use of a radar based incident detection system. Road users and local people should be reassured that the emergency services and tunnel personnel are well equipped to deal with a real major incident in the Hindhead tunnel.”


Paul Ginty, Borough Manager, from Surrey Fire and Rescue said:

“Hopefully we’ll never be called to a real life incident such as this but it’s vital we’re prepared for any eventuality which is why holding a training exercise in the tunnel was so valuable. An emergency in a tunnel presents challenges to the emergency services but we are well prepared to respond.”

Chief Inspector Paul Smith, Surrey Police head of Force Planning and Resourcing said:

“Surrey Police have been involved in the tunnel planning with partners since 2003 and that involvement has intensified as the tunnel has neared completion.

“Today has been another opportunity to exercise with our multi-agency partners and a real chance to test our joint Hindhead Tunnel Emergency Plan. We are delighted with the results; of course public safety is the prime concern of Surrey Police and our partners and as you would expect we will be reviewing the exercise outcomes to see if any areas of the plan can be further improved ahead of the Tunnel opening.”

The exercise, codenamed Exercise Stag, simulated a major incident in the Hindhead Tunnel. In the scenario, there were two separate collisions involving an HGV, three cars and a minibus in the 1.2 mile-long tunnel. One of the collisions resulted in a fire, and a coach, HGV and several cars, were trapped between the two collisions. Volunteer actors played the role of casualties who suffered minor injuries and trauma and the local authorities supplied others who were caught up in the incident.
The tunnel’s safety systems include 100% CCTV coverage, and state of the art communications systems. Radar based technology can detect any unusual activity in the tunnel, such as a stationary vehicle, pedestrian, animal or large pieces of debris on the road. Signs and signals can quickly lower the speed limit and close lanes, and a contraflow can be set up quickly and easily to direct traffic through one of the tunnel bores should the other become impassable.
The Hindhead tunnel is part of a four mile bypass which will eliminate a notorious congestion hotspot on the A3, the main route between London and Portsmouth. The new road will reunite two areas of internationally prized countryside to create the largest area of heath land in southern Britain, as well as restoring peace and tranquillity to the village of Hindhead. It will open to traffic in July.

Planning for a Major news story in the UK maybe?...maybe as a news blackout for future planned public anti-government protests?
I can see it now..."33 cars trapped in tunnel rescuers fight for weeks to free them"..

0 Suspicious Package Found At Pentagon, Corrupt Media And How rumours start......

From reading this report from the Washing Post you would be forgiven thinking that this whole incident was a misunderstanding, in that someone "saw something and then said something" that in turn was found to be "Nothing"...fair dues..end of story...

  

BUT WAIT!!.....

Now read one of the other top Breaking google results on this subject...

found in full here:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=44253 

Were did all the other information come from??.. the "five pounds of ammonium nitrate"?..the "notebook containing “words like al-Qaeda and Taliban,”?......and the mainstream media wonders why it's now lost the trust of its audience?....

Mainstream Media is corrupt, it's paid for, and it's ONLY agenda is to instil "fear and confusion" among the public.
The sooner we all wake up to this fact the better....

1 Suspicious Package Found At Pentagon

1 HM Revenue & Customs to use "Web Robots" to crack tax evasion.

Tax cheats beware: HM Revenue & Customs is planning to use web bots to crack down on tax evasion.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is extending its campaign against tax cheats with the news that it will use ‘web robots’ to trawl cyberspace.

The announcement from the HMRC says that it will utilise “web robot” software to search the internet and find targeted information about specified people and companies. HMRC also says that by using the software it can more accurately pinpoint people who have failed to pay the right tax.

But it seems that the government software will also be used to locate people who are trading without informing HMRC.

Bots On The Prowl

Be Afraid....Very Afraid.

The web robot software (essentially Internet bots) will be used in conjunction with the department’s Connect computer system.

“Connect alerts HMRC to previously invisible tax evasion by matching a vast amount of HMRC and third-party data, enabling a fast and focused response to tax evasion,” said HMRC. “It shines a light onto previously hidden relationships, uncovering anomalies between such elements as bank interest, property income and lifestyle indicators before homing in on unexplained inconsistencies.”

“By being open about our areas of interest for the coming year we hope to maximise that exchange of information and ensure we reduce the tax gap and help customers pay what they owe,” said Wells, HMRC’s Director of Risk and Intelligence.

“We will use the information we gather to pursue people who choose not to use the opportunities we provide for them to put their affairs in order on the best possible terms,” said Wells. “It will be more expensive if we come and find people, so I urge them to come forward and disclose voluntarily.”

Moonlighting Clampdown

Ironic?:The government has allowed Vodafone to

dodge £6 billion in tax. That’s money they owe

the British public.(video below)

The decision to target cyberspace to hunt down those evading tax comes as HMRC continues its campaign to recover around £7 billion lost to the Treasury each year. It is thought that this latest development, the use of ‘web robots’, will help HMRC track down rogue eBay and Gumtree businesses, as well as people earning second incomes by acting as private tutors.

It will also help it hunt down so called cash-in-hand handymen and traders.

A HMRC spokesman told the Guardian newspaper for example that the software will be used to look on services such as Google and eBay to identify traders, and will then cross-reference it against its own systems.

“For example, it will see if Mr Smith’s sale of mobile phones is a trade,” the spokesman said. “If, when it looks back into our systems and finds that Mr Smith works at a supermarket and there is no mention of online trading, the compliance staff will contact him.

“It’s about catching moonlighters. We want to let these people know that we are on to them,” he told the Guardian.

Connect Success

However before designing and launching this and other campaigns, the department will seek input from interested parties.

In September last year the department’s new Connect computer system helped HMRC discover that millions of people had been taxed incorrectly between 2008 and 2010. Those people faced either a tax rebate or a demand to make up underpaid income tax.

In January this year security specialist Webroot warned that UK citizens who were in a hurry to file their tax returns before the 31 January deadline, were in danger of falling for email phishing scams.

So in summary...while the small guy trying to feed his family & survive is slung over hot coals and flogged, for small change, large UK based corporations like VODAPHONE continue to cost the UK public
£MULTIPLE BILLIONS!! in lost tax revenue, with no absolutly no consequence....I'm so glad I live in such a democratic country.
God save the queen!!

0 10 Really Stupid Things The Mainstream Media Has Said About The Bilderberg Group In 2011

10 Really Stupid Things The Mainstream Media Has Said About The Bilderberg Group In 2011

The American Dream
June 11, 2011

All of the participants are sworn to secrecy and swarms of heavily armed security guards are making sure that nobody unauthorized gets in. Decisions will be made at this meeting which will fundamentally change our future.

The CEO of Amazon.com will be there, as will the head of Google, one of the co-founders of Facebook and one of the top executives from Microsoft. 

The president of the EU will be in attendance, along with the president of the World Bank, the president of the European Central Bank, the head of the World Trade Organization and the top commander of NATO.

Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller will be there. Royalty from all over Europe will be attending as well. Past attendees have included several U.S. presidents, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Prince Charles, current British Prime Minister David Cameron, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates and current Texas governor Rick Perry.

You would think that these meetings would be something that the mainstream media would want to cover.

But unfortunately, the mainstream media mostly ignores the Bilderberg Group meetings, and if they do cover them they just crack a bunch of jokes about “conspiracy theories” and they do their best to play down the importance of the meetings.

Under normal circumstances, a gathering of top executives from Google, Facebook and Microsoft would have the media salivating. So would a gathering of some of the most important international politicians on the globe.

So why doesn’t the mainstream media want to talk about the Bilderberg Group?

From June 9th to June 12th, over a hundred of the most powerful people on the planet will meet in utter secrecy and will discuss the future of the world.

All of the participants have been sworn not to reveal what is discussed.

Yet this doesn’t interest the mainstream media at all?

Every year since 1954, the Bilderberg Group has been holding these meetings. For years, even the existence of this group was denied. On U.S. talk shows anyone that dared to suggest that the Bilderberg Group existed was mocked as a “conspiracy theorist”.

Well, in recent years the alternative news has brought so much attention to the Bilderberg Group that everyone finally admits that, yes, the Bilderberg Group really does exist.

But now the mainstream media does everything they can to downplay the importance of the organization.

They suggest that anyone that believes that there is anything wrong with dozens of the most powerful people on the planet meeting in utter secrecy to discuss the future course of world events is “crazy”.

If the Bilderberg Group is so unimportant, then why would people like Bill Clinton, Prince Charles, David Cameron, Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, Bill Gates, Angela Merkel, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, Rick Perry, David Rockefeller, Herman van Rompuy, Jean-Claude Trichet, Jeff Bezos, Chris R. Hughes, Eric Schmidt, Craig J. Mundie, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Richard Perle, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden take the time to attend?

A full list of the “official attendees” of the Bilderberg Group in 2011 can be found here.

However, the truth is that the “unofficial attendees” are often even more interesting.

But the mainstream media acts like all of this is no big deal.

If they do decide to talk about the Bilderberg Group, they tend to crack jokes and make fun of “conspiracy theorists”.

The following are 10 really stupid things that the mainstream media has said about the Bilderberg Group in 2011…

 

#1 CNBC: The 120 participants attend in a private capacity and, officially, they do not forge agreements over global economic policy.

 

#2 BBC News: The gnashing of teeth over Bilderberg is ridiculous, says Times columnist David Aaronovitch. “It’s really an occasional supper club for the rich and powerful,” he argues.

#3 Time Magazine: A vestige of the Cold War, the only drawback of the meeting could be that the Chinese and the Russians are still missing.

#4 Forbes: Admittedly, it’s fascinating that some secret society, like the Wizard of Oz, choreographs events on a global stage. Puppet masters of the public’s fate. Conspiracy theories punctuate the otherwise mundane din of modern life, but riveting as it all appears, I’m not buying it. Would they? Absolutely. Could they? Implausible.

 

#5 Fox News: But the secretive nature of the meetings, that first began in 1954, has sparked countless conspiracy theories by those who believe the group is trying to form a new world order of sorts.

 

#6 CNBC: Its secrecy only serves to add fuel to the innumerate conspiracy theories that circulate around the event, with Internet message boards often channelling Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown and putting the “club” in the same bracket as the Freemasons and “Illuminati.”

 #7 BBC News: Secret cabals extend beyond the Bilderberg Group. The Illuminati, which derives from a 16th Century Bavarian secret society, is alleged to be an all powerful secret society, including US presidents, that has controlled major world events. The Freemasons – famous for their peculiar handshakes – is a secret fraternity society that has become more open in recent years after extensive criticism.

 

#8 The Baltimore Sun: I suppose the Bilderberg Group, which was founded in 1954 at the Hotel Bilderberg in Holland, can supply us with a few thrills while we wait for Dan Brown to knock out another book. But a hotel in St. Moritz — especially one that features Teddy’s World for kids — doesn’t seem like the place to plot world domination. Shouldn’t they be meeting in a secret underground lair?

#9 NBC Affiliate KETK: If you believe Mafia hitmen hired by Castro killed JFK, or President Clinton was involved in murder, or George W. Bush planned 9-11…then this story is for you. That’s because the real Masters of the Universe are gathered in St. Moritz to decide your future. It’s called the Bilderberg conference, and it means more to European reporters than anyone here.

 

#10 BBC News: Some people are more susceptible than others to believing in wacky cabals, says Prof Chris French, of Goldsmith College’s psychology department. “It’s people who tend to be alienated by the mainstream, who feel powerless. They have a need to have a sense of control.”

Look, the truth is that dozens of the most powerful people on the planet are not meeting in utter secrecy just to play poker and smoke cigars.

They are having very real discussions that will have a very real influence on the direction of world events.

If that doesn’t fit in with how you prefer to view the world, that is too bad. The ultra-elite are going to keep on doing what they are doing whether you acknowledge them or not.

In fact, they would very much prefer for most people to keep on ignoring them because that makes it so much easier for them to achieve their goals.

Sadly, most Americans will completely ignore the Bilderberg Group in 2011 because the mainstream media is telling them that it is not an important event.

So what do all of you think about the Bilderberg Group? Please feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts below….

0 Lupe Fiasco - Obama A Terrorist (Interview)

Lupe Fiasco - Obama is the terrorist on 

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0 Michael Tellinger, Stones That Ring Like Bells

Michael Tellinger demonstrates the acoustic properties of stone artefacts from the ruins in South Africa.

1 Fukushima HD Aerial Photos, And HD Aerial Movie

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0 You guys in the US really... really... need to get behind this man...

0 WMD LIES Bush Cheney Rumsfeld etc THE ULTIMATE CLIP

Nor were any of these "a slip of the tongue"

 

0 FLASHBACK : Rumsfeld says Flight 93 was "shot down."

This was NOT a slip of the tongue
 

0 National Institute of Justice Finds Tasers Safe

1,200 volts at 19 pulses per second found safe for any enforcement use.

Law enforcement nationwide do not need to refrain from using Tasers on aggressive individuals they're trying to take into custody, according to a report from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) released last week (.pdf).

The NIJ report—which was directed by a steering group of representatives from the College of American Pathologists, the Centers for Disease Congrol and Prevention, and the National Association of Medical Examiners—found that police use of conducted energy devices (CED), commonly known as "tasers" after the popular brand, could continue despite controversy that CEDs have led to in-custody deaths of arrested individuals and are used excessively by police officers.

"There is no conclusive medical evidence in the current body of research literature that indicates a high risk of serious injury or death to humans from the direct or indirect cardiovascular or metabolic effects of short-term CED exposure in healthy, normal, nonstressed, nonintoxicated persons," the report concludes. "Field experience with CED use indicates that short-term exposure is safe in the vast majority of cases."

The report adds that the safety of CEDs holds true even when Taser darts strike an individual in the chest.

The report's conclusion was reached after an appointed medical panel of doctors and other specialists reviewed 300 incidents where police used CED on an individual, who then later died. The NIJ says it chose the panel explicitly to avoid possible conflicts of interest, ensuring the reader that no panelist has worked as a litigation consultant either for or against the devices.

The report does note that CED-use is not risk-free. Some individuals who died after being tased where "normal, healthy adults," the NIJ report notes, adding, however, that "many were chemically intoxicated or had heart disease or mental illness." The report calculates that the risk of death in a CED-related incident is 0.25 percent, adding "it is reasonable to conclude that CEDs do not cause or contribute to death in the large majority of those cases."

0 Electrified BodyGuard glove for police officers, corrections departments and the military

This crime-fighting glove, coated in ballistic nylon and packing both a high voltage stunner and a video camera, seems like the sort of wrist accessory that Batman would choose.

But if inventor and noted cameraman David Brown has anything to do with it, it could be the go-to glove for police officers, corrections departments and the military in the near future.

It's called The BodyGuard (not least because actor Kevin Costner is an active investor in the project), and is designed to deter violence, rather than dole it out. Brown hopes that the glove's HD camera, and its watchful green laser pointer, will make criminals think twice before escalating the action.

If that doesn't work, the crackling half a 500,000 volt spark-arc that dances between the glove's twin electrodes should do the trick. By pulling a safety pin and pressing a pressure-sensitive button in the glove's palm, a bridge of sparking electricity appears above the knuckles.

If all else fails, the police officer can finally subdue the subject with a swift, incapacitating grip or electrified attack. It can, a corporate image of the device says, "deliver high voltage to the aggressor to attempt to bring them into compliance".

How It Works (click for large)

There's also a torch and plenty of real estate for other technologies and components. Brown mentions biometrics, GPS and communications, while an early render of the glove, seen on ArmStar's about page, even shows an iPhone docked into the wrist's underside.

Brown and Costner came up with the idea following a mountain lion attack in Orange County, California, in 2004. Brown thought up the Iron Man-styled glove as a protection weapon that you can't drop or have taken off you. Seven years and 30 prototypes later, and the device is almost ready for launch.

The glove was shown off in the 2011 Mock Prison Riots (an annual event where new enforcement equipment is debuted). The first demo unit will be released to the Los Angeles sheriff's department later this year, says Popular Science -- which just named the BodyGuard glove one of its inventions of the year.

0 WHO Lists Cell Phones as Cancer Hazard

Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The United Nations’ health agency, the World Health Organization, now lists mobile phone use in the same “carcinogenic hazard” category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform.

But no adverse health effects have been established, the agency explains.

The decision to list cell phones as a cancer hazard came after a team of 31 scientists from 14 countries examined peer-reviewed studies on cell phone safety.

“The biggest problem we have is that we know most environmental factors take several decades of exposure before we really see the consequences,” said Dr. Keith Black, chairman of neurology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Numerous studies indicate prolonged cell phone use is hazardous. The European Environmental Agency has pushed for more studies. It says cell phones may be as big a public health risk as smoking, asbestos and leaded gasoline.

In 2009, WHO reached the same conclusion. A decade-long, $30 million study into cell phones found a link between long term use and brain tumors.

The WHO’s Interphone investigation’s results showed “a significantly increased risk” of some brain tumors “related to use of mobile phones for a period of ten years or more,” the Telegraph reported.

The study showed participants in the study who used a cell phones for 10 years or more had doubled the rate of brain glioma, a type of tumor. To date, there have been no long-term studies on the effects of cell phone usage among children.

 In response to a number of studies revealing the dangers of cell phones, the industry now advises consumers to hold the devices away from their bodies.

The study showed participants in the study who used a cell phones for 10 years or more had doubled the rate of brain glioma, a type of tumor. To date, there have been no long-term studies on the effects of cell phone usage among children.

In response to a number of studies revealing the dangers of cell phones, the industry now advises consumers to hold the devices away from their bodies.

1 Poland Sees Nothing Wrong in Cluster Bombs 2008

http://wyborcza.pl/1,86871,5674037,Poland_Sees_Nothing_Wrong_in_Cluster_Bombs.html

If Polish troops at Nangar Khel had used cluster munitions, there would have been no witnesses of the fatal operation, says a domestic producer of cluster munitions. Poland doesn't intend, for now at least, to sign the Dublin Convention prohibiting their us.

The convention, prohibiting the trade, production and use of cluster munitions has been endorsed by over 100 countries so far, including major EU member states such as France, the UK, Germany, or Netherlands. It is to be formally signed in Oslo in December. From then on, the signatory countries' armed forces will stop using the highly imprecise munitions, which, if they don't explode at once, can kill innocent people even years later. Poland hasn't endorsed the convention and is also a producer of cluster bombs.

They are made by a defence plant called Kraśnik, and can be viewed at the company's stand at the Defence Industry Salon in Kielce.

 

'We make cluster munitions for two kinds of missiles - 98 mm mortar and 122 mm artillery. They can be launched from a tank gun or a cannon', says Kraśnik chief executive Dariusz Szlafka.

'Polish troops at Nangar Khel in Afghanistan had mortar missiles with cluster munitions. Officers later said that if they had used them, there wouldn't have been any witnesses of the massacre. Why? Because the whole village would have ceased to exist'.

Mr Szlafka presents a missile. Inside there is a rail, and around it, smaller casings filled with explosive. The 98 mm missile has nine of these, the 122 mm one - fifteen.

'It's so powerful it can destroy an infantry unit, a building, a vehicle, even puncture a runway', stresses Mr Szlafka. 'The primary missile explodes above the target. The distance can be set by the cannon operator and depending on it, the submunitions cover a greater or smaller area. A single submunition covers an estimated 100 sq m. Besides exploding, cluster bombs consume oxygen, killing those who have survived the explosion itself'.

Mr Szlafka again quotes soldiers: 'You can perhaps survive in a building, but no one would want to be out in the open during a shelling'.

How much cluster munitions does Kraśnik produce? 'Not much, but I can't say precisely', says Mr Szlafka. 'Let me only say it's about 10 percent of what the army buys as conventional weapons. Because this is not a training weapon. You only take it to missions, and even there it's used very seldom. Besides, it's expensive. A single one costs more than PLN10,000'.

Mr Szlafka stresses that his company's only customer are the Polish armed forces. He also adds that over 99 percent of cluster munitions explode right after being fired. Those that do not represent, according to him, just 0.1 percent of the total.

Defence Minister Bogdan Klich, asked by Gazeta in Kielce why Poland hasn't endorsed the Dublin Convention, said laconically, 'This isn't just a whim. We need those weapons to defend our territory. In fact, a debate has been going on about this type of munitions'.

The military sees nothing wrong in using cluster bombs.

'There are no humanitarian weapons', Chief of General Staff Gen Franciszek Gągor tells Gazeta. 'Our munitions have inbuilt security features. If a missile doesn't explode, it will go into autodestruct mode after a specified period of time. So while this isn't a "humanitarian" weapon, it's a selective one. There's no possibility of it killing a person who happens upon an unexploded shell like this'.

Amnesty International believes otherwise. It has launched a campaign against the use of cluster munitions.

'According to what we know, as many as 40 percent of such bombs don't explode at once. They stay on the ground and then kill innocent people', says Monika Deptuła, AI spokesperson in Poland. 'The company producing these is interested in quoting its own figures. We believe this type of weapons is highly imprecise'.

0 Seven Polish soldiers acquitted of Nangar Khel wedding party killings

Seven Polish soldiers accused of war crimes in the Afghan village of Nangar Khel in August 2007 have been acquitted by a court in Warsaw due to “lack of evidence”.

01.06.2011 www.thenews.pl

 The Circuit Military Court decided there was not enough evidence to sentence the soldiers and their commander.

Prosecutors had demanded between 5 and 12 years imprisonment for the men.

Six commandos serving in the 18th Stormtrooper Battalion from Biesko-Biala had been charged with manslaughter, with a seventh accused of “opening fire at an undefended object”.

The attack on what was actually a wedding party resulted in the deaths of six civilians, including a pregnant woman and three children, and seriously injured three other women.

The judge said today in his ruling that the court did not have access to proper documentation and was not able to establish precisely from where the shots had been fired, or the precise placement of witnesses.

The case had set a precident in the history of the Polish armed forces, said Judge Col. Mirosław Jaroszewski.

The sentence can be appealed by prosecutors.

Hague Convention

The trial began on 2 February 2009, and is the first such case in the history of the Polish Army where soldiers have been accused of breaking the Hague Convention and the killing of civilians as a result of war activity.

During the final hearings in the case last week, which was ongoing since 2009, Prosecutor Colonel Jabub Mytych judged the accused as guilty in the charges brought against them, and that the soldiers broke both the Geneva and Hague conventions, as well as Polish law.

“Stating that [the soldiers] were aiming at another target is merely a line of defence,” Colonel Mytych said.

On 16 August 2007, Polish military vehicles came under fire in the village of Nangar Khel, located in the Paktika province of Afghanistan.

In July last year, Wikileaks released documents on the incident with one confidential document declaring that, “[The Polish soldiers] fired a total of 26 rounds according to one report. They fired over and then short and then three rounds impacted within a compound. One impacted on the roof of the house, one impacted in the court yard, and the last went through the roof and detonated within the house. There was a wedding celebration going on in the house, which explains the high number of casualties.”

‘Fatal error’

During the case, Defence Minister Bogdan Klich stood by the accused soldiers, stating that they had performed a “fatal error” and as such should be judged as not guilty.

Klich made his point known back in December 2007 after meeting with US Army Colonel Martin Schuitzer, who was the Commanding Officer of Polish troops in Afghanistan at the time.

Colonel Schuitzer then conceded that American soldiers perform similar errors a few times a month, and that the Poles’ ‘accident’ in Nangar Khel was the first such incident to have taken place.