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Anti-drone protest in UK over domestic opening of Reaper control center
Anti-war groups have held a protest at a UK airbase from which the country has begun controlling its fleet of assassination drones in Afghanistan. Previously, the remote pilots were deployed only in the US.
Four anti-war groups – including CND, the Drone Campaign Network, Stop the War and War on Want – are staging a nonviolent protest on Saturday over drone use by the Waddington base in Lincolnshire.
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American Free Press: UK Bilderberg 2013 Meeting Confirmed
American Free Press received e-mail from Grove Hotel staffer, apparently confirming that Bilderberg 2013 will be going down near Watford in the United Kingdom from June 6-9.
AFP’s Mark Anderson reports that he received an e-mail from a Grove Hotel employee, apparently confirming a UK-based Bilderberg meeting this coming June. Anderson writes:
“An email reply to AFP from a Grove staffer and a...
Bilderberg Conference 2013 Set to Take Place In Watford UK
Confirming information gathered by veteran journalist Jim Tucker’s source, it appears almost certain that the secretive Bilderberg group will conduct its annual confab at the luxury Grove Hotel just outside Watford, UK from June 6 to June 9.
As we detailed in an April 2 report entitled Bilderberg 2013 Set To Take Place Near London?, Tucker’s source told him that the conference was likely to take...
High potassium, low salt can keep stroke risk down
British researchers have demonstrated that those people who consume higher potassium in their diets and cut down salt are in lower risk of stroke.
The study indicates that a lower salt intake and potassium rich diet can combat high blood pressure and consequently the risk of stroke, according to the paper published in the British Medical Journal.
Two separate studies showed that increased level of...
UK authorities underestimate poverty to their own benefits
Researchers say the governments in Britain and Scotland are willfully underestimating the number of families living in poverty, local media reported.
A report backed by the Economic and Social Research Council found that ministers both at Holyrood and Westminster have failed to “effectively define” deprivation.
Academics at Edinburgh University believe there is a “weakness” in the way central...
Bilderberg 2013 Set To Take Place Near London?
Henry Kissinger jokes about keeping people guessing location of secretive confab.
According to veteran Bilderberg sleuth Jim Tucker, the secretive group could be preparing to host its annual confab within 40 miles of London, contradicting previous reports that the conference was set to return to Chantilly, Virginia.
“A new possibility has evolved in the annual hunt for Bilderberg’s spring meeting:...
Argentina calls on UK to enter talks over Falkland Islands
Argentinean Foreign Minister Hector Timerman with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Argentinean Foreign Minister Hector Timerman has once again called on British authorities to enter talks over the Malvinas Islands at the United Nations.
The request came on Tuesday, after Timerman along with other South American ministers met with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who said the UK has declined the Argentinean...
Britain abolishes UK Border Agency
British home secretary Theresa May has announced plan to scrap the beleaguered UK Border Agency and bring it back within the Home Office.
Theresa May made the announcement in her talks to MPs at the House of Commons, adding that she will also split the “closed and secretive” agency into an immigration and visa service and a separate law enforcement command.
The new apparatus will be brought...
Boris Berezovsky may have committed suicide
According to British media, Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who died on Saturday, March 23rd, was suffering from clinical depression. It was said that the businessman gave way to despair after the British court dismissed his five-billion-dollar claim against another Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. After the trial, Berezovsky had to pay $100 million for legal services. In connection with the...
Britain to run out of gas reserves in 36 hours
Britain’s gas reserves are running out in 36 hours amid an unreasonable cold weather leaving the country on expensive foreign imports, local media reported.
According to the British media reports the country’s gas storage has less than two days’ supplies left, with lower-than-usual temperatures force millions to turn up their heating.
The shortfall could force the long-term price of gas higher,...
Microsoft reveals tens of thousands of users data disclosed to governments
Microsoft received 75,378 government requests in 2012 to disclose user information, a report reveals. The company joins the likes of Google, which handed over troves of user data to governments last year, raising concerns over privacy violations.
The software giant claims the requests come from the FBI and as such the disclosure of the information can be justified.
Microsoft revealed in its transparency...
Nigel Farage To Europeans: “Get Your Money Out While You Can”
In Nigel Farage’s first TV appearance since the Cypriot wealth tax was announced, the Englishman pulls no punches.
In all his years and all his experience of the desperation of the European Union’s leadership “never did [he] think they would resort to stealing money from people’s savings accounts.”
The simple fact is that they know they cannot let any country leave, no matter how small,...
Researchers grow natural teeth from epithelial cells
Researchers from King’s College London have achieved a breakthrough method during which they can grow real teeth from a person’s own gum cells.
The study published the Journal of Dental Research is first major advance in developing a method to replace missing teeth with new bioengineered teeth.
Researchers isolated some cells from adult human gum (gingival) tissue from patients and grew...
UK sends flight loaded with 1 million Euros to Cyprus based troops
Britain’s Royal Air Force is flying out one million euros ($1.3 million) in emergency loans for UK military personnel, as a “contingency measure” in case debit cards and cash machines stop working on the island.
Britain’s ministry of defense (MoD) said the flight has a “contingency measure” in case banks in Cyprus stop giving out cash, as the country deals with the fallout from a controversial...
British, U.S. spies ignored intelligence before Iraq invasion
Britain and U.S. spying agencies had ignored intelligence before invasion of Iraq that the country had no active weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), it has been revealed.
MI6 and CIA had been told through secret channels by Saddam’s foreign minister and his spy chief that Iraq had no WMDs, media reports said.
This is while that former Prime Minister Tony Blair told parliament in the run-up to the...