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POLICE and prosecutors are facing allegations that they misled a judge and grossly exaggerated evidence against the only man to be detained in Britain over September 11.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2395400,00.html


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Cato Institute
by Marian L. Tupy

10/08/06

Tony Blair may be entering the last year of his premiership, but his zeal for social engineering remains undiminished. The latest policy proposal from Britain's Labor prime minister aims to deal with poverty among the people at the bottom of Britain's economic ladder. To help the indigent, Mr. Blair wants to move beyond cash handouts and increase the government's role in rearing their children. An increased state role in children's lives may seem like a strange culmination of Blairist legislative agenda, but the nanny-state has been at the heart of Blairism since the beginning...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6717


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The police and other official bodies could escape prosecution for the death of people in police custody, army barracks or prison or local authority care, if exemptions to a new Bill are agreed this week.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1819640.ece


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Incitement to hatred
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1889674,00.html


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An Iraqi security guard broke down in tears while telling a court martial how he was allegedly beaten by UK soldiers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5407420.stm


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Independent [UK]

09/27/06

Pupils should be encouraged to challenge authority in new-style citizenship lessons, school inspectors will say today. A report by Ofsted, the education standards watchdog, rejects the notion that the lessons -- made a compulsory part of the secondary school curriculum four years ago -- should be about teaching 'compliance, good behaviour and the acceptance of values.' It says that much of the best practice it has seen in schools has focused instead onchallenging and promoting a 'critical democracy'...

http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article1768847.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Up to 20,000 demonstrators have marched through the northern English city of Manchester to protest the presence of British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://snipurl.com/x1jz


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Time To Go

"In Britain, thanks to Blair, a sea-change in public attitudes has taken place. No less than 80 per cent regard him as a liar; 82 per cent believe his warmongering was a principal cause of the London bombings; 72 per cent believe he has made this country a target." John Pilger

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15078.htm

More than 100 senior doctors today accused the government of colluding in war crimes by refusing to give medical aid to British residents detained at Guantánamo Bay.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1875367,00.html


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On the 7th of July 2005 London was hit by a series of explosions. You probably think you know what happened that day. But you don’t.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14988.htm