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Informant: Lew Rockwell

We know next to nothing of how our overseas embassy staff operate in our name. In an astonishing exposé, a former high-flying official reveals the vanity, elitism and lack of moral purpose in Britain's diplomatic service.

http://www.newstatesman.com/200702260026


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Independent [UK]

02/15/07

A powerful coalition of 100 scientists, lawyers, church leaders, actors, writers and MPs is today demanding a halt to the rush by Tony Blair towards a replacement for Britain’s Trident nuclear weapon system. Stephen Hawking, the astrophysicist, is among the prominent figures fronting the campaign, which will strengthen growing demands in Parliament for the vote on the replacement of the nuclear weapons system to be delayed until a full debate on the options has taken place. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right Rev Rowan Williams, the author Zadie Smith, the actress Emma Thompson, the fashion designer Vivienne Westwood and the architect Richard Rogers have also signed a statement objecting to a hasty decision...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2271662.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Not in Our Name: Campaign Launched against Trident Nuclear Weapons System Replacement
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0215-09.htm

BRITAIN would launch a nuclear strike on a rogue state to sink a terror plot, ministers confirmed last night.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,2-2007060269,00.html


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"It's a police state for Muslims," Mr Bakr told the BBC. " It's not a police state for everyone else, because these terror laws are designed specifically for Muslims," he said.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2248788.ece


From Information Clearing House

The Archbishop of York has warned that Britain was in danger of "coming close to a police state" in the wake of the arrest of suspected terrorists in Birmingham.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6394619,00.html


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Independent [UK}

02/02/07

John Reid, the Home Secretary, has been warned that Britain's safety could be put at risk if he succeeds in an attempt to lengthen the period that terrorist suspects can be held without charge. He told the Cabinet yesterday that he wanted to increase the 28-day maximum detention period available to detectives investigating alleged terrorist plots. Mr Reid was accused of trying to make political capital from the massive operation by West Midlands Police. But the Home Office dismissed suggestions that he was taking advantage of the headlines from the Birmingham raids to press for the extension...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2208274.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/uk/features/article_1254058.php/Blair%60s


Informant: Alan Dicey

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Blair says bribery scandal won't drive him out

San Francisco Chronicle

02/02/07

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, questioned twice in an investigation into whether political honors such as knighthoods were traded for cash, insisted Friday he would not let the inquiry force him from office. Blair has said he will step down by September, but the allegations have fueled opposition calls for him to go now, and one of his Cabinet ministers said the affair was 'eroding trust.' Blair told British Broadcasting Corp. radio that he would not step down to put an end to the controversy...

http://tinyurl.com/ys888r


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Blair's Watergate?

Tim Luckhurst writes: "Last Friday, for the second time in three months, [Tony] Blair was interrogated at 10 Downing Street by police investigating a scandal that is fast growing to resemble Watergate. The controversy began last March when healthcare entrepreneur Chai Patel was denied a seat in Britain's unelected upper house of Parliament, the House of Lords."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020307G.shtml

Another day, yet another scandal involving the saintly Tony Blair and highly connected Anglo-American arms peddlers. The British prime minister, who, like George W. Bush, has made his sleeve-worn Christianity a major component of his political persona, is knee-deep in a corruption probe once again, just weeks after peremptorily quashing an official investigation into bribes, kickbacks and influence-peddling allegations involving his government, his corporate cronies and the Saudi royals.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012707D.shtml

For almost 60 years, the evidence of Britain's clandestine torture programme in postwar Germany has lain hidden in the government's files. Harrowing photographs of young men who had survived being systematically starved, as well as beaten.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1745662,00.html


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