statism watch

Wow. Just – wow.

Eileen Fairweather, The Daily Mail
December 7, 2008

When police raided Tory MP Damian Green’s home, they ‘sheepishly’ asked whether children were present before ransacking it. His wife assumed they were being polite. But, under sinister new guidelines, officers must assess all children they encounter — including while ‘searching premises’ — for a police database called MERLIN.

This, in turn, feeds into a giant new Whitehall database on Britain’s children, Contact Point, which goes live nationally in January.

The Tories have vowed to scrap it, arguing that it threatens family privacy and children’s safety. But civil liberties campaigners say we must resist it now, before it is too late.

Since April 1, hundreds of thousands of State employees, from police to teachers, youth and nursery workers, social workers and sports coaches, have been entitled to interrogate children aged up to 19, using the ‘Common Assessment Framework’ (CAF), a creepy, eight-page, 60-section questionnaire.

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This is the equivalent of bio-engineering on a massive scale. Had enough yet? Use your voice.

Geoffrey Lean, The Independent
December 7, 2008

The male gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both humans and wildlife, startling scientific research from around the world reveals.

The research — to be detailed tomorrow in the most comprehensive report yet published — shows that a host of common chemicals is feminising males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals, including people.

Backed by some of the world’s leading scientists, who say that it “waves a red flag” for humanity and shows that evolution itself is being disrupted, the report comes out at a particularly sensitive time for ministers. On Wednesday, Britain will lead opposition to proposed new European controls on pesticides, many of which have been found to have “gender-bending” effects.

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Make that – Irish will be forced to vote on EU treaty again, until they return the desired outcome. It’s so undemocratic. Will this proud people be forced into another cage? Citizens of all nations should be aware that treaties are a convenient way for legislators to make an end-run around the democratic process in favour of increased integration and regional ‘governance’. Statism Watch will continue to monitor events as they unfold in the Emerald Isle.

Kirsty Walker, Daily Mail
December 7, 2008

Britain could be signed up to a controversial European Union Constitution within a year, it has emerged.

Ireland  -  which derailed the so-called Lisbon Treaty when voters rejected it in June  -  has been forced into holding a second referendum on the agreement.

One diplomat said: ‘There is still some tweaking to do, but there is an understanding.‘

Critics say that the Treaty is almost identical to the EU Constitution, rejected by the French and Dutch in 2005.

The EU insists that the document is needed to help ease decision-making in Brussels, but opponents say it will hand over sovereign powers to bureaucrats.

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BBC News
December 7, 2008

Five employees of the US security firm Blackwater charged over the 2007 fatal shooting of 17 Iraqis are expected to surrender to US authorities.

Contracted to defend US diplomats, the firm says its guards acted in self-defence when they opened fire after being ambushed by Baghdad insurgents.

Details of the charges are expected to be made public on Monday, with reports saying the men will surrender in Utah.

The Iraqi government has welcomed the move to hold “criminals accountable”.

The killings have become a central issue in Iraq’s relationship with the US.

Apology plea

Although the indictment was made in Washington, Associated Press reported that the men would surrender to the FBI in Utah, the home state of one of the five guards.

Haythem Ahmed al-Rubaie, who lost his wife and son in the shooting, said he had not even received an apology.

He has rejected a compensation offer of $10,000 (£6,780) from the US.

“They killed my wife and my son and other innocent people. What did they do for them? Did they apologise?”

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Does the conclusion follow? There are certainly a lot of questions raised by this information, whatever your position.

Kurt Nimmo, Infowars
December 7, 2008

It is becoming an increasingly hard sell to pin the blame for the Mumbai attacks on Pakistan and thus set the stage for an attack on Pakistan after Barack Obama enters the White House in a few weeks. It now appears Indian intelligence played a large part in the terrorist attacks. On Saturday, the Associated Press reported that a “counterinsurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission” was arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen.

The counterinsurgency operative, Mukhtar Ahmed, worked for the police in Indian Kashmir. “The implications of Ahmed’s involvement – that Indian agents may have been in touch with the militants and perhaps supplied the SIM cards used in the attacks – added to the growing list of questions over India’s ill-trained security forces, which are widely blamed for not thwarting the attacks,” reports the Associated Press.

In other words, Indian intelligence had penetrated Lashkar-e-Taiba and ran a false flag operation through the terrorist group, putatively connected to Pakistan’s ISI.

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