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Crucial evidence to the Iraq inquiry by Sir Richard Dearlove, the head of MI6 at the time of the 2003 invasion, is likely to be heard in private.

The Pentagon is assigning more special forces personnel to Yemen as part of a broad push to speed the training of the country’s counterterror forces in the wake of the failed Christmas Day attack on a crowded U.S. airliner.

The men who advised former President Bush to waterboard detainees and deprive them of sleep will be cleared of charges of professional misconduct by a Justice Department ethics report.

Thousands of protesters from across Japan marched today in Tokyo to protest against U.S. military presence on Okinawa, while a Cabinet minister said she would fight to get rid of a marine base Washington considers crucial.

A new Government scheme to get businesses to cut their emissions could spell the end of the all-night bright lights of the local high street, the Environment Agency (EA) has predicted.

By Anand Gopal for Alternet:
Even if inherited from the Bush administration, the Afghan night raids, the accompanying killings are now after a year in office, Obama’s official policy.
One quiet, wintry night last year in the eastern Afghan town of Khost, a young government employee named Ismatullah simply vanished. He had last been seen in […]

By Molly Johnson for Indiana Daily Student:
IU statistics professor Stanley Wasserman points at the map of the “Celebrity Twitter Ecosystem” from the New York Times that he has tacked to his bulletin board. “Networks are hot,” he says.
Social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, have pervaded almost every aspect of our society –they help us […]

For those of you not in a part of the world too cold (or too far) to go outside and take a look, today brings a rare appearance of the year’s largest full moon, with a bonus appearance by planet Mars, just to the left of the moon. This report from National Geographic:
The biggest full […]

Kurt Haskell
Prison Planet.com
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Please note that in the article that follows, I am not claiming that the U.S. Government knew Mutallab had a bomb or intended to hurt anyone on Flight 253 when the U.S. Government let him board.

Umar Farouk Abulutallab.

Since our flight landed on Christmas Day, Lori and I […]

By Kurt Haskell on the Lori’s Liberal Realm blog:
The Sharp Dressed Man Who Assisted Mutallab Onto Flight 253 Was A U.S. Government Agent
Since our flight landed on Christmas Day, Lori and I have been doing everything in our power to uncover the truth about why we were almost blown up in the air over Detroit. […]

Alternet reviews Mitch Horowitz’s Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation:
If witch-burning Puritans are the original jocks of American history, then the mystics surrounding Johannes Kelpius are the first goths. While the rest of the British colonies were still dutifully worshipping their angry Christian god, Kelpius and his followers—who fled Austria […]

From the Daily Mail:
How the Moon was created and came to orbit the Earth has long puzzled scientists.
The most commonly held theory is that when the solar system was first formed, an object collided with Earth, knocking off a chunk of rock that fell into orbit around it.
But now two scientists have come up with […]

From The Star Tribune:
Rep. Michele Bachmann has become the latest high-profile conservative to bag the rapidly unraveling Tea Party Convention in Nashville next week.
The Minnesota Republican, who has become something of a heroine of the Tea Party movement, decided Thursday morning that she is cancelling her appearance at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel next Friday, where […]

Astro physicist Michio Kaku discusses the threat from solar flares.

Longer I do this, more clearly it has come.
Infowarriors are NOT working for their own or anyone else’s best interest in their minds.
Couple of pointers:

One thing comes at the top every time I go through videos or other data: “People are thinking we’re nuts, they are not listening us..” This is something of a reoccuring […]

Phil Serafino and Yuriy Humber
Bloomberg
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Bill and Melinda Gates said their foundation will commit $10 billion over the next decade to help develop vaccines for the world’s poorest countries, a project that may save the lives of 8.7 million children.
The initiative aims to vaccinate 90 percent of children in developing nations, including new […]

Sophie Borland
UK Daily Mail
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Children as young as five are being told to fill in Big Brother-style forms which let councils snoop on intimate details about their home lives.
The questions – which have been attacked as exploitative – ask about junk food, television habits, family time and even whether the youngsters ‘like themselves’.
Results […]

Canadian Biotechnology Action Network
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
‘SmartStax’: No Safety Assessment from Health CanadaWhat is SmartStax?

CBAN has written to Health Canada to demand that:Codex Food Safety Guidelines can be downloaded here; pdf, 18 pages

For More Information:
On Regulation
On SmartStax
Summary: On July 15, 2009 Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences announced that they received approval to introduce their new […]

Philip Webster and David Brown
London Times
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Tony Blair was branded a murderer and liar last night after he ended his historic appearance before the Iraq inquiry with a blank refusal to voice regrets over toppling Saddam Hussein.
After six hours in which the Chilcot inquiry team had largely failed to breach his defences, […]

Press TV
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
China suspends military exchanges with the US and threatens to impose sanctions on US arms companies over a Washington decision to sell weapons to Taiwan.
China’s Defense Ministry suspended military exchange visits with the US, saying the suspension was “in consideration of the serious harm and impacts [of the 6.4-billion-dollar US-Taiwan arms […]