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Saadi Gaddafi was smuggled into Niger by a team of ex-special forces soldiers from around the world, according to a former Australian soldier who claims to be the personal bodyguard of the son of the former Libyan dictator.

Saadi Gaddafi is facing demands for his extradition from Niger

- Saadi Gaddafi ‘smuggled into Niger by team of ex-special forces from Australia and New Zealand’ (Telegraph, Oct. 30, 2011):

Gary Peters, who is Australian but lives in Ontario, Canada, said his team of New Zealand, Australian, Russian and Iraqi ex-special forces soldiers escorted Saadi to Niger after his flight from Tripoli as it fell to rebel forces in August.

He said he himself was injured as he tried to cross the border back to Libya, but was able to make it back to Canada even though he was bleeding.

Saadi, who is facing demands for his extradition from Niger, was hoping to move to Canada or Mexico where he had investments, Mr Peters said.

“He loves Canada, that’s why he keeps coming back here, every year,” Mr Peters said of Saadi in an interview with the country’s National Post newspaper.

“He’s got investments here, he’s got property here. He wants to [move to Canada], but I was warned by RCMP (the police) that if he comes here they’ll arrest him straight away.”

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Tags: Africa, Global News, Government, Libya, Military, Muammar Gaddafi, Niger, Politics, Saadi Gaddafi, Saif Gaddafi, Special Forces, War

- MF Global Files for Bankruptcy After Bad Bets on European Debt (Bloomberg, Oct. 31, 2011):

MF Global Holdings Ltd., the holding company for the broker-dealer run by former New Jersey governor and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. co-chairman Jon Corzine, filed for bankruptcy protection as it seeks to reorganize after making bets on European sovereign debt.

The New York-based firm listed debt of $39.7 billion and assets of $41 billion in Chapter 11 papers filed today in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, making it the eighth-largest U.S. bankruptcy by assets, according to bankruptcydata.com. MF Global’s board met through the weekend in New York to consider options including a sale to avert failure, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation.

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Tags: Bankruptcy, Debt, Economy, EU, Europe, Global News, Goldman Sachs, Jon Corzine, New Jersey, U.S.

- Travel nightmares plague East Coast after snowstorm (CNN, Oct. 30, 2011):

Airline passengers left stranded by a freak snowstorm that pounded the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states were waiting to get to their destinations Sunday, many after spending a restless night on cots or airport floors.

“Whatever kind of system they had, it completely and utterly broke down,” said passenger Fatimah Dahandari, who spent a night in Hartford, Connecticut’s Bradley International Airport while trying to get to New York. “It looks like a refugee camp in here.”

More than 4 million people in at least five states were without power Sunday as the storm moved offshore. Up to five deaths, some in traffic accidents, were blamed on the storm.

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Tags: Climate Change, Connecticut, Environment, Global News, Global Warming, Massachusetts, Snow storm, U.S., Weather, Winter

Ministers sought prince’s consent under secretive constitutional loophole on bills covering issues from gambling to the Olympics

Prince Charles has been asked by ministers to give his consent to government bills that may apply to his interests. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

- Prince Charles has been offered a veto over 12 government bills since 2005 (Telegraph, Oct. 30, 2011):

Ministers have been forced to seek permission from Prince Charles to pass at least a dozen government bills, according to a Guardian investigation into a secretive constitutional loophole that gives him the right to veto legislation that might affect his private interests.

Since 2005, ministers from six departments have sought the Prince of Wales’ consent to draft bills on everything from road safety to gambling and the London Olympics, in an arrangement described by constitutional lawyers as a royal “nuclear deterrent” over public policy. Unlike royal assent to bills, which is exercised by the Queen as a matter of constitutional law, the prince’s power applies when a new bill might affect his own interests, in particular the Duchy of Cornwall, a private £700m property empire that last year provided him with an £18m income.

Neither the government nor Clarence House will reveal what, if any, alterations to legislation Charles has requested, or exactly why he was asked to grant consent to such a wide range of laws.

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Tags: Global News, Government, Politics, Prince Charles, U.K.

Flashback:

- Scientist Investigating How Mosquitoes Transmit Diseases Dies From Ingested Cyanide

- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Funds Sweat-Triggered Vaccines

- Gates Foundation: Funding for a proposal to turn mosquitos into ‘flying syringes’ delivering vaccines

What could possibly go wrong?

- Concerns Are Raised About Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes (New York Times, Oct. 30, 2011):

These mosquitoes are genetically engineered to kill — their own children.

Researchers on Sunday reported initial signs of success from the first release into the environment of mosquitoes engineered to pass a lethal gene to their offspring, killing them before they reach adulthood.

The results, and other work elsewhere, could herald an age in which genetically modified insects will be used to help control agricultural pests and insect-borne diseases like dengue fever and malaria.

But the research is arousing concern about possible unintended effects on public health and the environment, because once genetically modified insects are released, they cannot be recalled.

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Tags: Brazil, Cayman Islands, Genetically Modified Organisms, GMO, Malaysia, Mosquito

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See also:

- US Drones Kill 6 In Pakistan

- President Obama To Jay Leno: Libya Is ‘A Recipe For Success’

- CIA Assassinates 16-Year-Old American Citizen From Denver In Yemen

- Killing Gaddafi: Longstanding US Policy

- Why Libya Was Attacked

Tags: Barack Obama, Drones, Global News, Government, Military, Obama administration, Politics, U.S.

A woman on her mobile next to a police cordon during protests in London in 2010. The Metropolitan police have purchased technology to track all handsets in a targeted area. Photograph: Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images

- Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones (Guardian, Oct. 30, 2011):

Britain’s largest police force is operating covert surveillance technology that can masquerade as a mobile phone network, transmitting a signal that allows authorities to shut off phones remotely, intercept communications and gather data about thousands of users in a targeted area.

The surveillance system has been procured by the Metropolitan police from Leeds-based company Datong plc, which counts the US Secret Service, the Ministry of Defence and regimes in the Middle East among its customers. Strictly classified under government protocol as “Listed X”, it can emit a signal over an area of up to an estimated 10 sq km, forcing hundreds of mobile phones per minute to release their unique IMSI and IMEI identity codes, which can be used to track a person’s movements in real time.

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Tags: Big Brother, Cell Phone, Global News, Government, Mobile Phone, Police, Police State, Politics, Society, Surveillance, Technology, U.K.

- More Than 150,000 Mexican Cargo Trucks Await U.S. Permits (Latin American Herald Tribune/EFE News Services, Oct. 28, 2011):

MEXICO CITY – Eleven Mexican trucking companies hope to join a pilot program that could see more than 150,000 vehicles delivering products to destinations deep inside the United States by year’s end, the vice president of the Canacar transport association said.

Eight of the 11 firms have already submitted applications and are awaiting a response from the U.S. Transportation Department, Luis Moreno said.

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Tags: Economy, Global News, Government, Mexico, NAFTA, Politics, U.S.

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These are your ‘alternatives’:

- ‘Rick Perry: The Best Little Whore In Texas’ (Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone)

- Presidential Candidate Jon Huntsman Wants Preemptive Iran Strike: ‘I Cannot Live With A Nuclear-Armed Iran. If You Want An Example Of When I Would Use American Force, It Would Be That’

- Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney Argues For Increase In Military Spending To Ensure US Military Dominance Over Other Nations

- Presidential Candidate Herman Cain: ‘There’s No Reason To Audit The Federal Reserve’

- Presidential Candidate Rick Perry Open To Send US Military To Kill Drug Cartels IN MEXICO
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Tags: CNN, Debt, Economy, Global News, Government, Politics, Ron Paul, Society, U.S.

This is ‘DECONTAMINATION’ in Japan:

- AND NOW: 110 Volunteers and Residents to ‘DECONTAMINATE’ High Radiation Area in Fukushima City
(Visit the links that prove that Fukushima city should have been evacuated a long time ago.)

It looks like a cleaning exercise, but it really is a suicide mission.

This is your government at work …

- AND NOW: Burned Radioactive Sewage Sludge Dumped In Tokyo Bay (Video)

… and ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE:

- AND NOW: Japanese Government BURNS HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE SOIL In New Experiment To Remove Radioactive Cesium (!!!)

And again, this is GENOCIDE!!!

The truth is: You are on your own.

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On the 27th of October 2011, Fukushima women met government officials in Tokyo to demand that the government evacuate Fukushima children immediately. But, the government official only repeated the government’s
policy of cleaning up the contaminated areas in Fukushima.

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Tags: Children, Contamination, Environment, Food, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, Society