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Liberal Democrat Tom Brake says he saw what he believed to be two plain-clothes police officers go through a police cordon after presenting their ID cards.
Brake, who along with hundreds of others was corralled behind police lines near Bank tube station in the City of London on the day of the protests, says he was informed by people in the crowd that the men had been seen to throw bottles at the police and had encouraged others to do the same shortly before they passed through the cordon.
Just as Sott.net editors were putting the finishing touches to the April's edition of 'Connecting the Dots' (a fairly standard month as months go here on the BBM), within the last five days the world has been brought to the brink (of what we are not quite sure) by something called "Swine Flu". At least, that's the impression you get when reading recent headlines. But as Sott.net readers know, there is always more to these episodes of mass hysteria than meets the eye!
Look further back into the month and you will see enough clues to figure out the nature of what we may safely call a World Government. Pay attention to details in the United States, the United Kingdom and elsewhere, and you may distinguish manufactured social and political conflicts. Consider it all within the context of Mother Nature's mysteries. Indeed, there is much to comment about this month. But, in the spirit of traditional journalism, let's start with the major headlines...
"Smart." "Pompous." Clean-cut." "Creepy."
A high-achieving dentist's son from upstate New York, Philip Markoff is described in various ways, but everyone, even those who didn't like him, is shocked at the charges against him.
"He was smart. He carried himself well," said neighbor Michael Bernard.
"He seemed like the type that would have it all. It doesn't make sense."
Markoff grew up the son of a Syracuse dentist, with an older brother, Jon.
He graduated in 2004 from Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School, where he was on the bowling and golf teams, and earned a biology degree from SUNY Albany four years later.
In high school, he was an honors student who hung out with the brains and also played a lot of poker, even mentioning his gaming skills on his yearbook page.
Mohammad Saeedi, the deputy director for international affairs of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), issued a statement on Iran's nuclear program in a conference in Beijing.
The International Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century, organized by the IAEA, was hosted by Beijing, China from April 20 to 21.
Saeedi stressed that all countries should have the right to have nuclear power plants "without any discrimination."
In the week of April 9-15, the highest increases in unemployment were registered in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia's exclave on the Baltic Sea, the central Russian Yaroslavl Region, the northwestern Novgorod Region, and Moscow, the ministry said in a statement.
Official figures record that a total of 329,016 people have been made redundant at 34,283 companies across Russia since October 2008. Of them, 103,725 have found new jobs.
The suicides took place in the agricultural state of Chattisgarh, where people mainly depend on seasonal crops, Earth Magazine reported.
Local residents told the magazine that many of the farmers felt that death was the only option in the face of their insurmountable debt.
The state of Chattisgarh was hit by falling water levels and droughts.
"Most of farmers here are indebted and only God can save the ones who do not have a bore well," residents said.
Poplawski was a neo-Nazi wannabe who railed against blacks, Jews, "Zionists," and gun control. And like many members of the far-right fringe, he allegedly visited Jones' Web sites and posted alarming reports by Jones' writers on the white supremacist message board, Stormfront. (Poplawski's posts are here, authored under the handle, "Braced For Fate.") While Alex Jones generally avoids overt racism, he has found an eager audience on Stormfront by conjuring dark visions of an impending New World Order, claiming FEMA is secretly building a national concentration camp network, and announcing that President Barack Obama has planned mass gun seizures on his way to establishing a leftist dictatorship. "Remember, the first step in establishing a dictatorship is to disarm the citizens," warned a March 13 commentary on Jones' website, Prison Planet.
Iranian officials have denied that the shipment on board the Cyprus-flagged MV Monchegorsk was weaponry, but have not said what it was. The ship was detained off Cyprus on Jan. 29 after it was boarded by U.S. naval personnel in the Red Sea.
A UN sanctions committee accused Iran last month of violating a U.N. ban on its import or export of arms. The ban is contained in a 2006 Security Council resolution aimed at pressuring Iran to suspend its nuclear enrichment program.
The Romans named this month Martius after the god of war, Mars. Before the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar, March was considered the first month of the new year. War, greed, plague and destruction marked the end of the Roman imperial adventure. Today's empire looks set to meet a fate essentially the same. Symbolic perhaps of its tenacity in the face of imperial pressure to conform, Iran still celebrates Nowruz, or 'New Day' on the 21st of the month, the Spring Equinox.
Comment: A reader has put forward the following suggestion regarding the nighttime photo of possible UFOs above :
Those are most probably not UFOs but reflections of the floodlights below caused by the photographic lens of the camera. And here is the reason why:It sounds like a plausible explanation. But then, who knows? In cataloging the bizarre sightings and events reported daily, there will inevitably be some that can be explained in accordance with known phenomena. On the other hand, learning to discern for ourselves also requires that we keep an open mind to all possibilities. We invite readers to explore the hundreds of sightings of objects that defy commonly accepted boundaries of what is possible and what is not.
Notice the similarity of the "UFOs" above to a so-called caustic (caused by spherical mirrors or lenses, for example in a tea cup), from Wikipedia:
Photographic lenses can be complex, with many possibilities of distortions and reflections, which can produce lens flares, optical lens artefacts, etc. See:
The same kind of "object" can be seen right in the beginning of this YouTube video, also linked to from the current "Connecting the Dots".
That is not to say that the UFO phenomenon is nonexistent! It seems just that the above picture slid into the dataset, which demonstrates how difficult it is to discern the (deliberate or unintentional) NOISE from the REAL SIGNAL.
Police were called to Broughton after residents staged the protest, accusing Google of invading their privacy and "facilitating crime".
Councillor John Bint told the BBC the camera mounted on a car was intrusive and people should have been consulted.
Google said it observed UK law and only filmed from public areas.















Comment: It's interesting to observe how Alex Jones is moving into ever higher circles.
From Political Ponerology we read: From the Protocols of the Pathocrats: As everyone knows, this document was falsely attributed to the 'Elders of Zion' as part of a vicious anti-Semitic hoax. Sott.net agrees with this verdict. We do not for a minute think that this represents Judaism or ordinary Jewish people. The false attribution was clearly intended to scapegoat Jews in order to protect the identities of the real authors. The document was written in the early 20th century and reads like an insider's manual for designing and implementing totalitarian control of society. We are especially interested in the uncanny resemblance of its contents to whole swathes of the control system evident today. It is clear that some persons or groups unknown have taken its ideas and proscriptions very seriously.