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BBC Campaign on 911 Truth Shifts into Second Gear

Send an email to the UK Parliament Media Committee

(SAN FRANCISCO) - You can help motivate the members of the UK Parliament's Media Committee to hold the BBC accountable for its biased coverage of the real 9/11 evidence.

More than 250 of our newsletter subscribers wrote to the BBC Trust and UK Parliament Member Tom Watson in response to the article 'Hold the BBC Accountable' in our June 5 Blueprint newsletter and a follow-up Action Alert.

Media Accused of Biased Coverage of Unrest in Arakan State

The civilian government had announced changes to the legislation governing the media but they have yet to see the light of day.

(WASHINGTON DC) - A threat by Rangoon chief minister Myint Swe to prosecute news media that cover the current sectarian violence in the western state of Arakan in an irresponsible manner has highlighted the fragility of recent improvements in media freedom.

What Really Lies Behind Israel`s `No Occupation` Report

Experts have also pointed to the difficulties Israel will face if it adopts Levy’s position.

(NAZARETH) - The recently published report by an Israeli judge concluding that Israel is not in fact occupying the Palestinian territories – despite a well-established international consensus to the contrary – has provoked mostly incredulity or mirth in Israel and abroad.

Left-wing websites in Israel used comically captioned photographs to highlight Justice Edmond Levy’s preposterous finding.

Joe Paterno, Icon or Moron?

This famous money making coach of great sports success did no service to the athletes and their families.

(CLEVELAND) - The tribute to a coach who did nothing to help sex abuse victims at Penn State is emblazoned across the university wall, it calls him a humanitarian... cough.

And what about that statue? Could a finer reminder for Penn State exist? Perhaps it should stay right where it is to remind people of things they should never forget.

Canada Concedes Sri Lanka Committing War Crimes

Canada publicly and officially says Sri Lankan forces committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during war against Tamil Tigers.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka JDS News) - In an irreversible development that could fix Sri Lanka at any international tribunal, Canada has officially conceded that Sri Lankan Security Forces have committed war crimes.

During the final months of the war that ended in mid May 2009, SL repeatedly rejecting an asylum application filed by a top ranking naval officer.

Chiddy Bang Joins Daryl Hall on `Live from Daryl`s House` Premiering July 15

They perform a six-song set featuring classics “Fall in Philadelphia”, “(She) Got Me Bad,” “Mind Your Manners” and then are joined by Frank Stallone for his Rocky smash.

(NEW YORK CITY) - Daryl Hall and alternative hip-hop duo Chiddy Bang celebrated a City of Brotherly Love reunion on the 56th and latest edition of Live from Daryl’s House as the Philly natives join up for a special seven-song set.

The performance includes a special appearance by Frank Stallone, who first became friends with Daryl in the 60's and, like him, also sang in local doo-wop groups.

CLIMATE: Skeptic Group Takes Aim at Journalists

Journalists will now face the same pressures that scientists have experienced from ATI.

(WASHINGTON DC E&E Greenwire) - A conservative group that uses public records requests in an attempt to publicize emails written by climate scientists has turned its attention to environmental reporters.

The top target so far is New York Times reporter Justin Gillis

Refugee Journalists are Particularly Vulnerable and Need Better Protection

We call on the UN refugee agency, to establish an alert mechanism so that cases can be identified and handled more quickly.

(WASHINGTON DC RSF) - On the eve of World Refugee Day, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alerting UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres to the need to provide refugee journalists with better protection.

Patriot`s Game

The emotionality of patriotism keeps us from thinking about what the USA is actually doing in the world: dominating other countries through economic, political, and military aggression.

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - Once again in election season the drums of patriotism are being beaten. Politicians on the stump and their Madison Avenue flacks are exhorting us to rally around the tattered flag.

Their drumming sounds feeble and hollow, though, like cheerleaders trying to rouse the fans while our military team goes down to defeat, bringing the economy with it.

Elite Killers Kill At Large For Kidon, Mossad

Former White House Speaker Newt Gingrich has called for covert action, including "taking out their scientists" and cyberwarfare.

(TEHRAN) - A new book reveals that a department known as Kidon within the Mossad dispatched assassins to Iran to murder nuclear scientists, thereby stunting the country’s nuclear energy program.

The Kidon killers "excel at accurate shooting at any speed and staying steady to shoot and to place exquisitely shaped sticky bombs" and consider it their hallmark.