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There will not be many of us unable to see that the handing over our national defence to corparations with foreign interests is national suicide. 

That is unless you are Bernard Gray, the Chief of Defence Materiel at the Defence Equipment and Support branch of the Ministry.

Whilst acting as an advisor to the Ministry of Defence in 2009, Gray compiled a review of  defence acquisition, in which he strongly recommended the privatisation of the Defence Equipment and Support Branch, by creating what is termed a Go-Co partnership.

The UK Supreme Court has upheld the refusal by the BBC to release information under the Freedom of Information Act, on the basis that it is exempt when that information is held for the purposes of "journalism, art or literature", even when the information is also used for other purposes.

The case was brought by a UK based solicitor, Steven Sugar, who had wanted the BBC to release the Balen Report, an internal report into the BBC's coverage of the Middle East. Mr Sugar had claimed that the BBC was biased against Israel.

The bombing by an attacker apparenly on a motorcycle, of an Israeli diplomat's car in New Delhi, injured four people.

The New Delhi attack took place just a few hundred meters from the prime minister's residence as the Israeli diplomat's wife was being driven to the American Embassy School to pick up her children, said Delhi Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta. As the car approached a crossing, she noticed a motorcyclist ride up and stick something on it that appeared to be a magnetic device, he said.

A simultaneous attack in Georgia seems to have been foiled.

The UN Security Council met yesterday to discuss support for an "Arab led resolution" to the continuing violence in Syria. Discussions are expected to continue today, with a vote likely at some point between tomorrow and next Tuesday.

However Russia has made it absolutely clear over the last two days in particular that it will not support the British led doctrine of regime change, which has replaced the out dated notion of national sovereignty.

Russian United Nations Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told the media yesterday:

Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Teather is Minister for Children and Families, and is responsible for some 14 areas listed on the government’s education website. These include childcare, children’s centers, health issues, school food disabled children and more. One of her key responsibilities is “Children’s services commissioning and market development”.

According to Greece's Kathimerini newspaper, the judge at the Justice of the Peace court based his decision on a 2010 law that permits protection for people struggling to meet their financial commitments. To date, this law has only been used to provide relief to the unemployed.

The lady concerned is a full time civil servant with three children to support. She and her family have moved back with her parents. The court decided that she needs €350 per month to live on and that the remainder of her salary should be distributed between the four banks she owes money to.

President Obama heaped praise on the Soros frontman, and said that he would explore the possibility of a free trade agreement between the US and Georgia. Left unsaid, at least in public, was the rider: only if Saakashvili continues to be a good boy with regard to Iran and Russia.

The news today that Martin Smith has hanged himself in his prison cell has both shocked and saddened us. In a way, we should not be shocked. Martin had made it clear that he would kill himself if he got the chance, and it saddens us that we could not do more to help him.

The stories in today’s media were disgraceful. Full of vitriol; painting Martin as a heinous, perverted paedophile, they destroy his memory while at the same time heaping praise on the disgusting system which permitted the miscarriage of justice that branded Martin with those labels.

The article, headlined "What Would You Do?", has raised a massive backlash, and a Secret Service investigation for Mr Adler.

The article gave three options for Israel in its efforts to deal with Iran's alleged nuclear weapons. The first was to launch a pre-emptive attack on Hamas and Hezbollah. The second was to directly attack Iran's nuclear facilities. The third was to:

There has been a significant backlash to Andrew Adler's op-ed. However the response from at least one senior Jewish reporter, works hard to divert attention onto Obama's legitimate critics.

The journalist in question is Haaretz's Chemi Shalev, who writes:

Nuclear fusion should be the future of any sane government energy policy. It is the most energy dense method of power generation that we are aware of. It's clean, and it doesn't emit any of those harmful, poisonous, carbon dioxide fumes we hear about from time to time.

Whereas nuclear fission - the type of nuclear power generation in use today - occurs when energy is released as the result of splitting an atom apart, fusion occurs when atomic nucleii fuse together to form a heavier nucleus. This is the process going on inside the Sun.