Ed Miliband admits he was square as a youth but sidesteps 'Cleggover' question - The Guardian

Labour leader Ed Miliband said he was 'a bit square' as a youth and never dabbled in drink or drugs. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod

Ed Miliband has described himself as a "bit square" in his youth and reveals that he may have been "hit a few times" at the tough secondary school that he attended as a youngster.

But despite a smattering of revelations about his personal life, the Labour leader flatly refused to be drawn on the "Cleggover" question in an interview with Piers Morgan for GQ magazine.

Speaking in this month's issue, due out on Thursday, Miliband said he would "not boast about his sexual prowess" and refused to say how old he was when he lost his virginity, avoiding the pitfall of Nick Clegg, who in the same magazine in 2008 was pressed to admit that he had slept with as many as 30 women and considered himself a competent lover.

Pressed on his own track record in the field of romance, Miliband said, "that's the Cleggover question", in reference to the fuss that followed the revelations of the Liberal Democrat leader, now deputy prime minister. "I'm certainly not going to get into that," said Miliband. "I think that would be a big mistake."

The Labour leader only went as far as saying that the three famous women he would take to a desert island were Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher, actor Rachel Weisz and Hollywood A-lister Scarlett Johansson.

On his relationship with his partner, Justine Thornton, Miliband said he would not be getting married for political expediency.

Miliband has been criticised by traditionalists for failing to marry Thornton, a 40-year-old Cambridge-educated barrister, with whom he has two sons.

In the interview with Morgan, conducted on the day he returned from paternity leave last November, Miliband insisted that Thornton was not yet his wife, before reportedly quipping: "Thank God for that, probably."

The couple live in a £1.6m house owned by Thornton.

Asked for his views on marriage during the interview, Miliband made clear that pressure – political or otherwise – on him to tie the knot was counterproductive.

"It's a good institution and part of having stable families, but there are also people in unmarried relationships with stable families. I don't think politicians should order people to get married," he said.

He stressed that he intended to marry, but added: "But the more people who challenge me on it from a political standpoint, the more resistant I will become.

"We'll get married because we want to get married and love each other very much, no other reason."

On his relationship with his older brother, David, Miliband said that going up against his elder sibling in the Labour leadership election was the "hardest thing I've done in my life".

"I had mixed feelings when I won. But this thing you keep saying about it being his lifelong dream is nonsense, he didn't sit there at 14 thinking, 'I'm going to be leader of the Labour party'. I was surprised when I even made it into the cabinet."

Miliband admitted his father, Ralph, a Marxist who settled in Britain after emigrating as a refugee from Belgium, "wouldn't have liked New Labour very much".

Describing his father's death as "the saddest moment of my life", Miliband said his father's vulnerable health, which saw him having a heart attack when Miliband was just three years old, was one of the reasons he wasn't "so rebellious a kid".

He neither took drugs at Oxford University nor did he partake in underage drinking, and his only brush with the police was when he was slapped with a speeding offence.

"I was a bit square," he said.

On the playground beatings, Miliband said that he remembers the names of the boys who hit him, but would not divulge who they were.

And asked about his chosen talent if he were to appear on Britain's Got Talent, on which Morgan was once a judge, Miliband could only offer that he "used to be good at the Rubik's Cube".

Why is it wrong to protect gay children? - Independent

I am exhausted. I have spent all week trying to brainwash small children into being gay, by relentlessly inserting homosexuality into their maths, geography and science lessons. Their little eyes widened when the gay algebra lesson started, but it worked: their concept of "normal sexual behaviour" has been successfully destroyed. It's all part of the program brilliantly co-ordinated by the Homintern to imposed The Gay Agenda on Every Aspect of British Life.

That, at least, is what you would believe if you had read some of Britain's best-selling newspapers this week, or listened to some prominent Tory politicians. The headlines were filled with fury. The Conservative MP Richard Drax said gays were trying to impose "questionable sexual standards" on kids, while the Daily Mail said we were mounting a massive "abuse of childhood."

Here's what is actually happening. A detailed study by the Schools Health Education Unit found that in Britain today, 70 percent of gay children get bullied, 41 percent get beaten up, and 17 percent get told at some point in their childhood that they are going to be killed.

I'll tell you the story of just one of them. Jonathan Reynolds was a 15-year old boy from Bridgend in South Wales who was accused – accurately or not, we'll never know – of being gay. He was yelled at for being a "faggot" and a "poof". So one day, he sat a GSCE exam – later graded as an A - and went to the train tracks near his school and lay on them. He texted his sister: "Tell everyone that this is for anybody who eva said anything bad about me, see I do have feelings too. Blame the people who were horrible and injust to me, see I do have feeling too. Blame the people who were horrible and injust to me. This is because of them, I am human just like them. None of you blame yourself, mum, dad, Sam and the rest of the family. This is not because of you." And then the train killed him.

I guess nobody told Jonathan Reynolds that, as the columnist Melanie Phillips put it, "just about everything in Britain is now run according to the gay agenda." The great Gay Conquest didn't make it from her imagination to his playground, or any playground in Britain. Gay kids are six times more likely to commit suicide than their straight siblings. Every week, I get emails from despairing gay kids who describe being thrown against lockers, scorned by their teachers if they complain, and – in some faith schools – told they will burn in Hell. Every day they have to brave playgrounds where the worst insult you can apply is to call something "gay". They feel totally lost. This could have been your child, or my child, or Melanie Phillips' child.

Is it "political correctness" and "McCarthyism" to try to ensure these kids can feel safe in their own schools – or is it basic decency? A few very mild proposals were made this week for how to change the attitudes behind this. They came from an excellent organization called Schools Out, which is run with a small grant from the tax-payer. They gave out a voluntary information pack in which they suggested that, to mark LGBT History Month, teachers acknowledge the existence of gay people in their lessons. They could teach in history about how Alan Turing played a vital role in saving the world from the Nazis and paved the way for the invention of the computer, only to be hounded to death for being gay. They could learn in science that homosexuality occurs in hundreds of species of animals. They could – yes! – maybe even look in maths lessons at the census data, figuring out how prevalent gay people are.

We know that these lessons work in making gay kids much safer. The Schools Health Education Unit found that homophobic violence was dramatically lower in schools that taught about homosexuality. Good schools like Stoke Newington Secondary that followed this program were assessed to have "virtually eliminated homophobic bullying." That has a very powerful educational purpose: when gay kids feel safe, they can learn.

Yet these pragmatic policies to make kids safe were presented as a wicked plot to endanger children. We can't stop the endemic intimidation and violence if every time there is a policy to do it, it is grossly distorted and demonized in this way. The critics even whispered that gays want to "impose" sexuality on kids – with hints of the ugliest and oldest lie about gay men, that they are paedophiles.

Yet in one strange way, the current backlash is reassuring. When I was a kid in the 1980s, these sentiments were so widespread that a law – Section 28 – was passed to resolve them, and the cowed critics were derided as "the loony left." Today, the opinion polls show 80 percent of the British people support gay marriage, and the people offering these views are regarded as the loons. It's worth pausing and saying to all the people who have been open to persuasion and have changed their minds on this question: thank you. It's incredibly moving to see how many heterosexual people have rallied to the defence of gay people, and it's a reminder that we will never go back now.

But this anti-equality shouting still has an effect. It stops many schools from pursuing sensible policies that would save kids like Jonathan Reynolds, for fear of being accused of "political correctness gone mad" – so it's important to answer the arguments now.

These critics don't appear to understand what homosexuality actually is. In every human society that has ever existed, and ever will, some 3 to 10 percent of the population has wanted to have sex with their own gender. This is a fixed and unchangeable reality. The only choice is whether you are pointlessly cruel to them, or accept their harmless difference. Homosexuality is "normal sexual behaviour": it occurs wherever human societies exist. It is not engaged in by a majority, but using that logic, Jews and Muslims are "abnormal" in Britain too – an ugly and foolish claim.

Informing children about these facts can't make them gay. Nothing can. You can no more teach a child homosexuality than you can teach them left-handedness. Oddly, the homophobes seem to understand this about their own sexuality, but not about other people's. I once asked Michael Howard, the architect of Section 28, if he would be gay now if he had been taught to be as a child. He moved very anxiously in his seat and mumbled something incoherent.

In order to justify their desire to discriminate against gay people, the few remaining homophobes have concocted a scenario where they are The Real Victims. They can say what they want, set up churches or mosques that preach what they want, and turn away gay people from their homes every day of the week if they so desire – and I would defend every one of those rights to the last ditch. There is only one thing they can't do. They can't choose to offer a service to the general public, and then turn people away on the basis of race or sexuality. They can't put up de facto signs saying 'No blacks, no Irish, no gays' at their B&B.

This isn't a form of prejudice – it is a way of preventing prejudice. Nobody will ever force you to work in a registry office or open a B&B, but if you choose to, you can't reject the gay couples and expect to remain in post. (In one case where this happened, they offered her a job in the office instead, but she chose to be a bizarre cause clbre of prejudice instead.) Services for the general public have to be available without contamination by bigotry. It's a simple principle. Don't demand the right to spit in the face of gay people, and claim you're being picked on when you're asked to stop.

Yes, I know your religious texts mandate bigotry against gay people. They also mandate slavery and stoning adulterers, and they laud a God who feeds small children to bears (see II Kings ii, 23-24). As secular morality has evolved, you have managed to overcome those beliefs. Here's another that has to catch up. If you are really going to defend Biblical or Koranic literalism, you'll end up as Stephen Green, head of the tiny Christian Voice sect, who argues that there is biblical authority for the legalisation of rape by husbands. So febrile is the atmosphere in Uganda that David Kato, the incredibly brave campaigner for gay equality, was just lynched as part of the hate-wave.

When people say that a "deeply held religious conviction" should enable you to break anti-discrimination laws and treat gay people as second class citizens, I reply – what about the Mormons? Until 1975, they believed black people did not have souls. (They only changed their minds when the Supreme Court ruled it illegal, and God conveniently appeared to say they did have souls after all.) Should they have been allowed to run adoption agencies that refused to give babies to black people, because of their "deeply held religious conviction"?

But there is an even lower point in the homophobes' rhetorical arsenal. Being subjected to bullying and violence as children and teenagers makes gay people unusually vulnerable to depression and despair. The homophobes then use that depression and despair to claim that homosexuality is inherently a miserable state – and we shouldn't do anything that might "encourage" it. They create misery, and then use it as a pretext to create even more misery.

Yet Melanie Phillips, Richard Drax and the last raging band of homophobes are right about one thing. There is a "Gay Agenda." They are only wrong about its contents. It has one item on the list, and one item only: to ensure that gay people are treated exactly the same as everybody else. That's it. That's all. That's the sum total of our ambitions. To get there we may – yes – have to mention the existence of gay people in schools. It is the only way to save kids like Jonathan Reynolds, and make sure everyone knows – as he said in his final text, before the train hit – "I am human just like them."

POSTSCRIPT

As a side-note, it's especially galling to be accused of endangering children by Melanie Phillips, the journalist in Britain who has done more to recklessly endanger children than any other I can think of. She was the leading journalistic champion of the false claim that the MMR vaccine causes autism. She refused to listen to the overwhelming scientific consensus and instead promoted the claims of a fraudster called Andrew Wakefield. After she played a key role in spreading and popularizing his claims, the rate of children being vaccinated plummeted, and several have died.

Even after the British Medical Journal concluded that Wakefield staged an "elaborate fraud", she has refused to apologise. I'd say persuading parents not to give their kids a life-saving vaccine based on the claims of a charlatan was a bigger "abuse of childhood" than teaching them that gay people exist, wouldn't you?

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Extraterrestrials now live among us in China and in U.S.A., newspapers report - Examiner.com

A Canadian newspaper is reporting that Sun Shili, a retired foreign ministry official, states Extraterrestrials are living among us.

An extraterrestrial from Tau Ceti living in the U.S.A.

The China ET report is corroborative of this reporter Alfred Lambremont Webre's 4-part ExopoliticsTV interview and Examiner.com series with Jerry Wills, an apparent extraterrestrial from Tau Ceti who resides in the United States.

Jerry Wills is an accomplished healer, explorer, and musician with the band UFAUX who recently participated in a world webcast in which Mr. Wills discussed his identity as an extraterrestrial from the Tau Ceti star system (12 light years from Earth) left here as an infant as part of a project of the Council of Worlds for the betterment of Earth.  

In a 4-part ExopoliticsTV interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre, Mr. Wills, who is 6 feet 8 inches tall, talks about how he was adopted by a human family, how he dealt with his unusual abilities growing up, how he was visited regularly by an extraterrestrial delegation that briefed him on his extraterrestrial identity and his mission, how during these visits he was told to watch for specific signs during the 18-year period preceding 2012 as to whether the earth and the human population would veer toward peace or war, and how these visits stopped on the day of September 11, 2001, Mr. Wills' birthday and the date a regularly scheduled visit was of the extraterrestrial delegation to occur. 

In conversation with Alfred Lambremont Webre, Mr. Wills speaks about the 2012-13 catastrophic timeline and the 2012-13 positive timeline and what this means to all of us.

Watch Part 1 of ExopoliticsTV interview with Jerry Wills and Alfred Lambremont Webre

Examiner.com readers can watch Part 1 of the 4-part interview with Jerry Wills and Alfred Lambremont Webre above in this article or by clicking the URL below: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8a4oSJ6do

Examiner.com article on Jerry Wills:

http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/1-jerry-wills-council-of-world-s-extraterrestrial-from-tau-ceti-speaks-his-truth-on-2012-part-1

Canadian Newspaper report on Sun Shili (verbatim)

The Canadian Newspaper reports as follows:

Ex-China Foreign Ministry Official says Extraterrestrials live among us

by Paul Chen

[Introduction omitted]

Sun's first close encounter occurred in 1971, when he was sent to the remote countryside during the "cultural revolution" (1966-76) to perform the grueling task of rice planting. One day while toiling in the field, his attention was diverted to a bright object in the sky, which rose and fell repeatedly.

At first, Sun assumed the spectacle was some sort of Cold War intelligence monitoring device - a reasonable deduction considering the times - however years later, after reading foreign materials on UFO sightings, he knew he had experienced a close encounter.  

As the alien spacecraft reached the highest point of the building, it suddenly showed seven white lights evenly displaced around the outer edge of the craft. Reference: Nationalufocenter.com.

And Sun is not the only expert in the country taking these sightings seriously. According to the highly accredited Shen Shituan, an actual rocket scientist, president of Beijing Aerospace University and honourary director of the government-supported China UFO Research Association, every report of an alien encounter is worth investigating.

''Some of these sightings are real, some are fake and with others it's unclear,'' said Shen Shituan, a real rocket scientist, president of Beijing Aerospace University and honorary director of the China UFO Research Association. ''All these phenomena are worth researching.''

Research [ethically-based] into UFO's could help spur new forms of high-speed travel, unlimited sources of non-polluting and non-fossil fuel based energy and faster-growing crops, claims Sun Shili, president of a government-approved UFO Research Association (membership 50,000).

These lights dimmed quickly as one large light lighted up and surrounded the craft before it abruptly disappeared. Reference: Nationalufocenter.com.

Shen Shituan does not readily dismiss UFO/ET reports like his counterparts in Western scientific communities, including the claims of one worker that aliens entered his Beijing home while his wife and child were present, and whisked him 265 kilometres east and back in only a few hours.

The best-known alien abduction story in China is the case of Meng Zhao Guo, a young tree farmer, from Wuchang, near Harbin in Heilongjiang province.

In June 1994 Zhao Guo and two other farm workers, working at Red Flag logging camp saw something unusual on nearby Mount Pheonix.

The complex and bizarre encounter that followed involved Meng being hit by a beam of light, as well as allegedly experiencing an abduction and a sexual encounter with a female alien.  

Meng Zhaoguo

Meng Zhaoguo, a rural worker from northeast Wuchang city, explains he was 29 when he broke his marital vows for the first and only time -- with an extraterrestrial of unusually robust build.

"She was 10 feet [3.03 metres] tall and had six fingers, but otherwise she looked completely like a human,'' he says. "I told my wife all about it afterwards. She wasn't too angry.''

During September 2003 Zhang Jingping, a Beijing-based UFO researcher, had psychologists and police technicians subject Zhao Guo to hypnosis and a lie detector test in Beijing. Zhang indicated the test results proved the abductee was telling the truth.

He also indicated that doctors had indicated that Zhao Guo's scars "could not possibly have been caused by common injuries or surgery." Meng Zhao Guo, a humble farmer with only 5 year's schooling, also indicated that he had never heard of UFOs or UFOlogists until after his experience had been reported.

In China Bill Chalker, an Australia UFO scientist, was able to have extensive discussions with Professor Chen Gongfu, the principal researcher of the Meng Zhao Guo case. He has asked me to assist in getting his research translated and available to western audiences. We are well underway to achieving that goal.

Research on Cao Gong's contact with ETs

In December 1999 Cao Gong, a middle-aged man from Beijing, indicated to Bill Chalker, that he had been abducted by aliens and flown to Qinhuangdao in their UFO. "They looked like humans but had large hands and were very pale, " Cao said. He said he had also met a Chinese girl in the flying saucer. Zhang Jingping's research investigation began in April 2000. The first step was hypnosis. Zhang invited a famous psychologist from Suzhou and asked him to conduct hypnosis on Cao in helping him to remember the whole incident. Then he brought Cao to the Beijing Bureau of Public Security and gave him a lie detection test. "He passed the test," says Zhang. According to Cao, who is the principal of a private school in Fangshan District, he met a Chinese girl in the flying saucer, who looked around 13 years old. "The aliens cured her disease in the flying saucer," he claimed. In order to find the girl, Zhang brought Cao to the Tangshan Bureau of Public security in July 2000. "The policemen made up a computer image photo-fit of the girl's face according to Cao's description," says Zhang.

In November 2002, Zhang led a group of students from Beihang University and set out on a trip to Qinhuangdao, in search of the mysterious girl.

"There was only a narrow glimmer of hope of finding the girl with only a computer image of her," says Zhang. They arrived in Qinglong County to the north of Qinhuangdao, and began their blind search among the county's 400,000 population. "Amazingly, we found a clue on the second day of our search. An old man in the county recognized the girl in our picture," says Zhang. They found the girl soon after that. She was 15 years old. Zhang brought her back to Beijing to meet Cao Gong. She was identified by Cao as the girl he had seen in the UFO. Zhang has now spent three years investigating this case. "This case is fascinating and I was fortunate that while in China I was able to discuss the case in detail with Zhang Jingping and other researchers, and also talk to Cao Gong himself.

Fortunately in Beijing, Bill Chalker secured the services of Irene, an excellent translator, guide, and interpreter. Mr. Chalker and Irene have been working on a detailed translation of the case.

Over 400 members of Dalian's UFO Society have college degrees

In Dalian's UFO Society, 90 per cent of the 400 members have college degrees. "It's exciting for us to use science to decipher UFO sightings," said Zhou Xiaoqiang, secretary-general of the Beijing UFO Society.

While few Chinese claim to have managed to get quite as intimate with an extraterrestrial as Meng, a growing number of people in China believe in unidentified flying objects, or UFOs.

In fact, officially registered UFO associations in China have about 50,000 members, but some estimate the actual number of Chinese interested in the subject is probably in the tens of millions.

China has a bimonthly magazine -- circulation 400,000 - devoted to UFO research. The conservative state-run media also report UFO sightings on a regular basis, in contrast with Western government organization that, as a policy, denies verifiable human contact with Extraterrestrial. UFO buffs in China claim support from eminent scientists and liaisons with the secretive military, giving their work full scientific respectability.

"If something flies over [ET spacecraft], there's a very good reason for trying to understand why they're here, why they come to us, what is their relationship between us and them," he says.

Wong is the Chairman of Hong Kong's thriving UFO club -- exploring "unidentified flying objects" or, to the uninitiated, "flying saucers."

The club meets once a month to explore otherworldly topics like "E.T. Civilization" and alien philosophies.

"In order to understand UFO phenomena, we need to have a broad understanding of different disciplines," says Albert So, university professor and Hong Kong UFO club member, "including mathematics, physics, history, philosophy, even some sort of paranormal activities and all that." 

[End of article omitted]

Full text of article:

http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/02/07/01353.html

China TV Xinhua News Report Shows Chinese Communist Party is Gaming ET Disclosure

A recent China TV Xinhua News Report shows that the Chinese Communist Party (which controls Xinhua) may be gaming a subtle dialogue about Extraterrestrial disclosure in its TV news reports on the subject (See: Chinese National TV reporting impending UFO/ET disclosure by Obama government.

http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/chinese-national-tv-reporting-impending-ufo-et-disclosure-by-obama-government

Translation and analysis of the Xinhua TV news report on the Project Camelot demonstrates that there is a great deal of subtle information and communication going on in the Xinhua TV news item. Xinhua is most plausibly serving as part of the dialectic of ET disclosure strategy by forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

This Project Camelot forum analysis reinforces the accuracy of the Examiner.com article.  The Project Camelot forum analysis of the Xinhua TV newscast states:

"Actually, I noticed this 'News' 2 weeks ago. It's the same kind of shocking as my post on the People Daily report about 'Aliens'.  The original source is here: http://news.xinhuanet.com/video/2011-01/04/c_12944686.htm

The main content of what the TV news anchor say in Chinese is:" UFO????AllNewsWeb????????"????????"?DARPA?????????????????????????????????????????????3????????????????????"

"Translation: 'An UFO gossip website name AllNewsWeb claim: US Defense Advanced Research Program Department (DARPA) had admitted: there will be a speech, in which, without script, President Obama will confess that: ETs might try to contact human, within 3 years, governments of earth will admit that human had contact with ETs.'

"You see, how many 'probable' words they used? And the TV channel is a local TV channel; Xinhua news just quoted that as an entertainment style report. The appearance of the content itself is worthless and boring.

"But the background of the context is important: XinHua news is the most important official Info & Intelligence Agency under direct controlled by the Top of [Chinese Communist Party] CCP. It doesn't own a newspaper or TV channel per se, the website is its only public channel, but everything reported in/out China is under and through its control, so, you see, it never say something meaningless or far out.

"And one more thing to add: its reports about Aliens or dooms day debate stuff are increasing rapidly in the last 6 months. So you can bet on more things will come from it.

"My thought is: Xinhua news Agency information leak tactic: Borrow others' mouth and others' words to say what they really want to prepare you [for].  That creates plausible confirm and deny abilities, when things finally come out, either way, they win----two birds with one stone. That's the way they usually do." 

How to evaluate ET disclosure among the People's Republic of China, USA, Russia, and the UK

1. It seems most plausible that the major space powers (USA, Russia, China, U.K.) have a vested interest, including their covert coordination with specific Grey ET human abduction program, so that these powers will not perform an authoritative disclosure by their Head of State on their own.  It may take a combined action by ethical extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations, in conjunction with public political pressure and rising multi-dimensional consciousness to drive a public ET disclosure.  In the interim, there is some possibility that terrestrial power structures may attempt a false flag ET invasion or landing for the purpose of implementing a dictatorial "New World Order".  Whether this is successful or not will depend on popular discernment and democratic resistance.

Refs:  http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/chinese-national-tv-reporting-impending-ufo-et-disclosure-by-obama-government

https://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/whistleblower-exposes-attempted-et-manipulation-false-flag-at-festival

2.  Intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations - The evidence of Jerry Wills regarding an apparent Council of Worlds project that has seeded ethical human extraterrestrials among our human society; the evidence of Stanley A. Fulham and the former NATO-Spanish intelligence officer who also speak of an extraterrestrial council provide a prima facie case that ethical extraterrestrial civilizations are carrying out positive, helpful interventions in human society aimed at our successful evolution toward a positive fuman future, independent of an ET disclosure actions of the matrix of human governments.  At the core of the extraterrestrial interventions appears a desire to motivate humans to act in concert harmoniously for the benefit of the planet, its ecology, biosphere and population.

Refs:

http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/1-jerry-wills-council-of-world-s-extraterrestrial-from-tau-ceti-speaks-his-truth-on-2012-part-1

http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/more-predicted-ufo-sightings-over-new-york-confirm-et-will-intervene-ecology?render=print

  

Jeremy Bamber: 'I will feel hope again' - audio - The Guardian

Jeremy Bamber faces a new day of judgment 26 years after being jailed for murder

Sentenced to die in prison for shooting five members of his family in an Essex farmhouse, Jeremy Bamber has always insisted he is innocent. Tomorrow, three legal experts will rule if newly released police files mean the case should go to appeal

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Manchester United Will Host Non-League Crawley in Cup; Arsenal at Orient - Bloomberg

Non-league Crawley Town will travel to record 11-time champion Manchester United in the fifth round of English soccer's F.A. Cup. Arsenal is away to third-tier London team Leyton Orient.

Crawley is the first team outside England's top four divisions to reach the last 16 since Kidderminster in 1994. The Sussex team is currently second in the Blue Square Bet Premier League, the fifth level of English soccer. It's already knocked out league teams Swindon, Derby and Torquay.

Crawley coach Steve Evans told Sky Sports it was a "surreal moment" to be drawn against Premier League leader United on live television today.

"The only non-league club capable of beating Manchester United is Crawley Town as we stand today -- miracles do happen," Evans said. "This is going to be the biggest day in our lives."

F.A. Cup holder Chelsea, should it beat Everton in a replay, will host Reading. The only guaranteed all-Premier League match sees Fulham or Tottenham, who play today, against Bolton or Wigan. Matches are to be played on the Feb. 19/20 weekend.

Fifth-round draw:

      West Ham                 vs   Burnley      Notts Co. or Man City    vs   Aston Villa      Stoke City               vs   Brighton      Birmingham City          vs   Sheffield Wednesday      Leyton Orient            vs   Arsenal      Everton or Chelsea       vs   Reading      Manchester United        vs   Crawley Town      Fulham or Tottenham      vs   Bolton or Wigan 

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Christopher Elser at celser@bloomberg.net

Synthetic micro-beads could create emissions-free, $1.50 per gallon gasoline - Mobile Magazine

Imagine gasoline that costs only $1.50 per gallon, releases no carbon emissions and works in any and every existing gasoline engine without modification. That's exactly what UK-based Cella Energy has been working on for four years during a top-secret programme – and they're now announcing the achievement.

The synthetic, hydrogen-based fuel uses high-energy materials encapsulated by a nano-structuring method called "coaxial electrospraying," making them safer and more stable than regular gasoline.

"The materials are hydrogen-based, and so when used produce no carbon emissions at the point of use, in a similar way to electric vehicles", said Stephen Voller, CEO of Cella Energy. He says that early indications are that the micro-beads can be used in existing vehicles without engine modification.

The breakthrough could mean a cleaner future for transportation industries and those that depend on it; the uncoupling of inflation and commodity pricing from volatile oil rates and an end to oil dependency.

The team, working from Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, hasn't announced an exact timeline for the fuel's commercial availability, but the fact that they've come this far already is due cause for excitement.

[Next Big Future, GizMag]