Archive for June, 2009
Posted by seumasach on June 21, 2009
F. William Engdahl
Global Research
10th June, 2009
Increasingly a deep divide within the world of globalization is emerging which will have the most profound significance for the future of G7 nations’ economic and political stability. The divide is between those nations which are still embedded within the dollar system, including countries in the Eurozone, versus those emerging economies—especially the BRIC—Brazil, Russia, India, China—where new economic markets and regions are rapidly replacing their over-dependence on the United States as prime export market and prime source for investment finance. The long-term consequences will be an aggravation of the trend of the United States as a political and economic superpower in terminal decline, while dynamic new economic zones, initially mainly of regional importance, will arise.
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Posted by seumasach on June 20, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
Oped News
20th June, 2009
A number of commentators have expressed their idealistic belief in the purity of Mousavi, Montazeri, and the westernized youth of Terhan. The CIA destabilization plan, announced two years ago (see below) has somehow not contaminated unfolding events.
The claim is made that Ahmadinejad stole the election, because the outcome was declared too soon after the polls closed for all the votes to have been counted. However, Mousavi declared his victory several hours before the polls closed. This is classic CIA destabilization designed to discredit a contrary outcome. It forces an early declaration of the vote. The longer the time interval between the preemptive declaration of victory and the release of the vote tally, the longer Mousavi has to create the impression that the authorities are using the time to fix the vote. It is amazing that people don’t see through this trick.
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Posted by seumasach on June 20, 2009
By M K Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
20th June, 2009
China has broken silence on the developing situation in Iran. This comes against the backdrop of a discernible shift in Washington’s posturing toward political developments in Iran.
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Posted by seumasach on June 19, 2009
James Petras
Axis of Logic
18th June, 2009
There is hardly any election, in which the White House has a significant stake, where the electoral defeat of the pro-US candidate is not denounced as illegitimate by the entire political and mass media elite. In the most recent period, the White House and its camp followers cried foul following the free (and monitored) elections in Venezuela and Gaza, while joyously fabricating an ‘electoral success’ in Lebanon despite the fact that the Hezbollah-led coalition received over 53% of the vote.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2009
Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet
17th June, 2009
Summary translation at foot of each paragraph
La nouvelle d’une possible fraude électorale s’est répandue à Téhéran comme une traînée de poudre et a poussé dans la rue les partisans de l’ayatollah Rafsanjani contre ceux de l’ayatollah Khamenei. Ce chaos est provoqué en sous-main par la CIA qui sème la confusion en inondant les Iraniens de messages SMS contradictoires. Thierry Meyssan relate cette expérience de guerre psychologique.
[News of electoral fraud has spread throughout Tehran and brought to the streets the partisans of Rafsanjani against those of Khamenei. This chaos is the work of the CIA who are sewing confusion by flooding Iran with contradictory mobile phone communications. Thierry Meyssan tells us about this experiment in psychological warfare]
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2009
W Joseph Stroupe
Asia Times
18th June, 2009
Decoupling on the part of the under-developed economies is defined as accelerating along the path of eliminating inordinate reliance upon the US and other developed economies as export markets. Decoupling would also tend to undermine reliance upon the dollar and boost the role of regional currencies in trade, finance and in forex reserves composition.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2009
The dangerous consequences of New Labour’s massive bailout of the banks is causing some disquiet. As we have already noted King appears intent on protecting the pound, for whose value the Government seems to have a cavalier disregard. As UK PLC goes down we can expect more sparks to fly as the elite agenda starts to fragment.
This Is Money
18th June, 2009
Government policy on City regulation was last night thrown into deeper confusion by sharply contrasting speeches by Mervyn King and Alistair Darling.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2009
Politico
Flynt Leverett and Hilary Mann Leverett
15th June, 2009
Without any evidence, many U.S.politiciansand “Iran experts” have dismissed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection Friday, with 62.6 percent of the vote, as fraud.
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Posted by smeddum on June 18, 2009
The problem with the nature of this research is that it does not address CCD at all. What it does address is every other danger to the bees, which gives it some legitimacy. Again the effect of Electromagnetic forces on bees has been ignored, along with already made studies by specialists in the field.
Here and
here.DNA filtering of dead bees has eliminated viruses as the cause of CCD including Israeli Acute paralysis (IAPC)
Mites and pesticides leave piles of dead bees inside or near the Hive. Only the EMF explanation is capable of explaining why the bees get lost en masse, and do not come back to the hive.
June 16, 2009
Colony Collapse Disorder Research Is (Finally) Gearing Up
A year later, here’s how $4.1 million in new federal honey bee research money is being spent.
A year ago USDA CSREES (Cooperative State Research Extension Education Service) awarded a $4.1 million grant to a group of university researchers for the express purpose of solving the current honey bee health problems confronting the beekeeping industry. Without actually nailing it down, this was a project to look into the current Colony Collapse Disorder malady and, over four years, find out what was going on. But at the same time the grant was to fund an extensive education program for beekeepers, and to develop as much information as possible so beekeepers could keep their bees healthy, and had a place to go for questions … and answers. Moreover, 25% of the funds were to go to study non-apis pollinators, such as bumble bees, alfalfa leaf-cutting bees and the like. To date, this is the only government money to be distributed to beekeeping researchers to study this problem other than normal budgetary funds to keep the USDA projects up and running. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2009
The story below, from Japan is interesting because it may indicate that large birds are being disturbed by something shocking, while they are in mid flight.
Could electro magnetic radiation from cell phone towers and other antennas be the culprit?
EMR is certainly something that needs to be considered and investigated!
Martin Weatherall
www.weepinitiative.org
Guardian
17th June, 2009
Japan is no stranger to heavy downpours during the early summer rainy season.
But in recent days the proverbial “cats and dogs” have been joined by tadpoles, fish and the occasional frog.
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