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Fidel Castro: A Nobel Prize for Mrs Clinton

Posted by smeddum on July 25, 2009

REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL
A Nobel Prize for Mrs. Clinton
Havana.  July 24, 2009

THE interminable document read out yesterday by Nobel laureate Oscar Arias is far worse than the seven points of the act of rendition that he proposed on July 18. He did not communicate with international opinion via a Morse code. He spoke before TV cameras that were broadcasting his image and all the details of the human face, which generally has as many variables as a person’s fingerprints. Any intention of lying can be easily discovered. I was observing him closely. Read the rest of this entry »

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Abandoned USDollar & Paradigm Shift

Posted by smeddum on July 25, 2009

By: Jim Willie CB, GoldenJackass.com
— Posted Thursday, 23 July 2009 |  Source: GoldSeek.com

A paradigm shift is underway, unrecognized inside the US kettle. Its water level is falling and its temperature is rising, even as fewer foreign born cooks stir its contents. The US banking and political leaders errantly pursue a path toward a return to normalcy, when all pathways have been washed out by powerful storms that to do abate and will worsen. Several key developments point to a new global order taking shape, as the Chinese actively work to plant global seeds that result in the Yuan currency serving more of a role in global trade. They will eventually de-throne the USDollar from its primal perch. The USDollar will be used less in global trade. TheUS$-based assets are being diversified. These developments are gaining traction, power, and publicity. The foreign creditors continue to protect their core US$-denominated reserves, while clearly undermining the US$ on the margin, as alternatives are chosen. To date, the alternative choice is hard assets, commodity supplies, and properties from the resource camp. The paradigm shift will change the face of the United States permanently, but to date few recognize the changing landscape.

CORRECT TIPOFF TO DOLLAR DUMP

Last week, a tipoff came that turned out to be true, shared in last week’s article. A contact source passed word that on Sunday night, Asia would sell the USDollar down in a big way. Four to five large parties were involved. Seemingly small moves in the FOREX cause tremendous disruption, since entire continental economies are involved with price shifts. The US$ index did fall markedly, in a moderate quantum leap down. It fell from the mid-79s to the upper 78s, big in the currency world. The principal agent pushing the buck down was the Euro, which enjoyed a major 120 basis point upleg that has held all this week. The Euro now approaches the 143 level. So the tipoff was true. We await the follow-through, like from short covering by Euro traders who were wrong on bets. If the Euro can push past 143 (it is now 142+), then clear sailing to the 155 mark will be enabled, without any notable resistance.The USDollar index would fall enough to capture global attention. Maybe they would proclaim the advent of a Currency Crisis. Read the rest of this entry »

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Potato Crops Endangered by Unusual Coldness

Posted by seumasach on July 25, 2009

Iceland Review

25th July, 2009

South Iceland has been experiencing an unusually cold weather recently, with temperatures even going below zero at night.

Photo by Eygló Svala Arnarsdóttir.

Yesterday, mbl.is reported that due to the coldness, the potato plant has been damaged which affects the crops. Bergvin Jóhannsson, Chairman of the Potato Farmers Union calls that the fact that this is happening in July highly unusual.

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United4Iran: Financial and Corporate Interests Mobilize the Left

Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009

Stephen Gowans

What’s Left?

24th July, 2009

United4Iran, which describes itself as “a non-partisan collaborative of individuals and human rights organizations” whose “aim is to support the Iranian people’s human rights,” has organized a Global Day of Action for July 25.

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Eastern Europe and the Habit of Servitude

Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009

A desperate letter from a remote imperial outpost receives a less than sympathetic reception in certain quarters in the imperial heartland

Justin Raimundo

antiwar.com

24th July, 2009

An “open letter” from the ghosts of the cold war begs for an appropriate response

With the end of the cold war, and the implosion of the Soviet empire, one would have thought the entanglements engendered by half a century of US-Russian hostility would have ended. One would, unfortunately, be quite wrong. It wasn’t enough that we nurtured and emboldened the resistance movements in Central and Eastern Europe: it wasn’t enough that we helped the newly-freed “captive nations” throw off their chains, and enter the international scene as fully-fledged political and economic entities – oh no. There was more to come.

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Global Warming or Global Cooling? A New Trend in Climate Alarmism

Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009

Dr David Evans

Global Research

23rd July, 2009

Senator Steve Fielding recently asked the [Australian] Climate Change Minister Penny Wong why human emissions can be blamed for global warming, given that air temperatures peaked in 1998 and began a cooling trend in 2002, while carbon dioxide levels have risen five per cent since 1998. I was one of the four independent scientists Fielding chose to accompany him to visit the Minister.
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Sinister revelations concerning the Icesave agreement

Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009

Alda

Iceland Weather Report

22nd July, 2009

Pretty significant piece of news today: a Memorandum of Understanding was made public which reveals that British, Dutch and Icelandic authorities met in 2006 to discuss what would happen if Landsbanki went into default and could not cover the deposits of British and Dutch savers in the Icesave accounts.

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Britain’s ‘gunboat’ diplomacy still angers Iceland

Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Telegraph

22nd July, 2009

Iceland’s new finance minister Steingrímur Sigfússon is not looking for a fight with Britain. But like every citizen of this rocky outpost, he thinks the British government’s draconian sanctions against his country at the height of the financial crisis last year were grotesque and have made it much harder to clinch a deal to refund IceSave depositors in the UK.

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Squalene: The Swine Flu Vaccine’s Dirty Little Secret Exposed

Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009

Note that the vaccine also contains aluminium and mercury.

Dr Mercola

mercola.com

17th July, 2009

According to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, your children should be the first target for mass swine flu vaccinations when school starts this fall.

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World Prepares to Dump the Dollar

Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009

Robert Morley

The Trumpet

21st July, 2009

What do China, India, Brazil, Russia, France and Germany have in common? These countries most often can’t agree on anything. But they are united in one strange—and ominous—way. They blame the United States for wrecking the global economy. And they think the dollar is the wrecking ball.

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Efectos de las Radiaciones Electromagenticas de la Telefonia Movil Sobre los Insectos

Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009

A.Balmori

Revista Ecosistemas

January 2006

Se presenta una revisión de estudios de laboratorio realizados exponiendo insectos a radiaciones electromagnéticas en el rango de las

microondas, similares a las utilizadas por los sistemas de telefonía que se utilizan actualmente, y a campos electromagnéticos de baja

frecuencia. Las microondas pulsadas y moduladas de la telefonía son un reciente contaminante ubicuo, cuyas consecuencias todavía no

han podido ser evaluadas convenientemente. Los estudios realizados indican efectos sobre este grupo de fauna, con previsibles

consecuencias sobre los ecosistemas. Se recomienda la realización de seguimientos y estudios en las proximidades de las estaciones base

de telefonía, donde existen los niveles más elevados de contaminación electromagnética y se exponen algunas características técnicas que

pueden ayudar a identificar las áreas más afectadas por la radiación.

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