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Archive for August, 2009

Japan on the brink of a new era

Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2009

“With the motto of yuai, Hatoyama says he hopes to leave behind parochial nationalism and jingoism and instead further develop the East Asian Community to the extent that it resembles an Asian version of the European Union. He also advocates a common Asian currency as a natural extension of the rapid economic growth in the region.”

Kosuke Takahashi

Asia Times

29th August, 2009

TOKYO – History sometimes throws up wonderful ironies: in Japan, a rising grandson is about to destroy his grandfather’s legacy.

With opinion polls suggesting a massive victory for his opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in Sunday’s general election, Yukio Hatoyama is poised to become the next prime minister, replacing Taro Aso. This would mark a fundamental change of power in the country, ending the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP’s) near-perpetual one-party dominance since Hatoyama’s grandfather Ichiro created the LDP in 1955.

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Wake Up, America: Forced vaccinations, quarantine camps, health care interrogations and mandatory “decontaminations”

Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2009

Mike Adams

28th august, 2009

(NaturalNews) The United States of America is devolving into medical fascism and Massachusetts is leading the way with the passage of a new bill, the “Pandemic Response Bill” 2008, reportedly just passed by the MA state Senate and now awaiting approval in the House. This bill suspends virtually all Constitutional rights of Massachusetts citizens and forces anyone “suspected” of being infected to submit to interrogations, “decontaminations” and vaccines.

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US has put Afghan civilians ‘in greater danger’

Posted by smeddum on August 29, 2009

US has put Afghan civilians ‘in greater danger’

Friday 28 August 2009

Morning Star

Afghan civilians are less secure now than at any time since the Taliban regime was toppled by a US-led invasion and Western-backed warlords in 2001, Amnesty has warned. Read the rest of this entry »

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Obama on vacation- wars rage on

Posted by smeddum on August 29, 2009

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What’s the Danger of Swine Flu Vaccinations?

Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2009

Dr. Anders Bruun Laursen

Global Research

29th August, 2009

There seems to be quite a lot of uncertainty about the technical nature of Swine Flu (H1N1) vaccines.

As a medical doctor, I wish to clarify a number of improtant issues: First, we should talk about vaccines instead of vaccine, since the vaccines vary as for their compositions and even their ways of being dispensed: some by injection, another by the nose.

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Canadian H1N1 Vaccine Protests August 28-30, 2009

Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2009

To: TPNI <tpni@telus.net>
Subject: Fw: Demonstration in Vancouver to Stop H1N1 vaccine
Date: Aug 28, 2009

The Vaccine Resistance Movement in Canada will hold a Nationwide Informational Demonstration and Political Protest, Friday August 28th, 29th and 30th, 2009. We want to ensure that our right as free human beings, to decide for ourselves whether or not to be vaccinated will not be violated, under ANY circumstances, and without fear of any consequences. Everyone who shares our concerns about H1N1,vaccine dangers, as well as the threat to natural health solutions under Bill C-6, needs to get involved, inform others, and to help protest the mass vaccination agenda (which may become mandatory).

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Poland Without Missile Defence

Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2009

Gazeta Wyborcza

27th August, 2009

The signals that the generals in the Pentagon are sending are absolutely clear: as far as missile defence is concerned, the current US administration is searching for other solutions than the previously bases in Poland ad the Czech Republic,’ Riki Ellison, chairman of the Missile Defence Advocacy Alliance, a Washington-based lobby group.

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The Silence of the Antiwar Movement is Deafening

Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2009

Cindy Sheehan’s Lonely Vigil in Obamaland

John V. Walsh

Counterpunch

26th August, 2009

Cindy Sheehan will be at Martha’s Vineyard beginning August 25 a short way from Obama’s vacation paradise of the celebrity elite but very far from the Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq where the body bags and cemeteries fill up each day as Obama’s wars rage on.    She will remain there from August 25 through August 29 and has issued a call for all peace activists to join her there.  For those of us close by in the New England states and in New York City, there would seem to be a special obligation to get to Martha’s Vineyard as soon as we can.

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Early and Current Fears about Vaccine Dangers

Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2009

Stephen Lendman

Global Research

28th August, 2009

Given today’s hysteria over a non-existent Swine Flu threat and possible mandating of experimental, untested, toxic, and likely bioengineered vaccines, it’s appropriate to review early fears about their dangers – when evidence first surfaced and concerns were raised.

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China urges U.S. to reduce surveillance operations

Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2009

BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) — China has called on the United States to reduce, and gradually put an end to air and sea military surveillance and survey operations to avoid naval confrontations.

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The Kennedys vs Israel’s Lobby

Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2009

Editor’s note: PULSE is delighted to welcome Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRMEP) and author of many books, including America’s Defense Line, as our new contributing editor. In his first post Grant reveals the emerging details of the secret battles between the Kennedys and the Israel lobby.

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