Posted by smeddum on September 27, 2009
September 27, 2009
FTSE rise ‘based on fraud’
One of Scotland’s leading investors trashes rally as ‘fraud’ and warns it will harm investors wealth
Ian Fraser
The stock market rally is a “dash for trash” based on a “fraud” likely to harm investors’ wealth, according to one of Scotland’s leading investors. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
Dr Stephen Murgatroyd
24th September, 2009
The United Nations is pulling out the “big guns” in an attempt to create a climate of urgency about climate change so that the meeting of over one hundred world leaders in Copenhagen some 75 days from now can produce an agreement to replace to failed Kyoto accord.
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Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
1st April, 2009
AN international drug company made a hit list of doctors who had to be “neutralised” or discredited because they criticised the anti-arthritis drug the pharmaceutical giant produced.
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Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
Posted in Ecological and Public Health Crisis | Tagged: swine flu vaccine, thimerosal and autism, vaccinations and thimerosal, vaccine dangers | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
27th September, 2009
A United Nations report has noted that a total of 1,500 civilians have lost their lives in insurgency-hit Afghanistan from the beginning of the year to August.
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Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
Fidel Castro
25th September, 2009
ON July 16, I stated textually that the coup d’état in Honduras “was conceived of and organized by unscrupulous individuals on the extreme right, dependable officials of George W. Bush and promoted by him.”
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Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
Paul Harris
27th September, 2009
At his home in Richmond, Virginia, Larry Syverson spends part of every day worrying there will be an unwanted knock on the door. Syverson’s son, Branden, is an American soldier serving in Afghanistan, conducting dangerous patrols in an area infested with Taliban.
Posted in Afghanistan, Drive to Global War | Tagged: Afghanistan, antiwar, cindy sheehan, End of empire, Military Families Speak Out, Obama agenda | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
Stephen Gowans
27th September, 2009
The construction of a uranium enrichment facility by Iran outside of Qum, which Tehran notified the International Atomic Energy Agency of days ago, has been seized upon dishonestly by Washington “as a chance to…persuade other countries to support the case for stronger sanctions” against Iran. [1]
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Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
The Brazilians used to say that “Brazil is the country of the future and always will be”: now the future is arriving.
Hugh O’Shaughnessy
27th September, 2009
God may not be Brazilian, as many of the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro proudly boast, but The Almighty seems to be swinging His or Her not inconsiderable influence towards the Cidade Maravilhosa, the Marvellous City on the South Atlantic ocean, as it pitches strongly for the chance of staging the 2016 Olympic Games. Its three rivals, Tokyo, Madrid and Chicago, seem to be fading as they turn into the home straight towards O Day in five days’ time. On 2 October the victorious city should be announced in Copenhagen, watched by a billion television viewers from across the world.
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Posted by seumasach on September 26, 2009
26th September, 2009
The mayors of Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only cities in the world subjected to nuclear bomb attacks, have praised a UN resolution for a nuclear-free world.
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