Archive for November, 2009
Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2009
In a bizzare defence of cheating global warming proponents, Monbiot fails to explain why they had to falsify data if they were right. Seemingly it’s all down to the fiendish deniers who according to Monbiot are “scumbags”- not a very nice term for people who think it’s getting colder, which even includes some within his own camp.
George Monbiot
Guardian
25th November, 2009
I have seldom felt so alone. Confronted with crisis, most of the environmentalists I know have gone into denial. The emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, they say, are a storm in a tea cup, no big deal, exaggerated out of all recognition. It is true that climate change deniers have made wild claims which the material can’t possibly support (the end of global warming, the death of climate science). But it is also true that the emails are very damaging.
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Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2009
Dan Roberts
Guardian
27th November, 2009
The biggest mystery of the Dubai debt crisis is not why this desert dream has turned into a nightmare, but why it took so long. Ever since US homeowners started defaulting on sub-prime mortgages two years ago, the tightening of international lending conditions has put the squeeze on investment bubbles around the world. Some, like Iceland or the British housing boom, popped relatively quickly, but others have been slower to collapse.
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Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2009
Review of James Douglass’ Book
Edward Curtin
Global Research
27th November, 2009
Despite a treasure-trove of new information having emerged over the last forty-six years, there are many people who still think who killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and why are unanswerable questions. There are others who cling to the Lee Harvey Oswald “lone-nut” explanation proffered by the Warren Commission. Both groups agree, however, that whatever the truth, it has no contemporary relevance but is old-hat, history, stuff for conspiracy-obsessed people with nothing better to do. The general thinking is that the assassination occurred almost a half-century ago, so let’s move on.
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Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2009
F.William Engdahl
Global Research
27th November, 2009
The Ukraine Government has declared a state of emergency and medical examiners describe results of autopsies on dead patients in chilling terms that recall the Black Death descriptions from the Fourteenth Century in Venice. While everyone is calling it “Swine Flu” and the WHO using it to spread their panic and untested vaccines, there is strong evidence that the deaths—almost all from pulmonary conditions—are from a rising incidence of Tuberculosis (TB). Now a CambridgeUniversity study shows that there is a close correlation between rise in TB and the severe austerity measures that go with IMF loans. Are the Ukraine ‘Black Death’ cases the result of Ukraine’s IMF loans?
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Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2009
Stephen Gowans
What’s Left
23rd November, 2009
U.S. politicians are, through assertion and repetition, attempting to create as common knowledge the idea that Iran has a nuclear weapons program and that the last presidential election in Iran was fraudulent, even though there is no evidence to back either claim.
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Posted by seumasach on November 26, 2009
PressTV
26th November, 2009
Gold hits a record high for the third time this week as the dollar index falls to its lowest in 15 months, stimulating investors to find an alternative.
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Posted by seumasach on November 26, 2009
Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
26th November, 2009
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from Brazil and President Mahmud Ahmadinejad from Iran. What is this – the new axis of evil? No – Luladinejad is a new axis of business.
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Posted by seumasach on November 25, 2009
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) — Adrian Gibbs, the virologist who said in May that swine flu may have escaped from a laboratory, published his findings today, renewing discussion about the origins of the pandemic virus.
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Posted by smeddum on November 24, 2009
250,000 Irish workers strike
Tuesday 24 November 2009
Morning Star
Unions have caused massive disruption across Ireland as public services shut down in a national strike over pay cuts.
More than 250,000 public workers joined the walkout – thought to be the biggest in 30 years. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on November 24, 2009
Nov 21st 2009
cynicuseconomicus
I have had a good day in browsing through the economic news, as I found three very interesting articles which together represent a consistent theme (although I say lucky, I mean only in the finding but not the implications of the content). The first of these comes from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, the second Peter Schiff, and the last Liam Halligan. For the former, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, I often disagree with his analysis, but can not dispute that he often identifies some fascinating stories on the economy. Today, I came across an articlewhich is of particular interest, and some highlights are given below: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on November 24, 2009
Not Sylvia Night
AlethoNews
23rd November, 2009
The international financial elites wield enormous power over governments both in developing and developed industrial countries.
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In These New Times 