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Archive for January, 2010

Big Brother: Obama Calls for the Integration of State and Federal Military Forces

Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2010

Tom Burghardt

Voltairenet

17th January, 2010

In the wake of the Flight 253 provocation, over-hyped terrorism panics, and last year’s Big Pharma and media-engineered hysteria over the H1N1 flu pandemic, President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13528 [1]

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Afghanistan’s talking cure

Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2010

Qaribur Rahman Saeed

Asia Times

21st January, 2010

The upcoming London Conference on Afghanistan must seize the opportunity to bring warring sides together instead of escalating the presence of international troops. Negotiating channels are open and could produce a lasting peace for the beleaguered nation.
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India turns up heat over ‘Glaciergate’

Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2010

Neeta Lal

Asia Times

21st January, 2010

India’s environment minister, having faced accusations of practicing “voodoo science”, has been vindicated with the Nobel Prize-winning United Nations climate body’s prediction that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 being exposed as inaccurate speculation.
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Laughing all the way to the bank

Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2010

Lee Sustar

socialistworker.org

19th January, 2010

THE TIMING couldn’t have been better for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which held its first public hearings on January 13-14.

With their top employees set to enjoy huge bonuses thanks to taxpayer bailouts, the CEOs of the country’s big banks should have been in the hot seat for their role in the financial panic of 2008. The Obama administration’s proposed levy on banks seemingly would have upped the pressure, too.

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IPCC did not consult me; relied on press interview: Hasnain

Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2010

India Times

19th January, 2010

The controversy over the IPCC observations on melting of Himalayan glaciers by 2035 took a new turn with glaciologist Syed Hasnain contending that he has never mentioned the time in his research papers which the UN body had included in its climate change report.

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How US set out to destroy Iraq’s national identity and build a dependent state

Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2010

Michael Jansen

Irish Times

12th January, 2010

Cultural Cleansing in Iraq Edited by Raymond W. Baker, Shereen T. Ismael, and Tareq Y. Ismael. Pluto, 296 pp. $34.95

THIS BOOK argues convincingly that the post- war cultural cleansing of Iraq is intentional rather than random and haphazard, the result of chaos and anarchy.

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A mobile phone mast installed on school property might be the cause of more than 100 cancer cases among the students and staff

Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2010

BRENES: DANGERS IN THE SCHOOL PLAUGROUND
The school that is cursed
Fernando Perez Avila

Next-up

18th January, 2010
Fear! Fear of cancer, fear of death, and the daily fear of finding another case among the pupils. Every morning, the fear of disease that might affect the person next to you because of the phone mast that has still not been removed … Two children ill, one dead and more than 100 people suffering from various kinds of cancer, all in a short space of time – a tally that shows something is dreadfully wrong. So much so that even the doctors in the main hospital in Seville are surprised, and ask each new patient if they live anywhere near the phone mast in Brenes.
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US closing in for the kill in Haiti

Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2010

Richard Seymour
17th January 2010

You want to hear about chutzpah? You want to hear about sheer gravity-defying audacity? Well, ladies and gentlemen, comrades and friends, prepare to catch your lower jaw. Forget Rush Limbaugh’s racist anxieties. Forget about Pat Robertson drooling about Haiti’s “pact with the devil.”

He’s a senile old bigot and his sick provocations are familiar by now. This is the Heritage Foundation on the Haiti earthquake, which is estimated to have killed 100,000 people.

Amidst the Suffering, Crisis in Haiti Offers Opportunities to the US, the piece is entitled.

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From Cynthia McKinney: An Unwelcome Katrina Redux

Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2010

Cynthia McKinney

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President Obama’s response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in military deployment and puny in what the Haitians need most: food; first responders and their specialized equipment; doctors and medical facilities and equipment; and engineers, heavy equipment, and heavy movers. Sadly, President Obama is dispatching Presidents Bush and Clinton, and thousands of Marines and U.S. soldiers. By contrast, Cuba has over 400 doctors on the ground and is sending in more; Cubans, Argentinians, Icelanders, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, and many others are already on the ground working–saving lives and treating the injured. Senegal has offered land to Haitians willing to relocate to Africa.
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The U.S. must not ‘occupy’ Haiti, declares French minister as aid FINALLY trickles through

Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2010

Daily Mail
19th January, 2010

The UN must step in to ensure the U.S. is not occupying Haiti in the wake of a devastating earthquake that may have killed 200,000 people, a French minister has said.
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Will European Action Follow Rhetoric?

Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2010

Rami G. Khouri
Middle-East Online

19th January, 2010
Several symbolic or rhetorical gestures in recent weeks indicate that the European Union wants at least to raise its voice and its profile on Arab-Israeli peace-making. But to have impact it must transcend verbal commitments or admonitions and venture into the realm of actions and sanctions, argues Rami G. Khouri.
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