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Archive for May, 2010

The German government has had enough

Posted by seumasach on May 19, 2010

The Market Ticker

18th May, 2010

If you thought the German government was going to be a lapdog for Sarcozy, or worse, was going to fellate Brussels and the ECB, you got a rude shock today.

It appears that the German Government has just plain had enough of the crap that the banksters have tried to pull, and has decided to do what Barack Obama should have done in early 2009.

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Germany moves against short sellers

Posted by seumasach on May 19, 2010

CNN

19th May, 2010

German authorities on Tuesday night cracked down on what Berlin views as destablising speculation in the financial markets by implementing a partial ban on naked short-selling of certain stocks.

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Germany bans naked credit default swaps!

Posted by seumasach on May 19, 2010

This is a dramatic move through which Germany have acted unilaterally by-passing EU structures. By the look of it, other countries may follow. Europe can only survive by erecting a firewall against City of London financial viruses.

Bloomberg

19th May, 2010

Credit-default swaps on Europe’s most indebted governments fell on concern Germany’s curb on using the contracts to insure sovereign debt will choke the market and devalue existing agreements.

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Press release-Risks of brain tumors among cell phone users underestimated in Interphone study, says international EMF collaborative

Posted by seumasach on May 19, 2010

Contact: USA—Lloyd Morgan, Scientific Advisor

Radiation Research Trust

510-528-5302

bilovsky@aol.com

UK— Graham Philips

Powerwatch

01353 778422

graham@powerwatch.org.uk


Data for Acoustic Neuromas and Salivary Gland Tumors,

Located Closest to the Ear, Were Not Published—Group Asks for Full Disclosure and Urgent Research on Cell Phone Risks for Children

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Interphone Study Design Flaws- another whitewash of cell phone risk

Posted by seumasach on May 19, 2010

Lloyd Morgan, B.Sc., lead author of the landmark report, “Cellphones and Brain Tumors: 15 Reasons for Concern”, discusses the flaws in the Interphone study that render it unreliable as a gauge of risk of brain tumors from cell phones. The 11 design flaws grossly understimate the risk, and even still, the Interphone study, just pubished in the International Journal of Epidemiology, still shows statistically significant increased risk of brain tumors after 10 years of cellphone use. This is ominous because toxicants often take decades to show tumor risks, and we are seeing it at just 10 years. Cell phone usage rates in the Interphone study were just a fraction of cell phone usage rates today among adults and children alike. Finally, without explanation, results were not pubished for acoustic neuromas and salivary gland tumors which are the tumors closest to the ear against which one places the cell phone.

Click here to view Lloyd Morgan’s presentation.

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Schoolboy coalition rift over human rights versus “British rights”

Posted by seumasach on May 19, 2010

A cursory glance at the European Human Rights Convention is enough to know why the British elite are unhappy with the Human Rights Act. Instead, they’ve come up with the British Bill of Rights as if the terms “British” and “human” were incompatible . All the debating skills of up and coming fifth former Clegg have been to no avail, foiled by a technique honed on the playing fields of Eton: the ball has been booted into the long grass pending an “independent commission”. Will young Clegg risk continuing to annoy the Tories by insisting on this fundamental plank of his own party’s policy?

Guardian

19th May, 2010

A battle between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats over whether to introduce a British bill of rights, supplanting the European convention on human rights, is to be passed to an independent commission after a disagreement within the new coalition.

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Tehran nuclear declaration hailed as ‘epic victory for Iran’

Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2010

PressTV

18th May, 2010

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has claimed that mediation efforts by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva would fail.

Other US allies such as France and Germany have alleged time and again that Iran is not participating in the international arena in good faith. However, the joint nuclear declaration by Iran, Turkey and Brazil, reached on the sidelines of the G-15 summit in Tehran on Monday, for the Islamic Republic to ship its low-enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for higher-enriched fuel within a specified time frame has been widely hailed as a victory for diplomacy.

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Tarpley: Iran nuclear swap deal a defeat for US policy of isolation

Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2010

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EU ministers back hedge-fund rules opposed by U.K.

Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2010

Businessweek.com

May 18 (Bloomberg) — European Union finance ministers approved draft rules to tighten hedge-fund regulations as new U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne raised concerns about the law’s impact on the industry.

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Milestone Russia-Ukraine summit: towards a new strategic partnership?

Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2010

Victor Pirozhenko

Global Research

18th May, 2010

Leaders of East Europe’s two largest countries — Russian President D. Medvedev and Ukrainian President V. Yanukovych — will meet in Kyiv on May 17-18. In its initial form, the agenda included the signing of five agreements:

– on the demarcation of the overland section of the border between Russia and Ukraine;

– on Ukraine’s joining the Russian GLONASS satellite navigation system;

– on the cooperation between the two countries in the financial sector, education, and culture.

Chief of the Russian President’s Administration S. Naryshkin said the Russian and Ukrainian Presidents would also issue a joint declaration on European security and the resolution of the conflict in Transdnistria.

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US rally: ‘Too big to fail’ not too big to jail

Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2010

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