Archive for July, 2010
Posted by smeddum on July 12, 2010
By F. William Engdahl
Online Journal Contributing Writer
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In the postwar history of the Federal Republic, German chancellors tend to disappear once they pursue political goals that deviate from the Washington global agenda too much.
In the case of Gerhard Schroeder, it involved two unforgiveable “sins.” The first was his open opposition to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. The second, far more serious strategically, was his negotiations with Russia’s Putin to bring a major new natural gas pipeline directly from Russia, bypassing then-hostile Poland, to Germany. Today the first section of that Nord Stream gas pipeline has reached the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern coastal town of Lubmin on the Baltic Sea, making Lubmin into a geopolitical pivot for Europe and Russia. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on July 9, 2010
New Europe
5th July, 2010
Polish acting President Bronislaw Komorowski said on Thursday that he had asked the government to prepare a document defining Poland’s postulates concerning the date of the withdrawal of Polish troops from Afghanistan. The document for the Polish president is to be ready before a NATO summit in Lisbon in November, according to the PAP news agency. Komorowski, who is the frontrunner in a presidential runoff due on July 4, made the statement after a meeting of the National Security Council (RBN) on Thursday. Komorowski also said that he had asked the government to prepare a national strategy of withdrawal from Afghanistan as the debate in Lisbon might not be fully successful. He added that Poland should start reducing Polish troops in Afghanistan in 2011 in order to end the mission in 2012. “It is very significant that we do not think of keeping Polish soldiers in Afghanistan even a day longer than Americans,” he added. Poland has some 2,600 troops stationed in Afghan province of Ghanzi, part of the NATO-led multinational peacekeeping force International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
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Posted by seumasach on July 9, 2010
Numerous incidents of aspen decline have been recorded in North America over the past half century, and incidents of very rapid mortality of aspen clones have been observed in Colorado since 2004. The radio frequency (RF) environment of the earth has undergone major changes in the past two centuries due to the development and use of electricity in power and communications applications, and the anthropogenic RF background continues to increase in intensity and complexity. This study suggests that the RF background may have strong adverse effects on growth rate and fall anthocyanin production in aspen, and may be an underlying factor in aspen decline.
Read report here
Posted in Ecological and Public Health Crisis, Studies and statements showing mobile phone health risk | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on July 9, 2010
The Digital TV will start operating in the USA in these days. Many people are worrying about this new technology which has not been tested yet. People in USA will be the Guinea pigs and, what a chance for the industry, there is so much radiation everywhere without DVBT that you will probably see no difference to other RF. (Perhaps more exhaustion, more tiredness, the feeling of being paralyzed??)
Please see the letter in the attachment. You may forward it to your friends and to the press.
Dr. Christine Aschermann
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Posted by smeddum on July 8, 2010
Peter Pan and child trafficking
Gabriel Molina
Granma
23/6/10
• IT is particularly difficult for Cuba’s enemies to justify the reason for U.S. citizens being prohibited to travel freely to Cuba.
Approximately 10 years ago, almost at the end of his second term, President William Clinton attempted to restore that right to his compatriots. At that time he affirmed that allowing citizens to travel to Cuba would be in the interest of the United States, as the best means of influencing the island. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on July 8, 2010
The Charge of the Media Brigade
By John Pilger
July 07, 2010 “Information Clearing House” - — The TV anchorwoman was conducting a split-screen interview with a journalist who had volunteered to be a witness at the execution of a man on death row in Utah for 25 years. “He had a choice,” said the journalist, “lethal injection or firing squad.” “Wow!” said the anchorwoman. Cue a blizzard of commercials for fast food, teeth whitener, stomach stapling, the new Cadillac. This was followed by the war in Afghanistan presented by a correspondent sweating in a flak jacket. “Hey, it’s hot,” he said on the split screen. “Take care,” said the anchorwoman. “Coming up” was a reality show in which the camera watched a man serving solitary confinement in a prison’s “hell hole.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on July 7, 2010
Doug Noland
Asia Times
7th July, 2010
My thesis holds that the market’s structural debt fears are shifting from the eurozone to the US. The euro gained 1.5% last week against the dollar. The Swiss franc jumped 2.7%. European debt markets showed hopeful indications of stabilization. For the week, Greek (five-year) credit default swap (CDS) protection dropped 130 bps to 840 bps. Portuguese CDS fell 50 bps to 280 bps, and Spain CDS declined 10 bps to 255 bps.
It is worth noting that credit protection (five-year CDS) is higher for the states of California (342bps), Illinois (360bps), and Michigan (283bps) than it is for troubled Portugal (280bps). New Jersey (276bps) and New York (276 bps) are priced above Spain and just a little less than Portugal. A strong case can be made that these debt markets are on the cusp of a crisis of confidence.
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Posted by seumasach on July 7, 2010
Eric Walberg
Global Research
7th July, 2010
The Russian leader has re-enacted the famous American goodwill tour of his predecessor a half century ago, but faces the same Cold War scheming. Will his attempts to befriend Europe have more success
The past two years have witnessed a much more pliable Russia, retreating from the fiery rhetoric of Putin concerning NATO, the war in Afghanistan and America ’s targetting of Iran. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has turned Russian foreign policy around, playing to US. He signed the new START treaty, agreed to transit war materiel to Afghanistan, and supports US-sponsored sanctions against Iran. To crown his charm offensive, he made a photo-op visit to the US last month to meet not only his “reset” friend in the White House, but business leaders such as Apple CEO Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley, much like his predecessor Nikita Khrushchev rubbed shoulders with American farmers a half century ago.
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Posted by seumasach on July 6, 2010
“Blowback” theory is a polite way of saying that al-Qaida is a US/UK intelligence operation which can serve as both “friends” and “enemies”. Above all, they provide cover for the false flag operations which drive US/UK foreign policy.
Mark Curtis
Guardian
5th July, 2010
When the London bombers struck five years ago, many people blamed the invasion of Iraq for inspiring them. But the connection between 7/7 and British foreign policy goes much deeper. The terrorist threat to Britain is partly “blowback”, resulting from a web of British covert operations with militant Islamist groups stretching back decades. And while terrorism is held up as the country’s biggest security challenge, Whitehall’s collusion with radical Islam is continuing.
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Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2010
Larry Pinkney
Atlantic Free Press
2nd July, 2010
“You must be the historians who keep this lesson alive because this story isn’t about one day, one event, one person, or even one lifetime… Pass this knowledge. Don’t forget. Not ever.”
- Leonard Peltier
It was not enough that as president, Obama fully supported the criminal bail-out of the Wall Street elite, but he then went on to torpedo much needed single payer universal health care for the everyday populace of this nation – at the behest of the massive corporate insurance industry’s elite. If the Bush / Cheney regime was the inarticulate ‘Ivan the Terrible,’ then the Obama / Biden regime is assuredly a very articulate ‘Attila the Hun’ dipped in noxious perfume, which translates into more pain and blood of everyday people in this nation and around the world.
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Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2010
Most Americans know that the U.S. economy is in bad shape, but what most Americans don’t know is how truly desperate the financial situation of the United States really is. The truth is that what we are experiencing is not simply a “downturn” or a “recession”. What we are witnessing is the beginning of the end for the greatest economic machine that the world has ever seen. Our greed and our debt are literally eating our economy alive. Total government, corporate and personal debt has now reached 360 percent of GDP, which is far higher than it ever reached during the Great Depression era. We have nearly totally dismantled our once colossal manufacturing base, we have shipped millions upon millions of middle class jobs overseas, we have lived far beyond our means for decades and we have created the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world. A great day of financial reckoning is fast approaching, and the vast majority of Americans are totally oblivious.
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Posted in Financial crisis | Tagged: economic collapse, End of empire | 2 Comments »
