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Archive for September, 2010

The collapse of western morality

Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2010

Paul Craig Roberts

Global Research

23rd September, 2010

Yes, I know, as many readers will be quick to inform me, the West never had any morality. Nevertheless things have gotten worse.

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US chopper attack kills 50 in Pakistan

Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2010


PressTV

27th September, 2010

Two helicopters operated by the US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan have crossed into Pakistan’s volatile tribal areas, killing at least 50 people.

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Gold Bull strong as U.S. Fed stuck at permanent 0% interest rate

Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2010

Jim Willie

Market Oracle

23rd September, 2010

Japan has proved without confusion that 0% is a permanent stuck position. The United States will repeat the path, but with a vast mudslide. Japan has had the advantage of a strong industrial base, a sizeable trade surplus, and no war budget. Thus it has been capable of funding much of its own deficits. It does possess a big debt burden. But the US has $1 of new debt for every $1 in government revenue. The US war budget is almost as large as its total revenue. The US depends upon foreign creditors, many of whom have been thoroughly alienated.

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The waning of America

Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2010

Dilip Hiro

Middle-East Online

24th September, 2010

In whole regions of the world, U.S. power is in flux, but on the whole in retreat. The United States remains a powerful nation with a military to match. It still has undeniable heft on the global stage, but its power slippage is no less real for that — and, by any measure, irreversible. Whatever the twenty-first century may prove to be, it will not be the American century, says Dilip Hiro.

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It is official: the US is a police state

Posted by smeddum on September 25, 2010

Paul Craig Roberts

ICH

25th September, 2010

On September 24, Jason Ditz reported on Antiwar.com that “the FBI is confirming that this morning they began a number of raids against the homes of antiwar activists in Illinois, Minneapolis, Michigan, and North Carolina, claiming that they are ‘seeking evidence relating to activities concerning the material support of terrorism.’”

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U.K. research leaders make final stand against science cuts

Posted by smeddum on September 25, 2010

Sarah Reed
24th September 2010

Top officials from six U.K. universities joined Martin Rees, president of the Royal Society, in London today in a last-ditch attempt to avert the government’s expected cuts in science funding, which will be detailed in its forthcoming comprehensive spending review, scheduled for release on 20 October . The defiant gathering follows U. K. business secretary Vince Cable’s controversial speech earlier this month at The Queen Mary Bioenterprises Innovation Centre in London, in which he remarked that only research that has a commercial use or is “theoretically outstanding” should be funded by taxpayers. Cable’s remarks come a few months after the U.K. research councils were told to submit budgets for scenarios involving a funding freeze and cuts of 10% and 20%. Read the rest of this entry »

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Sinn Féin warns against further cuts

Posted by smeddum on September 25, 2010

Sinn Féin warns against further cuts
Monday, 20 September 2010
RTE

Sinn Féin’s Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has warned that cutting billions of euro out of the economy will not pull Ireland out of recession. Read the rest of this entry »

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Rewriting economic history won’t bring happy ending

Posted by smeddum on September 25, 2010

The Irish Times
Friday, September 24, 2010

CHARLIE FELL

SERIOUS MONEY: THE IRISH State and its people stand on the precipice. The seemingly bottomless pit into which public monies continue to be sunk in order to rescue the banking system, combined with already-stretched finances, have raised concerns that a default by the Irish Government is imminent. Read the rest of this entry »

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Next asbestos could be in air

Posted by seumasach on September 25, 2010

“By doing so, the Alaska Supreme Court established a legal precedent that recognizes the causal link between an RF radiation exposure and cognitive or psychological injuries including reduced brain function, memory loss, sleep disorders, mood disorders and depression. This holding reaffirms the scientific basis of the FCC RF radiation human exposure limits.”

Gloria Vogel

Business Insurance

13th September, 2010

Could radio frequency-producing antennas that are essential for the wireless world be the next asbestos for the insurance industry? They could, writes Gloria Vogel, managing director of New York-based Vogel Capital Management. The insurance industry must reassess its risk management tools and beef up loss control operations—especially its application of risk management to worker safety within the wireless ecosystem to avoid potentially huge claims in the future, she says.

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Architects and engineers for 9/11 truth hit the American mainstream

Posted by seumasach on September 25, 2010

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;

the point is to discover them”

Galileo Galilei(1564 – 1642)

Veterans Today

24th September, 2010

Nobody in his right mind, nobody with the least critical thinking could possibly buy into the 9/11 official story of the reason why the world trade center towers collapsed – at free fall speed- like a house of cards into their basements in just few seconds- WTC building 7 collapsed in exactly 6.5 seconds. Something only very precise demolition can accomplish, something which takes days if not weeks to prepare.

Whoever planned the 9/11 operation and whoever managed to fool the masses of  terrorized people and tricked them into believing that al Qa`ida and its members of Afghanistan cave dwellers pulled this thing off did not consider that scientists and trained specialists would be the ones to finally expose the conspiracy and unravel 9/11 mystery.

In a previous post by the title “Danish scientist breaks the 9/11 culture of silence” We explained why professor Neil Harrits– a Danish professor of chemistry believed the two airplanes- impacts did not cause the towers to collapse.  And according to a newly published scientific article, researchers found Nano-Thermite explosive in the rubble of WTC collapsed buildings that couldn’t have come from the planes. They believe large amounts of explosives were placed in the buildings in advance.

Neil Harrits and eight other researchers conclude in this article that it was Nano-Thermite that caused these buildings to collapse.

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth

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Richard Gage, AIA, Founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth) with former Senator Gravel, held a press conference Presenting Findings on September 9, 2010 at National Press Club, Washington, D.C.

They presented the group’s findings and called for a new investigation into the destruction of the 3 World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11.

Their findings are based on the following scientific observations and Hard Evidence of Explosive Demolition of the WTC towers.

As seen in this revealing photo, the Twin Towers’ destruction exhibited all of the characteristics of destruction by explosives:

  1. Destruction proceeds through the path of greatest resistance at nearly free-fall acceleration
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  3. Improbable symmetry of debris distribution
  4. Extremely rapid onset of destruction
  5. Over 100 first responders reported explosions and flashes
  6. Multi-ton steel sections ejected laterally
  7. Mid-air pulverization of 90,000 tons of concrete & metal decking
  8. Massive volume of expanding pyroclastic-like clouds
  9. 1200-foot-dia. debris field: no “pancaked” floors found
  10. Isolated explosive ejections 20 – 40 stories below demolition front
  11. Total building destruction: dismemberment of steel frame
  12. Several tons of molten metal found under all 3 high-rises
  13. Evidence of thermite incendiaries found by FEMA in steel samples
  14. Evidence of explosives found in dust samples
  15. No precedent for steel-framed high-rise collapse due to fire

And exhibited none of the characteristics of destruction by fire, i.e.

  1. Slow onset with large visible deformations
  2. Asymmetrical collapse which follows the path of least resistance (laws of conservation of momentum would cause a falling, intact, from the point of plane impact, to the side most damaged by the fires)
  3. Evidence of fire temperatures capable of softening steel
  4. High-rise buildings with much larger, hotter, and longer lasting fires have never “collapsed”

WTC Building #7, a 47-story high-rise not hit by an airplane, exhibited all the characteristics of classic controlled demolition with explosives:

1. Rapid onset of “collapse”

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2. Sounds of explosions at ground floor – a second before the building’s destruction

3.Symmetrical “structural failure” — through the path of greatest resistance — at free-fall acceleration

4. Imploded, collapsing completely, and landed in its own footprint

5. Massive volume of expanding pyroclastic dust clouds

6. Expert corroboration from the top European Controlled Demolition professional

7. Fore-knowledge of “collapse” by media, NYPD, FDNY

In the the aftermath of WTC7?s destruction, strong evidence of demolition using incendary devices was discovered:

8. FEMA finds rapid oxidation and intergranular melting on structural steel samples

9. Several tons of molten metal reported by numerous highly-qualified witnesses

10. Chemical signature of thermite (high tech incendiary) found in solidified molten metal, and dust samples

WTC7 exhibited none of the characteristics of destruction by fire, i.e.

1. Slow onset with large visible deformations

2. Asymmetrical collapse which follows the path of least resistance (laws of conservation of momentum would cause a falling, to the side most damaged by the fires)

3. Evidence of fire temperatures capable of softening steel

4. High-rise buildings with much larger, hotter, and longer lasting fires have never “collapsed”.

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The Devil’s HAARP: weather weapons and recent “natural” disasters

Posted by seumasach on September 25, 2010

Using official sources, Tim Coles considers the role of weather weapons, especially the Alaska-based High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), in recent catastrophic weather around the globe. He argues that even if weather weapons did not play a part, they need careful attention because the UK Defence Ministry has stated that “weather modification will continue to be explored”.

Tim Coles

Redress

23rd September, 2010

In 1997 the US Space Command declared war on the world by committing America to “ full spectrum dominance” by 2020, “to close the ever-widening gap between diminishing resources and increasing military commitments”. This doctrine was  approved and expanded by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2000. For Dick Cheney’s Project for the New American Century, however, it  did not go far enough. The doctrine was  expanded further by the Obama administration, from dominating “land, sea, air and space” to doctrine, ideology and cyberspace. Everything America and its pillars (Britain and Israel) do must, therefore, be understood within the context of “full spectrum dominance”.

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