Posted by smeddum on September 16, 2010
BP wants the federal government to meet its demand for continued access to oil and gas leases in the United States. If the oil giant can’t keep drilling here, its promise to compensate victims of the Deepwater Horizon disaster might go unfulfilled—or so the company claims. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on September 15, 2010
Thierry Meyssan
14th September, 2010
In stark contrast with the glibness of official speeches on September 11, Thierry Meyssan offers his assessment of where we stand nine years after the attacks. His lucidity and steadfastness are bearing fruits. A large majority of people around the world no longer believe the US government’s account. In the United States itself, the most recent pole shows that 74% of the population actually doubts the official version. Even the chairmen of the presidential investigative commission now admit they are skeptical about their own report. The tenacious initiator of this debate believes that the controversy around the credibility of the official version is obsolete; it is time to urge the UN to take concrete action against the real culprits.
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Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2010
13th September, 2010.
Navy exposes military volunteers to microwave radiation (1972).
Among Zory Glaser’s documents, I found a newspaper article entitled: Navy Testing Microwave Risk http://www.magdahavas.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Navy-Microwave-Testing-1972.pdf (United Feature Syndicate, 1972).
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Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2010
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Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2010
Prof Rodrigue Tremblay
14th September, 2010
It has become a truism to say that the Democrats and the Obama administration now “own” the crucial issue of the economy. Justly or unjustly, voters are bound to hold them accountable for the poor state of the U.S. economy. This is not an enviable political position to be in just before an election, at a time when disgusted voters are most angry and very anxious about the economy and their economic future. Recent polls indicate that nearly two-thirds of Americans think their nation is in a state of decline and that the economy will remain in the same recessionary state or get worse next year.
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Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2010
Michael Hudson
14th September, 2010
I can smell the newest giveaway looming a mile off. The Wall Street bailout, health-insurance giveaway and support of real estate prices rather than mortgage-debt write-downs were bad enough, not to mention the Oil War¹s Afghan extension. But now comes a topper: the $50 billion transportation infrastructure plan that Obama proposed in Milwaukee cynically enough, on Labor Day. It looks like the Thatcherite Public-Private Partnership, Britain¹s notorious giveaway to the City of London underwriters. The financial giveaway had the effect of increasing prices for basic infrastructure services by building in heavy financial fees guaranteed for the banks, who lent the money that banks and property owners used to pay in taxes in more progressive times.
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Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2010
Epidemiological Evidence for a Health Risk from Mobile Phone Base Stations
Vini G. Khurana, Lennart Hardell, Joris Everaert, Alicja Bortkiewicz, Michael Carlberg, Mikko Ahonen
In International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, Vol 16, No 3 (2010)
Abstract
Human populations are increasingly exposed to microwave/radiofrequency (RF) emissions from wireless communication technology, including mobile phones and their base stations. By searching PubMed, we identified a total of 10 epidemiological studies that assessed for putative health effects of mobile phone base stations. Seven of these studies explored the association between base station proximity and neurobehavioral effects and three investigated cancer. We found that eight of the 10 studies reported increased prevalence of adverse neurobehavioral symptoms or cancer in populations living at distances < 500 meters from base stations. None of the studies reported exposure above accepted international guidelines, suggesting that current guidelines may be inadequate in protecting the health of human populations. We believe that comprehensive epidemiological studies of longterm mobile phone base station exposure are urgently required to more definitively understand its health impact.
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Posted by seumasach on September 13, 2010
13th September, 2010
LONDON: British military police are investigating claims that the country’s servicemen may have trafficked heroin out of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence in London said Sunday.
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Posted by seumasach on September 13, 2010
As at the end of the Roman Empire politics becomes reduced to its basic power elements: the executive, the oligarchy and the army or, in this case, the presidency, Wall Street and the Pentagon. As this article shows, it’s the Pentagon which is currently making the running with a sort of incremental or creeping coup d’etat.
Tom Engelhart
9th September, 2010
The autumn issue of Foreign Policy magazine features Fred Kaplan’s “The Transformer,” an article-cum-interview with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. It received a flurry of attention because Gates indicated he might leave his post “sometime in 2011”. The most significant two lines in the piece, however, were so ordinary that the usual pundits thought them not worth pondering. Part of a Kaplan summary of Gates’ views, they read: “He favors substantial increases in the military budget … He opposes any slacking off in America’s global military presence.”
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Posted by seumasach on September 13, 2010
12th September, 2010
The paramedic who confirmed the death of Government scientist Dr David Kelly has claimed his body had ‘obviously been moved’ in the minutes after it was found.
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Posted by seumasach on September 13, 2010
Chris Hastings
12tyh September, 2010
The controversy over the death of Government scientist Dr David Kelly has deepened after ambulance chiefs admitted that a vital medical record relating to the case has vanished.
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In These New Times 