Posted by seumasach on February 27, 2011
26th February, 2011
It is quite startling to realise that a special room had been set up to receive the dead of the July 7thbombings in a temporary morgue built on army land, the contract for which (see [1] below) arrived on the contractor’s desk on July 6th, the day before the massacres.
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Posted by seumasach on February 26, 2011
Eric Wallberg
24th February, 2011
It is not Israel backed by the distant US that inherits the Ottoman mantle of hegemony in the Middle East, but some combination of Turkey and Egypt…
While Egypt’s revolution was very much about domestic matters — bread and butter, corruption, repression — its most immediate effects have been international. Not for a long time has Egypt loomed so large in the region, to both friend and foe. At least 13 of the 22 Arab League countries are now affected: Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen.
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Posted by seumasach on February 25, 2011
Tom Engelhart
26th February, 2011
This is a global moment unlike any in memory, perhaps in history. Yes, comparisons can be made to the wave of people power that swept Eastern Europe as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989-91. For those with longer memories, perhaps 1968 might come to mind, that abortive moment when, in the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Brazil and elsewhere, including Eastern Europe, masses of people mysteriously inspired by each other took to the streets of global cities to proclaim that change was on the way.
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Posted by seumasach on February 25, 2011
23rd February, 2011
The wall is collapsing. Just like the Berlin wall came down in 1989, today we are seeing the collapse of the petrodollar wall across the oil producing nations of the Arab world. The petrodollar wall, unlike the Berlin wall, is not physical but a system of exchange. It is a system which exchanges oil for dollars, and dollars for security. It is a function of a uni-polar world, and given we are in a paradigm shift to a multi-polar world, the petrodollar wall no longer serves its purpose. The purpose of the so-called petrodollar wall was to ensure the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, and the accepted global system of exchange. With the drum beat for change in the global financial system beating ever louder, and the move to a new system of account away from the petrodollar wall, the pace at which regimes across the Arab world fall or change will increase. What will this mean for the price of oil?
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Posted by seumasach on February 25, 2011
25th February, 2011
Hundred of thousands of protesters are in Tahrir Square demanding the dismantling of the regime and the former ruling National Democratic Party.
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Posted by seumasach on February 24, 2011
24th february, 2011
Young participants in the 25th January Egyptian revolution have told the Palestine Information Centre that Egypt has been freed from a tyrannical regime and breaking the siege of Gaza is high on their list of priorities. Ousting Hosni Mubarak was difficult, they said, but it was just the beginning of the revolution, not the end. In Tahrir Square, they added, all sections of Egyptian society were united, including Muslims and Christians; leftists and members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Posted by seumasach on February 24, 2011
24th February, 2011
After 10 days of protests in Libya there are few signs of the regime restoring control, even in the capital Tripoli.
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Posted by seumasach on February 23, 2011
This may be pertinent to the issue of cell phone addiction already raised by Alfonso Balmori
22nd February, 2011
A well-regarded and influential team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) is on the brink of resolving a long-standing dispute with enormous implications for public health. In a paper due out tomorrow, Nora Volkow and coworkers are reporting that cell phone radiation can affect the normal functioning of the human brain.
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Posted by seumasach on February 23, 2011
8th February, 2011
Sage Associates, Environmental Consultants, have written a very important release in regard to “Smart” Meters likely to violate Federal safety limits, and about the adverse health effects due to radiofrequency (RF) radiation levels, emitted by “smart” meters. I am urging everyone to read this information very carefully:
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Posted by seumasach on February 23, 2011
Kaveh Afrasiabi
24th February
“The Americans try hard to not be the target of these huge popular uprisings, but will fail because people have realized that the policies of Americans and their cronies are the causes of humiliation and division among nations. As a result, the key to resolving people’s problems rests on ending America’s arrangement in the region.”
- Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei
On Monday, with two Iranian warships about to sail through the Suez Canal – much to the chagrin of Israel which viewed the move “with utmost gravity’” – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed a group of foreign dignitaries from the Muslim world and confidently spoke of the dawn of a new era in the Middle East, reflecting a “new Islamic awakening”.
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Posted by seumasach on February 23, 2011
23rd February, 2011
Chair of the European Parliament’s Iran delegation Barbara Lochbihler has called for the expansion of ties with Iran and cooperation with Iran’s Parliament (Majlis).
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