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Myths of “humanitarian” imperialism

Posted by seumasach on June 30, 2008

By Stephen Gowans(What’s Left)

Myths of ‘humanitarian’ imperialism
Posted: Sunday, June 29, 2008

By Stephen Gowans
June 29, 2008
gowans.wordpress.com

Timothy Garton Ash, a columnist for the British newspaper The Guardian, has called on “people outside Zimbabwe” to “help the majority inside Zimbabwe have its democratic will recognized” by doing seven things, the first of which is to press their governments for stronger sanctions on Zimbabwe. Ash’s column is titled, “We don’t need guns to help the people pitch Mugabe from his perch.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Mobile Telecommunications in Kempten West

Posted by seumasach on June 30, 2008

Another excellent German study. When can we expect something similar from British doctors and specialists? Are trolls and agents the only people who are given a voice on these questions in Britain?

Mobile Telecommunications in Kempten West(not yet sourced)

Blood levels alarmingly altered

The Citizens Initiative Kempten West , which was established after the installation of the T-Mobile transmitter on the bank building (in Lindauerstraße) is now able to present the first results of the blood tests. Unfortunately, the results confirm the fears of the Initiative.

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Un-busy bees a disaster for almost everyone

Posted by seumasach on June 30, 2008

This mismatch between this disaster and the remedies posed is grotesque, such as the claim that “All Americans can help now with pollinator-friendly practices in their own backyards”. Our back yard is a paradise for bees and pollinators but there are simply none to be found. Further north in the Scottish highlands wild bees are also disappearing and I wouldn’t have thought heavy pesticide use would be much of an issue there. If these people really thought pesticides were the problem surely they would campaign to have them banned.

Last year all the talk was about the Penn state University investigation. Unfortunately that drew a blank. Now it’s open season for scientists to blame anything they like, especially with multi-causal, nothing in particular, explanations; always on the condition that EM radiation isn’t one of them.

Last year they admitted the bees were disappearing; this year they are admitting it is already causing crop loses and that all the other pollinators are also going. We can all see the ecological disaster unfolding around us, but nothing substantial is being done.Unfortunately everyone looks to the experts who for the most part are incapable of thinking globally and who in any event would never risk telling the truth. If anyone ever looks back on this period of history they will characterise it as “la trahison des clercs”, the treachery of the professionals.

Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Friday, June 27, 2008

Could strawberry ice cream disappear from our lives? What about vanilla Swiss almond?

The folks at Haagen-Dazs are worried enough that they and others have mounted a campaign to halt the shocking decline of honeybees and other pollinators of strawberry plants, almond trees and the rest of the roughly 90 percent of terrestrial plant life that needs pollination.

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Boffin’s wave claim after suicide spate

Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2008

 

Jan 31 2008 by Kerry-Lynne Doyle, Glamorgan Gazette

MOBILE phones and wireless internet could be behind Bridgend’s growing suicide rate, according to a microwave expert.

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Guardian caught lying about Zimbabwe

Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2008

I’m not for one moment suggesting that this is the only lie the Guardian has published about Zimbabwe.As Seumas Milne, their associate editor puts it:”The British media have long since largely abandoned any attempt at impartiality in its reporting of Zimbabwe” . But it’s certainly a particularly blatant one.

On 25th June, they published an article attributed to MDC leader Tsvangirai calling for UN peacekeepers to be sent to Zimbabwe. In this highly indiscreet piece Tsvangirai calls for “the words of indignation from global leaders to be backed by the moral rectitude of military force”.

According to today’s Independent the Guardian now accepts “that he [Tsvangirai] had not approved the commentary” so either that or the original attribution is a lie. The most likely interpretation is that the Guardian, or someone who deceived them, were trying to bounce Tsvangirai into adopting this suicidal position . Perhaps as the same Independent article tends to suggest Tsvangirai has outlived his usefulness to his political masters.

Cailean Bochanan

The Guardian have, unsurprisingly, removed the article from their website but it can be found here. 

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No current European group can solve security problems – Medvedev

Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2008

 

“They[the Europeans] were inspired by discussions and ideas voiced by the Russian president in Berlin,” Lavrov said. “They were genuinely interested in the initiative to work out an agreement on the common European security and to hold a summit on the issue.”

I don’t think these words will be music to the ears of Washington and London.

But the Russians are prepared to be generous:

“[ Medvedev] added that “organizations operating in the Euro-Atlantic region” could also join it.”

27th June, 2008

KHANTY-MANSIISK, June 27 (RIA Novosti) – None of the current European organizations, including the OSCE, the EU and NATO, is capable of solving Europe’s security problems, the Russian president said Friday.

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Bridgend makes WiFi history

Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2008

 

This is the town where there have been so many tragic suicides amongst young people. Depression has been linked to EM exposure, most recently in an article quoting Roger Coghill, a scientist involved with SAGE, an advisory body to the government. However, that article failed to point out Bridgend’s historic first as a Wi-Fi hotspot.

Apr 14 2005 David Williamson, Western Mail

INTERNET history is on the verge of being made in Bridgend.

The council will be the first in England and Wales to establish a wireless “WiFi” network in the town centre where people will be able to access the internet, regardless of which service-provider they use.

Most wireless “hot spots” – locations where laptop users can access the internet – have been operated by individual companies. Bridgend’s initiative means the town has the potential to become Britain’s biggest open-plan office by offering the first multi-service provider network.

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Incubators may be linked to higher risk of cot death

Posted by smeddum on June 29, 2008

The Independent
Electrical currents given off by the life-saving machines shown to have a negative effect on babies’ heart rates, new research shows

By Geoffrey Lean
Sunday, 11 May 2008

Life-saving incubators may cause babies to die later from cot death, startling new research suggests.

The findings will add to growing concern about the effects of the thickening “electrosmog” given off by electrical equipment which is thought to interfere with the tiny currents that help to drive the human body and govern the heart. The findings could also imply that placing infants near to clocks, radios and other electrical devices may be dangerous. Read the rest of this entry »

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Evo Morales Approves Expulsion of US Agency from Bolivia

Posted by seumasach on June 28, 2008

The empire is pulling out all the stops in trying to turn back the tide of nations and peoples reclaiming their democracy and sovereignty. We must make sure that they fail.

HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 27 (acn) Bolivian President Evo Morales gave his support Thursday to a call by coca leaf growers of the province of Chapare, Cochabamba to expel the US Agency for International Development (USAID), reports Granma

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Venezuela hails ‘strategic partnership’ with Russia

Posted by seumasach on June 28, 2008

Whatever ideological differences exist between countries such as Venezuela, Russia or Iran, one overiding consideration unites them: the defence of their national sovereignty.

 

Venezuela hails ‘strategic partnership’ with Russia (Novosti)
27th June, 2008 

MOSCOW, June 27 (RIA Novosti) – Relations between Venezuela and Russia have developed into a strategic partnership, the country’s vice president said Friday. 

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Contaminated Kuwait sand lands in Idaho

Posted by seumasach on June 28, 2008

 

The Idaho Observer

May 2008

Nearly 80 rail cars containing 6,700 tons of contaminated sand from Gulf War I are being shipped by American Ecology Corp. to its hazardous waste disposal site near Grandview, 70 miles southeast of Boise. The sand arrived by ship at Longbeach, Washington on May 12.

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