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Archive for June, 2008

Cell Phone Hazards- The Evidence Is In

Posted by smeddum on June 18, 2008

(willthomasonline)

By William Thomas

The evidence is in – and it is overwhelming. Even at typical low power, cell phones and wireless technology cause severe biological disturbances in human cells. In August 2007, 26 medical and public health experts their – available online – reviewing all the literature on the effects of electromagnetic radiation Read the rest of this entry »

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The world plunges into the heart of the global systemic crisis

Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2008

“In a few weeks time (after the next G8- and other organisations-meetings have taken place), when it will be confirmed that there is no way to stabilise the US currency (not to mention the eccentric idea of pushing it up) because the US economy is sinking always deeper into the recession and because the world is already filled with US Dollars no one knows what to do with, then the global financial system will burst out in various sub-systems trying to survive as much as they can before a new global financial equilibrium is found”

Public Announcement GEAB No26(Leap 2020)

On the occasion of this 26th – Summer 2008 Special – edition of the Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin, the LEAP/E2020 team has decided to launch an alert on the July-December 2008 period. Indeed, our team is now convinced that this period will consist for the whole world in a major plunge into the heart of the phase of impact of the global systemic crisis. The upcoming six months are in fact the core of the unfolding crisis. The troubles met in the past six months were mere harbingers.

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Local Kosovo Authorities Escalate Hostilities Against UNMIK

Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2008

This report gives insight into what is happening on the ground in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Unfortunately, its appeal to the State Department will undoubtedly fall on deaf ears.

SERBIAN UNITY CONGRESS(Serbian Unity)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

The Serbian Unity Congress strongly condemns yesterday’s attack on Regional UNMIK representative Luis Perez in the town of Decani, and calls for the UN and the United States to react swiftly and decisively in what has become a series of escalating events in the region.

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British elite snared in Africa coup trial

Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2008

There is no doubt bigger players were involved and not just in the British elite: Spain sent a naval taskforce to support the coup

Ventura County Star By Lydia Polgreen New York Times News Service Wednesday, June 18, 2008 DAKAR, Senegal — The plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea in 2004 was so improbable, it sounded like something out of a tale from the tropics, too outlandish even for Graham Greene. Read the rest of this entry »

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NATO should collapse just like the USSR did, Putin believes

Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2008

Pravda

3rd June 2008

Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to France, which ended May 30, left European mass media in mixed feelings. Respectable newspapers, like Britain’s The Times or Switzerland’s Neue Zurcher Zeitung, wrote in their articles that Putin had received an inappropriate welcome in Paris, which did not match his official position of the prime minister. European journalists were surprised to see that Putin’s meeting with his French counterpart Francois Fillon was held without reporters. To crown it all, President Sarkozy invited Putin for private dinner.

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Zimbabwe: West, not Govt, politicising food

Posted by alfied on June 17, 2008

By Stephen Gowans

THERE is no evidence that the Government of Zimbabwe is using food “as a political tool to intimidate voters ahead of an election”, or that it is deliberately denying “hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Zimbabweans” food aid, as Human Rights Watch and The New York Times allege.

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Equatorial Guinea: coup plot trial begins

Posted by alfied on June 17, 2008

Chinless wonders seeking adventure or maybe genocidal terrorist’s attempt to gain a foothold in a soverign oil rich nation?

The trial of Simon Mann, a Briton accused of plotting to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea in a coup attempt, has opened in the capital Malabo.
Mann is facing charges of conspiring against Teodoro Obiang Nguema, leader of the small but oil-rich west African state, in 2004.
He faces the death penalty or a 30-year jail term if convicted after the court hearing, which began on Tuesday.
Mann, who served in Britain’s Special Air Services (SAS) was extradited to Equatorial Guinea this year from Zimbabwe, after being held there since 2004.

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US honeybees remain still at peril

Posted by smeddum on June 17, 2008

“With affected hives, there are no dead or dying bees on the ground as we see with pesticide exposures or other diseases. No one can explain this behavior.”

(southeastfarmpress)

Jun 16, 2008 9:44 AM, By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

In 2006, after honeybees abandoned hives in massive numbers, beekeepers began sounding an alarm that gained volume in 2007 when the mass exodus and die-off of bees picked up speed. Researchers named the mysterious malady colony collapse disorder (CCD). Read the rest of this entry »

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Nato’s lost cause

Posted by seumasach on June 17, 2008

The west’s ‘good war’ in Afghanistan has turned bad. A local solution, rather than a neocolonial one, is what’s needed

Tariq Ali

Guardian

Wednesday June 11 2008

In the latest clashes on the Pakistan-Afghan border, Nato troops have killed 11 Pakistani soldiers and injured many more, creating a serious crisis in the country and angering the Pakistan military high command, already split on the question.

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Canadian MP Libby Davies reads 9/11 petition in Parliament

Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2008

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The Sunspot Enigma: The Sun is “Dead”—What Does it Mean for Earth?

Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2008

June 11, 2008

Daily Galaxy

Dark spots, some as large as 50,000 miles in diameter, typically move across the surface of the sun, contracting and expanding as they go. These strange and powerful phenomena are known as sunspots, but now they are all gone. Not even solar physicists know why it’s happening and what this odd solar silence might be indicating for our future.

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