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Gordon Brown aide a victim of honeytrap operation by Chinese agents

Posted by alfied on July 21, 2008

Just another example of the tired, worn out stories that are part of Britain’s desperate propaganda campaign against China. It won’t be long before, the already,  befuddled brits are being told to check for Chinese under their beds.

The Times Online

David Leppard and Claire Newell
A top aide to Gordon Brown has been a suspected victim of a “honeytrap” operation by Chinese intelligence agents.

The aide, a senior Downing Street adviser who was with the prime minister on a trip to China earlier this year, had his BlackBerry phone stolen after being picked up by a Chinese woman who had approached him in a Shanghai hotel disco. Read the rest of this entry »

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Arab League gives support to Sudan

Posted by alfied on July 20, 2008

Mona Salem, AFP

Published: Saturday, July 19, 2008

CAIRO – The Arab League on Saturday slammed the International Criminal Court’s “unbalanced” prosecutor for seeking the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, saying Sudan’s courts should judge alleged Darfur war crimes. Read the rest of this entry »

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US Policy Shift On Iran-Iraq Again Shows Brzezinski Rules In Washington

Posted by seumasach on July 20, 2008

 

This, indeed, looks like the new Obama foreign as we seeit  already unfolding under Bush. But, it has to said that it looks like utter fantasy, a wish list of targets from an ailing hegemon which looks destined to be checked at every stage by the diplomacy of Russia, South America, Iran, China and Africa; in short, by the movement of emerging and reemerging nations given such stimulus by US/UK aggression. Already, the latter are faltering in Zimbabwe, Sudan, Kosovo and Burma: the game is just too transparent. The shift is, after all, the result of military defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan, from which the allies are retreating whilst sounding the charge. We can expect retreat to turn into a rout over the next year as the US/UK financial system implodes and all and sundry jump ship leaving the oligarchy high and dry.
 Looming Attack On Pakistan Spells Nuclear 
Confrontations With China, Russia & Their Allies
Webster Tarpley
Rense.com
Washington, DC, July 17, 2008 — With the Bush regime sending a top State Department diplomat to sit down with Iranian officials, with signs that the US departure from Iraq may now be accelerated, and with Israel beginning to make deals with Hezbollah, some observers in this capital are beginning to celebrate Peace in Our Time in an outburst of midsummer euphoria. But this perspective is an illusion: the United States and NATO now escalating the hopeless and unwinnable Afghan war, and is preparing to send US and NATO forces on the ground to seize parts of Pakistan, a country which is almost 3 times more populous than Iran, and possesses a nuclear arsenal and the means to deliver it. The Bush-Cheney-neocon era in foreign policy is over, and the Brzezinski-Trilateral-Rockefeller-Soros phase of aggression has begun; the US hit list now features Chinese allies like Sudan, Zimbabwe, and Pakistan. Brzezinski is striving to put together some huge provocation for the Beijing Olympics, to make the Chinese government lose face and begin disintegrating. The ultimate targets of the new Obama-Brzezinski foreign policy are Russia, China, and the other members and friends of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the main pole of resistance in the world to the designs of Washington and London. The stakes are now much higher than a mere conventional clash in the Persian Gulf. Brzezinski’s adventurism goes far beyond that of the neocons, and objectively places the danger of a thermonuclear exchange on the world agenda. Watch for the Polish-Czech-Lithuanian missile crisis, a Balkan crisis, and a crisis between Georgia and Russia to point the world in this ominous new direction.
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Golden rule changes ‘designed to save banks

Posted by seumasach on July 20, 2008

 

Or viewed from another perspective: what happens when you save the banks but everyone else goes under? What happens when consumption collapses, the pound tumbles and the state itself is bankrupt? With a dead stare, Britain looks into  the abyss.

Edmund Conway

Telegraph

20th July, 2008

The Treasury may be planning to raise the limit on public borrowing in an effort to give it “room for manoeuvre” for a potential rescue operation for the banking system, a leading expert has suggested.

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Economic Realities Are Killing Our Era of Fantasy Politics

Posted by smeddum on July 20, 2008

Alternet.org
By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com
Posted on July 19, 2008, Printed on July 20, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/91927/

I am a single mother with a 9-year-old boy. To stay warm at night my son and I would pull off all the pillows from the couch and pile them on the kitchen floor. I’d hang a blanket from the kitchen doorway and we’d sleep right there on the floor. By February we ran out of wood and I burned my mother’s dining room furniture. I have no oil for hot water. We boil our water on the stove and pour it in the tub. I’d like to order one of your flags and hang it upside down at the capital building… we are certainly a country in distress. — Letter from a single mother in a Vermont city, to Senator Bernie Sanders Read the rest of this entry »

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Dawnay:Founded upon debt and derivatives

Posted by smeddum on July 20, 2008

Financial Times

By Kate Burgess and Daniel Thomas

Published: July 19 2008 03:00 | Last updated: July 19 2008 03:00

Pity the poor receivers and administrators sent in to restructure the labyrinthine collection of private companies, joint ventures and investments that makes up the crumbling business empire of Guy Naggar and Peter Klimt. Read the rest of this entry »

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Honey bee becoming endangered species

Posted by smeddum on July 20, 2008

By Diana Royce

Northern Times

Published: 17 July, 2008

At last, (since April 2007)the connection between electrosmog and CCD is getting some recognition in the UK press, albeit inside a local paper.

EAST Sutherland Beekeepers emerged from last winter to some very nasty discoveries.

Early checks for signs of life and activity in beehives were not encouraging and when at last the weather allowed them to open up the hives it was even worse than anticipated. Many beekeepers found that their colonies were dead or on their last legs. Read the rest of this entry »

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10 Reasons Why Parents Question Vaccination

Posted by seumasach on July 19, 2008

See also EoE archives

By The Australian Vaccination Network

For some time now, members of the government and the medical industry have tried to explain away the phenomenon of parental refusal to vaccinate. Despite the government’s own studies, such as Rogers and Pilgrim; 1993, which shows that “Older, highly educated parents form the basis of the [sic] anti-immunisation lobby”, parents continue to be accused of being ignorant, uncaring and stupid for refusing vaccines which the medical community claim will keep their children healthy.

In an effort to set the record straight, the AVN, which is contacted by more than 10,000 Australian parents each year who question this procedure, would like to give you the 10 most common reasons why the parents who contact us have chosen not to vaccinate.

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Gates warns of militarization of US foreign policy

Posted by seumasach on July 19, 2008

This is a nice summary of the Obama school of foreign policy thinking, ommiting only the anti-Russian dimension.This policy seems already to be mainstream. Thus, in addition to the ongoing provocations in Burma, Zimbabwe and Kosovo, we have as Bhadrakumar puts it:

‘The strong possibility.. that the Bush administration will press the pedal on multiple fronts on the Eurasian geopolitical landscape and create a fait accompli of US-Russian mutual antagonism for Senator Barack Obama, should he become president.“

 

 

By Lolita C. Baldor 

15th July, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military’s growing role in rebuilding war-battered nations has fueled concerns about a “creeping militarization” of American foreign policy, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.

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Russia’s energy drive leaves US reeling

Posted by seumasach on July 19, 2008

 

 

M.K.Bhadrakumar

Global Research

18th July, 2008

Last week, the gloves finally came off the Dmitry Medvedev presidency in Russia. It had to happen sooner or later, but few would have expected this soon. It was crystal clear US President George W Bush administered a diplomatic snub to Medvedev on the sidelines of the Group of Eight (G-8) summit meeting at Hokkaido, Japan.

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For first time, Bush agrees to ‘time horizon’ for Iraq pullout

Posted by smeddum on July 19, 2008

By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — The United States and Iraq have agreed to a “general time horizon” for further reductions of U.S. combat troops in Iraq, the White House said Friday, the first time the Bush administration has agreed to set any kind of timeline for troop withdrawals. Read the rest of this entry »

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