Posted by smeddum on January 22, 2009
Steps up campaign to save UK’s hives
Posted in Biology, 21st January 2009 15:04 GMT
The environment secretary Hilary Benn today announced an extra £4.3m “to safeguard and undertake more research into the health of bees”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on January 22, 2009
They don’t know what they’re doing, do they? With every step taken by the Government as it tries frantically to prop up the British banking system, this central truth becomes ever more obvious. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on January 22, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2009
20th January, 2009
Late last night I returned from a four-day visit to Iceland with Professor Anne Sibert, co-author of a reportanticipating the collapse of the Icelandic banking system and joint carer for our cats and children.
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Posted by smeddum on January 21, 2009
Thousands of people protested outside the Althingi parliament yesterday on the occasion of parliament reconvening. Protestors demanded that the government step down and early elections be held. The demonstration began at noon and lasted until after midnight. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on January 21, 2009
| January 21, 2009 Justin Raimondo Antiwar.com |
False Dawn
Obama’s election doesn’t mean peace is breaking out all over – far from it
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As a new administration takes power in Washington and the promise of “change” is in the air, we have to ask ourselves: when-oh-when is it coming? When will the dam break on the sclerotic foreign policy thinking of the past eight – heck, the past 50 – years? Read the rest of this entry » |
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Posted by smeddum on January 21, 2009
TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2009
First Iceland, Greece and Spain lost their AAA sovereign credit rating.
Now, Bloomberg notes:
“The U.K. government may lose its top AAA credit rating after taking a 70 percent stake in Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, credit-default swaps show.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on January 21, 2009
Lightning, Earthquakes & Hurricanes
Jim Willie CB
Jim Willie CB is the editor of the “Hat Trick Letter”
Jan 20, 2009
The earth itself provides many valuable analogies for massive dislocation in the relief of grand energy differentials. In the air, vast differentials between cloud structures in their electrical charge result in sudden lightning bursts as the release. In the air also, vast differentials between high cool masses and low rising warm masses result in powerful ongoing storms in hurricanes. In the ground, more accurately the earth plates, vast pressure builds from the movement of such plates, often with one plate flowing underneath another, leading to massive earthquakes and tremors. We had yet another earthquake in Costa Rica last week, enough to register a 6.2 at epicenter and sufficient to cause my ceiling light fixtures to swing several inches to and fro. In the ground, subsidence from natural gravitation forces or mine activity or water aquifer flow can produce a vacuum of pressure, leading to vast sinkholes like often seen in Florida. Tsunamis are extremely powerful waves that deliver sudden floods, but they are just earthquakes with much of the vast energy transferred into ocean waves. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2009
Eric Wallberg
20th January, 2009
More tricks and hot air from across the Atlantic leave Europeans in the cold
A hurried resolution to the Ukraine-Russia gas war was reached during a visit to Moscow by Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko to meet with her Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin this week. Ukraine finally agreed to pay higher European prices for Russian gas from 2010, after a 20 per cent discount in 2009.
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Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2009
Chuck Spinney
20th January, 2009
The last time the US restrained Israel in its never-ending wars of aggression was when President Eisenhower pulled the plug on the Anglo-French-Israeli effort to grab the Suez Canal in 1956.
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Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2009
Khyber Pass Still Not a Reliable Route
January 20, 2009
The Khyber Pass closed briefly again yesterday after a grenade attack on a Pakistani army camp, just the latest in a long string of closings which have threatened NATO’s ability to use the route, through which roughly three quarters of all supplies for the war in Afghanistan pass.
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In These New Times 