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Archive for July, 2009

A deconstruction of the campaign against Omar al Bashir and his government in Sudan

Posted by seumasach on July 9, 2009

Richard Kurdt

iraq-war.ru

See also:

Mamdani on Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror

A number of days ago we heard that the AU has declared that they will not cooperate with the ICC indictment of Sudan’s President, Omar al-Bashir. This is a very positive development, and I would like to submit my own testimony on behalf of Sudan and its president Omar al Bashir, in a spirit of defiant resistance, and for the cause of truth.
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Roger Santini-Scientific Arguments to Prove Immediate Application of Precautionary Principle against Mobile Phones

Posted by seumasach on July 9, 2009

Roger Santini (April 2006)

Click on this link to read (pdf ) report:

www.next-up.org

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Walls to block deflation

Posted by smeddum on July 8, 2009

By: Jim Willie CB, GoldenJackass.com

July 1st 2009

Many are the obstructions to the so-called (mislabeled) deflation threat within the USEconomy. To begin with, falling asset prices does not constitute deflation. One of the primary objectives of the banking elite in firm control of the USGovt and USCongress is to confuse the public and investment community on the entire topic of inflation, what it is, how it is measured, and its risks. The same goes for deflation. All debate as to whether the Untied States will suffer from inflation or deflation is a horrible misdirected distraction that manifests the confusion. The US will suffer both higher monetary inflation and worse economic deterioration, not one or the other, but BOTH, and with steadily increasing intensity. Imagine a massive tornado building force, inflicting damage, and being fed to grow even more powerful by current policy. To argue on whether the high pressure or low pressure will prevail misses the entire storm, built upon the grand and growing differential in pressure. The storm is born of opposing pressures, each growing more intense. Human response to economic distress and banking woes ensure evermore pressures to be exerted on each side. The grand growing monetary expansion continues to collide with grand worsening asset price decline, while the Deflation Knuckleheads spout more nonsense. They miss the storm itself, how it is formed, and the dual nature of its tempest. Read the rest of this entry »

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Russia surprised by Biden’s remarks on Iran

Posted by seumasach on July 8, 2009

The meaning of Biden’s sabre-rattling now becomes clear: it’s part of a fiendishly clever scheme to put a wedge between Russia and Iran. It’s becoming an amusing spectator sport watching the cretinous US leadership trying to cope with the reality of their ebbing power.

PressTV

8th July, 2009

The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman has said the recent remarks by US Vice President Joe Biden, who said Israel has the right to attack Iran, have surprised Moscow.
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UK freezing of Landsbanki assets ‘as damaging to Iceland as Treaty of Versailles’

Posted by seumasach on July 7, 2009

Daily Telegraph

6th July, 2009

A diplomatic row erupted between the two nations after Landsbanki, the parent bank of Icesave, failed last October affecting 300,000 British savers.

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The wheels come off “the good war” in Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on July 7, 2009

Stop the War Coalition

6th July, 2009

We have had weeks of government and army propaganda selling the “good war” in Afghanistan as being for the benefit of the Afghan people and as necessary to Britain’s interests.

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The truth behind Depleted Uranium (DU) Contamination and its usage

Posted by seumasach on July 7, 2009

London,June 14 (Pal Telegraph) -There has been significant publicity about the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions, its ability to travel very long distances and the consequences to our health.

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Obamageddon is coming!

Posted by seumasach on July 7, 2009

Celente is a bit hard on Mussolini who would , of course, have been appalled at government backing for purely parasitic financial wheeling and dealing. The problem is not state intervention per se but the fact that it is not orientated to rebuilding infrastructure, productive capacity and the general welfare.

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Fears for the world’s poor countries as the rich grab land to grow food

Posted by seumasach on July 6, 2009

The control of farming land is a crucial issue, but who, exactly, is acquiring it? This article lists purchases by South Korea, Saudi Arabia which come to only about 1,500,000 ha out of  total purchases of 30 million ha. 8 million hectares have been acquired by South African interests. Are all these acquisitions really “to grow food for countries such as China and the Gulf states who cannot produce enough for their populations”? Couldn’t other players be involved? It is well known that a speculative bubble in farmland has developed with the collapse of the housing bubble and George Soros, who has been involved in buying up land in Argentina for some years, is once again to the fore. As the Anglo-Saxon financial system collapses the control of farmland, the ultimate real asset, becomes an issue not just for economic gain but for strategic control of the world.

John Vidal

Guardian

3rd July, 2009

The acquisition of farmland from the world’s poor by rich countries and international corporations is accelerating at an alarming rate, with an area half the size of Europe’s farmland targeted in the last six months, reports from UN officials and agriculture experts say.

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Venezuela and Iran: Whither the revolutions?

Posted by seumasach on July 6, 2009

“..what better way to solve all the ills of US society — lack of secure health care, poverty, violence — than dismantling the MIC and initiating a foreign policy based on peace rather than war?”

Eric Walberg
Axis of Logic
2nd July, 2009

June was a busy month for two of Washington’s real ‘Axis of Evil’. Venezuela’s Chavez completed his nationalisation of oil and Iran’s Ahmedinejad stemmed a Western-backed colour revolution, leaving both bad boys in place, muses Eric Walberg

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Generation X-Ray: Child victims of Technological abuse

Posted by seumasach on July 6, 2009

ProLiberty

From the May 2008 Idaho Observer:


Generation X-Ray

Child victims of Technological abuse

Science from the ‘40s to present has demonstrated conclusively the harmful effects of microwave radiation—the platform upon which the entire wireless universe—cell phones, text messaging, WiFi, WiMax and RFID—is built. Yet the wireless network is expanding, with the approval of government “as fast as it can.” With virtually zero regulatory oversight, the nation and all the people, plants and animals in it, are bathing in microwave radiation so we can talk, Internet surf, email, text message and play online games wherever and whenever we want. The biophysical effects of enveloping our world in harmful radiation are becoming apparent. What happened to us? How could our desire for wireless convenience so totally suspend our innate survival instincts that we would ignore well-established science plus common sense and finance conditions on this planet that portend our slow and painful deaths without dignity? More embarrassingly, what happened to us that we would so readily allow our children to suffer wireless addiction, sealing their fates to short, sickly, neurologically-impaired lives? The answer lies in the recurring theme in this month’s edition of The IO: Education. As a culture, we are taught to accept a foundational matrix of LIES as “facts”—for generations—since birth. Within this matrix, we grow up morally relativistic and believe that the only past and futures that matter are connected to how we feel in the present. The dishonor this mindset does to our forebearers is shameful; the disservice we are doing to future generations is unprecedented in the history of mankind.

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