Archive for July, 2009
Posted by seumasach on July 14, 2009
Here is where the pressure from the streets plays such a crucial role in preventing the government from selling out and strengthening their hand in the renegotiation of the deal. The current terms of the deal appear to be exploitative and unrealistic. Iceland can and must stand firm and not commit itself to unpayable debt.
This is Money
14th July, 2009
The Icelandic Government could try to renegotiate the £2.3bn compensation it has committed to paying British savers over the collapse of Icesave and its parent bank Landsbanki.
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Posted by seumasach on July 14, 2009
F.William Engdahl
Voltairenet
13th July, 2009
After the tragic events of July 5 in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China, it would be useful to look more closely into the actual role of the US Government’s ”independent“ NGO, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). All indications are that the US Government, once more acting through its “private” Non-Governmental Organization, the NED, is massively intervening into the internal politics of China. Engdahl’s article ties in with Thierry Meyssan’s consistent reporting (see below) of the covert nature of the NED and “sister” organizations which are engaged in the destabilization of countries of strategic, geopolitical interest for Washington under the guise of liberty and democracy.
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Posted by seumasach on July 14, 2009
This is rather sensational news which seems to point inexoarably towards detente between the USa and Iran. The US would have preferred a different regime in Iran but their orange revolution has obviously failed. Will we see convergence nonetheless?
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
15th July, 2009
How a trans-Caspian gas pipeline project came to be named after the 19th-century Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi’s famous opera Nabucco remains obscure. The opera is based on a Biblical story about the tragic plight of persecuted Jews exiled from their homeland by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar. Maybe, the opera’s enchanting story of love and struggle or its tendency toward melodrama was considered an apt metaphor for the acute Caspian energy rivalry.
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Posted by seumasach on July 14, 2009
Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy
Mast Sanity
July 2009
I was an amateur radio enthusiast before becoming a professional biologist, but kept my interest in radio throughout a long career as a lecturer at Imperial College London. No one appreciates more than I the wonders of engineering that have gone into even the cheapest cell phone, but equally I know the very real dangers that cell phone signals present to both the user and people living near cell towers.
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Posted by seumasach on July 13, 2009
Domenico Losurdo
Voltairenet
13th July, 2998
Une fois de plus la presse occidentale aborde la Chine qu’elle connaît mal au travers du prisme idéologique de la Guerre froide. Ainsi le conflit ethnico-social entre ouigours et hans donne lieu à une récitation sur l’oppression du « régime » de Pékin. Domenico Losurdo démonte ce préjugé.
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Posted by seumasach on July 13, 2009
Radio frequency electromagnetic radiation (RF-EMR) from GSM (0.9/1.8GHz) mobile phones induces oxidative stress and reduces sperm motility in rats.
PubMed
Clinics (Sao Paulo). 2009;64(6):561-5.
Mailankot M, Kunnath AP, Jayalekshmi H, Koduru B, Valsalan R.
Department of Biochemistry, Melaka Manipal, Medical College, Manipal, India.
INTRODUCTION:Mobile phones have become indispensable in the daily lives of men and women around the globe. As cell phone use has become more widespread, concerns have mounted regarding the potentially harmful effects of RF-EMR from these devices.
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Posted by seumasach on July 13, 2009
Manlio Dinucci
Voltairenet
12th July, 2009
Après avoir tendu la main aux musulmans (tout en tentant de déstabiliser l’Iran), avoir tendu la main aux Russes (tout en continuant à préparer l’installation en Europe de l’Est de missiles pointés sur eux), le président Obama tend la main aux Africains. Partout, il propose de refonder les relations avec les États-Unis sans solder les crimes du passé. Manlio Dinucci révèle ce qui se cache derrière cette soudaine sollicitude.
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Posted by smeddum on July 12, 2009
Global Research, July 12, 2009
Mail on Sunday
Tony Blair sensitive to the accusation that he has ‘blood on his hands’
by Glen Owen and Miles Goslett
See also:
David Kelly “Dead in the Woods” PSYOP
Editor’s Note
Global Research has published a number of articles by British medical doctors initative led by Stephen Frost and David Halpin on the issue of Dr. David Kelly’s assassination. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on July 12, 2009
Sunday 12th July
I am currently reading Jenny Clegg’s brilliant new book “China’s Global Strategy – Towards a Multi-Polar world”, and I will write a review shortly. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on July 12, 2009
When Will The Recovery Begin? Never.
THURSDAY, JULY 09, 2009
Robert Reich’s Blogspot
The so-called “green shoots” of recovery are turning brown in the scorching summer sun. In fact, the whole debate about when and how a recovery will begin is wrongly framed. On one side are the V-shapers who look back at prior recessions and conclude that the faster an economy drops, the faster it gets back on track. And because this economy fell off a cliff late last fall, they expect it to roar to life early next year. Hence the V shape.
Unfortunately, V-shapers are looking back at the wrong recessions. Focus on those that started with the bursting of a giant speculative bubble and you see slow recoveries. The reason is asset values at bottom are so low that investor confidence returns only gradually. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on July 12, 2009
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In These New Times 