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Archive for July, 2009
Michael Hudson speaks to Max Keiser
Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2009
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Obama-Stop Blaming the West (or We’ll Bomb You)
Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2009
Having established saintly status for himself Obama can now get off with this mendacious, racist caricature of Africa and rebrand Western plunder as “patronage”. The nerve of this charlatan, fresh from putting the finishing touches to the US kleptocracy, in attacking African leaders for self-enrichment is astounding and puts him firmly in the Blair, Goebbels school of deception and hypocrisy.
Here is a particularly brazen lie:
“But the West is not responsible for the destruction of the Zimbabwean economy over the last decade”
For in depth exposure of this lie we recommend Stephen Gowan’s blog, What’s Left. Alternatively look at our Zimbabwe section in “categories” ( left-hand column)
Africans need to take cognisance of the fact that behind the “partnership” verbiage lies the menace of Africom. ITNT strongly recommends that African states reject any “health” initiatives coming from the USA.
11th July, 2009
Adopting a tone his white predecessors never dared employ, the US President told Africa it could no longer blame the West for all its woes.
Posted in Zimbabwe | Tagged: Obama agenda, The Great Charlatan, Zimbabwe | Leave a Comment »
Murdoch’s malign influence demeans British politics
Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2009
Polly Toynbee
11th July, 2009
New depths have been plumbed by Rupert Murdoch‘s newspapers. If the Guardian’s revelations only concerned lurid journalism it would be disgraceful but not sinister. However, the way the police, the public prosecutor and judiciary appear to have prevented exposure of this industrial-scale bugging is a reminder of just how cleverly Murdoch companies manipulate officialdom.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: against oligarchy, British oligarchy, Murdoch empire | Leave a Comment »
Obama administration plans forceful policy to end conflicts in Africa
Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2009
“This isn’t some abstract notion that we’re trying to impose upon Africa,” he told allAfrica.com. “There is a very practical pragmatic consequence to political instability and corruption when it comes to whether people can feed their families, educate their children. And we think that the African continent is a place of extraordinary promise as well as challenges. We’re not going to be able to fulfil those promises unless we see better governance.”
Behind the vacuous blether of the Great Charlatan lies a real threat to the African nations. With the empire in retreat everywhere else Africa should realize that it is now being sized up for soft pickings.
10th July, 2009
The US is planning a dramatically more assertive policy in Africa, sometimes backed by a threat of force, to end conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria that are seen as among the principal obstacles to the continent’s revival.
Posted in Drive to Global War | Tagged: AFRICOM, Obama agenda | Leave a Comment »
Hey Buddy, It’s Cooling!
Posted by seumasach on July 10, 2009
Before you start crying “warming denial” it is as well to become aware that even the warmers have admitted that it isn’t actually warming , due to “natural climate variations” which they hadn’t taken into account. In the end, only the thermometer can resolve this implacable struggle between “warmers” and “warming deniers” or “coolers”
July 9, 2009 (LPAC) — Even as the U.S. Senate and the Group of 8 nations meeting in Italy continue their endless jabbering about greenhouse gases, nature is not cooperating.
Posted in Ecological and Public Health Crisis | Tagged: global cooling | 1 Comment »
Obama takes small steps in Moscow
Posted by seumasach on July 10, 2009
Arguably, a new element of tension appeared by a conscious strategy by the Obama administration to insert a wedge between Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and create a rift within the Kremlin. To quote noted Russia-watcher Peter Lavelle, “Either Obama believes he has already mastered Russian politics … or he is being given some very bad advice … In Russia today, it is simply impossible to play Medvedev off against Putin. Both represent the same policy approaches, including foreign policies, but in different ways.”
“Biden’s remarks didn’t actually warrant a Russian rebuttal. But Moscow probably decided to put Obama’s hawkish deputy on the mat while the boss was in town to balance to some extent the mischievous briefings given by White House officials, touting a growing US-Russia convergence over Iran, which of course was exaggerated hype.”
So Obama tried to put a wedge between Putin and Medvedev and between Russia and Iran: both failed miserably as anyone with any grasp of Russia diplomacy at all could have predicted. As with the interventions in Iran and Honduras, the old box of tricks is still being used, but they just don’t work anymore.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
11th July, 2009
The Cold War may or may not be lurking in the shade, but the mystique of Russian-American summitry lingers. In an event packed with animated passions in the run-up to it, and loaded with history, as the summit in Moscow on July 6-7 indeed was, what ultimately matters is the morning after.
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Posted in New Cold War | Tagged: Afghanistan, georgia, Iran, New Cold War, Obama agenda, Russian diplomacy | Leave a Comment »
Obama’s Rollback Strategy: Honduras, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan
Posted by seumasach on July 10, 2009
Petras is one of the very few on the left to view Obama’s strategy objectively. He is right to stress that global conditions are no longer favourable for US intervention: we are witnessing, before our very eyes, the end of empire.
James Petras
9th July, 2009
The recent events in Honduras and Iran, which pit democratically elected regimes against pro-US military and civilian actors intent on overthrowing them can best be understood as part of a larger White House strategy designed to rollback the gains achieved by opposition government and movements during the Bush years.
Posted in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq | Tagged: Afghanistan, End of empire, Iran, Iraq, James Petras, New Cold War, Obama agenda | Leave a Comment »
Wireless Technologies Cause Harm to Children and Adults, Legislators and Journalists Are Told
Posted by seumasach on July 10, 2009
30th June, 2009
Washington, D.C., June 30, 2009; Today The National Institute for Science, Law, and Public Policy (”NISLAPP”) mailed a report on the health hazards of wireless technologies to Governors, Members of Congress, President Obama and his Administration, as well as to thousands of health and environmental journalists.
Legislators and journalists are being urged to learn about the health consequences of microwave radiation exposure from cell phones, neighborhood antennas, wireless networks, wireless routers, DECT portable phones, and the potential health consequences of further chronic exposures from wireless broadband and new wireless utility technologies. The National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy is encouraging all to become engaged with this important public health issue impacting adults and children, as well as animals and nature.
Posted in Ecological and Public Health Crisis, Studies and statements showing mobile phone health risk | Tagged: EM radiation health hazard | Leave a Comment »
Government response to school WiFi petition panned
Posted by seumasach on July 10, 2009
The government has received the Bioinitiative Report and therefore knows that the statement by the HPA that there is ‘no scientific evidence of any health risks’ is a barefaced lie.
8th July, 2009
In response to a petition calling on wireless technology to be removed from schools, the Government has pronounced itself happy with WiFi safety guidelines its critics have labelled ‘dangerously out of date’
Posted in Ecological and Public Health Crisis | Tagged: electromagnetic pollution, EM radiation health hazard, Wi-Fi in schools | Leave a Comment »
The wind that shakes barley.
Posted by smeddum on July 10, 2009
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Retired General / American Intelligence Official Says 911 was an Inside Job
Posted by smeddum on July 10, 2009
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: "War on Terror", 9/11, 9/11 truth | Leave a Comment »
In These New Times 