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Archive for September, 2009

Impeach Senator Moore – No to enforced Swine Flu Vaccinations

Posted by smeddum on September 2, 2009

Also See http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15003

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Goldman Sachs Wrong on Economic Recovery, Macro Hedge Funds Say

Posted by smeddum on September 2, 2009

Goldman Sachs Wrong on Economic Recovery, Macro Hedge Funds Say

Cristina Alesci

Bloomberg

Tuesday, Sept 1, 2009

Paul Tudor Jones, the billionaire hedge-fund manager who outperformed peers last year, is wagering that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley got it wrong in declaring the start of an economic recovery. Read the rest of this entry »

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Amnesty urges Obama to lift US embargo on Cuba

Posted by smeddum on September 2, 2009

Amnesty urges Obama to lift US embargo on Cuba

London, Sept 2

Press trust of India

(AFP) Amnesty International urged today US President Barack Obama to drop the “immoral” US embargo against Cuba, warning that millions were being denied proper health care and medicine. Read the rest of this entry »

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Stocks slide, shrugging off “manufacturing rebound”

Posted by smeddum on September 2, 2009

Stocks slide, shrugging off manufacturing rebound

Yahoo

By SARA LEPRO, AP Business Writer –

Tue Sep 1, 2:16 pm ET

NEW YORK – The stock market’s six-month rally finally gave way Tuesday, succumbing to resurgent worries about the fragility of the banking industry and the economy as a whole. Read the rest of this entry »

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Webster Tarpley -Economic Crisis – Jingle mail

Posted by smeddum on September 2, 2009

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Big stores counting the cost of ban on GM food Supermarkets in talks on how to educate public about benefits of science

Posted by smeddum on September 2, 2009

Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Supermarkets in talks on how to educate public about benefits of science

By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspodent

Tuesday, 1 September 2009

Independent

Britain’s food giants have privately warned that they are struggling to maintain their decade-long ban on genetic modification and called for the public to be educated about the increasing cost of avoiding GM, The Independent reveals today. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Mercury Mischief

Posted by smeddum on September 2, 2009

THE MERCURY MISCHIEF:
AS OBAMA WARNS OF HAZARDS,
THE FDA APPROVES MERCURY DENTAL FILLINGS

Ellen Brown,

August 28th, 2009

webofdebt

The government seems to be speaking out of both sides of its mouth, as the President preaches one thing and the FDA does another. If we are going to have “smarter medicine that really works,” we need to get politics, lobbies and cronyism out of science. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tripping Up Trump Petition

Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2009

This is the opportunity where anyone anywhere can help build the movement and stop Trump forcing local people from their land in Aberdeenshire!

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Now it IS safe for your child to use a mobile: After years of warnings, official leaflet drops safety guidance

Posted by smeddum on September 1, 2009

Now it IS safe for your child to use a mobile: After years of warnings, official leaflet drops safety guidance

By SEAN POULTER

01st September 2009

DailyMail

Plans to give the green light for children to use mobile phones despite cancer fears have angered health campaigners.
The draft of a new advisory leaflet for parents by the Department of Health removes safety advice to impose strict limits on youngsters’ use of the handsets.
It goes on to suggest that heating to the head caused by using a mobile is no more harmful than a hot bath. Read the rest of this entry »

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Worst of slump yet to come, says economist

Posted by smeddum on September 1, 2009

Worst of slump yet to come, says economist

The Times

September 1, 2009

Ann Pettifor predicted a painful end to the good times. Now she says that only radical action can prevent further gloom

Phil Thornton

Ann Pettifor is a member of a select club — the seers who saw it all coming. Now the economist, who predicted the credit crunch as far back as 2003, believes that the worst is yet to come unless there is radical reform of the financial system. Read the rest of this entry »

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Mobile phone child safety guidelines ‘to be dropped’

Posted by smeddum on September 1, 2009

Using a mobile phone is no more harmful for children than taking a hot bath or exercising, according to a new government health leaflet.

Telegraph

By Chris Irvine

01 Sep 2009

At least nine out of 10 British 16-year-olds have their own handset, as do more than four in 10 primary schoolchildren.
Current advice from the Department of Health had said that research showed mobile phone use “affects brain activity”, although it conceded there were “significant gaps in our scientific knowledge”. Read the rest of this entry »

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