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Archive for October, 2009

Suleiman: Tel Aviv behind Katyusha attack on Israel

Posted by seumasach on October 30, 2009

PressTV

30th October, 2009

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman charges Tel Aviv with a Katyusha-type rocket attack on the Israeli eastern town of Kiryat Shmona calling it a Zionist attempt to keep tensions high in Middle East.

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Low Flu Vaccination Rate Reveals Massive Repudiation of American Government

Posted by seumasach on October 30, 2009

Lew Rockwell

30th October, 2009

 

The American government may have left itself exposed to revealing just how strongly the public opposes its flu vaccination campaign. For the first time Americans can count how many of its citizens opted for or against flu vaccination, and the numbers are appalling.

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The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex: Larry Wilkerson

Posted by seumasach on October 30, 2009

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Les USA, Empire de la barbarie Le secret de Guantánamo

Posted by seumasach on October 29, 2009

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet.org

28th October, 2009

Vous pensez être informé sur ce qui s’est passé à Guantánamo et vous vous étonnez que le président Obama n’arrive pas à fermer ce centre de torture. Vous avez tort. Vous ignorez la véritable finalité de ce dispositif et ce qui le rend indispensable à l’administration actuelle.
Attention : si vous souhaitez continuer à penser que nous avons des valeurs communes avec les États-Unis et que nous devons être alliés avec eux, abstenez-vous de lire cet article.

Chacun se souvient de ces photographies de tortures qui circulaient sur Internet. Elles étaient présentées comme les trophées de guerre de quelques GI’s. Néanmoins, les grands médias, ne pouvant en vérifier l’authenticité, n’osaient pas les reproduire. En 2004, la chaîne CBS y consacra un reportage. Ce fut le signal d’un grand mouvement de dénonciation des mauvais traitements infligés aux Irakiens. La prison d’Abu Ghraib montrait que la prétendue guerre contre la dictature de Saddam Hussein était en réalité une guerre d’occupation comme les autres, avec le même cortège de crimes. Sans surprise, Washington assura qu’il s’agissait d’exactions perpétrées à l’insu du commandement par quelques individus non-représentatifs, qualifiés de « pommes pourries ». Quelques soldats furent arrêtés et jugés pour l’exemple. Le dossier était clos jusqu’aux prochaines révélations.

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‘Poisoning attempt’ charges filed against French H1N1 campaign

Posted by seumasach on October 29, 2009

Michael Cosgrove

Flesh and Stone

24th October, 2009

 

 

In what is being seen as the first of many such actions to come, nine individuals have filed formal charges claiming that the H1N1 campaign is a deliberate attempt to poison the French population.

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German Government Flu Expert Advising Pharma ‘Lobby Group’

Posted by seumasach on October 29, 2009

Spiegel

28th October, 2009

A German government flu expert is advising a group funded by the pharma industry. The European Working Group on Influenza says it wants to raise awareness of the dangers of a pandemic. But epidemiologist Luc Bonneaux says ESWI is a lobby group “that has as much to do with science as McDonald’s with healthy nutrition.”

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Peter Schiff on inflation and rents

Posted by smeddum on October 29, 2009

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Pat Buchanan: White House vs. Pentagon

Posted by seumasach on October 29, 2009

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Taliban take over Afghan province

Posted by seumasach on October 28, 2009

Asia Times

29th October, 2009

The United States has withdrawn its troops from its four key bases in Nuristan, on the border with Pakistan, leaving the northeastern province as a safe haven for the Taliban-led insurgency to orchestrate its regional battles.

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Ron Paul Questions Why Obama Daughters Havent Taken Swine Flu Vaccine

Posted by seumasach on October 27, 2009

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
27th October , 2009

Congressman Ron Paul has questioned why, despite his efforts to encourage the general public to get vaccinated against the H1N1 virus, President Barack Obama has refused to allow his own daughters to take the swine flu shot.
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McDonald’s pulls out of Iceland

Posted by smeddum on October 27, 2009

McDonald’s pulls out of Iceland

27/10/09

BBC

McDonald’s is seen as a part of most developed economies
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