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Archive for October, 2009

The Great ‘Shift’ – China and the West

Posted by smeddum on October 8, 2009

Wednesday,

October 7, 2009

cynicuseconomicus

We are living through one of the times in history when a major and irrevocable shift is taking place. It will be a time that will be the subject of controversy amongst historians and, no doubt, there will be arguments about causation, about what set off a chain reaction of change. They will perhaps ponder and wonder that so many people were so blind to what was actually taking place before their eyes. Read the rest of this entry »

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A Media Failure Compounds The Financial Failure: The Press Is Still Missing The Story Of Fraud and Economic Decline Ahead

Posted by smeddum on October 8, 2009

A Media Failure Compounds The Financial Failure:
The Press Is Still Missing The Story Of Fraud and Economic Decline Ahead

by Danny Schechter

Global Research,

October 8, 2009

We know that Wall Street has not learned much from the crash it helped instigate. We know that our government, whatever its stated desire to clean up the markets and reform the financial behemoths, lacks the willingness and perhaps the clout to rein in the real power centers. We are not sure if they have been “captured” by them, or just lack the guts to take on institutions and individuals that helped fund their rise to power. Read the rest of this entry »

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Students March against the War in US

Posted by smeddum on October 8, 2009

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Code Pink rethinks Afghan withdrawal

Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2009

He who pays the leftist calls the tune. Cindy Sheehan did well to dissociate herself from the leftist “antiwar movement”

Is Medea Benjamin Naive or Just Confused?

Scott Horton

Antiwar.com

8th October, 2009

When I heard that there would be antiwar protests across the country on October 7, 2009, mourning the 8th anniversary of the start of the invasion of Afghanistan, I immediately picked up the phone to get one of the great anti-warrior women of Code Pink to join me on Antiwar Radio for the occasion. Read the rest of this entry »

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New U.S. missile defense plans pose no threat to Russia – Lavrov

Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2009

KHARKOV (Ukraine), October 7 (RIA Novosti) – The new U.S. missile shield plans present no risks for Russia, and favorable conditions are now emerging for bilateral dialogue, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.

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Iceland Political Leader Calls For Debt Moratorium As Government Crumbles

Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2009

Webster Tarpley
Rense.com
7th October, 2009
A leading member of the Icelandic parliament called Monday night for the country to declare a debt moratorium and stop attempting to pay the $6 billion which the British and Netherlands governments are seeking to extort from Iceland with the help of the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission in Brussels. This dramatic call was issued by Birgitta Jónsdóttir, the chairman of the parliamentary faction of The Movement in the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. Birgitta Jónsdóttir was speaking during a special session of the Althing called to address the rapidly deteriorating economic and financial position of Iceland, one year after the collapse of the three hot-money offshore banks, Landsbanki, Kaupthing, and Glitnir.In her remarks, Birgitta Jónsdóttir observed that Iceland is already technically bankrupt, and ought to cease payment. She also pointed to the hostility to Iceland of the IMF and EU. The current prime minister, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, who leads a moribund coalition of Social Democrats and Left Greens, had attempted to justify her policy of financial appeasement of the British and Dutch. London and The Hague are demanding $6 billion in restitution for losses incurred by private Icelandic bankers operating in their countries as Icesave, even though the Icelandic government had never guaranteed these operations, and even though British and Dutch regulators were deeply implicated in the Icesave debacle, which came in the wake of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. Read the rest of this entry »

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Video: Cindy Sheehan speaking at Bellarmine university

Posted by smeddum on October 8, 2009

http://www.hillbillyreport.org/diary/584/cindy-sheehan-speaking-at-bellarmine-university

H/T to James Pence

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Broadband tower sparks outrage in community

Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2009

Studies show it puts people at risk of cancer

By Kanina Foss, The Star, Johannesburg

http://www.security.co.za/fullStory.asp?NewsId=13856

September 18, 2009


Joburg residents rely on high walls to keep them safe in a city full of threats. But for a community in Craigavon, there are no walls high enough to protect them from the danger they say has landed on their doorsteps.

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ITNT archive: Disappearing Bees

Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2009

India to study impact of mobile towers on birds, bees

Changes in honey bee behaviour and biology under the influence of cell phone radaiation

Check that tongue! Mobile phones buzz out honeybees

Proof by Omission

Why Vodaphone should not increase the power of its base stations

The Birds, the Bees and Electromagnetic Pollution-update

Bees and the Future of Food

Dr Carlo Speaks: Radiation Is Killing the Bees Despite the Cell Phone Industry’s Disinformation Campaign

Don’t Worry. Bee Happy. No pollination crisis, the new spin

The birds, the bees and electromagnetic pollution

The Birds , the Bees and Mankind

The disappearing bees: CCD and electromagnetic radiation

Bee losses this year at 37% in USA

Is CCD caused by pesticides?

Condemned Cells – Dramatic new facts on Honey bees dying

Effects of Electric Charges on Honeybees

Plight of bees threatens food production say MEPs

“Honey, the bees are shrinking!”

Electronic smog ‘is disrupting nature on a massive scale’

`Little Roar’ of Britain’s Bees Goes Silent as Colonies Die Off

Natural News “debunks” CCD

We need nature’s pollinators

Varroa Mite or Electromagnetic Fields? New Research into the Death of Bees

The Case of the Bees

Efectos de las Radiaciones Electromagenticas de la Telefonia Movil Sobre los Insectos

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Radiation from transmitters wipes out bee colonies which will affect food production: Study

Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2009

Multipolarity is beginning to have another salutary effect: emerging nations such as India are beginning to raise topics which are taboo in the West. The breaking of the Western stranglehold is not just in military and political terms but right across the board: multipolarity means new paradigm.

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ITNT Archive: the Disappearing Bees

Daily Pioneer

18th September, 2009

Studies in Kerala have brought out evidence to support the theory of colony collapse disorder (CCD) among honeybees due to bioactive microwave radiation from mobile phones and their relay towers, which leads to extensive disappearance of entire worker bee colonies. This could result in disruption in food production because most of the crops depend on bees for pollination.

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Iceland Discusses Rejecting IMF Loans

Posted by seumasach on October 7, 2009

Iceland Review

7th October, 2009

It appears as if a cross-political majority is forming in the Icelandic parliament, Althingi, on reconsidering Iceland’s relations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Chairman of the Independence Party Bjarni Benediktsson doubts that it is in Iceland’s best interest to accept further loans.

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