Posted by seumasach on April 9, 2010
David Trilling
8th April, 2010
With marauding bands continuing to rule the night in Bishkek, and Kurmanbek Bakiyev making mischief in his southern stronghold, Kyrgyzstan’s new leaders are facing the prospect of a prolonged period of strife in the Central Asian state. Some experts say they are worried that continuing disorder in the country could exacerbate long-simmering regional tension.
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Posted by seumasach on April 8, 2010
8th April, 2010
As Russia and the US signed a treaty to reduce their nuclear arsenals in Prague on Thursday, the German government was divided over when the remaining US warheads should be removed from German soil. The removal of the arms is part of the coalition treaty between Chancellor Merkel’s Christian Democrats and the Free Democrats.
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Posted by seumasach on April 8, 2010
“But their attempt to display a united front faltered over Kyrgyzstan, with a senior Russian official saying Moscow would urge the new leaders who toppled President Kurmanbek Bakiyev on Wednesday to shut a strategic U.S. air base in the former Soviet central Asian republic.”
8th April, 2010
The United States and Russia pressed Iran on Thursday to renounce its nuclear ambitions or face new sanctions as they signed a landmark strategic nuclear disarmament treaty, but differences flared over Kyrgyzstan.
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Posted by seumasach on April 8, 2010
Rick Rozoff, writing in Voltairenet, views this as a likely US backed coup– it doesn’t look that way to us at ITNT. Rozoff points out that Roza Otunbayeva supported the tulip revolution in 2005 as well as coloured revolution in Georgia and claims that she has already supported the continuation of the agreement with the US over the Manas air base. Past affiliation with the empire means nothing as its foundations crumble, witness the case of Karzai in Afghanistan, and Otunbayeva seems rather to have called for a review of the agreement regarding the base. Bakiyev has not crossed the US as far as we’re aware and the fact that he has sought to maintain power at all costs suggests that they haven’t ditched him. Rather, it would appear, his power base has eroded completely and Russia has not hesitated to recognise and support the provisional government, sensing a strengthening of their position in “the Great Game”.
If sour grapes are a good indicator of ebbing Anglo-American power then this piece in the Guardian confirms our thesis.
8th April, 2010
Russia on Thursday threw its weight behind the provisional Kyrgyz government, which took power in the capital and several regions of the ex-Soviet Central Asian state after two days of violent protests in which 74 people died and more than 500 were injured.
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Posted by seumasach on April 8, 2010
Palestine Information Centre
This is the same pattern already seen in Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan, wherever these genocidal maniacs have been bombing
6th April, 2010
Dr. Yousef Ibrahim, the head of the environment quality authority, said on Tuesday that the number of cancer and kidney failure patients in the Gaza Strip is on the rise as a result of the Israeli use of depleted uranium and phosphorus bombs in the war on Gaza last year.
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Posted by seumasach on April 8, 2010
Siddharth Srivastava
8th April, 2010
NEW DELHI – In the deadliest leftist attack in India, Maoist rebels on Tuesday killed 75 police personnel in the central state of Chhattisgarh, in the process making a mockery of New Delhi’s recent claims that its strong-arm tactics against Maoist strongholds across north and eastern India were paying dividends.
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Posted by seumasach on April 7, 2010
18th April, 2010
Congress better have a look at this. Parents of vaccine-injured children said years ago that the vaccine manufacturing drug companies working combination with US CDC anti-litigation bloc researchers were rubbing noses and fabricating figures.
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Posted by seumasach on April 7, 2010
7th April, 2010
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Israel is the greatest threat to regional peace in the Middle East as bilateral relations between Ankara and Tel Aviv further deteriorates.
“If a country uses disproportionate force in Palestine, in Gaza, uses phosphorous shells, we’re not going to say bravo,” he said during a visit to Paris on Wednesday.
The Turkish leader was referring to three weeks of Israeli air strikes and a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip between late December 2008 and early January 2009 that killed 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and injured 5,450 others.
Erdogan said Israel’s justification for the offensive was based on “lies,” citing the 575-page UN-mandated ‘Goldstone report’ on the Gaza offensive that details what investigators have described as Israeli actions “amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity.”
“Goldstone is a Jew and his report is clear,” the Turkish prime minister told reporters at the Paris Ritz. “It’s not because we are Muslims that we take this position. Our position is humanitarian. It’s Israel that is the principal threat to regional peace.”
Erdogan’s statements came a day after Turkey condemned remarks by an Israeli official comparing him to the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
“Lieberman’s remarks are beyond the limits, inappropriate, and impertinent and bear no truth. Turkey calls on Israel to trade their meaningless and unacceptable attitude for common sense,” Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Burak Ozugergin said on Tuesday.
In an interview with Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper on Tuesday, Israel’s hawkish Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman claimed that Erdogan is turning into Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi or Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. “It’s his choice. The problem is not Turkey; the problem is Erdogan.”
Erdogan recently told the French newspaper Le Figaro that Israel is not serious about establishing peace and all evidence indicates that Israel is pushing the region toward war not peace. The Turkish prime minister also reiterated that Israel is widely believed to possess the only nuclear arsenal in the Middle East.
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Posted by seumasach on April 7, 2010
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Posted by seumasach on April 6, 2010
This statement confirms Thorsen’s “primary scientific and administrative oversight” of the CDC Denmark project, a collaboration involving studies which found against a mercury-autism connection. It also confirms the disappearance of funds and that “Aarhus University will not be able to collaborate with Poul Thorsen in the future.”
22nd January, 2010
Statement regarding Dr. Poul Thorsen’s involvement in Aarhus University projects
Aarhus University has decided to issue this statement in response to a num- ber of requests on the part of CDC Denmark project partners.
Issue: The extent and nature of Dr. Poul Thorsen’s continued involvement in the CDC Denmark project for which he once provided primary scientific and administrative oversight, as well as of his continued relation to Aarhus Uni- versity.
Background: The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (DASTI) has been a grant recipient as part of a cooperative agreement with the US National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC, since 2001. The grant has been administered by Odense University Hos- pital and Aarhus University (AU) under the direction of Dr. Poul Thorsen. The grant has multiple components and involves collaborators at other insti- tutions in Denmark, including the University of Copenhagen and SSI (Statens Serum Institut). This successful collaboration has resulted in numerous valu- able scientific results, and many more are forthcoming.
Unfortunately, a considerable shortfall in funding at Aarhus University asso- ciated with the CDC grant was discovered. In investigating the shortfalls asso- ciated with the grant, DASTI and Aarhus University became aware of two al- leged CDC funding documents as well as a letter regarding funding commit- ments allegedly written by Randolph B. Williams of CDC’s Procurement Grants Office which was used to secure advances from Aarhus University. Upon investigation by CDC, a suspicion arose that the documents are forger- ies.
DASTI conducted an internal investigation of the authenticity of the docu- ments and have filed a police report with no specific person named in the fil- ing. A police investigation is ongoing.
In March 2009, Dr. Thorsen resigned his faculty position at Aarhus Univer- sity. In the meantime, it has come to the attention of Aarhus University that Dr Thomsen has continued to act in such a manner as to create the impres- sion that he still retains a connection to Aarhus University after the termina- tion of his employment by the university. Furthermore, it has come to the at- tention of Aarhus University that Dr Poul Thorsen has held full-time positions at both Emory University and Aarhus University simultaneously. Dr Thorsens double Full-time employment was unauthorised by Aarhus University, and he engaged in this employment situation despite the express prohibition of Aar- hus University.
Conclusion: Aarhus University wishes to confirm that Dr Poul Thorsen no longer has any connection to Aarhus University, and that Aarhus University will not be able to collaborate with Poul Thorsen in the future. To the extent that other parties collaborating with Aarhus University wish to draw on Poul Thorsen’s expertise, Aarhus University will only accept such collaboration if it has the purpose of securing data or protecting the interests of participating researchers and funding agencies.
Jørgen Jørgensen
Managing Director
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Posted by seumasach on April 6, 2010
Adrian Douglas
5th April, 2010
Here is running commentary from Douglas based on a transcript of this part of the hearing:
S. O’MALIA: Both Mr. Organ and Mr. Epstein in the second panel, raised the concerns that short positions exceed the physical supply. The second panel kind of argued that that wasn’t a concern. Are you concerned that the shorts will not be able to deliver if called upon?
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