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Archive for May, 2010

Fiasco that would shame the third world

Posted by seumasach on May 11, 2010

Mark Almond

Daily Mail

8th May, 2010

Hung parliament or not, the General Election produced one clear result on the night. All the TV pundits agreed that this was one of the most shambolic, incompetent and fraudulent elections Britain has ever witnessed.

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Polling station pantomime: Thousands could sue after lockouts in key marginals

Posted by seumasach on May 11, 2010

Daily Mail

8th May, 2010

Britain is engulfed in the biggest voting scandal of modern times after thousands of people were locked out of the polls in at least 25 seats, some of them crucial marginals.

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Doubts grow on McChrystal’s war plan

Posted by seumasach on May 11, 2010

Gareth Porter

Asia Times

12th May, 2010

Although General Stanley McChrystal’s plan for wresting the Afghan provinces of Helmand and Kandahar from the Taliban is still in its early stages of implementation, there are already signs that the setbacks and obstacles it has experienced have raised serious doubts among top military officials in Washington about whether the plan of the commander of North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in Afghanistan is going to work.

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Cell phone ‘honeymoon’ finally over?



Posted by seumasach on May 11, 2010

Sean Arthur Joyce

With articles on the link between cell phones and brain tumours or other cancers now appearing in major magazines such as GQ, Harpers’s, Prevention and even Time magazine, it appears the long ‘honeymoon’ North American telecommunications corporations have enjoyed is finally over.

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International Appeal from Würzburg

Posted by seumasach on May 11, 2010

“At the conference it was impressively demonstrated that these chronic diseases are based on similar pathological mechanisms. Common mechanisms are chronic inflammatory processes influenced by environmental factors including chemical pollutants, biological infectious agents, and electromagnetic field (EMF) triggers.”

The European Academy for Environmental Medicine (EUROPAEM) invited many renowned national and international scientists and health care professionals to a medical conference held in Wuerzburg, Germany from April 23 to April 25, 2010. These professionals were from the fields of environmental medicine, toxicology, immunology, neurology and genetics and other health fields as well as physicians and dentist. Also in attendance were representatives of patient initiatives. The theme of this international medical conference was Science Meets Practice. It dealt specifically with the issues of Neuron- Endocrine- Immunology and their importance in environmental medicine.

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The tangled web that The House of Global Warming was built on

Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2010

Joanne Nova

May, 2010

Thanks to Glenn Beck, we get bit more insight into the tangled web that The House of Global Warming was built on.

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General election 2010: barred voters demand rerun

Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2010

Daily Star

10th May, 2010

VOTERS in Britain’s 20 constituencies rocked by polling day chaos could be forced to cast their ballot again.

And the unprecedented action could see David Cameron’s Tories winning even more seats.

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EU Preps Euro Fund to Fight ‘Wolfpack,’ Debt Crisis

Posted by seumasach on May 9, 2010

May 9 (Bloomberg) — European Union finance ministers pledged to stop a sovereign debt crisis from shattering confidence in the euro as they held an emergency summit to hammer out a lending mechanism for deficit-stricken nations.

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Britain says it will not back European bailout fund

Posted by seumasach on May 9, 2010

Surprise, surprise!!

“Now that Europe is asserting itself the double game will lie exposed. The bluff will be called. Will Britain veto the EMF and ultimately freeze itself out of Europe? On form, that is what one would expect.”

The battle for Europe

google.com

9th May, 2010

Britain said on Sunday that it will refuse to underwrite a European Union bailout fund worth some 60 billion euros that finance ministers want to agree at emergency talks in Brussels.

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The UK elections: a very British fraud

Posted by seumasach on May 9, 2010

Cailean Bochanan

9th May, 2010

Thursday’s election has been described as a shambles, a complete farce which shames the nation, after scenes of thousands being turned away from polling stations without being able to vote. Is this just another instance of chaotic Britain muddling along, like Dad’s Army, or is there a more sinister element, of systemic fraud? That malpractice had been at play in previous elections, in 2005, the Scottish elections of 2007 and the infamous Glasgow North East by-election last year, was more than evident. My view was that it could become the central focus of this election rather than the pseudo-conflict between three City-backed politicos.

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Merkel blasts ‘treacherous’ banks in Greek crisis

Posted by seumasach on May 8, 2010

yahoo.com

6th May, 2010

BERLIN (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday slammed “treacherous” practices by banks during the Greek crisis and said governments must crack down on speculators hunting profits in the turmoil.

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