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The Hariri assassination: the role Of Israel?

Posted by seumasach on January 18, 2011

Rannie Amiri

Global Research

23rd July, 2010

A crackdown on Israeli spy rings operating in Lebanon has resulted in more than 70 arrests over the past 18 months. Included among them are four high-ranking Lebanese Army and General Security officers—one having spied for the Mossad since 1984.

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Russia may buy EFSF bonds – finance minister

Posted by seumasach on January 18, 2011

Russia may buy bonds isssued by the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF), set up last year to prop up economies of troubled European Union states, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday.

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Germany and Europe must defy political trends

Posted by seumasach on January 18, 2011

Christoph Schennicke

Spiegel

18th January, 2011

Part 2- part 1 here

Why is Germany, the supposedly fallen superstar, in such good shape in the biggest economic crisis of the postwar era? Because it has maintained a more resilient industrial mix and prepared itself more effectively for the future than the Anglo-Saxon model, which had established the fashion trends of the last 30 years and had looked down on Germany with a mixture of pity and arrogance. Because smokestacks continue to belch smoke and assembly lines continue to run in Germany, and because Germany makes real products instead of packaging financial products until they are no longer recognizable.

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Mass death of birds

Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2011

Georgiy Ostroumov, Ph.D. (microwaves)
8th January, 2011
There are at least two possible reasons of the mass death of the birds. The first reason is a microwave radar. Microwave radiation from the powerful radar, even at a distance of several tens of meters can significantly heat air.

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Jumping off the Wireless Bandwagon – Wifi and You

Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2011

Joyce Nelson

Watershed Sentinel

Jan/Feb 2011

During three days of hearings on health impacts of Wi-Fi and wireless technologies, which wrapped up on Oct. 28th, 2010, Canada’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health heard from some of the top international experts in the field, many of whom roundly criticized Health Canada’s protection of Canadians from the dangers of non-ionizing microwave radiation.

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News of the World phone hacking: DPP orders review of police evidence

Posted by seumasach on January 15, 2011

Guardian

15th January, 2011

The Crown Prosecution Service yesterday announced that it would mount a “comprehensive” review of phone-hacking material held by the Metropolitan police in a dramatic volte-face prompted by recent revelations in the courts.

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Saad Hariri urged to dismiss STL

Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2011

PressTV

14th January, 2011

Lebanese opposition groups have reportedly conditioned their support for Saad Hariri’s reinstatement as premier to dismissal of US-backed tribunal set-up to probe his father’s assassination.

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How the state has bitten off more than it can chew

Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2011

Ian Hamilton QC

14th January, 2011

Let all who love freedom rejoice. The state which permits our bankers to steal millions is in trouble. It may not be big trouble but revolutions sometimes start with a tiny touch of indigestion. This disorder is bound to start quite soon. Its name is Tommy Sheridan.

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Liban : la fuite en avant des Etats-Unis

Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2011

 

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet

14th January, 2011

Le Liban est à nouveau sans gouvernement. Selon la presse occidentale, le Hezbollah exerce un chantage pour ne pas avoir à répondre de sa culpabilité dans l’assassinat de Rafik el-Hariri. En réalité, observe Thierry Meyssan, l’opposition libanaise (qui représente la majorité populaire mais est minoritaire à l’Assemblée) vient de faire échec à la machine infernale mise en place par Washington en vue de provoquer une confrontation générale au Proche-Orient.

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A brief history of ice ages and warming

Posted by seumasach on January 13, 2011

Monte Hieb

Geocraft.com

5th October, 2007

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You’re insane if you don’t own gold, investors told

Posted by seumasach on January 12, 2011

Telegraph

12th January, 2011

Robin Griffiths, a technical strategist at Cazenove Capital, told CNBC: “I think not owning gold is a form of insanity. It may even show unhealthy masochistic tendencies, which might need medical attention.”

He added that the dollar was heading for “oblivion”.

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