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ForeclosureGate and Obama’s pocket veto

Posted by seumasach on October 11, 2010

Ellen Brown

Huffington Post

6th October, 2010

Amid a snowballing foreclosure fraud crisis, President Obama today blocked legislation that critics say could have made it more difficult for homeowners to challenge foreclosure proceedings against them.

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US banks fake documents to rush foreclosures

Posted by seumasach on October 11, 2010

Tom Eley

Global Research

9th October, 2010

Major US banks systematically faked documents in order to speed up foreclosures for hundreds of thousands of homeowners, a mounting body of evidence shows. It appears likely that federal and state laws were broken in the process.

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With new evidence on the dangers of mobile phones, we examine the worrying risks you’re NOT being told about

Posted by seumasach on October 10, 2010

For this to hit the mainstream media is definitely a step forward. However, the focus is far too narrow. There are other sources of EM radiation pollution apart from mobile phones. Most prominently. chordless DECT phones and wi-fi. Most homes now seem to have these and are therefore are being subjected to 24 hour a day exposure regardless of whether they live in proximity to a phone mast or not. Here is a recent study on the impact of DECT phones, a source of non-stop emissions, and an article on the impact of wi-fi.

Daily Mail

6th October, 2010

Could mobile phones be giving us brain cancer? And has the mobile phone industry spent years trying to bury the scientific evidence that it does in order to protect its $3 trillion, 4.6billion- customer, global business?

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US scientists find use for honey bee- Homeland Security to lead CCD investigation

Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2010

Amidst fears that conspiracy theorists may undermine US national security by pointing out the effect of EM radiation on honey bees and other life forms and thereby compromising  the top secret HAARP and the Total Information Awareness projects, the Department of Homeland Security has confirmed its leading role in investigations into the mystery of the disappearing bees. This follows up their brilliant research showing that bees can detect landmines, a discovery which underlines the importance of preventing their complete disappearance. Their unprecedented  role in an apparently civilian project has brought them face to face with new challenges, not least of which is the technique required to mash up dead bees, if they can find any, for analysis.

New York Times

6th October, 2010

Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery

It has been one of the great murder mysteries of the garden: what is killing off the honeybees?

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Killer frog virus sweeps Britain wiping out hundreds of thousands of amphibians

Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2010

Daily Mail

8th October, 2010

See also this study by Spanish scientist Alfonso Balmori

Common frog populations have seen numbers tumble by more than 80 per cent in the face of a virus spreading through the UK, scientists warned today.

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Barack Obama accused of exaggerating terror threat for political gain

Posted by seumasach on October 7, 2010

Guardian

7th October, 2010

A US terror alert issued this week about al-Qaida plots to attack targets in western Europe was politically motivated and not based on credible new information, senior Pakistani diplomats and European intelligence officials have told the Guardian.

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Argentina’s roundup human tragedy

Posted by seumasach on October 7, 2010

ISIS

ISIS Report

6th October, 2010

GM soy a death sentence for humans and the environment

 

Argentina has become a giant experiment in farming genetically modified (GM) Roundup Ready (RR) soy, engineered to be tolerant to Roundup, Monsanto’s formulation of the herbicide glyphosate. The Argentine government, eager to pull the country out of a deep economic recession in the 1990s, restructured its economy around GM soy grown for export, most of which goes to feed livestock in Europe. In 2009, GM soy was planted on 19 million hectares – over half of Argentina’s cultivated land – and sprayed with 200 million litres of glyphosate herbicide [1]. Spraying is often carried out from the air, causing problems of drift.

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School WiFi defender cherry-picks her facts

Posted by seumasach on October 7, 2010

Magda Havas

Peterborough Examiner

6th October, 2010

Peterborough’s Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Rosana Pellizzari, talked about WiFi in schools to the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board last week and said that anyone can cherry-pick results to support their conclusions and this is exactly what she did.

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Iceland- demonstrating with noise

Posted by seumasach on October 6, 2010

The desultory nature of this protest does come across in the video- it does look a bit like resignation. This is understandable because the phase of exuberant consumerism and individualism in Iceland , and in the west as a whole, is over. That will never return, no matter how much we demonstrate and people, on one level, may be grieving for that. The point is not to return to the past but to prevent the descent in a kind of dark age, to stop the rot and to reaffirm certain fundamental values, to rebuild a real economy, real community and solidarity: to defend national sovereignty and democracy. This is a moment to draw the bottom line: none without shelter, none without food, none without the possibility of work. Everything in this crisis is about quantities, usually mind-boggling figures for debt or fraud, but behind just numbers there is a qualitative shift and we will become more positive as we realize the potential in all this.

See also:

The European Revolution begins

Iceland Weather Report

5th October, 2010

EPI and I headed down to the demonstration this evening in Austurvöllur square.

There were lots of people there [around 8,000 I’m told] and it was very noisy.

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The Protest Movement. Financial Fraud in Iceland

Posted by seumasach on October 6, 2010

Rady Ananda

Global Research

5th October, 2010

As proceedings begin against Iceland’s former Prime Minister, Geir Haarde, for the banking crisis of 2008, at least two thousand Icelanders took to the streets in two days of protest this weekend.  Iceland joins over a dozen other nations protesting economic measures taken out on the public while banks and large corporations receive bailouts. Class war is on, and it’s gone global.

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Yugoslavia’s US sponsored “democratic revolution”: nice guys finish last

Posted by seumasach on October 6, 2010

Diana Johnstone

Global Research

5th October, 2010

On October 5, 2000, the regular presidential election process in Yugoslavia was boisterously interrupted by what Western media described as a “democratic revolution” against the “dictator”, president Slobodan Milosevic. In reality, the “dictator” was about to enter the run-off round of the Yugoslav presidential election which he appeared likely to lose to the main opposition candidate, Vojislav Kostunica. Rather than support the democratic electoral process, the United States trained and incited activists to take to the streets and replace it by a televised spectacle of popular uprising. Probably, the scenarists modeled this show on the equally stage-managed overthrow of the Ceaucescu couple in Rumania at Christmas 1989, which ended in their murder following one of the shortest kangaroo court trials in history. For the generally ignorant world at large, being overthrown in an uprising was meant to prove that Milosevic was really a “dictator” like Ceaucescu. Being defeated in an election would have tended to prove the opposite.

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