Posted by seumasach on May 31, 2010
The British Government damns itself with faint condemnation
Hague “deplores” Gaza aid ship deaths
31st May, 2010
The Foreign Secretary today “deplored” the loss of life during the interception of a flotilla of ships carrying aid to Gaza.
Up to 15 people were killed after Israeli commandoes boarded ships carrying 10,000 tonnes of aid en route from Cyprus.
William Hague said the British embassy was in “urgent contact” with the Israeli government, asking for more information.
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Posted by seumasach on May 31, 2010
31st May, 2010
Hours after the Israeli military attacked a Gaza-bound aid convoy, the European Union Foreign Policy chief calls for a full inquiry into the deaths of those on board the flotilla.
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Posted by seumasach on May 30, 2010
Germany, Europe and the Eurovision conspiracy
Gideon Rachman
30th May, 2010
From a diplomatic point of view, last night’s German victory in the Eurovision song contestcould not have been better timed. How fitting therefore that the nineteen-year-old chanteuse who carried off the title, Lena Meyer-Landrut, is from an old German diplomatic family. Her grandfather used to be German ambassador to the USSR. And I am sure that she must be related to Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, who is one of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s closest diplomatic advisers.
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Posted by seumasach on May 30, 2010
28th May, 2010
Europe “was, is and will remain” a key investment market for China’s foreign exchange reserves, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) said on Thursday.
The euro and European capital markets rallied after China made the announcement.
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Posted by seumasach on May 30, 2010
Regardless of whether we are actually bombing another country at a given moment, we are permanently at war in other ways such as this outrageous attack on our own population. Permanent militarisation is a threat to us all.
Anthony Barnett
21st April, 2002
The Ministry of Defence turned large parts of the country into a giant laboratory to conduct a series of secret germ warfare tests on the public.
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Posted by seumasach on May 29, 2010
As was to be expected, Anglo-america is not giving in. Here, they employ, once again, their dodgy rating agencies to downgrade Spain’s debt. It is almost beyond belief that this kind of ploy could result in anything other than laughter, let alone another run on the Euro. These are the same rating agencies which made the subprime scam possible: rather than determining the fate of nations they should be under arrest.
29th May, 2010
THE euro plunged and US stock markets fell last night after Spain was stripped of its top-level credit rating by a leading rating agency over concerns about its economic growth.
In the latest blow to the eurozone, which is struggling to cope with the fallout from the Greek fiscal crisis, Fitch Ratings downgraded Spain’s sovereign credit rating — a measure of how easily it can meet the interest payment on its debt — by a notch from the top AAA rating to AA+.
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Posted by seumasach on May 29, 2010
27th May, 2010
New Delhi, May 26: Concerns that cellphones pose a threat to honeybees, articulated by Shah Rukh Khan’s character in My Name Is Khan, have now been bolstered by Panjab University zoologist Neelima Kumar’s experiments.
Electromagnetic radiation from cellphones appears to alter the behaviour of bees, her experiments suggest and add fresh evidence to observations reported by a team of German researchers seven years ago.
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Posted by seumasach on May 29, 2010
Reports of such a colony collapse in nature in develop-
ing countries like India where electromagnetic radiation
(EMR) based technologies are comparatively new are
absent. It is possible that the electrosmog that prevails in
the advanced countries of the world has not yet affected
these countries. We are fortunate that the warning bells
have been sounded and it is for us to timely plan strate-
gies to save not only the bees but life from the ill effects
of such EMR.
CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 98, NO. 10, 25 MAY 2010 1376
*For correspondence. (e-mail: neelimark@yahoo.co.in)
Changes in honeybee behaviour and
biology under the influence of
cellphone radiations
Ved Parkash Sharma1 and Neelima R. Kumar2,*
1
Department of Environment and Vocational Studies, and
2
Department of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160 014, India
Increase in the usage of electronic gadgets has led to
electropollution of the environment. Honeybee behav-
iour and biology has been affected by electrosmog
since these insects have magnetite in their bodies
which helps them in navigation. There are reports of
sudden disappearance of bee populations from honey-
bee colonies. The reason is still not clear. We have
compared the performance of honeybees in cellphone
radiation exposed and unexposed colonies. A signifi-
cant (p < 0.05) decline in colony strength and in the
egg laying rate of the queen was observed. The behav-
iour of exposed foragers was negatively influenced by
the exposure, there was neither honey nor pollen in
the colony at the end of the experiment.
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Posted by seumasach on May 29, 2010
And so the much derided University of Koblenz-Landau experiment has been pretty much replicated by Indian scientists with the same incriminating results regarding EM radiation as a disrupter of honey bee activity. Will western press hacks swarm menacingly or quietly ignore it? We now have a body of work coming out of India around this crucial issue and hopefully they will start to take preventive action. Meanwhile the dying western civilization dooms itself with its ignorant and self-destructive deployment of military-industrial technology.
New Delhi, May 28 (PTI) Electromagnetic rays emitted by cellphones may sound the death knell for the honeybee which has been found to have altered its behaviour leading to the complete collapse of bee colonies, says a new study.
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Posted by seumasach on May 28, 2010
Stephen Gowans
20th May, 2010
While the South Korean government announced on May 20 that it has overwhelming evidence that one of its warships was sunk by a torpedo fired by a North Korean submarine, there is, in fact, no direct link between North Korea and the sunken ship. And it seems very unlikely that North Korea had anything to do with it.
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