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Great Game Playing Field: Russia/Turkey versus Palestine/Israel

Posted by seumasach on February 11, 2010

Eric Walberg

Global Research

11th February, 2010

A vital playing field in today’s Great Game is Palestine/Israel, where again there is a tentative meeting of political minds between Russia and Turkey. In defiance of the US and much of Europe, both endorsed the Goldstone report into atrocities committed during Israel’s invasion of Gaza in December 2008, where 100 Palestinians died for every Israeli casualty. Neither government is captive to Israel in the way European and US governments are, though they both have important economic relations with Israel.

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H1N1- Swine Flu: A Post Mortem

Posted by seumasach on February 11, 2010

Michael Werbowski

Global Research

11th February, 2010

Rarely in the annals of history have we seen such as humongous hoax as the recent “H1N1-pandemic”. What reportedly began in Mexico last spring in Vera Cruz state, at an insalubrious industrial sized pork farm was then upgraded from to a global health crisis. Nine months later it has ended with allegations of an immense imposture on a world-wide scale. A presumably fake flu scare was orchestrated and carefully coordinated apparently from within the WHO’s inner sanctum, in order to boost vaccine sales and the profits of the pharmaceutical industry. Were we all fobbed and sold of bill of goods? Was the “false pandemic” really a hoax or are accusations coming from medical experts such as Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg (www.wodarg.de/english/index.html)  just conspiratorial blather?

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Why the EU had to bail out Greece

Posted by seumasach on February 11, 2010

“it would not be surprising if those global hedge funds and other speculators who have wagered heavily that they could force Greece out of the euro now get their fingers badly burned.”

“Meanwhile, where will the next currency explosion occur? Might it conceivably be here in Britain where the scale of budget deficits could threaten an eventual credit re-rating and lead to massive currency speculation against sterling? If so who will then show solidarity in coming to the aid of sterling? Being outside the euro might yet prove a very cold and vulnerable spot to be in.”

John Palmer

Guardian

11th February, 2010

Are we witnessing the first, nervous steps by the euro currency countries to move to a European “economic government”?

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Sophists for sanctions

Posted by seumasach on February 11, 2010

Stephen Gowans

What’s Left

9th February, 2010

Tony Hawkins, a professor of economics at the University of Zimbabwe, thinks that Western sanctions on Zimbabwe should be maintained but that their effects “are minimal” and that “their continued existence really plays into the hands of some people in Zanu-PF.”

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PM: ‘concerted attack’ against the euro

Posted by seumasach on February 10, 2010

ana-mpa.gr

9th February, 2010

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has warned that a “concerted attack” was underway against the euro, with Spain and Portugal now being targeted, after Greece.

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The Orange Revolution, Peeled

Posted by seumasach on February 10, 2010

Justin Raimundo

antiwar.com

8th February, 2010

Viktor Yushchenko, a former central banker and alleged liberal democrat, into power, is like remembering a fever-dream in the morning: the memory of the details are blurred, and all that really remains is the sense that something strenuous, and ultimately unreal, has been passed through. The disputed election of 2004 – eventually decided in Yushchenko’s favor on account of mass street protests – ended with the defeat of Viktor Yanukovich, the candidate of the Russian-speaking eastern section of the country – the man whose comeback in Sunday’s election represented a stunning repudiation of the Orange Revolution and the regime that was born in its wake. How that “revolution” came to be, and what it really represented, is about to undergo a major revision, one in striking contrast to the instant narrative provided by the Western media six years ago.
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Iran Speaks Up

Posted by seumasach on February 10, 2010

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Conspiracy theories arise from underpants bomber story

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Haiti: U.S. army is settling in

Posted by seumasach on February 10, 2010

Voltairenet

8th February, 2010

The United States military has set up camp in a posh social club where Haiti’s upper crust used to play golf until its walls were destroyed by the hurricane.

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Surprising number of passengers on Flight AA77 that allegedly hit the Pentagon had military connections

Posted by seumasach on February 10, 2010

Additional remarks by Thierry Meyssan

When I was in Tehran in September 2002, I had the opportunity to discuss in depth the events of September 11 with Hussein Shariatmadari, Director of the Kheyan press agency and spokesperson for the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution. It was my first encounter with someone who had such a detailed knowledge of the events. We continued our discussion until late in the day.
On this occasion, he shared with me the investigative findings of his associates. They had pursued the same hypothesis as the one advanced by Pino Cabras, but with far greater means at their disposal. They had constituted biographical profiles for each of the passengers on all four planes.
Their findings showed that 75% of the passengers had connections with the Pentagon, not only on flight AA77 but also on all the other flights.

Many are the inconsistencies concerning Flight AA77 which allegedly struck the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m. on September 11, 2001.

We will not enumerate them here; other articles on this site already provide a detailed list of them. But new elements have recently emerged, resulting from investigations carried out by independent journalists. We reproduce below an extract from Strategie per una guerra mondiale, a book by Pino Cabras. It brings to light the inordinate proportion of passengers on board Flight 77 who had ties with the military sector and who were officially reported dead on September 11, 2001 at the Pentagon.

Pino Cabras

Voltairenet

8th February, 2010

The Voltaire Network article dealing with the cockpit door of Flight 77 [1] – which revealed disturbing details, little if at all examined by the official investigations, but which call for a closer look even by non-official investigations – had already drawn our attention to a certain number of the anomalies linked to that terrible day. The baffling profile of Charles F. Burlingame is but one anomaly. On board Flight 77 there was a high density of passengers who worked at classified positions in the Defense sector: between 16 and 21 persons out of a total of 58 passengers.

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The Terror-Industrial Complex

Posted by seumasach on February 10, 2010

Chris Hedges

Global Research

9th February, 2010

The conviction of the Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui in New York last week of trying to kill American military officers and FBI agents illustrates that the greatest danger to our security comes not from al-Qaida but the thousands of shadowy mercenaries, kidnappers, killers and torturers our government employs around the globe.

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