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Britain’s ‘gunboat’ diplomacy still angers Iceland

Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Telegraph

22nd July, 2009

Iceland’s new finance minister Steingrímur Sigfússon is not looking for a fight with Britain. But like every citizen of this rocky outpost, he thinks the British government’s draconian sanctions against his country at the height of the financial crisis last year were grotesque and have made it much harder to clinch a deal to refund IceSave depositors in the UK.

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Squalene: The Swine Flu Vaccine’s Dirty Little Secret Exposed

Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009

Note that the vaccine also contains aluminium and mercury.

Dr Mercola

mercola.com

17th July, 2009

According to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, your children should be the first target for mass swine flu vaccinations when school starts this fall.

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World Prepares to Dump the Dollar

Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009

Robert Morley

The Trumpet

21st July, 2009

What do China, India, Brazil, Russia, France and Germany have in common? These countries most often can’t agree on anything. But they are united in one strange—and ominous—way. They blame the United States for wrecking the global economy. And they think the dollar is the wrecking ball.

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Efectos de las Radiaciones Electromagenticas de la Telefonia Movil Sobre los Insectos

Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009

A.Balmori

Revista Ecosistemas

January 2006

Se presenta una revisión de estudios de laboratorio realizados exponiendo insectos a radiaciones electromagnéticas en el rango de las

microondas, similares a las utilizadas por los sistemas de telefonía que se utilizan actualmente, y a campos electromagnéticos de baja

frecuencia. Las microondas pulsadas y moduladas de la telefonía son un reciente contaminante ubicuo, cuyas consecuencias todavía no

han podido ser evaluadas convenientemente. Los estudios realizados indican efectos sobre este grupo de fauna, con previsibles

consecuencias sobre los ecosistemas. Se recomienda la realización de seguimientos y estudios en las proximidades de las estaciones base

de telefonía, donde existen los niveles más elevados de contaminación electromagnética y se exponen algunas características técnicas que

pueden ayudar a identificar las áreas más afectadas por la radiación.

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In the Ghetto, On the Brink

Posted by seumasach on July 23, 2009

Kevin Annett

Hidden From History

19th July, 2009

We strongly recommend Kevin Annett’s film, Unrepentant

At one point during the film Sophie’s Choice, on the eve of World War Two, the protagonist learns of the planned extermination – “vernichtung” – of the Jews of the Cracow ghetto. Horrified, she hurries to the ghetto and walks through its crowds, a lone gentile, not knowing what to do.

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9/11: The most popular French comedian ridicules the U.S. government

Posted by seumasach on July 23, 2009

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet

22nd July, 2009

Whereas the corporate media in NATO countries have sanctified the Kean-Hamilton report of the government-appointed commission on the attacks of September 11, 2001, French comedian Jean-Marie Bigard’s mockery of this preposterous tale is a resounding success. Indeed, it is no longer possible to sustain the government’s account of those events without provoking hilarity.

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Color Revolutions: Bulgaria vs Ukraine: Don’t blink

Posted by seumasach on July 22, 2009

Eric Wallberg

Global Research

21st July, 2009

Obama’s geopolitical demarche in Russia’s backyard is moving ahead nicely…  First there was the election in Bulgaria 5 July which brought a new party to power — Boyko Borisov’s Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria. Borisov, or Batman, as he is affectionately called, was a Communist-era policeman who subsequently established a prosperous private security business and has been the mayor of Sofia since 2005. He campaigned on the usual — to fight corruption and secure a better economic future. The Batman bragged in an interview with Der Spiegel of receiving “letters of accolade” from the CIA and FBI, presumably for his battle with the dark forces. One of the first things he did as PM, however, was to suspend the existing energy contracts with Moscow, both the South Stream and a nuclear power plant project.

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Now legal immunity for swine flu vaccine makers

Posted by seumasach on July 22, 2009

F.William Engdahl

Global Research

19th July, 2009

The US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, has just signed a decree granting vaccine makers total legal immunity from any lawsuits that result from any new “Swine Flu” vaccine. Moreover, the $7 billion US Government fast-track program to rush vaccines onto the market in time for the Autumn flu season is being done without even normal safety testing. Is there another agenda at work in the official WHO hysteria campaign to declare so-called H1N1 a pandemic virus threat?

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(2005)US reviews risks of Tamiflu after 12 children die

Posted by seumasach on July 22, 2009

Independent

18th November, 2005

The safety of Tamiflu, the anti-flu drug, has been questioned for the second time in a week following reports that it has been linked to the deaths of 12 children in Japan.

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Obama’s Africa Speech: Lies, Hypocrisy, and a Prescription for Continued African Dependence

Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2009

Q. Is Obama better than Bush?

A. It depends how you like your imperialism – with a white face or a black one.

By Stephen Gowans

What’s Left

17th July, 2009

US president Barack Obama’s speech at Accra, Ghana on July 11, 2009 was equal parts jaw dropping hypocrisy, outright fiction, sound advice for Africans if taken literally, and advocacy for institutions ideally suited to capital accumulation in Africa by Western investors. Africans should heed the US president’s call to embrace the idea that Africa’s future is up to Africans (and Africans alone) and to build their own nations, but the path Obama proposes, if followed, would condemn Africa to continued underdevelopment and perpetual dependence on the West.

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India plays catch-up in the great game

Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2009

M.K.Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

18th July, 2009

The Central Asian question is no more the same as it was in the 1990s. No one speculates anymore that it was inevitable that the region would descend into anarchy. However, the problems endemic to a critical period of state formation linger. The transition economies were just about switching gear when the global economic crisis struck. Growth slackened. Foreign investment dwindled. Commodity prices crashed.

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