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11th September 2001: a Global Provocation

Posted by seumasach on March 18, 2009

Leonid Ivashov

Voltairenet.org

17th March, 2009

Translation at foot of each paragraph

Politologue russe influent, issu des milieux nationalistes, le général Léonid Ivashov était chef d’état-major des armées le 11 septembre 2001. Ce jour-là, il avait placé ses satellites en alerte pour observer les manœuvres militaires aériennes annoncées aux USA, mais c’est un tout autre spectacle auquel il fut confronté. Au vu des analyses de cet événements par ses experts, il a écarté l’hypothèse Al-Qaïda et conclu à une provocation de l’élite financière anglo-saxonne.

[Influential Russian political scientist, of the nationalist school, Leonid Ivashov was Chief-of-Staff of the Russian armed forces on September 11th. On that day, he placed his satellites on alert to observe the announced US air force military manoeuvres, only to be confronted with something quite different. After an analysis conducted by his experts, he discarded the Al-Queda hypothesis and concluded that it had been an Anglo-saxon provocation.]

Sur cette base, il développé la vision stratégique russe du monde post-11-Septembre. Nous reproduisons ici un de ses articles, représentatif de sa pensée et de celle des officiers supérieurs russes. Le lecteur sera surpris de constater que ce qui est considéré comme un délire dans les pays de l’OTAN est une vérité d’évidence en Russie, comme d’ailleurs dans de nombreux autres régions du monde. Au-delà de la question d’établir la vérité, l’honnêteté intellectuelle exige de comprendre et d’accepter la relativité des points de vue. Cet article sera particulièrement précieux pour les militaires français au moment où le ministre de la Défense a engagé une chasse aux sorcières contre les enseignants de l’École de guerre qui ont osé rendre compte de la diversité des interprétations du 11-Septembre.

[On this basis, he developed a Russian strategic vision for the post-9/11. We reproduce here one of his articles, representative of his thinking and that of his superior officers. The reader may note that that which is taken for a delirium in the NATO countries is regarded as self-evident truth in Russia, as in other areas of the world. Beyond the question of establishing the truth, intellectual honesty demands the understanding and accepting of other points of view. This article will be particularly valuable for the French military at a moment when the Defense department is conducting a witch hunt against teachers at the War College who dare to present alternative interpretations of 9/11.]

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Bioinitiative Press Release

Posted by seumasach on March 18, 2009

Bioinitiative

March 12, 2009 – Orebro University Hospital; Umea, Sweden; Columbia University, New York: University of Albany, New York; Karolinska Institute, Sweden

International Scientists Find Harmful Effects from Wireless Technologies and Urge New Safety Rules for Cell Phones (This link opens a WORD document containing the press release below. The link to the Pathophysiology Web site is at the end of this document.)

Public health concerns and scientific evidence for risks from cell phones and other wireless devices is published today in the journal Pathophysiology. International researchers have urged quick precautionary action (see Section 17 of the BioInitiative Report) to address a possible epidemic of brain tumors and many other health risks. Over four billion people around the world now use cell phones. They are rapidly eliminating the use of traditional land-line phones throughout the world. Health researchers from six countries give findings in fifteen (15) chapters covering health risks to humans and wildlife from electromagnetic fields and radiofrequency radiation.


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Insensibility

Posted by seumasach on March 18, 2009

One of the greatest poems in the English language, written during World War One, on the last day of which Owen was killed. Ostensibly a war poem, it nonetheless has remarkable resonance with those of us who have never known war directly, suggesting that we are more marked than we know by the bloody turmoil of an epoch from which, hopefully, we are now , at last, emerging.

Wilfred Owen

Happy are men who yet before they are killed
Can let their veins run cold.
Whom no compassion fleers
Or makes their feet
Sore on the alleys cobbled with their brothers.
The front line withers,
But they are troops who fade, not flowers
For poets’ tearful fooling:
Men, gaps for filling
Losses who might have fought
Longer; but no one bothers.

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EM radiation scandal- Images from Next-Up

Posted by seumasach on March 18, 2009


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Next-up

Les images du jour / Pictures of the day

Irradiation et Irresponsabilité caractérisée!
Massive radiation – and a typical lack of responsibility!

Monte Artxanda de Bilbao – Espagne

Irresponsabilité ! – Irresponsibility !

* Mesures HF artificielles micro-ondes MHz et GHz réalisées au centre du parc d’enfants.
* Level of artificial hyperfrequency microwave radiation in MHz and GHz measured in the middle of the play park
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Femme enceinte : La poche des eaux appelée amnios est une poche remplie du liquide amniotique dans laquelle s’effectue
le développement embryonnaire
. C’est évidemment un milieu très absorbant pour les irradiations artificielles micro-ondes !!!!

En plus, dès la naissance, les petites filles portent déjà dans leurs corps environ 400 000 ovules (ovocytes).
Ils sont stockés dans les ovaires, dans de minuscules poches remplies de liquide appelées follicules.

La formation des ovocytes se fait pendant la croissance du fœtus . . . Maintenant ils sont irradiés
artificiellement par la pire fréquence dite “poubelle” du spectre des hyperfréquences micro-ondes !!!!!

Irradier artificiellement les enfants doit être considéré comme un acte criminel.
Ceux qui sont responsables de ces actes criminels doivent être jugés et pas seulement REPACHOLI.
Ceux qui ont une charge et qui n’informent pas la population sont co-responsables.

AUTISME
(CLIQUER)



During pregnancy the amniotic sac in which the embryo develops is filled with amniotic fluid,
a medium that very easily absorbs artificial microwave radiation!

What’s more, at birth little girls already carry in their bodies about 400,000 ovules (ovocytes),
stored in the ovaries in tiny pockets called follicles, filled with liquid.

These ovocytes develop in fact as the foetus grows . . . Now they are being irradiated artificially
by the worst “garbage” of the spectrum of microwave hyperfrequencies!
This causes irreversible damage to the ovocyte DNA, damage that then becomes hereditary.

Submitting children and infants to artificial irradiation should be considered a criminal act.
Those responsible for doing so (and not only Repacholi) should be brought to justice.
Those who are in positions of responsibility and do not inform the public of these dangers
are equally guilty.

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Business as usual at IMF

Posted by seumasach on March 17, 2009

Crise économique : le FMI persiste et signe

Voltairenet.org

14th March, 2009

Translation at foot of each paragraph

Pourquoi changer une politique qui conduit à la faillite, lorsque les victimes sont les autres ? Telle est la question qui se pose au Fonds monétaire international et à laquelle il ne répondra pas. Au contraire, sous la houlette de Dominique Strauss-Kahn, le FMI entend utiliser la crise pour réduire. un peu la marge de manœuvre des États pauvres. Pour Damien Millet et Eric Toussaint, responsables du CADTM (Comité pour l’annulation de la dette du tiers-monde), il faut dissoudre sans attendre une institution internationale qui a conçu ses prêts comme un moyen de domination.

[Why change policies which led to failure, when the victims are others? This is the question the IMF fails to answer. On the contrary, under the leadership of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF aims to use the crisis to limit the room for manoeuvre of the poorer states. For Damien Millet and Eric Toussaint of the CADTM(Committee for the Cancellation of the Third-World Debt) we must dissolve this institution which uses debt as an instrument of domination.]

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Ireland: Sudden Death Syndrome strikes yet again

Posted by seumasach on March 17, 2009

Belfast Telegraph

16th March, 2009

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Tributes were paid today to the 16-year-old schoolboy who died suddenly at the weekend while playing football.

The body of Oisin McGuinness was returned to his family home in Newry yesterday while friends of the talented youngster rallied around his devastated family.

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Bolivia passes land from rich to poor

Posted by seumasach on March 16, 2009

14th March, 2009

LA PAZ (Reuters) – Emboldened by a new leftist constitution, Bolivia President Evo Morales on Saturday handed over ownership of farmland seized by the state from wealthy estate holders to poor indigenous people. 
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Something is Rotten in the State of Iceland

Posted by seumasach on March 15, 2009

Where’s the money gone?- that is the question.

Iris Erlingsdottir

Huffington Post

15th March, 2009

In a remarkable interview on Icelandic television last week, Eva Joly, the famous French-Norwegian investigative magistrate and corruption fighter, stated that an investigation of the financial crimes that resulted in Iceland’s financial catastrophe (the kreppa) was necessary “for the social contract, for having the feeling of being at nation and living together.”

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Bailout money is flowing abroad

Posted by seumasach on March 15, 2009

But City experts analysing the scheme for The Independent say large quantities of money will simply end up abroad because so many of the gilts are held by foreign investors. They fear that they will hoard the cash, which will be of no benefit to the British economy, or dump it in favour of safer currencies, which could cause a run on sterling. More than a third of gilts are owned by foreign entities, official statistics reveal, and there are doubts about how effective the policy will be if that sort of proportion of the new money is diverted abroad.

Independent

14th March, 2009

The Bank is in the process of purchasing about £75bn of government securities, or gilts, over a three-month period, the first instalment of a massive £150bn programme. The Bank is effectively converting these government securities or gilts into cash and bank balances which, it is hoped, will be used to support lending and spending in the UK and boost the economy.

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Dangerous decisions in Afghanistan Pt. 3

Posted by seumasach on March 15, 2009

The Real News Network

14th March, 2009

See also:

Moscow, Tehran force the US’s hand


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GMC case on Dr Wakefield falls apart.

Posted by seumasach on March 14, 2009

The case against Dr Wakefield has become a cause celebre for the Pharmaceuticals lobby and its payroll of politicians, experts, journos and sycophants. Now their treachery is being exposed and despair is setting in: witness the decision of Professor David Salisbury to prosecute One Click Group

The distortion of and politicisation of science at the service of the oligarchy is one of the central political issues of our time. The exposure of the networks which provide “expert” cover for the nefarious activities of Big Pharma, the telecommunications companies, the GM crops lobby and others is an increasingly urgent task.

Government and drug companies need back-up plan as GMC case on Dr Wakefield falls apart.

Christina England

American Chronicle

20th February, 2009

It is fast beginning to look as if the ‘Wakefield’ case was a put up job by British Journalist Brian Deer. Dr Wakefield is a British doctor who is being investigated for ‘Serious Professional Misconduct’ by the British General Medical Council for his claims that the MMR is linked to Autism and a painful bowel condition. It is rumored that Mr Deer has wagered a 10 year hate campaign on Dr Andrew Wakefield. He has written a series of extremely damaging articles in a British top selling newspaper ‘The Sunday Times’. It has now been revealed that he is the complainant behind the GMC complaint which has seen three top doctors Dr Andrew Wakefield, Dr Simon Murch and Professor Walker-Smith, face being struck of the medical register for serious professional misconduct and he has a hate website dedicated to Dr Andrew Wakefield which can only be described slanderous.

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