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The Need for Global Leadership- Part 2

Posted by seumasach on February 21, 2009

Cailean Bochanan

22nd February, 2009

The latest GEAB report poses in the sharpest possible terms the crisis of global leadership. Indeed, it concludes that the chances of effective global counter-crisis action are now negligible and that we are near to entering a phase of “global dislocation” at the end of which “the world will look more like Europe in 1913 rather than our world in 2007.”

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On the brink of doom, mad Mandelson promises to take on the ‘doomsters’

Posted by seumasach on February 21, 2009

 

No doubt the low carbon “industrial revolution” offers ‘huge economic opportunities” to friends of New Labour. Apart from that, it’s simply madness to describe this as a solution to Britain’s devastated economy. Coming from Mandelson this can also be taken as a veiled threat to “”doomsters” who talked down the British economy”.
 
BUSINESS Secretary Lord Mandelson pledged to take on the “doomsters” who talked down the British economy, as part of the Government’s fight back against the recession.
In a speech to business leaders in north-west England, the 
minister maintained that the UK was on the verge of a low carbon “industrial revolution” which promised huge economic opportunities.

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Iran general scores Moscow trip ‘success’

Posted by seumasach on February 21, 2009

PressTV

20th February, 2009

Iran’s defense minister says he achieved the objectives of his official visit to Russia amid reports that Tehran sought the S-300 system. 

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Obama: The Evil Empire’s Pleasant Face

Posted by seumasach on February 21, 2009

 

Steven Gowans

What’s Left

20th February, 2009

Obamamania was on full display Thursday in Canada’s capital, as the new US president made his first foreign visit – a six hour stop to wintry Ottawa, to exchange bromides with Canada’s prime minister, Stephen Harper.

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E-book: Operation Gladio and NATO Terrorism in Western Europe

Posted by seumasach on February 20, 2009

 Eldib

  A must Read:

Dr. Daniele Ganser, an academic historian from Switzerland researched false flag terrorism in Europe.

Besides his publicity around the 9/11 truth movement, his historical work about the so-called “Nato secret armies” is extremly interesting.

If you want to get several examples which false flag operations have been definetly proven, how they were uncovered, how they were interlocked with politicians or even brought to courts, Gansers work is a good place to start.

You can down load here:

 

http://www.scribd.com/doc/294202/Daniele-Ganser-NATOs-Secret-Armies-Operation-Gladio-and-Terrorism-in-Western-Europe

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David Miliband: Laboriously Bland Blairite (Part 1)

Posted by seumasach on February 20, 2009

 

Luke Mansarpour

PressTV

19th february, 2009

While attempting to track Tony Blair’s descent into madness is a bewildering task, shrouded as it is in Christian mysticism and an unpredictably gluttonous appetite for destruction, there is something inevitable about David Miliband becoming the latest smug face of “post-ideological” New Labour Britain. 

In many respects the British foreign secretary personifies the sorry culmination of the last three decades of the mainstream left in his country. The son of a distinguished Marxist political philosopher, he started his intellectual life with leftist leanings, writing in support of the Miner’s strike of 1984-5 and working for socialist MP John McDonnell at then-lefty Ken Livingstone’s Greater London Council. 

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Mobile phones: tomorrow will be too late

Posted by seumasach on February 20, 2009

 

Dr Paul Dupont 

 

Next-up

15th April, 2008

 

In spite of the dithering by the Ministry of Health and the delaying tactics of the phone operating 

companies, it is now becoming clear that the mobile phone is a virulent pathogen with damaging 

effects that we are only vaguely aware of. Recently it was scientifically proved that there is a 

connection between certain types of tumour and the intensive use of a mobile phone. Most in 

evidence are cases of acoustic neurinoma, a tumour that develops on the acoustic nerve, as well as 

malignant brain tumours. According to this study the risk is multiplied by two or more on the side 

where the phone is held. 

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Official German warning about dangers of cordless phone

Posted by seumasach on February 20, 2009

German Federal Agency For Radiation Protection (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz – BfS)

Press Release, 31 January 2006

DECT – The Radiation Source at Home: Cordless Phones radiate unnecessarily

A cordless phone of DECT standard is often the strongest source of high frequency electromagnetic radiation in a private home. To renounce your cordless phone as a precautionary measure will contribute to minimise your personal radiation exposure. “However, it would be possible for the industry to develop DECT phones which could address the issues of precaution and radiation protectionbetter than the current devices” said Rüdiger Matthes, expert of the Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (Federal Radiation ProtectionAgency)

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African Leaders: Lift Sanctions Against Zimbabwe Now!

Posted by seumasach on February 19, 2009

 

Jan. 31 (EIRNS)—London, which has consistently taken the lead in attacks against the Zimbabwe government for not being democratic, is taking a chilly attitude toward the agreement between three Zimbabwe parties to form a Government of National Unity, instead of helping the new government to be a success.

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Economic catastrophe looms

Posted by seumasach on February 19, 2009

John Browne

Asia Times

20th February, 2009

When the US Congress passed its US$787 billion stimulus package last week, the size of the plan caused many observers to forget the water that has already passed under the bridge. Fewer still are wondering what havoc will erupt when all this liquidity eventually washes ashore. 

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Obama, Osama and Medvedev

Posted by seumasach on February 19, 2009

 

  • For those who harbored any doubts, the Barack Obama administration’s adoption of the George W Bush framework of the “war on terror” – it does feel like a back-to-the-future “continuity” – here are two key facts on the ground. 
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