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Mercury amalgams- Poison in the Mouth(BBC Panorama-1994)

Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2009

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World SCO regional security group considering Iran membership – source

Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2009

BEIJING, February 17 (RIA Novosti) – The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is considering Iran’s bid to become a full member of the regional security bloc, a SCO source said on Tuesday.

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Iceland to be fast-tracked into the EU

Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2009

“The krona is dead. We need a new currency. The only serious option is the euro,” said a senior Icelandic official.”

The same applies to the pound. So, let’s all join the Eurozone and at the same time work to dismantle NATO.

Iceland will be put on a fast track to joining the European Union to rescue the small Arctic state from financial collapse amid rising expectations that it will apply for membership within months, senior policy-makers in Brussels and Reykjavik have told the Guardian.

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Daily Moron- Iceland should adopt sterling, not the euro

Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2009

“First the English destroy Iceland and now they want to impose their English toilet paper currency on the Icelandic people….

What a great comforting feeling for all newly bankrupted Icelandic people to walk around with the English Queen’s head printed on the English toilet paper currency…..

The best the Icelandic people can do is to close down the English embassy in Reykyavik and never engage in business again with the English regime that deliberately attacked Iceland’s banks forcing Iceland into total collapse.”

“your analysis of Hannan’s interference in the affairs of other European countries is spot on ; my conclusion is that Hannan is a US sponsored mole at the EU where he attempts to destroy Europe and destroy the EU and replace it exclusively with an US controlled NATO political structure.

Everytime Hannan speaks in Brussels it would be helpful for all EU MEP’s to vocally denounce him as an American NATO puppet; we in Europe should not allow American sponsored moles to walk into Europe and try to destroy all European institutions we have built up in the last 60 yrs and which have led Europe to become the worlds largest most succesful and prosperous market on the planet. ”

Johan de  Meulemeester(from comments)

Daniel Hannan

Telegraph

15th February, 2009

I’ve observed before that European integration tends also to diminish a member state’s internal democracy. Iceland is the latest example. As things stand, if you want to amend the constitution, you have to carry the change in parliament, then have a general election, then pass it again. The new Left-wing government wants to scrap that rule so as to fast-track EU membership.

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Another U.S.-Sponsored Catastrophe- The Nightmare in Somalia

Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2009

Len Wengraf

Uruk

15th February, 2009

Us-backed Ethiopian troops withdrew from their remaining positions in Somalia at the end of January, bringing an end to a two-year occupation carried out in the guise of the “war on terror.”

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Social collapse best practices

Posted by seumasach on February 16, 2009

Club Orlov

The following talk was given on February 13, 2009, at Cowell Theatre in Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, to an audience of 550 people. Audio and video of the talk will be available on Long Now Foundation web site.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for showing up. It’s certainly nice to travel all the way across the North American continent and have a few people come to see you, even if the occasion isn’t a happy one. You are here to listen to me talk about social collapse and the various ways we can avoid screwing that up along with everything else that’s gone wrong. I know it’s a lot to ask of you, because why wouldn’t you instead want to go and eat, drink, and be merry? Well, perhaps there will still be time left for that after my talk.

I would like to thank the Long Now Foundation for inviting me, and I feel very honored to appear in the same venue as many serious, professional people, such as Michael Pollan, who will be here in May, or some of the previous speakers, such as Nassim Taleb, or Brian Eno – some of my favorite people, really. I am just a tourist. I flew over here to give this talk and to take in the sights, and then I’ll fly back to Boston and go back to my day job. Well, I am also a blogger. And I also wrote a book. But then everyone has a book, or so it would seem.

You might ask yourself, then, Why on earth did he get invited to speak here tonight? It seems that I am enjoying my moment in the limelight, because I am one of the very few people who several years ago unequivocally predicted the demise of the United States as a global superpower. The idea that the USA will go the way of the USSR seemed preposterous at the time. It doesn’t seem so preposterous any more. I take it some of you are still hedging your bets. How is that hedge fund doing, by the way?

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Darfur rebel leader visits Israel to drum up support

Posted by seumasach on February 16, 2009

By Barak Ravid and Amos Harel,

Haaretz
16th February, 2009
The leader of one of the rebel groups in Sudan’s Darfur region visited Israel to request its support in the rebels’ fight against the Sudanese government.
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Russian expert: Europe using terrorism for political purposes

Posted by seumasach on February 16, 2009

Moscow, Feb 14, IRNA – A Russian scholar said the European Union (EU) manipulated such issues as terrorism and human rights for its own political purposes.

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Russia, Bolivia pledge stronger ties, focus on energy

Posted by seumasach on February 16, 2009

MOSCOW, February 16 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian and Bolivian presidents pledged stronger ties with a focus on cooperation in natural gas production and transportation following their talks in the Kremlin on Monday.
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Towards an International Ban on Mercury in Dental Amalgam

Posted by seumasach on February 16, 2009

LUXEMBOURG APPEAL !

International Ban on Mercury in Dental Amalgam
Please support the resolution!
THE ACTION GOES ON!!

UNTIL NOW MORE THAN 15.000 SIGNATURES !!!

THE ACTION GOES ON!

European Academy for Environmental Medicine

Until now we have collected more than 15.000 signatures all over the world from Malaysia, Australia, Canada, mostly Europe supporting the Luxembourg Appeal,. Thank you all for your help!

We continue this action and need further support.

Regarding the statements of SCENIHR and SCHER – both dealing with mercury and dental amalgam – we have to offer more scientific expertise to this debate of the health damaging character of mercury from dental amalgam. The running risk awareness, assessment and risk communication is dominated by scientist concerning the dose relationship effects of toxins only. Low dose long time as well as multi factorial burdening, immunological effects on toxins and individual susceptibility are not in the mind of these scientists.
Problem is the main stream science represented by Toxicology, Hygiene and Public Health is heard as the only consultant from politics there will be no change in progress in this matter. That will mean prolonged harm to people suffering from mercury out of dental amalgam.
Therefore we urgently need further international support to make EU-Commission clear that there must be a ban of mercury from dental amalgam immediately.

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Electromagnetic radiation: a ticking time-bomb

Posted by seumasach on February 16, 2009

Next-up.org

Professor Franz Adelkofer, coordinator of the Reflex

report, considers that today we are playing with fire.

12’ 25’’ Professor Franz Adelkofer:

“This is real evidence that hyperfrequency electro

magnetic fields can have geno-toxic effects. And this

damaged DNA is always the cause of cancer. We’ve found

these damaging effects on the genes at levels well below

the safety limits, that’s why we think it is urgent to base

our safety limits on the biological effects not on the

thermic ones, they should be based on biology not on

physics.”

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