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The Darkness and the Power

Posted by seumasach on December 21, 2008

 

Jim Kirwan

Rense

20th December, 2008 

The Dictator announced his relief-package for the Big Three yesterday: The media is calling it “a Christmas-gift.” This is a LOAN-agreement: Gift’s do not come wrapped in razor wire. This too-little-too-late proposal is meant to bring an end to the problem of having to pay anyone, for whatever they do on-the-job in the United States.

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Northcom Chief Vows to Address Worries About New Homeland Unit

Posted by seumasach on December 21, 2008

With the US armed forces, sworn to the defence of the constitution, in decline and depleted by the Iraq and Afghan quagmires,  a new “homeland” command, set up in 2002 under Eberhart, the man responsible for air defence on 9/11, is  already in place.  This force is set to play a key role as the American people are  marginalised by the financier interests which control the country.

 

CQ Politics

17th December, 2008

A senior military official pledged Wednesday to address congressional concerns about a new homeland emergency response task force that is designed to respond to a chemical, biological or nuclear attack.

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More U.S. troops going to Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on December 21, 2008

 

Washington Times

21st, 2008

KABUL, Afghanistan | Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael G. Mullen on Saturday said the Pentagon has “revised” its counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan, noting that any solution to the current crisis must include Pakistan and India.

He also said the United States would send up to 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan — the largest force increase yet mentioned by a U.S. military official.

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New tipping-point in March 2009: ‘When the world becomes aware that this crisis is worse than the 1930s crisis’

Posted by seumasach on December 20, 2008

 

16th December, 2008
LEAP/E2020 anticipates than the unfolding global systemic crisis will experience in March 2009 a new tipping point of similar magnitude to the September 2008 one. According to our team, at that period of the year, the general public will become aware of three major destabilizing processes at work in the global economy, i.e.:  

• the length of the crisis 
• the explosion of unemployment worldwide 
• the risk of sudden collapse of all capital-based pension systems 

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U.S., Ukraine to expand defense cooperation

Posted by seumasach on December 20, 2008

 

WASHINGTON, December 19 (RIA Novosti) – The United States and Ukraine have agreed on strategic partnership in economic development, energy and defense aiming to strengthen Kiev’s potential as a NATO aspiring state.

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US military ‘to defy’ Iraqi pact

Posted by seumasach on December 19, 2008

 

Gareth Porter

Asia Times

20th December

WASHINGTON – United States military leaders and Pentagon officials have made it clear through public statements and deliberately leaked stories in recent weeks that they plan to violate a central provision of the US-Iraq withdrawal agreement requiring the complete pullout of all US combat troops from Iraqi cities by mid-2009 by reclassifying combat troops as support troops.

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All roads lead out of Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on December 19, 2008

M K Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

20th December, 2008

The measure of success of president-elect Barack Obama’s new “Afghan strategy” will be directly proportional to his ability to delink the war from its geopolitical agenda inherited from the George W Bush administration. 

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Cholera Outbreak Outcome of West’s War on Zimbabwe

Posted by seumasach on December 17, 2008

By Stephen Gowans

What’s Left

8th December, 2008

The crisis in Zimbabwe has intensified. Inflation is incalculably high. The central bank limits – to an inadequate level- the amount of money Zimbabweans can withdraw from their bank accounts daily. Unarmed soldiers riot, their guns kept under lock and key, to prevent an armed uprising. Hospital staff fail to show up for work. The water authority is short of chemicals to purify drinking water. Cholera, easily prevented and cured under normal circumstances, has broken out, leading the government to declare a humanitarian emergency.

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The shoes we longed for

Posted by seumasach on December 17, 2008

 

Sami Ramadani

Guardian

17th december, 2008

Within a few unlikely seconds, a pair of size 10 shoes have become the most destructive weapon the people of Iraq have managed to throw at the occupying powers, after nearly six years of occupation and formidable resistance. One Iraqi writer called the shoes, hurled by a journalist at George Bush, “Iraq’s weapon of comprehensive destruction”.

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Car bomber Bilal Abdulla was known to MI5

Posted by seumasach on December 17, 2008

 

Surprise, surprise! As in virtually every terrorist attack in Britain from 5/11/ 1605 to 7/7 the terrorists turn out to be already known to the authorities.

 

Telegraph

17th December, 2008

The 29-year-old, an Iraqi doctor born in Aylesbury, Bucks, plotted to bring murder and mayhem on an “indiscriminate” scale to London’s West End and Glasgow airport. He was found guilty yesterday of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions.

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A possible effect of electromagnetic radiation from mobile phone base stations on the number of breeding House Sparrows (Passer domesticus)

Posted by seumasach on December 17, 2008

Joris Everaert and Dirk Bauwens

Research Institute for Nature and Forest (www.inbo.be)

Living planet 

published in Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, 26: 63-72, 2007

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Abstract:

 

A possible effect of long-term exposure to low-intensity electromagnetic radiation from mobile phone (GSM) base stations on the number of House Sparrows during the breeding season was studied in six residential districts in Belgium. We sampled 150 point locations within the six areas to examine small-scale geographic variation in the number of House Sparrow males and the strength of electromagnetic radiation from base stations. Spatial variation in the number of House Sparrow males was negatively and highly significantly related to the strength of electric fields from both the 900 and 1800 MHz downlink frequency bands and from the sum of these bands (Chi²-tests and AIC-criteria, P < 0.001). This negative relationship was highly similar within each of the six study areas, despite differences among areas in both the number of birds and radiation levels. Thus, our data show that fewer House Sparrow males were seen at locations with relatively high electric field strength values of GSM base stations and therefore support the notion that long-term exposure to higher levels of radiation negatively affects the abundance or behaviour of House Sparrows in the wild.

 

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