The end is approaching for the empire
TOKYO, September 8 (Itar-Tass) – President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus has put the blame on Georgia for the military conflict in the Caucasus. He made this statement in an interview published by the Yomiuri newspaper on Monday.
“Georgia was the first to attack South Ossetia,” stressed the Czech leader. He also called against presenting Russia negatively. “It would be a tragic mistake to picture Russia as a villain and again divide the world in two,” the Czech president stated. “Russia is not the former Soviet Union,” he added.
Touching upon the recognition by Russia of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independents states Klaus noted that such Russia’s step was caused by the recognition of Kosovo by the West. “If there had been no Kosovo, not independence recognition would have taken place,” he noted.
Vaclav Klaus is in the Japanese capital as a scientist-economist to participate in an international scientific forum conducted by the Yomiuri newspaper.
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Czech president blames Georgia for military conflict in Caucasus
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How to organise a major terrorist scare
Posted by seumasach on September 9, 2008
How to organise a major terrorist scare
The Big Dummy’s guide to security booga-booga
By Gavin Gatenby, Possum News Network
15 August 2006
How easy is it to organise a major terrorist scare like the one that’s currently gridlocking the world’s airports? Dead easy. If you follow a few simple points you can panic the populace and stampede the media with virtually no risk of getting caught. All it takes is a little confidence. Here’s a simple “how-to” for aspiring top-level spooks:
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Mid-term review of the European Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-2010
Posted by seumasach on September 9, 2008
We are reposting this seemingly more complete version of the relevant resolutions
Texts adopted by European Parliament
Thursday, 4 September 2008 – Brussel
Mid-term review of the European Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-2010
– Resolution (extract) –
21. Is greatly concerned at the Bio-Initiative international report(8) concerning electromagnetic fields, which summarises over 1500 studies on that topic and which points in its conclusions to the health risks posed by emissions from mobile-telephony devices such as mobile telephones, UMTS, Wifi, Wimax and Bluetooth, and also DECT landline telephones;
22. Notes that the limits on exposure to electromagnetic fields which have been set for the general public are obsolete, since they have not been adjusted in the wake of Council Recommendation 1999/519/EC of 12 July 1999 on the limitation of exposure of the general public to electromagnetic fields (0Hz to 30 GHz)(9) , obviously take no account of developments in information and communication technologies, of the recommendations issued by the European Environment Agency or of the stricter emission standards adopted, for example, by Belgium, Italy and Austria, and do not address the issue of vulnerable groups, such as pregnant women, newborn babies and children;
23. Calls, consequently, upon the Council to amend its Recommendation 1999/519/EC in order to take into account the Member States’ best practices and thus to set stricter exposure limits for all equipment which emits electromagnetic waves in the frequencies between 0.1 MHz and 300 GHz;
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Kevin Annett in Scotland- details of tour
Posted by seumasach on September 9, 2008
“Kevin Annett is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than many who have received it in the past.”
– Dr. Noam Chomsky , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Clergyman Who Blew the Whistle on Murder of Canadian Native Children now in Scotland.
Details of tour:
Gilvenbank Hotel, (Function Suite) Huntsman Road, Balfarg, GLENROTHES Thurs 11th Sept 2008.
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The windfall that never was
Posted by seumasach on September 7, 2008
Callender
7th September, 2008
“The smell of death around this government is so overpowering it seems to have anaesthetised them all.” Polly Toynbee, Guardian, 6th September
Last November I warned against the consequences of the baiting of Gordon Brown warning that British oligarchy was intent of neutering government itself. That aspiration is now fully realized. Brown is still there despite his manifest impotence or rather because of it. The executive of the state power is there to be steamrolled and Brown has shown that he is permanent fall-guy material. How many other candidates are there for such a dubious distinction? The flickerings of rebellion fade without gathering momentum and nostalgia for El Caudillo, Blair, is back. Even Milliband’s flirtation with a war on the old enemy, Russia, hasn’t given him even a semblance of the stature of a national leader.
Perhaps that’s because Britain is hardly a nation; rather the rump of parasitic empire which has taken to feeding off its own corpse. Leading the way in this macabre business are the energy utilities, the beneficiaries of the introduction of the sacred principle of competition; competition for the lion’s share of what’s left, a battle in which no quarter is given least of all to the hapless figure of a British prime minister trying to save himself and his party from ignominy and ultimate oblivion. They continue to hike prices relentlessly reducing broad swathes of the population to poverty whilst paying out ever greater dividends. Read the rest of this entry »
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America’s Mortgage Crisis: Bailout or “Nationalization” of the Mortgage Giants?
Posted by seumasach on September 6, 2008
Ellen Brown
5th September, 2008
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own or guarantee nearly half the $12 trillion U.S. mortgage market. Not long ago, they were the darlings of Wall Street, ranking next to U.S. bonds as among the safest and most conservative investments in the world. They are called “government-sponsored enterprises” (GSEs), although they are entirely privately owned and specifically disclaim government backing on their prospectuses. The market has taken these disclaimers with a wink and a nod and has assumed that the GSEs are “too big to fail,” forcing the government to save them from their reckless investment schemes. Fannie and Freddie’s preferred shares have been considered so safe that banking regulators let banks count them in the capital required as a cushion against loan losses. This is now proving to be a serious problem, because both the common and preferred shares of the distressed duo are suddenly plunging. Between May 15 and August 25, Fannie’s common shares lost 77% of their value, while its preferred shares lost 58.8% in that short time. Freddie Mac’s preferred shares plunged even more, down 65.5%.1 That could be a disaster for many banks, which are loaded to the gills with these preferred shares. Banks already reeling from losses on mortgages and mortgage-backed securities are now being hit at the core, shrinking their capital base. Loss of bank capital works as leverage in reverse: at a capital requirement of 10%, $1 lost in capital wipes out $10 in loans. Read the rest of this entry » |
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EU calls for Georgia probe as crunch Moscow visit looms
Posted by seumasach on September 6, 2008
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Pakistan cuts supply lines to NATO troops in Afghanistan
Posted by seumasach on September 6, 2008
5th September
In a move seen as the latest fallout from Wednesday morning’s US attackon South Waziristan, the Pakistani government has ordered that supply lines to NATO troops in Afghanistan be immediately severed for an indefinite period of time.
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Kommersant: Cheney’s trip to Baku “failed”
Posted by seumasach on September 6, 2008
6th September
Vice President of the USA Dick Cheney completed his trip to the South Caucasus targeted at strengthening Washington’s positions in the struggle for Caspian energy resources. Kommersant Daily qualifies the outcome of Baku talks as “failure.” The daily accounts that President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev did not offer to the US guest a warm reception, hinting that Baku was not intending to support the idea of retracting energy carriers’ flows to bypass Russia.
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CFTC Data Show Oil Futures Market Went Wild in July 2007; Confirm LaRouche Announcement Crash Was Under Way
Posted by seumasach on September 6, 2008
Sept. 4, 2008 (EIRNS)—Under intense Congressional pressure, even the Bush Administration Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), since late May, has been doing its job—investigating the commodities futures markets—and the results are getting extremely interesting.
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Guarantees Are Worthless,When the System Is Bankrupt
Posted by seumasach on September 6, 2008
John Hoefle
5th September
While the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has gone to great lengths to assure the public that their bank deposits are safe—at least up to the insured limit—it is obvious that the agency lacks the capital required to back up its claims. As long as the FDIC closes only small banks, it can meet its responsibilities, but it does not have the resources to even begin to deal with the magnitude of the crisis it faces.
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