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‘Anthrax killer’ remains a mystery

Posted by seumasach on August 12, 2008

 

The FBI’s accusations against dead scientist Bruce Ivins are full of holes. The case may be closed but it isn’t solved

Brad Freedman

Guardian

11th August

Case closed. The FBI has found the “Anthrax Killer” – and he acted alone. And now that he’s committed suicide, just at the moment the Feds were about to finally snare the diabolical menace who arguably brought utter chaos in days following the September 11 attacks when he’d sent deadly letters to Democratic officials and members of the media, his guilt couldn’t be clearer.

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Petition against forced vaccination

Posted by seumasach on August 12, 2008

Please sign this petition and/or please pass this on for others to sign:-
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/forcedvaccines/
The government does not guarantee that your child, children or grandchildren will not have a severe reaction to vaccines nor develop long term chronic illness as a result. If your child does suffer harm, you can guarantee your child and your family will be dumped by the Department of Health and our government just like all the other children and their families in the past.  
There is also no provision to screen out and protect children at high risk of harm.
Vaccines are like all medicines. They do cause harm and our government fails to monitor the extent of that harm and covers it up.

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Danger looms, warns top US scientist

Posted by seumasach on August 12, 2008

 

Martyn Smith

Stourbridgenews

12th August

CAMPAIGNERS calling for the demolition of the High Acres tower have won support from a leading American scientist.

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Brzezinski’s Georgia Puppets Attack Russia – WWIII In Sight

Posted by seumasach on August 11, 2008

 

Webster Tarpley
Rense.com
11th August, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC — Clearly playing the role of the aggressor, the NATO puppet regime of Mikhail Saakashvili has carried out a midnight sneak attack against Russian peacekeepers in the province of South Ossetia. Those peacekeepers have been there for 15 years under an agreement with Georgia. Saakashvili is a protégé and creature of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the foreign policy boss of the Barack Obama presidential campaign. As is explained in my book Obama- The Postmodern Coup: The Making of a Manchurian Candidate, Saakashvili was brought to power in 2003-2004 by a people power coup or CIA color revolution, directed by the Brzezinski clan and financed by George Soros, one of Obama’s key financial backers. In a very real sense, it is the Obama campaign which has attacked Russia in South Ossetia.
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Plucky little Georgia? No, the cold war reading won’t wash

Posted by seumasach on August 11, 2008

 

It is crudely simplistic to cast Russia as the sole villain in the clashes over South Ossetia. The west would be wise to stay out

Mark Almond

The Guardian

9th August, 2008

For many people the sight of Russian tanks streaming across a border in August has uncanny echoes of Prague 1968. That cold war reflex is natural enough, but after two decades of Russian retreat from those bastions it is misleading. Not every development in the former Soviet Union is a replay of Soviet history.

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US-Russian tensions in Caucasus erupt into war

Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2008

 

Bill Van Auken

WSWS

9th August, 2008

Long-escalating tensions between Russia and the former Soviet republic of Georgia erupted into full-scale war Friday, leaving hundreds if not thousands of civilians dead and turning thousands more into refugees, forced to flee for their lives.

The immediate focus of the fighting is the attempt by Georgia to militarily seize control of the enclave of South Ossetia, which has existed as a de facto independent entity for the past 16 years, and Russia’s armed intervention to counter this assault.

Underlying this military confrontation, however, are far broader conflicts. Feeding the bloody confrontation in South Ossetia is US imperialism’s drive to establish hegemony over the vast energy resources of Central Asia and the Caucasus through the assertion of American military power in the region. The Russian ruling elite, for its part, is seeking to reassert its grip over a region that was ruled by Moscow for two centuries before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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German Leaders Split on Placing Blame in Caucasian War

Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2008

 

Deutsche-Welle

10th August

Members of Germany’s ruling coalition have alternately blamed Russia and Georgia for the current conflict. A German expert says they should focus on their potential as mediators — and not rely on US involvement.

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Proof that Ivins couldn’t have done it(at least, not alone)

Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2008

George Washington’s Blog

9th August, 2008

According to the FBI, Ivins made the killer anthrax in his lab at Fort Detrick all by himself in something like 12 hours (pages 8-9).

Is that plausible?

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Japan remembers Nagasaki atomic bomb victims

Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2008

9th August, 2008

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan marked the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki with a solemn ceremony on Saturday and a call for world powers to abandon their nuclear weapons.

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Is Tskhinvali the centre of the world?

Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2008

(John Laughland, Director of Studies at the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation in Paris, for RIA Novosti)

RIA Novosti

7th August, 2008

Sir Halford Mackinder (1861-1947) – Reader in Geography at the University of Oxford, Director of the London School of Economics and long-serving Member of Parliament – is usually credited with being the founder of political geography. Deeply imbued with very British ideas about the need to maintain the balance of power on land to preserve hegemony at sea, Mackinder famously argued in 1904 that Eurasia was the geographical pivot of world history, and that control over Eastern Europe would lead to control of it and therefore of the whole world.

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Anthrax case against bio-weapons expert ‘staggering for lack of evidence’

Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2008

Justice Department officials claim that Bruce Ivins, 62, a US government bio-weapons scientist, posted envelopes containing anthrax spores to members of Congress and the media in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, spreading fear across America.

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