TEHRAN, June 24 (RIA Novosti) – Iran may consider a request by the United States to open a diplomatic mission in Tehran if Washington sends it through official channels, the IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
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Iran may allow U.S. to open diplomatic post in Tehran
Posted by seumasach on June 24, 2008
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Dope, Dollars, Gold & Deficits
Posted by seumasach on June 24, 2008
“…How did the last Western empire settle its balance of trade deficit with China…?”
Adrian Ash(PrudentBear.com)
DO DEFICITS MATTER? Just as English missionaries were proof-reading the first-ever Bible written in Chinese, the British Empire found itself with a trickier kind of translation problem altogether.
Exporting the English language to China – and a little Protestant godliness besides – was proving much easier than exporting British-made goods during the early 19th century.
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UK tops world table of weapons sales
Posted by seumasach on June 24, 2008
The conversion of all this high technology and expertise to socially useful civilian purposes provides the basis for some kind of industrial reconstruction.
Controversial deal with Saudi Arabia catapults Britain to top of last year’s world arms export league(Guardian)
21st June, 2008
A controversial deal with Saudi Arabia catapulted Britain to the top of the world arms export league last year, as UK firms won a record £10bn in orders from overseas, official figures show.
The figure amounts to a third of all worldwide export orders for military equipment, ministers and arms companies reported. An essentially political, government-to-government contract – the sale of 72 Eurofighter/Typhoon aircraft, for £4.4bn, to the Saudis – accounted for Britain’s number one position, the figures make clear.
Posted in Drive to Global War | Tagged: arms trade, Britain into Europe-Europe out of NATO | 1 Comment »
Noam Chomsky, Tom Hayden, Brian Wilson: At Work for John Negroponte?
Posted by seumasach on June 24, 2008
Toni Solo(Uruk.net)
June 23, 2008
On June 16th the Nicaraguan centre-right newspaper El Nuevo Diario published a letter 1 from various well known people calling for the Nicaraguan coalition government, led by the Sandinista FSLN, not to shut down political freedom and to hold a national dialogue to address the food crisis and the high cost of living in Nicaragua. This appeal was made in solidarity with Dora Maria Tellez, the former president of the neo-liberal social democrat Movimiento Renovador Sandinista. The letter’s signatories end their appeal by saying that Tellez represents a broad section of Nicaraguan political opinion and should be listened to.
The signatories’ response to criticism of their endorsement of the former MRS president’s oportunistically calculated, factitious appeal is likely to be that critics of their letter themselves offer misplaced solidarity the FSLN government does not merit. But a brief review of the facts of the MRS record in the last few years renders the dishonesty and shiftiness of Dora Maria Tellez and her colleagues in the MRS leadership very clear. Apologetics on behalf of the FSLN are superfluous in this case. The facts speak for themselves.
Posted in Drive to Global War | Tagged: destabilising Nicaragua | 2 Comments »
Deportation of Iraqi nationals in the UK.
Posted by seumasach on June 24, 2008
Campaigners and activists gather in Parliament Square to hold a ‘Tent City’ in protest at the British Governments continued programme of deportation of people of Iraqi nationality.
As a result of the invasion and forced occupation of Iraq, many of its citizens have either been killed, fled their homes or been displaced into refugee status. Many have found their way to the EU and UK and claimed asylum status and have asked to stay here. The British government, nevertheless, continue to deport them back to their country of origin and in many cases to a life of chaos and fear.
According to UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) around 4.7 million Iraqis have left their homes since the US/UK led invasion of 2003, and over 2 million have fled out of the country to neighbouring states. In 2006, Iraqis became the leading nationality seeking asylum in Europe.
The Tent-City assembles ‘illegally’ in Parliament Square and does so on the basis that it has not asked Metropolitan Police Authorities for permission under the terms of SOCPA (Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005). Despite this, they still receive permission to assemble from the police despite the fact that no application has been made.
Terence Bunch
e-mail: terry.bunch@terencebunch.co.uk
Homepage: http://www.terencebunch.co.uk/stop-iraqi-deportations-tent-city-21-06-2008.php
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German Politicians Want Nukes out of Europe
Posted by seumasach on June 24, 2008
23rd June, 2008
The opposition in Germany wants nuclear weapons out of the country following a report which says that some of those weapons may not be properly safeguarded.
Posted in Drive to Global War, Multipolar world | Tagged: independent Europe | Leave a Comment »
Clusters of Illness, Clusters of Distress – By Products of A Wireless Age and All Predicted
Posted by seumasach on June 24, 2008
“Those responsible in Government, the HPA, ICNIRP as well as the Industry will be held to account for their continuing lack of action on this issue, continuing to fail to protect citizens from the health hazards of Electro-Magnetic Fields [EMFs].”
Mast Sanity 24th June, 2008
Cancer Clusters, clusters of ill health, depression and even suicide were predicted[1] several years ago in proximity to Mobile Phone Masts and other Wireless sources of Microwave Radiation. Yet the UK Government has long ignored such warnings.
Posted in Ecological and Public Health Crisis, Studies and statements showing mobile phone health risk | Tagged: EM radiation, masts | Leave a Comment »
14 die of cancer in seven years living next to phone mast with highest radiation levels in UK
Posted by seumasach on June 23, 2008
A spokesman for the Health Protection Agency said: ‘No concerns have been raised by general practitioners or other local health services in the area about any greater than expected numbers or unusual cases of any serious illnesses.
‘Further contact is being made with local general practices to confirm that they do not have any specific concerns.’
Rather than resorting to the usual straight lie the HPA have chosen the clever tactic of hiding behind the corrupt, Great British medical profession. In Germany thousands of doctors signed the Freiburger Appeal expressing their concern that on “the basis of our daily experiences, we hold the current mobile communications technology(introduced in 1992 and since globally extensive) and chordless digital telephones(DECT standard) to be among the fundamental triggers for this fatal development [ a marked concentration of particular illnesses in correspondingly HFMR polluted areas or apartments.]”
British doctors refused to sign and it would be foolish to expect even a single word from them.
Rebecca Camber(Daily Mail)
Fourteen people living within a mile of a mobile phone mast that emits one of the highest levels of radiation in the country have died of cancer.
Posted in Ecological and Public Health Crisis | Tagged: cancer, clusters, HPA, liars, masts | Leave a Comment »
HPA keeps lying as prominent scientist reveals possible EM connection to suicides
Posted by seumasach on June 22, 2008
“There is no evidence that masts do you harm. The levels of radio waves are very low.”
The HPA lying again as the people they are meant to be protecting are being subjected to ever greater exposure to EM radiation. As we keep pointing out, there is ample evidence of health risk.
Sunday June 22,2008
by Lucy Johnston(Sunday Express)
THE spate of deaths among young people in Britain’s suicide capital could be linked to radio waves from dozens of mobile phone transmitter masts near the victims’ homes.
Posted in Ecological and Public Health Crisis | Tagged: HPA disinformation, masts | 1 Comment »
Progressive Librarians Guild Statement on WiFi in Libraries and the Precautionary Principle
Posted by seumasach on June 22, 2008
http://libr.org/plg/wifiresolution.php
Often unaware of the potential risks to both library staff and the public, libraries have adopted wireless technology as a means to bridge the Digital Divide and in order to fulfill their mission under the Library Bill of Rights.
Research on the health effects of wireless technologies (2.4GHz and 5.0GHz bands) and electromagnetic (microwave) radiation indicates wireless technology, among other effects, may cause immune dysfunction, increased risk of brain tumors and acoustic neuromas, childhood cancers, breast cancer, Alzheimer’s disease (European Environment Agency, Bioinitiative Working Group, 2007), and genotoxicity. Research also indicates that public health standards are inadequate in offering guidance on the use of wireless technologies in community spaces.
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India tiptoes to the new Middle East
Posted by seumasach on June 21, 2008
By M K Bhadrakumar(Asia Times)
21st june, 2008
DELHI – The Middle East took a great leap forward this week to the post-George W Bush era. Israel’s dramatic shift of glance to the forces of political Islam sums it up. “Today we have concurrent peace negotiations with both the Syrians and the Palestinians and there is no logical reason why there should also not be talks with the Lebanese,” Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s spokesman Mark Regev said in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
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