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Paraguayan Security Forces Hit Drug Mafias in the North. Soros’s Allies Go Nuts

Posted by seumasach on January 23, 2009

 

January 22, 2009 (LPAC) –-On orders from President Fernando Lugo, combined forces of Paraguay’s National Police, Army, and other law-enforcement agencies are doing a sweep of the northern states of San Pedro and Concepcion, severely hindering normally extensive drug cartel operations, while tracking down the murky drug cartel-linked “Popular People’s Army” (EPP). On Dec. 31, the EPP appeared out of nowhere to attack a military outpost in the region, fraudulently claiming to defend the local peasantry.

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US economy: Lightning, Earthquakes & Hurricanes

Posted by smeddum on January 21, 2009

Lightning, Earthquakes & Hurricanes

Jim Willie CB
Jim Willie CB is the editor of the “Hat Trick Letter”
Jan 20, 2009

Goldenjackass

The earth itself provides many valuable analogies for massive dislocation in the relief of grand energy differentials. In the air, vast differentials between cloud structures in their electrical charge result in sudden lightning bursts as the release. In the air also, vast differentials between high cool masses and low rising warm masses result in powerful ongoing storms in hurricanes. In the ground, more accurately the earth plates, vast pressure builds from the movement of such plates, often with one plate flowing underneath another, leading to massive earthquakes and tremors. We had yet another earthquake in Costa Rica last week, enough to register a 6.2 at epicenter and sufficient to cause my ceiling light fixtures to swing several inches to and fro. In the ground, subsidence from natural gravitation forces or mine activity or water aquifer flow can produce a vacuum of pressure, leading to vast sinkholes like often seen in Florida. Tsunamis are extremely powerful waves that deliver sudden floods, but they are just earthquakes with much of the vast energy transferred into ocean waves. Read the rest of this entry »

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Petraeus: US Has Permission to Use Russian Land Route for Afghan Supplies

Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2009

Khyber Pass Still Not a Reliable Route

antiwar.com

January 20, 2009

The Khyber Pass closed briefly again yesterday after a grenade attack on a Pakistani army camp, just the latest in a long string of closings which have threatened NATO’s ability to use the route, through which roughly three quarters of all supplies for the war in Afghanistan pass.
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Dangerous Words: War on Terror

Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2009

Middle-East Online

20th January, 2009

The United States is too great a nation to continue cleave to a disastrous president’s manipulative and immoral terminology. George W. Bush’s words, and the damage they have inflicted upon the people of the United States and the world, should be buried along with his failed presidency, says Christiane Brown.

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US freezes as Arctic air blasts in from Canada

Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2009

Independent

18th January, 2009

Alabama was colder than Alaska, water fountains froze into ice sculptures in South Carolina, and Florida shivered through an Arctic air blast as the coldest week of the winter continued to grip large parts of the US.

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The bullies that Labour has unleashed

Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2009

What is noticeable now that so many of Labour’s laws have come into force is the increase of pettiness, bullying and loss of humanity in local officials, government agencies and the various new breeds of wardens and community officers who patrol the streets looking to fine those who feed the birds and put up notices for their lost cat.

It is the detail of stories that reach the local press that tells us of the vast change in the relationship between the man in the street and authority. A new and – to me – alien element of harshness has entered the equation, and I believe we are going to see a lot more of it.

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Astronomy has little to celebrate in 2009!

Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2009

Thunderbolts.info

15th January, 2009

 

For those who haven’t noticed, this year is “The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009).” The International Year of Astronomy will involve 135 nations and thousands of events around the world. It marks the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo Galilei.
 
Galileo and the four large moons of Jupiter, which he discovered with his telescope 
>> Galileo and the four large moons of Jupiter, which he discovered with his telescope. 
Portrait: by Justus Sustermans, painted in 1636. Jupiter and Galilean satellites: NASA/JPL. 
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However, astronomers have little to celebrate in 2009. They have usurped the role of the church and cast out a modern-day Galileo! 

Astronomers are repeating the mistakes of the Roman Catholic Church in Galileo’s day by refusing to accept what telescopes are showing them. The fear is the same – of having cherished dogma swept away, and with it their authority. It seems to be the nature of authorities to nurture and perpetuate self-servingmyths

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Mossad implicated in a coup plot in Turkey, a NATO country; CIA fingerprints also found on attempt

Posted by seumasach on January 16, 2009

 

Wayne Madsen

Online Journal

4th December, 2008

(WMR) — Fresh from revelations, reported by WMR, that Israel’s Mossad and Chabad House-based criminal syndicates were targets in a criminal gangland retribution attack by a notorious Muslim gang in Mumbai, comes word that Mossad has, once again, been implicated in an intelligence and criminal network, this time in Turkey.

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Kuwaiti MPs Says Abbas ‘Not Welcome’ at Eco Summit

Posted by seumasach on January 13, 2009

Al-Manar TV

13/01/2009 A group of 21 Kuwaiti MPs said on Tuesday that former Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose term expired on January 9, was “not welcome” at a planned Arab economic summit next week in Kuwait City, criticizing his response to the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip.
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Bernanke Explains Quantitative Easing

Posted by seumasach on January 12, 2009

Bernanke Explains Quantitative Easing; Dogbert Explains Investing

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News from Raed- Gaza

Posted by seumasach on January 12, 2009

Here are extracts from some Emails from Raed in Gaza which we have had forwarded to us. Note particularly  this astounding piece of psychological terror used by the Israelis:

“4 days ago was receiving  call from Israel army threatening us that they will bomb our home at midnight ,imagine how was difficult for us such thing running at nights while kids sleeping trying find another safe place ,the israely army from the starting of this process trying make a kind of terror by calling normal civil and threatening them by calls to make you feeling unsecured any where you are”

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