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It was never suicide, says Dr Kelly’s cousin as family finally breaks silence

Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2010

Daily Mail

17th August, 2010

A close relative of Dr David Kelly broke the family’s silence yesterday to voice fears that he was murdered.

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First 100 days: David Cameron and Nick Clegg lose buddy movie script

Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2010

Marina Hyde

Guardian

18th August, 2010

Can it really only be only three months since David Cameron and Nick Clegg gave that wisecracking joint press conference in the Downing Street garden, catapulting their take on bromance into the mainstream electoral landscape? “Prime minister,” inquired a reporter that day. “Do you now regret that when once asked what your favourite joke was, you replied ‘Nick Clegg’?”

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The ecstasy of empire: how close is America’s demise?

Posted by seumasach on August 17, 2010

Without a revolution, Americans are history

Paul Craig Roberts

Global Research

16th August, 2010

The United States is running out of time to get its budget and trade deficits under control.  Despite the urgency of the situation, 2010 has been wasted in hype about a non-existent recovery.  As recently as August 2 Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner penned a New York Times Column, “Welcome to the Recovery.”

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Michael Howard backs calls for inquest into death of David Kelly

Posted by seumasach on August 15, 2010

Guardian

15th August, 2010

The former Conservative leader Michael Howard today backed calls for a a full inquest into the death of the government weapons expert Dr David Kelly.

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September 11: planes that hit WTC were not Boeing 767s

Posted by seumasach on August 14, 2010

Voltairenet

7th August, 2010

The official report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) relating to the two planes that crashed into WTC on September 11, 2001 shows that they were traveling at a speed of 945 km/h and 796 km/h respectively.

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When Globalism Runs Its Course … The Year America Dissolved

Posted by seumasach on August 5, 2010

Paul Craig Roberts

Global Research

3rd August, 2010

It was 2017.  Clans were governing America.

The first clans organized around local police forces. The conservatives’ war on crime during the late 20th century and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the first decade of the 21st century had resulted in the police becoming militarized and unaccountable.

As society broke down, the police became warlords. The state police broke apart, and the officers were subsumed into the local forces of their communities. The newly formed tribes expanded to encompass the relatives and friends of the police.

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India wants its crown jewel

Posted by seumasach on August 5, 2010

Raja Murthy

Asia Times

5th August, 2010

British Prime Minister David Cameron’s refusal to return the Kohinoor diamond to India adds to the centuries-old saga of one of the most famous, yet contentious, gemstones in history.

Leading news channel NDTV, in an interview with Cameron on July 28 during his two-day visit to India, told him the favorite question among viewers was about the Kohinoor: will Britain return the 105-carat (21.6 gram) diamond?

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‘WikiLeaks story soft, coverage a 9/11-like lie’

Posted by smeddum on July 28, 2010

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Mayors in the Bolivian Amazon to Expel USAID from Their Municipalities

Posted by smeddum on July 23, 2010

Wilson García Mérida, Bolpress

21/7/10

Bolivia Rising

A transcendent fact has happened in the multicultural State of Bolivia. The mayors of the municipalities of the autonomous region of Pando, in the Bolivian Amazon, decided to expel from their jurisdictions the various NGOs, foundations and companies operating in this area with funding from the Agency of Cooperation of the United States (USAID in its acronym in English) noting that these entities “are those that generate internal conflicts within the country, interfering in our political process of national liberation to undermine the democratic legitimacy of our government,” said a statement issued on July 6 by the municipal authorities of the Amazon frontier with Brazil and Peru. Read the rest of this entry »

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UK air show underlines geopolitical shift from West

Posted by smeddum on July 22, 2010

By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent
Thu Jul 22, 2010

FARNBOROUGH (Reuters) – If you want to see the shift in geopolitical and military clout from Western powers toward their growing emerging rivals, look no further than the sales stands of this year’s Farnborough air show.

With European governments expected to slash defense spending — and the United States seen probably following suit in the coming decades — the key focus for Western defense executives and government has been new export destinations. Read the rest of this entry »

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Search Top Secret America’s Database of Private Spooks

Posted by smeddum on July 21, 2010

Figuring out exactly who’s cashing in on the post-9/11 boom in secret programs just got a whole lot easier. Read the rest of this entry »

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