17th August, 2010
A close relative of Dr David Kelly broke the family’s silence yesterday to voice fears that he was murdered.
Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2010
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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Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2010
Marina Hyde
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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Posted by seumasach on August 17, 2010
Without a revolution, Americans are history
Paul Craig Roberts
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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Posted by seumasach on August 15, 2010
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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Posted by seumasach on August 14, 2010
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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Posted by seumasach on August 5, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts
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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Posted by seumasach on August 5, 2010
Raja Murthy
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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Posted by smeddum on July 28, 2010
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Posted by smeddum on July 23, 2010
Wilson García Mérida, Bolpress
21/7/10
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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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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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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