Posted by seumasach on June 3, 2013
Since the power of the lobbies is at the heart of British oligarchy these moves could certainly be significant
Nick Clegg pledges anti-sleaze reforms will not be abandoned
3rd June, 2013
Anti-sleaze reforms will not be abandoned, Nick Clegg vowed after two peers were suspended by their party and another quit his party’s whip over claims they breached parliamentary rules.
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Posted by seumasach on June 3, 2013
Pepe Escobar
31st May, 2013
This is a version of a paper presented this week at the annual conference of the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore.
SINGAPORE – Ask Western elites – oh, those were the days, in the 17th century, when the rise of European sea powers led to the collapse of the caravan trade and the end of the Silk Road as Europe found a cheaper – and safer – way of trading between East and West.
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Posted by seumasach on June 2, 2013
Obama has now moved to marginalise Qatar, the main component on the ground behind the fall of Tripoli and the destruction of Libya. Funnily enough, at the same time, Turkey, Qatar’s other half, are undergoing a sort of coloured revolution.
Saudi Edges Qatar to Control Syrian Rebel Support
2nd June, 2013
Saudi Arabia has prevailed over its small but ambitious Gulf neighbor Qatar to impose itself as the main outside force supporting the Syrian rebels, a move that may curb the influence of Qatari-backed Islamist militants.
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Posted by seumasach on June 2, 2013
Gwynne Dyer
2nd June, 2013
Sometimes, in diplomacy, a translator is not enough. You need a code-breaker. This is very much the case with the latest round of diplomatic statements about the civil war in Syria, currently the biggest armed conflict anywhere in the world. So here they are, deciphered.
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Posted by seumasach on June 1, 2013
30th May, 2013
Robert Ford, the U.S. ambassador to Syria, is expected to leave his functions in the near future.
Mr. Ford, former deputy to John Negroponte in Baghdad, had learned from him the method of destabilizing a state, as his boss had done in Nicaragua in the 1980’s. He then applied this recipe to Syria: first by corrupting officials of the Syrian secret services to smuggle in weapons and build tunnels, then by filtering jihadists into the country to foment an “Arab Spring.” Called back to Washington in October 2011, he is currently based in Turkey.
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Posted by seumasach on June 1, 2013
30th May, 2013
The Free Syrian Army, which took over control of al-Qusayr nearly a year ago, had expelled the Christian population and confiscated their homes. She has been expelled by the Syrian Arab Army, backed by Hezbollah.
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Posted by seumasach on June 1, 2013
Turkish police seizes 2 kg of sarin gas from Al-Nusra militants
31st May, 2013
In the course of its investigation into the Reyhanlı bombings (11 May 2013), the Turkish police conducted on Monday, 27 May 2013, a series of raids on the homes of Al-Nusra Front militants in Adana and Mersin. 12 suspects were arrested.
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Posted by seumasach on June 1, 2013
Wi-Fi technology – an uncontrolled global experiment on the health of mankind
Marko Markov & Yuri G. Grigoriev
Research International, Williamsville, NY, USA, and Russian National Committee of Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, Moscow, Russia
31st May, 2013
The twenty-first century is marked with exponentially increasing development of technologiesthat provide wireless communications. To the pollution of the atmosphere with radio and TVsignals, not only satellite communications but also any varieties of the Wi-Fi networks are added.By 2010 in the USA, 285 million mobile phone subscribers have been registered (for a little bitmore than 300 million inhabitants). The estimate for the world is more than 5 billion mobilephone users at approximately 7 billion people living on this planet. Approximately 2 years ago,the International Agency of Research on Cancer (IARC) classified the electromagnetic fieldsused in mobile communication as a possible cancerogene. This paper discusses the potentialhealth hazard and lack of scientific assessment and regulatory actions in protection of the life onthe planet
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Posted by seumasach on May 30, 2013
29th May, 2013
A bombing in the Turkish town of Reyhanli on May 11 killed 51 people but was largely ignored by Turkish media. Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed the Syrian government – with no evidence.
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Posted by seumasach on May 29, 2013
Will WHO Listen to the UN Special Rapporteur?
28th May, 2013
“The initial comments made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Mr Anand Grover, after his visit to Japan, confirm that the government has been willfully and perhaps criminally negligent in failing to protect the population from radioactive contamination.”
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Posted by seumasach on May 29, 2013
The mess in the West only gets worse. They tried to create a respectable front organisation for the rebel rabble, but in vain. They’ll have to come up with someone to negotiate at the peace conference. Otherwise they face undisguised defeat and humiliation.
29th May, 2013
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Opposition groups on the ground in Syria slammed their counterparts in exile for undermining the rebellion and lacking legitimacy, laying bare chronic divisions among the foes of PresidentBashar al-Assad ahead of a planned peace conference.
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