Posted by seumasach on April 25, 2012
Could we be looking at some yet more radical ideas about how Europe is to be governed? Is Europe moving to more state-led capitalism? What it will almost definitely mean is that European policy-makers will need to find new common ground — which probably means new attacks on those outside the eurozone. Proposals for more intervention and controls on finance and markets are quite likely. For the UK and the City, none of these developments is welcome.
The City does indeed have reason to fear developments in Europe: a cue for British opponents of the City to embrace Europe
This is London
24th April, 2012
For the first time since European monetary union in 1999, France may end up with a Socialist government, following Sunday’s first-round victory for François Hollande.
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Posted by seumasach on April 25, 2012
CNBC
25th April, 2012
François Hollande, the French Socialist presidential candidate, is not seeking to unpick the European fiscal pact but wants to complete it with tools to promote economic growth, one of his senior advisers signalled on Tuesday
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Posted by seumasach on April 24, 2012
East County Magazine
22nd April, 2012
April 22, 2012 (San Diego’s East County) – For years, the tobacco industry claimed that cigarettes don’t cause cancer—long after compelling medical evidence proved otherwise. A similar scenario is now happening with the wind industry, which has put forth various “experts” funded by the wind industry to claim that no evidence exists of negative health impacts caused by wind turbines.
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Posted by seumasach on April 24, 2012
But the Health Protection Agency’s new report on the “potential health effects” on mobile phone technologies on Thursday is likely to conclude that there is only one established risk, and that is crashing the car if people talk and drive.
The Health Protection Agency is, of course, a body possessed of impeccable credentials and unimpeachable integrity.
Independent
24th April, 2012
Allegations of lobbying, bad science, not enough science, conflicts of interest, political inertia, scaremongering and lawsuits: the debate surrounding the safety of mobile phones has it all. With more than 5 billion users worldwide, mobile phones have undoubtedly become central to modern life in just two decades, but could they be a health hazard?
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Posted by seumasach on April 23, 2012
Rick Rozoff
Voltairenet
23rd April, 2012
To the world’s military leaders, the debate over climate change is long over. They are preparing for a new kind of Cold War in the Arctic, anticipating that rising temperatures there will open up a treasure trove of resources and long-dreamed-of sea-lanes. Rick Rozoff scrutinizes the feverish military activity taking place in the High North, under the official label of a joint Norwegian-NATO-Partnership for Peace endeavor, including preparedness drills against terrorist threats, mass demonstrations…and spies coming in from the cold!
The largest military exercise in the High North, inside and immediately outside the Arctic Circle, since the end of the Cold War (and perhaps even before) was completed on March 21 in northern Norway.
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Posted by seumasach on April 22, 2012
Ahram
19th April, 2012
In a statement released Wednesday, 34 different political groups, mostly amongst the youth, condemned the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) as well as the Muslim Brotherhood, blaming them for blocking the path of the revolution. While SCAF has been long the target of the revolutionary movement, the statement openly criticised the Brotherhood, a group that was initially considered part of the wider opposition movement.
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Posted by seumasach on April 22, 2012
Interview with Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet
20 th April, 2012
Dans une interview accordée à nos confrères suisses de Mecanopolis que nous reproduisons dans nos colonnes, Thierry Meyssan revient sur l’offensive internationale contre la Syrie, la situation dramatique de la Libye et la campagne électorale en France. Comme un symbole, le « succès » français en Libye est un désastre, alors que paradoxalement, l’échec d’Alain juppé en Syrie préserve les chances de peser dans le monde de demain. Alors que la crise syrienne annonce la fin du monde unipolaire et le bouleversement des anciennes alliances, la France n’a qu’une alternative : la reconquête de sa souveraineté ou l’errance mondialiste.
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Posted by seumasach on April 22, 2012
Paul Craig Roberts
Counterpunch
Americans, the British, and Western Europeans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the representatives of freedom, democracy, and morality in the world. The West passes judgment on the rest of the world as if the West is God and the rest of the world are barbarians in need of chastisement, invasion, and occupation. As readers know, from time to time I raise questions about the validity of the West’s extreme hubris.
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Posted by seumasach on April 22, 2012
In a blogpost, Staines described the files as “Britain’s biggest establishment cover-up“. He wrote: “This isn’t a crime thriller storyline. Operation Motorman uncovered industrial scale criminality and hundreds of suspects’ names. Currently in Britain the newspapers are neither naming nor shaming because the criminal enterprises are the newspapers themselves, who understandably do not wish to report their own crimes. Their silence is a matter of self-preservation.”
Guardian
10th April, 2012
The Information Commissioner‘s Office has said it “strongly condemns” the partial publication by the Guido Fawkes blog of its Operation Motorman files on alleged breaches of the Data Protection Act by journalists.
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Posted by seumasach on April 22, 2012
The challenge for the Government will be to persuade the country that there are some potential bright spots in the economy, particularly in the services, retail and manufacturing sectors.
As this article reveals, it is not so much about persuasion as data management: lies, damned lies and statistics The economy is in a death spiral but this reality must be kept out of the public domain at any cost: the victims suffer in silence. Three things will expose the terrible reality: a run on the pound, a run on UK government bonds and a run on the banks.
Telegraph
21st April, 2012
The Chancellor will enter Tuesday morning’s Cabinet meeting armed with the knowledge of whether or not the economy shrank in the first quarter of the year. The rest of the world will have to wait a further 24 hours until 9.30am on Wednesday to find out.
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Posted by seumasach on April 22, 2012
Grand Prix Hypocrasy in Bahrain
Stephen Lendman
Global Research
21st April, 2012
Al-Khalifa despots rule Bahrain repressively. Bahrainis want democratic change. In summer 2010, sporadic protests began. In mid-February last year, major ones erupted.
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In These New Times 