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Primakov: Russia Will Not Allow Libyan Scenario to Be Repeated in Syria Through Security Council

Posted by seumasach on January 16, 2012

SANA

14th January, 2012

MOSCOW, (SANA) – Russian former Prime Minister, politician and academic Yevgeny Primakov, affirmed that Russia will not allow the Libyan scenario to be repeated in Syria through Security Council.
In a seminar held in Moscow on Friday, Primakov said that the mechanism used by the NATO in Libya was a very grave precedent, as it used a vague Security Council resolution to legitimize military intervention and support one side in a war in an independent country.

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Zuma tells the UN: Listen to African Union

Posted by seumasach on January 16, 2012

CS Monitor

13th January, 2012

South Africa has wasted no time in its first weeks as president of the United Nations Security Council, with President Jacob Zuma taking the UN to task for ignoring the African Union and moving ahead with military intervention in Libya last year.

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Bioassay for assessing cell stress in the vicinity of radio-frequency irradiating antennas

Posted by seumasach on January 16, 2012

RSC Publishing

Edna Ben-Izhak Monselise, Aliza Levkovitz, Hugo E. Gottlieb and Daniel Kost

J. Environ. Monit., 2011, 13, 1890-1896

DOI: 10.1039/C1EM10031A
Received 11 Jan 2011, Accepted 26 Apr 2011
First published on the web 08 Jun 2011

Abstract

The 24 h exposure of water plants (etiolated duckweed) to RF-EMF between 7.8 V m−1 and 1.8 V m−1, generated by AM 1.287 MHz transmitting antennas, resulted in alanine accumulation in the plant cells, a phenomenon we have previously shown to be a universal stress signal. The magnitude of the effect corresponds qualitatively to the level of RF-EMF exposure. In the presence of 10 mM vitamin C, alanine accumulation is completely suppressed, suggesting the involvement of free radicals in the process. A unique biological connection has thus been made between exposure to RF-EMF and cell stress, in the vicinity of RF transmitting antennas. This simple test, which lasts only 24 h, constitutes a useful bioassay for the quick detection of biological cell stress caused in the vicinity of RF irradiating antennas.

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Libye – Barack Obama envoie des centaines de soldats sur place

Posted by seumasach on January 15, 2012

Allain Jules

15th January, 2012

 

Un accord secret a été trouvé entre les renégats du CNT et les Etats-Unis, pour venir à bout de la vraie révolution qui commence en Libye. D’après nos informations, un premier contingent de ces soldats en provenance de Malte  s’est implanté à Benghazi pour tenter de mettre fin au sit-in des anti-CNT qui n’en démordent pas. Une rumeur a même couru dans les rues de Benghazi faisant état d’une tentative d’assassinat  ratée contre Moustapha Abdeljalil, le chef du CNT, à l’aide d’une bombe artisanale.

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WHO warning over mobile tower radiation ignored

Posted by seumasach on January 15, 2012

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Blowback comes to Europe

Posted by seumasach on January 15, 2012

Cailean Bochanan

15th January, 2012

The multiple European downgrading announced by S&P can hardly be called unexpected and is only dramatic in a rather theatrical sense. The empire has taken on the persona of a “Dennis the Menace” character with an array of wild pranks: celebratory shrieking over the murder of an Arab leader, “taking out” Iranian scientists, NGO street theatre in Moscow, an extra- fraudulent set of monthly employment statistics. S&P’s hit on the Eurozone is well within the range of insanity of the above and is true to form. It is also particularly stupid. The Anglo-Americans may have been scarcely able to contain their glee as they pissed on their erstwhile European allies: but Europe has shown itself to be far from a corpse.

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The French downgrade should be a warning about hidden UK liabilities

Posted by seumasach on January 15, 2012

Liam Halligan is , I suppose, obliged to follow the party line in bowing down to the rating agencies, the same ones that triple-AAA rated subprime CDOs, as a paragon of objectivity and financial virtue. Still he is one of the very few who has, or admits to having, a near realistic grasp of the true horror of Britain’s financial predicament.

Liam Halligan

Telegraph

14th January, 2012

The eurozone’s second-largest economy has lost its AAA rating. Eight other single-currency members were also downgraded. Given that Paris is bankrolling no less than a fifth of the purported “big bazooka” bail-out fund – the so-called European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) – monetary union is now on very thin ice.

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Portugal victim of war on Euro

Posted by seumasach on January 15, 2012

The Portuguese government considers the decision of S&P to downgrade its debt two notches to be “unfounded”, without reflecting either the economic or political reality of Portugal’s counter-crisis measures. Specifically it fails to reflect the consensus within Portuguese society around these measures. A   study by MEP Diogo Feio calls for the end to the North American oligopoly of the rating agencies and, like Merkel, the end of legal obligation by investment institutions to take into account their ratings.

Portugal vítima da guerra ao euro

Correo da Manha

15th January, 2012

É “infundada” a decisão da Standard & Poor’s em baixar o rating nacional em dois níveis, para ‘BB’, uma posição já considerada lixo, diz o Governo português, em reacção à avaliação da agência de notação norte-americana.

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Westerwelle:S&P announcement an “artificially produced” setback

Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2012

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle called the S&P announcement an “artificially produced” setback that emerged just as leaders’ efforts were beginning to bear fruit. In an e- mailed statement, he said he’ll step up efforts with euro-member states to create a European rating company.

Michael Fuchs, the CDU’s ranking floor member for economic issues, said the downgrades were “arbitrary Anglo-Saxon politics that don’t square with the efforts of countries including France” to take aim at state spending.

Merkel: Euro Leaders Must Redouble Efforts

Bloomberg

14th January, 2012

Chancellor Angela Merkel said euro- area downgrades by Standard & Poor’s reinforce Germany’s stance that European leaders must redouble their efforts to resolve the debt crisis as governments prepare to sell more debt next week.

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Merkel proposes legislation to undermine rating agencies

Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2012

Meanwhile, in a move to circumvent their influence, Germany’s Merkel backed a proposal to reduce the reliance of institutional investors on ratings agencies, which some of her allies say are politically driven.

The idea would be to introduce legislation to allow institutional investors to evaluate risk themselves and make decisions independent from the U.S.-based agencies.

This is exactly the response required.

Merkel vows faster eurozone reform after S&P downgrades

Reuters

14th January, 2012

(Reuters) – European leaders promised on Saturday to speed up plans to strengthen spending rules and get a permanent bailout fund up and running as soon as possible, a day after U.S. agency S&P cut the ratings of several euro zone countries’ creditworthiness.

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Economic downturn prompts many to pawn possessions

Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2012

Bournemouth Echo

14th January, 2012

CASH-STRAPPED customers are pawning their most prized possessions in a bid to keep financially afloat and pay their bills.

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