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Austerity engulfs the high street

Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2011

As Britain implodes we are subjected to an endless barrage of media babble about the collapse of the Euro. We would do well to focus on our own problems which promise to dwarf anything happening across the channel. Predictably we have also decided to bomb our way out of trouble not having yet come to the realization that it’s time to start rebuilding our own country rather than destroying other peoples’.

 

Guardian

28th June, 2011

More than 10,000 retail jobs face the axe as the British high street faces one of its most painful bouts of contraction since the second world war amid the biggest squeeze on household budgets for decades.

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‘NATO drops uranium bombs on Libya’

Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2011

PressTV

29th June, 2011

The Center for Research on Globalization says the bombs and missiles that the US-led military alliance has dropped on several Libyan cities contain depleted uranium (DU).

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Syria/Libya versus Bahrain: A BBC Factoid

Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2011

William Bowles

Global Research

29th April, 2011

Facts are wonderful things, ignore them at all cost

The BBC which makes much of its ‘objective’ and ‘balanced’ news coverage, when challenged by the facts of its biased coverage of events in the Middle East and elsewhere, cites examples of where it has given voice to all sides of the issue. This is debatable, but let’s assume that the BBC does present all sides then it really comes down to numbers as the following example of the vast disparity, not only in numbers but also in content, between its Syria/Libya and Bahrain coverage.

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Engdahl: Libya intervention absurd

Posted by seumasach on June 28, 2011

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Fears over ‘tsunami’ of mortgage debt

Posted by seumasach on June 28, 2011

Independent

28th June, 2011

A “tsunami” of homeowners face falling behind on their mortgage repayments as soon as interest rates begin to rise, a leading banker has warned.

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Ethnic cleansing of black Libyans

Posted by seumasach on June 28, 2011

Black Star News

 

21st June, 2011

The “rebels” in Misrata in Libya have driven out the entire Black population of the city, according to a chilling story in The Wall Street Journal today under the headline Libya City Torn by Tribal Feud.”

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Scientists Urge Halt of Wireless Rollout

Posted by seumasach on June 28, 2011

Electromagnetic Health

 

3rd February

PRESS RELEASE from the Karolinska Institute, Department of Neuroscience, Stockholm, Sweden, February 3, 2011

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Scientific panel on electromagnetic field health risks (Seletun)

Posted by seumasach on June 28, 2011

PubMed

October-December, 2010

Abstract

In November, 2009, a scientific panel met in Seletun, Norway, for three days of intensive discussion on existing scientific evidence and public health implications of the unprecedented global exposures to artificial electromagnetic fields (EMF). EMF exposures (static to 300 GHz) result from the use of electric power and from wireless telecommunications technologies for voice and data transmission, energy, security, military and radar use in weather and transportation. The Scientific Panel recognizes that the body of evidence on EMF requires a new approach to protection of public health; the growth and development of the fetus, and of children; and argues for strong preventative actions. New, biologically-based public exposure standards are urgently needed to protect public health worldwide.

 

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Amnesty questions Gaddafy rape claims

Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2011

Amnesty questions claim that Gaddafi ordered rape as weapon of war

Patrick Cockburn

Independent

 

24th June, 2011

Human rights organisations have cast doubt on claims of mass rape and other abuses perpetrated by forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, which have been widely used to justify Nato’s war in Libya.

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Tripoli bombarde ne faiblit pas

Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2011

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet

27th June, 2011

Un groupe international d’enquêteurs du Réseau Voltaire est actuellement en Libye. Il a pu se rendre sur des lieux de bombardements. Disposant de la confiance des autorités libyennes, il a pu rencontrer quelques uns des dirigeants politiques et sécuritaires malgré les conditions de guerre. Leur constat est diamétralement opposé aux images véhiculées par la presse occidentale. Thierry Meyssan livre leurs premières observations.

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Nato warned against Gaddafi ‘assassination’

Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2011

The Statesman

27th June, 2011

PRETORIA, 26 JUNE: South African President Jacob Zuma today warned Nato against using its military campaign in Libya for the “political assassination” of Col Muammar Gaddafi, at the start of talks on the war.

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