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U.S.-Japan joint survey reveals high radiation beyond evacuation zone

Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2011

Asashi.com

8th May, 2011

The first map of ground surface contamination within 80 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant shows radiation levels higher in some municipalities than those in the mandatory relocation zone around the Chernobyl plant.

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Deadly Silence on Fukushima

Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2011

Vivian Norris

Huffington Post

9th May, 2011

I received the following email a few days ago from a Russian nuclear physicist friend who is an expert on the kinds of gases being released at Fukushima. Here is what he wrote:

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What you don’t know about the Bilderberg-Group

Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2011

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet

9th May, 2011

The idea that the Bilderberg Group is behind the creation of a mysterious future World Government has been spreading for years. Having had access to the archives of this very secret club, Thierry Meyssan shows that this belief leads in a false direction, serving to mask the true identity and function of the Group. In reality, the Bilderberg Group is a creation of NATO. It aims to influence key leaders on a global scale and, through them, to manipulate public opinion to get it to embrace the ideas and actions of the Northern Atlantic Alliance.

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Reflections on the official announcement of the death of Osama Bin Laden

Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2011

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet

8th May, 2011

The official announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s death gives rise to all sorts of debates, which focus attention on the details of the story to better mask Washington’s strategic designs. For Thierry Meyssan, this announcement became indispensable ever since Bin Laden’s operatives were integrated into NATO operations in Libya and those of the CIA in Syria. Only through the disappearance of their former virtual leader can they recover the status of “freedom fighters”, which they enjoyed during the Soviet era.

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US pushes Osama onto Afghan chessboard

Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2011

Gareth Porter

Asia Times

10th May, 2011

WASHINGTON – United States President Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations with the Taliban for peace in Afghanistan.

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Russia and China challenge NATO

Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2011

M.K.Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

10th May, 2011

Consultations by Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Moscow at the weekend were expected to prepare the ground for the visit by President Hu Jintao to Russia next month. In the event, however, they assumed a character of immense significance to international security.

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Bahrain topples its own people

Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2011

Pepe Escobar

Asia Times

11th May, 2011

March 14, 2011, will go down in history as the infamous day when the House of Saud launched – with full United States backing – a vicious counter-revolution designed to smash the Gulf chapter of the great 2011 Arab revolt. (See Exposed: The US/Saudi Libya deal Asia Times Online, April 2, 2011).

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Budget/T-Bonds/Dollar, the three US crises

Posted by seumasach on May 9, 2011

GEAB no.54
16th April, 2011
The 15 September 2010, GEAB N°47 issue was headed «Spring 2011: Welcome to the United States of Austerity / Towards the very serious breakdown of the world economic and financial system ». Yet at the end of summer 2010, most experts believed first, that the debate on the US budget deficit would remain a mere subject of theoretical discussion within the Beltway (1) and secondly, that it was unthinkable to imagine the United States engaging in a policy of austerity because it was sufficient for the Fed to continue to print dollars. Yet, as everyone has been able to see for several weeks, Spring 2011 really did bring austerity to the United States (2), a first since the Second World War and the setting up of a global system based on the ability of the US engine to always generate more wealth (real from 1950 to 1970, increasingly virtual thereafter).

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Japan shuts ‘at risk’ N- reactor

Posted by seumasach on May 9, 2011

Irish Independent

9th May, 2011

A vulnerable Japanese nuclear power station is to be closed amid safety fears.

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Empire or solvency?

Posted by seumasach on May 9, 2011

Justin Raimondo

Antiwar.com

5th May, 2011

You know something is up when Republicans start taking the lead in questioning our decade-long war in Afghanistan, and, indeed, something is up: a propitious confluence of circumstances and events, the most dramatic of which is the assassination of Osama bin Laden by US Special Forces. In hearings held the other day, Senator Richard Lugar (R-Indiana) said he thinks the Afghan occupation is no longer justified:

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Attacks on Libya condemned

Posted by seumasach on May 9, 2011

Milli Gazette

8th May, 2011

New Delhi: NATO attacks led by America and France on Libya have been widely condemned here in India. On March 22, Lok Sabha members, cutting across party lines, unanimously condemned the US-led coalition air strikes on Libya. MPs from all parties, BJP, BSP, CPI, Muslim League, BJD, Trinamul Congress, N.C, CPIM, NDA observed that NATO has no right to devastate any country. What is happening in Libya is an internal matter of that country and no external power should interfere in it, the MPs unanimously said. However, they expressed their support to democratic forces struggling against the authoritarian regimes. “We are against any military intervention to enforce regime change,” they observed.

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