Verizon dumbs down health problems associated with cell phones
Posted by smeddum on September 23, 2010
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Why the troops are coming home
Posted by seumasach on September 23, 2010
Tom Engelhardt
24th September, 2010
Compare the following two assessments of the American future.
In the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll in which 61% of Americans interviewed considered “things in the nation” to be “on the wrong track,” 66% did “not feel confident that life for our children’s generation will be better than it has been for us.” (Seven percent were “not sure” and only 27% “felt confident.”) But here was the polling question you’re least likely to see discussed in your local newspaper or by Washington-based pundits: “Do you think America is in a state of decline, or do you feel that this is not the case?” Sixty-five percent of respondents chose as their answer: “in a state of decline.”
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Member of Scottish Parliament highlights Fallujah war crimes
Posted by seumasach on September 23, 2010
22 September 2010
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Use
Women advised not to have children as legacy of US and UK WMD
Bill Wilson MSP (SNP) has lodged a Parliamentary Motion highlighting the consequences of the US and UK’s use of Weapons of Mass Destruction during an attack on Fallujah in 2004.
Speaking after lodging his motion, Dr Wilson said, “The consequences are ongoing: a survey showed a four-fold increase in all cancers, a 12-fold increase in childhood cancer in under-14s and a 38-fold increase in leukaemia. By contrast, Hiroshima survivors showed a 17-fold increase with regard to the latter. What’s more, because of this cancer crisis, local doctors are advising women not to have children.
“I have long been convinced that those responsible for the invasion of Iraq should be charged. It seems to me that any reasonable person looking at what happen in Fallujah would conclude that major war crimes have been committed. Tony Blair has to answer for his decisions.
“It is disappointing, to say the least, that our media have paid relatively little attention to this issue. Yet women are now being advised not to have children. To turn a blind eye now would surely make us all complicit.”
Contact
Dr Bill Wilson MSP
Tel +44 (0) 782 459 6994 / 131 348 6805 / 141 840 2772
Fax +44 (0) 131 348 6806 / 141 889 4693
E-mail Bill.Wilson.msp@scottish.parliament.uk
Website www.billwilsonmsp.org
Notes to Editors
1. FULL TEXT OF THE MOTION
Short Title: Women Advised Not to Have Children as Legacy of US and UK WMD
S3M-07049 Bill Wilson (West of Scotland) (SNP): That the Parliament notes a report in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005-2009, on the effects of the United Kingdom and United States’ attack on Fallujah in 2004; notes the reports that this attack involved the use of illegal chemical weapons, phosphorous bombs and nerve gas; understands that it has been further reported that this has led to an explosion of infant mortality, leukaemia and cancers, exceeding those following the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to the extent that local doctors are advising women not to have children; supports the international courts in their pursuit of war criminals since 1945; believes that no individual guilty of such crimes should escape justice, and calls for the detention and trial of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair.
2. BACKGROUND INFORMATION
BEYOND HIROSHIMA – THE NON-REPORTING OF FALLUJAH’S CANCER CATASTROPHE
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/10/100907_beyond_hiroshima_t
he.php
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Currency analysts still backing Euro
Posted by smeddum on September 23, 2010
Katie Martin
23rd September, 2010
See? Told you so.
“Ohhhhh… it’s all gone quiet over there! And it’s all gone quiet over there!”
Currencies research has started to sound a bit like a football chant, as the small band of brave analysts who stuck with the euro in its darkest hours enjoy their big “I told you so” moment. (Other football chants would work here, too, but few are suitable for our readers’ delicate ears.) Read the rest of this entry »
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Fallujah, a disgrace for the USA, an eternal curse on humanity
Posted by seumasach on September 22, 2010
Dick Adriaensens
22nd September, 2010
“It is the people of Fallujah’s cherished right to hold to account the International Community that now has both the mandate and moral responsibility to initiate proceedings to prosecute and hold accountable all those perpetrators, and to seek full restitution and compensations commensurate with the endured suffering and pain throughout the occupation period, continuing till the present day.” (Dr. Muhamad Tareq Al-Darraji, President of Conservation Centre of Environment and Reserves in Fallujah – CCERF, Director of Monitoring net of human rights in Iraq – MHRI)
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The global systemic crisis: towards a serious breakdown of the world economic and financial system, spring 2011
Posted by seumasach on September 21, 2010
GEAB
18th September, 2010
As anticipated by LEAP/E2020 last February in the GEAB No. 42, the second half of 2010 is really characterized by a sudden worsening of the crisis marked by the end of the illusion of recovery maintained by Western leaders (1) and the thousands of billions swallowed up by the banks and the economic « stimulation » plans of no lasting effect. The coming months will reveal a simple, yet especially painful reality: the Western economy, and in particular that of the United States (2), never really came out of recession (3). The startling statistics recorded since summer 2009 have only been the short-lived consequences of a massive injection of liquidity into a system which had essentially become insolvent just like the US consumer (4). At the heart of the global systemic crisis since its inception, the United States is, in the coming months, going to demonstrate that it is, once again, in the process of leading the economy and global finances into the « heart of darkness » (5) because it can’t get out of this « Very Great US Depression (6) ». Thus, coming out of the political upheavals of the US elections next November, with growth once again negative, the world will have to face the « Very Serious Breakdown » of the global economic and financial system founded over 60 years ago on the absolute necessity of the US economy never being in a lasting recession. Now the first half of 2011 will dictate that the US economy take an unprecedented dose of austerity plunging the planet into new financial, monetary, economic and social chaos (7).
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“Manufacturing dissent”: the anti-globalization movement is funded by the corporate elites
Posted by seumasach on September 21, 2010
Michel Chossudovsky
20 September, 2010
The term “manufacturing consent” was initially coined by Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky.
“Manufacturing consent” describes a propaganda model used by the corporate media to sway public opinion and “inculcate individuals with values and beliefs…”:
The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfill this role requires systematic propaganda. (Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky)
“Manufacturing consent” implies manipulating and shaping public opinion. It establishes conformity and acceptance to authority and social hierarchy. It seeks compliance to an established social order. “Manufacturing consent” describes the submission of public opinion to the mainstream media narrative, to its lies and fabrications.
“Manufacturing dissent”
In this article, we focus on a related concept, namely the process of “manufacturing dissent” (rather than “consent”), which plays a decisive role in serving the interests of the ruling class.
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Caricom in ‘changing’ Cuba
Posted by smeddum on September 19, 2010
RICKEY SINGH
Sunday, September 19, 2010
A communiqué was expected to be issued yesterday on the Third Caribbean Community-Cuba Ministerial Meeting that concluded in Havana on Friday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Bibliography of reported biological phenomena (‘effects’) and clinical manifestations attributed to microwave and radio-frequency radiation
Posted by seumasach on September 19, 2010
Zorach R. Glaser
Naval Medical Research Institute
October, 1971
Abstract
More than 2000 references on the biological responses to radiofrequency and microwave radiation, published up to June 1971, are included in the bibliography.* Particular attention has been paid tothe effects on man of non-ionizing radiation at these frequencies.The citations are arranged alphabetically by author, and contain as much information as possible so as to assure effective retrieval of the original documents. An outline of the effects which have been attributed to radio frequency and microwave radiation is also part of the report.
Click here to see report
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Cuban National Ballet Marks 50th Anniversary of China-Cuba Relations
Posted by smeddum on September 18, 2010
2010-09-11
CRI English
A special performance of the Cuban National Ballet here Friday night marked the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic of China and Cuba.
The groupe performed “Dancers” and other classical programs at the Grand Theatre Gracia Lorca. Read the rest of this entry »
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Russia: We will provide Syria with advanced missiles, despite Israel, U.S. protests
Posted by seumasach on September 18, 2010
18th September, 2010
Russia plans to go ahead with its sale of advance anti-ship rockets, state news agency RIA Novosti quoted Russian Defense Minster Anatoly Serdyukov as saying on Friday, despite recent attempts by U.S. and Israeli officials to thwart the planned deal.
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In These New Times 