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Stratford Ontario: the invisible danger to a beautiful small city

Posted by seumasach on May 28, 2010

Stratford, Ontario
N5A 8C1

26 May 2010

Stratford City Council

Dear Members of Council:

I have provided each of you and the Clerk with a compact disc containing several documents that illustrate the dangers and adverse health effects of electro magnetic radiation (EMR). By reading the information, you should begin to understand the great dangers caused by exposure to EMR and, in particular, radiation in the microwave frequencies. Please feel free to copy these discs and provide them to your friends, relatives, and constituents, because the information may help to save them from serious harm.

In 1962 the US Defence department learned that Soviet authorities were beaming microwaves from across the street directly into the US embassy in Moscow. Measurements taken at the time found that the intensity reaching the Embassy was approximately 500 times less than the US standard for occupational exposure. The death of the U.S. Ambassador, two other employees and illnesses of other staff, caused Operation Pandora to be launched and scientific research to be conducted. Analysis of the original data by Prof. Goldsmith concluded about the Moscow study that, evidence was suggestive for four health effects, (a) chromosomal changes, (b) hematological changes, (c) reproductive effects, and (d) increased cancer incidence from the microwave irradiation.

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Iran: Obama’s other oil spill

Posted by seumasach on May 27, 2010

Pepe Escobar

Asia Times

28th May, 2010

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was scheduled to meet Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva this Thursday in Brasilia. As much as the Barack Obama administrationhas been moving mountains to undermine the Iranian nuclear fuel swap deal mediated by Brazil and Turkey, both leaders (and US allies) are far from dropping the ball.

They may have mountain ranges to climb, but their point has resonated across much of the world; were it not for the mediation of two emerging powers and honest brokers, Iran would have never accepted what was in fact a slightly modified United States proposal made in October 2009.

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China stands by Europe

Posted by seumasach on May 27, 2010

Zhao, who previously worked as a researcher at the central bank, said that “cutting euro assets means the government would have to increase dollar holdings, but the U.S. dollar itself may not be a perfect option over a longer term.”

Bloomberg

27th May, 2010

China denied as “groundless” a report that it’s reviewing foreign-exchange holdings of euro assets, and the nation’s sovereign wealth fund said it’s maintaining its European investments.

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Kyrgyzstan as a geopolitical pivot

Posted by seumasach on May 26, 2010

The dust has far from settled in Kyrgyzstan after the April 2010 uprising and speculations continue to swirl around the signature behind the events. Kyrgyzstan is a hub of competing interests involving many powers, both regional and extra-regional. The question is to pinpoint how the genuine discontent of the Kyrgyzs people was harnessed and by whom. The least likely scenario is that of a spontaneous domestic rebellion. In the first part of this panoramic analysis, F. William Engdhal focuses on the backdrop to the present situation and on this country’s geostrategic value on the Central Asian chessboard and beyond.

F.William Engdahl

Voltairenet.org

26th May, 2010

The remote Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan is what Britain’s Halford Mackinder might call a geopolitical ‘pivot’ – a land that, owing to its geographical characteristics, holds a pivotal position in Great Power rivalries.

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Russia says genetically modified foods are harmful

Posted by seumasach on May 26, 2010

The researchers discovered that animals that eat GM foodstuffs lose their ability to reproduce.j

This might go some way to explaining why the Anglo-American elite are so exited about them. Their obsession with population control especially via loss of female fertility is quite explicit in works such as Charles Galton Darwin’s  “The Next Million Years”(1953)

The Voice of Russia

16th April, 2010

Russia has started the annual Days of Defence against Environmental Hazards from the 15th of April to the 5th of June with the announcement of sensational results of an independent work of research. Scientists have proved that Genetically Modified Organisms are harmful for mammals. The researchers discovered that animals that eat GM foodstuffs lose their ability to reproduce. Campbell hamsters that have a fast reproduction rate were fed for two years with ordinary soya beans, which are widely used in agriculture and those contain different percentages of GM organisms. Another group of hamsters, the control group, was fed with pure soya, which was found with great difficulty in Serbia because 95 percent of soya in the world is transgenic.

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Keiser Report: Goldman Sachs, Undeclared Enemy of the State

Posted by seumasach on May 25, 2010

In the second half of the show,(13mins) Max interviews Jim Rickards about naked short selling and overwhelming the specialist system, Wall Street banks undermining Greece and Goldman Sachs as an undeclared national enemy.

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Germany ‘to extend short-selling ban’

Posted by seumasach on May 25, 2010

BBC

25th May, 2010

Germany is considering widening a ban on “naked” short-selling on some financial stocks to cover all German-listed stocks, proposals have shown.

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Merkel bans naked short selling of euro bonds

Posted by seumasach on May 25, 2010

It is important to act in areas where you can act nationally, in anticipation of European efforts, Offer retorted, adding that other countries – including France – had taken similar steps.

New Europe

25th May, 2010

Germany defended its decision to introduce an immediate ban on naked short selling, as the country moved to stamp its authority on negotiations about regulating financialmarkets.

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Hedge Fund Directive continues to stir tensions

Posted by seumasach on May 25, 2010

Already, the AIFM Directive is causing some alarm, notably in the UK, where some are predicting it will be the end of the City of London.

Rebecca Marr

New Europe

23rd May, 2010

The European Parliament and Council have both agreed this week to push ahead with stricter regulations for hedge funds, private equity funds and other alternative investment methods.

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“The market” is a reactionary mystification: reply to the attack on economic populism from Franco Debenedetti and other Italian economists

Posted by seumasach on May 25, 2010

Today, any objective appraisal would conclude that Greece is far more economically viable and solvent then Citibank. Portugal is more viable than Goldman Sachs. Italy has a brighter economic future by far than J.P. Morgan.

Webster Tarpley

Tarpley.net

23rd May, 2010

A group of Italian economists led by Franco Debenedetti of the famous financier clan and the banker Paolo Savona, obviously fearful that the Berlusconi-Tremonti government of Italy will join last Tuesday’s successful German ban on the type of toxic derivative known as the naked credit default swap, have sent an alarmed warning to the Corriere della Sera of Milan1. Debenedetti has contributed an article expressing similar sentiments to the Italian business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore in which he rails at the “Mrs. Merkel market” now in force in Germany2. These economists, obviously inspired by the doctrines of Friedrich von Hayek and the Austrian school, want Italy to remain faithful no matter what to the widely discredited ideas of laissez-faire economics, even as those doctrines are everywhere under attack for having caused the current world economic depression. For these neoliberal and monetarist thinkers, any attempt to ban derivatives or tax speculation must be condemned as “economic populism,” which for these writers is a term of opprobrium.

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Euro Momentarily Stabilized — German Ban on Naked Credit Default Swaps Is Working

Posted by seumasach on May 23, 2010

Webster Tarpley

Tarpley.net

21st May, 2010

Tuesday’s German ban on naked credit default swaps – a measure repeatedly demanded by this web site over recent months — has been in effect now for about three days, and it is working. The panic slide of the euro has been stopped for now, and the forces of depression and destruction have been re-directed against US stocks, commodities, and certain emerging markets. The goal of euro stability has been momentarily achieved. Sarkozy, who talked a good game of limiting speculation, has been exposed as a Euro-wimp, too weak to buck the Anglo-Saxons and go along with Berlin. The Germans had to act alone because of the obvious sabotage of the eurogarchs of the Brussels Commission, which is now promising to come up with their proposal by October (!). Given the ferocity of the hedge fund assault, many Europeans by October will have lost their shirts, and will be living under bridges dressed in barrels, if more measures are not taken this month.

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