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Kacynski’s address to Russian nation

Posted by seumasach on May 13, 2010

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Taking back homes from the banks: exercising the human right to housing

Posted by seumasach on May 13, 2010

Bill Quigley

ICH

12th May, 2010

In Madison Wisconsin, the grass-roots organization Operation Welcome Home helped Desiree Wilson, 24, a mother with small children to move into a vacant house, hook up utilities and change the locks, according to nbc15.com in Madison.  The home was vacant due to foreclosure.  Bank of America owns the home now.   “It’s not against the law, “said Ms. Wilson. “This is above the law.  It’s just so much bigger than me.  Housing is a human right.”

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‘British voting system a recipe for corruption’

Posted by seumasach on May 11, 2010

Thaindian News

9th May, 2010

London, May 9 (IANS) The British voting system is “a recipe for corruption”, election monitors from developing countries have said after thousands of people complained of not being allowed to vote.

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General Election 2010: Electoral Commission ‘lacked grasp of reality’

Posted by seumasach on May 11, 2010

Telegraph

10th May, 2010

Jenny Watson, who earns £100,000 for working a three day week as chairman of the Electoral Commission quango, has faced an angry response from thousands of voters who were unable to exercise their democratic right on May 6.

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Labour’s stolen votes-Rod Liddle reports on widespread corruption in the system of postal ballots

Posted by seumasach on May 11, 2010

This 2005 article provides insights into the kind of shenanigans which would, no doubt, have marred last week’s vote.

Roy Liddle

Spectator

26th March, 2005

Birmingham

At one o’clock in the morning of 9 June last year, two days before the local council elections, Police Sergeant John Rattenberry of Erdington police station, Birmingham, was called to investigate something strange going on inside a warehouse. Here’s what he witnessed, in his own words:

‘I entered the first floor of the warehouse and went into a room where I saw approximately five Asian males along with four police officers. I could see a large table on which there were a lot of miscellaneous papers and A5 unsealed envelopes. I could see that the envelopes contained several pieces of paper including marked ballot papers. I was informed by a Mr Zulfikar Khan, who identified himself as a Labour councillor, that the numbers on these documents were being matched up and that there was nothing wrong with what they were doing.’

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Fiasco that would shame the third world

Posted by seumasach on May 11, 2010

Mark Almond

Daily Mail

8th May, 2010

Hung parliament or not, the General Election produced one clear result on the night. All the TV pundits agreed that this was one of the most shambolic, incompetent and fraudulent elections Britain has ever witnessed.

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Polling station pantomime: Thousands could sue after lockouts in key marginals

Posted by seumasach on May 11, 2010

Daily Mail

8th May, 2010

Britain is engulfed in the biggest voting scandal of modern times after thousands of people were locked out of the polls in at least 25 seats, some of them crucial marginals.

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Doubts grow on McChrystal’s war plan

Posted by seumasach on May 11, 2010

Gareth Porter

Asia Times

12th May, 2010

Although General Stanley McChrystal’s plan for wresting the Afghan provinces of Helmand and Kandahar from the Taliban is still in its early stages of implementation, there are already signs that the setbacks and obstacles it has experienced have raised serious doubts among top military officials in Washington about whether the plan of the commander of North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in Afghanistan is going to work.

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Cell phone ‘honeymoon’ finally over?



Posted by seumasach on May 11, 2010

Sean Arthur Joyce

With articles on the link between cell phones and brain tumours or other cancers now appearing in major magazines such as GQ, Harpers’s, Prevention and even Time magazine, it appears the long ‘honeymoon’ North American telecommunications corporations have enjoyed is finally over.

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International Appeal from Würzburg

Posted by seumasach on May 11, 2010

“At the conference it was impressively demonstrated that these chronic diseases are based on similar pathological mechanisms. Common mechanisms are chronic inflammatory processes influenced by environmental factors including chemical pollutants, biological infectious agents, and electromagnetic field (EMF) triggers.”

The European Academy for Environmental Medicine (EUROPAEM) invited many renowned national and international scientists and health care professionals to a medical conference held in Wuerzburg, Germany from April 23 to April 25, 2010. These professionals were from the fields of environmental medicine, toxicology, immunology, neurology and genetics and other health fields as well as physicians and dentist. Also in attendance were representatives of patient initiatives. The theme of this international medical conference was Science Meets Practice. It dealt specifically with the issues of Neuron- Endocrine- Immunology and their importance in environmental medicine.

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The tangled web that The House of Global Warming was built on

Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2010

Joanne Nova

May, 2010

Thanks to Glenn Beck, we get bit more insight into the tangled web that The House of Global Warming was built on.

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