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It may be two minutes to midnight at the oasis

Posted by seumasach on November 29, 2009

Terry Keenan

NYPost

29th November, 2009

 

It’s a fair bet that few around the Thanksgiving dinner table talked much about Dubai last week, even as that Emirate quietly rocked world financial markets with the surprise prospect of the biggest government debt default since Argentina’s back in 2001.

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9/11: Pentagon Aircraft Hijack Impossible: Flight Deck Door Closed for Entire Flight

Posted by seumasach on November 29, 2009

PilotsFor911Truth.org

27th November, 2009

– Newly decoded data provided by an independent researcher and computer programmer from Australia exposes alarming evidence that the reported hijacking aboard American Airlines Flight 77 was impossible to have existed. A data parameter labeled “FLT DECK DOOR”, cross checks with previously decoded data obtained by Pilots For 9/11 Truth from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) through the Freedom Of Information Act.

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1975 ‘Endangered Atmosphere’ Conference: Where the Global Warming Hoax Was Born

Posted by seumasach on November 29, 2009

Marjorie Mazel Hecht

EIR

8th June, 2007

“Global Warming” is, and always was, a policy for genocidal reduction of the world’s population. The preposterous claim that human-produced carbon dioxide will broil the Earth, melt the ice caps, and destroy human life, came out of a 1975 conference in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, organized by the influential anthropologist Margaret Mead, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in 1974.

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Dubai’s $59 billion default sends tremor through global financial system

Posted by seumasach on November 28, 2009

Alex Messenger

WSWS

28th November, 2009

 

Dubai’s announcement on Wednesday that it would be delaying by “at least” six months the maturity date of $59 billion in bonds issued by the city-state’s largest state-owned company, Dubai World, has sent global shares tumbling. The market reaction to Dubai’s massive debt default is partly explained by the exposure of European and Asian banks to DP World and its tourism subsidiary, Nakheel.

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Les égouts de Sa Majesté

Posted by seumasach on November 28, 2009

Danielle Ganser

Voltairenet

20th November, 2009

Les réseaux stay-behind, qui permettent à l’OTAN de contrôler la vie politique des États alliés, ont été construits à partir des réseaux de résistance au nazisme que les Britanniques avaient organisé et soutenu durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Cependant, la lutte contre le communisme a servi de justification à toutes sortes d’opérations au Royaume-Uni même (attentats terroristes sous faux drapeau et assassinats de républicains irlandais), en Europe continentale (principalement en France, au Bénélux, dans les pays nordiques, et jusqu’en Suisse neutre), et même en Afrique et en Asie (par exemple pour encadrer le massacre des populations francophones du Cambodge par les Khmers rouges). Dans ce quatrième volet de l’histoire du Gladio, Daniele Ganser nous dévoile les égouts de Sa Majesté

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Return to a secret country

Posted by seumasach on November 28, 2009

John Pilger

New Statesman

26th November, 2009

 

I remember the boys dressed in army surplus, the girls in hessian, silhouettes framed in beach shanties, staring across an abyss. You were not meant to talk about them. They were not counted in the census, unlike the sheep, and anyway were dirty and feckless and dying off.

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A key British official reminds us of the forgotten anthrax attack

Posted by seumasach on November 28, 2009

Glen Greenwald

Salon.com

27th November, 2009

see also:

ITNT Archive: Anthrax Attack and Ivins Affair

Britain is currently engulfed by a probing, controversial investigation into how their Government came to support the invasion of Iraq, replete with evidence that much of what was said at the time by both British and American officials was knowingly false, particularly regarding the unequivocal intention of the Bush administration to attack Iraq for months when they were pretending otherwise.  Yesterday, the British Ambassador to the U.S. in 2002 and 2003, Sir Christopher Meyer (who favored the war), testified before the investigative tribunal and said this:

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Complete Statement of UN IPCC Scientist Dr. Eduardo Zorita on the UN IPCC’s “ClimateGate” scandal.

Posted by seumasach on November 28, 2009

Why I think that Michael Mann, Phil Jones and Stefan Rahmstorf should be barred from the IPCC process
Eduardo Zorita, November 2009

Eduardo Zorita

coast.gkss.de

Short answer: because the scientific assessments in which they may take part are not credible anymore.

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Pretending the climate email leak isn’t a crisis won’t make it go away

Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2009

In a bizzare defence of cheating global warming proponents, Monbiot fails to explain why they had to falsify data if they were right. Seemingly it’s all down to the fiendish deniers who according to Monbiot are “scumbags”- not a very nice term for people who think it’s getting colder, which even includes some within his own camp.

George Monbiot

Guardian

25th November, 2009

 

I have seldom felt so alone. Confronted with crisis, most of the environmentalists I know have gone into denial. The emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, they say, are a storm in a tea cup, no big deal, exaggerated out of all recognition. It is true that climate change deniers have made wild claims which the material can’t possibly support (the end of global warming, the death of climate science). But it is also true that the emails are very damaging.

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Castles in the sand

Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2009

Dan Roberts

Guardian

27th November, 2009

The biggest mystery of the Dubai debt crisis is not why this desert dream has turned into a nightmare, but why it took so long. Ever since US homeowners started defaulting on sub-prime mortgages two years ago, the tightening of international lending conditions has put the squeeze on investment bubbles around the world. Some, like Iceland or the British housing boom, popped relatively quickly, but others have been slower to collapse.

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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2009

Review of James Douglass’ Book

Edward Curtin

Global Research

27th November, 2009

Despite a treasure-trove of new information having emerged over the last forty-six  years, there are many people who still think who killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and why are unanswerable questions.  There are others who cling to the Lee Harvey Oswald “lone-nut” explanation proffered by the Warren Commission.  Both groups agree, however, that whatever the truth, it has no contemporary relevance but is old-hat, history, stuff for conspiracy-obsessed people with nothing better to do.  The general thinking is that the assassination occurred almost a half-century ago, so let’s move on.

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