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America’s Phoney War in Afghanistan

Posted by smeddum on October 21, 2009

America’s Phoney War in Afghanistan

by F. William Engdahl

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Global Research,
October 21, 2009

One of the most remarkable aspects of the Obama Presidential agenda is how little anyone has questioned in the media or elsewhere why at all the United States Pentagon is committed to a military occupation of Afghanistan. There are two basic reasons, neither one of which can be admitted openly to the public at large. Read the rest of this entry »

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Edinburgh: Swine Flu Manditory Vaccination Protest

Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2009

The Swine Flu Scam

5th October, 2009

A Swine Flu Manditory Vaccination Protest has been organised in Edinburgh, Scotland on December 12th from 12noon-2pm.  We will be meeting outside the gates of Edinburgh Castle at 12noon and then marching down the Royal Mile to the Scottish parliament building.

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Bulgaria ousted from Russia’s South Stream pipe

Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2009

euractiv.com

20th October, 2009

Russia has obtained all the permits necessary to build its ‘South Stream’ gas pipeline through Turkish territorial waters, discarding Bulgaria as one of the project’s transit countries, the Russian press writes today (20 October).
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Radio:Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert on Love and War

Posted by smeddum on October 21, 2009

http://ia311017.us.archive.org/2/items/MaxKeiserRadio-TheTruthAboutMarkets-21October2009/tamnz211009-full.mp3

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Ankara moves toward ‘privileged partnership’ with Moscow

Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2009

Zaman Today

21st October, 2009

President Abdullah Gül (L) spoke with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, on the phone on Monday.
Turkey, which has already announced its intention to hold a joint cabinet meeting with Russia similar to those recently held with Iraq and Syria, hopes to hold such a meeting with its Black Sea neighbor in early December.
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Behind the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

Posted by seumasach on October 20, 2009

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet.org

19th October, 2009

While the Nobel Peace Prize award has led to a chorus of praise from the Atlantic alliance leaders, it has also raised skepticism around the world. Rather than discuss the reasons that might after the fact justify this surprising choice, Thierry Meyssan exposes the corruption of the Nobel Committee and the ties between its chairman, Thorbjørn Jagland, and Obama’s associates.

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Radio: Jim Willie on the death of the petro-dollar

Posted by smeddum on October 20, 2009

http://www.contraryinvestorscafe.com/partners.php?pid=62242

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An Inconvenient Truth About Ukraine

Posted by seumasach on October 20, 2009

Mat Rodina

16th October, 2009

The West, which itself in ever more hypocritical fashions, loves to lecture nations about not meddling in other nations’ politics, while itself acting like a brazen bully and mafiosa, buying politicians and political parties, setting up puppets and rigging elections, has found a rather inconvenient truth in Ukraine.

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U.S. Attacks Iran Via CIA-Funded Jundullah Terror Group

Posted by seumasach on October 19, 2009

Paul Joseph Watson

Prisonplanet.com

19th October, 2009
The U.S. government effectively attacked Iran yesterday after its proxy terror group Jundullah launched a suicide bomb attack against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard at their headquarters in Pishin, near the border with Pakistan.

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Russia ready to join Iran anti-terror fight

Posted by seumasach on October 19, 2009

PressTV

19th October, 2009

After Jundallah terrorist ring carried out a bloody attack in southeastern Iran, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed readiness to help Iran fight “terrorism”.
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How China is Torpedoing the U.S. Dollar…

Posted by smeddum on October 19, 2009

Moneymorning

18/10/09

The dollar’s been struggling to retain its value –  and now it’s about to get worse thanks to China. This report shows you how China is undercutting the dollar and the two best ways for investors to turn this in their favor…

By Sid Riggs
Contributing Editor
Money Morning

In four short months, the dollar’s value has sunk 11.2% on the New York Exchange. In fact, it just recently hit its lowest level of 2009 against six major currencies, including the Euro, the British pound and the Canadian dollar. Read the rest of this entry »

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