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Say No To the Vaccine

Posted by seumasach on October 10, 2009

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What happened to global warming?

Posted by seumasach on October 10, 2009

Paul Hudson

BBC News

9th October, 2009

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.

So what on Earth is going on?

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Jim Willie on the Economic disaster – Max Keiser Show

Posted by smeddum on October 10, 2009

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The still-missing central fact in the Iran drama

Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2009

Glenn Greenwald

Salon.com

7th October, 2009

Ever since Iran reported the existence of its Qom enrichment facility to the IAEA, one central assertion has been repeated as fact over and over by the American media to make the story as incriminating as possible:  namely, that Iran only disclosed this because they discovered they had been “caught,” i.e., they found out that the West knew of this facility and they thus had no choice but to disclose it.  That assertion has been fundamental to the entire Iran drama.  After all, if Iran voluntarily notified the IAEA of the Qom facility before it was even operational and thus agreed to have the facility inspected, it’s impossible to maintain the melodramatic storyline that Iran was planning something deeply nefarious here and got “caught red-handed.”  The assertion that Iran was forced into disclosure is vital to the entire plot, and it’s been constantly repeated as fact.

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‘Peace Prize to Obama – big mistake by Nobel committee’

Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2009

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Iran To Host Afghan-Iran-Pakistan Trade And Energy Summit

Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2009

The AfIrPac agenda takes shape

Published on October 09, 2009

by OfficialWire NewsDesk

(UPI and OfficialWire)

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Interested in developing their economic and energy ties, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan will hold a trilateral summit in November.

The Islamic Republic News Agency reported Wednesday that Pakistan’s Ambassador to Iran Mohammad Bakhsh Abbasi announced the upcoming summit in the capital Tehran during a news conference highlighting the “Defense Day of Pakistan.” Abbasi did not mention the venue of the summit. Addressing journalists Abbasi said he was optimistic that because Iran’s recent negotiations with members of the 5 plus 1 Group (France, Britain, Russia, China, the United States and Germany) were successful, Iran could continue to defend its rights as an independent country. Turning to economic matters the ambassador observed, “Tehran’s and Islamabad’s trade stood at $1 billion this year, of which 80 percent consisted of Iran’s oil exports to Pakistan.”

Energy also forms a significant part of Afghan-Iranian trade, which in 2008 reached $500 million. Of Iran’s exports, oil accounts for nearly 45 percent of the country’s revenue.

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Dollar exit for oil trade?

Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2009

F William Engdahl

Asia Times

9th October, 2009

Arab oil-producing nations and some of the world’s largest oil consumers including China and Japan are reliably reported to be planning a long-term exit from pricing their oil trade in US dollars. If true, it would spell the death knell for the dollar as the world’s reserve currency and for the United States as global economic power.

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The Great ‘Shift’ – China and the West

Posted by smeddum on October 8, 2009

Wednesday,

October 7, 2009

cynicuseconomicus

We are living through one of the times in history when a major and irrevocable shift is taking place. It will be a time that will be the subject of controversy amongst historians and, no doubt, there will be arguments about causation, about what set off a chain reaction of change. They will perhaps ponder and wonder that so many people were so blind to what was actually taking place before their eyes. Read the rest of this entry »

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A Media Failure Compounds The Financial Failure: The Press Is Still Missing The Story Of Fraud and Economic Decline Ahead

Posted by smeddum on October 8, 2009

A Media Failure Compounds The Financial Failure:
The Press Is Still Missing The Story Of Fraud and Economic Decline Ahead

by Danny Schechter

Global Research,

October 8, 2009

We know that Wall Street has not learned much from the crash it helped instigate. We know that our government, whatever its stated desire to clean up the markets and reform the financial behemoths, lacks the willingness and perhaps the clout to rein in the real power centers. We are not sure if they have been “captured” by them, or just lack the guts to take on institutions and individuals that helped fund their rise to power. Read the rest of this entry »

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Students March against the War in US

Posted by smeddum on October 8, 2009

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Code Pink rethinks Afghan withdrawal

Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2009

He who pays the leftist calls the tune. Cindy Sheehan did well to dissociate herself from the leftist “antiwar movement”

Is Medea Benjamin Naive or Just Confused?

Scott Horton

Antiwar.com

8th October, 2009

When I heard that there would be antiwar protests across the country on October 7, 2009, mourning the 8th anniversary of the start of the invasion of Afghanistan, I immediately picked up the phone to get one of the great anti-warrior women of Code Pink to join me on Antiwar Radio for the occasion. Read the rest of this entry »

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