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Pre-election Iranian poll showed Ahmadinejad support

Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2009

The Star

15th June, 2009

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A poll of Iran’s electorate three weeks before its election showed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leading by a 2-to-1 ratio, greater than the announced results of the contested vote, the pollsters said on Monday.

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BRIC group plans own revolution

Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2009

W.Joseph Stroupe

Asia Times

17th June, 2009

Russia announced on June 10 that it will purchase US$10 billion of the new SDR-denominated International Monetary Fund bonds. It also announced that it will further diversify its $140 billion of US dollar holdings. Brazil will also buy $10 billion worth of the new bonds, and China will buy $50 billion of the new bonds. India will likely announce its own purchases very soon.
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Rafsanjani’s gambit backfires

Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2009

M K Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

16th June, 2009

Iranian politics is never easy to decode. The maelstrom around Friday’s presidential election intrigued most avid cryptographers scanning Iranian codes. So many false trails appeared that it became difficult to decipher who the real contenders were and what the political stakes were.
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Russian President Congratulates Ahmadinejad

Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2009

PressTV

15th June, 2009

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has congratulated Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over his re-election in the June 12 presidential vote.
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Chinese National Anthem (English subtitles)

Posted by smeddum on June 16, 2009

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Spanish paper on Cell Phone Addiction

Posted by smeddum on June 14, 2009

9th June,  2009
EMF facts

A new paper has been added to the http://www.emfacts.com web site. Titled “Addiction to cell phones: are there neurophysiological mechanisms involved?” ,the paper by Afonso Balmori and Maria Paz de la Puente, looks at cell phone use as an addiction problem, especially for children and young people. Originally published in the Spanish magazine Proyecto, Vol. 61: pp. 8-12, March 2007. Read the rest of this entry »

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Imran Khan warns of Pakistan’s ‘suicide’

Posted by smeddum on June 14, 2009

Imran Khan warns of Pakistan’s ‘suicide’
Christina Lamb
June 14, 2009
Times online
Pakistan’s military offensive against the Taliban will backfire and fuel more extremism and bomb attacks, the cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan warned last week.

“I have never been so depressed in my life,” he said. “Pakistan is on a suicidal course.”

Khan was speaking in London, where he was visiting his two sons by his ex-wife Jemima before heading to America to raise funds for refugees displaced by the fighting. Read the rest of this entry »

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Indian officials, scholars express high expectations of BRIC cooperation

Posted by smeddum on June 14, 2009

Indian officials, scholars express high expectations of BRIC cooperation
http://www.chinaview.cn 2009-06-13

NEW DELHI, June 13 (Xinhua) — Indian officials and scholars have expressed high expectations of future cooperation among the BRIC countries. They said it would not only benefit the development of the four nations, but also help the global economy move out of the shadows of recession and resume growth. Read the rest of this entry »

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De-Dollarization: Dismantling America’s Financial-Military Empire :-The Yekaterinburg Turning Point

Posted by smeddum on June 14, 2009

by Prof. Michael Hudson

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Global Research, June 13, 2009

The city of Yakaterinburg, Russia’s largest east of the Urals, may become known not only as the death place of the tsars but of American hegemony too – and not only where US U-2 pilot Gary Powers was shot down in 1960, but where the US-centered international financial order was brought to ground.

Challenging America will be the prime focus of extended meetings in Yekaterinburg, Russia (formerly Sverdlovsk) today and tomorrow (June 15-16) for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and other top officials of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The alliance is comprised of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrghyzstan and Uzbekistan, with observer status for Iran, India, Pakistan and Mongolia. It will be joined on Tuesday by Brazil for trade discussions among the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China). Read the rest of this entry »

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Radio: Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert on the Shadow Banking System

Posted by smeddum on June 13, 2009

http://ia301536.us.archive.org/2/items/MaxKeiserRadio-TheTruthAboutMarkets-13June2009/tam130609.mp3

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Europe’s MEPs Vote to Minimise EMF Exposure Risks

Posted by seumasach on June 13, 2009

An article by Eileen O’Connor of Radiation Research Trust

Cancer Active

April 2009

Members of the European Parliament have recently produced reports, declarations and suggested changes to the law in response to the various reports of adverse effects on health to wireless technology such mobile phones, phone masts, tetra, WiFi, Wimax and wireless communication systems.  April, 2009 witnessed a rise in support for the precautionary approach.

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