7th december, 2008
The minister André Antoine is concerned
about the health of people living near GSM
phone masts.
Belgian minister: “No more GSM phone masts”
Posted by seumasach on December 13, 2008
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Uranium Weapons in Afghanistan: The Silent Genocide
Posted by seumasach on December 13, 2008
With every passing day the deep, strategic, unspoken and unspeakable agenda of the Anglo-american elite becomes clearer: that agenda is genocide.
Christopher Horstel
11th December
A special issue in the field of war crimes committed by occupation forces in Afghanistan are so-called uranium weapons (1). Uranium is a heavy metal – and, as a consequence, has an extremely strong armour piercing effect. Since dirt-poor Afghanistan clearly cannot afford the luxury of any special armour-plating, the question has to be asked: what purpose does the use of such specialised weaponry serve when the military necessity is questionable?
Posted in Drive to Global War, Ecological and Public Health Crisis | Tagged: Afghanistan, depleted uranium, genocide, Kosovo | Leave a Comment »
The New Generation of “Non-Lethal” Weapons
Posted by seumasach on December 13, 2008
Mike Ferner
8th December, 2008
The Army Times reported on September 30 that a combat brigade, about 4,000 troops, which could be called on for “civil unrest and crowd control,” had been assigned inside the United States for the first time since Reconstruction.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: "War on Terror", coup d'etat in America, homeland security, posse comitatus | Leave a Comment »
One thriving sector: The business of war
Posted by seumasach on December 13, 2008
8th December, 2008
SOUTH NASHUA, N.H. – Across the nation, companies are lopping off hundreds of thousands of jobs, retailers are shuttering stores, and automakers are tottering on the edge of bankruptcy.
But here in the Merrimack River Valley, and over the state line at several industrial sites around Massachusetts, defense contractor BAE Systems is hoisting “Help Wanted” signs.
Posted in Drive to Global War | Tagged: military industrial complex | Leave a Comment »
The US / UK road to Iraq and the corrupting influence of the Anglo-American “special relationship”
Posted by seumasach on December 13, 2008
Christopher King
10th December, 2008
Christopher King examines the corrosive effects of the Anglo-American “special relationship” on British politics and argues that, if Britain is to safeguard its civil liberties, democracy and independence, it must bring former Prime Minister Tony Blair to account for that ultimate symbol of the “special relationship”, the Iraq war.
Posted in Iraq | Tagged: End of empire, iraq withdrawal, join the euro! | 1 Comment »
It’s our darkest hour – but don’t tell Fortnum & Mason
Posted by seumasach on December 13, 2008
Marina Hyde
13th December, 2008
Sterling’s value is falling like a stone, and with it our inalienable right to travel the world and boast how far our money goes
One afternoon atop the Eiffel Tower, the young son of my friend Matthew Norman marvelled aloud at the spectacle of Paris below him. “Well,” was his father’s nurturing reply. “We can all have beautiful cities if we don’t fight Hitler.”
Posted in Financial crisis | Tagged: bankrupt Britain, financial collapse, join the euro! | Leave a Comment »
The Big Disses: Distortion, Disruption and Disintegration
Posted by smeddum on December 12, 2008
This is a quicktime file
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Can the euro save Britain?
Posted by seumasach on December 12, 2008
Joining the eurozone is one way of limiting the terrible price of the City’s antics. But will politicians brave public opinion to do it?
John Palmer
12th December, 2008
According to the Sun, Gordon Brown has assured the entrepreneur Sir Alan Sugar that he has no plans “to ditch the pound” and join the euro. And certainly, the closest scrutiny of the agenda for the two-day summit meeting of European Union leaders that begins in Brussels today does not reveal any item dealing with a possible British overture to the members of the European single currency about joining the single currency.
Posted in Financial crisis | Tagged: financial collapse, join the euro! | Leave a Comment »
Obama’s Favoritism- Wall Street, Not the Auto Industry
Posted by seumasach on December 11, 2008
Michael Hudson
8th december, 2008
There is a strange double standard in President-elect Obama’s largesse with the public purse when it comes to Wall Street’s banks and insurance companies as compared to his more exacting stance toward bailing out the U.S. auto industry. In his December 7, 2008 interview with Meet the Press he set conditions for an auto industry bailout, but said nothing about setting similar conditions for the financial sector. His words regarding Detroit could just as well have been directed at Wall Street. But they were not.
“I think that the Big Three U.S. automakers have made repeated strategic mistakes. They have not managed that industry the way they should have. … What we have to do is to provide them with assistance, but that assistance is conditioned on them making significant adjustments. They’re going to have to restructure, and all their stakeholders are going to have to restructure. Labor, management, shareholders, creditors – everybody’s going to recognize that they have–they do not have a sustainable business model right now. And if they expect taxpayers to help in that adjustment process, then they can’t keep on putting off the kinds of changes that they, frankly, should have made 20 or 30 years ago.”
Posted in Financial crisis | Tagged: bailout real economy, financial collapse | 1 Comment »
Total Defeat for U.S. in Iraq- It’s All Spelled Out in Unpublicized Agreement
Posted by seumasach on December 11, 2008
Patrick Cockburn
11th December, 2008
On November 27 the Iraqi parliament voted by a large majority in favor of a security agreement with the US under which the 150,000 American troops in Iraq will withdraw from cities, towns and villages by June 30, 2009 and from all of Iraq by December 31, 2011. The Iraqi government will take over military responsibility for the Green Zone in Baghdad, the heart of American power in Iraq, in a few weeks time. Private security companies will lose their legal immunity. US military operations and the arrest of Iraqis will only be carried out with Iraqi consent. There will be no US military bases left behind when the last US troops leave in three years time and the US military is banned in the interim from carrying out attacks on other countries from Iraq.
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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is Dead- Asia Times, 2002
Posted by seumasach on December 11, 2008
Raising the question of precisely who is being tried at a US miltary tribunal in Cuba. Will they ever show us a picture of him other than the usual one of a bedraggled looking individual?
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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: "War on Terror", 9/11, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is dead! | Leave a Comment »
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