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Generation X’d Out: An end to the human race as we’ve known it?

Posted by seumasach on December 11, 2008

 

 

Babies born to GENERATION X-RAY may be on the fast track to humanity’s genetic DEAD END.

 

Amy Worthington

proliberty.com

The term “Generation X-ray” refers to youth addicted to communicating and recreating with wireless devices—cell phones, PDA’s, WiFi computers and music/gaming equipment. These wireless devices emit high-frequency microwave radiation, recently demonstrated by European researchers to efficiently inflict the same horrific damage on human cells as X-radiation.

Surveys reveal that the average American child under 18 now spends several hours a day irradiating himself with his cell phone “toy.” Meantime, Swedish scientists report that children and teens who use cell phones are up to five times more likely than non-users to suffer glioma brain cancer. Gliomas are among the most difficult to treat and deadly of human cancers. Children who use cordless household phones have over four times the risk of developing brain tumors.

 

The far-reaching health hazards to children and teens from wireless technology are well-documented in part one of this Idaho Observer series: 
Generation X-ray: Child Victims of Technological Abuse. While the European Parliament and governments around the world are calling for stricter limits on wireless exposure for kids, Gen X-ray continues to ride the down escalator towards disintegrating health and premature death.

 

Most tragically, because our young people have received no official warning from U.S health agencies, they unknowingly micro-cook their sperm, ova and fetuses with a radiation known to be just as mutagenic and teratogenic as gamma wave radiation from nuclear fallout. The science is clear. Babies born to the hard-core wireless generation will suffer a high probability of genetic corruption from their very seed.

 


Scientists warn that a pregnant woman using a cell phone, with or without a headset or bluetooth device, could cause her to place the transmitting phone near her abdomen, exposing her baby to dangerous levels of microwave radiation. Both the pelvic structure and amniotic fluids promote the deep penetration of microwaves, which can be easily absorbed by the fetus.
  

 

 

We see them everywhere now. Armies of American women of childbearing age roam dazed through shopping centers with transmitting cell phones pressed firmly to their heads. Often with forlorn pre-schoolers traipsing behind, these gals wander the aisles getting “stoned” on microwaves. The opiod-like “high” they glean from skull-piercing phone radiation is documented in animal studies to habituate like nicotine.1 No one has told them that an extended cell phone “fix” enshrouds their bodies in high-frequency electromagnetic energy with potential to unleash devastating effects on both their living and future offspring. Read the rest of this entry »

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German ridicule for UK policies

Posted by seumasach on December 10, 2008

BBC

10th December, 2008

The German finance minister has launched an outspoken attack on the UK government’s plans to help pull Britain out of the economic downturn.

In an unusual breach of standard diplomacy, Peer Steinbruck attacked the UK’s decision to cut VAT and raise the national debt to record levels.

Mr Steinbruck said the UK’s switch from financial prudence to heavy borrowing was both “crass” and “breathtaking”.

His comments came in an interview with Newsweek magazine.

“There is a broad international consensus that a fiscal stimulus is right thing for economies now,” said a Treasury spokesman.

‘Debt generation’

Criticising the UK government’s decision to cut VAT from 17.5% to 15%, Mr Steinbruck questioned how effective this will be.

“Are you really going to buy a DVD player because it now costs £39.10 instead of £39.90?” he said.

“All this will do is raise Britain’s debt to a level that will take a whole generation to work off.”

Saying the UK government was now “tossing around billions”, Mr Steinbruck questioned why Britain was now closely following the high public spending model put forward by 20th Century economist John Maynard Keynes.

“The switch from decades of supply-side politics all the way to a crass Keynesianism is breathtaking,” he said.

“When I ask about the origins of the [financial] crisis, economists I respect tell me it is the credit-financed growth of recent years and decades.

“Isn’t this the same mistake everyone is suddenly making again, under all the public pressure?”

German spending

Chancellor Alistair Darling announced in last month’s pre-Budget report that the government would inject an extra £20bn into the UK economy in a bid to get it moving again.

At least £15bn of this total will come from increased government borrowing, which is expected to take the UK national debt to £118bn next year.

While Mr Steinbruck has accused the UK of over-spending on the economic recovery, the German government has put 480bn euros (£370.4bn; $645bn) into a rescue package for its banks.

Most other European government’s have also increased public spending to try to ease the impact of the economic downturn.

France recently announced plans to spend 26bn euros, and the European Commission wants to spend 200bn euros across the European Union.

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Pension schemes face £155bn shortfall

Posted by seumasach on December 10, 2008

Telegraph

8th December, 2008

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF), the pensions lifeboat fund, said yesterday that 6,690 pension schemes had a deficit at the end of last month, compared with 6,468 in October. The schemes in deficit at the end of last month face a collective funding shortfall of £155bn. Just one year ago, this figure was £58.3bn.

Once pension funds with a surplus are included in the figures, the total funding shortfall faced by all defined benefit schemes was £136bn in November, compared with a deficit of £97.3bn at the end of October.

In November, the total number of schemes in surplus was 1,047 – just 14pc of all schemes – compared to 1,273 in October. In November 2007 there were 2,400 schemes in surplus.

Last month alone there was a 0.5pc decrease in assets due to falling UK and global equities. At the same time, lower gilt yields in general led to an increase in liabilities of approximately 5.2pc.

“Over the past year, the falling equity markets and bond yields have led to an overall worsening of the funding position. Lower bond yields resulted in a 4pc increase in aggregate liabilities, while weaker equities have reduced assets by 18.7pc,” the PPF said.

The PPF was established three years ago to pay compensation for members of defined pension schemes when their employers became insolvent. Pensions experts predict an increase in claims in the current environment.

Woolworths, the stricken retailer whose retail and distribution arms are in administration, could become one of the biggest burdens on the PPF if a last-minute rescue deal cannot be struck to save the retailer.

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BIS warns of collapse in global lending

Posted by seumasach on December 10, 2008

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Telegraph

9th December, 2008

The City of London has suffered a dramatic collapse in its core business as global lending falls at the steepest rate since records began, according to new figures from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).

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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the 9/11 Legend

Posted by seumasach on December 10, 2008

With the trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed(if that actually is him) now taking place, this is timely moment to revisit  Chaim Kupferberg’s devasting, and often hilarious account of how KSM was woven into the 9/11 legend in the role of “mastermind”.

There’s something about Omar: Truth, Lies and the 9/11 Legend.

Chaim Kupferberg

Global Research

21st October, 2003

It was almost an afterthought.  On March 1, 2003, the War On Terror had finally served up the alleged paymaster of 9/11 – a shadowy Saudi by the name of Mustafa Ahmed al-Hisawi.  Yet his arrest just happened to coincide with the capture of a much bigger fish – the reported 9/11 mastermind himself, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed – thus relegating Mustafa Ahmed to the footnote section of the “official” 9/11 Legend.  But there was another, more explosive side to this tale. Only seventeen months before, a former London schoolboy by the name of Omar Saeed Sheikh was first exposed as the 9/11 paymaster, acting under the authority of a Pakistani general who was in Washington D.C. on September 11, meeting with the very two lawmakers who would subsequently preside over the “official” 9/11 congressional inquiry.  Omar Saeed, as reported back then by CNN, was acting under the alias of…Mustafa Ahmed.  So where is Omar now?  Sitting in a Pakistani prison, awaiting his execution for the kidnapping of Daniel Pearl – while another man fills the shoes of his pseudonym.  What follows is a reconstruction of one of the most extensive disinformation campaigns in history, and the chronicle of a legend that may now shine a devastating spotlight on some of the cliques behind 9/11 – and the FBI Director covering the paper trails.

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Event: The global financial crash and a sustainable future for humanity

Posted by seumasach on December 10, 2008

financial-crisis.eu

8th December, 2008

Jamal Harwood from Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain will address the Global Vision 2000 Conference on the global financial crash and a sustainable future for humanity on 13 December 2008.

Aims of the conference

Leading UK monetary reformers, bankers, economists, academics, journalists, social change activists and visionaries amongst others will be addressing the contemporary unprecedented financial and economic systemic collapse we are witnessing and focussing on the need for radical solutions addressing the causes as opposed to symptoms. This ” black swan” event and contagion is penetrating and infecting the entire world. The event aims to make a contribution towards the debate on the restructuring of the Bretton Woods global financial and economic architecture with fresh thinking which for too long has been deemed fringe but is now actually being forced upon and taken up by Governments. An unique platform for those seeking radical holistic,innovative and sustainable financial, monetary and economic changes. An unique opportunity to participate and join this life and death debate. This event builds upon previous special events held since 2003 which focus upon pioneering a fundamentally different alternative diagnosis and prescription. Global Vision 2000 will chart out and the need to move towards the UNIVERSAL PARADIGM SHIFT by establishing a crisis and future proof architecture and system which works for all.

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A Change Has Got To Come-EM Radiation and Health

Posted by seumasach on December 10, 2008



Angela Flynn
6th December, 2008
angelaflynn80@msn.com

I recently read Blue Windows by Barbara Wilson. Barbara was raised as a
Christian Scientist. Christian Scientists are admonished to look out of only
rose-colored windows because evil and sickness do not exist. Everything is
perfection. Her mother ended up getting breast cancer and completely lost it, as
this did not fit her belief system. The poor woman drank Drano in her effort to
kill herself. She never regained her sanity through her years of treatment for
the damage done by the Drano and the breast cancer and eventually died from it.
Barbara’s grandmother was a Christian Scientist practitioner who spent her days
performing remote healing. To her dying day she never told her community about
what happened to her daughter. Again it did not fit her belief system.

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Gen. Hamid Gul on CNN 9/11 Inside Job

Posted by seumasach on December 9, 2008

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BJP falters in state elections

Posted by seumasach on December 9, 2008

smh.com

10th December, 2008

INDIAN elections held soon after the attacks on Mumbai indicate millions of voters have not allowed terrorism to determine the way they vote.

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Insurgent attacks on NATO trucks highlight US military crisis in Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on December 9, 2008

By Barry Grey

WSWS
9 December 2008

A series of attacks on US and NATO military equipment depots in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Sunday and Monday have underscored the increasingly dire security situation facing American and allied forces conducting the counterinsurgency war in neighboring Afghanistan.
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China: Seize The Day!

Posted by smeddum on December 9, 2008

China: Carpe Diem!
Axel Merk, December 9, 2008 Merkfund

China has a unique opportunity and responsibility to shape not only its own future, but also that of the global economy. While China is by no means responsible for the plight the world faces, it has played an important role in allowing global imbalances to be built. If China decides to help prop up the world economic model that got us into trouble in the first place, we may face the same challenges again a few years down the road. Except then, China may not have $2 trillion in reserves to rescue its economy, and could face severe challenges. China will ultimately act in its own best interest, but prudent she must be. The time for China to act is now. Read the rest of this entry »

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