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How to organise a major terrorist scare

Posted by seumasach on September 9, 2008

How to organise a major terrorist scare
The Big Dummy’s guide to security booga-booga

By Gavin Gatenby, Possum News Network
15 August 2006

How easy is it to organise a major terrorist scare like the one that’s currently gridlocking the world’s airports? Dead easy. If you follow a few simple points you can panic the populace and stampede the media with virtually no risk of getting caught. All it takes is a little confidence. Here’s a simple “how-to” for aspiring top-level spooks:

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Mid-term review of the European Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-2010

Posted by seumasach on September 9, 2008

We are reposting this seemingly more complete version of the relevant resolutions


Texts adopted by European Parliament

Thursday, 4 September 2008 – Brussel
Mid-term review of the European Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-201
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– Resolution (extract) –

21.  Is greatly concerned at the Bio-Initiative international report(8) concerning electromagnetic fields, which summarises over 1500 studies on that topic and which points in its conclusions to the health risks posed by emissions from mobile-telephony devices such as mobile telephones, UMTS, Wifi, Wimax and Bluetooth, and also DECT landline telephones;

22.  Notes that the limits on exposure to electromagnetic fields which have been set for the general public are obsolete, since they have not been adjusted in the wake of Council Recommendation 1999/519/EC of 12 July 1999 on the limitation of exposure of the general public to electromagnetic fields (0Hz to 30 GHz)(9) , obviously take no account of developments in information and communication technologies, of the recommendations issued by the European Environment Agency or of the stricter emission standards adopted, for example, by Belgium, Italy and Austria, and do not address the issue of vulnerable groups, such as pregnant women, newborn babies and children;

23.   Calls, consequently, upon the Council to amend its Recommendation 1999/519/EC in order to take into account the Member States’ best practices and thus to set stricter exposure limits for all equipment which emits electromagnetic waves in the frequencies between 0.1 MHz and 300 GHz;

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Kevin Annett in Scotland- details of tour

Posted by seumasach on September 9, 2008

“Kevin Annett is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than many who have received it in the past.”
– Dr. Noam Chomsky , Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Clergyman Who Blew the Whistle on Murder of Canadian Native Children now in  Scotland.

Details of tour:

Gilvenbank Hotel, (Function Suite) Huntsman Road, Balfarg, GLENROTHES Thurs 11th Sept 2008.

Adam Smith Theatre (Beveridge Studio) KIRKCALDY. Fife. Friday 12th Sept 2008.
Both venues start at 6.30 pm.  GENOCIDE IN CANADA: THE FULL UNTOLD STORY
Content: Prayers and “Smudging” (A Native American Custom” – then short into to the film UNREPENTANT – following by discussion for everyone – questions and answers. finish at approx 9.30 pm.  There is no admission charge for these events.
A further meeting is planned in Glasgow in October- see this site for details

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Electronic smog ‘is disrupting nature on a massive scale’

Posted by smeddum on September 7, 2008

As I have said before the USDA has given no details on its experiments, and that in itself leaves its scupper of the influence of emf on bees open to question. CCD has been described as a conglomerate of everything that attacks bees, and it is not clear, and indeed not defined, what parameters and what places these experiments were conducted.
The Independent then comes up with a so-called expert on sparrows who does not address the issue at all as though magnetite did not exist in sparrows 

New study blames mobile phone masts and power lines for collapse of bee colonies and decline in sparrows

By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Independent
Sunday, 7 September 2008

AP
Bees are able to change the polarity of their antennae at will. It is believed that that it is this that enables them to navigate using the Earth’s magnetic forces Read the rest of this entry »

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Iran rejects French warning it risks Israeli strike

Posted by smeddum on September 7, 2008

Iran rejects French warning it risks Israeli strike
Sat Sep 6, 2008 8:02am
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran dismissed on Saturday a warning by France’s president that the Islamic Republic was taking a dangerous gamble over its nuclear program because one day its arch-foe Israel could strike.

Government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham accused Israel of threatening global peace but reiterated Tehran’s publicly stated view that it was not in a position to attack Iran. Read the rest of this entry »

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The windfall that never was

Posted by seumasach on September 7, 2008

Callender

7th September, 2008

“The smell of death around this government is so overpowering it seems to have anaesthetised them all.” Polly Toynbee, Guardian, 6th September

Last November I warned against the consequences of the baiting of Gordon Brown warning that British oligarchy was intent of neutering government itself. That aspiration is now fully realized. Brown is still there despite his manifest impotence or rather because of it. The executive of the state power is there to be steamrolled and Brown has shown that he is permanent fall-guy material. How many other candidates are there for such a dubious distinction? The flickerings of rebellion fade without gathering momentum and nostalgia for El Caudillo, Blair, is back. Even Milliband’s flirtation with a war on the old enemy, Russia, hasn’t given him even a semblance of the stature of a national leader.

Perhaps that’s because Britain is hardly a nation; rather the rump of parasitic empire which has taken to feeding off its own corpse. Leading the way in this macabre business are the energy utilities, the beneficiaries of the introduction of the sacred principle of competition; competition for the lion’s share of what’s left, a battle in which no quarter is given least of all to the hapless figure of a British prime minister trying to save himself and his party from ignominy and ultimate oblivion. They continue to hike prices relentlessly reducing broad swathes of the population to poverty whilst paying out ever greater dividends. Read the rest of this entry »

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Hypocrisy of this Magnitude has to be Respected.

Posted by smeddum on September 6, 2008

Hypocrisy of this Magnitude has to be Respected.

By William Blum

06/09/08 “ICH” – — Im sorry to say that I think that John McCain is going to be the next president of the United States. After the long night of Bush horror any Democrat should easily win, but the Dems are screwing it up and McCain has been running more-or-less even with Barack Obama in the polls. The Democrats should run on the slogan “If you liked Bush, you’ll love McCain”, but that would be too outspoken, too direct for the spineless Nancy Pelosi and her spineless party. Or, “If you liked Iraq, you’ll love Iran.” But the Democrat leadership is not on record as categorically opposing either conflict. Read the rest of this entry »

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America’s Mortgage Crisis: Bailout or “Nationalization” of the Mortgage Giants?

Posted by seumasach on September 6, 2008

Ellen Brown

Global Research

5th September, 2008

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own or guarantee nearly half the $12 trillion U.S. mortgage market. Not long ago, they were the darlings of Wall Street, ranking next to U.S. bonds as among the safest and most conservative investments in the world. They are called “government-sponsored enterprises” (GSEs), although they are entirely privately owned and specifically disclaim government backing on their prospectuses. The market has taken these disclaimers with a wink and a nod and has assumed that the GSEs are “too big to fail,” forcing the government to save them from their reckless investment schemes. Fannie and Freddie’s preferred shares have been considered so safe that banking regulators let banks count them in the capital required as a cushion against loan losses. This is now proving to be a serious problem, because both the common and preferred shares of the distressed duo are suddenly plunging. Between May 15 and August 25, Fannie’s common shares lost 77% of their value, while its preferred shares lost 58.8% in that short time. Freddie Mac’s preferred shares plunged even more, down 65.5%.1 That could be a disaster for many banks, which are loaded to the gills with these preferred shares. Banks already reeling from losses on mortgages and mortgage-backed securities are now being hit at the core, shrinking their capital base. Loss of bank capital works as leverage in reverse: at a capital requirement of 10%, $1 lost in capital wipes out $10 in loans. Read the rest of this entry »

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EU calls for Georgia probe as crunch Moscow visit looms

Posted by seumasach on September 6, 2008

 

6th Septenber, 2008
Avignon, France – International experts should investigate who carries the blame for starting the war between Georgia and Russia in August, European Union foreign ministers agreed Saturday ahead of a crunch EU mission to Moscow and Tbilisi. “We were all together in favour of an international inquiry. No allegation, no provocation without proof: we have to know what happened,” French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who chaired the informal meeting in the French town of Avignon, said.

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Pakistan cuts supply lines to NATO troops in Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on September 6, 2008

antiwar.com

5th September

 

In a move seen as the latest fallout from Wednesday morning’s US attackon South Waziristan, the Pakistani government has ordered that supply lines to NATO troops in Afghanistan be immediately severed for an indefinite period of time.

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Kommersant: Cheney’s trip to Baku “failed”

Posted by seumasach on September 6, 2008

 

Regnum

6th September

Vice President of the USA Dick Cheney completed his trip to the South Caucasus targeted at strengthening Washington’s positions in the struggle for Caspian energy resources. Kommersant Daily qualifies the outcome of Baku talks as “failure.” The daily accounts that President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev did not offer to the US guest a warm reception, hinting that Baku was not intending to support the idea of retracting energy carriers’ flows to bypass Russia.

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