Posted by seumasach on August 21, 2008
“In an interview with London’s Guardian on Saturday, Gul[Turkish President] said: “I don’t think you can control all the world from one center. There are big nations. There are huge populations. There is unbelievable economic development in some parts of the world. So what we have to do is, instead of unilateral actions, act all together, make common decisions and have consultations with the world. A new world order … should emerge.””
Sana Abdallah
Middle East Times
19th August, 2008
AMMAN — Arab leaders are closely and quietly watching the unfolding military conflict between Russia and Georgia, while considering its political repercussions on the global scene and potential impact on the volatile Middle East. The Arab street, meanwhile, is openly backing a resurgent Russia and hopes to see the end of a Washington-centered unipolar world.
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Posted by seumasach on August 20, 2008
Eric Walberg
Australia.to
20th August, 2008
Russia’s firm response to the Georgian gamble in Ossetia is being interpreted in various ways, but the reality is clear, says Eric Walberg
Analogies of the Ossetia fiasco and its fallout with past events are coming thick and fast. Condoleezza Rice — bless her heart — says, “This is no longer 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia.” James Townsend, a former Pentagon official now with the Atlantic Council, compared the situation to Hungary in 1956.
In both cases, the Russians being, well, the Russians. Neocon Charles Krauthammer says Georgia needs “the equivalent of the Berlin air lift.” The Baltic statelets and Poland go back further yet, arguing it is a replay of Hitler and Stalin’s invasions of their territory, prompting Poland to quickly sign on the dotted line for US missiles (against the Iranians, of course).
But the most telling analogy is with Iraq and its ill-fated invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Kuwait indeed had been a province administered from Baghdad for millennia, so Saddam Hussein understandably coveted it, as Saakashvili does Ossetia. Hussein was convinced that the US had given him the green light after he had spent 10 years fighting the US’s latest bete noire, Iran , just as Saakashvili was given a similar ambivalent go-ahead to invade Ossetia . Even Townsend admits, “I think they misunderstand our eagerness and enthusiasm and think we are going to be behind them for anything.” Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin said it best: “It is hard to imagine that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili embarked on this risky venture without some sort of approval from the side of the United States.”
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Posted by smeddum on August 20, 2008
Is the Agency Hiding Colony Collapse Disorder Information?
NRDC Forced to Sue to Get Public Records on Bee Mystery commondreams
” The first finding, as explained, is formulated thus by Ulrich Warnke:
Other causes are also discussed, which aim to explain the disappearance of the bees:
Single-crop farming, pesticides, the Varroa mite, mobile apiaries, corroded seeds, too
severe winters, genetically modified plants. It remains uncontested that these also
cause problems. Yet, the fact that for the last two to three years bee death has
appeared rather suddenly and spread across countries, can be explained convincingly
by none of the above mentioned causes. If the bees simply became excessively
weakened and ill, they would have to perish in or in front of the beehive. Yet, in the
case of this particular phenomenon, no sick bees are to be found. (p. 13) ” link below
The reports that no sick bees are to be found outside the nest runs so contrary to the pesticide experience of beekeepers that it ought to be dismissed as the cause of CCD . Pesticides are not friends to the bees and do kill them but the damage that they do is evident in front of the nest. Everything that points to EMF radiation is not even considered by those who catch on to the pesticide threat to the bees.
Officially, the reason given by the USDA that “areas with no cell phone coverage still showed CCD” but they gave no parameters for this decision. Cell phones were also described as “low priority” for further investigation. For instance, it is not reported as a given that bees travel far, beyond 7 kilometers, also what is unclear is the extend and influence of the global communication system known as HAARP. has on electrosmog. There is certainly more room to investigate this phenonomen if the evidence we have given on this website is not sufficient.
WASHINGTON – August 18 – The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today to uncover critical information that the US government is withholding about the risks posed by pesticides to honey bees. NRDC legal experts and a leading bee researcher are convinced that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has evidence of connections between pesticides and the mysterious honey bee die-offs reported across the country. The phenomenon has come to be called “colony collapse disorder,” or CCD, and it is already proving to have disastrous consequences for American agriculture and the $15 billion worth of crops pollinated by bees every year. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on August 19, 2008
““I fully agree with Mr. Scheffer that ‘business as usual’ between Russia and NATO is no longer possible,” said Mr. Lavrov, adding: “We will draw our conclusions.” Analysts said Russia could stop providing a transport corridor and planes to airlift NATO supplies to Afghanistan. Russian transport aircraft at present ferry about 30 per cent of such shipments. This threat stopped the NATO Foreign Ministers from supporting a U.S. demand for suspending all ties with Russia, including cooperation on counter-terrorism.”
Vladimir Radyuhin
The Hindu
20 th August, 2008
MOSCOW: Russia may complete its withdrawal from Georgia in three to four days if Georgia complies with the terms of the ceasefire agreement, said Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday. He rejected as “biased” a NATO statement on the conflict.
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Posted by seumasach on August 19, 2008
“While Lovett says a disease being carried by the Varrao is a likely cause of the disappearing bees, he can’t be absolutely sure. “Nobody has carried out the work to see if it is these mites,” he says.”
This statement is completely untrue. Here is how VanEngelsdorp, acting apiarist for the state of Pennsylvania was reported on the varroa hypothesis:
“VanEngelsdorp, a sandy-bearded 37-year-old, quickly eliminated the most obvious suspects: Varroa and tracheal mites, which have occasionally wrought damage on hives since the 1980s.
At the state lab in Harrisburg, Pa., VanEngelsdorp checked bee samples from Pennsylvania and Georgia. He washed bees with soapy water to dislodge Varroa mites and cut the thorax of the bees to look for tracheal mites; he found that the number of mites was not unusually high.”
Here is the German scientist Ulrich Warnke:
“The disturbing phenomenon is presently predominantly attributed to the Varroa mite in newspapers and periodicals. It remains uncontested that there are such connections. Yet plausible arguments have been put forward explaining that the mite attack also occurs as a result of previous damage to the bees’ immune system due to electromagnetic fields. ”
He goes on to point out that bees affected by Varroa would be found dead just outside the hive rather than disappearing as in the case of CCD.
Last years much-vaunted Penn State University investigation under Diane Cox-Foster also appears to have ruled out Varroa:
“In the course of the investigation all previous hypothesis had been ruled out. As one of the investigators put it: “the only candidate left standing was, in fact, IAPV.”(5)
“Other viruses and Nosema parasites had been suggested as the cause of CCD, but the researchers found that those pathogens appear in both CCD and non-CCD samples.”
https://inthesenewtimes.com/2008/05/15/the-disappearing-bees-ccd-and-electromagnetic-radiation/
Varroa is also inconsistent with CCD’s status as a mystery since as HESE have pointed out
“Infestations such as the varroa mite can be tested for quickly and easily, and could confirm this as the current cause, but this has not been reported this time.”
We can conclude that we don’t need £8 million to find out whether or not it is Varroa.
Rachel Oliver
CNN
With rising energy prices and the global biofuel rush already putting pressure on food prices, more news that some countries’ food supplies are being threatened from other corners is never welcome. But new research from the British Beekeeping Association (BBKA) released last week seemed to promise exactly that.
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Posted by smeddum on August 19, 2008
Appeals to the Medical Fraternity
The Freiburger Appeal is a German based appeal by mainly medical practitioners who are concerned about the effects, they believe, from mobile phone technology including masts, that are appearing in their patients. It started in Oct 2002 and with very little international publicity has got nearly 3000* medical signatories and 50,000* supporting signatures from across the world with very little publicity. Mast Sanity has been coordinating the distribution and collection of these petitions in the UK. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on August 19, 2008
“As Polish prime minister from in 2003-2004, Leszek Miller coordinated Poland’s entry into the EU. The day after Poland was admitted to the European family of nations, he resigned under pressure from his opponents.”
(Leszek Miller for RIA Novosti) – Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili decided to become a hero on the Olympics opening day. To guarantee success, he drafted 100,000 reservists to fight a 70,000-strong republic.
Instead of looking for ways of peaceful settlement with the unruly Abkhazia and South Ossetia, he provoked a bloody conflict which took hundreds of lives. Saakashvili wanted to consolidate his positions in his own country. Having started the war, he did not expect to be its main victim. Meanwhile, he could see it all in advance. A mere 25% of South Ossetia’s population is Georgian and the rest are Ossetians with Russian passports. Moreover, Ossetians remember how Georgians seized their territory by force after the Soviet Union’s disintegration.
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Posted by seumasach on August 19, 2008
Suzy Jagger
The Times
16th August, 2008
See also: Lehman and the Liars
Lehman Brothers, the Wall Street investment bank, is understood to be in talks to sell its entire $40 billion (£21.5 billion) real estate portfolio in a move to stem losses incurred during one of the worst property slumps since the Great Depression.
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Posted by smeddum on August 19, 2008
Advancement project
August 13, 2008
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NEARLY 600,000 OHIO VOTERS MAY BE DISENFRANCHISED
(Columbus, Ohio August 13, 2008) —Based on publicly available information nearly 600,000 eligible voters could be placed on a caging list and challenged on Election Day, which could then result in their removal from the voter rolls without due process, in accordance with Ohio law. Ohio counties with largest numbers of returned notices prior to March 2008 Presidential Primary are Cuyahoga, Franklin, Hamilton, Lucas and Summit. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2008
“According to the International Herald Tribune, an unnamed United Nations official is said to have joked that the U.S. was happy to let Georgia lose South Ossetia as long as Russia voted in favour of censuring Iran. Had the U.S. won decisive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it would not find itself caught in this complex web of linkage between Iran and the imbroglio in the Caucasus. Mr. Putin is taking full advantage of Washington’s dependence on Russia to solve two international problem cases — Iran and North Korea — and extracting his pound of flesh against Georgia.”
The writer overestimates America’s hand: the quid pro quo consists not in Russia allowing the US to isolate Iran but in allowing the US to extricate itself from Iraq without total loss of credibility. Russia is steadily strengthening its links with Iran and could not conceivably allow it to be bombed.
Sreeram Chaulia
The Hindu
As Russia carries its overwhelming response to Georgia’s invasion of South Ossetia into Georgian territory, the United States is appealing for restoration of Georgia’s territorial integrity. This is the same U.S. which, a few months ago, was overeager to bless Kosovo as an independent state at the cost of Serbia’s territorial integrity. Just as Washington paid little heed to Moscow’s protests at that time over the illegality of Kosovo’s stateh ood, Moscow is now rebutting in the same vein that there is no question of South Ossetia and Abkhazia being returned to Georgian suzerainty.
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Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2008
“Exaggerating threats is a feature, not a bug, of McCainite neoconservatism, and reveals much about what kind of president he’d make.”
Actually, it reveals a lot more what it takes to become president, and McCain, the master of the external menace, may well be in poll position with his slogan “We’re all Georgians now!” The resemblance of these moves to the film “Wag the dog” has already been noted. Too much can be made of US foreign policy ambition: with disaster all round from Iraq and Afghanistan to Wall Street, US politics now is more about “saving ass” than “kicking ass.”
Matt Welch
Reason
18th August
On Thursday of last week, Republican presidential nominee John McCain said that Russia’s invasion of Georgia was “the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.” This is most certainly not true, at least according to the last two decades’ worth of foreign policy assessments from one John McCain.
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