Posted by seumasach on June 14, 2008
By Chan Akya (Asia Times)
The travails at one of the smaller investment banks in the world, Lehman Brothers, this week helped to increase investor focus on the phalanx of lies that underpin valuations across financial markets. Since I last alluded to the potential problems of this firm (Cheap talk, pricey banks, Asia Times Online, June 5, 2008), events have moved rather quickly; its share price is down from around US$31 to Thursday’s close of $22.70. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on June 14, 2008
Russia and Britain to look at actual perpetrators behind Litvinenko poisoning
By Wayne Madsen (Online Journal)
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Jun 10, 2008, 00:10
(WMR) — Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has announced that it now willing to work with British law enforcement agencies after it said Britain withdrew “unfounded accusations” originally leveled against Moscow regarding its alleged role in the affair. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 14, 2008
9th June 2008
MOSCOW. (Nikita Petrov exclusively for RIA Novosti) – President Bush’s missile defenses are dying with his presidency, but they might not rest in peace.
The Czech government is on the verge of a crisis. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said that his Cabinet might collapse in the fall. He admitted that the Cabinet lost a firm majority in parliament over the possible deployment of a high-frequency radar of the U.S. third positioning strategic missile defense area in the Czech Republic. Environmentalist deputies did not even want to hear about it, while others insist on a nation-wide referendum, which the government cannot win because 68% of the population is emphatically against the deployment. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 14, 2008
Interview with Franklin Lamb(ICH)
By Mike Whitney
Question: Between May 7 to May 10, Hezbollah took over Beirut, shut down the city’s TV and communications facilities, blocked the main highways, closed the airport, and surrounded the homes of the leading political leaders with armed gunman. The action was taken in response to Prime Minister Fouad Siniora’s decision to outlaw Hezbollah’s telecommunication network and sack the head of security at Beirut airport. Although the incident has been downplayed in the western media, it appears that Hezbollah achieved a total victory and is now recognized as the strongest group operating within Lebanon. What affect will Hezbollah’s victory have on the political dynamic within Lebanon? Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 14, 2008
A fine intervention by Galloway, somewhat marred by the unfounded presumption that the Brits are somehow reluctant supporters of the “war on terror”. This is not something which emerged from the mind of George Bush: it is classic British foreign policy.
House of Commons debates – Wednesday, 11 June 2008 –
Somalia (Human Rights)
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn. —[Steve McCabe.]
By George Galloway
13/06/08 “ICH “ — – -A Government ready to rely on those friends of liberty, the Democratic Unionist party, to shred the liberties of our own people are almost by definition unembarrassable, but I hope this evening to add to the issues ventilated in a recent Channel 4 “Dispatches” programme to adumbrate the extent to which the tragedy in Somalia, which so many people are now becoming aware of, is another of our Government’s dirty little secrets. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 14, 2008
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak heads a government under siege, facing another week of demonstrations demanding his resignation over his decision to lift a ban on US beef imports, and a national strike by truck drivers over rising fuel prices. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 14, 2008
Click here for more on FDA warning
13th June, 2008
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BEIJING, June 13 (Xinhuanet) — Silver dental fillings, officially known as amalgam fillings, contain mercury that may pose a safety concern for pregnant women and young children, warned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as quoted by media reports Friday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 12, 2008
“These new technologies have been introduced without full provision of information about their nature and without prior discussion within the scientific community about its possible consequences for health.”
1st June, Kounteya Sinha, (Times of India)
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NEW DELHI: In a recent pilot study done at Jawaharlal Nehru University, rats subjected to radiation from mobile phones were found to have damaged DNA and low sperm count, leading to infertility and reduction in testis size. The Union health ministry now wants to find out whether excessive cellphone use could be having the same adverse effects on your health. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 12, 2008
“Momentum is also growing within the Maliki administration for the US to leave altogether. Mr Maliki was in Iran this week where the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told him not to sign up to any long-term security deals with Washington.‘
Sartraps against the empire.
President offers concessions after furious reaction in Baghdad to American ‘colonialism’
By Leonard Doyle in Washington(Independent)
hursday, 12 June 2008
Faced with Iraqi anger over a US plan to enable Washington to keep military forces in the country indefinitely, George Bush is offering concessions to the government of Nouri al-Maliki in an effort to salvage an agreement, it emerged yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 12, 2008
By Paul Craig Roberts
11/06/08 “ICH“ — – How to explain the oil price? Why is it so high? Are we running out? Are supplies disrupted, or is the high price a reflection of oil company greed or OPEC greed. Are Chavez and the Saudis conspiring against us?
In my opinion, the two biggest factors in oil’s high price are the weakness in the US dollar’s exchange value and the liquidity that the Federal Reserve is pumping out. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 12, 2008
By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail
FALLUJAH, Jun 12 (IPS) – Babies born in Fallujah are showing illnesses and deformities on a scale never seen before, doctors and residents say. Read the rest of this entry »
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