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The shoes we longed for

Posted by seumasach on December 17, 2008

 

Sami Ramadani

Guardian

17th december, 2008

Within a few unlikely seconds, a pair of size 10 shoes have become the most destructive weapon the people of Iraq have managed to throw at the occupying powers, after nearly six years of occupation and formidable resistance. One Iraqi writer called the shoes, hurled by a journalist at George Bush, “Iraq’s weapon of comprehensive destruction”.

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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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UNESCO Seminar: “Electromagnetic Fields: Mechanisms Of Action And Potential Threat As A Terrorism Agent”

Posted by seumasach on December 7, 2008

“However EMF also pose direct threats to human health through mechanisms that are poorly understood.”

So there you are then: in certain milieu, where the terrorists in question aren’t O2 or Vodaphone, it’s not even a question for debate.
November 2008

There is more and more use of electricity and RF communication frequencies in both civilian life and for military purposes. The clarification of cellular and molecular mechanisms of their biological effects is extremely important in order to rationally evaluate their harmful effects from the point of public health. Read the rest of this entry »

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WSJ Opinion: The Fed Is Out of Ammunition

Posted by smeddum on November 24, 2008

 

The Fed Is Out of Ammunition

A discredited dollar is a likely outcome of the current crisis.

With an estimated $4 trillion in housing wealth and $9 trillion in stock-market wealth destroyed so far in the United States, there is little doubt that we are witnessing a classic debt-deflation bust at work, characterized by falling prices, frozen credit markets and plummeting asset values. Read the rest of this entry »

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Chávez: “Economic crisis must serve to create a new international order”

Posted by smeddum on October 31, 2008

Chávez: “Economic crisis must serve to create a new international order”
POLITICS El Universo
Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez restated Thursday the need to seize the global financial crisis to create “new international institutions.”

Chavez made his proposal during a special event dedicated to the social integration of disabled persons, in a nationwide mandatory radio and TV broadcast. Read the rest of this entry »

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Music Video : The Day Hank Poulson Lied

Posted by smeddum on October 7, 2008

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Bailout Bedlam: Robbing the Taxpayers to Save the Banks

Posted by smeddum on October 2, 2008

Bailout Bedlam: Robbing the Taxpayers to Save the Banks

by Ellen Brown

Global Research, October 2, 2008

“Doesn’t this seem like lunacy to you? The consequences of it are unbelievably bad in terms of public intrusion into the private sector. Is anybody thinking there? It’s too late, it’s not going to make any difference, and it’s aggravating as hell when there’s a better idea and you can’t even get it in play.” Former Treasury Secretary John O’Neill in an October 1 interview with Bloomberg on the bank bailout plan Read the rest of this entry »

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Irish economy in trouble

Posted by smeddum on September 4, 2008

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MoU softens EU stance on Zimbabwe

Posted by smeddum on July 27, 2008


Race and History

Herald Reporter-AFP.
July 26, 2008
The Herald

BORDEAUX. THE ongoing talks between Zanu-PF and the two MDC formations have softened the European Union’s stance on Zimbabwe and has now thrown its weight behind President Thabo Mbeki’s mediation. Read the rest of this entry »

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Iran, Venezuela to Establish Joint Bank

Posted by alfied on June 23, 2008

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran announced it is reviewing the launch of a joint development bank with Venezuela.

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Sadr’s agreement with Iraqi Army

Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2008

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Why the war-party’s reading of this is wrong(MISSING LINKS)

The point that Moqtada has emphasized consistently in all of his recent statements is that the Sadr trend is at war with the occupation only, and not with the Iraqi forces. The strategy is to drive out the occupation (1) without triggering civil war between Iraqi groups; and in fact (2) use the process as preparation for an Iraqi government freed from the filth of the occupation. You can see this in his statements of April 8; April 19; and April 25. (Discussion of the latter here). I won’t bother to quote the relevant parts again, because the strategy is clear: Fight the occupation without triggering an intra-Iraq war. Read the rest of this entry »

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