Fair and Balanced

Claudia - Deixa eu dizer

2011-03-29T23:23:00.000+02:00

The American Dream By The Provocateur Network

2011-03-25T05:35:00.000+01:00

Jane Burgermeister

2009-12-07T22:33:00.000+01:00

"There is evidence that shows that there presently exists an international corporate criminal syndicate that, in violation of the RICO Act (18 USC sec 1961-1969), is intent upon embarking upon a cascading event of genocide within the United States, in the UK, and in other countries around the world, most likely in Autumn 2009/Winter2010, using as their weapon an enforced program of toxic vaccines after a deliberate release of a virus to spark a pandemic could immensely profit vaccine companies.

The toxic vaccinations, classified as bioweapons by the US and EU governments’ own regulations."

One Mainframe To Rule Them All (1of5)

2009-11-11T22:00:00.001+01:00

BANANAS!* trailer

2009-08-31T22:29:00.001+02:00

Everything happens in your head

2009-08-31T02:53:00.001+02:00

It's also known that vaccines don't protect against diseases they're designed to prevent and often cause them.

2009-07-18T13:03:00.001+02:00

"It's crucial to understand that these vaccines are experimental, untested, toxic and extremely dangerous to the human immune system. They contain squalene-based adjuvants that cause a host of annoying to life-threatening autoimmune diseases. They must be avoided, even if mandated. It's also known that vaccines don't protect against diseases they're designed to prevent and often cause them. They should be banned but proliferate anyway because they're so profitable, and if globally mandated to the greatest extent ever."

This didn't just happen. Life Inc: The Book

2009-07-12T12:37:00.004+02:00

"In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a convenient legal fiction to the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that theyâ€™re no longer even aware of it.

This fascinating journey reveals the roots of our debacle, from the late Middle Ages to today. From the founding of the chartered monopoly to the branding of the self; from the invention of central currency to the privatization of banking; from the birth of the modern, self-interested individual to his exploitation through the false ideal of the single-family home; from the Victorian Great Exhibition to the solipsism of MySpace; the corporation has infiltrated all aspects of our daily lives. Life Inc. exposes why we see our homes as investments rather than places to live, our 401k plans as the ultimate measure of success, and the Internet as just another place to do business."

Life Inc: The Book

2009-07-11T12:13:00.001+02:00

get it together for god’s sake, how hard can it be..

2008-10-28T17:32:00.001+01:00

Leading economist Nouriel Roubini explains in bullet-point form how hedge funds are driving the stock market collapse. Take careful note of how credit default swaps are a key factor in the stock market sell-off, and how another type of derivative - "collateralized fund obligations" - may be the next shoe to drop:

derivatives site:globalresearch.ca

2008-10-28T17:24:00.001+01:00

http://www.google.se/search?q=derivatives+site%3Aglobalresearch.ca&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Those banks apparently also got nailed

2008-10-28T17:23:00.001+01:00

http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/10/who-got-nailed-paying-for-lehmans.html

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10535

We know that issuers of Lehman's credit default swaps will have to pay out hundreds of billions of dollars. But who will actually have to pay that out?

The Times of London writes today:

"About 350 banks and investors are thought to have insured an estimated $400 billion of Lehman’s debt through complex derivatives, known as credit default swaps. These include Pacific Investment Management, the manager of the world’s largest bond fund, Citadel, the US hedge fund, and American International Group, the insurer that the US Government recently bailed out with two loans totalling about $123 billion."

Derivatives are financial instruments whose values depend on the value of other underlying financial instruments. The main types of derivatives are futures, forwards, options and swaps.

2008-10-27T20:23:00.001+01:00

The OTC derivative market is the largest market for derivatives, and is unregulated. According to the Bank for International Settlements, the total outstanding national amount is $596 trillion (as of December 2007)^[1].

Swedish Vattenfall to Invest in Polish Lignite Project

2008-03-17T16:51:00.004+01:00

"Local government representatives from the Legnica, Lubin and Ścinawa administrative districts in the Lower Silesia voivodship in southwestern Poland have sent a letter to Prime Minister Donald Tusk in protest against a plan to exploit the massive lignite reserves in their region, and to use them to fire a huge new power station. The project is gaining momentum, and local and foreign companies, such as Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) and Vattenfall of Sweden, have stated their interest in it. The estimated cost of the project is zł.7.7 billion."

"Invited to comment on the opposition to the project by local residents, the spokesperson for Vattenfall in Poland, Łukasz Zimnoch, replied enigmatically.

"Vattenfall wants to develop dynamically in Poland, matching its next steps to the growth of the Polish economy as a whole," he offered."

( Lignite = brunkol )

Improbable Collapse : The Demolition of our Republic

2008-03-09T11:32:00.001+01:00

“Improbable Collapse: The Demolition of Our Republic” is the first film to look at the events of September 11, 2001 from a scientific perspective.

WTC 7 collapsed as if from a controlled demolition.

Did Canada cave under US Israeli pressure?

2008-01-23T08:52:00.000+01:00

Michael Ratner: Canada gave in to pressure from US ambassador

ZAA NKWETA, PRESENTER: A Canadian Foreign Affairs training manual has created a diplomatic firestorm. At issue is a list of countries with possible torture and abuse cases. The list includes the United States. The manual was inadvertently released to lawyers from Amnesty International working on a lawsuit involving alleged abuse of Afghan detainees by Canadians. US Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins has stated that the inclusion of the United States is absurd. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Maxine Bernier promptly issued an apology, stating that the manual will be reviewed and rewritten. The Real News spoke with Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a leading expert in international law and torture and abuse cases.

UN security council fails to address Gaza

2008-01-23T08:32:00.000+01:00

The UN security council held an emergency meeting on Tuesday to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. But with the United States putting the blame on Hamas, the council failed to reach an agreement on a statement. Kristen Saloomey reports for Al Jazeera.

Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2007

2008-01-17T21:07:00.001+01:00

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2007 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes:

1. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY): In addition to her long and sordid ethics record, Senator Hillary Clinton took a lot of heat in 2007 – and rightly so – for blocking the release her official White House records. Many suspect these records contain a treasure trove of information related to her role in a number of serious Clinton-era scandals. Moreover, in March 2007, Judicial Watch filed an ethics complaint against Senator Clinton for filing false financial disclosure forms with the U.S. Senate (again). And Hillary’s top campaign contributor, Norman Hsu, was exposed as a felon and a fugitive from justice in 2007. Hsu pleaded guilt to one count of grand theft for defrauding investors as part of a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme.

http://judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-announces-list-washington-s-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-2007

Reindeer herders march on Stockholm

2007-12-12T19:32:00.001+01:00

Irate reindeer herders from Sweden's indigenous Sami population took to the streets of Stockholm on Friday to protest against Norway's alleged attempts to force the animals from their traditional pastures.

"This is completely unreal. We can't live with a state that terrorizes and hunts us, despite the fact that we are on our own land. We have lived on this land and cultivated it for thousands of years, long before the creation of the Norwegian state," said Saarivuoma chairman Per Anders Nutti in a statement.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/umea/article1448518.ab

Arraial d'Ajuda Brasil 2007

2007-12-06T00:34:00.000+01:00

Rainin in Paradize, Manu Chao

2007-12-04T17:08:00.001+01:00

Close Guantanamo!!

2007-11-27T13:54:00.001+01:00

Hello again travellers,

Now we are on the second stage of our trip, I would like to remember the reasons we have embarked on this journey, and why Guantánamo must be closed.

Can you imagine how it feels to be held at Guantánamo? Or how it would feel if your father, brother or husband was locked up, thousands of miles away, with little hope of access to a proper court, amid all the reports of torture and ill-treatment of the men held there?

You don’t need to guess, you can learn about how this feels directly from those affected.

Thanks everyone, together we can end this outrage.

Sarah Burton
Campaigns Programme Director

Ps. Keep checking www.amnesty.org/guantanamoflotilla and keep your eyes out for new opportunities to act to close Guantánamo.

Stop Europe's Unfair Trade Deals

2007-11-27T13:43:00.001+01:00

The European Union (EU) is pushing hard for 76 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to sign unfair trade deals before the end of this year.

From July, the new man in charge at the European Union is Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Sócrates. We want to tell him that trade could lift millions of people out of poverty if the rules were fair.

The EU promised that the interests of poor countries would be at the heart of their trade deals. But current proposals put the EU’s own economic interests above those of millions of the world’s poorest people and their environment.

The negotiations are at a critical stage. Now is the time to tell the EU that these trade deals must focus on reducing poverty. Your voice can make a difference.

Please ask Prime Minister Socrates to use his influence to make these trade agreements fair.

http://www.maketradefair.com/en/index.php?file=email_socrates.htm

جمهوری اسلامی ايران Islamic Republic of Iran

2007-11-10T17:02:00.001+01:00

Dozens of pre-historic sites across the Iranian plateau point to the existence of ancient cultures and urban settlements, centuries before the earliest civilizations arose in nearby Mesopotamia.^[18]

Iran, (Persian: ايران, Īrān; pronounced [iːˈɾɒn]), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: جمهوری اسلامی ايران, transliteration: Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī-ye Īrān), formerly known internationally as Persia, is a Southwest Asian country located in the geographical territories of the Middle East, Southern Asia,^[4], Central Asia and the Caucasus. Shi'a Islam is the state religion and Persian the official language.^[5]

Rising to the humanitarian challenge in Iraq

2007-11-08T16:27:00.001+01:00

Armed violence is the greatest threat facing Iraqis, but the population is also experiencing another kind of crisis of an alarming scale and severity. Eight million people are in urgent need of emergency aid; that figure includes over two million who are displaced within the country, and more than two million refugees. Many more are living in poverty, without basic services, and increasingly threatened by disease and malnutrition. Despite the constraints imposed by violence, the government of Iraq, the United Nations, and international donors can do more to deliver humanitarian assistance to reduce unnecessary suffering. If people’s basic needs are left unattended, this will only serve to further destabilize the country.

Rising to the humanitarian challenge in Iraq (pdf 339.1 kb)

The founder of Cirque du Soleil Guy Laliberté launches a global foundation to deal with access to water issues

2007-11-08T15:09:00.001+01:00

Distribution Source : Canada NewsWire

Date: Monday - October 29, 2007

MONTREAL, Oct. 29 /CNW Telbec/ - Guy Laliberté announced today, in the presence of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco, Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director of Oxfam International, and Gordon Nixon, President and Chief Executive Officer of RBC, the official launch of the ONE DROP Foundation to fight poverty in the world by giving everyone access to water.

"No one can remain indifferent when we know that at least every eight seconds, a child dies from a disease caused by drinking contaminated water," said Guy Laliberté. "With the creation of ONE DROP, we want to mobilize people everywhere in the world to find sustainable solutions to the problem of access to water, and to adopt better practices for the use of this precious resource."

Access to water is one of the planet's most pressing issues. Over a billion people do not have access to water in sufficient quantity or adequate quality. Almost half of the world's population drinks untreated water.

What’s the secret? How do you do it?

2007-11-08T14:40:00.001+01:00

Pilger is a strong critic of the institutions and economic forces that structure 'mainstream' journalism. He said in an address at Columbia University on 14 April 2006:

“During the Cold War, a group of Russian journalists toured the United States. On the final day of their visit, they were asked by their hosts for their impressions. 'I have to tell you,' said their spokesman, 'that we were astonished to find after reading all the newspapers and watching TV, that all the opinions on all the vital issues were by and large, the same. To get that result in our country, we imprison people, we tear out their fingernails. Here, you don’t have that. What’s the secret? How do you do it?”

John Pilger, Speech at Columbia University, 14 April 2006

Fredags Video

2007-10-05T10:22:00.001+02:00

Stop the Iraqi Oil Law

2007-09-25T09:24:00.000+02:00

"I'm saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: The Iraq war is largely about oil." – Alan Greenspan

The proposed Iraqi oil law would take the majority of Iraq's oil out of the exclusive hands of the Iraqi government and open it to international oil companies for a generation or more. The law is the smoking gun revealing the oil agenda behind the Iraq war. It is what the war was for. For more information go to www.iraqoillaw.com

The Shock Doctrine: A Short Film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein

2007-09-20T10:11:00.000+02:00

Land of the Brave and the Free...

2007-09-19T15:26:00.001+02:00

...but if you ask the wrong questions we'll tase you!!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7596708122402388456&q=Andrew+Meyer&total=393&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=6

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2489183.ece

ZEITGEIST, The Movie

2007-06-26T21:57:00.000+02:00

Have a look at this. Be ready with Google and Wikipedia as some of the facts seem too incredible to be true..

Can also bee seen in parts here:

Part1:(without intro) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8461754114455236037
Part2: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2602704786128880796
Part3: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8450558837192717138

"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws!"
Mayer Anselm Rothschild

"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight."
John F. Kennedy, speech at Columbia University, 10 days before his assassination

"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."
Benjamin Disraeli, first Prime Minister of England, in a novel he published in 1844 called Coningsby, the New Generation

"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes, I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent."
Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets.

"The real rulers of Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes."
US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter

Test your Star Wars personality

2007-04-23T14:25:00.000+02:00

Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks

2007-02-03T18:43:00.000+01:00

Flagged as inappropriate on youtube

2007-01-18T10:59:00.000+01:00

Who is the terrorist..

2006-11-29T18:38:00.000+01:00

A land without people? .....hardly

2006-11-29T18:15:00.000+01:00

Democracy in the USA....

2006-11-03T14:13:00.000+01:00

Was the USA election rigged?
Did they manipulate the voting machines?

Supermassive black hole

2006-10-30T20:40:00.000+01:00

The average density of a supermassive black hole can be very low, and may actually be lower than the density of water. This is because the Schwarzschild radius is directly proportional to mass, such that density is inversely proportional to the square of the mass.

Israel's Plan For A Military Strike On Iran

2006-10-16T13:26:00.000+02:00

"It does not clarify that Israel's own large nuclear arsenal was secretly developed and is entirely unmonitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency, or that it is perceived as a threat by its neighbours and may be fuelling a Middle East arms race."

Liza Marklund: Nya m förvillande likt gamla

2006-10-15T16:59:00.000+02:00

"Det enda svar jag kan komma på är att Reinfeldt i hemlighet tycker precis som Cecilia Stegö Chilò: Att alla bidrag till konst, teater, museer och litteratur borde avskaffas. Att SVT skulle må bäst av att läggas ner och Sveriges radio av att säljas ut."

DMI - Lyn

2006-10-02T00:36:00.000+02:00

DMI - Lyn: "De seneste 7 døgns lyn"

911 - 7 World Trade Implosion

2006-10-01T23:04:00.000+02:00


Rarely seen footage of World Trade Center 7 collapsing in the manner which is consistent with Implosion, controlled demolition.

Upside Down World - Not For Sale: El Salvador's Movement Against Water Privatization

2006-10-01T10:56:00.000+02:00

"Who Wants Privatization?

Since the early 1990’s the international financial institutions (IFIs), like the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), have encouraged the privatization of water systems throughout Latin America through 'Structural Adjustment' loans. The IFI’s require governments to open water management to private investment as a condition for receiving loan money, which is usually destined toward infrastructure repair or new construction.

The IDB stopped using the word 'privatization' after the Cochabomba, Bolivia disturbances in 2000. In that conflict over water privatization, tens of thousands marched until the local government annulled a water management concession with a subsidiary of the US-based Bechtel corporation. Today, the IDB prefers terms like 'concessions' and 'decentralization,' or 'private sector participation.' But critics say whatever the euphemism, the result is the same privatization.

The US-based consumer watchdog Public Citizen reports that the IDB and World Bank together administer about 133 different water and sewage-related projects, funded to the tune of $9.7 billion. The majority of these projects are in Africa and Latin America, while most of them include some type of 'hydro-sector reform.'"

ZNet Venezuela | Hugo Chavez

2006-09-25T01:08:00.000+02:00

"You'd think George Bush would get down on his knees and kiss Hugo Chavez's behind."

Greider – din fåfänga gör dig feg

2006-09-25T01:05:00.000+02:00

Aftonbladet:
"Den folkliga litteraturens fanbärare är ofta hycklande falska och överpösigt jättetrötta.
De svingar sina falska spön i arbetarklassens namn.
De borde avgå.
Men de bevakar sitt territorium med en gränspolis noggrannhet.
De låtsas indignerade och anfaller lite halvmätt från vänster."

Havana’s medics work around the world: Cuba exports health

2006-09-16T11:46:00.000+02:00

"Havana’s medics work around the world: Cuba exports health Print E-mail
By Hernando Calvo Ospina - www.mondediplo.com
Thursday, 24 August 2006

Some 14,000 Cuban doctors now give free treatment to Venezuela's poor and 3,000 Cuban medical staff worked in the aftermath of last year's Kashmir earthquake. Cuba has plans to heal those poorer than itself.

When Hurricane Katrina ripped through the southern United States in August 2005, the authorities were overwhelmed and the governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, appealed to the international community for emergency medical aid. The Cuban government immediately offered assistance to New Orleans and to the states of Mississippi and Alabama, also affected by the storm, and promised that within 48 hours 1,600 doctors, trained to deal with such catastrophes, would arrive with all the necessary equipment plus 36 tonnes of medical supplies. This offer, and another made directly to President George Bush, went unanswered. In the catastrophe at least 1,800 people, most of them poor, died for lack of aid and treatment."

Hands Off Venezuela

2006-09-16T11:44:00.000+02:00

Blowing up people in Venezuela....what is going on?

What would the reaction be if we produced a game where we invade The United States of Love and kill Americans?

Hands Off Venezuela!!

"E3 2006: Build Update -- World in Flames
We gleefully blow up an oil platform off the Venezuelan coast.
by Jeff Haynes

May 11, 2006 - We made a stop by the Pandemic booth to check up on any updated changes to Mercenaries 2: World in Flames and the improvements were rather dramatic. For one, the entire demo that we saw just a few weeks ago had been completely ripped apart and rebuilt, which we were told was possible thanks to the component system of the engine."

Net's Vulnerability Exposed

2006-09-16T11:23:00.000+02:00

Cyberterrorism...

"October 28, 2002 (Computerworld) -- Last week's assault on the Internet's core addressing system may not have caused much real damage, but it highlights the Internet's vulnerability to more sophisticated cyberattacks in the future, security analysts warned.

All 13 of the Internet's root Domain Name System servers—three of which are located outside the U.S.—were victims of a massive distributed denial-of-service attack on Oct. 21.

'It was the single most elaborate and focused attack on the DNS network that we have ever seen,' said Tom Ohlsson, vice president of Matrix NetSystems Inc., an Austin, Texas-based Internet performance monitoring company.

The attack appears to have been an attempt to disrupt the Internet by clogging root DNS servers with useless traffic. The root DNS servers provide the vital translation services needed for converting a Web name such as www.computerworld.com into a corresponding numerical IP address. "

Local content Filtering Procedure

2006-09-16T10:56:00.000+02:00

"Local content Filtering Procedure

All incoming Web traffic to the Kingdom passes through a proxy farm system implementing a content filtering software. A list of addresses for banned sites is maintained by this filtering system. This list is updated daily based on the content filtering policy."

Mumbai police gag hinduunity.org

2006-09-16T10:47:00.000+02:00

"Mumbai police gag hinduunity.org

Priya Ganapati in Mumbai | May 26, 2004 18:21 IST
Last Updated: May 27, 2004 18:53 IST

Key Internet service providers, including Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited, India's largest ISP with more than 800,000 subscribers, have blocked access to a web site, www.hinduunity.org

The web site is run by a Hindu activist from the US, Rohit Vyasmaan, and logs about 17,000 hits a day.

The site has been blocked on the basis of a request from the Mumbai police commissioner's office in a letter sent out to ISPs on April 28.

Sources at the Mumbai police commissioner's office said the directive was issued because the web site published inflammatory material against Islam. Joint Commissioner of Police (crime) Dr Satyapal Singh, a decorated officer of the Indian Police Service, authorised the note."

svt.se - Nyheter

2006-09-16T02:30:00.000+02:00

"Talibansk gerilla har erövrat den Nato-ledda Isaf-styrkans högkvarter i ett distrikt i provinsen Farah i västra Afghanistan, uppger BBC."

Gulf Times – Qatar - Afghan governor dies in suicide bomb attack

2006-09-16T02:29:00.000+02:00

"KANDAHAR: Nato and Afghan troops killed 94 Taliban rebels in a major insurgent stronghold in southern Afghanistan while a respected provincial governor died in a suicide blast yesterday, officials said. The violence underscored the precarious situation in Afghanistan on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks - the atrocity that prompted the toppling of the fundamentalist Taliban."

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Better paid, better armed, better connected - Taliban rise again

2006-09-16T01:49:00.000+02:00

Declan Walsh in Ghazni
Saturday September 16, 2006
The Guardian

Reedi Gul is probably dead now. Two weeks ago masked gunmen abducted the 24-year-old on a lonely mountain road in central Afghanistan. The next day his father, Saleh Gul, received a phone call, and realised he was the real target.

'I am an Afghan Muslim Talib,' the voice announced. 'If you want to see your son alive, listen carefully.'

Three weeks earlier Saleh Gul had been appointed governor of an insurgent-infested district in Ghazni province. The Taliban demanded he quit his job, pay a ransom, attack US forces and assassinate local officials.

Mr Gul paid $2,000 and resigned his position, but refused to kill. 'I am not a terrorist,' he barked down the phone. So the Taliban added an impossible demand: the freedom of an imprisoned commander."

Så blev vi alla borgare

2006-09-14T13:56:00.000+02:00

"Att rösta mot en borgerlig regering handlar om att bryta en trend av förborgerligande av oss alla. Det är ett rent självförsvar."

Johan Ehrenberg

Vem ska då utmana Makten?

2006-09-14T13:52:00.000+02:00

"En Fredrik Reinfeldt vid makten innebär att den marknadsmakt som redan i dag är den makt som verkligen uppreser sig mot vanligt folk, så att säga dubbleras. Den förstärks. Två eliter, den ekonomiska och den nya politiska, flyter åter samman."

GÖRAN GREIDER

Amnesty International Campaign

2006-09-13T18:57:00.000+02:00

www.irrepressible.info

"Database of censored material

Amnesty International is working with the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) to help raise awareness of internet censorship around the world."

En utrikespolitik utan ansvar

2006-09-09T12:13:00.000+02:00

"Den nya fråga som då infinner sig är hur EU bestämmer sin utrikespolitik - på detta område och andra - och det korta svaret på den frågan är att det vet vi inte och får heller inget veta. De överläggningar på regeringschefsnivå mellan EU:s medlemsländer där argument formuleras, positioner möts, makt utövas och beslut fattas, äger rum bakom stängda dörrar. Vi vet kort sagt inte vilket lands regeringschef som argumenterat för vad och varför, inte heller vilka påtryckningar som utövats av vem mot vem, inte heller vilken roll USA spelat i sammanhanget och naturligtvis inte heller i vad mån Sveriges regeringschef Göran Persson försökt påverka beslutet - och i så fall hur. "

Göran Rosenborg

Socialdemokraterna polisanmäler Folkpartiet för dataintrång

2006-09-04T13:04:00.000+02:00

Sveriges Watergate!!??

"Med hjälp av IT-säkerhetsföretaget Sentor har Socialdemokraterna upptäckt ett stort antal otillåtna inloggningar på partiets interna nätverk. IP-adresser har spårats till Folkpartiet, det uppger Dagens Industri."

Dismembering the body politic in Iraq

2006-09-03T16:47:00.000+02:00

"The US is seen as the main instigator of sectarian sentiments, creating the right environment for the division of Iraq into sectarian and ethnic states unable to function without US protection."

Aljazeera.Net - Iraq wants more control over security

2006-09-03T16:39:00.000+02:00

"Mohammed al-Askari, spokesman for Iraq's defence ministry, said the government would take its time until an agreement was reached.

'We need more time regarding these discussions. There are some articles that need more discussions with the Americans. We don't want to be rushed into making these decisions. Our points of view are not identical.'"

Iran backs UN Lebanon truce

2006-09-03T16:34:00.000+02:00

"Annan said Ahmadinejad had agreed in the talks in Tehran that Iran, which backs the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, would do everything to support the territorial integrity and independence of Lebanon.

'Tehran will work together with us in a collective effort to reconstruct Lebanon,' he said.

State radio quoted Ahmadinejad as saying that Israel and its allies Britain and the US should compensate Lebanon for the 'damages inflicted'."

UN: Israeli cluster bombs 'immoral'

2006-08-31T00:26:00.000+02:00

"What's shocking and I would say completely immoral is that 90 per cent of the cluster bomb strikes occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict when we knew there would be a resolution, when we knew there would be an end.

Egelund said that the UN had assessed 'nearly 85 per cent of bombed areas in south Lebanon' and identified '359 separate cluster bomb strike locations that are contaminated with as many 100,000 unexploded bomblets'."

USAID: Transition Initiatives: Venezuela Field Report for April-June 2006

2006-08-30T07:09:00.000+02:00

"The antagonistic relationship between the U.S. Government (USG) and the Government of Venezuela (GoV) is a challenge for operations in Venezuela. The primary objective in this environment is to develop projects that bring together supporters of the opposition whose constant public discourse brands anything to do with the U.S. as malevolent and anti-Venezuelan. As an example, part of the official government electoral strategy for the December presidential election calls for government supporters to publicly label those in the opposition as 'bushistas.'

President Chavez continues to rail against the 'Empire' for its 'invasion plans' and 'assassination plots,' all of which the Embassy vigorously denies. Visits by the U.S. Ambassador to the inauguration of new USAID-supported project sites in Caracas and the interior are frequently accompanied by crowds of protestors. The projects, however, are well-received by the community and community leaders - those not prodded by the government -- who often request additional USAID projects in the neglected neighborhoods in Venezuela."

USAID from the American people...

2006-08-30T06:41:00.000+02:00

"Transition Initiatives

The USAID Office of Transition Initiatives supports U.S. foreign policy objectives by helping local partners advance peace and democracy in priority countries in crisis. Seizing critical windows of opportunity, OTI works on the ground to provide fast, flexible, short-term assistance targeted at key political transition and stabilization needs."

Guardian Unlimited: US accused of bid to oust Chávez with secret funds

2006-08-30T06:37:00.000+02:00

"The US government has been accused of trying to undermine the Chávez government in Venezuela by funding anonymous groups via its main international aid agency.

Millions of dollars have been provided in a 'pro-democracy programme' that Chávez supporters claim is a covert attempt to bankroll an opposition to defeat the government.

The money is being provided by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) through its Office of Transition Initiatives. The row follows the recent announcement that the US had made $80m (£42m) available for groups seeking to bring about change in Cuba, whose leader, Fidel Castro, is a close ally of Mr Chávez."

Aljazeera.Net - The great Coca-Cola controversy

2006-08-29T21:12:00.000+02:00

"Aljazeera.net: What were the high pesticides residues present in the cola products? Are they fatal to human consumption?

Shachi Chaturvedi: We tested 57 samples collected from across India (12 states, accounting for some 30% of the country's bottling plants), and found pesticide residues that were 22-24 times above the levels in all the samples. We found Lindane, Chlorpyrifos, Malathion and Heptachlor.

The bottles were tested using a methodology which, three years ago, was examined and endorsed by the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC).

Moreover, the presence of pesticide residues was additionally confirmed with gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and all its spectra confirm pesticide residues.

Pesticides are used to kill pests, and contain extremely toxic elements. They get into our food chain and keep bio-accumulating in our body over a long period of time. A host of studies done across the world have pointed to the link between pesticides and diseases such as cancer, neurological disorders, foetal problems etc."

Aljazeera.Net - Ahmadinejad offers Bush TV debate

2006-08-29T20:56:00.000+02:00

"The Iranian president has challenged his US counterpart to a live television debate.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the offer to George Bush on Tuesday. Thursday is the deadline set by the UN Security Council for Iran to suspend all uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities, and Iran faces possible sanctions if it fails to comply."

Aftonbladet: SKI undersökte atomlarm i Ryssland

2006-08-28T21:26:00.000+02:00

"Ett av de största problemen i Kola-verket är avsaknaden av skalskydd. Det finns ingen inkapsling som skyddar om en härdsmälta skulle inträffa och radioaktivt material skulle snabbt spridas till omgivningen."

Ett nytt Tjernobyl??

electronic intifada: Israeli Apartheid: The striking parallels to South Africa

2006-08-22T09:21:00.000+02:00

"Citizens of the eleventh class, really not citizens at all, have no rights citizens of the first class or their government are bound to respect. Their residence is forbidden in nearly nine-tenths of the country, all of which they used to own. The areas left to them are cut up into smaller and smaller portions weekly, by high walls, free fire zones and hundreds of checkpoints manned by the army of the first class citizens, so that none can travel a dozen miles in any direction to work, school, shopping, a job, a farm, a business or a hospital without several long waits, humiliating searches and often arbitrary denials of the right to pass or to return."

ZNet American Economy ...its great weakness

2006-08-18T12:52:00.000+02:00

American Economy: "Prof. Niall Ferguson of the Harvard University compares the US economy to a dinosaur whose bulk once shook the ground. Yet, it disappeared from the face because of its inner problems. Like it, “the US economy is mind-bogglingly enormous—two and a half times as big as the next largest economy in the world and almost as large as that of the six other members of the Group of Seven combined. The catch is that it has to consume almost incessantly to sustain its great heft.” This reveals its great weakness and the inherent seed of its likely collapse at some future date."

Aftonbladet: Lena Sundström: Det har aldrig kommit blod

2006-08-17T18:27:00.000+02:00

"Nyheten om att det inte finns någon mödomshinna är inget annat än en sensationell världsnyhet. Borde inte ha varit något annat än en sensationell världsnyhet.
Breaking news.
Hymen does not exist!
Skicka in Lennart Nilsson med en kamera och sprid bilderna över hela jordklotet."

Venezuela Information Office

2006-08-17T15:25:00.000+02:00

"As the world’s fifth-largest oil producer, Venezuela has long been a country of contrasts. Despite its great wealth, 80 percent of Venezuelans live in poverty. To address this injustice, the state-owned oil company has increased annual spending on social programs from 40 million to 1.7 billion dollars. For the first time, many Venezuelans have access to education, job training, housing, and health care. "

The Nation: Neocon Dreams, American Nightmares

2006-08-17T15:21:00.000+02:00

"To borrow from both Beyoncé and Yogi Berra, it really is déjà vu all over again. Roughly four years, 2,600 American deaths, $1 trillion and one murderous civil war ago, the same William Kristol predicted that a US invasion of Iraq would inspire 'the principles of liberty and justice in the Islamic world.' Richard Perle, his comrade in armchair warfare, suggested that the impending US invasion would 'transform the thinking of people around the world about the potential for democracy, even in Arab countries."

" Four wars simultaneously? Led by this crew? After what we've seen in Iraq and Afghanistan? Is it me, or are the people who run this country dangerously out of their minds?"

Eric Alterman
The Nation

Offutt, Buffett, and 9/11: Strange Coincidences

2006-08-17T11:00:00.000+02:00

By Mary Louise

"The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska' by John W. DeCamp, attorney and former Nebraska senator, is an investigation of satanic sexual abuse, ritual murders, pedophile rings, child pornography and prostitution, kidnapping, and money-laundering. It involves top Washington D.C. politicians, savings and loan executives, and media cover-ups. This book is dedicated to the author's dear friend, Bill Colby, former head of the CIA (before Bush), who died under very mysterious circumstances in 1996.

The Franklin Credit Union scandal centered in Omaha opens a window into the hellish world of child abuse and organized drug trafficking patronized and protected by powerful figures in politics and business. This awful but true story is about the abuse of positions of public trust, the Cover-up by institutions of government, and the abhorrent conduct and Cover-up by some of our wealthiest citizens. The unfinished business of the Franklin investigation is not only a matter involving children from Nebraska, but the lives of untold numbers of children everywhere. "

electronic intifada: Israel's Foreign Ministry provides Free Internet Tool to online activists

2006-08-17T10:16:00.000+02:00

"Dear friends,

Many of us recognize the importance of the Internet as the new battleground for Israel's image. It's time to do it better, and coordinate our on-line efforts on behalf of Israel. An Israeli software company have developed a free, safe and useful tool for us - the Internet Megaphone.

Please go to www.giyus.org, download the Megaphone, and you will receive daily updates with instant links to important internet polls, problematic articles that require a talk back, etc.

We need 100,000 Megaphone users to make a difference. So, please distribute this mail to all Israel's supporters.

Do it now. For Israel.

Amir Gissin

Director Public Affairs (Hasbara) Department
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem"

Aljazeera.Net - Church body condemns Israel

2006-08-17T09:54:00.000+02:00

"De Clermont said Hezbollah was a scapegoat.

'It is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and not the role and actions of Hezbollah that is at the heart of the present crisis,' the council's statement said."

Aftonbladet: Den starkes fred

2006-08-17T02:04:00.000+02:00

"Men Israels krig har onekligen lönat sig: någon annan får bevaka, någon annan får betala, och motståndaren avväpnas.
Det är den starkes fred, skapad på marken, välsignad av FN.

Petter Larsson"

Aftonbladet: Var sjätte laptop paj efter 1 år

2006-08-16T16:12:00.000+02:00

Aftonbladet: Var sjätte laptop paj efter 1 år

'KOLLA OM DEN ÄR STABIL' It-chefen Claes Dahlberg på Acando i Göteborg tipsar datorköpare om hur de ska minska risken för fel på sin nya dator. 'Kontrollera att den känns stabil innan du köper den'.
'Om bilar hade byggts lika illa hade vi stått inför en katastrof'"

Israel backed by army of cyber-soldiers - Times Online

2006-08-16T11:13:00.000+02:00

"WHILE Israel fights Hezbollah with tanks and aircraft, its supporters are campaigning on the internet."

In the past week nearly 5,000 members of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) have downloaded special “megaphone” software that alerts them to anti-Israeli chatrooms or internet polls to enable them to post contrary viewpoints. A student team in Jerusalem combs the web in a host of different languages to flag the sites so that those who have signed up can influence an opinion survey or the course of a debate.

New Scientist: GM plant has escaped into the wild

2006-08-16T10:58:00.000+02:00

"It is the first time a GM (Genetically Modified) plant has escaped into the wild in the US, and it has managed it before securing USDA approval. The plant, creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera, carries a bacterial gene that makes it immune to the potent herbicide glyphosate, better known as Roundup. The manufacturer, The Scotts Company, Marysville, Ohio, is hoping the grass will provide a turf that makes it easier for golf course owners to manage their fairways and greens by letting them kill competing weedy grasses with glyphosate."

Aljazeera.Net - British Muslims criticise profiling

2006-08-15T21:20:00.000+02:00

"What you are suggesting is that we should have a new offence in this country called 'travelling whilst Asian'

Ali Desai, a British Muslim chief superintendent"

Azerbaijan and Armenia both claim Nagorno-Karabakh

2006-08-15T21:18:00.000+02:00

Forgotten war threatens to reignite
by Scott Taylor
Friday 04 August 2006 5:13 AM GMT

Hardening positions on the future status of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region between Armenia and Azerbaijan threaten to reignite an ancient conflict."

The Naion: Fear and Smear

2006-08-15T14:28:00.000+02:00

"An evil symbiosis does exist between Muslim terrorists and American politicians, but it is not the one Republicans describe."

The jihadists need George W. Bush to sustain their cause. His bloody crusade in the Middle East bolsters their accusation that America is out to destroy Islam. The president has unwittingly made himself the lead recruiter of willing young martyrs.

More to the point, it is equally true that Bush desperately needs the terrorists. They are his last frail hope for political survival. They divert public attention, at least momentarily, from his disastrous war in Iraq and his shameful abuses of the Constitution. The "news" of terror--whether real or fantasized--reduces American politics to its most primitive impulses, the realm of fear-and-smear where George Bush is at his best.

electronic intifada : Time to Reopen the Palestine File at the UN? Not Yet!

2006-08-12T21:53:00.000+02:00

"Most Arabs, Palestinians included, have vied for years to snatch the Palestine question away from U.S.-Israeli clenching claws and return it to where it formally started: the United Nations. From their perspective, so long as the U.S. is allowed to control '99% of the cards,' as the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat notoriously believed, there is no chance for a just and enduring peace."

Hizbullah accepts UN ceasefire deal

2006-08-12T21:48:00.000+02:00

Posted: 12-08-2006 , 15:30 GMT

Nasrallah claimed some aspects of Security Council Resolution 1701 are unjust and Hizbullah has reservations on a few of its articles. These will be presented by Hizbullah ministers during the Lebanese cabinet discussion on the matter, he noted.

Nasrallah stressed that as long as Israel is occupying Lebanese land Hizbullah will keep fighting in accordance with its commitment to the “April Understanding,” a 1996 agreement to end cross-border attacks on civilian targets.

© 2006 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)"

Jewish Voice for Peace

2006-08-12T19:44:00.000+02:00

"Opposed to Bombing Civilians? Sign Jewish Call to Action Petition"
Urge the U.S. to put a stop to the attacks on Lebanon and Gaza. Show the world there is a principled Jewish voice that opposes the collective punishment of an entire people.

It's time for Jewish dissenters to challenge Israeli policies

2006-08-12T19:36:00.000+02:00

"Current U.S.-backed cease-fire proposals are so unfair to Lebanon that the Lebanese government has already indicated it cannot accept the terms, which do not even include a full Israeli withdrawal.

This one-sided U.S. policy is the result of a combination of factors, but it thrives on the myth that all American Jews stand uncritically behind the Israeli government.

Israeli intransigence has made Israel a pariah state, and is the biggest enemy of all the people of the Middle East -- Arabs and Israelis alike"

On Israel, Lebanon and Palestine

2006-08-12T19:19:00.000+02:00

ZNet |Israel/Palestine | On Israel, Lebanon and Palestine
"On Israel, Lebanon and Palestine
Noam Chomsky interviewed by
Kaveh Afrasiabi"

When did Nasrallah assume a leadership role? Answer: When the Rabin government escalated its crimes in Lebanon, murdering Sheikh Abbas Mussawi and his wife and child with missiles fired from a US helicopter. Nasrallah was chosen as his successor. Only one of innumerable cases. There is, after all, a good reason why last February, 70% of Lebanese called for the capture of Israeli soldiers for prisoner exchange.

Varför ska vi betala för Israels terror!!

2006-08-10T14:35:00.000+02:00

Aftonbladet: Kriget i siffror - hittills: "Totalt har Israel nu förstört libanesisk infrastruktur för mer än 16 miljarder kronor. Göran Persson vill sammankalla en stor internationell konferens där Sverige och de andra EU-länderna enas om att betala för det Israel har bombat, precis som EU hittills har betalt förstörd infrastruktur på palestinskt område."

Det Israel har förstört det får väl Israel betala....

What Can Israel Achieve?

2006-08-07T19:57:00.000+02:00

ZNet Israel Palestine
"What the Israeli governments do not realize is that neither Hamas nor Hezbollah need Israel. It is Israel that needs them, and needs them desperately. If Israel wants not to become a Crusader state that is in the end extinguished, it is only Hamas and Hezbollah that can guarantee the survival of Israel. It is only when Israel is able to come to terms with them, as the deeply-rooted spokespersons of Palestinian and Arab nationalism, that Israel can live in peace."

by Immanuel Wallerstein

Israel, Hands off Palestine!!

2006-08-07T14:18:00.000+02:00

INTERNATIONAL PRESS CENTER: "Desperate Residents Lament Humanitarian Catastrophe Due To Embargo"

Apartheid Wall in Israel

2006-08-07T14:03:00.000+02:00

INTERNATIONAL PRESS CENTER-PALESTINE: "Apartheid Wall"

The wall in Palestine built by the expanding Israel resembles the way the Jews were rounded up in ghettoes in Europe during the facist regimes during the 30's-40's in Europe.

Israeli Occupation Government Kidnaps Speaker of Palestinian Parliament

2006-08-07T13:59:00.000+02:00

Israel, Hands off Palestine!!

PM Haniyeh: Al-Duwaik's Kidnapping a Crime of Piracy

Palestinian Parliament Speaker Dweik Arrested

2006-08-07T13:58:00.000+02:00

Israel, Hands off Palestine!

Palestinian Parliament Speaker Dweik Arrested: "Palestinian Parliament Speaker Dweik Arrested
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News"

"On June 29, Israeli forces in the West Bank rounded up dozens of Hamas officials, including eight Cabinet ministers. One was released earlier this week."

Israel arrests Hamas lawmaker : HindustanTimes.com

2006-08-07T13:53:00.000+02:00

Israel arrests Hamas lawmaker : HindustanTimes.com: "Israel arrests Hamas lawmaker

Agence France Presse

Ramallah, August 7, 2006"

Israeli UN Resolution Hypocrisy

2006-07-31T14:48:00.000+02:00

ZNet |Israel/Palestine | US - Israeli UN Resolution Hypocrisy:
Two nations stand out above all others as notorious serial abusers of
UN resolutions - the US and Israel.

Bush to Blair: First Iraq, Then Saudi | AfterDowningStreet.org

2006-03-29T13:22:00.000+02:00

Bush to Blair: First Iraq, Then Saudi | AfterDowningStreet.org: "Bush to Blair: First Iraq, Then Saudi"

USA, Hands off Venezuela

2006-03-14T16:16:00.000+01:00

USA, Hands off Venezuela!!

Washington’s hostile policy towards the government of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez gains increasingly worrying momentum. In a recent document, the Pentagon called the “resurgence of authoritarian and populist movement in some countries like Venezuela [a] source of political and economic instability”. Such a statement is even more worrying, since the US Defence Department hardly ever cites countries in its strategic study (Quarterly Defence Review), published every four years; that department only limits itself to address general tendencies [1].

Bin Laden denies involvment in 9-11 attack on USA

2006-02-02T20:16:00.000+01:00

Bin Laden: AUTHENTIC INTERVIEW

"I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle.

Is it not that there exists a government within the government in the United Sates? That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks."