Archive for August 31st, 2011

Officials say cutting €3bn annual lifeline and in effect halting all business between Syria and EU will be serious blow to regime Ian Traynor Guardian.co.uk Tuesday 30 August 2011 Europe is to impose an oil embargo on Syria, in effect freezing almost all business between Damascus and the EU, Syria’s main trading partner. Political... »

McClatchyDC.com Wednesday, August 31, 2011 The Yomiuri Shimbun TOKYO — There are 14 potentially active fault lines in areas near the crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and other nuclear-related facilities, the Japanese government has announced. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency announced the results of research undertaken by power utilities following the... »

Ex-Skf.com TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2011 Well, I have to defend the City somewhat, because by no means Yokohama is alone, even though it has most number of schools (158) in the country that served beef contaminated with radioactive cesium. The following are the recent happenings in Yokohama City, as I picked from the message... »

FoodFreedom.com Two new studies by the U.S. Geological Survey reveal the pervasive spread of the biocide, glyphosate, mostly used as a weedkiller for crops genetically engineered to resist it. Used in formulations by Monsanto, Bayer, Dow and others, glyphosate has been linked to spontaneous abortions in livestock, birth defects in humans, insect resistance, and... »

by Alexander Higgins AlexanderHiggins.com August 31, 2011 Experts warn the ash cloud of nuclear radiation blanketing Eastern Japan and concealed by officials since June will soon rain down on the US And Canada. As I previously reported a highly radioactive ash cloud of Fukushima nuclear radiation was raining down on Tokyo due to the... »

LoneStarWatchDog.com Wednesday, August 31, 2011 It seems every day there is something new and more outrageous than last week coming out of this White House or the Alphabet Soup agencies. They operate without any law passed by congress, or if congress hears about it; they do nothing about it. The follow directives from executive... »

Bird flu deaths in Asia prompt call for scrutiny By Tan Ee Lyn Reuters.com Tue Aug 30, 2011 (Reuters) – Virologists warned on Tuesday that there was no vaccine against a mutant strain of H5N1 bird flu now spreading in China and Vietnam and called for closer monitoring of the disease in poultry and... »

By David W Freeman BobTuskin.com Aug. 31 2011 Is bird flu mounting a comeback? The United Nations has issued a warning, saying wild bird migrations have brought the deadly influenza virus back to previously virus-free countries and that a mutant strain of H5N1 was spreading in Asia. The strain, which can apparently sidestep defenses... »

By Tom Philpott MotherJones.com Tue Aug. 30, 2011 Over the past decade and a half, as Monsanto built up its globe-spanning, multi-billion-dollar genetically modified seed empire, it made two major pitches to farmers. The first involved weeds. Leave the weed management to us, Monsanto insisted. We’ve engineered plants that can survive our very own... »

Review of Susan Lindauer’s book by Rady Ananda Global Research August 31, 2011 Susan Lindauer’s piece of the 9/11 puzzle adds more evidence to support the charge of criminal negligence at the command level and exposes the utter depravity of the Patriot Act. Even more, as the primary Intelligence Asset for Iraq, she proves... »