September 2008
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By on September 27, 2008
‘Lone gunman’s’ rampage at a Finnish adult training college likely to prompt calls for stricter gun control
Posted in Current Affairs
By on September 27, 2008
Regarding Secretary Paulson’s ‘fiscal fix,’ writes a Beltway insider, recall the words of Patrick Henry. ‘Trust it not sir, it shall prove a snare and a delusion’
Posted in Inside the White House and Washington's Beltway
By on September 26, 2008
The New York Times hailed that man as the “Custodian of the Planet.” While The New Yorker declared that the “survival of civilisation” might depend on him. We look back on an earlier profile of Maurice Strong
Posted in Hidden and Revisionist History
By on September 26, 2008
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has accused the US government of contributing to the current global economic crisis. In particular she blamed Washington for resisting stricter regulation
Posted in Economics
By on September 26, 2008
The Republican presidential candidate says a military strike on Iran would be in order if was a ‘provable threat’. While his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, who appeared on the same show said he wouldn’t take any option off the table, including military
Posted in Iran
By on September 26, 2008
Channel 9 News simply did not mention that adding fluoride to water is a source of major controversy. Their point was to imply that people are being cheated out of the fluoride they deserve, and no doubt some will likely complain
Posted in Health
By on September 26, 2008
Think of America as a town with one casino, in which the only economic activity is gambling. Most people lose, but the casino keeps lending them more money to play. Eventually, of course, the casino must go bankrupt and with it the town and America
Posted in Economics
By on September 26, 2008
A millionaire businessman claims the screams of ghosts forced his family to flee their mansion. “We were like the family in The Others”, says Anwar Rashid. “The ghosts didn’t want us to be there and we could not fight them because we couldn’t see them”
Posted in Real Life X-Files
By wmw_admin on September 26, 2008
It was endorsed by Einstein, who called for urgent research into its possibility. Since then however nothing has been done. But we may soon find out, because the ancient Maya may have seen it too, marking the “end of the 4th world”
Posted in The Ancient Past
By on September 25, 2008
This partially confirms what this web site has long suspected: that Iran is actively engaged in developing a nuclear weapons capability. However, this needs to be seen in context: namely as a response to Israel’s regional nuclear hegemony
Posted in Iran
By on September 25, 2008
While some Jewish groups protested Ahmadinejad’s arrival in New York to address the U.N. General Assembly, Rabbis from Neturei Karta International staged a counter demonstration to welcome him
Posted in Israel, 'Anti-Semitism', Zionism and US-UK allies
By on September 25, 2008
Speculation continues over whether Russia will sell Iran the advanced S-300 air-defence system
Posted in Iran
By on September 25, 2008
The largest transformation of America’s financial system since the Great Depression. Or how Bush plans to tax citizens to keep the financial bubble inflated
Posted in Economics
By on September 25, 2008
As Israel’s former chief of General Staff warns that Ahmadinejad must be dealt with like Hitler, the Iranian president himself vows to stop any attacker “before he can pull the trigger”
Posted in Iran
By on September 24, 2008
Suspicion mounts over the supposed “terror attack” at the Marriot Hotel, Islamabad
Posted in "The War on Terror"
By on September 24, 2008
A recent Swedish study found that children and teenagers were five times more likely to get brain cancer if they used mobile phones
Posted in Health
By Robert Fisk on September 23, 2008
In the 19th century, their Afghan adversaries known as “Talibs” – would cut the throats of captured British soldiers. Now two of the US soldiers seized when the Taliban stormed into their mountain base in July this year met a similar fate
Posted in Afghanistan
By on September 23, 2008
A Beltway insider reports that although we may see a brief flurry of upwards activity on the market, in the end the damage to the U.S. economy is so severe that the collapse will continue its inexorable slide downwards to mass destruction
Posted in Inside the White House and Washington's Beltway
By on September 23, 2008
A bipartisan group says the US must strike Iran’s nuclear sites many times ‘over a period of years’ to completely halt its nuclear program
Posted in Iran