Lisbon treaty storms through Swedish parliament
The Swedish parliament late on Thursday (20 November) adopted the Lisbon treaty by a sweeping majority, becoming the 23rd EU country to ratify the text. The treaty was passed by 243 votes against 39 at 23:30 local time, with 13 abstentions and 54 deputies absent from the 349-seat legislature, the Riksdag.
The opposition Left Party and Green Party had tried to build a 48-vote blocking minority to put off ratification for one year. But the four parties in the centre-right government coalition and the main Social Democrat opposition party pushed through the EU document. The long debate, which started at noon and saw 36 members take the floor, concentrated on Sweden's collective labour agreements and transfer of sovereignty. Continue
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Barack Obama to appoint Hillary Clinton secretary of state 'next week'
2008 11 21
President-elect Barack Obama is on track to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state as early as next week, according to reports. One week after the former rivals for the White House met secretly to discuss the idea of Ms Clinton becoming the nation's top diplomat, the two sides were moving quickly toward making it a reality, barring ... |
Crisis? What crisis? Dubai's Atlantis hotel opens with £13m party
2008 11 21
There was no evidence of the global financial crisis as tycoons and celebrities streamed into Dubai last night for the world’s most expensive private party. Having spent £1 billion, the owners of the Atlantis hotel, which they hope will become the new symbol of excess in a region already replete with towering statements of wealth, splashed out £13.5 million on ... |
Mile-thick glaciers found on Mars
2008 11 21
Huge glaciers up to half a mile thick have been discovered close to the equator of Mars and are thought to be the remnants of an ice age on the planet. The glaciers are thought to have been formed up to 100 million years ago and are the “most dramatic” evidence yet of climate change on Mars. Hundreds of glaciers ... |
Queen Elizabeth inducts Shimon Peres into the Order of St Michael and St George
2008 11 21
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II bestowed an honorary knighthood on Israeli President Shimon Peres on Thursday. Peres, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was escorted into Buckingham Palace by the Queen’s Guard and the Household Cavalry. The Queen stepped towards Peres and shook his hand before appointing him Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. ... |
Retired banker proclaimed a Knight of St John in the name of the Queen
2008 11 21
He doesn’t have a suit of armor, he doesn’t carry a sword, and you don’t have to call him “Sir.” Nevertheless, Thomas H. Van Arsdale of Wilmington is a real, live, honest-to-goodness knight - and he has the medal and parchment to prove it. Retired banker Thomas H. Van Arsdale of Wilmington is a newly minted knight of the Most ... |
Parents believe watching television is good for children
2008 11 21
Despite the negativity often associated with children watching television, eight out of 10 parents questioned believed it has a positive effect on their child's development, including helping them to expand their imagination (63 per cent) and broaden their vocabulary (60 per cent). Three quarters of parents do not feel guilty about their child watching television and when appropriately managed and ... |
Bush Snubbed At The G20 Meeting
2008 11 21
George Bush was publicly snubbed by EU leaders at the G20 summit |
Discovered: Cosmic Rays from a Mysterious, Nearby Object
2008 11 21
An international team of researchers has discovered a puzzling surplus of high-energy electrons bombarding Earth from space. The source of these cosmic rays is unknown, but it must be close to the solar system and it could be made of dark matter. Their results are being reported in the Nov. 20th issue of the journal Nature. "This is a big ... |
Funerary monument reveals Iron Age belief that the soul lived in the stone
2008 11 20
Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from the body. University of Chicago researchers will describe the discovery, a testimony created by an Iron Age official that includes an incised image of the man, on Nov. 22-23 at conferences ... |
The 30 Greatest Conspiracy Theories
2008 11 20
From the assassination of John F Kennedy to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. From Roswell, New Mexico, to Nasa's moon landings. From the bloodline of Christ to the death of Elvis Presley. Every major event of the last 2,000 years has prompted a conspiracy theory and here we examine those with the biggest followings and the most longevity. |
Record opium harvest in Afghanistan threatens new heroin crisis in Britain
2008 11 20
A glut of opium on the world market, fuelled by a record Afghan harvest, threatens a new heroin crisis in Britain, the European Union's drug agency warned yesterday. The agency's annual report also confirms that the UK remains at the top of the European league table of 27 countries for cocaine abuse for the fifth year in a row. The ... |
Legal experts say “Lex Nokia” violates constitution
2008 11 20
Legal experts interviewed by Parliament’s Constitutional Law Committee say that the government’s proposal for changing the law on data protection for electronic communications violates the Finnish constitution. The committee stated last week that the bill for an amendment to the Act on Data Protection of Electronic Communications is not unconstitutional, and that it can be passed as a regular law, ... |
"The Truth About Enki"
2008 11 19
Nippur, Administrative Center of Enlil
This was the city dedicated to Enlil and where he ruled from his Ekut or "house on the mountain." At Nippur, Enlil exercised supreme command over all the Anunnaki on Earth before the Deluge. One of the hymns dedicated to him provides a graphic description of a control center bristling with communications and other electronic equipment ... |
Soros-Funded Democratic Idea Factory Becomes Obama Policy Font
2008 11 19
Three blocks from the White House, on the 10th floor of a sleek glass building, young workers pound at computers, with giant flat-screen TVs overhead. It has the look and feel of a high-tech startup. In many ways it is. The product is ideas. Thanks in part to funding from benefactors such as billionaire George Soros, the Center for American ... |
Villepin to stand trial in connection with smear campaign against Sarkozy
2008 11 19
French ex-Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin will stand trial in connection with a smear campaign against President Nicholas Sarkozy, officials say. Mr de Villepin is suspected of targeting Mr Sarkozy when the pair were seen as presidential rivals in 2004. Mr de Villepin has already been questioned over the case but has always denied spreading false money laundering allegations against ... |
Rahm Emanuel - Israeli Spy
2008 11 19
John O'Neill and another FBI agent who still works for the bureau discovered that Emanuel was heavily involved in the decision to place Lewinsky close to Clinton. O'Neill retired after being set up in a smear operation involving a temporarily stolen briefcase in 2001, accepted the top security position for Kroll Associates at the WTC, and was killed in the ... |
G20 To Begin Implementation Of Global Financial Dictatorship
2008 11 18
Sarkozy calls for end to dollar’s world reserve status as powerbrokers meet to finalize building blocks of new world economic order. Powerbrokers attending this weekend’s watershed G-20 conference will set in motion plans for a new world economic order, the end of the dollar as the world reserve currency, and the centralization of financial power into an internationalist inner circle ... |
Fed Hides Destination Of $2 Trillion In Bailout Money
2008 11 18
The Federal Reserve is facing a lawsuit after it failed to comply with congressional demands for transparency and disclose the destination of at least $2 trillion dollars in bailout funds, underscoring once again the failure of top down socialism and the folly of trusting the foxes to guard the henhouse. “The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of ... |
The Twilight of the Gods - A story of the Fimbulwinter around 536 AD?
2008 11 18
This story of The Twilight of the Gods is probably describing the extreme climate change that took place around 536 AD following an impact of a comet or meteorite or possibly the explosion of the volcano Tambora in Sumbawa, Indonesia. Read more about this below. This idea spawns from the theory that the gods from mythological record actually is referring ... |
The Piso Family and the Story of The Bible
2008 11 18
"The New Testament, the Church, and Christianity, were all the creation of the Calpurnius Piso family, who were Roman aristocrats. The New Testament and all the characters in it - Jesus, all the Josephs, all the Marys, all the disciples, apostles, Paul, and John the Baptist - are all fictional." Abelard Reuchlin |
Obama Dips Into Think Tank for Talent
2008 11 18
The Center for a New American Security, a small think tank here with generally middle-of-the-road policy views, is rapidly emerging as a top farm team for the incoming Obama administration. When President-elect Barack Obama released a roster of his transition advisers last week, many of the national-security appointments came from the ranks of the center, which was founded by a ... |
Prince Charles Wants to Speak out as King
2008 11 18
Prince Charles, who has just turned 60, wants to break with tradition and keep speaking out on key issues when he becomes king, biographer Jonathan Dimbleby said in The Sunday Times. Charles, the heir to the throne, is outspoken on several matters such as climate change and architecture. However, sovereigns traditionally keep their opinions out of the public domain. |
IPCC Scientists Caught Producing False Data To Push Global Warming
2008 11 18
Climate scientists allied with the IPCC have been caught citing fake data to make the case that global warming is accelerating, a shocking example of mass public deception that could spell the beginning of the end for the acceptance of man-made climate change theories. On Monday, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, ... |
The men behind Barack Obama (Video)
2008 11 18
Part One
Part Two
Especially in politics it is of the utmost importance to try to look behind the facade: who makes up the team of the presidential candidate? The future president of the United States of America is for a large part dependent on and being fed by his team of advisors and future cabinet members. Webster Tarpley wrote a book ... |
140 years of UFO sightings - Part I
2008 11 14
Searchlights converge on an unidentified object over Los Angeles on February 25, 1942. The bright blobs around the flashes are anti-aircraft shells exploding. This is what has been known as Battle of Los Angeles. So-called foo fighters were often pictured alongside Allied aircraft during sorties and raids in the Second World War. |
Scholar finds Mayans' buried highway through hell
2008 11 14
Mexican archaeologist Guillermo de Anda is aided by two young archeologists as he prepares to dive into an underground lake inside a cenote cave in Tzibichen on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2008. Archeologists using long-forgotten testimony from the Inquisition trials of Indian heretics in the 1500's have discovered caves in which ancient Mayas built chambers, altars ... |
First-ever images taken of extrasolar planets
2008 11 14
Astronomers have taken what they say are the first-ever direct images of planets outside of our solar system, including a visible-light snapshot of a single-planet system and an infrared picture of a multiple-planet system. Earthlike worlds might also exist in the three-planet system, but if so they are too dim to photograph. The other newfound planet orbits a star called ... |
Mysterious glowing aurora over Saturn confounds scientists
2008 11 14
A stunning light display over Saturn has stumped scientists who say it behaves unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system.
The blueish-green glow was found over the ringed planet's north polar region just like Earth's northern lights. It was discovered by the infrared instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. 'We've never seen an aurora like this elsewhere,' said Tom ... |
Hillary Clinton considered as next U.S. secretary of state: reports
2008 11 14
Hillary Clinton is being considered for the post of U.S. secretary of state under her former rival, President-elect Barack Obama, according to reports. Two advisers to the New York senator, who competed unsuccessfully against Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, told NBC News that she was under consideration to replace Condoleezza Rice as the United States' top diplomat. |
The Mayan Sixth Day Begins on November 13, 2008
2008 11 13
The Sixth Day heralds a time of flowering for the plant - awakening, unfolding, opening up to new possibilities. Most scholars use the words “enlightenment” and “renaissance” to define this creative period. Historically, the Sixth Day on other levels or cycles corresponded to the invention of tools, first attempts at agriculture and building shelter; the European Renaissance itself; and the ... |
Neuroimaging Of Brain Shows Who Spoke To A Person And What Was Said
2008 11 13
Scientists from Maastricht University have developed a method to look into the brain of a person and read out who has spoken to him or her and what was said. With the help of neuroimaging and data mining techniques the researchers mapped the brain activity associated with the recognition of speech sounds and voices.
In their Science article "'Who' is Saying ... |
Brown urges Obama to help build a ‘truly global society’
2008 11 13
Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown prepares to deliver his speech on world affairs during the City of London Lord Mayor’s Banquet at the Guildhall, in central London, Monday Nov. 10, 2008. The Lord Mayor’s Banquet is held in honour of the immediate past Lord Mayor and is the first to be hosted by the new Lord Mayor of the City ... |
Michael Horn's response to the Derek Bartholomaus and IIG on the Billy Meier case
2008 11 13
This is a follow up to the following article: Michael Horn Admits to Publishing Misleading Articles for Billy Meier Case?
Subject: False and defamatory post on Rense
From: michael@theyfly.com
Date: November 11, 2008 12:21:12 PM PST
To Rense.com and all concerned,
Regarding the claims in the PR posted here by Derek Bartholomaus and IIG that I "admitted to posting these false ... |
Experts Say Humans Can Live to 1,000 -Some Experts Want to Prevent That
2008 11 13
Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey has famously stated, “The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today …whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 years or younger can expect to live for centuries.” Perhaps de Gray is way too optimistic, but plenty of others have joined the ... |
Michael Horn Admits to Publishing Misleading Articles for Billy Meier Case?
2008 11 12
Ed Comment: This article first appeard on prlog.org but has since been removed, but it's still cached via google. Check the related links for much more.
See the respons to this article by Michael Horn: Michael Horn's response to the Derek Bartholomaus and IIG on the Billy Meier case
The Various Claims Of Billy Meier Are Now Made Even More Unlikely. On ... |
Secret Plan For IMF World Dictatorship
2008 11 12
G-20 Summit In DC On 11-15-8
This is a confidential strategy paper for the November 15 G-20 summit in Washington DC. This is not a new Bretton Woods in any sense, but rather a British-steered attempt to impose the dictatorship of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the entire planet, wiping out all hope of economic recovery, the modernization of the ... |
Police reveal NO murders took place at Jersey 'House of Horrors'
2008 11 12
Police today revealed that NO murders took place at a notorious former children’s home in Jersey. In an extraordinary step, officers probing the deaths of up to six youngsters at the Haute de la Garenne home said they were not investigating any murders. The officer in charge of the investigation expressed 'much regret' at inaccurate information provided by his predecessors. ... |
Dual Citizenship -- Loyal to Whom?
2008 11 12
Someone wrote and asked me, "Why are there Israeli- but not Mexican-American Dual Nationals?" Well, here's my take on this. I'd also like your views and opinions. Unless we are Native American Indians, all Americans have their origins in some other country. Both of my parents were from England. They were proud to be "British" but they were most proud ... |
New Pyramid Found in Egypt: 4,300-Year-Old Queen's Tomb
2008 11 12
A new pyramid has been discovered deep beneath Egyptian sands, archaeologists announced today. The 4,300-year-old monument is believed to be the tomb of Queen Sesheshet, the mother of Pharaoh Teti, the founder ancient Egypt's 6th dynasty. Once nearly five stories tall, the pyramid—or at least what remains of it—lay beneath 23 feet (7 meters) of sand as well as a ... |
Google the flu? The feds will see you
2008 11 12
Prepare to be reading a hell of a lot about “infoveillance” and “infodemiology,” and for the major news outlets to continue making nice to Google. That’s because the biggest “infodemiology” experiment to-date is about to take place, now that we are at the end of flu shot season. Thanks to a new Google product, Google Flu Trends federal watchers will ... |
Baron David de Rothschild sees a New World Order in global banking governance
2008 11 11
Among the captains of industry, spin doctors and financial advisers accompanying British prime minister Gordon Brown on his fund-raising visit to the Gulf this week, one name was surprisingly absent. This may have had something to do with the fact that the tour kicked off in Saudi Arabia. But by the time the group reached Qatar, Baron David de Rothschild ... |
Catching the Bug of Synchronicity
2008 11 11
Synchronicities are those moments of "meaningful coincidence" when the boundary dissolves between the inner and the outer. At the synchronistic moment, just like a dream, our internal, subjective state appears, as if materialized in, as and through the outside world. Touching the heart of our being, synchronicities are moments in time in which there is a fissure in the fabric ... |
Stephen Harper and Australian Prime Minister John Howard Reading from the Same Script (Video)
2008 11 10
In 2003, Stephen Harper and Australian Prime Minister John Howard deliver largely identical speeches urging their nations to join George W. Bush's Coalition of the Willing to go to war with Iraq. Who is giving them the instructions? |
Roots of evil in Jerusalem
2008 11 10
This report will shock and upset some; it is one I have put off for over 4 years. After struggling with it I have decided now is the time to write it. Knowing it could be misunderstood as anti-Semitic. God forbid that I a Jew should ever say or do anything that would be remotely considered as such, but I ... |
Church of the unholy punch up (Video) :-)
2008 11 10
Armenian and Greek Orthodox worshippers and clergy have a fist fight in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Israeli police say worshippers began fighting each other first as the Armenians were preparing for an annual procession but then clergy on both sides started throwing punches as well. |
Obama's Council on Foreign Relations Crew
2008 11 10
Meet some of president elect Obama’s leading foreign and domestic policy advisors and likely administration members, every one of them a prominent member of the Council On Foreign Relations. Will these people bring about "change" or will they continue to hold up the same entrenched system forged by the corporate elite for decades? Susan E. Rice - Council on Foreign ... |
Barack-henaton: The Candidat with the Light Stuff
2008 11 10
I ran into my friend, Ernest, the other day. I hadn't seen him for a while. “Hey,” I said, “let's grab a cup of coffee.” He said he couldn't. He was on his way to the Obama campaign office here in Nashville to make some calls. "You mean Barackhenaton?" I said. The words lit up his face in a moment ... |
A Very Sirius Election: Stairway to Sirius
2008 11 09
In the first installment of this series, we looked at the incorporation of elements of the hieroglyph for Sirius in the McCain/Obama campaign logos. Next we looked at what certainly appears to be a move to symbolically tie Sarah Palin to Isis and Sirius, starting with her speech at the RNC. What we must remember is that the very term ... |
Will the Real Obama Stand Up - Part 1 (Video)
2008 11 09
David J. Smith of Newswatch Magazine investigates the guiding philosophy behind Barack Hussein Obama and discusses the socialist and revolutionary influence of Sol Linsky and his book “Rules for Radicals”. |
Twilight Of The Doomsayer
2008 11 09
Students of consciousness know that fear is a disconnecting frequency; it separates and diminishes with cold efficiency. Fear restrains consciousness by contracting it and binding it to the 3D, effectively isolating the individual from higher awareness. So it is that in these days of shifting paradigms, as the old hierarchies scramble to contain the effects of polarizing consciousness and wider ... |
A Very Sirius Election: Bringing it All Back Home
2008 11 09
Ancient Egyptian historians will tell you quite soberly that for thousands of years the gods themselves walked the earth and ruled their land. When the gods left, the Throne of Horus was created. The so-called "Horus Kings," took the gods' place until the establishment of the First Dynasty. Following in the footsteps of the Horus Kings were the Shemsu Hor, ... |
Chernobyl: Life in the Dead Zone (Video, part 1)
2008 11 07
Wildlife finds a way to thrive in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident. |
The GM genocide: Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops
2008 11 06
Shankara's crop had failed - twice. Of course, famine and pestilence are part of India's ancient story. But the death of this respected farmer has been blamed on something far more modern and sinister: genetically modified crops. Shankara, like millions of other Indian farmers, had been promised previously unheard of harvests and income if he switched from farming with traditional ... |
Harnessing The Power Of The Brain - Brain Machine Interface (Video)
2008 11 06
Once in a while, we run across a science story that is hard to believe until you see it. That's how we felt about this story when we first saw human beings operating computers, writing e-mails, and driving wheelchairs with nothing but their thoughts. Quietly in a number of laboratories, an astounding technology is developing that directly connects the human ... |
U.S./U.K. Allies Grab Congo Riches and Millions Die
2008 11 06
Once again, the suffering of African people caught up in a war that makes little sense to non-Africans has made the front pages in western media, as more than a million people have been displaced in the past week by renewed fighting in the Eastern Congo.2 For most Americans who don’t pay much attention to the details of African ... |
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