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  • EU polls would be lost, says Nicolas Sarkozy
    15 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
    Referendums on the new European Union Treaty were "dangerous" and would be lost in France, Britain and other countries, Nicolas Sarkozy has admitted. - EU subsidies ’shifting away from real farmers’ - Your view: Are referendums dangerous? - Paris faces strike gridlock
    The French president’s confession that governments could not win popular votes on a "simplified treaty" - drawn up to replace the EU constitution rejected by his countrymen two years ago - (…)

  • Biofuel: a Real Danger to Poor Countries
    14 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ramine Abadie
    Energy. Experts and NGOs are concerned about the perverse effects of this type of production in a world that faces hunger shortages.
    While the European Union plans to promote biofuel, experts in food, development, and NGOs are sounding the alarm bell about the risks linked to its production - more particularly the harmful effects on food production. According to FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) figures, there are more than 850 million people in the world who face (…)

  • North Sea surge brings flood risk
    9 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    North Sea surge brings flood risk A storm in the North Sea has left Britain and the Netherlands facing the worst flood threat in decades with tidal surges predicted early on Friday.
    Flood defences have been put on alert on the entire Dutch coast and flood warnings are in place for the eastern and northern coasts of Britain.
    A tidal wave in 1953 killed more than 2,000 people in both countries.
    Oil platforms have been closed off the Norwegian coast and gales are expected in Germany (…)

  • World’s biggest uranium enricher frantic to keep dumping waste in Russia
    5 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Diet Simon
    By Diet Simon, collating from German IndyMedia postings
    Russian nuclear opponents say they will defy a ban and demonstrate in St Petersburg tomorrow against the massive import of German, Dutch, British and French uranium waste to Russia.
    The Dutch ship Doggersbank is expected in the port tomorrow, Thursday the 11th, with the latest shipment of depleted uranium from enrichment plants in Gronau (Germany) and Almelo (Holland).
    German supporters of the Russian activists in (…)

  • Germany becomes the First Country to admit Clandestine Chemtrails Operation
    5 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    For all those activists who have been investigating and reporting on clandestine government operations around the world to manipulate our weather patterns, this news from Germany is groundbreaking.
    The TV news report states that “the military planes of the German Federal Army are manipulating our climate; this is what the weather researchers are presuming and their suspicions are confirmed…
    “We can state with a 97% certainty that we have on our hands chemical trails (chemtrails) (…)

  • Depleted uranium, depleted health concerns
    1 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    As a growing number of Italian soldiers who served in the Balkans meet their death due to serious illness, the specter of ’Balkan Syndrome’ and the effects of depleted uranium are again in the spotlight.
    By Anes Alic in Sarajevo for ISN Security Watch (29/10/07)
    An increase of the number of Italian soldiers who served in the Balkans during the 1990s who are falling seriously ill due to depleted uranium exposure is causing a public outrage in Italy, as the government downplays the extent (…)

  • Valéry Giscard d’Estaing: The EU Treaty is the same as the Constitution
    31 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lift the lid and look in the toolbox, and all the same innovative tools are there
    The difference between the original Constitution and the present Lisbon Treaty is one of approach, rather than content. The draft constitution resulted from a political desire to simplify European institutions, rendered inefficient by recent expansions. It was about creating more democracy and transparency within the European Union. It was about opening the way for a "Constitution for the people of Europe". (…)

  • Bush Says Missile Defense ‘Urgent’ In EUROPE
    23 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Washington - US President George W Bush said Tuesday there was an “urgent” need to deploy a missile-defence system to Eastern Europe because of Iran’s growing ballistic missile capability. “Iran is pursuing the technology that could be used to produce nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles of increasing range that could deliver them,” Bush said.”The need for missile defence in Europe is real, and I believe it’s urgent,” Bush said in a speech at the National Defence University in (…)

  • St Petersburg anti-uranium protests banned
    11 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Galina Stolyarova Staff Writer
    The police on Thursday disrupted an environmental picket outside the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, detaining more than 10 activists fromlocal and international ecological groups campaigning against theimport of spent nuclear fuel and depleted uranium hexafluoride. Thepicket was held in the wake of a hefty cargo of depleted uraniumarriving in the city.
    At 1 p.m., activists from the environmental groups Bellona, Ecodefence andGreenpeace and the (…)

  • URENCO’s rush to dump uranium waste in Russia
    9 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    A German anti-nuclear group says the world’s biggest supplier of enriched uranium, URENCO, is frantically seeking German and Dutch transport licenses to send waste to an open-air dump in Russia before Russia stops the dumping at the latest in 2009.
    Among its worldwide activities, the Anglo-Dutch-German corporation runs enrichment plants at Gronau, near Münster, in Germany and not far away across the border in Holland at Almelo.
    The SOFA Münster group writes at (…)