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  • Work: A Health Hazard for One in Three Europeans
    29 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Thomas Lemahieu
    Working conditions: According to a study recently presented in Paris the problem is far from resolved, particularly where labourers and women are concerned.
    A study involving 30,000 people from 31 countries, conducted in Autumn 2005 by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, presented yesterday in Paris, revealed that one in three European wage-earners considers their job “affects their health”.
    Employees from the countries newly (…)

  • EU prepares for hard-core Chad mission
    27 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/
    As the EU sets peacekeeping plans in motion, the size of the force and the rules of its engagement in this hotspot remain key questions.
    By Brooks Tigner in Brussels for ISN Security Watch (26/07/07)
    The EU has set in motion plans to send a peacekeeping force to Chad along its troubled border with Sudan, prompting international aid and humanitarian groups to call for clear rules of engagement that focus on civilian protection and human rights and the (…)

  • Spanish Customs Officers Uncover Weapons Haul in ship en route from Israel to Nicaragua
    5 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Spanish customs officers uncovered more than 1,000 weapons aboard a ship en route from Israel to Nicaragua during a routine cargo inspection, the governor of the southern Andalusia region said Wednesday.
    By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, MADRID
    Posted 07/04/07 11:13
    Spanish customs officers uncovered more than 1,000 weapons aboard a ship en route from Israel to Nicaragua during a routine cargo inspection, the governor of the southern Andalusia region said Wednesday.
    Gov. Juan Jose Lopez (…)

  • FED looses control on US interest rates and crisis reaches China and EU
    20 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    FED looses control on US interest rates and crisis reaches China and EU
    GEAB N°16 is available! Global systemic crisis / Summer 2007 : Fed looses control on US interest rates and crisis reaches China and EU Public announcement GEAB N°16 (Special Summer 2007 issue - 23 pages!)
    This second quarter’s fundamental event about to shove most players’ anticipations over the coming months, is certainly the final and simultaneous failure of the two key-strategies defined by US leaders, i.e.:
    . (…)

  • US Missiles in Europe: Beyond Deterrence to First-Strike Threat By Prof. Francis A. Boyle
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    US Missiles in Europe: Beyond Deterrence to First-Strike Threat
    By Prof. Francis A. Boyle
    Global Research, June 6, 2007
    These European ABMs are an adjunct to the longstanding US policy of nuclear first strike against Russia, as explained in my book "The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence"
    By means of a US first strike about 99%+ of Russian nuclear forces would be taken out. So Bush Jr. needs ABMs to take care of what remains. And in any event what really matters here is the (…)

  • G8, Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission
    4 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    And while about the G8, world government and the Bilderberg Group, let’s not forget Bilderberg’s sister club, the Rockefeller-funded Trilateral Commission. While European conspiraloons tend to focus, quite understandably, on Bilderberg the Trilats are very rarely mentioned.
    Why is this so, especially when it is the Bilderbergers who are the more secretive of the two?
    Bilderberg was founded, in the early ’fifties, as essentially an Atlanticist group meant to bring together capital’s big (…)

  • Photos - Protesters target ASEM summit in Hamburg - 28.05.2007
    29 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thousands of anti-globalisation demonstrators have marched through the centre of the north German city of Hamburg protesting against a meeting of EU and Asian ministers.
    The protesters erected barricades and police responded with water cannon and baton charges after being pelted with bottles and stones.
    Police said that 24 people had been arrested. The protests took place on the first day of a two-day conference between foreign ministers from the EU and Asian countries.
    Topics slated (…)

  • Compensation for roughed-up farmer
    24 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Diet Simon
    A German farmer has been awarded 3,000 euros compensation for being roughed up by police during a transport of nuclear waste half a kilometre from his farm.
    In November 2004 the farmer was working with his forklift near the railway line on which caskets containing the highly radioactive waste were to run to a dump in Gorleben, northern Germany.
    Police yanked him brutally from his tractor and threatened him with a pistol. He was led off in handcuffs and taken to a detainee (…)

  • Christiania - Danish police clash with protesters at hippie enclave
    15 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Monday, May 14 2007
    COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Police fired tear gas on Monday in clashes with rock-throwing rioters protesting the demolition of a decrepit building in Copenhagen’s hippie enclave. At least 16 people were arrested, police said, while one police officer and one protester were injured.
    COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Police fired tear gas on Monday in clashes with rock-throwing rioters protesting the demolition of a decrepit building in Copenhagen’s hippie enclave.
    At least 16 people (…)

  • Police raids in Germany
    13 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    According to mainstream media, over 800 policemen were involved in raiding 40 left-wing political objects with the support of 20 public prosecutors.
    Whilst German television channels reported live from the razzias in the big cities, according to the populist press farms in Schleswig-Holstein, Brandenburg and Niedersachsen were also affected.
    Several reasons were given so far for the raids, which nevertheless seemed to centre on and affect mainly infrastructure and logistics around the (…)