Volgens de financieel journalisten Willem Middelkoop en Mathijs Bouman die afgelopen donderdag te gast waren bij De Wereld Draait Door (DWDD), is de G20-top uitgelopen op een fiasco. Wereldleiders lieten donderdag weten dat de G20-top een 'historisch keerpunt' is voor hernieuwde economische groei en het oplossen van de wereldwijde financiële en economische crisis. Meer informatie is te vinden op FOKnieuws:
http://frontpage.fok.nl/nieuws/108673
Nicolas Sarkozy campaign against tax havens hit by reports of Swiss contacts
President Sarkozy's efforts to purge tax havens were hit by reports that he helped clients to put money in Switzerland.
The Times reports: "He faced claims that in his previous job as a lawyer he often helped rich French clients to open tax-friendly bank accounts in Switzerland."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/G20/article6023886.ece
Gezondheid
Kinderen, straling, mobieltjes en DECT
Het bizarre van onze mobiele telefonie is dat we ook hier weer met een experiment bezig zijn. Dat is een feit, want de gevolgen van deze apparaatjes zijn niet op termijn onderzocht, omdat ze gewoon nog niet zo lang bestaan.
http://www.wanttoknow.nl/overige/kinderen-straling-mobieltjes-en-dect/
Vaccinaties
Vaccinaties blijken onwerkzaam
http://zapruder.nl/portal/artikel/vaccinaties_blijken_onwerkzaam/rss
HPV en vaccinatie
In de ritse krant The Daily Mail stond afgelopen week een artikel waarom jongens ook ingeent dienen te worden tegen HPV: “Why boys need a jab for cervical cancer: Only then will girls be totally protected, say experts.”
Daniel Martin reports: “Boys should be vaccinated against the sexual infection which causes cervical cancer because so few girls have had the jab that protects against it, say campaigners. Even though boys cannot get cervical cancer, they can contract the human papillomavirus which causes 70 per cent of cases - and pass it on to girls.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1166593/Why-boys-need-jab-cervical-cancer-Only-girls-totally-protected-say-experts.html
Indonesia reconsiders vaccinations for children, citing mistrust of drug companies
(March 25, 2009 ) Indonesia's controversial health minister says she wants to end vaccinating children against meningitis, mumps and some other diseases because she fears foreign drug companies are using the country as a testing ground.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2008919288_apindonesiachildhoodvaccines.html?syndication=rss
Midden-Oosten en Afghanistan
Barack Obama fails to win Nato troops he wants for Afghanistan
President Obama made an impassioned plea to America’s allies to send more troops to Afghanistan, according to The Times Online. He warns “that failure to do so would leave Europe vulnerable to more terrorist atrocities."
But though he continued to dazzle Europeans on his debut international tour, the Continent’s leaders turned their backs on the US President.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6032342.ece
Afghanistan en gevangenen
Court rules detainees in Afghanistan can challenge imprisonment
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/bagr-a04.shtml
Israel en Gaza
Een vertaling van de Britse krant The Daily Telegraph over Israel en Gaza
Analyse: Israël riskeert te worden gezien als belangrijkste obstakel voor vrede
http://www.ditkannietwaarzijn.info/?p=11149
Gaza
http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/04/gaza-aid-prevented-by-us.html
Howard Schneider in The Washington Post
Israel Anticipated a Stronger Hamas in Gaza War
Irak
(By Anthony Shadid, The Washington Post) In the wake of clashes this week that pitted government forces against U.S.-backed Sunni fighters in Baghdad, the divergent views of two of the fighters' leaders brought to light two visions of the direction Iraqi politics are headed.
In Iraq, Political Ambiguity
Should Obama Control the Internet?
Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?
Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor—an arm of the executive branch that would have vast power to monitor and control Internet traffic to protect against threats to critical cyber infrastructure. That broad power is rattling some civil libertarians.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/should-obama-control-internet
Bilderberg-chairman: ‘Bilderberg helped create the Euro’
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bilderberg-chairman-%E2%80%98bilderberg-helped-create-the-euro%E2%80%99.html
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Uitbarsting Mount Redoubt in Alaska
