2004-12-22 Richard Moore Friends, Hope you are all together with families and enjoying the warm hearth of the Christmas spirit. I find myself off in Edinborough, where I’ve been graciously invited by Jim & Marureen Macgregor – as a guest in their family as my own is many thousands of miles away. Yesterday we went … Read more
2004-12-17 Richard Moore _______________________________________________ ESCAPING THE MATRIX GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION: WHY WE NEED IT, AND HOW WE CAN GET IT © 2004 Richard K. Moore •••@••.••• http://cyberjournal.org draft version 2.2 This is a review draft of a copyrighted work. Please do not forward, except to selected individuals who may provide useful feedback. This draft does not … Read more
2004-12-14 Richard Moore ____________________________________________________ ESCAPING THE MATRIX GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION: WHY WE NEED IT, AND HOW WE CAN GET IT v. 2.1 © 2004 Richard K. Moore http://cyberjournal.org SYNOPSIS ____________________________________________________ Introduction Chapter 1 A brief history of humanity Species evolution: competition within a cooperative framework The first humans and cultural evolution Origins of civilization: inside and … Read more
2004-12-11 Richard Moore ——————————————————– http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121204X.shtml Also see below: Analysis: Discontent Plaguing Military * Deserters: We Won’t Go to Iraq CBSNews.com Wednesday 08 December 2004 The Pentagon says more than 5,500 servicemen have deserted since the war started in Iraq. 60 Minutes Wednesday found several of these deserters who left the Army or Marine Corps rather … Read more
2004-12-11 Richard Moore Friends, Good news and bad news. FIrst the bad news. Pluto’s interest in the book was very short-lived. The editor wanted all the ideas to be placed in an academic context, citing all those who had developed ideas along similar lines. For a book which covers such a wide scope, that would … Read more
2004-12-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112804X.shtml Also see below: Falluja’s Health Damage * ‘Unusual Weapons’ Used in Fallujah By Dahr Jamail Inter Press Service Friday 26 November 2004 Baghdad – The U.S. military has used poison gas and other non-conventional weapons against civilians in Fallujah, eyewitnesses report.. “Poisonous gases have been used in Fallujah,” 35-year-old trader … Read more
2004-12-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112704X.shtml Scalia Says Religion Infuses U.S. Government and History By Vera Dobnik The Associated Press Monday 22 November 2004 New York – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Monday that a religion-neutral government does not fit with an America that reflects belief in God in everything from its money to … Read more
2004-12-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Janet M Eaton” <•••@••.•••> To: •••@••.••• Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:49:56 -0400 Subject: Economic `Armageddon’ predicted — Stephen Roach [Boston Herald.comNov 23] http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=55356 Boston Herald – Business Today Economic `Armageddon’ predicted By Brett Arends/ On State Street Tuesday, November 23, 2004 Stephen Roach, the chief economist at investment banking … Read more
2004-12-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: Chris Thorman Subject: Naomi Klein article on Iraq Cc: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6930.htm NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON CNN Baghdad Year Zero “Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia” By Naomi Klein Harper’s Magazine, September 2004 — It was only after I had been in Baghdad for a month that I found … Read more
2004-12-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “ICE” <•••@••.•••> TSubject: Fw: FOCUS: The Dollar is Melting, Bush Administration Takes NoAction Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:12:47 -0800 Organization: Institute for Cultural Ecology —– Original Message —– From: “Ranil Senanayake” <•••@••.•••> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 6:10 AM Subject: Re: FOCUS: The Dollar is Melting, Bush Administration Takes … Read more
2004-12-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:03:41 +0100 Subject: Shame: American troops use women and children as human shields From: “Praxis-HennerRitter” <•••@••.•••> Every US-citizen should know this! Remember: finally the US had to withdraw from Vietnam also because of the mounting resistance inside US! Love and peace to our human family Henner … Read more
2004-12-09 Richard Moore From: •••@••.••• Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:55:29 EST Subject: Fwd: The 9/11 Truth Movement questions our new day of infamy —<fwd>— From: “Robert Lederman” <•••@••.•••> To: “Robert Lederman” <•••@••.•••> Subject: The 9/11 Truth Movement questions our new day of infamy Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 06:37:38 -0400 (FORWARDED article from Boulder … Read more
2004-12-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: William Bowles <•••@••.•••> Subject: Documentary proof of CIA involvement coup d’etat against Venezuela http://www.williambowles.info/venezuela/ven_cia.html News and opinions on situation in Venezuela 21/11/04 US Central Intelligence Agency: Documentary proof of CIA involvement in the April 2002 coup d’etat against Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez Frias by Eva Golinger www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=23621 Venezuelafoia.info’s reports: On … Read more
2004-12-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112104D.shtml Greenspan Issues Warning on Dollar By David Streitfeld and Jeffrey Fleishman The Los Angeles Times Saturday 20 November 2004 The Federal Reserve chairman is concerned that foreign investors may unload the U.S. currency because of the growing trade deficit. Berlin – Foreigners will eventually sour on U.S. bonds and the … Read more
2004-12-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/20/international/asia/20china.html?th November 20, 2004 China Widens Economic Role in Latin America By LARRY ROHTER ANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 19 – The expected arrival here on Friday of President Bush, who personifies for Latin Americans the economic and political power of Washington, is being greeted with an uneasy mix of protests and hopes … Read more
2004-12-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Lou & Dr. Bob Wynman” <•••@••.•••> Subject: Fw: urgent alert Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:31:45 -0800 URGENT ALERT: VOTE COMING ON FORCED MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING By: Devvy November19, 2004 NewsWithViews.com “Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to … Read more
2004-12-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:55:28 -0500 From: Paul Wolf <•••@••.•••> Subject: Putting Fallujah to the Torch 1. Putting Fallujah to the Torch 2. Counterinsurgency run amok 3. Don’t Support the Troops! Not When They Commit War Crimes 4. US accused of ‘torture flights’ Putting Fallujah to the Torch By Assaf … Read more
2004-12-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: William Bowles <•••@••.•••> Subject: Baghdad Burning. Girl Blog from Iraq- http://www.williambowles.info/iraq/girl_blog_161104.html News and opinions on situation in Iraq 16/11/04 Baghdad Burning. Girl Blog from Iraq- Tuesday, November 16, 2004 I’m feeling sick- literally. I can’t get the video Al-Jazeera played out of my head: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=535&ncid=535&e=2&u=/ap/20041116/ap_on_re_mi_ea/fallujah_prisoner_shot The mosque strewn with bodies … Read more
2004-12-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: William Bowles <•••@••.•••> Subject: Venezuela: US government implicated in the assassination of Danilo Anderson? Date: November 20, 2004 http://www.williambowles.info/venezuela/us_danilo.html News and opinions on situation in Venezuela 19/11/04 US government implicated in the assassination of Danilo Anderson? by Oscar Heck Published: Friday, November 19, 2004 Bylined to: Oscar Heck www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=23581 VHeadline.com … Read more
2004-12-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Janet M Eaton” <•••@••.•••> To: •••@••.••• Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:46:03 -0400 X-Distribution: Moderate Subject: DU in Iraq – America’s Radioactive War – [Counterpunch Nov 17] Reply-to: •••@••.••• CC: GLOBALL Priority: normal There has been virtually no mention of the use of depleted uranium (DU) in this latest Gulf … Read more
2004-12-08 Richard Moore Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 01:03:41 +0100 Subject: Naomi Klein:In Iraq, the US does eliminate those who dare to count the dead From: “Praxis-HennerRitter” <•••@••.•••> To: Henner Ritter <•••@••.•••> In Iraq, the US does eliminate those who dare to count the dead by Naomi Klein The Guardian, 4 December 2004 www.globalresearch.ca 5 … Read more
2004-12-06 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Table Of Contents (revised) Chapter 1 The matrix Chapter 2 We the People and the transformational imperative Chapter 3 The harmonization imperative Chapter 4 Harmonization in groups Chapter 5 We the People and social transformation Chapter 6 Envisioning a democratic world Chapter 7 The transition process Chapter 8 Living outside the … Read more
2004-12-04 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:20:12 +0800 To: •••@••.••• From: Dion Giles <•••@••.•••> Subject: US election fraud: whisper growing to a roar Now a person stating he is Republican insider is blowing the whistle, indicating that the fraud was much greater than just a handful of votes in Ohio and Florida. … Read more
2004-12-04 Richard Moore Friends, Work has been continuing apace on the new book. I’ve been ignoring other things, such as straightening up the house or sending out news items. Sorry about that. I know LOTS is going on in the world. One of these days I’ll DELUGE newslog and send a summary to cj & … Read more
2004-11-30 Richard Moore Friends, Given the widespread and long-standing U.S. policy of imperialism via destabilization, I have been reluctant to get get enthusiastic about the “people’s uprising” in the Ukraine. Images of the fabricated “popular revolt” against Chavez are too recent in my memory. And of course the American media and the White House are … Read more
2004-11-29 Richard Moore Friends, Here’s a journal with a vision of democracy similar to the one proposed in my new book. rkm ——————————————————– http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/is1/what_is.htm What is Inclusive Democracy? The contours of Inclusive Democracy Inclusive democracy is a new conception of democracy, which, using as a starting point the classical definition of it, expresses democracy in … Read more
2004-11-23 Richard Moore Bcc: the usual and unusual suspects Friends, Sorry for ignoring you, but I’ve been getting a PDF version of the book together and I’ve been in dialog with Pluto publishing. The MOST AMAZING serendipity… on the very day I began putting the latest draft into a word processor, I got a message … Read more
2004-11-18 Richard Moore ——————————————————– http://www.williambowles.info/venezuela/new_parameters.html News and opinions on situation in Venezuela 15/11/04 Venezuela: Setting the new revolutionary parameters by Richard Smith www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=23530 VHeadline.com guest commentarist Richard Smith writes: With the political battle against the right wing opposition won Š at worst in an impasse Š after the convincing victory at both national and local … Read more
2004-11-18 Richard Moore ——————————————————– http://www.williambowles.info/iraq/us_graves.html News and opinions on situation in Iraq 16/11/04 New Report, Footage Surfaces On Mass Graves Of US Soldiers By Bruce Kennedy, JUS www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_internal.php?article=100552&list=/home.php& In August, reports began surfacing about incidents of dead American bodies being dumped into the Diali River by US helicopters in the early morning hours. Fishermen on … Read more
2004-11-18 Richard Moore ——————————————————– http://www.williambowles.info/ini/ini-0288.html William Bowles * November 16 2004 Update: 17 November 2004 Coincidence? The surfacing of a videotape that allegedly shows the execution of Margaret Hassan coming as it does fresh on the heels of the video of the execution of a wounded Iraqi resistance fighter by US Marines seems to be … Read more
2004-11-17 Richard Moore ——————————————————– http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/index.htm VIRUSMYTH A growing group of bio-medical scientists claim the cause of AIDS is still unknown. These heretics do not believe in the lethal AIDS virus called HIV. They claim that the virus is indeed harmless. Most of them think AIDS is also not sexually transmitted; it probably has toxic causes. … Read more
2004-11-16 Richard Moore Friends, The book all-as-one-posting takes much too long to download. Sorry about that. You can get each chapter more easily from the TOC below. In a few days I’ll make an attachment version which I can send to anyone who prefers that. Hope lots of you will have time to review! yours, … Read more
2004-11-16 Richard Moore Copyright 2004 Richard K. Moore _________________________________________________ CHAPTER 8: THE LIBERATION OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS * Cultures and conditioning Animals are born with most of their behavior patterns already hard-wired in. Humans on the other hand learn their behavior patterns and beliefs — their culture — from their society. We are born with a … Read more
2004-11-16 Richard Moore Copyright 2004 Richard K. Moore _________________________________________________ CHAPTER 7: A CHARTER FOR A DEMOCRATIC WORLD: HARMONIZATION AND LOCALISM * Introduction Up until this point, this book has been addressed to readers in today’s untransformed cultures, particularly those in the industrialized West. It has presented an historical analysis, focusing on the role of elites … Read more
2004-11-16 Richard Moore Copyright 2004 Richard K. Moore _________________________________________________ CHAPTER 6: HARMONIZATION AND GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION “May you live in interesting times.” – An ancient Chinese curse * The crisis of civilization We are now in the midst of an extremely volatile and unstable moment in history. It is a chaotic instability, where a variety of … Read more
2004-11-16 Richard Moore Copyright 2004 Richard K. Moore _________________________________________________ CHAPTER 5: HARMONIZATION AS A CULTURAL MOVEMENT * The prospects for a large-scale harmonization movement One of the remarkable outcomes of harmonization experiences is the enthusiasm that can be generated for sharing the experience more widely. In my case, soon after the Berkeley gathering, I was … Read more
2004-11-16 Richard Moore Copyright 2004 Richard K. Moore _________________________________________________ CHAPTER 4: HARMONIZATION IN THE MICROCOSM * A very promising gathering in Michigan In June, 2004, twenty four diverse “opinion leaders” were invited to a conference in Michigan which had the following stated purpose: The purpose of this gathering is to [initiate] a new kind of … Read more
2004-11-16 Richard Moore Copyright 2004 Richard K. Moore _________________________________________________ CHAPTER 3: THE HARMONIZATION IMPERATIVE * Adversarial systems and liberal democracy If We the People are to respond effectively to our Transformational Imperative, then we will need to do so by means of an appropriate social movement. In the preceding chapter I argued that a protest … Read more
2004-11-16 Richard Moore Copyright 2004 Richard K. Moore _________________________________________________ CHAPTER 2: We the People AND THE TRANSFORMATIONAL IMPERATIVE * Civilization in crisis Civilization, and humanity, are now facing the most severe crisis of survival that either has ever faced. The unbridled exploitation and waste of resources, required by capitalism’s growth imperative, is destroying the bio-infrastructure … Read more
2004-11-16 Richard Moore Copyright 2004 Richard K. Moore _________________________________________________ CHAPTER 1 – THE MATRIX * Are you ready for the red pill? The defining dramatic moment in the film The Matrix occurs just after Morpheus invites Neo to choose between a red pill and a blue pill. The red pill promises “the truth, nothing more.” … Read more