Chapter 3: ENVISIONING A TRANSFORMATIONAL MOVEMENT

2004-05-17 Richard Moore GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION: WHY WE NEED IT AND HOW WE CAN ACHIEVE IT ________________________________________________________ Chapter 3: ENVISIONING A TRANSFORMATIONAL MOVEMENT Some necessary characteristics of a transformational movement ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I think it is self evident that radical transformation can only be accomplished by some kind of mass movement. The current regime is both unwilling … Read more

Ch 2: ENVISIONING A TRANSFORMED WORLD

2004-05-14 Richard Moore GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION- WHY WE NEED IT AND HOW WE CAN ACHIEVE IT ________________________________________________________ Chapter 2: ENVISIONING A TRANSFORMED WORLD In order to explore the possibilities for a new world system, it is necessary to have some kind of value system or criteria by which to evaluate the possibilities. The value system I … Read more

Mon. dialog re> rkm’s new book

2004-05-10 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Charlene Sherman-Ragatz” To: <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: Ch. 1: THE EVOLUTION OF CIVILIZATION Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 09:50:30 -0400 Dear Richard, I’ve never written to you before, but I just wanted to say how much I admire your work and appreciate what you do. You have a style of writing … Read more

Ch. 1: THE EVOLUTION OF CIVILIZATION

2004-05-09 Richard Moore Friends, Here’s the draft of chapter one for my new book. I still don’t have a title for the book. I got very little feedback on the Introduction. I hope you’ll take the time to review this chapter and tell me what you think. want the book to make sense in reality, … Read more

rkm’s new book: Introduction

2004-05-04 Richard Moore Friends, I want to put together a book for publication in the Fall, when I will be able to afford to go through one of those on-demand self-publishing outfits that gets you listed on Amazon and prints your books for you as needed. Bill Blum has scolded me several times, saying that … Read more

Sun. dialog re> 9/11, Iraq, Mideast, the Neocons

2004-05-03 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:38:34 -0400 To: •••@••.••• From: Jay Fenello Subject: Re: Monday dialog re> Events of 9/11 Hi Richard, Please don’t let charges of anti-semitism or pressure to eliminate Zionist references persuade you to do so. Zionism is an integral part of the current world situation, and we’ll … Read more

“Interesting times” for the Science of History

2004-04-28 Richard Moore “May you live in interesting times.” – a traditional Chinese curse There are several kinds of scientists. The experimental scientist designs experiments, combines things together in new ways, and is able to create new phenomena and discover new knowledge. The theoretical scientist explores inwardly, and seeks to identify useful relationships that are … Read more

Why facing the truth matters…

2004-04-25 Richard Moore “The opportunity that is concealed within every crisis does not manifest until all the facts of any given situation are acknowledged and fully accepted. As long as you deny them, as long as you try to escape from them or wish that things were different, the window of opportunity does not open … Read more

More WTC evidence…

2004-04-25 Richard Moore Ostriches can delete now. For those who want to know what happened, we learn here how they installed the explosives in the three towers…also eyewitness reports of the explosions going off. rkm ——————————————————– Delivered-To: •••@••.••• Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 19:56:52 -0800 To: Recipient List Suppressed:; From: “Fred V. Cook” <•••@••.•••> Subject: … Read more

The Corporate Roots of American Fascism

2004-04-23 Richard Moore Friends – check this one out. In some sense an ultimate conspiracy theory, forcing us to reinterpret the meaning of World War II. And it’s all provable fact. Is that a red pill or what? Perhaps we’ll talk next about the JFK assassination… that was a direct follow-on from what is reported … Read more

What did we learn about “conspiracy theories”?

2004-04-23 Richard Moore For me, the big lesson had to do with the red pill. If you’re ready to believe that our leaders planned and carried out the events of 9/11, then you are entering into a very scary, uncertain, insecure world – “They could do anything! Our democracy means nothing. We can’t believe the … Read more

Weds closing dialog re> Events of 9/11

2004-04-21 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:37:58 -0800 To: •••@••.••• From: F Subject: Re: Monday dialog re> Events of 9/11 Dear Richard, Thanks for your facilitation of this fascinating dialog. I agree with your reframe about the “Zionist complicit” corporate controlled media. Theres a group here call “If Americans Knew” wich documents … Read more

Monday dialog re> Events of 9/11

2004-04-19 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: BE Goodman Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 23:05:02 EDT Subject: Re: Events of 9-11 – What do you think? To: •••@••.••• I want you to know that not only do I believe what you are saying about 9/11, but I started to think it even when the event occurred. I … Read more

Re: Events of 9-11 – What do you think?

2004-04-18 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 23:58:03 +0800 To: •••@••.••• From: Betty Daly-King Subject: Re: Kaminski: The fatal flaw in the 9/11 coverup rkm > If there’s anyone out there who doubts that the WTC events were orchestrated from the White House, I’d like to hear what that doubt is based on. … Read more

Kaminski: The fatal flaw in the 9/11 coverup

2004-04-17 Richard Moore Friends, If there’s anyone out there who doubts that the WTC events were orchestrated from the White House, I’d like to hear what that doubt is based on. rkm ——————————————————– Delivered-To: •••@••.••• Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:38:38 -0400 From: John Kaminski <•••@••.•••> Subject: The fatal flaw in the 9/11 coverup The … Read more

Eyewitness Reports from Falluja

2004-04-16 Richard Moore “As I was there, an endless stream of women and children who’d been sniped by the Americans were being raced into the dirty clinic, the cars speeding over the curb out front as their wailing family members carried them in.” – Dahr Jamail ——————————————————– Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 06:20:22 -0400 To: … Read more

James Petras: Third World resistance and western intellectual solidarity

2004-04-14 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Delivered-To: •••@••.••• From: “Tim Murphy” To: <•••@••.•••> Subject: Third World resistance and western intellectual solidarity Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:39:50 +0100 7th April 2004 Rebelion Third World resistance and western intellectual solidarity by James Petras Falluja, Baghdad, Ramadi, Nasiriya – an entire people has risen to confront the colonial occupation … Read more

sorry about spam posting!

2004-04-12 Richard Moore I’m trying to sign up for an anti-spam service, but it doesn’t work for email list moderators! It ends up posting the spam. I turned it off and will look for a workaround. Happy Easter, Richard

USA genocidal massacre in Iraq

2004-04-11 Richard Moore Friends, The barbarity of the Amerian assault in Iraq is almost unbelievable. Yes it is horrible how some of the invaders have been killed, as the US media trumpets, but how are people to respond when their women and children are being slaughtered in their thousands? Can resistance to conquest ever be … Read more

AMERICAN PLAN FOR GULF OIL CONTROL AND WORLD DOMINATION

2004-04-10 Richard Moore ——————————————————– To: “mer” <•••@••.•••> From: “MER – Mid-East Realities – MiddleEast.Org” <•••@••.•••> Subject: Oil, Power, Israel, and World Domination Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 08:16:58 -0400 10 April 2004 THE AMERICAN PLAN FOR GULF OIL CONTROL AND WORLD DOMINATION Raping the Middle East for its oil By Robert Dreyfuss <http://www.motherjones.com/toc/2003/03/index.html> Mother Jones … Read more

MER: Iraq Seething in Anger Heading to Civil War

2004-04-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– To: “mer” <•••@••.•••> From: “MER – Mid-East Realities – MiddleEast.Org” <•••@••.•••> Subject: Iraq Seething in Anger Heading to Civil War Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:43:37 -0400 8 April 2004 News, Views, & Analysis Governments, Lobbies, & the Corporate Media Don’t Want You To Know <http://www.MiddleEast.Org/subscribe> If you don’t get MER, … Read more

Report from Baghdad — Opening the Gates of Hell

2004-04-08 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Subject: ZNet Update, Iraq Commentary, and Book Interview Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 10:38:22 -0400 From: “Michael Albert” <•••@••.•••> To: <•••@••.•••> —<snip>— Report from Baghdad — Opening the Gates of Hell By Rahul Mahajan Before the Iraq war, at a meeting of the Arab League, Secretary General Amr Moussa famously said … Read more

(fwd) Boudewijn Wegerif: WHAT MATTERS-168

2004-04-02 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Boudewijn Wegerif” <•••@••.•••> To: <“Undisclosed-Recipient:;”@smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net> Subject: WHAT MATTERS-168: Relating as a Voyeur to ‘No Honest Americans’ by John Kaminski + + Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 23:48:49 +0200 WHAT MATTERS-168 –April 3, 2004 Relating as a Voyeur to # No Honest Americans, by John Kaminski # The Barbaric Assassination of … Read more

Tues dialog re: intentional communities

2004-03-30 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 00:50:26 -0400 To: •••@••.••• From: <•••@••.•••> Subject: intentional communities feedback hello richard although generally a passive cj listserve reader, i am moved to briefly comment on the intentional communities thread, having been directly and peripherally involved in several. i think that we, the self-styled cultural creatives, … Read more

More intentional communities…

2004-03-27 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Kevin Carson” To: •••@••.••• Bcc: Subject: RE: Weds dialog > Intentional communities & The Movement Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 05:27:47 +0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Mar 2004 05:27:47.0564 (UTC) FILETIME=[E86D1AC0:01C41229] You might also check out Anarchist Communitarian Network, which promotes federalism, cooperation and information exchange between intentional communities. http://anarchistcommunitarian.net/ ——————————————————– From: … Read more

Weds dialog > Intentional communities & The Movement

2004-03-24 Richard Moore Bcc: those mentioned below & a few friends Friends, Please don’t miss Tom Atlee’s conference announcement at the bottom, “A gathering for people bringing transformational practices to social change”. rkm ——————————————————– Preface from yesterday’s posting. From: “Claudia Woodward-Rice” <ricesofhi-at-hilobay.com> > Even tho I’m a pretty independent soul, I have found myself thinking … Read more

dialog re: “I’d like to hear from you”

2004-03-23 Richard Moore Friends, Here are responses that came in to Sunday’s posting. Notice that contributors email addresses are now disguised. “-at-” is used instead of @ too fool spam engines. A request: please tell your friends & colleagues about this list if you think it would be interesting for them. cheers, rkm ——————————————————– From: … Read more

re: “I’d like to hear from you”…

2004-03-21 Richard Moore Friends, In my previous posting, I asked you for your ideas about what you’d like to see on this list, and a few responded (below). Sorry for the big gap since that last posting. My email bandwidth has been used up dialoging with the folks I met on the West Coast. Many … Read more

Back in Ireland: rkm report

2004-03-08 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Boudewijn Wegerif” To: “Richard Moore” <•••@••.•••> Subject: Its been some time Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 04:55:36 +0100 Hi Richard, I trust you are well. Its been some time since a posting from you – or has my name fallen off the cyberjournal list? Warm regards, Boudewijn ——————————————————– Friends, I’m … Read more

Haiti: Five Facts and One Urgent Appeal

2004-02-24 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Delivered-To: •••@••.••• Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:05:39 -0400 From: Aaron Koleszar <•••@••.•••> Subject: Haiti: Five Facts and One Urgent Appeal —<fwd>— From: Dru Oja Jay <•••@••.•••> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:43:29 -0400 Subject: Haiti: Five Facts and One Urgent Appeal Five Facts about Haiti: 1. The US Government Backs … Read more

Hello from beautiful Kauai!

2004-02-15 Richard Moore Friends, This post is a bit of a miscellany. First of all, I just want to let you know that I’m having a wonderful time with my family on Kauai. A really relaxing non-activist interlude. Next week on the other hand is action packed. My itinerary is below in case there might … Read more

Don’t overlook Bush’s many accomplishments!

2004-02-04 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Bills” Subject: Giz a Job! To: •••@••.••• Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 18:23:25 GMT RESUME George W. Bush The White House, USA EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: LAW ENFORCEMENT: * I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and … Read more

rkm report & * New idea for Global Transformation *

2004-02-02 Richard Moore Friends, My USA tour is shaping up very nicely. I’ll be meeting with Jim Rough (creator of Dynamic Facilitation) in Port Townsend, Washington. He set up a 30 minute TV show for the two of us, and we’ll be having (separately) a roundtable discussion with some of Jim’s friends. Several other meetings … Read more

John Pilger: “Power, Propaganda and Conscience”

2004-01-27 Richard Moore Friends, I am pleased to share with you this important and inspiring essay, sent to us by Betty Daly-King. An excerpt: For in spite of the propaganda campaign I have outlined, never in my lifetime have people all over the world demonstrated greater awareness of the political forces ranged against them and … Read more

re: rkm USA visit in February

2004-01-25 Richard Moore Friends, I’ll be visiting BushLand in February, and it would be nice to hook up in person with some of you folks. Here’s my itinerary: Feb 7-16: Kauai Feb 17-20: SF Bay Area Feb 20: party in Palo Alto Feb 21-27: on the road up to Oregon and back to Bay Area … Read more

Arundhati Roy: “We must consider ourselves at war”

2004-01-21 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Delivered-To: •••@••.••• From: “Janet M Eaton” <•••@••.•••> To: •••@••.••• Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:25:16 -0400 Subject: WSF 2004 :Text of Arundhati Roy’s Speech – Opening Plenary [The Hindu Jan 18] ============== http://www.hindu.com/2004/01/18/stories/2004011800181400.htm Online edition of India’s National Newspaper Sunday, Jan 18, 2004 Front Page Do turkeys enjoy thanksgiving? By Arundhati … Read more

Direct Democracy, Wisdom Councils, and The Revolution

2004-01-19 Richard Moore Bcc: misc. interested (I hope) parties We are already all of us, right round the world, subject to the cold, pragmatic ideology of fascism-including the violent suppression of dissent and other human rights; the use of torture, assassination and concentration camps; and most important, Benito Mussolini’s preferred definition of ‘fascism’ as ‘corporatism’, … Read more

Hopeful signs: VISIONING BRASIL 2020

2004-01-11 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Delivered-To: •••@••.••• Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 00:04:31 -0800 To: •••@••.••• (undisclosed list) From: Tom Atlee <•••@••.•••> Subject: Some good news from a struggling planet http://www.hazelhenderson.com/visioning_brasil_2020.htm “VISIONING BRASIL 2020” by Hazel Henderson, author evolutionary economist Brasil’s leadership in forming the Group of 21 (now 22) developing nations opened a new era … Read more