US attack on Iran begins – via financial sanctions

2006-09-18 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.financialexpress-bd.com/index3.asp?cnd=9/17/2006&section_id=22&newsid=37910&spcl=no Iran vows legal action on US move against Bank Saderat 9/17/2006 SINGAPORE, Sept 16 (AFP): Iran has vowed to take legal action to challenge US sanctions on the Iranian lender Bank Saderat and has said it is considering shifting some of its foreign exchange reserves out of the … Read more

Nazism on rise in Germany

2006-09-18 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5349696.stm ‘Poll boost’ for German far right Early results in German regional polls show the far right has won seats in an eastern state and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party has performed poorly. The far right National Democratic Party (NPD) won about 7% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – with 5% needed … Read more

Mexico: 1 million gather to elect ‘legitimate government’

2006-09-18 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.marxist.com/mexico-convention180906.htm Mexico: 1 million strong Convention elects ³legitimate government² By Jorge Martin Monday, 18 September 2006 A massive National Democratic Convention (CND) met in the centre of Mexico City on Saturday, September 16 and decided to elect “a legitimate government” with Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (the candidate of the … Read more

Hooray! “Republicans reject Bush’s anti-terror law”

2006-09-18 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1873121,00.html Republicans reject Bush’s anti-terror law Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington Friday September 15, 2006 The Guardian George Bush suffered a serious rebuff yesterday to his demand to grant the CIA and the military a freer hand in the war on terror after Senate Republicans moved to block legislation that … Read more

EU continues to expand imperialist agenda

2006-09-18 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://english.people.com.cn/200609/16/eng20060916_303419.html EU considers deployment of troops on Lebanon-Syria border The European Union (EU) is considering the possibility of deploying troops on the Lebanon- Syria border. The EU foreign ministers on Friday invited Finland, which holds the EU presidency, foreign policy chief Javier Solana and the European Commission to draw … Read more

Big Brother and CCTV – will remote guns on cameras be next?

2006-09-18 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html Big Brother is shouting at you Last updated at 21:02pm on 16th September 2006 Big Brother is not only watching you – now he’s barking orders too. Britain’s first ‘talking’ CCTV cameras have arrived, publicly berating bad behaviour and shaming offenders into acting more responsibly. The system allows … Read more

a time for tears: even Sweden moves toward neoliberalism

2006-09-18 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5353092.stm Narrow win for Swedish opposition Sweden’s centre-right opposition bloc has defeated the ruling Social Democrat party in the country’s closest-fought general election for decades. Moderate party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt declared victory as near-complete results gave him a 1% lead. Minutes later, Prime Minister Goran Persson conceded victory and … Read more

Escaping the Matrix – website updates – new interviews available

2006-09-17 Richard Moore Greetings, I’ve just updated the website. Several recent radio interviews have been added: http://escapingthematrix.org/interview.html A poster can be downloaded, for bookstore appearances, etc.: http://escapingthematrix.org/promotion.html “100Fires Books” in Arcata, California is now offering the book, and a link has been added to the ETM home page: http://EscapingTheMatrix.org — The most recent interview, with … Read more

Washington Post embeds itself with the neocons

2006-09-16 Richard Moore ³The Post editorial pages were an echo chamber for pre-war distortions and paranoid fantasies originated by the White House Iraq Group (WHIG). So it’s grotesquely fitting that the Post would hire as an op-ed columnist, Michael Gerson, Bush’s top speechwriter who — as a key wordsmith within WHIG — helped originate the … Read more

Adam Trombly, on the transformation of humanity

2006-09-16 Richard Moore Be warned: this article talks about free energy and alien technologies. If you’re allergic to such ideas just hit delete. If you’re not, this fellow seems to have some new, allegedly substantiated, things to say. But the scope of the article is bigger than these topics. He’s talking about the nature of … Read more

Are republican Senators taking on Bush?

2006-09-16 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/us/politics/15assess.html September 15, 2006 NEWS ANALYSIS An Unexpected Collision Over Detainees By CARL HULSE WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 ‹ President Bush and Congressional Republicans spent the last 10 days laying the foundation for a titanic pre-election struggle over national security, and now they have one. But the fight playing out … Read more

Kissinger affirms support for Clash of Civilizations

2006-09-16 Richard Moore This article is full of double talk and is a bit tricky to decipher. On the one hand he says, “the big threat lay in the erosion of nation states and the emergence of transnational groups”. On the other hand he talks about how “Europe and the United States must unite”. He … Read more

Surprise? Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media

2006-09-16 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm#1 Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007 #1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media Sources: Buzzflash.com, July 18, 2005 Title: ³Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, and Why Corporate News Censored the Story² Author: Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D. Student Researchers: Lauren Powell, Brett Forest, … Read more

US reduces presence in Syria in advance of attack

2006-09-16 Richard Moore ³The United States moved to reduce its diplomatic presence in Syria on Thursday following an attack on its embassy in Damascus, by offering free flights home to dependents and nonessential diplomats who wish to leave.² Well, the false-flag event failed, and they go ahead with their withdrawal plans anyway. shouldn’t leave such … Read more

Venezuela shows the way to real democracy

2006-09-16 Richard Moore ³Now the community is the basic structural unit of government of the new state, legally defined as 200-400 families in urban areas, around 20 in the countryside and from 10 up for the indigenous population. The Spanish political analyst Juan Carlos Monedero observed that the main reason 20th-century socialism failed was a … Read more

Syria: who was behind attack on US embassy?

2006-09-16 Richard Moore “The Syrian police forces did their job, and they were professional about it,” said the White House press secretary, Tony Snow. “Now, the next step is for Syria to play a constructive role in the war on terror. Stop harbouring terrorist groups, stop being an agent in fomenting terror, and work with … Read more

Omega-News Collection 16. September 2006

2006-09-16 Richard Moore Original source URL: ——————————————————– From: •••@••.••• Delivered-To: mailing list •••@••.••• Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:46:26 +0200 Subject: [mgp] Omega-News Collection 16. September 2006 Reply-To: •••@••.••• The climate disaster is upon us now http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2674476/ From Alaska to Australia, the world is changing in front of us http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2674452/ NASA SEES RAPID CHANGES IN … Read more

Mexican elites heavily involved in child sex

2006-09-16 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=34710 Inter Press Service News Agency Friday, September 15, 2006 17:23 GMT MEXICO: Ties Between Elites and Child Sex Rings “Beyond Imagination” Diego Cevallos MEXICO CITY, Sep 13 (IPS) – The complicity in Mexico between child sex rings and the political and business elites “goes beyond what we can … Read more

Israeli false-flag attack thwarted in Argentina

2006-09-16 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/editorials/signs20060914_IsraeliDiplomatCarryingLargeQuantityOfExplosivesArrestedInArgentina.php Israeli Diplomat Carrying Large Quantity Of Explosives Arrested In Argentina 23/08/2006 Red Kalki Last week, (mid August 2006) a very serious event transpired at the Buenos Aires international airport which the local mainstream press did not however bring to the attention of the public. Today, Red Kalki, relying … Read more

IAEA: U.S. report on Iran’s nuclear plan ‘outrageous and dishonest’

2006-09-16 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/762788.html Last update – 13:40 14/09/2006 IAEA: U.S. report on Iran’s nuclear plan ‘outrageous and dishonest’ By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent and Reuters VIENNA – UN inspectors have protested to the U.S. government and a Congressional committee about a report on Iran’s nuclear work, calling parts of it “outrageous … Read more

Hezbollah speaks truth to UN

2006-09-16 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060916/wl_afp/mideastconflictlebanonunhezbollah_060916101602 UN should stick to defending Lebanon from Israel: Hezbollah Sat Sep 16, 6:17 AM ET A top Hezbollah leader said the Shiite group would have no problems with UN peacekeepers as long as they limit their work to defending Lebanon against Israel and do not pursue other agendas. … Read more

Desmond Tutu on the African arms trade

2006-09-16 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article1523112.ece Desmond Tutu: The modern successor to the slave trade No longer should the peace business be undermined by the arms business Published: 13 September 2006 For many years, I’ve been involved in the peace business, doing what I can to help people overcome their differences. In doing so, … Read more

California dreamin’ – puny measures against greenhouse gases

2006-09-16 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/us/15energy.html September 15, 2006 CLEARING THE AIR In Gamble, Calif. Tries to Curb Greenhouse Gases By FELICITY BARRINGER SACRAMENTO ‹ In the Rocky Mountain States and the fast-growing desert Southwest, more than 20 power plants, designed to burn coal that is plentiful and cheap, are on the drawing boards. … Read more

Baghdad to become sealed city

2006-09-16 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/16/world/middleeast/16iraq.html?th&emc=th September 16, 2006 Iraqis Plan to Ring Baghdad With Trenches By EDWARD WONG BAGHDAD, Sept. 15 ‹ The Iraqi government plans to seal off Baghdad within weeks by ringing it with a series of trenches and setting up dozens of traffic checkpoints to control movement in and out … Read more

“America: Freedom To Fascism” coming to a theater near you

2006-09-16 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://rense.com/general73/AMFRE.HTM America: Freedom To Fascism New Theater Openings From Aaron Russo 9-15-6 Dear Lovers of Liberty, the struggle is just beginning! Get ready… Are you aware by May of 2008 the law will require you to carry a national identification card? Are you aware that there are plans being … Read more

Air Force wants to test weapons on US civilians

2006-09-16 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-air-force-weapons,1,4148740.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines Official Touts Nonlethal Weapons for Use By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer 2:46 PM PDT, September 12, 2006 WASHINGTON — Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before they are used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary … Read more

a plane humor break

2006-09-14 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: •••@••.••• Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:36:10 EDT Subject: Fwd: plane humor This is absolutely hilarious! You’ve got to read it! —<forwarded message>— Remember it takes a college degree to fly a plane but only a high school diploma to fix one. Reassurance for those of us who fly routinely … Read more

Iraq: an epic battle between tyranny and freedom

2006-09-13 Richard Moore “Mr. Bush sought to place the war in Iraq in the context of an epic battle between tyranny and freedom, saying the campaign against global terrorism was ‘the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century and the calling of our generation.’ ‘If we do not defeat these enemies now,’ Mr. Bush said, … Read more

* Chris Bennett: “Sustainable oil?” *

2006-09-13 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38645 Sustainable oil? Posted: May 25, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Chris Bennett About 80 miles off of the coast of Louisiana lies a mostly submerged mountain, the top of which is known as Eugene Island. The portion underwater is an eerie-looking, sloping tower jutting up from the depths … Read more

Another important 911 video…4 minutes long

2006-09-13 Richard Moore “…during the time that the airplane coming into the Pentagon. There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, “The plane is 50 miles out. The plane is 30 miles out.” And when it got down to, “The plane is 10 miles out,” the young man … Read more

Greg Palast: facing criminal charges by Homeland Security!

2006-09-13 Richard Moore This is a very interesting article. Here’s the first bit: ³On August 22, for LinkTV and Democracy Now! we videotaped the thousands of Katrina evacuees still held behind a barbed wire in a trailer park encampment a hundred miles from New Orleans. It’s been a year since the hurricane and 73,000 POW’s … Read more

Yet another phony ‘Al Qaeda’ video…

2006-09-13 Richard Moore Why did the neocons fabricate this particular video, and why now? Your guess is as good as mine, but perhaps it means they’re planning to stage the next 911 in Israel. That would make a lot of sense, in their diabolical minds. It would negate a lot of the world’s condemnation of … Read more

Bush and the justification of torture…

2006-09-13 Richard Moore ³According to accounts by three former intelligence officials, the C.I.A. understood that the legal foundation for its role had been spelled out in a sweeping classified directive signed by Mr. Bush on Sept. 17, 2001. The directive, known as a memorandum of notification, authorized the C.I.A. for the first time to capture, … Read more

Syria rejects EU border presence

2006-09-13 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060909/wl_nm/mideast_dc_449 Syria rejects EU border presence: media By Dominic Evans Sat Sep 9, 5:30 PM ET Syria said on Saturday it did not accept the deployment of European guards on the Lebanese side of the two countries’ border to help prevent alleged arms shipments to Hizbollah. The official news … Read more

IDF commander: We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon

2006-09-13 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/761781.html IDF commander: We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon By Meron Rappaport “What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs,” the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells … Read more

Czech Govt Under Fire Over US Missile Plans

2006-09-13 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Czech_Govt_Under_Fire_Over_US_Missile_Plans_999.html Czech Govt Under Fire Over US Missile Plans by Sophie Pons Prague (AFP) Sep 09, 2006 Less than a week after taking office, the Czech Republic’s new minority government is embroiled in a major political row with opposition parties over a US project to base missiles on Czech … Read more

Good 911 presentation: Today 9-11pm Eastern Time

2006-09-12 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:56:40 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: “•••@••.•••” <•••@••.•••> Reply-To: “•••@••.•••” <•••@••.•••> To: •••@••.••• Subject: Fw: Taking Aim Bulletin, September 10, 2006 – Special Broadcast Tuesday – 9:00-11:00 pm ET Cc: •••@••.•••, •••@••.••• Richard, Are you on the list for Taking Aim? If not, I hope you’ll get on. … Read more

Last minute reminder: rkm radio interview tonight

2006-09-11 Richard Moore Tonight, Sep 11, 11pm-1am Central Time (US) midnight to 2am Eastern time 10pm-midnight Mountain time 9pm – 11pm Pacific time here is the direct link for the live chat that will be going on during the show… <http://www.mikehagan.com/phpMyChat/> people just have to choose a nickname and jump right in… and once more, … Read more

George Carlin tells it like it is

2006-09-11 Richard Moore From: “June Ross” <•••@••.•••> Subject: Sept. 10th – George Carlin – Who Controls America? Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:07:27 -0700 WOW………..This is something else to listen to! His language is ear splitting, but is he dead on! Have a listen. Yours June <http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=935607276> — ——————————————————– Escaping the Matrix website http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal … Read more