Year: 2007

2007-12-31 Richard Moore ³Untethered market forces lead to bad things,² said Mr. Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute. ³You simply can¹t run an economy as complicated as ours on ideology alone.² ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/123007C.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/weekinreview/30goodman.html December 30, 2007 IDEAS & TRENDS The Free Market: A False Idol After All? By PETER S. GOODMAN … Read more

2007-12-31 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/123007Z.shtml Also see below: Rioting in Pakistan Continues € — http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/Pakistan_polls_postponed/articleshow/2661237.cms Pakistan Polls Postponed The Times of India Sunday 30 December 2007 Islamabad – The election commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to postpone the January 8 polls in view of the situation in the country after the murder … Read more

2007-12-31 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “don.stacey” <•••@••.•••> To: <“Undisclosed-Recipient:;”@d.mx.aliencamel.com> Subject: ### FINANCIAL CRISIS: Merrill seeks more funds to avoid crisis ### Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:52:30 -0500 Most people do not understand just how serious the current financial crisis in our country really is. Believe me, it is monumental and threatens the very financial … Read more

2007-12-31 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: <•••@••.•••> Sender: •••@••.••• Delivered-To: mailing list •••@••.••• List-Id: <mobglobplan.yahoogroups.com> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:14:13 -0400 (EST) Subject: [mgp] Who killed Bhutto? Reply-To: •••@••.••• Feel free to distribute whereever Aaron Doncaster Who Killed Bhutto? The year was 1988, and Pakistan was holding its fist democratic election in over a decade. … Read more

2007-12-31 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/29/AR2007122900972.html Pakistan at Standstill as Discord and Unrest Grow Election Delay Considered In Wake of Bhutto’s Killing By Griff Witte Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, December 30, 2007; A01 KARACHI, Pakistan, Dec. 29 — Nationwide rioting brought life in Pakistan to a standstill Saturday and forced government officials to … Read more

2007-12-31 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/world/asia/30pakistan.html December 30, 2007 Local Pakistani Militants Boost Qaeda Threat By CARLOTTA GALL ISLAMABAD, Pakistan ‹ The Qaeda network accused by Pakistan¹s government of killing the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is increasingly made up not of foreign fighters but of homegrown Pakistani militants bent on destabilizing the country, analysts … Read more

2007-12-31 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.countercurrents.org/shibli281207.htm Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? By Murtaza Shibli 28 December, 2007 Countercurrents.org The death of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is being mourned by millions of Pakistanis. She had a profound public base despite staying out of her country for nearly a decade and dogged by corruption and … Read more

2007-12-31 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://youtube.com/watch?v=oIO8B6fpFSQ http://youtube.com/watch?v=_sxxv_R4uJ0 — ——————————————————– Posting archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog Escaping the Matrix website: http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website: http://cyberjournal.org How We the People can change the world: http://governourselves.blogspot.com/ Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html Moderator: •••@••.••• (comments welcome)

2007-12-31 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.countercurrents.org/quraishi291207.htm Benazir Bhutto: A Victim Of American Meddling By Ahmed Quraishi 29 December 2007 AhmedQuraishi.com In 1988, the United States actively helped Benazir Bhutto¹s rise to power in Pakistan. Nineteen years later, Washington has seriously botched a second attempt. Mrs. Bhutto is killed in the process. In 1988, the … Read more

2007-12-29 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7693 The Post-Bush Regime: A Prognosis By Richard K. Moore Global Research, December 27, 2007 In order to understand anything about American political affairs, it is necessary to have some understanding of who it is that really makes the decisions behind the scenes, and what their interests are. In … Read more

2007-12-29 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7687 Who killed Benazir Bhutto? The main suspects By Jeremy Page Global Research, December 27, 2007 The Times The main suspects in Benazir Bhutto¹s assassination are the Pakistani and foreign Islamist militants who saw her as a heretic and an American stooge and had repeatedly threatened to kill her. … Read more

2007-12-29 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/dec-2007/27/index1.php US to expand military presence in Pakistan OUR MONITORING DESK EARLY next year, US special forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan, as part of an effort to train and support indigenous counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counter-terrorism units, according to American defence officials involved with … Read more

2007-12-29 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122802622.html U.S. Fears Greater Turmoil In Region Pakistan’s Crisis Could Affect War In Afghanistan By Thomas E. Ricks and Robin Wright Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, December 29, 2007; A01 President Bush held an emergency meeting of his top foreign policy aides yesterday to discuss the deepening crisis in … Read more

2007-12-29 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/27/AR2007122701481.html U.S. Brokered Bhutto’s Return to Pakistan White House Would Back Her as Prime Minister While Musharraf Held Presidency By Robin Wright and Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, December 28, 2007; A01 For Benazir Bhutto, the decision to return to Pakistan was sealed during a telephone call … Read more

2007-12-29 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/29/world/asia/29pakistan.html December 29, 2007 Pakistan Says Bhutto¹s Death Has Qaeda Link By CARLOTTA GALL ISLAMABAD, Pakistan ‹ As the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was laid to rest, the government on Friday recast its version of the events of her assassination and announced that it had obtained an intelligence intercept … Read more

2007-12-29 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122907Z.shtml http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/23884.html McClatchy Washington Bureau Print This Article Posted on Fri, Dec. 28, 2007 Pakistan government skips autopsy, shifts story on how Bhutto died Saeed Shah and Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers last updated: December 28, 2007 07:20:16 PM LARKANA, Pakistan ‹ Violence and recriminations grew Friday over … Read more

2007-12-29 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/27/AR2007122700122.html Bhutto Assassination Sparks Chaos Former Premier, Hit by Gunfire After Rally, Was a Key to Pakistan’s Struggle for Democracy By Griff Witte Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, December 28, 2007; A01 RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Dec. 27 — Benazir Bhutto, for decades the central figure in a tortured struggle to … Read more

2007-12-29 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/world/asia/28pakistan.html December 28, 2007 Bhutto Assassination Ignites Disarray By SALMAN MASOOD and CARLOTTA GALL RAWALPINDI, Pakistan ‹ Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani opposition leader and twice-serving prime minister, was assassinated Thursday evening as she left a political rally here, a scene of fiery carnage that plunged Pakistan deeper into political … Read more

2007-12-29 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122707Q.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/world/asia/28pakistan.html December 28, 2007 Bhutto Assassinated in Attack on Rally By SALMAN MASOOD and GRAHAM BOWLEY RAWALPINDI, Pakistan ‹ The Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated near the capital, Islamabad, on Thursday. Witnesses said Ms. Bhutto, who was appearing at a political rally, was fired upon by … Read more

2007-12-27 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2007/3413carbon_swindle.html This article appears in the March 30, 2007 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. Carbon Trade Swindle Behind Gore Hoax by Richard Freeman and Marcia Merry Baker Look behind-if you dare-Al Gore and his science hoax, and you find the very same London-centered oligarchical financial crew that drove the … Read more

2007-12-27 Richard Moore One never knows how these things will play out. What we do know for sure is that no one like Ron Paul will ever be allowed to sit in the White House as President. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.newswithviews.com/Stang/alan21.htm ARE THE GLOBALISTS OUT TO GET RON PAUL? by Alan Stang December … Read more

2007-12-27 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:08:37 -0800 Subject: Starhawk’s Christmas Resolution From: Jan Slakov <•••@••.•••> ———— from: Starhawk <•••@••.•••> Hi friends, I thought you might want to see the response I¹ve written for the Newsweek/Washington Post On Faith site, to the question below: “The U.S. House of Representatives approved HR 847 … Read more

2007-12-27 Richard Moore Friends, In order to understand what’s going on in Pakistan now, we need first to understand what Pakistan has been doing for Washington over the past two decades. The story begins when the US decided to undertake the destabilization of Afghanistan, as a means of undermining the Soviet Union, depleting its treasury, … Read more

2007-12-27 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22301669/ MSNBC.com Corn boom may expand ‘dead zone’ Farmers say crop too profitable to stop, despite problems downstream The Associated Press updated 5:45 p.m. ET Dec. 17, 2007 JEFFERSON, Iowa – Because of rising demand for ethanol, American farmers are growing more corn than at any time since World … Read more

2007-12-27 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.russiablog.org/2007/03/russian_astronomer_points_to_g.php MARCH 2, 2007 Russian Astronomer Cites Global Warming On Mars, Doubts Man-Made Climate Change on Earth Charles Ganske Mars is heating up at the same time as Earth A Russian astronomer may have declared his own “inconvenient truth” for advocates of man-made climate change this week. According to … Read more

2007-12-23 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.rideauinstitute.ca/atf/cf/%7B4A2130EC-6053-4132-9943-AD6B4AD14A03%7D/WASAN%20ACTION%20FRAMEWORK.PDF?tr=y&auid=3271909 The Wasan Action Framework Declaration and Recommendations of the Interdisciplinary Round Table on Climate Change and Energy Strategies 13-16 September, 2007, Wasan Island, Muskoka Lakes, Ontario, Canada Sponsored by Science for Peace, David Suzuki Foundation and Breuninger Foundation CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY THE FIRST CLEAR WARNINGS OF DANGER … Read more

2007-12-23 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/holmes.html [images in original] Comet Holmes Bigger Than The Sun Summary Formerly, the Sun was the largest object in the Solar System. Now, comet 17P/Holmes holds that distinction. Spectacular outbursting comet 17P/Holmes exploded in size and brightness on October 24. It continues to expand and is now the largest … Read more

2007-12-22 Richard Moore Friends, Ever since the Democrats gained control in Congress, they have had a clear mandate to go after Bush. Indeed, that’s exactly why the voters voted for them. How disappointing it has been to watch Congress ignore that mandate and continue to kowtow to Bush, with only occasional empty protests, designed to … Read more

2007-12-22 Richard Moore Friends, This article should be no surprise to anyone who has been watching the unfolding program of the neocon regime, and noticing how it has copied its script directly from the Third Reich. We’ve had our 911 Reichstag Fire, the Patriot / Enabling Act, a blamed minority (Muslims replacing the Jews), Lebensraum … Read more

2007-12-22 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.countercurrents.org/spencer221207.htm Severe Food Shortages, Price Spikes Threaten World Population By Naomi Spencer 22 December, 2007 WSWS.org Worldwide food prices have risen sharply and supplies have dropped this year, according to the latest food outlook of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The agency warned December 17 that the … Read more

2007-12-22 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.countercurrents.org/mermelstein221207.htm The End Of Israel? By Hannah Mermelstein 22 December, 2007 The Electronic Intifada I am feeling optimistic about Palestine. I know it sounds crazy. How can I use “optimistic” and “Palestine” in the same sentence when conditions on the ground only seem to get worse? Israeli settlements continue … Read more

2007-12-22 Richard Moore Here’s a great video that explains why we may soon be losing our Internet. The issues are complex, and video is the way to make it understandable. Original source URL: http://youtube.com/watch?v=cWt0XUocViE — ——————————————————– Posting archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog Escaping the Matrix website: http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website: http://cyberjournal.org How We the People can change the world: … Read more

2007-12-22 Richard Moore ____________________ I must declare my dissatisfaction with movements to promote soil conservation or clean water or clean air or wilderness preservation or sustainable agriculture or community health or the welfare of children. Worthy as these and other goals may be, they cannot be achieved alone. I am dissatisfied with such efforts because … Read more

2007-12-22 Richard Moore Friends, This new Boeing satellite will be an important component in the Pentagon’s preparations for a first-strike attack on Russia. The satellite will perform a function much like that of an Internet Router. It will gather real-time video streams (along with other data) from numerous ‘system units’, on the ground and in … Read more

2007-12-22 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18902.htm NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON CNN Fallacy of Terrorism Role of Canadian Intelligence Agencies to Terrorize Citizens By Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. 12/16/07 “ICH” — – -Do cruelty, falsehood and wickedness have known faces and shapes? Only if you have experienced it, you will know it. If so, … Read more

2007-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.countercurrents.org/riggins211207.htm Is A World Wide Famine In The Works? By Thomas Riggins 21 December, 2007 Countercurrents.org Was it just seven years ago that the new millennium dawned? I remember all the talk about how this new era would give us a chance to escape from all the follies of … Read more

2007-12-21 Richard Moore Friends, This is the best analysis I’ve seen of what’s going between Russia and the US these days. A must read. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7659 Putin Agonistes: Missile Defense will not be Deployed By Mike Whitney Global Research, December 20, 2007 It’s been a lot of hard work, but Russian … Read more

2007-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.awakeninthedream.com/artis/a_synchronistic_encounter.html A SYNCHRONISTIC ENCOUNTER: Where Dreams and Waking Life Intersect by Paul Levy Life can be so dreamlike. In the late 1980s, I was working as the Book Service Manager for the C. G. Jung Foundation of New York. One day, one of my customers asked me how come … Read more

2007-12-21 Richard Moore Is there anyone who didn’t already know this? rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/150807CFR.htm CFR Stacks The Deck With Both Democrat And Republican Presidential Candidates MichaelVail ThoughtCriminal.org Wednesday Aug 15, 2007 Editor’s Note: 2004 was the year of the Skull & Bones presidential candidates, and now 2008 seems to be the year … Read more

2007-12-21 Richard Moore Just as our Department of War is called the ‘Defense’ Department, so our Environmental Destruction Agency calls itself a ‘Protector’. More of the microcosm of how our system operates from top to bottom. rkm ps> Syriana is on the best films I’ve seen in a while. Count on Clooney to give us … Read more