2007-12-21 Richard Moore Whatta laugh! The Fed takes aim at the very practices it actively promoted. A very revealing microcosm of how our whole system works. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/18/AR2007121800194.html Fed Takes Aim at Deceptive Home Lending Practices By David Cho Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 19, 2007; A01 The Federal Reserve … Read more
2007-12-21 Richard Moore ____________________ Commanders and diplomats in Baghdad told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity that they were angered when they were told of Sunday’s attack after it was already under way. ____________________ Nice cover story, but hardly credible. Of course Washington pre-approved the Turkish incursion, otherwise we wouldn’t see “US Pleads for … Read more
2007-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.willthomasonline.net/willthomasonline/US_Veteran_Reveals_Atomic_Bombs.html ³Nuclear, nuclear, nuclear. The word has been around for decades, and for the longest time, was at the center of American foreign policy and the deepest fears of the American people. Nuclear brinkmanship. Nuclear winter. Nuclear holocaust. Etc. It’s a great, big, fat, important, and serious word. Its … Read more
2007-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/17/AR2007121702150.html U.S. Helps Turkey Hit Rebel Kurds In Iraq Intelligence Role Could Complicate Diplomacy By Ann Scott Tyson and Robin Wright Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, December 18, 2007; A01 The United States is providing Turkey with real-time intelligence that has helped the Turkish military target a series of … Read more
2007-12-19 Richard Moore ____________________ In an escalation of the Cold War-style threats favoured by President Vladimir Putin, the general in charge of Russia’s ballistic arsenal said that he could target the bases in Poland and the Czech Republic that will host the missile-interceptor shield if America insists on building them. ____________________ The purpose of the … Read more
2007-12-19 Richard Moore Friends, I recommend this article. Mr. Cook expands his canvas beyond his last few articles which were more limited to the financial domain. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7307 Crisis in the U.S.: “Plan B”? By Richard C. Cook Global Research, November 11, 2007 Strange events are taking place in the U.S. … Read more
2007-12-19 Richard Moore The headline says it all. First the Fed loosened up the credit, and now they’re tightening it up. Not only did they ‘loosen it up’, by the way, they actually sent out letters, encouraging lenders to branch out into ‘no document’ loans, ie no documentation of ability to repay. In the media, … Read more
2007-12-19 Richard Moore ____________________ Goldman Sachs economist Jan Hatzius says his “back-of-the-envelope calculation” now suggests “losses of around 400 billion dollars” for global banks and investors. Although this may not seem large in the overall economy, Hatzius says the effect is magnified because banks need to scale back their lending to keep capital ratios intact … Read more
2007-12-17 Richard Moore Another outstanding analysis from Global Research. If you like it, why not subscribe directly? rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7622 Police State America – A Look Back and Ahead By Stephen Lendman Global Research, December 17, 2007 Year end is a good time to look back and reflect on what’s ahead. If … Read more
2007-12-17 Richard Moore ____________________ The Bank will have an initial capital of around US$7 billion and specialize in development loans to its member countries with a focus on regional economic integration. ____________________ Friends, I see this as an important milestone. $7 billion may be small potatoes as finance goes, and Chavez’ oil-funded initiatives have been … Read more
2007-12-17 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121707J.shtml http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-tapes17dec17,1,7842737.story?coll=la-headlines-nation House Vows to Pursue CIA Inquiry By Julian E. Barnes The Los Angeles Times Monday 17 December 2007 Also see below: The Democrat Who Wants the CIA’s Cameras Running (Guardian) A key GOP lawmaker says his committee will investigate the destruction of interrogation tapes over the objections … Read more
2007-12-17 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aDdJ4GDZ6eao&refer=home Florida Halts Withdrawals From Local Investment Fund (Update3) By David Evans Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) — Florida officials voted to suspend withdrawals from an investment fund for schools and local governments after redemptions sparked by downgrades of debt held in the portfolio reduced assets by 44 percent. The Local … Read more
2007-12-17 Richard Moore ____________________ But something happened on the road to war. On December 3, Michael McConnell, Director of the National Intelligence Council, dropped a political bomb. Where does all this leave the warmongering Neocon crowd? They are scurrying in all directions with op-eds in far right media to discredit the U.S. Intelligence Community, trying … Read more
2007-12-17 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/washington/16afghan.html December 16, 2007 Afghan Mission Is Reviewed as Concerns Rise By THOM SHANKER and STEVEN LEE MYERS WASHINGTON ‹ Deeply concerned about the prospect of failure in Afghanistan, the Bush administration and NATO have begun three top-to-bottom reviews of the entire mission, from security and counterterrorism to political … Read more
2007-12-16 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:03:33 -0800 Subject: Following Zakheim and Pentagon trillions to Israel and 9-11 From: The Radical Press <•••@••.•••> Dear Radical Reader. Those of you who have been following the 9/11 cover-up controversy over the past seven years may find this article of interest. While it was written … Read more
2007-12-16 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/12/19210/608/933/420107 [videos in original] CIA Torture Jet wrecks with 4 Tons of COCAINE This Florida based Gulfstream II jet aircraft # N987SA crash landed on September 24, 2007 after it ran out of fuel over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula it had a cargo of several tons of Cocaine on board … Read more
2007-12-15 Richard Moore ____________________ According to Lloyd, despite all the government incentives, the really big money is turning away from clean energy technologies and banking instead on gadgets promising to seal wealthy countries and individuals into high-tech fortresses. Key growth areas in venture capitalism are private security firms selling surveillance gear and privatized emergency response. … Read more
2007-12-15 Richard Moore ____________________ I¹ve seen the worst things imaginable, hell on earth. Had friends die in my arms. Seen piles of rotten corpses. Seen men, women and children tortured. I¹ve seen the eyes of terrified and confused children being sold into a vicious life of slavery and an early death. ____________________ ——————————————————– Original source … Read more
2007-12-15 Richard Moore ____________________ …the rise in prices is also the self-inflicted result of America’s reckless ethanol subsidies. This year biofuels will take a third of America’s (record) maize harvest. That affects food markets directly: fill up an SUV’s fuel tank with ethanol and you have used enough maize to feed a person for a … Read more
2007-12-15 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://pesn.com/2007/12/05/9500463_self-powered_battery_inventor_dead/ Free-Energy Battery Inventor Killed at Airport? Official statement cites “natural causes” but others familiar with the disruptive potential of the inventor’s technology to the existing power structure consider it a probable assassination. by Sterling D. Allan Pure Energy Systems News Copyright © 2007 On Nov. 11, inventor of … Read more
2007-12-15 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.thelastoutpost.com/site/1471/default.aspx Mystery Lines In The Sky by William Thomas Mystery Lines In The Sky 26min 9sec http://www.willthomas.net http://www.paulgrignon.netfirms.com/MoonfireStudio/index.html Those long-lasting lines in the sky aren’t clouds because you can watch them being created by planes. They aren’t normal contrails, because they don’t eventually disappear, they spread out into a … Read more
2007-12-15 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1750.htm NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON CNN . Traces of poison Israel’s Dark History revealed. Israel, not Iraq, holds that distinction of being the first country in the region to use weapons of mass destruction with genocidal intent. Salman Abu-Sitta digs into a dark history At a time when … Read more
2007-12-15 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/world/16climate.html December 16, 2007 Nations Set Timetable to Revive Climate Treaty By THOMAS FULLER and ANDREW C. REVKIN NUSA DUA, Indonesia ‹ Delegates from nearly 190 countries wrapped up two weeks of intense and at times emotional talks here on Saturday with a two-year timetable for reviving an ailing, … Read more
2007-12-13 Richard Moore ____________________ This new energy bill includes measures that would increase car fuel mileage, restore taxes on Big Oil to pay for investments in solar, wind and energy efficiency, and mandate that electric utilities generate 15 percent of their power using renewable energy. ____________________ Friends, I cannot imagine a more disastrous and counter-productive … Read more
2007-12-13 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://rense.com/general79/since.htm Since Gulf War 1 – 73,846 US Dead, 1,620,906 Disabled 12-11-7 Data from Department of Veterans Affairs, Gulf War Veterans Information System, May 2007: http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/GWVIS_May2007.pdf 73,846 US TROOPS DEAD (near top of page 6) 1,620,906 PERMANENTLY DISABLED (near top of page 7) US DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS ISSUES … Read more
2007-12-13 Richard Moore ____________________ Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates sharply criticized NATO countries yesterday for not supplying urgently needed trainers, helicopters and infantry for Afghanistan as violence escalates there… Gates called for overhauling the alliance’s Afghan strategy over the next three to five years, shifting NATO’s focus from primarily one of rebuilding to one of … Read more
2007-12-13 Richard Moore ____________________ The terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility, posting a message on Islamist Web sites with photographs of two men it claimed were suicide bombers who carried out the attacks, which it said were aimed at ³the Crusaders and their agents, the slaves of America and the sons … Read more
2007-12-13 Richard Moore ____________________ “Christians need to be prepared to protect themselves against such attacks; policemen cannot be everywhere all the time and can generally only clean up the mess after such a tragic event,” he continued. “Christians must not think that justice must be ignored because of their faith. The Bible is quite clear … Read more
2007-12-13 Richard Moore ___________________ “The Medical Journal of Australia has published a report by a professor who suggests that couples with more than two children should be charged a lifelong tax to offset their extra offspring’s carbon dioxide emissions.” ___________________ Friends, It is the unspoken logic of this article that is most interesting. They are … Read more
2007-12-11 Richard Moore Since we all know Al Qaeda is partly the fiction, and partly the asset, of the CIA, we can always recognize a false flag operation when Al Qaeda is blamed. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121107A.shtml http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-algeria12dec12,0,4805154.story Car Bombs Kill at Least 22 in Algerian Capital By Jeffrey Fleishman The Los Angeles … Read more
2007-12-11 Richard Moore coincidence…ha! ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.truthnews.us/?p=1170 Ministry of Homeland Security Visited Omaha Mall Before Massacre Kurt Nimmo TruthNews December 8, 2007 It was a coincidence, no doubt. Not only did Bush visit Omaha prior to the massacre, but so did the Ministry of Homeland Security. “We learned today that shortly before the … Read more
2007-12-11 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:43:54 -0800 (PST) From: jeff wefferson <•••@••.•••> Subject: JEFF PHILLIPS ENCOUNTERS SEA SHEPHERD CREW/SS BATTLES JAP WHALERS…AGAIN! To: •••@••.••• NOTE FROM JEFF: Japan is back at the whaling thing in the Southern Ocean Sancturay, and Sea Shepherd and crew are off once again to do battle … Read more
2007-12-11 Richard Moore ——————————————————- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:26:16 -0500 To: •••@••.••• From: Greg Palast <•••@••.•••> Subject: Fear of Chavez is Fear of Democracy FEAR OF CHAVEZ IS FEAR OF DEMOCRACY Bush: If it¹s our oil, why do Venezuelans get to vote on it? GOP panicked that counting votes in Venezuela will spread to … Read more
2007-12-11 Richard Moore Friends, Tom Atlee has outdone himself! A brilliant report on his work, and a very well thought out categorization of everything that relates to co-intelligence. He gives us a vocabulary that can make talking about these things much clearer. thanks tom! rkm ——————————————————– To: •••@••.••• (Undisclosed List) Subject: Co-Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, and … Read more
2007-12-11 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://en.rian.ru/world/20071208/91488137.html NOVOSTI – Russian News and Information Agency Iran stops accepting U.S. dollars for oil 08/12/2007 16:34 TEHRAN, December 8 (RIA Novosti) – Iran has stopped selling its oil for U.S. dollars, the Iranian ISNA news agency said on Saturday, citing the country’s oil minister. “In line with a … Read more
2007-12-11 Richard Moore ____________________ “Everywhere you turn, it is the policy of Iran to foment instability and chaos, no matter the strategic value or cost in the blood of innocents,” Gates said “The estimate clearly has come at an awkward time. It has annoyed a number of our friends. It has confused our allies around … Read more
2007-12-11 Richard Moore Chris Haddock, creator & writer of the show “Intelligence”, asks with apparent naivety: “The question is why would they [CBC] be so hostile to the show? I can’t for the life of me put my finger on it…” Ha ha! Then he then tells us, in seeming innocence: “One of the many … Read more
2007-12-11 Richard Moore Friends, Below are the articles that the BBC considers to be the ‘top stories of the day’. There’s not one of them that I would consider worthy of posting to newslog. And yet, I bet I’ll come across several stories today that will be worth posting. The propagandistic nature of the mainstream … Read more
2007-12-11 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Rights Action” <•••@••.•••> Subject: YouTube – 3 Quebec Police Officers Dressed as Protesters, Trying to Provoke Violence Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 04:45:37 -0600 I have just posted a video on our CanadiansNanaimo channel on Youtube which proves that the three Surete Du Quebec officers masquerading as radical protesters with … Read more
2007-12-11 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/52 12/6 The Hidden Holocaust in History, Ahmed; Holocaust Commission & Denial, Polya,; Holocaust Homeland Posted December 6th, 2007 by liz burbank The hidden holocaust — our civilizational crisis, part 1: The holocaust in history By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Online Journal Contributing Writer 1. ³Hidden Holocaust². As we are … Read more