video: Ron Paul on military intervention

2007-02-28 Richard Moore Original source URL: video: Ron Paul on military intervention <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZmPS0XmeBw&NR> — ——————————————————– Escaping the Matrix website http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website http://cyberjournal.org Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html subscribe cyberjournal list mailto:•••@••.••• Posting archives http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/

William Rivers Pitt re/media: No Bottom to the Barrel

2007-02-28 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022407Z.shtml No Bottom to the Barrel By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Columnist Saturday 24 February 2007 I awoke near dawn on Thursday, crawled to my desk with coffee in hand, and began my daily morning ritual: blazing through twenty different newspapers … Read more

The Myth of Muslim Support for Terror

2007-02-28 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.twf.org/News/Y2005/1025-Oxymorons.html October 25, 2005 (Revised August 31, 2006) The Wisdom Fund ‘Islamo-fascism’ is an Oxymoron by Enver Masud The President and virtually every major U.S. news media persist in using oxymorons: Islamic extremism, Islamic terrorism, and now, in the President’s October 6 address to the National Endowment For Democracy, … Read more

US generals ‘will quit’ if Bush orders Iran attack

2007-02-28 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022607J.shtml http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1434540.ece From The Sunday Times February 25, 2007 US generals Œwill quit¹ if Bush orders Iran attack From The Sunday Times February 25, 2007 US generals Œwill quit¹ if Bush orders Iran attack Michael Smith and Sarah Baxter, Washington SOME of America¹s most senior military commanders are prepared … Read more

U.S. uses Ethiopian bases for imperialist aggression

2007-02-28 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/world/africa/23somalia.html?th&emc=th February 23, 2007 U.S. Used Base in Ethiopia to Hunt Al Qaeda By MICHAEL R. GORDON and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 ‹ The American military quietly waged a campaign from Ethiopia last month to capture or kill top leaders of Al Qaeda in the Horn of Africa, … Read more

Sy Hersh: U.S. Funds Secretly Funneled To Violent Al Qaeda-Linked Groups

2007-02-28 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022607A.shtml http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/25/hersh-qaeda/ Hersh: U.S. Funds Being Secretly Funneled To Violent Al Qaeda-Linked Groups New Yorker columnist Sy Hersh says the ³single most explosive² element of his latest article involves an effort by the Bush administration to stem the growth of Shiite influence in the Middle East (specifically the Iranian … Read more

State-sponsored terrorism: U.S. doing it again

2007-02-28 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=HDZB2432Z4F1LQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/02/25/wiran25.xml US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran By William Lowther in Washington DC and Colin Freeman, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:30am GMT 25/02/2007 America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up … Read more

Pentagon devising scenarios for martial law in US

2007-02-28 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/mart-a09_prn.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : North America Pentagon devising scenarios for martial law in US By Patrick Martin 9 August 2005 Back to screen version | Send this link by email | Email the author According to a report published Monday by … Read more

Medieval Muslims Made Stunning Science Breakthroughs

2007-02-28 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,1728032,00.html Charting the lost innovations of Islam Paul Lewis highlights a new exhibition that reveals the inventions made by the Muslim world Paul Lewis Friday March 10, 2006 Guardian Unlimited It is the thread that links cars, carpets and cameras and is also responsible for three-course meals, bookshops and … Read more

Magical Thinking: the myth of progress

2007-02-28 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.precaution.org/lib/07/prn_magical_thinking.070221.htm http://www.energybulletin.net:80/26370.html http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2007/02/magical-thinking.html The Archdruid Report, February 21, 2007 MAGICAL THINKING [Rachel’s introduction: “Our society, like all others, picks and chooses among available technological options, implementing some and neglecting others. This needs hiding because most of these choices are made by influential members and groups within America’s political class … Read more

Jimmy Carter: Occupied Gaza Like Apartheid South Africa

2007-02-28 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.twf.org/News/Y2006/0220-Carter.html February 20, 2006 The Washington Post Don’t Punish the Palestinians by Jimmy Carter As the results of the recent Palestinian elections are implemented, it’s important to understand how the transition process works and also how important to it are actions by Israel and the United States. Although Hamas … Read more

reader dialog: 29 Jan – 21 Feb

2007-02-27 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:26:36 -0500 To: Richard Moore <•••@••.•••> From: Ed Goertzen <•••@••.•••> Subject: Response to Richard & Bo: Reader Dialogue Jan 29 –<snip>– Community: 1/ Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they … Read more

Russia gets tough over US first-strike support shield

2007-02-24 Richard Moore …the Guardian reports that while the center-right, pro-American governments of Poland and the Czech Republic support the missile defense plan, “some opposition parties are against the plan and polls in recent weeks suggest that up to two-thirds of Poles and Czechs oppose their country taking part. ——————————————————– Original source URLs: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022307A.shtml http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0221/p99s01-duts.html … Read more

FYI: deschooling initiative

2007-02-24 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:43:50 -0500 To: •••@••.••• From: “Chris Glavin” <•••@••.•••> Subject: Deschooling Hi, My name is Chris Glavin. I run a website devoted to providing resourceful information for a number of topics in education and disabilities and disorders. I have created an information page for Deschooling under the … Read more

Naomi Klein: U.S. torture methods examined in Miami courtroom

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022307P.shtml http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070312/klein Lookout by Naomi Klein A Trial for Thousands Denied Trial [from the March 12, 2007 issue] Something remarkable is going on in a Miami courtroom. The cruel methods US interrogators have used since September 11 to “break” prisoners are finally being put on trial. This was not … Read more

Dahr Jamail: Another U.S. Military Assault on Media in Iraq

2007-02-24 Richard Moore More and more the U.S. occupation imitates the Gestapo. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/iraq/000543.php#more February 23, 2007 Another U.S. Military Assault on Media Inter Press Service Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily Read story at website BAGHDAD, Feb 23 (IPS) – Iraqi journalists are outraged over yet another U.S. military raid on … Read more

Victoria, B.C.: Wisdom Council launch

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.oakbaynews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=23&cat=23&id=839334&more Grassroots group aims to affect policy By Thomas Winterhoff Oak Bay News Victoria, B.C. Feb 23 2007 Organizers want ordinary citizens to set country¹s political agenda In many democratic societies, political leadership tends to come from the upper echelons of government and then gradually work its way down … Read more

911: NYPD Officer Heard 7 Bombs

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/nypd_officer_heard_building_7_bombs.htm NYPD Officer Heard Building 7 Bombs “The whole time you’re hearing boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I think I know an explosion when I hear it” Prison Planet | February 10, 2007 Paul Joseph Watson Following our reports this week about three different ground zero rescue workers who … Read more

911: Shaped Charges and the WTC Collapses

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc_charges.html [photos, videos, and links in original] Shaped Charges and the World Trade Center Collapses Here’s what demolition experts use in steel framed buildings, the linear shaped charge … It generates around 3,000,000 psi pressure … at a speed in excess of 27,000 feet per second … There are … Read more

video: new NWO free-trade zone

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Lou Dobbs on CNN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKOefKQ_J_E — ——————————————————– Escaping the Matrix website http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website http://cyberjournal.org Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html subscribe cyberjournal list mailto:•••@••.••• Posting archives http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/

Tony Pugh : Millions of Americans Living in Severe Poverty

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022307E.shtml http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16760690.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 22, 2007 U.S. economy leaving record numbers in severe poverty By Tony Pugh McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON – The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty … Read more

The true extent of Britain’s failure in Basra

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2296829.ece Revealed: The true extent of Britain’s failure in Basra By Patrick Cockburn Published: 23 February 2007 The partial British military withdrawal from southern Iraq announced by Tony Blair this week follows political and military failure, and is not because of any improvement in local security, say specialists on … Read more

Recession soon?

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2007/02/r-word.html MISH’S GLOBAL ECONOMIC TREND ANALYSIS Thoughts on the global economy, housing, gold, silver, interest rates, oil, energy, China, commodities, the dollar, Euro, Renminbi, Yen, inflation, deflation, stagflation, precious metals, emerging markets, and policy decisions that affect the global markets. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2007 Discuss global trends with Mish … Read more

Padilla: exhibits concentration-camp syndrome

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Psychiatrist_says_US_terror_suspect_02222007.html Psychiatrist says US terror suspect has Stockholm syndrome AFP Published: Thursday February 22, 2007 A psychiatrist told a court in Miami US terror suspect Jose Padilla is unable to assist in his defense as he identifies with the military captors who held him for more than three years. … Read more

Michael T Klare: Global Warming: It’s All About Energy

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: ——————————————————– To: A-List <•••@••.•••>, Ugly New World <•••@••.•••>, World City <•••@••.•••> From: Bill Totten <•••@••.•••> Subject: [WrldCty] Global Warming: It’s All About Energy Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:55:43 +0900 Reply-To: •••@••.••• by Michael T Klare Foreign Policy In Focus (February 15 2007) www.fpif.org Finally, after years of effort … Read more

Housing collapse: lenders going bankrupt

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8706627 American mortgages Bleak houses Feb 15th 2007 | NEW YORK From The Economist print edition America’s riskiest mortgages are set to pop. Where will the shrapnel land? LAST March, ResMAE, a mortgage lender catering to risky borrowers, cut the ribbon on its new headquarters in Brea, California. The … Read more

Hospitals dump sick people on the streets

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/us/23dumping.html February 23, 2007 ŒDumping¹ of Homeless by Hospitals Stirs Debate By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22 ‹ For a year, reports have surfaced that hospitals here have left homeless patients on downtown streets, including a paraplegic man wearing a hospital gown and colostomy bag who witnesses … Read more

good video: interview re/Nazi Bush family

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8795795223394289910 John Buchanan interview, in excerpt from Alex Jones video — about the Bush family and current USA (about 9:50 minutes) — ——————————————————– Escaping the Matrix website http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website http://cyberjournal.org Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html subscribe cyberjournal list mailto:•••@••.••• Posting archives http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/

Former White House Officials: Bush Trying to Provoke Iran

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022107R.shtml Former Bush Officials Accuse White House of Trying to Provoke Iran By Deniz Yeter t r u t h o u t | Report Wednesday 21 February 2007 Warn public that Bush is looking for a pretext to justify a broader, regional conflict. Hillary Mann Leverett, the former … Read more

Fitzgerald closing in on Cheney

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022307R.shtml Cheney’s Role Dominates Closing Arguments at Libby Trial By Jason Leopold t r u t h o u t | Report Friday 23 February 2007 It was the defense attorney representing I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby who first told jurors during closing arguments in the perjury and obstruction-of-justice trial … Read more

Canada high court stands up for civil liberties

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/23/america/NA-GEN-Canada-Anti-Terror-Law.php Canada’s high court strikes down anti-terrorism law that detains suspects indefinitely The Associated Press Friday, February 23, 2007 OTTAWA: The Supreme Court struck down one of Canada’s most contentious anti-terrorism provisions Friday, declaring it unconstitutional to indefinitely detain foreign terror suspects while the courts review their deportation orders. … Read more

Adios posse comitatus

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022107C.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/opinion/19mon3.html February 19, 2007 EDITORIAL Making Martial Law Easier A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night. So it was with a provision quietly tucked into the enormous defense budget bill … Read more

A speech by Goebbels: sound familiar?

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/september2004/230904disturbingparallels.htm Goebbels Speech Has Disturbing Parallels With Modern Day Neo-Con Rhetoric Ed Henry | September 23 2004 Thanks to Harry Browne of the Libertarian Party for bringing us this reminder. It’s a speech by Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, and delivered to the German people almost 65 years … Read more

911: new website has hundreds of eyewitness statements

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: ——————————————————– To: World City WorldCity <•••@••.•••> From: “Virginia F. Raines” <•••@••.•••> Subject: [WrldCty] no more whitewash Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:36:20 -0800 Subject: WSJ Pulitzer Prize-winner – Eyewitness report Astonishing new website, <http://www.patriotsquestion911.com/> www.PatriotsQuestion911.com It contained 40 excerpts from comments made by various government and military leaders. Last … Read more

Venezuela’s revolution – giving power to the poor

2007-02-22 Richard Moore The revolution is also thoroughly democratic. Pro-Chavez forces have won 11 straight national elections and introduced a new constitution guaranteeing popular participation in government, including the right to overturn any legislation via a national referendum. The government has announced an extension of direct democracy, via the promotion of grassroots communal councils, and … Read more

* William Engdahl: Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War *

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: <http://www.321gold.com/editorials/engdahl/engdahl021907.html>http://www.321gold.com/editorials/engdahl/engdahl021907.html V. Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or, what happens when Cowboys don’t shoot straight like they used toŠ By F. William Engdahl* 18 February 2007 The frank words of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to the assembled participants of the annual Munich Wehrkunde security conference … Read more

Tom Flocco: JFK coup d’etat update

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/Bush41RevivesLinks.htm [links in original] Tom Flocco.com http://tomflocco.com/ BUSH 41 REVIVES LINKS TO JFK WARREN COMMISSION OBSTRUCTION January 13, 2007 “A coup d’ etat has been described as ‘a sudden action by which an individual or group, usually employing limited violence, captures positions of governmental authority without conforming to the … Read more

Newt Gingrich seeks Presidency

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Gingrich proposed that new strategies and tactics in the war on terror should be considered, including a reexamination of First Amendment rights. Bush does fascism; Gingrich also preaches it. How could he get in? Simple…personally embarrassing ‘revelations’ against whoever the Democratic candidate happens to be. “It can be easily done….just do it … Read more

Antarctica glaciers undermined by rivers

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022007EA.shtml http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070220/antarctica_070220/20070220?hub=SciTech Huge lakes and rivers found under Antarctic ice Updated: Tue. Feb. 20 2007 8:44 AM ET An amazing discovery has been made in the Antarctic. Researchers have found that under the compressed snow and ice lies a sort of water world — a series of fast-moving lakes … Read more

All systems ready for false-flag incident in Iraq

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Alternatively, our correspondent adds, a high-casualty attack on US forces in neighbouring Iraq could also trigger a bombing campaign if it were traced directly back to Tehran. Note accompanying posting today where US is already practicing it’s response to an ‘attack’ (ie, faked attack) on US naval forces in the Gulf. rkm … Read more