Pakistan Will Give Arms to Tribal Militias

2008-10-23 Richard Moore A very difficult article to interpret. The arms are coming from China, the Pakistan government is unstable, and who knows what the tribesmen will do with their weapons once they have them. And then there was the Marriot bombing, with evidence that it was US Marines that planted the explosives. Plus the … Read more

Powell & Biden: “Beware Ides of March”

2008-10-23 Richard Moore http://www.infowars.com/?p=5461 [important videos in original] – Infowars – http://www.infowars.com – Colin Powell Warns Of Coming Crisis “We Don’t Even Know About Right Now” Posted By admin On October 21, 2008 @ 3:47 pm In Featured Stories | 159 Comments Steve WatsonInfowars.net Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008 Colin Powell has made bizarre comments that … Read more

Job Losses Accelerate

2008-10-23 Richard Moore http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/22/AR2008102203709.html Job Losses Accelerate, Signaling Deeper Distress By Neil Irwin and Michael S. Rosenwald Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, October 23, 2008; A01 Employers are moving to aggressively cut jobs and reduce costs in the face of the nation’s economic crisis, preparing for what many fear will be a long and painful … Read more

UK recession likely, says Brown

2008-10-22 Richard Moore http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7684216.stm UK recession likely, says Brown Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Prime Minister Gordon Brown on the ‘likely recession’ Britain’s economic downturn is likely to cause a recession, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned. The global financial slowdown was likely to send the British economy into a recession … Read more

Timothy Perry: What To Expect When Martial Law Is Declared

2008-10-22 Richard Moore http://www.nolanchart.com/article5188.html Topic: Politics What To Expect When Martial Law Is Declared Coming Soon To A Neighborhood Near You After The World-Wide Economic Collapse by Timothy K. Perry (Libertarian) Sunday, October 12, 2008  After the coming economic financial collapse, a state of world-wide martial law will be declared. Considering the current events which … Read more

Banking Bailout Secrets

2008-10-22 Richard Moore http://www.wanttoknow.info/008/081021_banking_bailout_secrets Banking Bailout Secrets Key, Verifiable Information Reveal Secrets of the Bankers “The Federal Reserve is neither truly federal, nor a full reserve. It is not owned or directly controlled by the United States government. The fact that the words ‘United States Federal Reserve System’ are printed on every U.S. bank note … Read more

Nearly 30 percent of US families on poverty wages

2008-10-20 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/oct2008/work-o16.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : North America “Working Poor” report: Nearly 30 percent of US families subsist on poverty wages By Tom Eley 16 October 2008 Back to screen version | Send this link by email | Email the author A report released Tuesday by … Read more

Pakistan Turns to China for Cash

2008-10-20 Richard Moore http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/15/AR2008101503852.html In Scramble for Cash, Pakistan Turns to China’s Deep Reserves By Anthony Faiola and Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, October 16, 2008; A01 Pakistan has reached a critical new phase in its long-deteriorating financial situation, as investor flight and bleeding of national reserves force the country to scramble for … Read more

F.B.I. Struggles to Handle Financial Fraud Cases

2008-10-20 Richard Moore After the collapse of Enron in 2002, the Justice Department moved aggressively against corporate fraud — too aggressively, in the view of some people within the administration. It set up a national task force to tackle the problem, garnered hundreds of convictions at companies like WorldCom, Adelphia and Enron, and forced the … Read more

Engdahl: Paulson Panics as UK, Germany find own solution

2008-10-20 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10599 Financial Crisis: Paulson Panics as UK, Germany find own solution By F. William Engdahl Global Research, October 18, 2008 America’s de facto Finance Czar, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has reached for the panic button and made a dramatic 180-degree reversal of his financial bailout plan passed only days before. On … Read more

Pakistan does some US dirty work

2008-10-20 Richard Moore http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JJ18Df01.html Pakistan does some US dirty work By Syed Saleem Shahzad  KARACHI – Pakistan’s seven-year association with the United States’ “war on terror” has moved to a new and dangerous level: the US has given it a contract to build 1,000 Humvees for use by troops in Afghanistan against the Taliban-led insurgency.  … Read more

US surrenders power to appoint World Bank president

2008-10-20 Richard Moore http://www.oneworldtrust.org/owtframe.cfm?page=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eguardian%2Eco%2Euk%2Fbusiness%2F2008%2Foct%2F13%2Fworldbank%2Dusa http://tinyurl.com/6795j7 US surrenders power to appoint World Bank president Heather Stewart and Larry Elliott in Washington The Guardian, Monday October 13 2008 The US is to lose its power to appoint the president of the World Bank after the UK’s development secretary, Douglas Alexander, brokered a deal to throw open the … Read more

Shipping collapse reflects recession conditions

2008-10-19 Richard Moore http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/10/baltic-dry-shipping-collapses.html Baltic Dry Shipping Collapses The Baltic Dry Shipping Index covers dry bulk shipping rates and some view it as a proxy for general economic health. The index continues to collapse. Baltic Dry Index Notice that the indicator is back at levels not seen since 2005 and is below levels seen in … Read more

Book review: “Why the Planet is Sick”

2008-10-19 Richard Moore http://www.i-sis.org.uk/WTPIS.php ISIS Press Release 13/08/08 Why the Planet is Sick Prof. Peter Saunders reviews Stan Cox. Sick Planet. Pluto Press, London, 2008.ISBN 978-0-7453-2741-9 £45.00. ,ISBN 978-0-7453-2740-2, £14.99 (paperback) pp219. Familiar territory with a new slant There are currently many books on the harm that is being done to our health and to … Read more

20bn barrel oil discovery puts Cuba in the big league

2008-10-19 Richard Moore http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/18/cuban-oil · Self-reliance beckons for communist state   · Estimate means reserves are on a par with US        •      Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent      •       The Guardian,      •       Saturday October 18 2008      •      Article history    A worker walks at an oil rig in Havana, Cuba. Photograph: Enrique De La Osa/Reuters   … Read more

How the Banksters are Making a Killing

2008-10-19 Richard Moore http://www.counterpunch.com/martens10172008.html The Charmed Lives of the Crony Capitalists How the Banksters are Making a Killing Off the Bailout By PAM MARTENS In 1897, when 8-year old Virginia O’Hanlon posed her Santa Claus query to the New York Sun, she received a heart-warming editorial response reassuring her that “He exists as certainly as … Read more

Tape Blows Cover On True Treasury Intentions

2008-10-18 Richard Moore Folks, we have a smoking gun here, you would have to be blind not to see that the Bernanke-induced crisis is being used by Paulson to funnel money to Goldman Sachs and his other crony favorites. The plan all along was to help out “healthy banks”. It’s on tape from the interim Assistant Secretary … Read more

Global malnourished to increase by 44 million

2008-10-17 Richard Moore http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21931834~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html http://tinyurl.com/5mvoy2 Global Food and Fuel Crisis Will Increase Malnourished by 44 Million Double shock is a threat to basic survival, new report says Press Release No:2008/107/EXC Contacts: In Washington :Carl Hanlon 202-473-8087; •••@••.•••; Philip Hay 202-473-1796 •••@••.•••   WASHINGTON, October 8, 2008 – High food and fuel prices will increase the … Read more

Stock Markets Fall As Global Recession Takes Hold

2008-10-17 Richard Moore http://www.countercurrents.org/oconnor161008.htm Stock Markets Fall As Global Recession Takes Hold By Patrick O’Connor 16 October, 2008 WSWS.org Stock markets in the US and Europe fell sharply yesterday amid mounting evidence that the US economy is entering into a severe recession. On Wall Street yesterday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined by 7.8 percent, … Read more

Elections Irregularities Reported in Major Media

2008-10-16 Richard Moore This message is available online at http://www.WantToKnow.info/008/081014_elections_irregularities Below are many highly revealing excerpts of important elections articles from the mainstream media. These articles present key, little-known information showing that the U.S. elections system is filled with irregularities which have not been adequately investigated. Links are provided to the full articles on major … Read more

William Bowles: The Capitalist Shakedown

2008-10-14 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10546 The Capitalist Shakedown By William Bowles Global Research, October 13, 2008 “It is only in these dire circumstances that the United States, where private property is more sacrosanct probably than anywhere else in the world, is talking about some kind of nationalization of banks, if only limited. In financial circles they … Read more

Michel Collon: What will the US foreign policy be tomorrow ?

2008-10-14 Richard Moore We should keep in mind here that Brzezinski is Obama’s foreign policy advisor. -rkm ____ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20994.htm What will the US foreign policy be tomorrow ? By MICHEL COLLON When Bush goes, everyone will be hoping for a change – or fearing the worst. McCain or Obama ? What will that change for Iraq, … Read more

Toxic waste behind Somali piracy?

2008-10-14 Richard Moore http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008/10/2008109174223218644.html ‘Toxic waste’ behind Somali piracy By Najad Abdullahi   Somali pirates have accused European firms of dumping toxic waste off the Somali coast and are demanding an $8m ransom for the return of a Ukranian ship they captured, saying the money will go towards cleaning up the waste. The ransom demand … Read more

Fwd: US army prepares to invade USA- follow up to Naomi Wolfe video

2008-10-14 Richard Moore Begin forwarded message: From: Constance Fogal <•••@••.•••> Date: October 13, 2008 11:59:46 PM GMT+01:00 Subject: [Fogal_contacts] US army prepares to invade USA- follow up to Naomi  Wolfe video It makes me cringe to say so. U.S. Army prepares to invade U.S. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=UgMx2F41XD0 —  CANADIAN ACTION PARTY/PARTI ACTION CANADIENNE LEADER, CONSTANCE (Connie) FOGAL … Read more

FINANCIAL DICTATOR CALLED U-K N.E.C.

2008-10-14 Richard Moore http://groups.google.com/group/nz.general/browse_thread/thread/ce8de409d7a22b79 13 October 2008   FINANCIAL DICTATOR CALLED U-K N.E.C.  America’s disease of delegating the control of real governing to corporate interests has been contracted by the United Kingdom, completely bypassing democratic processes and controls. Using the financial meltdown as an excuse for lack of any public or Parliamentary debate, the Cabinet has … Read more

Blatant Banker Manipulation Of Gold Prices

2008-10-14 Richard Moore What this means is that the insiders know currencies will become worthless, and they want to hog all the gold. -rkm ____ http://www.infowars.com/?p=5264 Blatant Banker Manipulation Of Gold Prices Posted By aaron On October 13, 2008 @ 11:24 am In Economic Crash in Focus, Economic Crisis | 36 Comments Paul Joseph WatsonPrison … Read more

National Economic Council consolidates government by the super-rich

2008-10-13 Richard Moore It is precisely because the measures are so antithetical to any notion of democratic accountability and societal interests that there was no public consultation on the government’s plan, which was drawn up behind closed doors and then unveiled at 7 a.m. last Wednesday morning—without any discussion in Parliament—in time for the opening … Read more

Bond Market Collapse is Imminent

2008-10-13 Richard Moore http://www.infowars.com/?p=5252 Bond Market Collapse is Imminent Posted By admin On October 12, 2008 @ 10:07 pm In Economic Crash in Focus | 16 Comments Adrian Douglas Goldseek Ocorber 12, 2008 Imagine a country such as Venezuela announced that it was bailing out an investment bank, then just days later said it was … Read more

* The Quadrillion Dollar Powder Keg Waiting To Blow *

2008-10-13 Richard Moore  In the aftermath, most will be nationalized.  All of Western Civilization is about to become a smoldering collection of fascist police states.  The entire world financial system is headed for oblivion, and there is nothing on earth that can stop it.  All they can do currently is try to delay and hide … Read more

Congress Passes Largest Military Budget Bill in History!

2008-10-13 Richard Moore The House acquiesced to threats from President Bush, who said he would veto the bill if it contained provisions banning mercenaries from interrogating prisoners of war and giving Congress a role in the decision-making process about whether U.S. soldiers can be stationed in Iraq permanently.  http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/largest_military_budget_152.html http://www.knowthelies.com/?q=node/2898 Congress Easily Passes Largest Military … Read more

European banks rescue plan agreed

2008-10-13 Richard Moore Outside Europe, the plan was welcome by the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. But even as attention focussed on rescue plans for nations of the rich West, the head of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, warned that the global crisis could hit developing countries even harder. “The poorest and … Read more

Anatomy of the American Financial Crisis

2008-10-13 Richard Moore Such a liquidation of a large international bank, known for its worldwide interconnections and unsound banking practices, was nearly a repeat of the mistake made in letting the large Vienna-based Creditanstalt bank fail, on May 13, 1931. This was a bank that had borrowed large amount of money in London and in New York … Read more

Caracas: The South’s Answers to the World Economic Crisis

2008-10-12 Richard Moore http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/3869 Published on venezuelanalysis.com (http://www.venezuelanalysis.com) Minister Calls on Venezuelans to Repatriate Their Investments in the U.S. Author:  Tamara Pearson – Venezuelanalysis.com Mérida, October 10, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)– As world stock markets tumble, a range of economic experts met in Caracas to discuss alternative solutions to the crisis. Venezuela’s Minister for Planning and Development, … Read more

Michael Pollan: The food issue

2008-10-12 Richard Moore After cars, the food system uses more fossil fuel than any other sector of the economy — 19 percent. And while the experts disagree about the exact amount, the way we feed ourselves contributes more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than anything else we do — as much as 37 percent, according … Read more

9/11 ‘Truth’ Showdown: David Ray Griffin vs. Matt Taibbi

2008-10-12 Richard Moore http://www.alternet.org/rights/100688/ The Ultimate 9/11 ‘Truth’ Showdown: David Ray Griffin vs. Matt Taibbi By Matt Taibbi and David Ray Griffin, AlterNet Posted on October 6, 2008, Printed on October 12, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/100688/ A poll of 17 countries that came out September of this year revealed that majorities in only nine of them “believe … Read more

Martial law: Naomi Wolf interviews retired Colonel

2008-10-12 Richard Moore http://www.alternet.org/rights/101958/ Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on U.S. Streets Ready to Carry Out “Crowd Control” By Naomi Wolf, AlterNet Posted on October 8, 2008, Printed on October 12, 2008http://www.alternet.org/story/101958/ Background: the First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, three to four thousand soldiers, has been deployed in the United States as of … Read more

Capitalist vs. Socialist State Intervention of the Economy

2008-10-12 Richard Moore http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/3846 Published on venezuelanalysis.com (http://www.venezuelanalysis.com) Capitalist vs. Socialist State Intervention of the Economy Author:  Martin Saatdjian The current financial crisis reveals the first symptoms of a major, perhaps revolutionary, socio-economic change in world affairs.  Much has been said how, after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, capitalism overshadowed socialism and “the end … Read more

Fwd: Martial law preparedness bill fake?

2008-10-12 Richard Moore Begin forwarded message: From: “tony falsetto” <•••@••.•••> Date: October 11, 2008 4:59:21 PM GMT+01:00 To: •••@••.••• Subject: Re: Martial law preparedness bill Richard,   This video is a fake. It’s made by the Onion News Network. www.onion.com. Quite professional, brilliant satire. But a fake. they’re very convincing sometimes. The onion logo is … Read more