2009-04-19 Richard Moore The credit default swaps crisis is 40 or so times bigger than the real estate meltdown over subprime derivatives. The top 25 banks in the United States are loaded down with $13 trillion in credit default swaps and the deal is coming unraveled. If we accept the highly dubious assumption that the … Read more
2009-04-19 Richard Moore This US agenda for Pakistan is similar to that applied throughout the broader Middle East Central Asian region. US strategy, supported by covert intelligence operations, consists in triggering ethnic and religious strife, abetting and financing secessionist movements while also weakening the institutions of the central government. The broader objective is to fracture … Read more
2009-04-18 Richard Moore http://www.countercurrents.org/white140409.htm White House Pushing GM Toward Bankruptcy By Jerry White 14 April, 2009WSWS.org The Obama administration is aggressively pushing General Motors into bankruptcy, the New York Times reported Monday. The White House wants to use bankruptcy courts, the newspaper said, to break up the century-old industrial icon and sell off its profitable … Read more
2009-04-18 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/041509B The Corporatization of Public Education Wednesday 15 April 2009 by: Andy Kroll, t r u t h o u t | Perspective Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s pledge to put more big-city mayors in charge of their school districts would exclude democratic forms of school governance and let big businesses decide the … Read more
2009-04-18 Richard Moore five countries stood out for the extent of their foreign arable land acquisitions: China, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. Together, they control over 7.6 million cultivable hectares outside their national territory, or the equivalent of 5.6 times the utilizable agricultural surface of Belgium In 2006, Beijing signed … Read more
2009-04-18 Richard Moore http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2009/q2/090415c_nr.html Boeing Awarded US Navy Contract to Develop Free Electron Laser WEST HILLS, Calif., April 15, 2009 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a U.S. Navy contract valued at up to $163 million, with an initial task order of $6.9 million, to develop the Free Electron Laser (FEL) weapon … Read more
2009-04-18 Richard Moore Police mounted the preemptive arrests at a community centre and adjacent school on the unprecedented basis that those detained were preparing a protest at the nearby Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station. The power station is the third largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the UK and has been the location of previous protests … Read more
2009-04-18 Richard Moore Facing a $42 billion shortfall, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democratic-controlled State Legislature passed a massive austerity budget in February that cuts current state spending by $14 billion. Allocations for education were gutted by $8 billion, out of which upwards of $5 billion is to come from kindergarten through grade 12 schooling. … Read more
2009-04-18 Richard Moore “When Bush asserted the power to abduct people and put them in prison for life with no charges, he was a Constitution-hating tyrant. When Obama does it, he’s being really careful and cautious and doing it to protect us for really good reasons even if we can’t know what they are and … Read more
2009-04-18 Richard Moore http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22398.htm The Red Cross Torture Report: What it Means By Mark Danner ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen “High Value Detainees” in CIA Custody by the International Committee of the Red Cross 43 pp., February 2007 Download the text of the ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen “High Value Detainees” in CIA Custodyby The International Committee of the … Read more
2009-04-18 Richard Moore So, there’s Israel-Iran, Pakistan-India, and here we have N Korea-Japan, three potential powder kegs, simmering along on the back burner. If only we knew what they’re cooking up. rkm _____ http://www.truthout.org/041609D http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h4kZR2z4CTN9VF1qPTFaeyGKrS2w UN Nuclear Inspectors Quit North Korea Tuesday 14 April 2009 Seoul – UN nuclear inspectors left North Korea Thursday after … Read more
2009-04-18 Richard Moore http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/13035 CIA Drug Trafficking and remembering Gary Webb December 10, 2008 – 11:33am. Check out this new story by Robert Parry reflecting on journalist Garry Webb’s suicide, after being totally blacklisted by the mainstream media because he had the guts to speak the truth about the CIA and other parts of the … Read more
2009-04-18 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/bank-a17.shtml Australia: Rudd pledges billions to protect banks from property crash By Alex Messenger 17 April 2009 As joblessness rises and real estate prices soften, Australia’s Rudd Labor government and the country’s four major banks (Commonwealth,Westpac, NAB and ANZ) are engaged in panicked attempts to avoid a property crash. Despite Prime Minister … Read more
2009-04-18 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/041709L http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-air-raids-hit-mostly-women-and-children-1669282.html Iraq Air Raids Hit Mostly Women and Children Thursday 16 April 2009 by: Kim Sengupta | Visit article original @ The Independent UK Report urges review of military strategy when targeting urban areas. Air strikes and artillery barrages have taken a heavy toll among the most vulnerable of the Iraqi people, with children … Read more
2009-04-18 Richard Moore Even before the G20 summit of world leaders began in London, five people were arrested in Plymouth under the Terrorism Act, reportedly accused of possessing “material relating to political ideology”. Less than one month before the protests, section 76 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 came into force, providing for the arrest and … Read more
2009-04-16 Richard Moore If you want to understand what’s going on in the global economy, there is no better source than Michel Chossudovsky, author of The Globalization of Poverty. In this video lecture he explains it all, very clearly, and it’s very up-to-date. highly recommended, rkm _____ http://www.globalresearch.ressourcequebec.com/Lecture/January_14-2009.htm Public Lecture organized by the Centre for Research … Read more
2009-04-16 Richard Moore …as far back as 1952 Moshe Dayan, the present Israeli defense minister, declared: “Our task consists of preparing the Israeli army for the new war approaching in order to achieve our ultimate goal, the creation of an Israeli empire.” http://www.mediamonitors.net/johnhenshaw1.html Israel’s Grand Design: Leaders Crave Area from Egypt to Iraq by John … Read more
2009-04-16 Richard Moore One would expect neoconservatives to be friendless and circumspect, grumbling about Obama’s inevitable failure as they slump away from Washington. Instead, they are jubilant, palling around with liberals again, enjoying renewed respect. Obama is their hero. As happens every few years, Washington was turned on its head and the neocons ended up … Read more
2009-04-16 Richard Moore The report revealed how the 10-member commission deeply suspected deception to the point where they considered referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation. “We to this day don’t know why NORAD [the North American Aerospace Command] told us what they told us,” said Thomas H. Kean, the former New … Read more
2009-04-16 Richard Moore Since the collapse in the financial system last year, over one trillion kronor has been made available to the banks by means of a number of measures, including guarantees and commitments from the state to buy the banks’ bad assets. At the end of March the government decided to extend the period … Read more
2009-04-16 Richard Moore Lenihan warned that these assets “pose the main systemic risk to the banking sector.” He estimated that the total potential exposure to bad debt is around €90 billion. This amounts to around one sixth of all loans across the six major Irish financial groups. The assets would be bought by the new … Read more
2009-04-16 Richard Moore One proposed provision gives the President unfettered authority to shut down Internet traffic in an emergency and disconnect critical infrastructure systems on national security grounds goes too far. Certainly there are times when a network owner must block harmful traffic, but the bill gives no guidance on when or how the President … Read more
2009-04-16 Richard Moore These new computers would take the form of networks of sensors with data-processing and transmission facilities built in. Millions or billions of tiny computers — called ‘motes’, ‘nodes’ or ‘pods’ — would be embedded into the fabric of the real world. They would act in concert, sharing the data that each of … Read more
2009-04-15 Richard Moore The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of … Read more
2009-04-15 Richard Moore Even a casual observer can see that much of the damage done in the US by illegal drugs is a result of the fact that they are illegal, not the fact that they are drugs. Vastly more lives are blighted by the brutality of prohibition, and by the enormous criminal networks it … Read more
2009-04-15 Richard Moore http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2009/02/12/we-are-all-illiterates-now/ We Are All Fascists Now Posted By Michael Ledeen On February 12, 2009 @ 1:38 pm In Uncategorized | 222 Comments Newsweek magazine, which has given us many of the most damaging deceptions about America in recent years (remember the “Koran-Down-the-Toilet” hoax?), now weighs in with a pretentious and embarrassingly ignorant cover story, “[1] We Are All Socialists … Read more
2009-04-15 Richard Moore The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in “rightwing extremist activity,” saying the economic recession, the election of America’s first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias. A footnote attached to the report … defines … Read more
2009-04-15 Richard Moore …Mahar Arar, who was tortured by Syrian agents, allegedly with the complicity of U.S. intelligence or immigration agents, has been denied a judicial remedy, again based on the state-secrets rule, to hide the identifies of his U.S. government persecutors. Similarly, victims of torture authorized by the president or vice president would encounter … Read more
2009-04-15 Richard Moore The official document, upon which this article is based, can be found here: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/5410658/DHS-Report-on-Right-Wing-Extremism The document states that job losses, home foreclosures, and the collapsing economy are “perceived” by rightwing terrorists and exploited by them to “draw in new recruits” and further radicalize “those already subscribing to extremist beliefs.” According to the … Read more
2009-04-15 Richard Moore It’s a curious symptom of the consensus trance zombifying the American public and its auditors in the media that something like a “recovery” is now deemed to be underway. And, as events compel me to repeat in this space, it begs the question: recovery to what? The idea that we’re about to … Read more
2009-04-15 Richard Moore Understanding that the first step in an energy revolution is not to look for more ways of generating energy, but to decrease energy demand, Cuba began a program to change over to energy efficient appliances. As then-President Fidel Castro explained in a May 2006 address to the Cuban Electric Utility company (UNE): … Read more
2009-04-15 Richard Moore Since being elected, the Morales government has focused on modernising the country, promoting industrialisation, increasing state intervention in the economy, promoting social and cultural inclusion, and a more democratic distribution of revenue from natural resources through various social programs. http://links.org.au/node/988 Bolivia’s ‘communitarian socialism’ Banner supporting a `yes’ vote in the January 25, … Read more
2009-04-15 Richard Moore I have become increasingly concerned about the abuse of your powers displayed in your brazenly obvious political double standards. About your attempts, under the guise of regulating British charities, to police the democratic efforts of political activists in Britain in a way never envisaged by parliament. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22412.htm Why? Viva Palestina letter to … Read more
2009-04-15 Richard Moore Security sources have stated that they expect few, if any, terror-related charges to result from the arrests. Raids on homes and premises in the northwest of England have so far failed to turn up any evidence of bombs, chemical explosives, weapons or ammunition. One senior security source was cited in theGuardian as stating … Read more
2009-04-14 Richard Moore President Obama yesterday announced a series of steps aimed at easing the U.S. relationship with Cuba, breaking from policies first imposed by the Kennedy administration and stepping into an emotional debate over the best way to bring democratic change to one of the last remaining communist regimes. Translation: to bring capitalist oppression to one … Read more
2009-04-14 Richard Moore The mortar rounds killed at least five Somali civilians on the ground, local residents said. The insurgent group al-Shabab, which has ties to al-Qaeda, asserted responsibility for the attack. Ties to al-Qaeda? Since there is no al-Qaeda that is independent of the CIA, we need to decode this. Either the accusation simply … Read more
2009-04-14 Richard Moore http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/13/AR2009041302634.html U.S. Appears Set To Boycott U.N. Session on Racism Conference Stance on Israel Is at Issue; Advocacy Groups Criticize White House By Michael A. Fletcher Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, April 14, 2009; A04 The Obama administration appears to be standing by its decision to boycott the World Conference Against Racism … Read more
2009-04-14 Richard Moore Here’s a very interesting radio interview, where researcher Doug Force claims that Canada was incorporated as a corporation back in 1933. Richard Syrett – Doug Force:THE MYTH OF CANADA Pt1 radio show audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T52_z7wGLz0 In the interview, we are referred to the following website, of the Security and Exchange Commission, to verify … Read more
2009-04-14 Richard Moore All of the recent talk of withdrawal from Iraq is empty rhetoric indeed to most Iraqis, who see the giant “enduring” U.S. military bases spread across their country, or the U.S. “embassy,” the size of the Vatican City, in Baghdad. The gulf between the rhetoric of withdrawal and the reality on the … Read more
2009-04-13 Richard Moore I’m not sure what to conclude from these conflicting reports, but I won’t be using Canola oil until I learn more. rkm ____ http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/canolaoil.htm Canola Oil Is Not A Healthy Nutritional Choice-Disputed! Summary of eRumorThere are several emails making the rounds of the Internet warning consumers not to buy or … Read more