2009-02-26 Richard Moore http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1153704/Big-Brother-spy-planes-track-Taliban-soon-hover-home.html Big Brother spy planes that track the Taliban may soon hover over your home By FIONA MACRAE Last updated at 8:28 AM on 24th February 2009 Pilotless planes used to track the Taliban could soon be hovering over our streets, it has emerged. Remote-controlled drones are already used widely by the military. … Read more
2009-02-26 Richard Moore http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/carroll+quigley The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion … Read more
2009-02-26 Richard Moore And he indicated that he favored empowering the Federal Reserve as a regulator of systemic risk, with authority over any financial firm or instrument that could destabilize the economy. Right, the same Fed that intentionally helped create the collapse. rkm ___ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022502463.html Expanded Rescue Of Banks Outlined U.S. to Help if Firms … Read more
2009-02-24 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/022309E http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/20655 http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/4238 New Attitude in the White House? Monday 23 February 2009 by: Laura Carlsen, ZNet State Department calls Bolivian and Venezuelan referendums “democratic.” There are early signs of change in the Obama State Department. In response to significant political victories by former Bush nemeses Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and … Read more
2009-02-23 Richard Moore http://www.precaution.org/lib/09/prn_cancer_was_rare.090219.htm Rachel’s Democracy & Health News #999, February 19, 2009 CANCER WAS A RARE DISEASE BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL ERA [Rachel’s introduction: A study of available medical data reveals that cancer is a relatively new disease, which has grown rapidly during the industrial era.] By Tony Tweedale [Tony Tweedale runs a consultancy (R.I.S.K. … Read more
2009-02-23 Richard Moore Begin forwarded message: From: Richard Cook <•••@••.•••> Date: 22 February 2009 20:28:38 GMT Subject: A Historic Opportunity Dear Friends: I am writing to ask for your financial support in producing a series of six videos on the financial crisis and on my proposed solutions based on the principles of Dividend Economics … Read more
2009-02-23 Richard Moore A very interesting slide show, illustrating how the recent collapse parallels the Great Depression, and Obama’s actions parallel those of Herbert Hoover. rkm ___ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7900122.stm Audio slideshow: The road to Hooverville The Wall Street Crash of October 1929 was a trigger that quickly plunged the United States from economic prosperity to the … Read more
2009-02-23 Richard Moore Leaders said there was a need for international institutions, including the International Monetary Fund, to play a greater role not just to help countries in financial trouble but to prevent countries from getting into such difficulties. The Berlin gathering is a precursor to the next meeting of the G20 group of major … Read more
2009-02-23 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12397 Economic Crisis; How the Current Financial Rescue Schemes are Following the Failed Model of the Hoover Administration Herbert Hoover Copycats By Ismael Hossein-Zadeh Global Research, February 21, 2009 Counterpunch.org Faced with the financial meltdown of the Great Depression, the Hoover administration created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that poured taxpayers’ money into … Read more
2009-02-23 Richard Moore http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=330&Itemid=1 U.S. Gov’t Prepares for Collapse and Disruption by Jan Lundberg 20 February 2009 Editor’s roundup: Chris Hedges of Truthdig.com wrote a credible column on Feb. 16 titled “Bad News From America’s Top Spy.” This title did not provide a straightforward warning of the subjects within the article, reproduced below. First let … Read more
2009-02-23 Richard Moore 80% of water usage in California is for agriculture. Most of that goes to cattle and cotton, neither of which should be grown in arid California, because of their immense appetite for water. A blanket cut off to all of agriculture will be a disaster due to increasing food shortages and still-higher … Read more
2009-02-23 Richard Moore All over the world self-sufficiency is being outlawed. rkm ____ http://www.truthout.org/022209E http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45848 Fighting for the Right to Fish Saturday 21 February 2009 by: Patrick Burnett, Inter Press Service/International Federation of Environmental Journalists Cape Town – “When my belly is crying I must fill it. I can sit on the side of the … Read more
2009-02-23 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/022209F http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/ctrl-v/2008/10/in-1969-fourteen-year-old-beatles-fan.html Watch Amazing Oscar-Nominated Short “I Met the Walrus” Friday 20 February 2009 by: Loren Lankford, Paste Magazine In 1969, 14-year-old Beatles fan Jerry Levitan tracked his idol, John Lennon, from a Toronto airport to his room at the King Edward Hotel. Inside, he convinced Lennon to do an impromptu … Read more
2009-02-23 Richard Moore http://www.infowars.com/obamas-broken-promises/ Obama’s Broken Promises Infowars February 17, 2009 1. Make Government Open and Transparent 2. Make it “Impossible” for Congressmen to slip in Pork Barrel Projects 3. Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public 4. No more secrecy 5. Public will have 5 days to look at … Read more
2009-02-22 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/feb2009/mort-f20.shtml Obama’s mortgage plan aims to bolster the banks By Tom Eley 20 February 2009 On Wednesday, President Barack Obama revealed portions of a plan that aims to stem the collapse of the US housing market. The Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan (HASP) is designed to provide a modicum of relief to … Read more
2009-02-22 Richard Moore “The hope we all had in President Obama to lead us on a different path has not turned out as we’d hoped,” said Tina Monshipour Foster, a human rights attorney representing a detainee at the Bagram Airfield. “We all expected better.” http://www.truthout.org/022109Z http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/02/ap_terrordetainees022009/ Still No Rights for Bagram Prisoners Friday 20 February … Read more
2009-02-22 Richard Moore http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-CreditCrisis/idUSTRE51K0A920090221 Soros sees no bottom for world financial “collapse” Sat Feb 21, 2009 4:19pm EST Soros said the turbulence is actually more severe than during the Great Depression, comparing the current situation to the demise of the Soviet Union. He said the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September marked a turning … Read more
2009-02-22 Richard Moore http://www.opednews.com/articles/Firestorm-Brewing-Between-by-Lance-L-Landon-090217-130.html February 19, 2009 at 23:23:27 Firestorm Brewing Between U.S. States and Federal Government by Lance L. Landon Page 1 of 2 page(s) www.opednews.com States May Be Getting Ready To Dissolve Our Federal Government Could this be an ominous shadow drawing on the end of the United States of America? For years the Federal … Read more
2009-02-21 Richard Moore http://www.dailynewscaster.com/2009/02/11/inside-source-reveals-fema-dhs-prepairing-for-mass-graves-and-martial-law-near-chicago/ Inside source reveals FEMA & DHS preparing for mass graves and martial law near Chicago February 11th, 2009 | Audio, Martial Law By: D. H. Williams @ 10:41 PM – EST An Indiana county municipal official in the vicinity of Chicago reveals the contents of his meetings with FEMA and the Department of … Read more
2009-02-21 Richard Moore The president’s message served as a reminder of last year’s private assessment by Canadian officials that then-candidate Obama’s frequent criticism of NAFTA was nothing more than campaign speeches aimed at chasing support among Rust Belt union workers. http://www.truthout.org/022009LA http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/19/AR2009021902925.html NAFTA Renegotiation Must Wait, Obama Says Friday 20 February 2009 by: Michael D. … Read more
2009-02-20 Richard Moore http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/02/18-11 Published on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 by Salon.com Charlie Savage on Obama’s Embrace of Bush/Cheney ‘Terrorism Policies’ by Glenn Greenwald During the Bush presidency, there were few reporters, if there were any, who were better on issues of civil liberties and executive power abuses than Charlie Savage, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his … Read more
2009-02-20 Richard Moore http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22034.htm Jailing Kids for Cash By Amy Goodman February 18, 2009 “TruthDig” — As many as 5,000 children in Pennsylvania have been found guilty, and up to 2,000 of them jailed, by two corrupt judges who received kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities that benefited. The two judges … Read more
2009-02-20 Richard Moore The bulk of the spending cuts will fall on education, which will see its finances gutted by $8.6 billion. The most extraordinary aspect of the budget—and one that expresses the utter contempt of the ruling elite for the needs and sentiments of masses of people—is the reported $700 million in tax breaks … Read more
2009-02-20 Richard Moore http://www.infowars.com/camera-microphone-in-magnavox-digital-conversion-box/ Camera, Microphone in Magnavox Digital Conversion Box YouTube February 17, 2009 I have a friend who is kind of a conspiracy theorist. He was trying to convince me that the many of the digital TV convert boxes that our coming out have microphones and cameras built into them. Knowing a bit … Read more
2009-02-20 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20090214&articleId=12307 Israel ready to launch a military offensive against Iran In the wake of Gaza, can the world afford to live with a nuclear Israel? By Lech Biegalski Global Research, February 14, 2009 On February 14, Australian News Agency “The Age” reported: A SENIOR Israeli diplomat has warned that Israel is ready to … Read more
2009-02-20 Richard Moore http://www.creative-i.info/?p=4688 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12299 Eastern Partnership: The West’s Final Assault On the Former Soviet Union By Rick Rozoff Global Research, February 13, 2009 Stop NATO At a meeting of the European Union’s General Affairs and External Relations Council in Brussels on May 26 of last year, Poland, seconded by Sweden, first proposed what has … Read more
2009-02-20 Richard Moore http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21971.htm Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran? U.S. Now Sees Iran as Pursuing Nuclear Bomb In a reversal since a 2007 report, U.S. officials expect the Islamic Republic to reach development milestones this year. By Greg Miller February 13, 2009 “LA Times” — Reporting from Washington — Little more than a … Read more
2009-02-20 Richard Moore Headlining Obama’s plan is a $75 billion Homeowner Stability Initiative, which would provide a set of incentives to mortgage lenders in an effort to convince them to help up to 4 million borrowers on the verge of foreclosure. Incentive to banks rather than direct relief to homeowners, or legislation to halt foreclosures. … Read more
2009-02-20 Richard Moore http://www.financialpost.com/news/story.html?id=927271 The Fed as a central bank to the world Jacqueline Thorpe, Financial Post Published: Sunday, November 02, 2008 Getty Images Nicolas Sarkozy may be pushing for a new financial order but Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson have beaten him to it. While the French President dreams of … Read more
2009-02-20 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/021209A http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/pakistan/090211/exclusive-the-wrong-hands The US Struggle to Keep the Taliban From Stealing What’s Inside This Box Wednesday 11 February 2009 by: Shahan Mufti, GlobalPost Peshawar, Pakistan – Throughout the ages, this ancient Silk Road town near the border of Afghanistan has been the place where the black market thrives and the military spoils … Read more
2009-02-20 Richard Moore http://survivingthemiddleclasscrash.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-multiple-ways-monsanto-is-putting-normal-seeds-out-of-reach/ The Multiple Ways Monsanto is Putting Normal Seeds Out of Reach Posted by Barbara Peterson By Linn Cohen-Cole People say if farmers don’t want problems from Monsanto, just don’t buy their GMO seeds. Not so simple. Where are farmers supposed to get normal seed these days? How are they supposed to … Read more
2009-02-20 Richard Moore Sarkozy declared that, in his opinion, it was irresponsible “to continue to manufacture French cars in the Czech Republic.” He demanded a halt to the transfer of production to other countries. This is protectionism? This shows how much neoliberalism has distorted language. The Süddeutsche Zeitung echoed the statements of the EU Council president, writing, … Read more
2009-02-20 Richard Moore This crisis has highlighted fundamental weaknesses in the international financial system and that urgent reforms are needed. We agree that a reformed IMF, endowed with additional resources, is crucial to respond effectively and flexibly to the current crisis. ___ http://uk.reuters.com/article/marketsNewsUS/idUKLE69914720090214 TEXT-Full text of final Rome G7 communique Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:35pm … Read more
2009-02-20 Richard Moore http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/09/BAGS15QB5B.DTL Under Obama, same stance on rendition suit Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, February 10, 2009 (02-09) 17:30 PST SAN FRANCISCO — President Obama’s Justice Department signaled in a San Francisco courtroom Monday that the change in administrations has not changed the government’s position on secrecy and the rights of foreign prisoners … Read more
2009-02-20 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/feb2009/stse-f16.shtml Obama administration seeks to block lawsuit over illegal wiretapping By John Burton and Marge Holland 16 February 2009 For the second time in less than a week, lawyers from the Justice Department headed by Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder have embraced the Bush administration’s pseudo-legal argument that the “state secrets” … Read more
2009-02-20 Richard Moore http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21991.htm Looting Social Security By William Greider Is Social Security threatened by entitlement reformers? David M. Walker, president and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation responds to William Greider’s essayhere. Read William Greider’s answer to Peterson’s criticism here. February 14, 2009 “The Nation” — – “Governing elites in Washington and Wall Street … Read more
2009-02-20 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/021609L http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/02/hbc-90004409 Former Guantanamo Guard Tells All Sunday 15 February 2009 by: Scott Horton, Harper’s Magazine Army Private Brandon Neely served as a prison guard at Guantánamo in the first years the facility was in operation. With the Bush Administration, and thus the threat of retaliation against him, now gone, Neely decided … Read more
2009-02-18 Richard Moore The sums needed are beyond the limits of the IMF, which has already bailed out Hungary, Ukraine, Latvia, Belarus, Iceland, and Pakistan – and Turkey next – and is fast exhausting its own $200bn (€155bn) reserve. We are nearing the point where the IMF may have to print money for the world, … Read more
2009-02-15 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/021409A Address on Lincoln’s 200th Birthday Thursday 12 February 2009 by: President Barack Obama, t r u t h o u t | transcript It is wonderful to be back in Springfield, the city where I got my start in elected office, where I served for nearly a decade, and where … Read more
2009-02-12 Richard Moore Oklahoma City Bombing RARE footage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWwrEEP8EBk ___________________________ subscribe mailto: •••@••.••• websites: http://www.governourselves.org/ http://escapingthematrix.org/ http://cyberjournal.org recent archives: http://groups.google.com/group/cyberjournal http://groups.google.com/group/newslog old archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/ http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog Moderator: •••@••.••• (comments welcome)