Rare live TV footage: FBI knew of first WTC bombing

2009-02-12 Richard Moore Rare TV NEWS report about WTC bombing FBI Foreknowledge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F1Y6cGRXEs ___________________________ 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)

Kabul not secure: the Afghanistan quagmire

2009-02-12 Richard Moore The attacks in a city dense with barricades and armed guards underscored the difficulty of fending off the Taliban even with abundant troops and weaponry as the U.S. beefs up its presence. http://www.truthout.org/021109B http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hvWEqwq3CrRvaQCmt21MfoYhjZJQD969DPI00 Attacks on Afghan Government Buildings Kill 20 Wednesday 11 February 2009 by: Amir Shah and Rahim Faiez, The … Read more

National Lawyers Guild: Israeli war crimes in Gaza

2009-02-12 Richard Moore http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/02/08-0 Published on Sunday, February 8, 2009 by CommonDreams.org What We Found in Gaza Strong Indications of Violations of the Laws of War, U.S. Law, and War Crimes Found in the Gaza Strip NLG Delegation GAZA CITY – We are a delegation of 8 American lawyers, members of the National Lawyers Guild … Read more

Sir James Crosby resigns as City watchdog

2009-02-12 Richard Moore The move follows allegations that, when head of HBOS, he sacked senior manager Paul Moore who had raised concerns the bank was exposed to too much risk. Sir James, who led HBOS from 2001 to 2006, said there was “no substance to the allegations”. Amazing, that after the collapse, Sir James still claims … Read more

Spiegel: The Geopolitics of Food Scarcity

2009-02-12 Richard Moore This article is good, in that it lays out the multi-dimensional problem of food scarcity. At the same time, the article is blatant elitist propaganda, offering misleading explanations and offering proposals that would only make things worse. Today we are witnessing the emergence of a dangerous politics of food scarcity, one in … Read more

Robert Scheer: No Tough Love for Wall Street

2009-02-12 Richard Moore If like me you still get those chatty e-mails from the Obama campaign, it is time to remind them that we voted for the caring community organizer from the streets of Chicago and not some hack carrying water for the predators of Wall Street. http://www.truthout.org/021109S http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090210_no_tough_love_for_wall_street/ No Tough Love for Wall Street … Read more

Why Vaccinations Harm Children

2009-02-12 Richard Moore http://www.naturalnews.com/025595.html Why Vaccinations Harm Children: Health Experts Sound Off by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor  (NaturalNews) What follows is a collection of quotations from naturopathic physicians, health authors, researchers and doctors on the dangers of vaccines. I assembled these quotes from a private library of health books and published them … Read more

The Flawed Theory Behind Vaccinations

2009-02-12 Richard Moore Meanwhile, new research is showing that human health improves when it is EXPOSED to full-strength pathogens and infections that force the body to activate an adaptive response. For example, new research conducted at Nottingham University (in the UK) is studying whether infecting patients with microscopic parasites (hookworms) actually improves their body’s ability to deal … Read more

CNN endorses New World Order: the propaganda begins

2009-02-12 Richard Moore In the view of many outside the U.S. (and some within), the only way to limit such excesses is through a bigger, more powerful IMF that can act as a central bank to the world–and knock heads when needed. While everybody agrees that this new IMF needs to be less dominated by … Read more

Germany rethinking EU consolidation

2009-02-11 Richard Moore http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,606952,00.html 02/11/2009 03:22 PM THE WORLD FROM BERLIN ‘Europe Is Suffering from Too Little Democracy’ Germany’s high court is taking a closer look at the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty, the document meant to replace the failed EU constitution. Early indications are that it doesn’t like what it sees. If Germany says no, … Read more

very informative: Complete 911 Timeline

2009-02-11 Richard Moore http://www.historycommons.org/project.jsp?project=911_project Complete 911 Timeline Open-Content investigative project managed by matt, Paul, KJF This is the home page for the Complete 911 Timeline investigative project, one of several grassroots investigations being hosted on the History Commons website. The data published as part of this investigation has been collected, organized, and published by members of the public who are registered users … Read more

Book review: The Hope of Monetary Reform

2009-02-11 Richard Moore http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/richard-cook-its-time-to-fix-the-monetary-system-by-mike-whitney/ http://tinyurl.com/ddp3l9 Richard Cook: “It’s Time to Fix the Monetary System” by Mike Whitney Posted on February 10, 2009 by dandelionsalad Sent to DS from Richard C. Cook with permission from the author to post. Dandelion Salad by Mike Whitney February 10, 2009 We Hold These Truths by Richard C. Cook Originally uploaded by Lorri37 Richard … Read more

David Rockefeller on the new world order

2009-02-11 Richard Moore http://www.prisonplanet.com/how-we-got-here-it-was-a-deliberate-policy.html David Rockefeller: “Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure–one world, if you will. If … Read more

Obama & medicine: Washington dictates to your doctor

2009-02-11 Richard Moore Any doctor that deviates from that plan would be penalized by the government. That means, for example, that a local doctor who knows the patient and his family, and who is aware of specific local circumstances affecting that patient will no longer be able to apply any of that knowledge in treating … Read more

Obama & medicine: stealth euthenasia

2009-02-11 Richard Moore One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will … Read more

Obama & N Korea: no change here

2009-02-11 Richard Moore A provocative threat against North Korea by the top US general in South Korea is a clear indication that President Obama intends to continue the Bush administration’s belligerent stance toward Pyongyang. Asked how the US intended to respond if a missile test took place, General Sharp bluntly warned: “We have all available … Read more

Iceland succumbs to IMF, joins third world

2009-02-11 Richard Moore “… in the first line of the section on economic policy the government declared, “The economic policy of the government will be based on the programme already established by the authorities and the IMF.” http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/feb2009/icel-f11.shtml Iceland: New government pledges continuation of IMF austerity programme By Jordan Shilton  11 February 2009 Iceland’s new … Read more

book review: The Bridge at the Edge of the World

2009-02-10 Richard Moore http://www.amazon.com/Bridge-Edge-World-Environment-Sustainability/dp/0300136110 Editorial Reviews From The Washington Post Reviewed by Ross Gelbspan Contemporary capitalism and a habitable planet cannot coexist. That is the core message of The Bridge at the Edge of the World, by J. “Gus” Speth, a prominent environmentalist who, in this book, has turned sharply critical of the U.S. environmental … Read more

As Israelis Vote, It’s All About War and Peace

2009-02-10 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/021009O http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0210/p01s02-wome.html As Israelis Vote, It’s All About War and Peace Tuesday 10 February 2009 by: Ilene R. Prusher, The Christian Science Monitor Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud party hawk, leads in polls ahead of Tuesday’s parliamentary election.     Jerusalem – When Israelis go to polls Tuesday, the impact of the country’s two wars … Read more

Walden Bello – Asia: The coming fury

2009-02-10 Richard Moore The success of Korea and Taiwan convinced the World Bank that EOI [export-oriented industrialization] was the wave of the future. In the mid-1970s, then-Bank president Robert McNamara enshrined it as doctrine, preaching that “special efforts must be made in many countries to turn their manufacturing enterprises away from the relatively small markets … Read more

Europe’s New Wave of Toxic Debt

2009-02-10 Richard Moore http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,605887,00.html 02/06/2009 10:23 AM MORE TROUBLE AHEAD Europe’s New Wave of Toxic Debt By Carol Matlack A decade of heavy borrowing has lofted euro zone debt to $11 trillion, and it’s starting to come due just when companies are strapped for cash. Rising defaults could send shock waves through global markets. More … Read more

Fed sets stage for Weimar-style Hyperinflation

2009-02-10 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11401 Federal Reserve sets stage for Weimar-style Hyperinflation By F. William Engdahl Global Research, December 15, 2008 The Federal Reserve has bluntly refused a request by a major US financial news service to disclose the recipients of more than $2 trillion of emergency loans from US taxpayers and to reveal the assets … Read more

Engdahl: Financial Warfare and the Future of Global Bank Power

2009-02-10 Richard Moore Knowing that at a certain juncture the pyramid of trillions of dollars of dubious sub-prime and other high risk home mortgage-based securities would come falling down, they apparently determined to spread the so-called ‘toxic waste’ ABS securities as globally as possible, in order to seduce the big global banks of the world, … Read more

Tom Eley: The American ruling class

2009-02-10 Richard Moore The social psychology and physiognomy of the financial elite—with its wealth, special privileges and its control over the organs of public opinion—resembles nothing so much as a modern aristocracy. In an earlier period of history the US had its “robber barons,” such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. As … Read more

Obama: first White House press conference

2009-02-10 Richard Moore Obama declared that, like the Republicans, he supports the primacy of the “private sector”—i.e., the domination of the American and world economy by profit-making corporations. But the government had to intervene to “jump-start” the profit system, he argued. There are two ways of depending on the private sector. One way, always a … Read more

Jeremy R. Hammond: Bush policy to continue re/Iran

2009-02-09 Richard Moore Reiterating the Bush policy of loosely defined “preventive” warfare outlined in Bush’s National Security Strategy, [Biden] said that the “U.S. will strive to act preventively to avoid having to choose between the risks of war and the dangers of inaction.” Translated into meaningful terms, this effectively means the U.S. will continue to … Read more

Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009

2009-02-09 Richard Moore http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/category/y-2009/ Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009 #1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation # 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA # 3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business # 4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America? # 5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets # 6 … Read more

James L. Jones to be tzar of security & foreign policy

2009-02-09 Richard Moore The new structure, to be outlined in a presidential directive and a detailed implementation document by Jones, will expand the NSC’s reach far beyond the range of traditional foreign policy issues and turn it into a much more elastic body, with Cabinet and departmental seats at the table — historically occupied only … Read more

Regulators Close Three More US Banks

2009-02-09 Richard Moore The regulators, on loan from elite Wall Street firms, get to pick and choose which banks to bail out, and which banks to close down. Here they close down a community bank, just the kind that would actually make loans and get the economy moving. Rather than trying to revive the economy, … Read more

Munich conference: fake US olive branch to Russia

2009-02-09 Richard Moore Biden talks of hitting the reset button: seeking a new relationship with Russia, and even Iran, on friendly terms. Nice words, and it avoids tension with Washington’s European allies – but the “reset” is phony. When we get down to the critical issues, Washington is putting forward exactly the same non-negotiable and … Read more

Joseph Stiglitz pushes NWO agenda forward

2009-02-09 Richard Moore Q: Merkel recently called for an international financial oversight body, and concensus on the issue is growing. How realistic do you think it is that governments and companies would give up sovereignty to an international entity? A: Merkel’s idea is a very important one, which I have long supported. You need to have … Read more

George Monbiot: A Better Way To Make Money

2009-02-09 Richard Moore But the projects which have proved most effective were those inspired by the German economist Silvio Gesell, who became finance minister in Gustav Landauer’s doomed Bavarian republic. He proposed that communities seeking to rescue themselves from economic collapse should issue their own currency.  Similar projects took off at the same time in … Read more

Obama’s deceptive stimulus agenda

2009-02-09 Richard Moore One of its major purposes is to provide political cover for what is considered within the ruling elite to be a far more important component of the administration’s economic program—a vast expansion of the taxpayer bailout of Wall Street. The Washington Post said as much in its lead editorial on Sunday, entitled “Saving the … Read more

US military intervention in Mexico?

2009-02-09 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/feb2009/mexi-f09.shtml Pentagon warns of US military intervention in Mexico’s “war on drugs” By Kevin Kearney  9 February 2009 The United States Joint Forces Command (USJFC), charged with anticipating global threats to US imperialism, issued a report last November entitled “Joint Operating Environment 2008 naming Pakistan and Mexico as the nations whose governments … Read more

Russia’s new Rapid Reaction Force

2009-02-09 Richard Moore The Russian president also said the CSTO was open for cooperation with the United States in the fight against terrorism in Central Asia.  Very difficult these days to figure out what’s going on between the US and Russia. A strange mixture of confrontation and cooperation.  rkm ___ http://www.daily.pk/world/europe/9419-russia-armenia-belarus-kazakhstan-kyrgyzstan-uzbekistan-and-tajikistan-rapid-reaction-force-to-equal-nato.html http://tinyurl.com/c6zslv Russia, Armenia, Belarus, … Read more

Naomi Klein: Public Revolt Builds Against Rip-off Rescue Plans

2009-02-07 Richard Moore http://www.alternet.org/workplace/125566/naomi_klein:_public_revolt_builds_against_rip-off_rescue_plans_for_the_economy/ http://tinyurl.com/bezlos Naomi Klein: Public Revolt Builds Against Rip-off Rescue Plans for the Economy By Naomi Klein, The Nation Posted on February 6, 2009, Printed on February 7, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/125566/ Watching the crowds in Iceland banging pots and pans until their government fell reminded me of a chant popular in anti-capitalist circles … Read more

Troops In Black Helicopters Invade New Orleans

2009-02-07 Richard Moore http://www.infowars.com/us-troops-in-black-helicopters-invade-new-orleans-drop-bombs/ U.S. Troops In Black Helicopters Invade New Orleans, Drop Bombs Paul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet Thursday, February 5, 2009 The New Orleans Police Department, along with 150 active duty U.S. troops, are currently engaging in what they describe as “military training” as black helicopters whizz around the city dropping bombs in the … Read more

Madoff: the SEC knew

2009-02-07 Richard Moore It was all part of the engineered collapse scam. rkm ___ http://www.truthout.org/020409R http://www.latimes.com/business/la-naw-madoff-markopolos5-2009feb05,0,1544347.story Madoff Tipster Harry Markopolos Assails SEC Wednesday 04 February 2009 by: The Associated Press Harry Markopolos told lawmakers Wednesday that the Securities and Exchange Commission ignored his credible allegations against Bernard Madoff for over a decade. (Photo: Susan Walsh … Read more

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: The War on Terror is a Hoax

2009-02-07 Richard Moore http://www.counterpunch.com/roberts02042009.html Endless Propaganda The War on Terror is a Hoax By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS According to US government propaganda, terrorist cells are spread throughout America, making it necessary for the government to spy on all Americans and violate most other constitutional protections.  Among President Bush’s last words as he left office was … Read more

NEW HAMPSHIRE declares sovereignty

2009-02-07 Richard Moore http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/HCR0006.html HCR 6 – AS INTRODUCED 2009 SESSION 09-0274 09/01 HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 6 A RESOLUTION affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles. SPONSORS: Rep. Itse, Rock 9; Rep. Ingbretson, Graf 5; Rep. Comerford, Rock 9; Sen. Denley, Dist 3 COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs ANALYSIS This house concurrent resolution affirms States’ rights … Read more