2007-08-20 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081607G.shtml#1 http://www.letemps.ch/template/tempsFort.asp?page=3&article=212820 [French] When Russia Bares Its Teeth By Stéphane Bussard Le Temps Tuesday 14 August 2007 A day no longer goes by that Russia does not assert its power. To impose respect and repair the humiliations of the Yeltsin years, how far is Vladimir Putin prepared to go? … Read more
2007-08-20 Richard Moore anyone surprised? rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://writ.lp.findlaw.com/mariner/20070815.html —- Terrorizing Social Protest By JOANNE MARINER —- Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007 A disturbing trend is afoot. In the past couple of months, in two countries, governments have relied on broadly-worded terrorism laws to put down social protests. Political demonstrators in El Salvador and … Read more
2007-08-20 Richard Moore The Fed, while not yet cutting a rate that wields more influence over the economy, moved to stimulate lending in part because it recognized that even well-to-do families with good credit ratings were having difficulty getting mortgages. That problem, radiating through the housing market and then the broader economy, had ³the potential … Read more
2007-08-20 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Ronald Pearson” <•••@••.•••> Subject: The BIG BREED theory Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:13:30 +0100 Dear all, If you cannot answer the following questions then please read on: 1 How did the universe begin and why is it so huge? 2 Why are there countless billions of galaxies? 3 Why … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303 China threatens ‘nuclear option’ of dollar sales By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – Telegraph Aug/10/2007 The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20060810&articleId=2942 The Pentagon’s “Second 911” “Another [9/11] attack could create both a justification and an opportunity to retaliate against some known targets” By Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, August 10, 2006 One essential feature of “defense” in the case of a second major attack on America, is “offense”, according to … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://countercurrents.org/golpira090807.htm Asia By DU, Africa By AIDS By Hamid Golpira 09 August, 2007 Tehran Times Today is Nagasaki Day, a time for reflection on weapons of mass destruction, genocide, and man’s inhumanity to man. This is the 62nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, which will be holding … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo105.html The Men Who Destroyed the Constitution by Thomas J. DiLorenzo In his 1850 Disquisition on Government, John C. Calhoun argued that a written constitution would never be sufficient to contain the plundering proclivities of a central government. Some mechanisms for assuring consensus among the citizens of the states … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://countercurrents.org/ohara100807.htm Focus On Carbon ‘Missing The Point’ By Eamon O’Hara 10 August, 2007 BBC Focusing on the need to reduce CO2 emissions has reduced the problem to one of carbon dioxide rather than on the unsustainable ways we live. Is it not time to recognise that climate change is … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/720/37378 Ecuador: The indigenous movement and Correa Federico Fuentes 4 August 2007 When Rafael Correa was elected president of Ecuador in 2006, campaigning on a strong anti-neoliberal platform to bring about a ³citizen¹s revolution², one key social force seemed notably absent from his campaign ‹ the country¹s powerful indigenous … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=13407 Headline News Wednesday, July 11, 2007 by Staff Writer Lieberman: US will back Israeli strike on Iran Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that he received the tacit blessing of Europe and the United States for an Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/720/37362 Join the next solidarity brigade to Venezuela Lisa Macdonald 3 August 2007 Planning is well underway for the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network¹s sixth brigade to Venezuela, to be held from November 23 to December 3, and registrations are open to everyone interested in this unique opportunity to witness firsthand … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.newstatesman.com/200707190013 Chávez: the defence Colin Burgon Published 19 July 2007 Colin Burgon MP – chair of the Labour Friends of Venezuela – responds to last week’s New Statesman story on the controversial South American leader Last week’s cover story by Alice O’Keeffe, claiming Hugo Chávez had polarised Venezuela, was … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0%2C%2C2143032%2C00.html More face stop and search to deter terrorists, say police Sandra Laville, crime correspondent Tuesday August 7, 2007 The Guardian Powers to stop and search members of the public under terrorism laws will be used increasingly this summer, police said yesterday. The warning came as searches in London … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_heather__070812_welcome_to_the_jungl.htm OpEdNews August 12, 2007 Welcome to the Jungle: US Military Psychological Operations and You By Heather Wokusch “…the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.” – Benjamin Franklin, 1787 They say that if you drop a frog into a pot … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2383 Chavez Meets with Kirchner and Morales in Bolivia for Closer Cooperation Saturday, Aug 11, 2007 By: Chris Carlson – Venezuelanalysis.com Mérida, August 11, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)‹ In the final leg of his South American tour this week, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez arrived to Bolivia last night to sign several … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/720/37353 Venezuela: Co-management in a sea of capitalism Kiraz Janicke, Caracas 3 August 2007 Venezuela¹s Bolivarian revolution, and in particular its experiments with workers¹ co-management and in some instances workers¹ control, is at the cutting edge of the global movement against capitalism. With the bosses¹ lockout in 2002-03, which … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2381 Venezuela Hosts Indigenous Congress, Gives Land Titles to Indigenous Wednesday, Aug 08, 2007 By: Kiraz Janicke – Venezuelanalysis.com Caracas, August 8, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)‹ Coinciding with the launch of the First International Congress of the Anti-imperialist Indigenous Peoples of Latin America (Abya Yala), yesterday, in San Tomé, Anzoátegui state, … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/720/37359 Venezuela’s pro-people transformation continues Stuart Munkcton 3 August 2007 As part of the expansion of the pro-poor social programs ‹ known as ³missions² ‹ promoted by the government of socialist President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelanalysis.com reported on July 26 that Chavez had announced plans for the construction of 15 … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore The injection of $130 billion into the financial markets by the European Central Bank was the largest amount ever provided in a single operation, exceeding the amount added after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It came after France’s biggest bank, BNP Paribas, froze three funds that had invested in the troubled U.S. … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1514/81/ The Spirituality of Collapse by Carolyn Baker Sunday, 06 May 2007 Civilization is a mental/material world of culturally transmitted illusion. ‹ William Kötke The first edition of this article was written in February, 2006, but I have recently revised and updated it. Since the first writing, the theme … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/analysis-new-la.html Analysis: New Law Gives Government Six Months to Turn Internet and Phone Systems into Permanent Spying Architecture – UPDATED By Ryan Singel August 06, 2007 | 2:11:02 AMCategories: Surveillance A new law expanding the government’s spying powers gives the Bush Administration a six-month window to install possibly permanent … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore “All of us felt the suction from Wall Street. One day you would get an email saying, ‘We will buy no-doc loans at 95% loan-to-value,’ and an old-timer like me had never seen one,” says Mr. Barnes. “It wasn’t long before the no-doc emails said 100%.” Original source URL: http://countercurrents.org/schechter110807.htm Subprime Or … Read more
2007-08-14 Richard Moore In 1998, around the inception of mass farmer suicides, the World Bank imposed regulations that opened up India¹s seed market to corporate multinationals like Monsanto. Non-renewable GM crops now replaced a self-sustainable farming system that had been perfected over thousands of years. Original source URL: http://countercurrents.org/long130807.htm India’s Agrarian Martyrs: Are You Listening? … Read more
2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/business/yourmoney/01frame.html July 1, 2007 RE:FRAMING A Challenge to Gene Theory, a Tougher Look at Biotech By DENISE CARUSO THE $73.5 billion global biotech business may soon have to grapple with a discovery that calls into question the scientific principles on which it was founded. Last month, a consortium of … Read more
2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.newcombat.net/article_whats_a_cdo.html Blood on Wall Street What is a CDO (I mean really)? by S.I. Kropotkin Ed Note: Friday August 3, 2007. The meltdown on Wall Street continued today, with the Dow Industrials down another 284 points and oil near an all-time high as worries steam the globe of an … Read more
2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://loosechange911.blogspot.com/2007/08/interview-with-john-schroeder-fdny.html Interview With John Schroeder, NY Fire Department, last firefighter out of Twin Towers. — ——————————————————– Posting archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog Escaping the Matrix website: http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website: http://cyberjournal.org Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html Moderator: •••@••.••• (comments welcome)
2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=336&thisview=item Gore Vidal on the Cold War – part 1 – video — ——————————————————– Posting archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog Escaping the Matrix website: http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website: http://cyberjournal.org Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html Moderator: •••@••.••• (comments welcome)
2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.wpbf.com/news/13383827/detail.html Fla. Man Invents Machine To Turn Water Into Fire POSTED: 1:22 pm EDT May 24, 2007 UPDATED: 2:53 pm EDT May 24, 2007 SANIBEL ISLAND, Fla. — A Florida man may have accidentally invented a machine that could solve the gasoline and energy crisis plaguing the U.S., WPBF … Read more
2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.radicalpress.com/?page_id=501 In the Social Storm: Memoirs of the Russian Revolution by Boris Yelensky [Editor¹s Note: The unpublished work by Anarchist author Boris Yelensky is now being published in full online by The Radical Press and is a copyright of said company. Due to time constraints this long-awaited work will … Read more
2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1301 “Rival to Nato” begins first military exercise By Tony Halpin – Timesonline Aug/08/2007 Russian and Chinese troops are joining forces this week in the first military exercises by an international organisation that is regarded in some quarters as a potential rival to Nato. Thousands of soldiers and 500 … Read more
2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.rense.com/general77/chedn.htm The Cheney Affair By Ted Lang Exclusive to Rense.com 7-16-7 Now that mainstream media bias is an established fact and recognized as such by the mainstream reading and viewing public, the revelation of Vice President Dick Cheney’s total unilateral control over all levels and branches of American government … Read more
2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/us/09bridge.html August 9, 2007 Potential Flaw Seen in Design of Fallen Bridge By MONICA DAVEY and MATTHEW L. WALD MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 8 ‹ Investigators have found what may be a design flaw in the bridge that collapsed here a week ago, in the steel parts that connect girders, raising … Read more
2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.911review.org/ This website has collected hundreds of links giving comprehensive coverage of every aspect of 9/11. It also has a search engine so you can look up any topic you’re interested in. — ——————————————————– Posting archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog Escaping the Matrix website: http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website: http://cyberjournal.org Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html … Read more
2007-08-09 Richard Moore The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to a new government report, raising fears that some of those weapons have fallen into the hands of insurgents fighting U.S. forces in Iraq. I’ve posted numerous previous reports, … Read more
2007-08-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Janet M Eaton” <•••@••.•••> To: a renewed Mai-Not <•••@••.•••> Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:55:24 -0300 Subject: Economic meltdown ? 8 items Economic Meltdown? 8 items INDEX [0] Wall Street awaits Fed rate decision Yahoo News -Associated Press, Aug 5 [1] Investors are nervous. Who can blame them? Globe and … Read more
2007-08-09 Richard Moore “The Sudanese government has granted oil concessions throughout Darfur and other parts of the country, eager to extend beyond its present oilfields where the output is now peaking. To put such potential oil wealth under UN supervision and open to exploitation by Western governments rather than China is a key consideration behind … Read more
2007-08-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:43:09 -0700 From: Westaway <•••@••.•••> Subject: [Peace-l] Bush’s Executive Order on Lebanon Even Worse than the One on Iraq + Full Text of Executive Order —– Original Message —– From: <•••@••.•••> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 6:17 PM Subject: FYI: [Peace-l] Bush¹s Executive Order on Lebanon … Read more
2007-08-09 Richard Moore “The stage is now set for frontal competition for grain between the 800 million people who own automobiles, and the world’s two billion poorest who will need it to survive.” Original source URL: http://countercurrents.org/james040807.htm The End Of Cheap Food By John James 04 August,2007 Countercurrents.org It looks like the era of cheap … Read more
2007-08-09 Richard Moore “Who would Congress be providing assistance to, under what terms and conditions, and how would Congress know the support is not going to the very people who are engaged in this type of criminal activity?” asked Tim Rieser, a senior foreign policy aide for Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), who chairs the … Read more