Michael T Klare: Global Warming: It’s All About Energy

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: ——————————————————– To: A-List <•••@••.•••>, Ugly New World <•••@••.•••>, World City <•••@••.•••> From: Bill Totten <•••@••.•••> Subject: [WrldCty] Global Warming: It’s All About Energy Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:55:43 +0900 Reply-To: •••@••.••• by Michael T Klare Foreign Policy In Focus (February 15 2007) www.fpif.org Finally, after years of effort … Read more

Padilla: exhibits concentration-camp syndrome

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Psychiatrist_says_US_terror_suspect_02222007.html Psychiatrist says US terror suspect has Stockholm syndrome AFP Published: Thursday February 22, 2007 A psychiatrist told a court in Miami US terror suspect Jose Padilla is unable to assist in his defense as he identifies with the military captors who held him for more than three years. … Read more

Recession soon?

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2007/02/r-word.html MISH’S GLOBAL ECONOMIC TREND ANALYSIS Thoughts on the global economy, housing, gold, silver, interest rates, oil, energy, China, commodities, the dollar, Euro, Renminbi, Yen, inflation, deflation, stagflation, precious metals, emerging markets, and policy decisions that affect the global markets. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2007 Discuss global trends with Mish … Read more

The true extent of Britain’s failure in Basra

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2296829.ece Revealed: The true extent of Britain’s failure in Basra By Patrick Cockburn Published: 23 February 2007 The partial British military withdrawal from southern Iraq announced by Tony Blair this week follows political and military failure, and is not because of any improvement in local security, say specialists on … Read more

Tony Pugh : Millions of Americans Living in Severe Poverty

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022307E.shtml http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16760690.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 22, 2007 U.S. economy leaving record numbers in severe poverty By Tony Pugh McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON – The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty … Read more

video: new NWO free-trade zone

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Lou Dobbs on CNN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKOefKQ_J_E — ——————————————————– Escaping the Matrix website http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website http://cyberjournal.org Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html subscribe cyberjournal list mailto:•••@••.••• Posting archives http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/

911: Shaped Charges and the WTC Collapses

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc_charges.html [photos, videos, and links in original] Shaped Charges and the World Trade Center Collapses Here’s what demolition experts use in steel framed buildings, the linear shaped charge … It generates around 3,000,000 psi pressure … at a speed in excess of 27,000 feet per second … There are … Read more

911: NYPD Officer Heard 7 Bombs

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/nypd_officer_heard_building_7_bombs.htm NYPD Officer Heard Building 7 Bombs “The whole time you’re hearing boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I think I know an explosion when I hear it” Prison Planet | February 10, 2007 Paul Joseph Watson Following our reports this week about three different ground zero rescue workers who … Read more

Victoria, B.C.: Wisdom Council launch

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.oakbaynews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=23&cat=23&id=839334&more Grassroots group aims to affect policy By Thomas Winterhoff Oak Bay News Victoria, B.C. Feb 23 2007 Organizers want ordinary citizens to set country¹s political agenda In many democratic societies, political leadership tends to come from the upper echelons of government and then gradually work its way down … Read more

Dahr Jamail: Another U.S. Military Assault on Media in Iraq

2007-02-24 Richard Moore More and more the U.S. occupation imitates the Gestapo. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/iraq/000543.php#more February 23, 2007 Another U.S. Military Assault on Media Inter Press Service Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily Read story at website BAGHDAD, Feb 23 (IPS) – Iraqi journalists are outraged over yet another U.S. military raid on … Read more

Naomi Klein: U.S. torture methods examined in Miami courtroom

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022307P.shtml http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070312/klein Lookout by Naomi Klein A Trial for Thousands Denied Trial [from the March 12, 2007 issue] Something remarkable is going on in a Miami courtroom. The cruel methods US interrogators have used since September 11 to “break” prisoners are finally being put on trial. This was not … Read more

FYI: deschooling initiative

2007-02-24 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:43:50 -0500 To: •••@••.••• From: “Chris Glavin” <•••@••.•••> Subject: Deschooling Hi, My name is Chris Glavin. I run a website devoted to providing resourceful information for a number of topics in education and disabilities and disorders. I have created an information page for Deschooling under the … Read more

Russia gets tough over US first-strike support shield

2007-02-24 Richard Moore …the Guardian reports that while the center-right, pro-American governments of Poland and the Czech Republic support the missile defense plan, “some opposition parties are against the plan and polls in recent weeks suggest that up to two-thirds of Poles and Czechs oppose their country taking part. ——————————————————– Original source URLs: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022307A.shtml http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0221/p99s01-duts.html … Read more

Venezuela’s revolution – giving power to the poor

2007-02-22 Richard Moore The revolution is also thoroughly democratic. Pro-Chavez forces have won 11 straight national elections and introduced a new constitution guaranteeing popular participation in government, including the right to overturn any legislation via a national referendum. The government has announced an extension of direct democracy, via the promotion of grassroots communal councils, and … Read more

Alfred W. McCoy: The Politics of Heroin

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/1556524838/ref=dp_proddesc_0/104-4437263-0591151?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Paperback) by Alfred W. McCoy (Author) Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Nearly 20 years ago, McCoy wrote The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia , which stirred up considerable controversy, alleging that the CIA was intimately involved … Read more

Court approves concentration camps for all non-US citizens

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022007R.shtml http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070220/D8NDKNBO0.html Court: Detainees Can’t Challenge Cases Email this Story Feb 20, 2:26 PM (ET) By HOPE YEN WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that foreign-born prisoners seized as potential terrorists and held in Guantanamo Bay may not challenge their detention in U.S. courts, a key … Read more

Kevin Barrett: Bin Laden video faked

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://infowars.com/articles/terror/bin_laden_top_expert_confession_fake.htm http://www.911blogger.com/node/6317 Top Bin Laden Expert: Confession Fake submitted by GeorgeWashington on mon, 02/19/2007 – 1:18am. Bin Laden Kevin Barrett sent the following email: Top U.S. Bin Laden Expert: Confession Video ³Bogus² by Kevin Barrett, http://mujca.com 2/17/06 Was Osama Bin Laden responsible for 9/11? The Bush Administration says yes, … Read more

Marines ready for D-Day landing in Iran

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1130 Iran – Ready to attack By Dan Plesch – NewStatesman Feb/20/2007 American military operations for a major conventional war with Iran could be implemented any day. They extend far beyond targeting suspect WMD facilities and will enable President Bush to destroy Iran’s military, political and economic infrastructure overnight … Read more

Putin’s full speech at Munich Security Conference

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.securityconference.de/konferenzen/rede.php?sprache=en&id=179& Munich Conference on Security Policy Speaker: Putin, Wladimir W. Function: President, Russian Federation Nation/Organisation: Russian Federation Speech at the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy 02/10/2007 (The speech was held in Russian. Find the English translation below.) Thank you very much dear Madam Federal Chancellor, Mr Teltschik, ladies … Read more

Robert Jensen: Liberal Icons and the Problem of Bipartisan Empire-Building

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb07/Jensen19.htm [links in original] Liberal Icons and the Problem of Bipartisan Empire-Building by Robert Jensen www.dissidentvoice.org February 19, 2007 Remarks to the fourth ³Last Sunday² community gathering in Austin, TX, February 18, 2007. In a political culture defined by a centrist-to-reactionary political spectrum, Paul Wellstone was a breath of … Read more

Brasscheck TV: When they zig, we zag

2007-02-21 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Brasscheck TV” <•••@••.•••> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:38:11 -0500 Subject: Brasscheck TV: When they zig, we zag Remember the recent Brasscheck TV video that got booted by Google and YouTube? Apparenly, many people all over the world downloaded the Google version before it was taken down it’s been uploaded … Read more

Katrina: Greg Palast video

2007-02-21 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Brasscheck TV” <•••@••.•••> X_Id: 306778:02-09-2007-22-37-40:•••@••.•••/306778 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:38:05 -0500 Subject: Brasscheck TV: What really happened? Tomorrow is Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It’s the big festival that comes before Lent, traditionally forty days of light fasting and self-denial before before Easter. Today, while people the world over … Read more

re/third world- Frances Moore Lappe: Creating Real Prosperity

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1548 YES! Magazine Winter 2007 Issue: Go Local! Creating Real Prosperity by Frances Moore Lappé Critics of “go local” movements warn that buying local deprives people in the Global South of jobs that could lift them out of poverty. But are multinationals really helping? There’s only one thing worse … Read more

US to stage world’s biggest anti-terror exercise

2007-02-21 Richard Moore The exercise is expected to centre around a maritime terrorist attack. And a maritime terrorist attack in the gulf has been named by Bush as one of the triggers for an Iran attack. The false-flag scenario is now clearly laid out for us to see in advance. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: … Read more

Robert Weitzel: The Realpolitik of U.S. Foreign Policy

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/12667/42/ Feb 18 2007 Cluster Bombs: Op_ed By MWC NEWS Translation The Realpolitik of U.S. Foreign Policy By Robert Weitzel, guest columnist Defense Secretary Gates said that serial numbers and other markings found on bomb fragments constituted ³pretty good² evidence that Iran was providing weapon technology and material to … Read more

All systems ready for false-flag incident in Iraq

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Alternatively, our correspondent adds, a high-casualty attack on US forces in neighbouring Iraq could also trigger a bombing campaign if it were traced directly back to Tehran. Note accompanying posting today where US is already practicing it’s response to an ‘attack’ (ie, faked attack) on US naval forces in the Gulf. rkm … Read more

Antarctica glaciers undermined by rivers

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022007EA.shtml http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070220/antarctica_070220/20070220?hub=SciTech Huge lakes and rivers found under Antarctic ice Updated: Tue. Feb. 20 2007 8:44 AM ET An amazing discovery has been made in the Antarctic. Researchers have found that under the compressed snow and ice lies a sort of water world — a series of fast-moving lakes … Read more

Newt Gingrich seeks Presidency

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Gingrich proposed that new strategies and tactics in the war on terror should be considered, including a reexamination of First Amendment rights. Bush does fascism; Gingrich also preaches it. How could he get in? Simple…personally embarrassing ‘revelations’ against whoever the Democratic candidate happens to be. “It can be easily done….just do it … Read more

Tom Flocco: JFK coup d’etat update

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/Bush41RevivesLinks.htm [links in original] Tom Flocco.com http://tomflocco.com/ BUSH 41 REVIVES LINKS TO JFK WARREN COMMISSION OBSTRUCTION January 13, 2007 “A coup d’ etat has been described as ‘a sudden action by which an individual or group, usually employing limited violence, captures positions of governmental authority without conforming to the … Read more

* William Engdahl: Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War *

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: <http://www.321gold.com/editorials/engdahl/engdahl021907.html>http://www.321gold.com/editorials/engdahl/engdahl021907.html V. Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or, what happens when Cowboys don’t shoot straight like they used toŠ By F. William Engdahl* 18 February 2007 The frank words of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to the assembled participants of the annual Munich Wehrkunde security conference … Read more

The structure of modern Western imperialism: some thoughts

2007-02-20 Richard Moore The primary goal of Western imperialism is to enable the unfettered operation of Western corporations and financial interests in the third world . In order to accomplish this goal, there are several kinds of tasks that need to be carried out. First, any third world government that puts national interests ahead of … Read more

Planning Seen in Iraqi Attacks on U.S. Copters: duh?

2007-02-19 Richard Moore WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 ‹ Documents captured from Iraqi insurgents indicate that some of the recent fatal attacks against American helicopters are a result of a carefully planned strategy to focus on downing coalition aircraft, one that American officials say has been carried out by mounting coordinated assaults with machine guns, rockets and … Read more

Brasscheck TV: Who can stop the war?

2007-02-19 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Brasscheck TV” <•••@••.•••> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:03:34 -0500 Subject: Brasscheck TV: Who can stop the war? Who can stop the war? The GIs can. That’s who. And they’ve done it before. Discover the truth about one of the most censored stories in American history: The GI mutiny that … Read more

The New Russian Diplomacy

2007-02-19 Richard Moore Russian diplomacy is one of great openness. First, Moscow began asserting that there is no alternative to a collective international effort in solving regional or global problems, meaning that Russia cannot be ignored any longer in conflict resolution – be it in the Middle East, Afghanistan or Kosovo. Lavrov told the Arab … Read more

Iran – Ready to attack

2007-02-19 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.newstatesman.com/200702190014 Iran – Ready to attack Dan Plesch Published 19 February 2007 American preparations for invading Iran are complete, Dan Plesch reveals. Plus Rageh Omaar’s insights from Iran and Andrew Stephen on fears George Bush’s administration will blunder into war American military operations for a major conventional war with … Read more

* Sunni, Shia Violence, Death Squads, and Civil War in Iraq *

2007-02-19 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:09:02 -0500 Subject: Sunni, Shia Violence, Death Squads, and Civil War in Iraq From: The Wisdom Fund <•••@••.•••> Reply-To: •••@••.••• February 19, 2007 The Wisdom Fund Sunni, Shia Violence, Death Squads, and Civil War in Iraq Excerpts from <http://www.twf.org/News/Y2006/1010-Regions.html>http://www.twf.org/News/Y2006/1010-Regions.html Handout at <http://www.twf.org/News/Y2007/Sunni-Shia.pdf>http://www.twf.org/News/Y2007/Sunni-Shia.pdf Odd, isn’t it? There … Read more

Democrats support imperialism in Iraq

2007-02-18 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://wsws.org/articles/2007/feb2007/iraq-f17.shtml After House vote on non-binding resolution: Democrats won¹t cut Iraq war funding By Patrick Martin 17 February 2007 Use this version to print | Send this link by email | Email the author The US House of Representatives voted by 246 to 182 Friday in favor of a … Read more

Iran softens its position

2007-02-18 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070212.wxiran12/BNStory/International/?page=rss&id=..wiran12 Iran warms to nuclear talks President makes shocking reversal, but still won’t halt enrichment program DOUG SAUNDERS From Monday’s Globe and Mail President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad surprised a huge crowd in Iran’s capital yesterday by skipping an expected announcement of a nuclear escalation and declaring instead that he intends … Read more

Ron Paul on the Federal Reserve

2007-02-18 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul370.html Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy by Ron Paul Statement at Hearing of the House Financial Services Committee, February 15, 2007 Transparency in monetary policy is a goal we should all support. I’ve often wondered why Congress so willingly has given up its prerogative over monetary … Read more

U.S. Strategic Command & the Impending Attack on Iran

2007-02-18 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Brian Hill” <•••@••.•••> Subject: FW: [toeslist] U.S. Strategic Command & the Impending Attack on Iran Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:30:11 -0800 Organization: Institute for Cultural Ecology ——-Original Message——- From: •••@••.••• [mailto:•••@••.•••] On Behalf Of Alanna Hartzok Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 8:58 PM To: •••@••.•••; •••@••.••• Subject: [toeslist] U.S. … Read more