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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 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 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 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.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 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

2009-04-16 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

2009-04-16 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 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 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 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 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 …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 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

2009-04-15 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

2009-04-15 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 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 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 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 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 …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 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 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 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 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

2009-04-14 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

2009-04-14 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 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 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 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

2009-04-13 Richard Moore What’s true for Iceland holds everywhere, including the developed world, the idea being to enrich finance capitalism through state-sponsored debt bondage and neo-feudal impoverishment. The global economic crisis was no accident. Today’s road to riches isn’t through capital investment. It’s by “foreclos(ing) at pennies on the dollar and mak(ing) ‘capital gains’ by … Read more

2009-04-13 Richard Moore As some of the students tried to exit by a side door in the building, police pepper-sprayed them and forced them back inside. Police chased down protesters on sidewalks near the school, striking some and throwing them to the ground, as videos by independent photographs have documented. NYPD behavior at demonstrations has … Read more

2009-04-13 Richard Moore Only a month after this blunt warning of the threat of social revolution, the Pentagon held its exercise simulating the geo-strategic impact of the crisis on relations among the great powers. It is only logical to assume that similar exercises, albeit unpublicized, are being conducted to prepare the US military forces to … Read more

2009-04-13 Richard Moore What is clear here is that CAP and MoveOn are now basically psuedo-official PR flaks targeting “liberals” to support the White House agenda. There’s a big problem right now with the traditional liberal interest groups sitting on the sidelines around major issues because they don’t want to buck the White House for fear of … Read more

2009-04-13 Richard Moore The evolution of Obama’s policies in the transition period and the way in which his administration is taking shape represent the most damning exposure of the failure of American democracy. Controlled and run by two parties that serve as political instruments of the major banks and corporations and a narrow financial elite, … Read more

2009-04-13 Richard Moore http://vodpod.com/watch/1474602-vandana-shiva-the-future-of-food-and-seed Vandana Shiva: The Future of Food and Seed COLLECTED BY DANDELIONSALAD MAR 28, 2009 sam springhall commented on this video What a beautiful Women, Her passion and courage is awsome, i wish everyone could hear this talk, stand up for freedom and our God given rights to survive as nature intended. ___________________________ subscribe mailto: … Read more

2009-04-13 Richard Moore http://www.emmerich1.com/EUGENICS.htm Introduction to Eugenics   John Cavanaugh-O’Keefe (Prolife Activist, Researcher and Writer ) January, 1995 The principal manifestations of eugenics are racism and abortion. Eugenics is the driving force behind euthanasia, in vitro fertilization, and embryo and fetal research. It is the driving force in global population policy, and affects American foreign … Read more

2009-04-13 Richard Moore http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20090314.htm From the March 2009 Idaho Observer: Adverse health effects from the operation of digitally-broadcast television stations The following open letter to policy makers and TV watchers was originally published by Global Research and will serve as the best, perhaps the last “warning” we will likely have the luxury to issue regarding … Read more

2009-04-13 Richard Moore http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/02/william-black-there-are-no-real-stress.html William Black: “There Are No Real Stress Tests Going On” By way of background, William Black is a former senior bank regulator, best known for his thwarted but later vindicated efforts to prosecute S&L crisis fraudster Charles Keating. He is currently an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University … 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