Black Agenda Report: Don’t take Obama’s kool-aid

2009-03-12 Richard Moore http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/‘left’-obamites-prefer-kool-aid-struggle Black Agenda Report The journal of African American political thought and action ‘Left’ Obamites Prefer Kool-Aid to Struggle by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Ford answers Linda Burnham’s recent assault on the non-Obamite Left, whom she sneeringly refers to as victims of “Left ‘anticipatory disillusionment’” and assorted other “psycho-babble.” Burnham sets … Read more

GM and non-GM crops cannot coexist

2009-03-12 Richard Moore http://www.bangmfood.org/quotes/24-quotes/31-gm-and-non-gm-crops-cannot-coexist GM and non-GM crops cannot coexist “OK, we know that cross-pollination will occur but we’ve got thirty years of experience to say we know how far pollen will travel. And therefore what we’ve done is we’ll grow a GM crop at a distance away from a non-GM crop, so the people … Read more

Obama’s budget hypocrisy

2009-03-12 Richard Moore President Barack Obama said he will crack down on future spending for congressional pet projects before signing an “imperfect” $410 billion spending measure stuffed with thousands of them. … The legislation includes almost $8 billion sought by lawmakers for about 8,500 pet projects, according to a tally by the Washington-based Taxpayers for Common Sense. Among them were … Read more

France surrenders sovereignty to NATO

2009-03-12 Richard Moore http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7937666.stm France ends four-decade Nato rift French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced his country is to return to Nato’s military command, reversing four decades of self-imposed exile. Mr Sarkozy confirmed the decision in a speech to defence experts at the Ecole Militaire staff college in Paris. President Charles de Gaulle pulled France … Read more

Patrick Grimm: US education designed to fail

2009-03-12 Richard Moore http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=940 The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile http://newsfromthewest.blogspot.com/2009/03/educational-system-was-designed-to-keep.html The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile By Patrick Grimm Tuesday, March 3, 2009 It’s no secret that the US educational system doesn’t do a very good job. Like clockwork, studies show that America’s schoolkids … Read more

Linn Cohen-Cole: Monsanto’s dream bill, HR 875

2009-03-12 Richard Moore http://www.opednews.com/articles/Monsanto-s-dream-bill-HR-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090309-337.html OpEdNews Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Monsanto-s-dream-bill-HR-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090309-337.html March 9, 2009 Monsanto’s dream bill, HR 875 By Linn Cohen-Cole To begin reversing GM contamination will require ending the power biotech companies such as Monsanto exert over our government and through that, over our food.   HR 875, was introduced by Rosa DeLauro whose husband … Read more

Mike Adams: Shootings in Germany, Alabama & Psychiatric Medications

2009-03-12 Richard Moore It’s the medication, not the firearms I don’t think arguments about firearms add anything to this article. The useful part is the information about the misuse of these medications. rkm ___ http://www.naturalnews.com/025826.html Shootings in Germany, Alabama Underscore Violent Side Effects of Psychiatric Medications by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor  (NaturalNews) A … Read more

New book on domestic violence

2009-03-12 Richard Moore http://www.amazon.com/Wife-Abuse-Breaking-Down-Out/dp/143894621X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236851139&sr=1-1 http://tinyurl.com/buj8b3 Wife Abuse: Breaking It Down and Breaking Out (Paperback) by Garda Ghista (Author) Editorial Reviews Product Description In 2001 four women were murdered daily in the United States by their spouses. Nearly a decade later there has been a sharp rise in family violence, with women as the primary target. It is … Read more

Robert Weissman re/collapse: We Told You So

2009-03-12 Richard Moore There was nothing inevitable, unavoidable or unforeseeable about the current crisis. http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2009/000313.html robert weissman •••@••.••• Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:04:00 -0400 We Told You So By Robert Weissman March 12, 2009 Is it fair to complain about the actions of the financial deregulators? Could anyone reasonably have foreseen the consequences of a decades-long regulatory … Read more

Ghali Hassan: Obama’s Manufactured Troop Withdrawal

2009-03-12 Richard Moore http://www.countercurrents.org/hassan130309.htm Obama’s Manufactured Troop’s Withdrawal By Ghali Hassan 12 March, 2009Countercurrents.org On February 27, 2009, President Barack Obama announced to withdraw U.S. troops occupying Iraq by September of 2010. However, Obama’s withdrawal is nothing short of a colonial Occupation of Iraq, and a betrayal of Mr. Obama’s promise to end the U.S. … Read more

Seymour Hersh: “Executive Assassination Ring”

2009-03-12 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/031209J http://www.minnpost.com/ericblackblog/2009/03/11/7310/investigative_reporter_seymour_hersh_describes_executive_assassination_ring Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh Describes “Executive Assassination Ring” Wednesday 11 March 2009 by: Eric Black  |  Visit article original @ MinnPost.com     At a “Great Conversations” event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged … Read more

Obama & education: privatization + federalization + dumbing-down

2009-03-11 Richard Moore  To achieve this, Obama emphasized an increasing rigidity for standardized testing of students, and the linking of both pay for teachers and educational funding to these test results. Just as Bush had done, Obama claimed that such “performance incentives” will improve the delivery of education to students. Nothing could be further from … Read more

US Intelligence: Iran has no weapons-grade fuel

2009-03-11 Richard Moore Their comments disputed a claim made last weekend by Israel’s top intelligence military official, who said Iran has crossed a technical threshold and is now capable of producing atomic weapons. Based on this an previous reports, there seems to be a core of national loyalty in the military, struggling against Zionist intrigue. Maples … Read more

Jack Rasmus: Obama’s Economic Recovery Plan

2009-03-11 Richard Moore As for the stimulus package: … First, it’s not a jobs bill. … We are now at 14 million jobs lost, and the job losses are accelerating. … This package is not going to regenerate the jobs that we are talking about — and jobs are the most important thing, because job … Read more

1 in 50 Children in US is Homeless

2009-03-11 Richard Moore http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22186.htm ___________________________ subscribe mailto: •••@••.••• websites:  http://www.governourselves.org/ http://escapingthematrix.org/ http://cyberjournal.org recent archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newslog/messages http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cyberjournal/messages old archives:  http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/ Moderator: •••@••.•••  (comments welcome) 1 in 50 Children in US is HomelessRanks of homeless kids climbBy Cynthia Hubert March 10, 2009 “Sacbee.com” — In and out of classrooms, sleeping in shelters, shielded by parents, homeless children can … Read more

Unemployment: even worse than expected

2009-03-11 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/030609C Unemployment Jumps to 8.1 Percent as Job Loss Accelerates Friday 06 March 2009 by: Dean Baker, t r u t h o u t | Report     This report shows that recent economic projections were overly optimistic.     The February employment report showed the labor market deteriorating at an even faster rate, with … Read more

JH Kunstler: Consumer Economy Isn’t Coming Back

2009-03-11 Richard Moore http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/the-consumer-economy-isnt-coming-back/ The Consumer Economy Isn’t Coming Back Mar 10th, 2009 | By James Howard Kunstler | Category: Featured, Macro Economics At the risk of confirming my critics’ dumbest charge — that I am a “doomer” — the mandate of clarity requires me to ask: to what state of affairs do we expect to recover? If the … Read more

Dr. Boris Worm: Marine Ecosystems Severely Threatened

2009-03-11 Richard Moore http://www.naturalnews.com/025818.html Marine Ecosystems Severely Threatened by Overfishing:  Exclusive Interview with Marine Biologist Dr. Boris Worm (NaturalNews) Every corner of the Earth’s oceans has been impacted by commercial fishing, and many commercial fisheries are now in a state of collapse, warns Dr. Boris Worm, a prominent marine biologist and primary author of a … Read more

Ron Paul on foreign wars

2009-03-11 Richard Moore http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=12925 Imagine for a moment that somewhere in the middle of Texas there was a large foreign military base, say Chinese or Russian. Imagine that thousands of armed foreign troops were constantly patrolling American streets in military vehicles. Imagine they were here under the auspices of “keeping us safe” or “promoting democracy” … Read more

Ireland: sectarian violence or preparation for martial law?

2009-03-11 Richard Moore The Real IRA claimed responsibility for the first attack and the Continuity IRA the second.  In the wake of 9/11 — an era packed with false-flag incidents — we must always be suspicious of any ‘terrorist’ incident that makes no sense. The Irish people have had it with sectarian violence; there’s no … Read more

Obama & Afghanistan: not making sense

2009-03-11 Richard Moore Morley [former major in the British special forces] told the Telegraph: “The operations that we are conducting are so worthless. We hold tiny areas of ground in Helmand and we are kidding ourselves if we think our influence goes beyond 500 metres of our security bases. It’s just crazy to think we hold … Read more

Exposing Corporate-financed Holocaust in Africa

2009-03-11 Richard Moore http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/merchants-of-death-exposing-corporate-financed-holocaust-in-africa/ Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate-financed Holocaust in Africa White Collar War Crimes, Black African Fall Guys by Keith Harmon Snow / December 8th, 2008 War in Congo has again been splashed across world headlines and the same old clichés about violence and suffering are repackaged and rebroadcast as “news”. Meanwhile, early … Read more

Obama and torture: no change from Bush

2009-03-11 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/mar2009/obam-m10.shtml Obama’s New York Times interview: Military aggression and attacks on democratic rights to continue By Barry Grey  10 March 2009 In an extensive interview conducted last Friday with the New York Times and published on Sunday, President Barack Obama outlined policies on national security and foreign affairs that underscore the essential continuity between … Read more

Obama Deception – the mask comes off March 15

2009-03-11 Richard Moore See trailer of soon-to-be-released DVD by Alex Jones http://obamadeception.net/ ___________________________ subscribe mailto: •••@••.••• websites:  http://www.governourselves.org/ http://escapingthematrix.org/ http://cyberjournal.org recent archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newslog/messages http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cyberjournal/messages old archives:  http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/ Moderator: •••@••.•••  (comments welcome)

Riots: Citizens of the US… Brace for IMPACT!

2009-03-11 Richard Moore http://ampedstatus.com/economic-crisis-usa-riots Economic Crisis = USA Riots Citizens of the US… Brace for IMPACT! As the global economy continues its downward spiral, rioting due to this Wall Street led meltdown is spreading through the globe like wildfire. The list of countries experiencing civil unrest is growing by the day, to name some recent hotspots: Bolivia, … Read more

Supreme Court: no immunity for Big Pharma

2009-03-10 Richard Moore http://www.naturalnews.com/025778.html Surprise Supreme Court Decision Ends Big Pharma’s Pre-Emption Bid for Legal Immunity by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor  (NaturalNews) In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against Wyeth in the Diana Levine case, setting a crucial precedent in the battle against Big Pharma. The ruling ends … Read more

Derivatives: $700 trillion elephant in room

2009-03-10 Richard Moore http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/The-700-trillion-elephant-room/story.aspx?guid=%7B024DB809-8506-4AA9-83BB-B053FD4E1C11%7D http://tinyurl.com/c46jwp THOMAS KOSTIGEN’S ETHICS MONITOR The $700 trillion elephant Commentary: Gargantuan derivatives market weighs on all other issues By Thomas Kostigen, MarketWatch Last update: 12:01 a.m. EST March 6, 2009 SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MarketWatch) — There’s a $700 trillion elephant in the room and it’s time we found out how much it … Read more

Economy: Forces beyond our control? Or the biggest Sting ever?

2009-03-10 Richard Moore http://www.rudemacedon.ca/greatest-sting-ever.html Global Financial Meltdown: Forces beyond our control? Or the biggest Sting ever? byDave Patterson March 2009  To listen to the news these days, with its endless stories of yet more tragedies amongst ‘we the people’, you would think it was all just some inevitable unfolding of history, some kind of natural … Read more

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

2009-03-10 Richard Moore http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html What does one TRILLION dollars look like? All this talk about “stimulus packages” and “bailouts”… A billion dollars… A hundred billion dollars… Eight hundred billion dollars… One TRILLION dollars… What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I’d take Google Sketchup out for a test drive and try to … Read more

Trillions for the banks, soup lines for the people

2009-03-10 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/030909K http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175043 posted March 08, 2009 4:43 pm Tomgram: Nick Turse, Younger and Hungrier in America The revised and upgraded unemployment figures released on Friday were nothing short of staggering: almost two million jobs lost in the past three months as the official unemployment rate rose to a quarter-century high of 8.1%. Nearly three … Read more

Economic crisis: Canadians speak out

2009-03-10 Richard Moore Begin forwarded message: From: Ed Goertzen Date: March 9, 2009 10:40:12 PM GMT To: Richard Moore <•••@••.•••> Hi Richard: A friend sent me this. I think it is a copy of a letter to the editor. Regards Ed G Ps: also my published letter to Oshawa Express Weekly. Date: Sun, 8 Mar … Read more

Obama & food safety: shudder

2009-03-10 Richard Moore http://www.opednews.com/articles/Monsanto-s-Michael-Taylor-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090308-575.html March 8, 2009 at 11:33:17 Monsanto’s Michael Taylor is BAAAAACC…KKK … this time to control “Food Safety” from the White House by Linn Cohen-Cole www.opednews.com Michael Taylor, perhaps stowed away in Hillary Clinton’s trunk as a nostalgic reminder of the good ole days when Bill put him in charge of the FDA … Read more

Mexico: testing ground for US martial law?

2009-03-10 Richard Moore With US backing, Mexican President Felipe Calderon has increasingly militarized the country, deploying tens of thousands of troops in areas ranging from Matamoros and Reynosa in the east to Tijuana, Guerrero, Michoacán and Sinaloa in the west. In a telephone press conference conducted as he returned from Mexico, Mullen said that the … Read more

Mike Adams: Economic Destruction – Step One of A Global Banking Power Grab

2009-03-10 Richard Moore Over the last few months, I’ve kept in touch with some extremely well-connected individuals who have been cluing me in on what’s really happening behind the scenes in the world of global finance. For obvious reasons, these people shall go unnamed, but what they’re now telling me is that the economic meltdown is … Read more

Michael Skinner: Multi-billion Dollar Mining Boom in Afghanistan

2009-03-10 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12486 Multi-billion Dollar Mining Boom: The economics of war and empire in Afghanistan. By Michael Skinner Global Research, February 27, 2009 The Dominion No 55, Winter 2008 On a brilliant sunny afternoon, in July 2007, my research partner Hamayon Rastgar and I climbed Shahr-e Gholghola, a tiny but strategically located mountain that … Read more

‘Real IRA was behind army attack’

2009-03-09 Richard Moore Based on what I’ve learned about the Omagh bombing, I suspect that the ‘Real IRA’ is a front for British Intelligence. My suspicions were raised right away, because the bombing made no sense in terms of Republican strategy re/ the peace process. Then I learned that an FBI informant had infiltrated the ‘Real IRA’ … Read more

Wendell Berry: 17 Rules For A Sustainable Economy

2009-03-09 Richard Moore http://ukiahcommunityblog.wordpress.com/contact/wendell-berrys-17-rules-for-a-sustainable-economy/ Wendell Berry’s 17 Rules For A Sustainable Economy From Wendell Berry A community economy is not an economy in which well-placed persons can make a ‘killing’. It is an economy whose aim is generosity and a well-distributed and safeguarded abundance. Wendell Berry is a strong defender of family, rural communities, and traditional family … Read more

Darrel Dochow: Treasury scapegoat

2009-03-09 Richard Moore Propaganda is so predictable. Here we see some minor functionary being ‘exposed’, while his bosses, the culpable ones, are now running the nation’s economic policy.  rkm ___ http://www.truthout.org/030809A http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Economy/story?id=7009596&page=1 Scandal at Treasury: Official Quits Amidst Fraud Scandal Darrel Dochow Allowed IndyMac Bank to Cook Its Books, Investigators Say By BRIAN ROSS, JUSTIN … Read more

Karl Denninger: It’s all over, Baby Blue

2009-03-09 Richard Moore http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/852-Whats-Dead-Short-Answer-All-Of-It.html Thursday, March 5. 2009 Posted by Karl Denninger in Editorial at 10:57  What’s Dead (Short Answer: All Of It) Just so you have a short list of what’s at stake if Washington DC doesn’t change policy here and now (which meansbefore the collapse in equities comes, which could start as soon as today, if the indicators I watch … Read more