2008-11-01 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/110108E http://www.lemonde.fr/opinions/article/2008/10/30/la-firme-americaine_1112835_3232.html The American Firm Thursday 30 October 2008 by: Le Monde | Editorial Oligarchy: a political regime in which sovereignty belongs to a small group of people, a restricted and privileged class. The word became fashionable again to define the Cossack capitalism that has plundered Russia for the last several years. … Read more
2008-11-01 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/110108B http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49S3Q520081031 One in five homeowners with mortgages under water Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:26pm EDT By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nearly one in five U.S. mortgage borrowers owe more to lenders than their homes are worth, and the rate may soon approach one in four as housing prices fall … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081110/greider2/print Paulson’s Swindle Revealed by WILLIAM GREIDER October 29, 2008 The swindle of American taxpayers is proceeding more or less in broad daylight, as the unwitting voters are preoccupied with the national election. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson agreed to invest $125 billion in the nine largest banks, including $10 billion for Goldman … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=9247633 Postal Service Looks To Cut 40,000 Jobs In First Layoff In History Posted: Oct 27, 2008 11:56 PM Updated: Oct 27, 2008 11:56 PM By Jonathan McCall – bio | email SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) – “We lost 2 billion dollars and like any other business we have to stay afloat.” And … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/103008LA http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2008/10/27/san-franciscos-proposition-k-starts-conversation-about-policing-sex-work SF’s Proposition K: Changing the Landscape for Sex Workers Tuesday 28 October 2008 by: Sienna Baskin and Melissa Ditmore, RH Reality Check Next week, San Francisco voters will vote on Proposition K, which would prohibit the use of public funds to enforce laws criminalizing prostitution, and mandate that police … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore The IMF, led by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has the power to raise money on the capital markets by issuing `AAA’ bonds under its own name. It has never resorted to this option, preferring to tap members states for deposits. The nuclear option is to print money by issuing Special Drawing Rights, in effect … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore The Americans say they have the right of self-defence – even if that means crossing an international border. Five of those killed were from the same family, a man and four adult sons. His widow met me surrounded by 20 or so grandchildren, who were all now fatherless. Self defense? rkm ____ … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore http://www.infowars.com/?p=5654 RAND Lobbies Pentagon: Start War To Save U.S. Economy Paul Joseph Watson & Yihan DaiPrison Planet.com Thursday, October 30, 2008 According to reports out of top Chinese mainstream news outlets, the RAND Corporation recently presented a shocking proposal to the Pentagon in which it lobbied for a war to be started … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/3628 FROM THE FARAWAY NEARBY The Most Radical Thing You Can Do Staying home as a necessity and a right BY REBECCA SOLNIT Published in the November/December 2008 issue of Orion magazine LONG AGO the poet and bioregionalist Gary Snyder said, “The most radical thing you can do is stay home,” a … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts301008.htm World Tires Of Rule By Dollar By Paul Craig Roberts 30 October, 2008 Vdare.com What explains the paradox of the dollar’s sharp rise in value against other currencies (except the Japanese yen) despite disproportionate US exposure to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression? The answer does not lie in … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7696100.stm Brown and Sarkozy in action call UK PM Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have warned urgent action is needed to prevent the current financial malaise spreading. Mr Brown said the first priority was “to stop the contagion to other countries, including in eastern Europe” where there were “problems emerging”. … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore http://www.masterjules.net/wisdomelders.htm OUR ELDER STATESMEN KNEW THE DANGERS OF OFFSHORE BANKERS – If you had Ben Franklin, LINCOLN and JEFFERSON in the room with you right now, what would they tell you about this MELTDOWN? “We began planning the Revolutionary War in order to issue our own money again” –Benjamin Franklin . “The … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7696766.stm US interest rates slashed to 1% The Federal Reserve has cut its key interest rate from 1.5% to 1% in a widely expected move, as it aims to avoid a possible US recession. Earlier this month the Fed cut rates from 2% to 1.5% in an emergency move, which was co-ordinated … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/460.html [video in original] Tainted food alert Melamine may be in US food supply Note: Brasscheck TV has independently verified the claims made in this video. If anything, this video understates the situation because melamine has been found in US and European food other than candy. The only item in question is … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/oct2008/sark-o29.shtml Sarkozy intends to partly nationalise “strategically important” companies By Peter Schwarz 29 October 2008 Nicolas Sarkozy wants to protect “strategically important” French enterprises against their take-over by foreign investors. The French president announced his plan in a speech to business representatives in Annecy last Thursday. To this end, he plans the … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore http://www.holmestead.ca/chemtrails/warming.html Dr. Timothy Ball Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts? February, 2007 Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn’t exist. And I am not the only one trying to make people open up their eyes … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/102808EA http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/europes-secret-plan-to-boost-gm-crop-production-973834.html Europe’s Secret Plan to Boost GM Crop Production Sunday 26 October 2008 by: Geoffrey Lean, The Independent UK Gordon Brown and other EU leaders in campaign to promote modified foods. Gordon Brown and other European leaders are secretly preparing an unprecedented campaign to spread GM crops and foods in Britain … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103004434.html Islamic Banking: Steady in Shaky Times Principles Based on Religious Law Insulate Industry From Worst of Financial Crisis By Faiza Saleh Ambah Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, October 31, 2008; A16 JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia — As big Western financial institutions have teetered one after the other in the crisis of recent … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1081624/Goldman-Sachs-ready-hand-7BILLION-salary-bonus-package–6bn-bail-out.html http://tinyurl.com/6cqew3 Goldman Sachs ready to hand out £7bn salary and bonus package… after its £6bn bail-out By Simon Duke U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs HQ which has set aside £7bn for bonuses and salaries this year Goldman Sachs is on course to pay its top City bankers multimillion-pound bonuses – despite … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore http://earth2tech.com/2008/05/30/blacklight-powers-up-disses-quantum-physics/ Blacklight Powers Up, Disses Quantum Physics Written by Craig Rubens 5 Comments Posted May 30th, 2008 at 11:50 am in In the Lab,Startups While it’s not cold fusion, the latest claimed breakthrough from the laboratories of the nefariously named Blacklight Power does defy some laws of physics. The startup announced this week … Read more
2008-10-31 Richard Moore http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2008/10/21/21gigaom-blacklight-validates-physics-defying-hydrogen-pow-12760.html http://tinyurl.com/5l48f8 October 21, 2008 Puzzled Researchers Vet BlackLight’s Physics-Defying Hydrogen Power By CRAIG RUBENS, GigaOm BlackLight Power, the company that has pulled in $60 million for its seemingly physics-defying fuel cell, is back with an announcement about an independent validation of its technology. A team of engineers, headed by Dr. Peter … Read more
2008-10-30 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/oct2008/oecd-o28.shtml Increasing social inequality and poverty in Germany By Dietmar Henning 28 October 2008 Social inequality and poverty have dramatically increased in Germany in recent years compared with other countries. This is the conclusion of a study published by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) last Tuesday. According to the … Read more
2008-10-30 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/oct2008/chin-o28.shtml Global recession threatens mass lay-offs in China By John Chan 28 October 2008 A wave of protests by laid-off workers is a sign of what is to come as the global recession hits China. Like their counterparts in North America, Europe and elsewhere in the world, workers in China are being … Read more
2008-10-30 Richard Moore Moualem said U.S. troops landed at a farm where they killed a father and his three children, the farm’s guard and his wife, and a fisherman. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/27/AR2008102700511.html U.S. Calls Raid a Warning to Syria Copter-Borne Troops Targeted Key Iraqi Insurgent, Officials Say By Ann Scott Tyson and Ellen Knickmeyer Washington Post staff … Read more
2008-10-30 Richard Moore http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_28584.shtml Argentina’s Economic Collapse (FULL VERSION VIDEO). Citizens of the U.S. watch this. By Film Documentary Oct 24, 2008, 09:53 A Model for the People’s Response 59 minutes [video in original] Documentary on the events that led to the economic collapse of Argentina in 2001 which wiped out the middle class and … Read more
2008-10-28 Richard Moore _____________________ From: The Editor <•••@••.•••> Date: October 28, 2008 2:53:22 PM GMT+00:00 Subject: Let us speculate Let us speculate by William Bowles • Tuesday, October 28, 2008 14:42 There’s an awful lot of speculation going on right now, from both the left and right about where the latest crisis of capital is … Read more
2008-10-28 Richard Moore [David] Rockefeller had been quoted as saying at the United Nations on September 23, 1994: “This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long. We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is … Read more
2008-10-27 Richard Moore Published on Friday, June 20, 2008 by Mother Jones Who Benefits From High Food Prices? by Nomi Prinshttp://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/20/9772 Last week, new consumer price data released by the US Labor Department confirmed what most shoppers already suspected: Food prices, which took their biggest one-month leap in nearly two decades in April, rose even … Read more
2008-10-27 Richard Moore Meet the World’s New Reserve Currency: The Chinese Yuan By Mike Whitney http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21090.htm October 25, 2008 “Information Clearinghouse” — Things are getting worse. On Friday morning, futures trading was halted for the first time ever after futures plunged more than 5 percent. The sell-off came after another 500-plus down day on the … Read more
2008-10-27 Richard Moore The official said that Pakistan’s civilian government had been moved to act in part by large-scale terrorist attacks in Pakistan, like the Sept. 20 bombing at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, which killed more than 50 people… … and which was probably carried out by US Marines. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/washington/27intel.html October 27, 2008 U.S. … Read more
2008-10-27 Richard Moore http://links.org.au/node/693 Latin America: In support of regional integration and a partial delinking from the world capitalist market By Eric Toussaint, translated by Federico Fuentes for Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal October 8, 2008 — The economic and financial crisis, whose epicentre is found in the United States, has to be utilised … Read more
2008-10-27 Richard Moore The IMF is reported to have agreed in principle to provide Pakistan with $9.6 billion over three years, including immediate assistance of $4 to $5 billion, but only if Islamabad agrees to certain stringent conditions. These are said to include IMF oversight of the Finance Ministry, massive cuts in government expenditures, and … Read more
2008-10-27 Richard Moore …$250 billion in taxpayer money to the biggest banks, in exchange for non-voting stock, was never really intended to get them to resume lending to businesses and consumers–the ostensible purpose of the bailout. Its essential aim was to engineer a rapid consolidation of the American banking system by subsidizing a wave of … Read more
2008-10-27 Richard Moore http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/10/senator-warns-of-revolution.html SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2008 Senator Warns of Revolution Senators don’t normally use the word “Revolution”. As a central part of the government, Senators do not normally wish to stir up any images of major challenges to power or of guillotines. So it is dramatic that Senator Dodd mentioned the “R” word … Read more
2008-10-27 Richard Moore http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ax3ZRmJRccyo Roubini Says `Panic’ May Force Market Shutdown (Update2) By Alexis Xydias and Camilla Hall Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) — Hundreds of hedge funds will fail and policy makers may need to shut financial markets for a week or more as the crisis forces investors to dump assets, New York University Professor Nouriel … Read more
2008-10-27 Richard Moore The threat to Britain lies in emerging Asia, where banks have lent $329bn, almost as much as the Americans and Japanese combined. Whether you realise it or not, your pension fund is sunk in Vietnamese bonds and loans to Indian steel magnates. Didn’t they tell you? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/3260052/Europe-on-the-brink-of-currency-crisis-meltdown.html http://tinyurl.com/5btrw5 Europe on the brink … Read more
2008-10-27 Richard Moore http://rense.com/general83/germz.htm WWII And The Theft Of German Intellectual Property By Claus Nordbruch Translated by Dagmar Brenne 10-25-8 Time and time again, one encounters the statement in regards to the German Third Reich, that the German Intellectual Elite had left Germany shortly after the establishment of the National Socialist Government in January … Read more
2008-10-27 Richard Moore All the king’s men cannot put the private banking system together again, for the simple reason that it is a Ponzi scheme that has reached its mathematical limits. http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/modest_proposal.php THE COLLAPSE OF A 300 YEAR PONZI SCHEME: THE REAL DEBATE IS CRONY SOCIALISM OR FINANCIAL SOVEREIGNTY Ellen Brown, October 16th, 2008www.webofdebt.com/articles/modest_proposal.php “Admit … Read more
2008-10-27 Richard Moore Veteran reporter Nate Bomberg of the St. Paul Pioneer Press described it this way a number of years ago: “Everybody was in on the take. You can’t have an underworld without an overworld….You can’t have the rackets unless you have the mayor, the chief of police and the county attorney in your … Read more
2008-10-27 Richard Moore http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article5014584.ece From The Sunday Times October 26, 2008 Deal on American presence in Iraq close to collapse Marie Colvin Senior Iraqi politicians have warned that a crucial deal between Baghdad and Washington governing the presence of American troops in the country is doomed to failure after eight months of talks. “The Sofa … Read more