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2008-05-20 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052008L.shtml http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/georgias-leader-vows-to-prevent-russia-reviving-the-soviet-union-831030.html Georgia’s leader vows to prevent Russia reviving the Soviet Union By Shaun Walker in Tbilisi Tuesday, 20 May 2008 Two photos stand out in the office of the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili – there’s an autographed one of him with his buddy, George Bush; then there’s the unsmiling one with … Read more

2008-05-20 Richard Moore “The Pentagon said a Navy aircraft on a counternarcotics mission had navigation problems that led it to stray into Venezuelan airspace on Saturday.“ – not likely, rkm http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052008M.shtml http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1955667220080520 U.S. Navy aircraft violates Venezuela’s airspace Mon May 19, 2008 8:35pm EDT By Patricia Rondon CARACAS (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy jet violated … Read more

2008-05-19 Richard Moore http://www.australia.to/story/0,25197,23040467-060,00,00.html Extraordinary Times, Intentional Collapse, and Takedown of the U.S.A. By Richard C Cook Much has been written about whether a worldwide plan exists to control events and steer them in the direction profitable to an elite of the rich and powerful. Is this a “conspiracy theory”? While it is difficult to … Read more

2008-05-19 Richard Moore http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080602/bello Manufacturing a Food Crisis by WALDEN BELLO This article appeared in the June 2, 2008 edition of The Nation. May 15, 2008 When tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60 percent increase in the price of tortillas, many analysts pointed to biofuel as the … Read more

2008-05-19 Richard Moore http://www.infowars.com/?p=2187 Iran Intercepts U.S. Terrorists Plotting Attack on Russian Consulate Kurt Nimmo Infowars May 16, 2008 As if to underscore neocon retired general Thomas McInerney’s call for terror attacks against Iran (see Paul Joseph Watson, Neo-Con General Calls For Terror Attacks In Iran) , the Russian news and information agency RIA Novosti … Read more

2008-05-19 Richard Moore Note: Israel & the US have been intentionally destabilizing Lebanon for decades. Israel invaded at least twice, bombed it extensively last year, and a US-friendly puppet was engineered into official leadership. Now when the people rise up under the name Hezbollah, the US propaganda machine tries to blame the victim for the … Read more

2008-05-19 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/afgh-m19.shtml CIA death squads killing with “impunity” in Afghanistan By Joe Kay 19 May 2008 A United Nations investigator released a preliminary report last week citing widespread civilian deaths in Afghanistan, often at the hands of unaccountable units led by the CIA or other foreign intelligence agencies. The investigator is Philip Alston, … Read more

2008-05-19 Richard Moore http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2008/04/17/02340.html Global Warming, the War on Terrorism, and the Extraterrestrial link to “Planet X” by Michel Cormier Independent scholarly testimony suggests that humanity may not be getting the full truth about Global Warming. It is apparent that harmful industrial by-products associated with Greenhouse Gas emissions have contributed to a context of Global … Read more

2008-05-19 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051908A.shtml   Low-Income Renters to Pay for Housing Bailout     By Dean Baker     t r u t h o u t | Perspective     Monday 19 May 2008     Unfortunately, that is not a joke. This appears to be the latest gem to come from our leaders in Congress.     Just to remind everyone of where things … Read more

2008-05-19 Richard Moore http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7409244.stm US ‘violated Venezuelan airspace’ Venezuela has denounced an alleged violation of its airspace by an American military aircraft. Defence Minister Gustavo Rangel said the jet had been tracked by country’s air defences over the Venezuelan-owned island of La Orchila on Saturday. He said the US ambassador would be summoned to provide … Read more

2008-05-18 Richard Moore http://digitalvillages.org/blogs/announcements/archive/2007/04/19/272.aspx Truth about cancer – everyone should know. Truth about cancer.  – this post has been credited to John Hopkins although I understand they deny it.   1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show  up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a … Read more

2008-05-18 Richard Moore http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature8.cfm?REF=291 Bolivia under siege US-funded autonomy movements threaten to tear the country apart by Fred Jones Bolivia is facing a new crisis, which many Latin Americans believe is caused by the United States. On one hand is a proposed new progressive constitution, which gives significant rights to the native majority; on the … Read more

2008-05-18 Richard Moore Note: Ecuador is exploring some very interesting ways of dealing with diversity in society. In essence, they are decentralizing culture. And their perspective on non-renewable resources make a lot of sense, the same thing I proposed in ETM. -rkm http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/17646 New Constitution Addresses Demand for ‘Plurinational’ State May, 16 2008  By Kintto … Read more

2008-05-18 Richard Moore http://rense.com/general82/gull.htm Gas Price Manipulation And Gull Island Oil  By Joel Skousen World Affairs Brief 5-18-8   It’s well and good that Congress vote to stop filling the US Strategic Oil reserve because the US already has billions of barrels in the ground in Alaska–entire oil fields capped and drilled, but kept off … Read more

2008-05-17 Richard Moore http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2008/051608_rumsfeld_tape.htm Rumsfeld On Tape: Terror Attack Could Restore Neo-Con Agenda Former Defense Secretary’s conversation with military analysts on political problems – “The Correction For That…Is An Attack” Shocking excerpts of confidential recordings recently released under the Freedom of Information Act feature former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talking with top military analysts about … Read more

2008-05-17 Richard Moore http://www.safehaven.com:80/showarticle.cfm?id=10206&pv=1 May 09, 2008 The Ticking Credit Card Time Bomb by Peter Schiff For those holding out hope that the American economy can miraculously avoid a long and deep recession consumer credit is often viewed as the wonder drug that can cure all manner of economic ills. As such, this week’s report … Read more

2008-05-17 Richard Moore Note: US has been actively destabilizing Somalia in cahoots with its stooges in Ethiopia – not mentioned of course in this NY Times article. Also note: the article carefully explains why, with no sense of outrage, why nothing is likely to be done to avert the crisis.-rkm http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/world/africa/17somalia.html May 17, 2008 Famine … Read more

2008-05-17 Richard Moore Note: when they start building new prisons, then you know they’re there to stay, an occupying garrison in an imperial outpost. There seems no longer even to be a pretense of ‘fighting terrorism’. -rkm http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/world/asia/17detain.html May 17, 2008 U.S. Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan By ERIC SCHMITT and TIM GOLDEN WASHINGTON … Read more

2008-05-17 Richard Moore Note: Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine refers to the exploitation of emergencies in order to rapidly achieve elite objectives. In this case, the UN is seeking to expand its prerogatives as regards unilateral interventions. One more brick in the wall of a fascist one-world government. Who was it that said, “Today Germany, tomorrow … Read more

2008-05-17 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/fran-m17.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe : France France: One million strike in defence of education and social services By Antoine Lerougetel and Pierre Mabut 17 May 2008 Over one million public sector workers went on strike, and 300,000 demonstrated in the streets in all … Read more

2008-05-17 Richard Moore Note: It has been well-documented that high energy prices are not the result of inadequate supplies, nor do they have much to do with costs of production or distribution. The ‘market price’ is a function of financial manipulations and speculation, creating artificial scarcity and artificially-inflated prices, so as to make windfall profits … Read more

2008-05-17 Richard Moore ____________________________________ From: Dahr Jamail’s dispatches <•••@••.•••> Date: 17 May 2008 17:37:46 IST To: Dahr Jamail Dispatches <•••@••.•••> Subject: MidEast Dispatches: The Hard Truth on Sadr City, Iraq;  and the Deplorable Treatment of Veterans in America ** Dahr Jamail’s MidEast Dispatches ** ** Visit the Dahr Jamail website http://dahrjamailiraq.com ** Dahr Jamail’s new book, /Beyond the Green Zone/ … Read more

2008-05-15 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/etim-m15.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org East Timor: Rice rations for internal refugees cut off By Will Fulgenzi 15 May 2008 Tens of thousands of East Timorese refugees, known as internally displaced persons, are threatened with starvation as international relief agencies cease provision of food aid to camps in the nation’s capital, Dili. … Read more

2008-05-09 Richard Moore http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news38.htm NORTH AMERICAN MILITARY AGREEMENT SIGNED BY US AND CANADA By Jim Kouri Posted 1:00 AM Eastern March 11, 2008 NewsWithViews.com While Americans are being bombarded with large doses of presidential primary news coverage, the US entered into an agreement with its northern neighbor that may have an impact on future internal military action. … Read more

2008-05-08 Richard Moore http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=168015 The ordeal of Al-Jazeera cameraman By Abdus Sattar Ghazali After six and a half years of imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay military prison, Al-Jazeera cameraman, Sami Al-Hajj, was released on May 2, 2008 in a very bad shape. He was carried off a U.S. air force jet on a stretcher when he … Read more

2008-05-07 Richard Moore http://www.rainforestportal.com/alerts/send.asp?id=colombia_biofuel Action Alert: Agrofuels on Stolen Lands Continue to Threaten Colombian Rainforests and Communities It is gravely unethical and ecologically devastating to expand production of biofuels by allowing land to be stolen from local Afro-Colombian communities; and at the expense of Colombia’s ancient primary rainforests, food security, water resources and regional climate … Read more

2008-05-07 Richard Moore * corn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced; * switch grass requires 45 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced; and * wood biomass requires 57 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced. http://www.countercurrents.org/oneall060508.htm Insurrection Of The Famished – Causes And Possible Remedies Of The World … Read more

2008-05-07 Richard Moore http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/global_elite_gather_135.html GLOBAL ELITE GATHER IN D.C. Trilateral Commission members want suffering U.S. taxpayers to shell out even more money By James P. Tucker Jr. The Trilateral Commission—one of the three most powerful globalist groups in the world—held closed-door meetings right here in Washington, D.C. from April 25 to 28. True to form, … Read more

2008-05-07 Richard Moore Here we seen an example of what Naomi Klein refers to as disaster capitalism. -rkm http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/bush-m07.shtml Bush administration moves to exploit Burma cyclone disaster By Joe Kay 7 May 2008 The Bush administration lost no time in seeking to exploit the devastating tragedy in Burma (Myanmar). It has seized upon the cyclone … Read more

2008-05-07 Richard Moore http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/04/national/a211414D76.DTL&hw=pandemic&sn=001&sc=1000 http://tinyurl.com/5p4wfv Who should MDs let die in a pandemic? Report offers answers By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer Monday, May 5, 2008 (05-05) 06:47 PDT Chicago (AP) — Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won’t get it in a flu pandemic or other disaster. The gut-wrenching dilemma will be deciding … Read more

2008-05-06 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050508I.shtmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/world/americas/05bolivia.html May 5, 2008 Clashes in Bolivia on Vote Over More Autonomy By SIMON ROMERO SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia — Street clashes broke out here and in small towns in the surrounding countryside on Sunday as Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s largest province and a bastion of separatist groups, held a referendum on measures that … Read more

2008-05-06 Richard Moore “ While these experts are right to point to the long-term fiscal problems facing the country, the real problem is not the budget and these key programs on which tens of millions of people depend. The real problem is the United States has a broken health care system, which is projected to get … Read more

2008-05-06 Richard Moore http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2008/050508_conspiracy_connection.htm 9/11 Conspiracy Connection To DC Madam Murder Palfrey told former NSA official that call girls had picked up information concerning foreknowledge of attacks Paul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet Monday, May 5, 2008 Former NSA analyst and Navy intelligence officer Wayne Madsen tells the The Alex Jones Show that one of the key … Read more

2008-05-06 Richard Moore _________________________________________ From:        •••@••.••• Subject: Update on Political Situation in Mexico — Cinco de Mayo 2008 Date:      6 May 2008 03:23:39 IST Feliz Cinco de Mayo! Update on Political Situation in Mexico By ALAN BENJAMIN Cinco de Mayo — May 5th — marks the date in 1862 when the Mexican troops under … Read more

2008-05-06 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8877 Global Famine By Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, May 2, 2008 Humanity is undergoing in the post-Cold War era an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the World population. National economies are collapsing, unemployment is rampant. Local level famines have erupted in … Read more

2008-05-06 Richard Moore “EMCC protocol allows the triage officer and supporting triage team to make decisions that benefit the greatest number of patients with potentially limited resources. Consequently, lifesaving care may be withheld from one patient and given to another, prompting ethical and legal implications. To reassure critical care providers and ensure consistent allocation of … Read more

2008-05-06 Richard Moore http://www.infowars.net/articles/may2008/050507Pandemic.htm Military and Homeland Security Dictate Who Lives And Who Dies In A Pandemic New report says doctors must allow elderly, weak to perish after “trigger event” Steve WatsonInfowars.net Monday, May 5, 2008 A new report compiled by a medical “task force” comprising physicians from prestigious universities, medical groups, the military and … Read more

2008-05-06 Richard Moore http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JE06Ak01.html Energized Iran builds more bridges By M K Bhadrakumar  The spin could be given that at its latest meeting in London on Friday, the “Iran Six” – the five permanent members of the United Security Council and Germany – in grappling with the Iran nuclear problem, advanced in unison the demand … Read more

2008-05-06 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8878 ‘Perhaps 60% of today’s oil price is pure speculation’ By F. William Engdahl Global Research, May 2, 2008 The price of crude oil today is not made according to any traditional relation of supply to demand. It’s controlled by an elaborate financial market system as well as by the four major … Read more

2008-05-05 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/guan-m05.shtml   WSWS : News & Analysis : North America Journalist released from Guantánamo details abuse By Naomi Spencer 5 May 2008 After six years of imprisonment without charge, a well-known cameraman for Al Jazeera news was released May 1 by the US military. The reporter, Sami al-Hajj, was captured in 2001 … Read more