2008-04-16 Richard Moore Downing Street said the talks – with bosses from Lloyds, Barclays, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and Nationwide – were not a crisis summit and had been in the prime minister’s diary for some time. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7347330.stm Brown ‘standing firm’ on economy Gordon Brown interview in full Gordon Brown has said he will … Read more
2008-04-16 Richard Moore April 21 – 23, 2008 o New Orleans, Louisiana, USA – www.summitneworleans.org ___________________________________________ From: •••@••.••• Subject: SPP New Orleans People’s Summit – Response to NAFTA plus Date: 15 April 2008 23:24:04 IST To: •••@••.••• People´s Summit New Orleans- response to NAFTA + (SPP) Linking the Gulf Coast struggle to the … Read more
2008-04-15 Richard Moore “All of the Palestinians must be killed; men, women, infants, and even their beasts.” This was the religious opinion issued one week ago by Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, director of the Tsomet Institute, a long-established religious institute attended by students and soldiers in the Israeli settlements of the West Bank. http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m42961&hd=&size=1&l=e Genocide announced Bombs … Read more
2008-04-15 Richard Moore http://www.politicsforumpoliticalworld.com/asia/12685-roadmap-tibet-movement-coming-years.html Roadmap for the Tibet Movement for the Coming Years The original article can be found here:http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/56145?PHPSESSID=684b76isvufldpj15fa78t7rv2 LHASA/BERLIN(Own report) – Conference reports and the research of a Canadian journalist reveal that a German Foreign Ministry front organization is playing a decisive role in the preparations of the anti-Chinese Tibet campaign. According to … Read more
2008-04-14 Richard Moore ________________________________ From: Stephanie McDowall Subject: more comments on: British Empire’s suicide club Date: 13 April 2008 19:19:17 IST —– Original Message —– Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 12:05 PM Subject: Re: British Empire’s suicide club HiAs usual the author points to the malaise but attributes the blame to Britain, or more specifically, the … Read more
2008-04-14 Richard Moore ____________________________________ From: Claudia Rice Subject: Fw: Joe Bageant: Welcome to Middle-Class Lockdown Date: 13 April 2008 20:07:14 IST —– Original Message —– Sent: 04/13/2008 3:40 AM Subject: Joe Bageant: Welcome to Middle-Class Lockdown From the blog of the author of Deer Hunting with Jesus Click here: Joe Bageant: Welcome to Middle-Class … Read more
2008-04-14 Richard Moore http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/100604_prince_philip.html Prince Philip, In His Own Words: We Need To ‘Cull’ The Surplus Population Prison Planet| June 10 2004 Here is a re-cap of some of the things “HIS ROYAL VIRUS”, Prince Philip has said in public concerning “culling the population” Reported by Deutsche Press Agentur (DPA), August, 1988. In the event … Read more
2008-04-14 Richard Moore The World Bank plans to nearly double its lending for agriculture in Africa, to to 800 million dollars. Putting Africa into further debt to produce export crops will just make matters worse, as the World Bank well knows. -rkm http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041308A.shtmlhttp://www.wash.afp.com/english/news/stories/newsmlmmd.7d6f503b9f24bfbd98721fd2c3ea3c61.01.html Also see below: Haiti’s Government Falls After Food Riots … Read more
2008-04-14 Richard Moore ____________________________________ From: Stephanie McDowall Subject: Wall Street czars depopulating the world Date: 14 April 2008 05:19:09 IST Everyone should read this ..then what? Our governments do not care what we think. S Wall Street Czars depopulating the WorldThu, 25 Oct 2007 00:48:55By Afsaneh Ostovar, Press TV, Tehran Leuren Moret is an … Read more
2008-04-14 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041408J.shtml Project Update By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Columnist Monday 14 April 2008 In the Persian Gulf region, the presence of American forces, along with British and French units, has become a semi-permanent fact of life. Though the immediate mission of those forces is … Read more
2008-04-13 Richard Moore April 12, 2008 The Wisdom Fund Iraqis Pay? The Arrogance of the U.S.by Enver Masud [Enver Masud is the founder and CEO of The Wisdom Fund.] The war ended with the toppling of Saddam’s statue, the Iraqis want them out, and now the occupiers, having destroyed much of Iraq, have the arrogance … Read more
2008-04-13 Richard Moore ___________________________________________ From: •••@••.••• Subject: May Day labor action for withdrawal from Iraq Date: 13 April 2008 08:07:57 IST Friends, The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has called for a strike on May 1, 2008, against the Iraq War. The article in the ILWU publication, Dispatcher, “Stop work meetings on May … Read more
2008-04-12 Richard Moore Risky Geopolitical Game: Washington Plays ‘Tibet Roulette’ with China By F. William Engdahl URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8625 Global Research, April 10, 2008 Washington has obviously decided on an ultra-high risk geopolitical game with Beijing’s by fanning the flames of violence in Tibet just at this sensitive time in their relations and … Read more
2008-04-12 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/tort-a12.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : North America Top Bush aides directed torture from the White House By Joe Kay 12 April 2008 Senior Bush administration officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, participated in White House meetings to discuss and … Read more
2008-04-12 Richard Moore http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/ FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2008 Coming Ecological Collapse: Failing Ecosystems the Mother of All Bubbles The converging mortgage, financial, food, fuel and climate crises are all symptoms of a massive global ecological bubble Ecological overshoot whereby humanity exceeds the Earth’s carrying capacity is the mother of all “bubbles”. Within the current sub-prime … Read more
2008-04-12 Richard Moore The treat to the occupation comes of course from the people of Iraq, who like people everywhere struggle against brutal foreign invaders. Meanwhile, the US blames the resistance on whomever it wishes to attack next. -rkm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041101606.html Iran Top Threat To Iraq, U.S. Says Focus on Al-Qaeda Now Diminishing By Karen DeYoung … Read more
2008-04-12 Richard Moore ** Dahr Jamail’s MidEast Dispatches ** ** Visit the Dahr Jamail website http://dahrjamailiraq.com ** Dahr Jamail’s new book, /Beyond the Green Zone/ is NOW AVAILABLE! “International journalism at its best.” –Stephen Kinzer, former bureau chief, New York Times; author /All the Shah’s Men/ “Essential reading for anybody who wants to know what is really … Read more
2008-04-02 Richard Moore Friends, Notice that all of these proposals involve using our money to pay off all of those bad loans that should never have been made in the first place. Thus the banks at fault get paid back first, and then perhaps the suffering home buyers might get a benefit as well, if … Read more
2008-03-26 Richard Moore http://www.wanttoknow.info/indymediashutdown Independent Media Websites Shut Down and My Resignation from the State Department Oct. 14, 2004 Dear friends, On October 4th, I sent you an email describing one interesting aspect of my experience interpreting for President Bush and President Megawati of Indonesia in the White House eight days after 9/11. … Read more
2008-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8323 The Deployment of US Troops inside Canada By Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, March 13, 2008 On February 14th, Canada and the US signed an agreement which allows for the deployment of US troops inside Canada. There was no official announcement nor was there a formal decision at the governmental level. In … Read more
2008-03-18 Richard Moore The financial collapse now in progress was intentionally engineered by the Federal Reserve, as was the Great Depression. In both cases, one of the main goals has been to concentrate ownership and power into a few elite hands. Here we see a good example, as the Fed arranges for JPMorgan Chase to … Read more
2008-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8339 [disturbing photos in original] Coverup of Extensive War Crimes: 40th Anniversary of the My Lai Massacre By Dr. Gary G. Kohls Global Research, March 15, 2008 Global Research Editor’s Note In a bitter irony, Colin Powell, who was responsible for the coverup of the My Lai massacre acceded to a “brilliant” … Read more
2008-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41605 Inter Press Service News Agency Saturday, March 15, 2008 17:08 GMT US/IRAQ: Rules of Engagement “Thrown Out the Window” Dahr Jamail SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Mar 15 (IPS) – Garret Reppenhagen received integral training about the Geneva Conventions and the Rules of Engagement during his deployment in Kosovo. But in Iraq, “Much … Read more
2008-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/mar/17/economics.useconomy America was conned – who will pay? The South Sea Bubble ended in riots as trust was lost. Wall Street also duped the public € Larry Elliott, economics editor € The Guardian, Monday March 17 2008 Bear Stearns marks the moment when the global financial crisis went critical. Up until last … Read more
2008-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2008/01/11/just-reminder-enemy-anglo-dutch-liberal-oligarchy-and-its-to.html [images & links in original] Anglo-Dutch Liberal Oligarchical Map 24 Jan 2008 An Educational Series… Conceptual Overview: The Enemy Is Anglo-Dutch Liberal Oligarchism Click on the image for a individual profile. First Generation Bertrand Russell H.G. Wells Huxley Family Aleister Crowley Second Generation John Train Felix Rohatyn George Shultz Sir Rupert … Read more
2008-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2008/03/13/larouche-spitzer-case-targetting-superdelegates.html LaRouche on Spitzer Case: Targetting the Superdelegates 13 Mar 2008 March 13, 2008 (LPAC)–Lyndon LaRouche, during his webcast of March 12 (see www.larouchepac.com), was asked to comment on the targetting of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. His response: LAROUCHE: I think, as I know politics, and I know people, and I … Read more
2008-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8328 A Vicious Circle ending in a Systemic Financial Meltdown Roubini’s Nightmare Scenario By Mike Whitney Global Research, March 13, 2008 “It’s another round of the credit crisis. Some markets are getting worse than January this time. There is fear that something dramatic will happen and that fear is feeding itself,” Jesper … Read more
2008-03-18 Richard Moore “According to polls, three-fourths of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction. This is an astounding statistic. At other times and in other places, revolution would be in the air.” http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8350 The 2008 Presidential Election: A Revolution or A Bust? By Richard C. Cook Global Research, March 15, 2008 … Read more
2008-03-18 Richard Moore Note the misleading headline below, confusing the Fed with Government. Note also that these rescue attempts have no chance of stopping a collapse of the US economy. The ship is rapidly sinking, and they’re trying to save it with bailing buckets. -rkm http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/15/business/15bear.html March 15, 2008 Run on Big Wall St. Bank … Read more
2008-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20080304/index.htm For Immediate Release: March 4, 2008 Slain Colombian Insurgent Held Secret Talks with U.S. Diplomats Declassified State Department Memo Describes Clandestine 1998 Meetings with Colombian Guerrillas Central to Current Saber-Rattling in Andean Region For more information contact: Michael Evans – 202/994-7029 •••@••.••• Washington, D.C., March 4, 2008 – A senior Colombian … Read more
2008-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb245/index.htm “Prevent the Reemergence of a New Rival” The Making of the Cheney Regional Defense Strategy, 1991-1992 Declassified Studies from Cheney Pentagon Show Push for U.S. Military Predominance and a Strategy to “Prevent the Reemergence of a New Rival” For more information contact: William Burr – 202/994-7032 •••@••.••• Washington, D.C., February 26, … Read more
2008-03-18 Richard Moore One wonders what the purpose of all this is. Is it to make people believe Al Qaeda is real? Is it a cover for new kinds of police state methods? Is it a justification for disrupting legitimate uses of the web? -rkm http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/washington/18terror.html March 18, 2008 U.S. Adapts Cold-War Idea to Fight … Read more
2008-03-18 Richard Moore Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:15:48 +0100 From: Greg Palast <•••@••.•••> (by way of Prospective Internationale) Subject: Eliot’s Mess and the $200 Million Bailout The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked By Greg Palast Reporting for Air America Radio’s Clout Listen to Palast on Clout at … Read more
2008-03-18 Richard Moore http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1491971920080314 Weak dollar costs U.S. economy its No. 1 spot Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:17pm EDT PARIS (Reuters) – The U.S. economy lost the title of “world’s biggest” to the euro zone this week as the value of the dollar slumped in currency markets. Taking the gross domestic product of both economies … Read more
2008-03-18 Richard Moore “Bear Stearns’s demise should probably be viewed as the first of many,” Richard Bernstein, chief investment strategist for Merrill Lynch wrote in a research report. “Sentiment is just beginning to catch on as to how broad and deep the credit market bubble has been.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/17/AR2008031702969.html [links in original] Crises of Confidence in … Read more
2008-03-18 Richard Moore Asian, Mid East and European investors stood aside at last week’s auction of 10-year US Treasury notes. “It was a disaster,” said Ray Attrill from 4castweb. “We may be close to the point where the uglier consequences of benign neglect towards the currency are revealed.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/03/17/ccview117.xml Foreign investors veto Fed rescue By … Read more
2008-03-14 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8295 Bush family private equity fund in deep trouble as Financial Tsunami rolls on By F. William Engdahl Global Research, March 10, 2008 Carlyle Capital Corp. Ltd., a subsidiary of one of the most influential USA private equity funds and closely tied to the Bush family, is in default on several of … Read more
2008-03-14 Richard Moore “The officials said it appeared that only a small fraction of the tens of thousands of interrogations worldwide since 2001 had been recorded.” — I suppose that makes the USA the greatest violator of human rights in the world today. -rkm http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031308J.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/washington/13intel.html March 13, 2008 Pentagon Cites Tapes Showing Interrogations By … Read more
2008-03-14 Richard Moore “Have you ever wondered what it would actually take to transform our global economy into a much cleaner, greener and hopefully sustainable machine?” http://www.precaution.org/lib/08/prn_dhn080313.htm Rachel’s Democracy & Health News #950 Thursday, March 13, 2008 From: Rachel’s Democracy & Health News March 13, 2008 PLAN B 3.0 — MOBILIZING TO SAVE CIVILIZATION [Rachel’s … Read more
2008-03-14 Richard Moore Whatta load of crap. The Fed intentionally orchestrated the subprime crisis, and now we are supposed to be grateful that they’re ‘solving the problem’. -rkm http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/business/14paulson.html March 14, 2008 White House Offers Plan to Ward Off Credit Crises By STEPHEN LABATON WASHINGTON ‹ After months of watching a growing credit crisis made … Read more