There’s Something Wicked in the Wind

2008-02-05 Richard Moore http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/2008/02/theres-something-wicked-in-wind.html There’s Something Wicked in the Wind. There¹s a lot of hysteria jumping off of the internet right now; what portion of the internet is still operating. Let¹s face it, previous severance of communications links have proven to be a prelude to war. There are all manner of theories chasing this event. … Read more

Fourth Corner Exchange: Sustainable Community Currency

2008-02-05 Richard Moore http://www.fourthcornerexchange.com/ [links in original] Fourth Corner Exchange is a Sustainable Community Currency based in the Pacific Northwest USA, which operates throughout the USA and the world. Currently we have over five-hundred participating members, with branches in Washington, Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio and California. We will soon be opening our first branch … Read more

What’s Cholesterol Got to Do With It?

2008-01-31 Richard Moore http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opinion/27taubes.html January 27, 2008 OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR What¹s Cholesterol Got to Do With It? By GARY TAUBES THE idea that cholesterol plays a key role in heart disease is so tightly woven into modern medical thinking that it is no longer considered open to question. This is the message that emerged all too … Read more

Senate wants to give away more than House

2008-01-31 Richard Moore http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/30/AR2008013003651.html Showdown Nears on Stimulus Bill Senate Panel’s Version More Generous Than Bush-House Plan By Jonathan Weisman Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 31, 2008; A03 With bipartisan support, the Senate Finance Committee yesterday approved a $157 billion economic stimulus plan that rivals the measure fashioned by President Bush and House leaders, … Read more

Peak Growth!

2008-01-31 Richard Moore http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19220.htm IMF head in shock fiscal warning By Chris Giles and Gillian Tett in Davos 28/01/08 “Financial Times ” — – The intensifying credit crunch is so severe that lower interest rates alone will not be enough ³to get out of the turmoil we are in², Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of … Read more

Engdahl: FInancial Tsunami – Part 3

2008-01-31 Richard Moore http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Financial_Tsunami/The_Financial_Tsunami_Part_III/the_financial_tsunami_part_iii.HTM The Financial Tsunami Part III: Greenspan¹s Grand Design By F. William Engdahl, January 22, 2008 The Long-Term Greenspan Agenda Seven years of Volcker monetary ³shock therapy² had ignited a payments crisis across the Third World. Billions of dollars in recycled petrodollar debts loaned by major New York and London banks to … Read more

Engdahl: FInancial Tsunami – Part 2

2008-01-31 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7813 The Financial Tsunami: The Financial Foundations of the American Century By F. William Engdahl Global Research, January 16, 2008 Part II The financial foundations of the American Century The ongoing and deepening global financial crisis, nominally triggered in July 2007 by an event involving a small German bank holding securitized assets … Read more

Engdahl: FInancial Tsunami – Part 1

2008-01-31 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7413 The Financial Tsunami: Sub-Prime Mortgage Debt is but the Tip of the Iceberg By F. William Engdahl Global Research, November 23, 2007 Part 1: Deutsche Bank¹s painful lesson Even experienced banker friends tell me that they think the worst of the US banking troubles are over and that things are slowly … Read more

* How the markets really work * (video, comedy, must see)

2008-01-26 Richard Moore How the markets really work http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/187.html — ——————————————————– newslog archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog Escaping the Matrix: http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal: http://cyberjournal.org The Phoenix Project: http://phoenixgathering.blogspot.com/2008/01/phoenix-gathering-seeking-intelligent.html rkm blog: “How We the People can change the world”: http://governourselves.blogspot.com/ The Post-Bush Regime: A Prognosis http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7693 Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html Moderator: •••@••.••• (comments welcome)

economy: Senators Push to Expand Stimulus

2008-01-26 Richard Moore http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/25/AR2008012502037.html Senators Push to Expand Stimulus Both Parties Seek Additions to Plan By Jonathan Weisman and Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, January 26, 2008; A01 Shrugging off a personal plea from President Bush, senators from both parties said yesterday that they will push for significant additions to the $150 billion … Read more

Chris Sanders: Stock market follies

2008-01-24 Richard Moore http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1336 Stock market follies By Chris Sanders Jan/23/2008 Comical may seem a strange word to apply to world stock markets given the ferocious sell off that began a week ago, but it is the right one. Consider, the proximate cause of all this pandemonium is the damage done to the US financial … Read more

** The lowdown on topsoil: It’s disappearing

2008-01-24 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012308EB.shtml http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/348200_dirt22.html SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/348200_dirt22.html The lowdown on topsoil: It’s disappearing Disappearing dirt rivals global warming as an environmental threat Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Last updated 7:57 a.m. PT By TOM PAULSON P-I REPORTER The planet is getting skinned. While many worry about the potential consequences of atmospheric warming, a few experts … Read more

** Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told

2008-01-24 Richard Moore http://www.guardian.co.uk/nato/story/0,,2244782,00.html Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told Ian Traynor in Brussels Tuesday January 22, 2008 The Guardian The west must be ready to resort to a pre-emptive nuclear attack to try to halt the “imminent” spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, according to a radical manifesto for … Read more

** FDA ANNOUNCES PLAN TO ELIMINATE VITAMIN COMPANIES

2008-01-24 Richard Moore http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron36.htm FDA ANNOUNCES PLAN TO ELIMINATE VITAMIN COMPANIES By Byron J. Richards, CCN June 27, 2007 NewsWithViews.com The FDA, emboldened by its transformation into a drug company, has embarked upon an anti-American plan of interfering with business and intentionally eliminating various dietary supplement companies from the market. The FDA announcement came on … Read more

Eric Margolis: Ukraine’s Unknown Holocaust

2008-01-23 Richard Moore http://www.twf.org/News/Y1998/19981213-UkraineHolocaust.html Release Date: December 13, 1998 Eric Margolis, c/o Editorial Department, The Toronto Sun 333 King St. East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5A 3X5 Fax: (416) 960-4803 — Press Contact: Eric Margolis Remembering Ukraine’s Unknown Holocaust by Eric Margolis LOS ANGELES – As Britain’s socialist government cleared the way for a gaudy show … Read more

Nationalists Stirring in Iraq

2008-01-23 Richard Moore http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080128/dreyfuss Nationalists Stirring in Iraq by ROBERT DREYFUSS [posted online on January 16, 2008] On January 13 an emerging Sunni-Shiite nationalist bloc in Iraq signed a groundbreaking agreement aimed at ending Iraq’s civil war, blocking the privatization of Iraq’s oil industry and checkmating the breakaway Kurdish state. It’s a big step forward, … Read more

WARNING SIGNS: U.S. economy teeters on the brink

2008-01-23 Richard Moore “You know central bankers are concerned about the economy when they condone stimulative fiscal policy,” BMO Nesbitt Burns economist Michael Gregory remarked in a note to clients. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080118.ECONOMY18/TPStory/Business/columnists WARNING SIGNS U.S. economy teeters on the brink Bush, Bernanke endorse $100-billion package in effort to prevent recession as housing mess hammers banks, consumers … Read more

Russia & China hoard gold in face of global economic collapse

2008-01-23 Richard Moore http://top.rbc.ru/english/index.shtml?/news/english/2008/01/17/17132805_bod.shtml Russia¹s gold and forex reserves reach all-time high Russia¹s gold and foreign currency reserves have increased by $11.5 billion (2.5 percent) over the past three weeks, to $477.7 billion. This is the highest level since records began. From January 4 to 11, the reserves increased by $1.1 billion, or 0.2 percent, … Read more

How Banks & The Fed Are Bankrupting The Planet

2008-01-23 Richard Moore http://rense.com/general80/panic.htm How Banks & The Fed Reserve Are Bankrupting The Planet The Panic Starts By Jim Sinclair 1-18-8 There is no doubt the Fed and the PPT [Plunge Protection Team] are meeting right now. A drop of over 300 points on the Dow after the Chairman of the Federal Reserve speaks publicly … Read more

Richard C. Cook: Will Economic Stimulus Measures Stave Off Recession?

2008-01-23 Richard Moore http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7852 Will Economic Stimulus Measures Stave Off Recession? By Richard C. Cook Global Research, January 20, 2008 It is not quite true that the U.S. economy is heading into a recession, even though President Bush and most other politicians seem to be discovering it for the first time. It¹s like the famous … Read more

Police state: A Chain Reaction is underway

2008-01-23 Richard Moore http://rense.com/general80/chain.htm A Chain Reaction Jim Kirwan 1-18-8 With the introduction and passage of H.R.1955, this nation is about to embark upon a course that if implemented cannot be reversed. All that stands between a Police-state and what used to be the USA, is the Senate version of this legislation that will soon … Read more

* Mahboob A. Khawaja: the Terrorism Myth

2008-01-23 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20KH20060625&articleId=2691 Terrorism Myth: The ³War on Terrorism² is a flourishing business for the corporate world Muslims Look for Responsible Journalism By Mahboob A. Khawaja Global Research, June 25, 2006 Information Clearing House The ³War on Terrorism² is flourishing business for the corporate world – a 21st century fantasy on its own, where … Read more

John P. Curran: JFK vs. The Federal Reserve

2008-01-23 Richard Moore http://www.john-f-kennedy.net/thefederalreserve.htm John F. Kennedy vs The Federal Reserve On June 4, 1963, a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. With the stroke of a pen, … Read more

Israel steps up genocide campaign in Gaza Strip

2008-01-23 Richard Moore http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19120.htm NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON CNN Death and Darkness in Gaza People are dying, Help us! By Maan 20/01/08 “ICH” — — A humanitarian crisis is underway as the Gaza Strip’s only power plant began to shut down on Sunday, and the tiny coastal territory entered its third full day without … Read more

** Herman & Peterson: There Is No “War on Terror”

2008-01-23 Richard Moore http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19117.htm NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON CNN Send Page To a Friend There Is No ³War on Terror² By Edward S. Herman and David Peterson 20/01/08 “ZNet” — — One of the most telling signs of the political naiveté of liberals and the Left in the United States has been their steadfast … Read more

* Global Stocks Plunge *

2008-01-23 Richard Moore “Where the bottom is now is anyone’s guess,” said Wesley Fogel, a market strategist for HSBC. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/21/AR2008012100233.html Global Stocks Plunge as U.S. Crisis Spreads Sell-Offs on All Major Exchanges By Neil Irwin and Zachary A. Goldfarb Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, January 22, 2008; A01 Stock markets around the world plummeted yesterday … Read more

* Global economy: More Room to Fall

2008-01-23 Richard Moore “…the problem now is a more serious one — a credit crisis in which commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies and hedge funds all around the world are being forced to write off billions of dollars from American subprime mortgages and more exotic securities. ” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/21/AR2008012102436.html More Room to Fall Steven Pearlstein … Read more

Fed’s Action Stems Sell-Off in World Markets

2008-01-23 Richard Moore More debt to solve the problem of bad debts?? sounds crazy to me – rkm — http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/business/23fed.html January 23, 2008 Fed¹s Action Stems Sell-Off in World Markets By EDMUND L. ANDREWS WASHINGTON ‹ The Federal Reserve, confronted by deepening panic in global financial markets about a possible recession in the United States, … Read more

Exposed: Canadian Human Rights Commission

2008-01-23 Richard Moore ____________________ Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:37:17 -0800 Subject: RICHARD WARMAN – EXPOSED! by Mark Fournier From: The Radical Press <•••@••.•••> [Editor¹s Note: Again thanks to Marc Lemire for sending along this revealing article. Much food for thought here. If this is the type of behaviour being exhibited by members of the … Read more

* Expert testimony re/voting machine fraud (video)

2008-01-23 Richard Moore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq9WVuKGwOM — ——————————————————– newslog archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog Escaping the Matrix: http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal: http://cyberjournal.org The Phoenix Project: http://phoenixgathering.blogspot.com/2008/01/phoenix-gathering-seeking-intelligent.html rkm blog: “How We the People can change the world”: http://governourselves.blogspot.com/ The Post-Bush Regime: A Prognosis http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7693 Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html Moderator: •••@••.••• (comments welcome)

Dan Sheehy Exposes the NAU (video)

2008-01-23 Richard Moore http://the0011.com/331/dan-sheehy-exposes-the-nau/ — ——————————————————– newslog archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog Escaping the Matrix: http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal: http://cyberjournal.org The Phoenix Project: http://phoenixgathering.blogspot.com/2008/01/phoenix-gathering-seeking-intelligent.html rkm blog: “How We the People can change the world”: http://governourselves.blogspot.com/ The Post-Bush Regime: A Prognosis http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7693 Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html Moderator: •••@••.••• (comments welcome)

Bush, Lawmakers Close to Stupid Deal on Stimulus Package

2008-01-23 Richard Moore “But Bush aides warned that they would not accept the large public works projects that some liberal lawmakers and union leaders are demanding.” – right, whatever you do don’t try something that might work. -rkm — http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/22/AR2008012202114.html Bush, Lawmakers Are Close to Deal on Stimulus Package By Peter Baker and Jonathan Weisman … Read more

Andrew G. Marshall: Here Comes the Amero

2008-01-23 Richard Moore http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7854 North-American Monetary Integration: Here Comes the Amero By Andrew G. Marshall Global Research, January 20, 2008 Many have now heard rumblings of the ³amero², a proposed North American currency to replace the Canadian loonie, dollar and peso. However, most of the mentions of this concept, when discussed in the mainstream media … Read more

* Jim Willie CB: ENTER 2008: THE SYSTEM BREAKS

2008-01-19 Richard Moore http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_08/willie010308.html ENTER 2008: THE SYSTEM BREAKS Jim Willie CB – January 3, 2008 home: Golden Jackass website subscribe: Hat Trick Letter Jim Willie CB is the editor of the “HAT TRICK LETTER” Use the above link to subscribe to the paid research reports, which include coverage of several smallcap companies positioned to … Read more

** Glen Barry: Economic Collapse and Global Ecology

2008-01-19 Richard Moore http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/2008/01/economic-collapse-and-global-ecology.html SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 2008 Economic Collapse and Global Ecology Glen Barry Given widespread failure to pursue policies sufficient to reverse deterioration of the biosphere and avoid ecological collapse, the best we can hope for may be that the growth-based economic system crashes sooner rather than later Humanity and the Earth are … Read more

** US finance on verge of collapse: desperate appeal to Europe for help

2008-01-19 Richard Moore http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080114.wcredit0114/BNStory/robNews/home Bracing for a week of writedowns and layoffs MIKE PEACOCK Reuters January 14, 2008 at 6:48 AM EST LONDON ‹ Major American banks are expected to unveil substantial losses and secure more cash from abroad in what is shaping up to be a pivotal week for the global credit crisis, with … Read more

U.S. Boosts Its Use of Airstrikes In Iraq

2008-01-19 Richard Moore “Top commanders said that better intelligence-gathering allows them to identify and hit extremist strongholds with bombs and missiles from above” – from the article. -“We had to destroy the country to save it” – rkm – http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/16/AR2008011604148.html?wpisrc=newsletter U.S. Boosts Its Use of Airstrikes In Iraq Strategy Supports Troop Increase By Josh White … Read more

This just in: Homeland Security + CIA = Gestapo

2008-01-19 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7824 Institutionalized Spying on Americans Homeland Security’s National Applications Office (NAO) By Stephen Lendman Global Research, January 17, 2008 This article reviews two police state tools (among many in use) in America. One is new, undiscussed and largely unknown to the public. The other was covered in a December article by this … Read more

* The economy: White House pulling out all the stops

2008-01-19 Richard Moore http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1YourView&xml=/money/2008/01/07/ccview107.xml Bush convenes Plunge Protection Team By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor Last Updated: 1:18am GMT 11/01/2008 Bears beware. The New Deal of 2008 is in the works. The US Treasury is about to shower households with rebate cheques to head off a full-blown slump, and save the Bush presidency. On Friday, … Read more