Padilla: Stalinist Show Trial US-style

2007-08-20 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/us/17padilla.html August 17, 2007 Padilla Is Guilty on All Charges in Terror Trial By ABBY GOODNOUGH and SCOTT SHANE MIAMI, Aug. 16 ‹ In a significant victory for the Bush administration, a federal jury found Jose Padilla guilty of terrorism conspiracy charges on Thursday after little more than a … Read more

Mike Whitney: Stock Market Meltdown

2007-08-20 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18119.htm NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON CNN Stock Market Meltdown By Mike Whitney ³Whatever is going to happen, will happen…just don¹t let it happen to you.² Doug Casey, Casey Research 08/04/07 “ICH ” — — It¹s a Bloodbath. That¹s the only way to describe it. On Friday the Dow … Read more

Comptroller General: Learn from the fall of Rome

2007-08-20 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/80fa0a2c-49ef-11dc-9ffe-0000779fd2ac.html Learn from the fall of Rome, US warned By Jeremy Grant in Washington Published: August 14 2007 00:06 | Last updated: August 14 2007 00:06 The US government is on a Œburning platform¹ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military … Read more

Andrew Leonard: Panic on Wall Street [explained]

2007-08-20 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2007/08/17/wall_street_panic/ Panic on Wall Street You’ve heard about the home-loan bust, but do you know your derivatives from your tranches? Read Salon’s easy guide to understanding the current market freakout. By Andrew Leonard Aug. 17, 2007 | From New York to Hong Kong and everywhere in between, alarm bells … Read more

India’s Agrarian Martyrs: 17,107 suicides

2007-08-14 Richard Moore In 1998, around the inception of mass farmer suicides, the World Bank imposed regulations that opened up India¹s seed market to corporate multinationals like Monsanto. Non-renewable GM crops now replaced a self-sustainable farming system that had been perfected over thousands of years. Original source URL: http://countercurrents.org/long130807.htm India’s Agrarian Martyrs: Are You Listening? … Read more

Subprime collapse: an intentional Ponzi scheme

2007-08-14 Richard Moore “All of us felt the suction from Wall Street. One day you would get an email saying, ‘We will buy no-doc loans at 95% loan-to-value,’ and an old-timer like me had never seen one,” says Mr. Barnes. “It wasn’t long before the no-doc emails said 100%.” Original source URL: http://countercurrents.org/schechter110807.htm Subprime Or … Read more

All domestic communications under surveillance

2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/analysis-new-la.html Analysis: New Law Gives Government Six Months to Turn Internet and Phone Systems into Permanent Spying Architecture – UPDATED By Ryan Singel August 06, 2007 | 2:11:02 AMCategories: Surveillance A new law expanding the government’s spying powers gives the Bush Administration a six-month window to install possibly permanent … Read more

Carolyn Baker: The Spirituality of Collapse

2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1514/81/ The Spirituality of Collapse by Carolyn Baker Sunday, 06 May 2007 Civilization is a mental/material world of culturally transmitted illusion. ‹ William Kötke The first edition of this article was written in February, 2006, but I have recently revised and updated it. Since the first writing, the theme … Read more

Credit Crunch In U.S. Upends Global Markets

2007-08-14 Richard Moore The injection of $130 billion into the financial markets by the European Central Bank was the largest amount ever provided in a single operation, exceeding the amount added after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It came after France’s biggest bank, BNP Paribas, froze three funds that had invested in the troubled U.S. … Read more

Venezuela’s pro-people transformation continues

2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/720/37359 Venezuela’s pro-people transformation continues Stuart Munkcton 3 August 2007 As part of the expansion of the pro-poor social programs ‹ known as ³missions² ‹ promoted by the government of socialist President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelanalysis.com reported on July 26 that Chavez had announced plans for the construction of 15 … Read more

Venezuela Gives Land Titles to Indigenous Peoples

2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2381 Venezuela Hosts Indigenous Congress, Gives Land Titles to Indigenous Wednesday, Aug 08, 2007 By: Kiraz Janicke – Venezuelanalysis.com Caracas, August 8, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)‹ Coinciding with the launch of the First International Congress of the Anti-imperialist Indigenous Peoples of Latin America (Abya Yala), yesterday, in San Tomé, Anzoátegui state, … Read more

Venezuela: Co-management in a sea of capitalism

2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/720/37353 Venezuela: Co-management in a sea of capitalism Kiraz Janicke, Caracas 3 August 2007 Venezuela¹s Bolivarian revolution, and in particular its experiments with workers¹ co-management and in some instances workers¹ control, is at the cutting edge of the global movement against capitalism. With the bosses¹ lockout in 2002-03, which … Read more

Venezuela & Bolivia: closer cooperation

2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2383 Chavez Meets with Kirchner and Morales in Bolivia for Closer Cooperation Saturday, Aug 11, 2007 By: Chris Carlson – Venezuelanalysis.com Mérida, August 11, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)‹ In the final leg of his South American tour this week, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez arrived to Bolivia last night to sign several … Read more

US Military Psy-Ops and You

2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_heather__070812_welcome_to_the_jungl.htm OpEdNews August 12, 2007 Welcome to the Jungle: US Military Psychological Operations and You By Heather Wokusch “…the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.” – Benjamin Franklin, 1787 They say that if you drop a frog into a pot … Read more

UK: random stop & search increasing

2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0%2C%2C2143032%2C00.html More face stop and search to deter terrorists, say police Sandra Laville, crime correspondent Tuesday August 7, 2007 The Guardian Powers to stop and search members of the public under terrorism laws will be used increasingly this summer, police said yesterday. The warning came as searches in London … Read more

New Statesman: defense of Chavez

2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.newstatesman.com/200707190013 Chávez: the defence Colin Burgon Published 19 July 2007 Colin Burgon MP – chair of the Labour Friends of Venezuela – responds to last week’s New Statesman story on the controversial South American leader Last week’s cover story by Alice O’Keeffe, claiming Hugo Chávez had polarised Venezuela, was … Read more

Join the next solidarity brigade to Venezuela

2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/720/37362 Join the next solidarity brigade to Venezuela Lisa Macdonald 3 August 2007 Planning is well underway for the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network¹s sixth brigade to Venezuela, to be held from November 23 to December 3, and registrations are open to everyone interested in this unique opportunity to witness firsthand … Read more

* Israeli Minister: US will back Israeli strike on Iran *

2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=13407 Headline News Wednesday, July 11, 2007 by Staff Writer Lieberman: US will back Israeli strike on Iran Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that he received the tacit blessing of Europe and the United States for an Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. … Read more

Ecuador: The indigenous movement and Correa

2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/720/37378 Ecuador: The indigenous movement and Correa Federico Fuentes 4 August 2007 When Rafael Correa was elected president of Ecuador in 2006, campaigning on a strong anti-neoliberal platform to bring about a ³citizen¹s revolution², one key social force seemed notably absent from his campaign ‹ the country¹s powerful indigenous … Read more

Eamon O’Hara: Focus On Carbon ‘Missing The Point’

2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://countercurrents.org/ohara100807.htm Focus On Carbon ‘Missing The Point’ By Eamon O’Hara 10 August, 2007 BBC Focusing on the need to reduce CO2 emissions has reduced the problem to one of carbon dioxide rather than on the unsustainable ways we live. Is it not time to recognise that climate change is … Read more

DiLorenzo: The Men Who Destroyed the Constitution

2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo105.html The Men Who Destroyed the Constitution by Thomas J. DiLorenzo In his 1850 Disquisition on Government, John C. Calhoun argued that a written constitution would never be sufficient to contain the plundering proclivities of a central government. Some mechanisms for assuring consensus among the citizens of the states … Read more

Depopulation: Asia By DU, Africa By AIDS

2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://countercurrents.org/golpira090807.htm Asia By DU, Africa By AIDS By Hamid Golpira 09 August, 2007 Tehran Times Today is Nagasaki Day, a time for reflection on weapons of mass destruction, genocide, and man’s inhumanity to man. This is the 62nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, which will be holding … Read more

Chossudovsky: The Pentagon’s “Second 911”

2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20060810&articleId=2942 The Pentagon’s “Second 911” “Another [9/11] attack could create both a justification and an opportunity to retaliate against some known targets” By Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, August 10, 2006 One essential feature of “defense” in the case of a second major attack on America, is “offense”, according to … Read more

China threatens ‘nuclear option’ of dollar sales

2007-08-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303 China threatens ‘nuclear option’ of dollar sales By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – Telegraph Aug/10/2007 The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan … Read more

Saskatchewan: standing up to corporate power

2007-08-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/08/saskatchewan-will-not-sign-flawed-trade.html Thursday, August 02, 2007 Saskatchewan Will NOT Sign Flawed Trade Deal With Alberta And B. C. The Government of Saskatchewan has announced that it will not sign onto The Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA) between Alberta and British Columbia. That is a VERY good thing. … Read more

U.S. Anti-Drug Aid Would Target Mexico

2007-08-09 Richard Moore “Who would Congress be providing assistance to, under what terms and conditions, and how would Congress know the support is not going to the very people who are engaged in this type of criminal activity?” asked Tim Rieser, a senior foreign policy aide for Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), who chairs the … Read more

biofuels = genocide: The End Of Cheap Food

2007-08-09 Richard Moore “The stage is now set for frontal competition for grain between the 800 million people who own automobiles, and the world’s two billion poorest who will need it to survive.” Original source URL: http://countercurrents.org/james040807.htm The End Of Cheap Food By John James 04 August,2007 Countercurrents.org It looks like the era of cheap … Read more

Executive Order on Lebanon Even Worse than the One on Iraq

2007-08-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:43:09 -0700 From: Westaway <•••@••.•••> Subject: [Peace-l] Bush’s Executive Order on Lebanon Even Worse than the One on Iraq + Full Text of Executive Order —– Original Message —– From: <•••@••.•••> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 6:17 PM Subject: FYI: [Peace-l] Bush¹s Executive Order on Lebanon … Read more

Geopolitical concerns behind UN intervention in Darfur

2007-08-09 Richard Moore “The Sudanese government has granted oil concessions throughout Darfur and other parts of the country, eager to extend beyond its present oilfields where the output is now peaking. To put such potential oil wealth under UN supervision and open to exploitation by Western governments rather than China is a key consideration behind … Read more

Janet M Eaton: Economic Meltdown? 8 items

2007-08-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Janet M Eaton” <•••@••.•••> To: a renewed Mai-Not <•••@••.•••> Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:55:24 -0300 Subject: Economic meltdown ? 8 items Economic Meltdown? 8 items INDEX [0] Wall Street awaits Fed rate decision Yahoo News -Associated Press, Aug 5 [1] Investors are nervous. Who can blame them? Globe and … Read more

Weapons Given to Iraq Are Missing

2007-08-09 Richard Moore The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to a new government report, raising fears that some of those weapons have fallen into the hands of insurgents fighting U.S. forces in Iraq. I’ve posted numerous previous reports, … Read more

911review.org: a good comprehensive research summary

2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.911review.org/ This website has collected hundreds of links giving comprehensive coverage of every aspect of 9/11. It also has a search engine so you can look up any topic you’re interested in. — ——————————————————– Posting archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog Escaping the Matrix website: http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website: http://cyberjournal.org Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html … Read more

Was bridge collapse due to design flaw?

2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/us/09bridge.html August 9, 2007 Potential Flaw Seen in Design of Fallen Bridge By MONICA DAVEY and MATTHEW L. WALD MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 8 ‹ Investigators have found what may be a design flaw in the bridge that collapsed here a week ago, in the steel parts that connect girders, raising … Read more

Ted Lang: The Cheney Affair

2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.rense.com/general77/chedn.htm The Cheney Affair By Ted Lang Exclusive to Rense.com 7-16-7 Now that mainstream media bias is an established fact and recognized as such by the mainstream reading and viewing public, the revelation of Vice President Dick Cheney’s total unilateral control over all levels and branches of American government … Read more

SCO displays counterforce to NATO

2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1301 “Rival to Nato” begins first military exercise By Tony Halpin – Timesonline Aug/08/2007 Russian and Chinese troops are joining forces this week in the first military exercises by an international organisation that is regarded in some quarters as a potential rival to Nato. Thousands of soldiers and 500 … Read more

now online – Boris Yelensky: Memoirs of the Russian Revolution

2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.radicalpress.com/?page_id=501 In the Social Storm: Memoirs of the Russian Revolution by Boris Yelensky [Editor¹s Note: The unpublished work by Anarchist author Boris Yelensky is now being published in full online by The Radical Press and is a copyright of said company. Due to time constraints this long-awaited work will … Read more

Hydrogen from water breakthrough

2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.wpbf.com/news/13383827/detail.html Fla. Man Invents Machine To Turn Water Into Fire POSTED: 1:22 pm EDT May 24, 2007 UPDATED: 2:53 pm EDT May 24, 2007 SANIBEL ISLAND, Fla. — A Florida man may have accidentally invented a machine that could solve the gasoline and energy crisis plaguing the U.S., WPBF … Read more

Gore Vidal on the Cold War – part 1 – video

2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=336&thisview=item Gore Vidal on the Cold War – part 1 – video — ——————————————————– Posting archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog Escaping the Matrix website: http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website: http://cyberjournal.org Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html Moderator: •••@••.••• (comments welcome)

Candid interview with WTC firefighter

2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://loosechange911.blogspot.com/2007/08/interview-with-john-schroeder-fdny.html Interview With John Schroeder, NY Fire Department, last firefighter out of Twin Towers. — ——————————————————– Posting archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog Escaping the Matrix website: http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website: http://cyberjournal.org Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html Moderator: •••@••.••• (comments welcome)

Blood on Wall Street: What is a CDO (I mean really)?

2007-08-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.newcombat.net/article_whats_a_cdo.html Blood on Wall Street What is a CDO (I mean really)? by S.I. Kropotkin Ed Note: Friday August 3, 2007. The meltdown on Wall Street continued today, with the Dow Industrials down another 284 points and oil near an all-time high as worries steam the globe of an … Read more