2007-06-01 Richard Moore ____________________ “Zoellick is a former U.S. trade representative and deputy secretary of state who went to work last year as an executive at Goldman Sachs.” ____________________ Thus we see how elite bankers run the world. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/29/AR2007052900760.html Bush to Pick Zoellick for World Bank Former Trade Negotiator Tapped … Read more

2007-06-01 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/foi-m31.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe : Britain Britain: Parliament votes to exempt itself from Freedom of Information legislation By Richard Tyler 31 May 2007 With tacit support from the Labour government and Conservative front bench, a bill has been tabled that … Read more

2007-06-01 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/g8-m31.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe : Germany Asia-Europe summit in Hamburg Germany: Huge police deployment in run-up to G8 summit By our reporter 31 May 2007 German politicians and security forces used the Asia-Europe summit (ASEM) held in the northern German … Read more

2007-06-01 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.newswithviews.com/Briley/Patrick43.htm OKC BOMBING STING/COVER-UP: A WHITE HOUSE OPERATION Patrick Briley May 20, 2007 NewsWithViews.com The OKC bombing provocation, sting, and cover-up were part of a national security council (NSC) and White House operation spanning the presidencies of HW Bush and Clinton. See the chapters FALSE ASSERTIONS OF NATIONAL SECURITY … Read more

2007-06-01 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/30/1534/ Published on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 by The Los Angeles Times Hugo Chavez Versus RCTV Venezuela¹s Oldest Private TV Network Played A Major Role In A failed 2002 Coup. by Bart Jones Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez¹s refusal to renew the license of Radio Caracas Television might seem to … Read more

2007-06-01 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://fifthinternational.org/index.php?id=187,1157,0,0,1,0 Germany: ³We are all terrorists!³ 10 May 2006 Thousands protest against criminalisation of Anti-G8-movement ³We are all 129a!³ shouted more than 5000 demonstrators in the streets of Berlin yesterday evening. Paragraph 129 is the ³anti-terrorist³ clause of the German Federal constitution, the Grundgesetz. On 9 May the Gereralbundesanwaltschaft … Read more

2007-06-01 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/30/AR2007053001017.html Bush Reaches to Putin as Relations Continue to Slide By Peter Baker and Peter Finn Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, May 31, 2007; A01 President Bush yesterday launched a high-stakes effort to repair the dramatically deteriorating U.S. relationship with Russia by inviting President Vladimir Putin to visit the … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Friends, Thanks so much for your encouraging responses re/ the documentary, “An Inconvenient Necessity”. My next task is to create the Treatment document, and find a way to bring it to the attention of an appropriate producer. This needs to be a first-rate production, with adequate funding for worldwide shooting sites, a … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Friends, I view anything Gore says with suspicion. While seeming to be courageous, he is merely saying what everyone already knows. While seeming to be making radical critiques, he blames Bush, and citizen apathy — never the underlying system. While seeming to be non-partisan, he doesn’t mention the role of Democrats in … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore One can only imagine what the Pentagon is doing with this stuff. 🙁 rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.thepriceofrice.com/2007/03/do-you-believe-in-nanomachines-you.html Monday, March 19, 2007 Do You Believe in Nanomachines? You Should. To the disgruntled pessimists who like nothing better than to see the future in the most dire terms possible, and who do … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Whatever happened, we do not have a plane crash landing after being taken over by passengers. Perhaps the plane exploded in mid air, indicating a quite different scenario, but would the pieces be so small? Or was it some non-big-plane craft, as with the Pentagon. This is very rare footage from mainstream … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052607A.shtml http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070526/ts_nm/afghan_iran_usa_dc;_ylt=Anv.iZiHqcLTvekx4wIZmTVZ.3QA U.S. show of force in Gulf alarming: Afghan paper By Sayed Salahuddin Sat May 26, 12:15 PM ET A U.S. navy show of force on Iran’s doorstep is “greatly alarming” for the region and the United States risked a bloody quagmire if it invaded Iran, a state-run … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://purslane.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/climate-class-and-claptrap-excerpts/ Climate, Class, and Claptrap [excerpts] By Garret Keizer [Notebook, Harper¹s Magazine, June 2007, p. 9-11] Global warming, we are told, will have its most devastating effects on the world¹s disadvantaged. Therefore, we need not care so particularly about the world¹s disadvantaged; we need care only about global warming … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/29/12921/7971 [the original has links, and the quotes are better formatted] Will Bush walk away in 2009? by theyrereal Tue May 29, 2007 at 12:03:22 AM PDT Obviously, the Democratic Party has chosen to be an impotent, faux-opposition party in this bad theater they call “The Two Party System”. … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://chimesofreedom.blogspot.com/2007/05/usuk-preparations-for-apocalypse-in.html USUK Preparations for the Apocalypse? In an inexorable build-up of propaganda and military encirclement prior to a first strike attack on Iran, the Bush junta, along with its London quislings, have switched their anti-Iranian propaganda from nuclear issues to accuse the Iranian government of “meddling” in Iraq and … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Original source URL: ____________________ The nuclear part of the administration’s long-term Iran strategy, designed by the State Department and European allies, offers Iran significant economic and diplomatic cooperation and a steady supply of enriched uranium produced outside the country for energy use in exchange for suspension. So far, Iran’s refusal to accept … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4224 Nine US military ships enter Persian Gulf Wednesday, assembling off Iran¹s coast in largest American naval move since 2003 May 23, 2007, 6:56 PM (GMT+02:00) They sailed through the Strait of Hormuz by day – according to US Navy officials for training exercises. The vessels carry around 17,000 … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/sadr-m29.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : Middle East : Iraq Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr makes bid for greater role in US-occupied Iraq By James Cogan 29 May 2007 Back to screen version | Send this link by email | Email the author Last … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://nfu.ca/press_releases/press/2007/May-07/food_supply_crisis___grain_stocks_use_ratio_release_THREE.pdf FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 11, 2007 LOWEST FOOD SUPPLIES IN 50 OR 100 YEARS: GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS EMERGING SASKATOON, Sask.‹Today, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its first projections of world grain supply and demand for the coming crop year: 2007/08. USDA predicts supplies will plunge … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/airi-m29.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : North America : Canada Inquiry shows Canadian state was forewarned of Air India bombings By David Adelaide 29 May 2007 Twenty-two years after the Air India disaster, the worst terrorist crime in Canadian history, a public inquiry … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17292119.htm Posted on Mon, May. 28, 2007 LETTER FROM WASHINGTON Democrats in Washington want to keep impeachment off the table By Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON – The push to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is gaining a hearing in some parts of the country, but … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/afgh-m24.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : Asia : Afghanistan Three German soldiers killed in Afghanistan Grand coalition pushes ahead with military deployment By Ulrich Rippert 24 May 2007 The deaths last Saturday of three German soldiers at the hands of a suicide bomber … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/iran-m25.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : Middle East : Iran Bush authorises covert CIA operations to destabilise Iran By Peter Symonds 25 May 2007 An ABC News report on Tuesday provided further evidence that the Bush administration is actively engaged in a covert … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/28/12530/1525 “Good Riddance Attention Whore” by Cindy Sheehan Mon May 28, 2007 at 09:57:01 AM PDT I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called “Face” of the American anti-war movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1234 China opens securities industry By earthtimes.org May/24/2007 WASHINGTON, May 23 China has agreed to let U.S. firms enter its securities industry, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in Washington Wednesday. Under an agreement worked out during a “strategic economic dialogue” led by Paulson and Chinese Vice Premier Wu … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/28/AR2007052801051.html?referrer=email China Embraces Nuclear Future Optimism Mixes With Concern as Dozens Of Plants Go Up By Ariana Eunjung Cha Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, May 29, 2007; D01 YUMEN, China Not far from the old Silk Road, Chinese government scientists have begun boring holes deep into granite in the … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://redpill8.blogspot.com/2007/05/martial-law-in-america.html WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2007 Setting up the apparatus for martial law in the United States Whelp folks, I hate to be the pallbearer at our country’s funeral, but I am here to inform you, in case you missed it on Fox News, that the apparatus for martial law … Read more

2007-05-30 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/afgh-m30.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : Asia : Afghanistan More civilians killed by US/NATO forces as fighting intensifies in Afghanistan By James Cogan 30 May 2007 American and NATO coalition forces in Afghanistan are killing and maiming dozens of civilians as they attempt … Read more

2007-05-29 Richard Moore Friends, I’ve got two announcements. ____________________ * Server Migration We’re moving our lists over to Yahoo, because maintaining our own servers is becoming too burdensome. The websites will remain as they have been, with the same URLs. We won’t be using the web features of Yahoo, at least not at the beginning. … Read more

2007-05-23 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.alternet.org/stories/51619/ Hillary: The Corporate Candidate? By Ari Berman, TheNation.com Posted on May 18, 2007, Printed on May 23, 2007 In a packed ballroom in midtown Manhattan, Hillary Clinton is addressing hundreds of civil rights activists and labor leaders convened by the Rev. Al Sharpton for his annual National Action … Read more

2007-05-23 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHI20070521&articleId=5720 New presidential directive gives Bush dictatorial power National Security & Homeland Security Presidential Directive establishes “National Continuity Policy” By Larry Chin Global Research, May 21, 2007 The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, signed on May 9, 2007 declares that in the event of a ³catastrophic event², … Read more

2007-05-23 Richard Moore How long before these drones have weapons on board? rkm ____________________ Original source URL: http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1230 Look! Up in the sky! It’s . . . By Mark Yannone — yannone.blogspot.com May/22/2007 “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and … Read more

2007-05-23 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-court14may14,1,7287489.story From the Los Angeles Times Big Oil buys Sacramento Why you’re not hearing a peep from California politicians on record-high gas prices. By Jamie Court and Judy Dugan JAMIE COURT and JUDY DUGAN are founders of Oilwatchdog.org, a project of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights. May … Read more

2007-05-23 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.alternet.org/story/51368/ Is Bush Leading Us to Nuclear War? By William D. Hartung and Frida Berrigan, In These Times Posted on May 23, 2007, Printed on May 23, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/51368/ Only days before the fifth anniversary of September 11, President George W. Bush addressed military officers in Washington to warn … Read more

2007-05-22 Richard Moore ____________________ Under [the] plan, he entrusts himself with leading the entire federal government, not just the Executive Branch. And he gives himself the responsibility “for ensuring constitutional government.” ____________________ We need only to await the next false-flag incident. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to a theater near you. rkm ——————————————————– Original source … Read more

2007-05-22 Richard Moore Video URL (less than two minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8DpKKSmaa8 Friends, I recommend taking a look at this video. Ron is not politically correct, as most of us would define that term. There are several things he says — eg. about ‘policing our borders’ — that might encourage some of you to dismiss him altogether … Read more

2007-05-22 Richard Moore ____________________ The United States is continuing to make large payments of roughly $1 billion a year to Pakistan for what it calls reimbursements to the country’s military for conducting counterterrorism efforts along the border with Afghanistan, even though Pakistan’s president decided eight months ago to slash patrols through the area where Al … Read more

2007-05-21 Richard Moore ____________________ …But all three of the judges–Chief Judge Anthony Scirica and Judge Robert Cowen, both Reagan appointees, and Thomas Ambro, a Clinton appointee–seemed to take a dim view of Burns¹ arguments. Judging from their challenging questions to Burns, and their generally favorable questions to Abu-Jamal¹s attorneys, it seemed likely that they would, … Read more

2007-05-21 Richard Moore ____________________ The destabilization attempts are taking form in a concrete way in the coming weeks in the form of huge anti-government protests in Caracas to reject the government¹s actions against the private TV channel RCTV. Opposition groups have organized around the government decision, claiming that it steps on their ³freedom of expression,² … Read more

2007-05-21 Richard Moore ____________________ At first glance, the United Front lineup resembles erstwhile Northern Alliance – Burhanuddin Rabbani, Mohammed Fahim, Yunous Qanooni, Abdullah, Ismail Khan, and Rashid Dostum. But curiously, the United Front also includes two top Khalqi leaders from the communist era – members of the politburo of the Afghan Communist Party, General Nur … Read more