US vs China: the African front

2007-05-21 Richard Moore See also: 21 May 2007 China pledges $20bn for Africa http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?id=2550&lists=newslog Original source URL: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/afri-m18.shtml US government to set up new military command in Africa By Lawrence Porter 18 May 2007 Use this version to print | Send this link by email | Email the author In an ominous development mirroring the … Read more

Wolfowitz affair: another sign of US decline

2007-05-21 Richard Moore ____________________ …the Wolfowitz affair is an expression of more fundamental political issues. It stems above all from the conflict between American imperialism and its major rivals in Europe and Asia. In the end, there was a clear international lineup of the US, Canada and Japan, the relatively isolated defenders of Wolfowitz, against … Read more

US decline: Good Thing for America And the World

2007-05-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://countercurrents.org/zeese190507.htm The American Empire is Failing ­ A Good Thing for America And the World By Kevin Zeese 19 May, 2007 Countercurrents.org Terry Paupp is the author of Exodus from Empire: The Fall of America’s Empire and the Rise of the Global Community. The book examines the downfall of … Read more

Grand Mayan Elder calls for unity

2007-05-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://unearthly-souls.tribe.net/thread/b30a6043-9eba-42ab-ac96-2ccfc9c3a6e3 A call from Don Alejandro Oxlaj, Grand Elder of the Maya, for Global Meditation on May 22 (5 Ahau, Ajpu) topic posted Sat, May 12, 2007 – 4:02 PM by Dave Don Alejandro Oxlaj, Guatemala de la Asuncion Don Alejandro is charged as the primary keeper of the … Read more

Chris Cook on “anti-hate” legislation

2007-05-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.pacificfreepress.com/content/view/1240/81/ Regarding Israel: A Hateful Weekend Chris Cook Sunday, 20 May 2007 Regarding Israel: A Hateful Weekend by C. L. Cook As the bombs continue to fall over Palestine, the bodies piling higher by the hour, I’m spending my weekend (thanks to Queen Victoria, a mercifully long one) reading … Read more

JFK: Hunt’s Deathbed Confession

2007-05-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.rense.com/general76/hunt.htm Hunt’s Deathbed Confession Reveals JFK Killers The Last Confession Of E. Howard Hunt – US government/CIA team murdered JFK By Larry Chin Online Journal Associate Editor 4-4-7 The April 5 issue of Rolling Stone features the deathbed confession of CIA operative and key Bay of Pigs/Watergate/Nixon administration figure … Read more

China vs US: skirmishes on the trade front

2007-05-21 Richard Moore ____________________ In the Chinese trade narrative, a case in point is China National Offshore Oil’s attempt in 2005 to take over Unocal, a U.S. oil company. The state-owned oil giant withdrew its $18.5 billion offer after Congress threatened to block the deal. The episode came after the Chinese had spent years listening … Read more

Political Correctness & right-wing propaganda

2007-05-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/challenges.php?id=985416 Exclusive: The Tyranny of Political Correctness Philip Atkinson Author: Philip Atkinson Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc. Date: May 17, 2007 How many of us are aware of the extent to which the new thought police are eroding our free speech prerogatives throughout Western societies? FSM Contributing Editor … Read more

Deal on Immigration: 12 million legalized

2007-05-21 Richard Moore Friends, Like most of you, I’m in favor of immigrants being treated fairly, and I support them if they must leave poverty situations to seek work. These sentiments, however, are not I believe shared by those who make the decisions in this society. From a capitalist perspective the reason for bringing in … Read more

China pledges $20bn for Africa

2007-05-21 Richard Moore ____________________ “The scale of China¹s plans are beginning to assume imperial proportions, some observers contend.” “This posed a challenge, Mr Kaberuka acknowledged, to traditional donors in Europe, the US and indeed the AfDB who are attempting to impose stricter criteria for debt management in the wake of their recent write-off of some … Read more

Wise Democracy: Wisdom Council progress in Victoria

2007-05-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.vicnews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=36&cat=43&id=986830&more= Wise idea revisited Dunc Malcolm/News staff Wise Democracy Victoria members Anke van Leeuwen and George Sranko mail 350 invitations to randomly selected Victoria residents, seeking their participation in the group¹s second Wisdom Council, which will convene in June. By Thomas Winterhoff News staff Victoria News May 18 2007 … Read more

Vanity Fair – Bruce Willis on JFK: The perps are still in power

2007-05-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/080507brucewillis.htm From Unlikely Quarters, Bruce Willis Ends The JFK Debate The Kennedy assassination furore is over and the “conspiracy theorists” won, 9/11 is soon to follow Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Tuesday, May 8, 2007 Bruce Willis’ insightful and definitive comments to Vanity Fair about the assassination of JFK, … Read more

The Great Oil Robbery

2007-05-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.rense.com/general76/great.htm The Great Oil Robbery By Dave Lindorff 5-18-7 In case you’re wondering why crude oil prices are down from last year, hanging around at about $60 a barrel, while gasoline prices have soared past $3.10/gallon nationwide, just check out the latest profit reports from the oil companies. They … Read more

The Fourth Reich: American audience applauds torture

2007-05-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://infowars.com/articles/ps/vote_08_debate_audience_applauds_giuliani_endorse_torture.htm Audience Applauds As Giuliani, Tancredo Endorse Waterboarding Torture Think Progress | May 16, 2007 During tonight’s presidential debates, candidates were asked whether they would support the use of waterboarding ‹ a technique, defined as torture by the Justice Department, that simulates drowning and makes the subject ³believe his … Read more

Tainted Chinese Imports Common

2007-05-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/19/AR2007051901273.html Tainted Chinese Imports Common In Four Months, FDA Refused 298 Shipments By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, May 20, 2007; A01 Dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical. Frozen catfish laden with banned antibiotics. Scallops and sardines coated with putrefying bacteria. Mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides. … Read more

Scientific Poll: 84% Reject Official 9/11 Story

2007-05-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/141006poll.htm Scientific Poll: 84% Reject Official 9/11 Story Only 16% now believe official fable according to New York Times/CBS News poll Truth Movement has the huge majority of opinion How will the Bush Cabal react? Steve Watson & Alex Jones / Prisonplanet.com | October 14 2006 A monumental new … Read more

Mumia Case: The Final Showdown

2007-05-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff05152007.html The Final Showdown Mumia Case Reaches Its Climax By DAVE LINDORFF and LINN WASHINGTON, Jr. The case of death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, now a quarter of a century long, is heading to a climax this Thursday in a hearing before a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit … Read more

Iraq: Mercenaries increasingly targeted by the resistance

2007-05-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/19/world/middleeast/19contractors.html May 19, 2007 Contractor Deaths in Iraq Soar to Record By JOHN M. BRODER and JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON, May 18 ‹ Casualties among private contractors in Iraq have soared to record levels this year, setting a pace that seems certain to turn 2007 into the bloodiest year yet … Read more

10 Questions With Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Mike Gravel

2007-05-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=35651 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 05, 2007 10 Questions With Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Mike Gravel While Mike Gravel might not garner the press other Democratic presidential hopefuls do, there is something he does trump many of them on — actual experience. Gravel spent two terms (1969-81) in the U.S. Senate, … Read more

Peak Soil: biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America

2007-05-18 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=107&Itemid=1 Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America Written by Alice Friedemann Released April 10, 2007 “The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” – President Franklin D. Roosevelt Peak Soil: Why Cellulosic ethanol and other Biofuels are Not Sustainable and are a … Read more

Christians Demand Bush be Impeached for Worshiping Satan

2007-05-17 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=1845 ROGUEGOVERNMENT.COM EXPOSING GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER Christians Demand Bush be Impeached for Worshiping Satan 04-30-2007 www.roguegovernment.com (MANCHESTER, NH) — A Christian based group known as the Christian¹s Liberation Movement has concluded that George W. Bush is a fake Christian and worships Satan. The group is … Read more

Venezuela takes on oil multinationals

2007-05-17 Richard Moore Hooray Chavez! rkm ____________________ Speaking to oil workers on April 30, energy minister Rafael Ramirez said: ³Welcome to the new PDVSA. Here we begin the real petroleum nationalisation.² He explained, ³The existing oil reserves in all national territory Š belong to the republic and are goods of the public domain. Venezuela is … Read more

Mike Whitney: “The Color of Blood, the Color of Resistance, the Color of Iraq”

2007-05-17 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=32841 ³The Color of Blood, the Color of Resistance, the Color of Iraq.² Mike Whitney ____________________ “If I ever get married againŠ..I don’t want any of this white dress business. I shall wear red. Bright red. The color of blood, the color of roaring, erupting volcanoes, the color of … Read more

Chalmers Johnson: Is Imperial Liquidation Possible For America?

2007-05-17 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.countercurrents.org/johnson160507.htm Is Imperial Liquidation Possible For America? By Chalmers Johnson 16 May, 2007 Tomdispatch.com In politics, as in medicine, a cure based on a false diagnosis is almost always worthless, often worsening the condition that is supposed to be healed. The United States, today, suffers from a plethora of … Read more

Opportunities to promote enlightened dialog

2007-05-17 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 15:27:16 -0400 Reply-To: •••@••.••• From: Sandy Heierbacher <•••@••.•••> Organization: National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation Subject: [D&D-UPDATES] dialogue & deliberation news and opportunities List-Subscribe: <mailto:•••@••.•••> List-Archive: <http://lists.thataway.org/SCRIPTS/WA-THATAWAY.EXE?LIST=NCDD-UPDATES> May 2007 Update from T H A T A W A Y. O R G – Home of the … Read more

Climate change: A guide for the perplexed

2007-05-17 Richard Moore Friends, New Scientist has assembled here the complete ‘consensus perspective’ on global warming, with detailed arguments against all contrary views. I’m sure many of you will find this useful. Personally, I’m not entirely convinced of their arguments — but the more important point is that I don’t see ‘the truth about climate … Read more

GLOBAL WARMING: CONVERSION OF MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

2007-05-17 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://space4peace.blogspot.com/ WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2007 GLOBAL WARMING OR CONVERSION OF MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX? Global warming is on the minds of people all over the planet. They are talking about how strange their weather is these days. Severe fluctuations are causing new weather patterns alien to communities worldwide. Obviously, the … Read more

Murdoch To Push Climate Change Propaganda

2007-05-17 Richard Moore “Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is to push climate change propaganda through it’s programming and media output in an effort to cause people to change their behavior and become more green.” Here we see the classic tactic of ‘blaming the victim’. Any significant improvement to our situation can only be achieved by transforming … Read more

U.S. SPACE FIRST STRIKE PROGRAM WELL UNDERWAY

2007-05-17 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://space4peace.blogspot.com/ SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2007 U.S. SPACE FIRST STRIKE PROGRAM WELL UNDERWAY In the House of Representatives last week Democratic Party Congress members lead the way to approve money for Star Wars research and development programs in the fiscal year 2008 budget. Rejecting the recommendations from a sub-committee, Representatives … Read more

Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming

2007-05-17 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=927b9303-802a-23ad-494b-dccb00b51a12&Region_id=&Issue_id= Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming – Now Skeptics May 15, 2007 Posted by Marc Morano ­ •••@••.••• – 9:14 PM ET Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming – Now Skeptics Growing Number of Scientists Convert to Skeptics … Read more

Moon front group gets $80,000 in federal money

2007-05-17 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.mediatransparency.com/story.php?storyID=193 Bill Berkowitz May 14, 2007 Sun Myung Moon front group gets $80,000 in federal money to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. day Moonies claim credit for MLK’s revered status In terms of interracial issues in the nation of America once again, you talk about the Rev. Sun Myung … Read more

Michael Moore Responds to Treasury Secretary’s Investigation Threat

2007-05-17 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/51794/ Michael Moore Responds to Treasury Secretary’s Investigation Threat By Michael Moore, AlterNet. Posted May 12, 2007. Under investigation by the Bush administration for taking ill 9/11 clean up workers to Cuba for better treatment than they received in America, Moore answers, “I have broken no laws and I … Read more

Iran enrichment program now up and running

2007-05-17 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/world/middleeast/15iran.html May 15, 2007 Inspectors Cite Big Gain by Iran on Nuclear Fuel By DAVID E. SANGER VIENNA, May 14 ‹ Inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency have concluded that Iran appears to have solved most of its technological problems and is now beginning to enrich uranium on … Read more

FEMA provides toxic trailers for hurricane refugees

2007-05-17 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/51733/ FEMA provides toxic trailers for hurricane refugees By Guest Blogger Posted on May 10, 2007, Printed on May 14, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/bloggers//51733/ This is a guest post from Josh Dorner of the Sierra Club. We know the Bush administration must just have a serious case of amnesia about Hurricane … Read more

‘Conquering’ the Moon: a race for Helium-3

2007-05-17 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/01/wmoon01.xml Russia sees moon plot in Nasa plans By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow Last Updated: 1:53am BST 02/05/2007 Mankind’s second race for the moon took on a distinctly Cold War feel yesterday when the Russian space agency accused its old rival Nasa of rejecting a proposal for joint lunar … Read more

Bush Family in the House of Moon

2007-05-17 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/4/19/15131/3739 Bush Family in the House of Moon By Bill Berkowitz Thu Apr 19, 2007 at 03:01:31 PM EST George H.W. Bush to speak at the Rev. Sun Myung Moon-owned Washington Times’ 25th anniversary celebration in mid-May When former President George H.W. Bush takes the stage to deliver the … Read more

What did MI5 know about 2005 London bombings?

2007-05-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HYL20070509&articleId=5601 British terror trial raises question of what MI5 knew about 2005 London bombings By Julie Hyland Global Research, May 9, 2007 wsws.org Following a series of damning revelations during the trial of seven men for their roles in the alleged ³fertiliser bomb plot,² the government is continuing to … Read more

Scientist: Models used to analyse climate change are incoherent & invalid

2007-05-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070502&articleId=5543 Scientist: Models used to analyse climate change are incoherent & invalid from a scientific point of view Global Research, May 2, 2007 Council for Justice and Peace – 2007-04-27 VATICAN CITY, APRIL 27, 2007.- Scientists might not have human behavior to blame for global warming, according to the … Read more

Venezuela quitting the IMF and World Bank

2007-05-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=LI20070507&articleId=5585 Venezuela quitting the IMF and World Bank Global Research, May 7, 2007 Xinhua News Agency – 2007-04-30 by Lin Li, Xinhua Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Monday that his country had decided to withdraw from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Chavez made the … Read more

Occupation forces in Afghanistan supporting drug trade

2007-05-14 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070604&articleId=5514 Heroin is “Good for Your Health”: Occupation Forces support Afghan Narcotics Trade Multibillion dollar earnings for organized crime and Western financial Institutions By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, April 29, 2007 The occupation forces in Afghanistan are supporting the drug trade, which brings between 120 and 194 billion … Read more