2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022307E.shtml http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16760690.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 22, 2007 U.S. economy leaving record numbers in severe poverty By Tony Pugh McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON – The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty … Read more

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2296829.ece Revealed: The true extent of Britain’s failure in Basra By Patrick Cockburn Published: 23 February 2007 The partial British military withdrawal from southern Iraq announced by Tony Blair this week follows political and military failure, and is not because of any improvement in local security, say specialists on … Read more

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2007/02/r-word.html MISH’S GLOBAL ECONOMIC TREND ANALYSIS Thoughts on the global economy, housing, gold, silver, interest rates, oil, energy, China, commodities, the dollar, Euro, Renminbi, Yen, inflation, deflation, stagflation, precious metals, emerging markets, and policy decisions that affect the global markets. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2007 Discuss global trends with Mish … Read more

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Psychiatrist_says_US_terror_suspect_02222007.html Psychiatrist says US terror suspect has Stockholm syndrome AFP Published: Thursday February 22, 2007 A psychiatrist told a court in Miami US terror suspect Jose Padilla is unable to assist in his defense as he identifies with the military captors who held him for more than three years. … Read more

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: ——————————————————– To: A-List <•••@••.•••>, Ugly New World <•••@••.•••>, World City <•••@••.•••> From: Bill Totten <•••@••.•••> Subject: [WrldCty] Global Warming: It’s All About Energy Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:55:43 +0900 Reply-To: •••@••.••• by Michael T Klare Foreign Policy In Focus (February 15 2007) www.fpif.org Finally, after years of effort … Read more

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8706627 American mortgages Bleak houses Feb 15th 2007 | NEW YORK From The Economist print edition America’s riskiest mortgages are set to pop. Where will the shrapnel land? LAST March, ResMAE, a mortgage lender catering to risky borrowers, cut the ribbon on its new headquarters in Brea, California. The … Read more

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/us/23dumping.html February 23, 2007 ŒDumping¹ of Homeless by Hospitals Stirs Debate By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22 ‹ For a year, reports have surfaced that hospitals here have left homeless patients on downtown streets, including a paraplegic man wearing a hospital gown and colostomy bag who witnesses … Read more

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8795795223394289910 John Buchanan interview, in excerpt from Alex Jones video — about the Bush family and current USA (about 9:50 minutes) — ——————————————————– Escaping the Matrix website http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website http://cyberjournal.org Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html subscribe cyberjournal list mailto:•••@••.••• Posting archives http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022107R.shtml Former Bush Officials Accuse White House of Trying to Provoke Iran By Deniz Yeter t r u t h o u t | Report Wednesday 21 February 2007 Warn public that Bush is looking for a pretext to justify a broader, regional conflict. Hillary Mann Leverett, the former … Read more

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022307R.shtml Cheney’s Role Dominates Closing Arguments at Libby Trial By Jason Leopold t r u t h o u t | Report Friday 23 February 2007 It was the defense attorney representing I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby who first told jurors during closing arguments in the perjury and obstruction-of-justice trial … Read more

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/23/america/NA-GEN-Canada-Anti-Terror-Law.php Canada’s high court strikes down anti-terrorism law that detains suspects indefinitely The Associated Press Friday, February 23, 2007 OTTAWA: The Supreme Court struck down one of Canada’s most contentious anti-terrorism provisions Friday, declaring it unconstitutional to indefinitely detain foreign terror suspects while the courts review their deportation orders. … Read more

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022107C.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/opinion/19mon3.html February 19, 2007 EDITORIAL Making Martial Law Easier A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night. So it was with a provision quietly tucked into the enormous defense budget bill … Read more

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/september2004/230904disturbingparallels.htm Goebbels Speech Has Disturbing Parallels With Modern Day Neo-Con Rhetoric Ed Henry | September 23 2004 Thanks to Harry Browne of the Libertarian Party for bringing us this reminder. It’s a speech by Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, and delivered to the German people almost 65 years … Read more

2007-02-24 Richard Moore Original source URL: ——————————————————– To: World City WorldCity <•••@••.•••> From: “Virginia F. Raines” <•••@••.•••> Subject: [WrldCty] no more whitewash Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:36:20 -0800 Subject: WSJ Pulitzer Prize-winner – Eyewitness report Astonishing new website, <http://www.patriotsquestion911.com/> www.PatriotsQuestion911.com It contained 40 excerpts from comments made by various government and military leaders. Last … Read more

2007-02-22 Richard Moore The revolution is also thoroughly democratic. Pro-Chavez forces have won 11 straight national elections and introduced a new constitution guaranteeing popular participation in government, including the right to overturn any legislation via a national referendum. The government has announced an extension of direct democracy, via the promotion of grassroots communal councils, and … Read more

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: <http://www.321gold.com/editorials/engdahl/engdahl021907.html>http://www.321gold.com/editorials/engdahl/engdahl021907.html V. Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or, what happens when Cowboys don’t shoot straight like they used toŠ By F. William Engdahl* 18 February 2007 The frank words of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to the assembled participants of the annual Munich Wehrkunde security conference … Read more

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/Bush41RevivesLinks.htm [links in original] Tom Flocco.com http://tomflocco.com/ BUSH 41 REVIVES LINKS TO JFK WARREN COMMISSION OBSTRUCTION January 13, 2007 “A coup d’ etat has been described as ‘a sudden action by which an individual or group, usually employing limited violence, captures positions of governmental authority without conforming to the … Read more

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Gingrich proposed that new strategies and tactics in the war on terror should be considered, including a reexamination of First Amendment rights. Bush does fascism; Gingrich also preaches it. How could he get in? Simple…personally embarrassing ‘revelations’ against whoever the Democratic candidate happens to be. “It can be easily done….just do it … Read more

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022007EA.shtml http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070220/antarctica_070220/20070220?hub=SciTech Huge lakes and rivers found under Antarctic ice Updated: Tue. Feb. 20 2007 8:44 AM ET An amazing discovery has been made in the Antarctic. Researchers have found that under the compressed snow and ice lies a sort of water world — a series of fast-moving lakes … Read more

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Alternatively, our correspondent adds, a high-casualty attack on US forces in neighbouring Iraq could also trigger a bombing campaign if it were traced directly back to Tehran. Note accompanying posting today where US is already practicing it’s response to an ‘attack’ (ie, faked attack) on US naval forces in the Gulf. rkm … Read more

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/12667/42/ Feb 18 2007 Cluster Bombs: Op_ed By MWC NEWS Translation The Realpolitik of U.S. Foreign Policy By Robert Weitzel, guest columnist Defense Secretary Gates said that serial numbers and other markings found on bomb fragments constituted ³pretty good² evidence that Iran was providing weapon technology and material to … Read more

2007-02-21 Richard Moore The exercise is expected to centre around a maritime terrorist attack. And a maritime terrorist attack in the gulf has been named by Bush as one of the triggers for an Iran attack. The false-flag scenario is now clearly laid out for us to see in advance. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: … Read more

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1548 YES! Magazine Winter 2007 Issue: Go Local! Creating Real Prosperity by Frances Moore Lappé Critics of “go local” movements warn that buying local deprives people in the Global South of jobs that could lift them out of poverty. But are multinationals really helping? There’s only one thing worse … Read more

2007-02-21 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Brasscheck TV” <•••@••.•••> X_Id: 306778:02-09-2007-22-37-40:•••@••.•••/306778 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:38:05 -0500 Subject: Brasscheck TV: What really happened? Tomorrow is Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It’s the big festival that comes before Lent, traditionally forty days of light fasting and self-denial before before Easter. Today, while people the world over … Read more

2007-02-21 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Brasscheck TV” <•••@••.•••> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:38:11 -0500 Subject: Brasscheck TV: When they zig, we zag Remember the recent Brasscheck TV video that got booted by Google and YouTube? Apparenly, many people all over the world downloaded the Google version before it was taken down it’s been uploaded … Read more

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb07/Jensen19.htm [links in original] Liberal Icons and the Problem of Bipartisan Empire-Building by Robert Jensen www.dissidentvoice.org February 19, 2007 Remarks to the fourth ³Last Sunday² community gathering in Austin, TX, February 18, 2007. In a political culture defined by a centrist-to-reactionary political spectrum, Paul Wellstone was a breath of … Read more

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.securityconference.de/konferenzen/rede.php?sprache=en&id=179& Munich Conference on Security Policy Speaker: Putin, Wladimir W. Function: President, Russian Federation Nation/Organisation: Russian Federation Speech at the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy 02/10/2007 (The speech was held in Russian. Find the English translation below.) Thank you very much dear Madam Federal Chancellor, Mr Teltschik, ladies … Read more

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1130 Iran – Ready to attack By Dan Plesch – NewStatesman Feb/20/2007 American military operations for a major conventional war with Iran could be implemented any day. They extend far beyond targeting suspect WMD facilities and will enable President Bush to destroy Iran’s military, political and economic infrastructure overnight … Read more

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://infowars.com/articles/terror/bin_laden_top_expert_confession_fake.htm http://www.911blogger.com/node/6317 Top Bin Laden Expert: Confession Fake submitted by GeorgeWashington on mon, 02/19/2007 – 1:18am. Bin Laden Kevin Barrett sent the following email: Top U.S. Bin Laden Expert: Confession Video ³Bogus² by Kevin Barrett, http://mujca.com 2/17/06 Was Osama Bin Laden responsible for 9/11? The Bush Administration says yes, … Read more

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022007R.shtml http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070220/D8NDKNBO0.html Court: Detainees Can’t Challenge Cases Email this Story Feb 20, 2:26 PM (ET) By HOPE YEN WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that foreign-born prisoners seized as potential terrorists and held in Guantanamo Bay may not challenge their detention in U.S. courts, a key … Read more

2007-02-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/1556524838/ref=dp_proddesc_0/104-4437263-0591151?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Paperback) by Alfred W. McCoy (Author) Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Nearly 20 years ago, McCoy wrote The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia , which stirred up considerable controversy, alleging that the CIA was intimately involved … Read more

2007-02-20 Richard Moore The primary goal of Western imperialism is to enable the unfettered operation of Western corporations and financial interests in the third world . In order to accomplish this goal, there are several kinds of tasks that need to be carried out. First, any third world government that puts national interests ahead of … Read more

2007-02-19 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:09:02 -0500 Subject: Sunni, Shia Violence, Death Squads, and Civil War in Iraq From: The Wisdom Fund <•••@••.•••> Reply-To: •••@••.••• February 19, 2007 The Wisdom Fund Sunni, Shia Violence, Death Squads, and Civil War in Iraq Excerpts from <http://www.twf.org/News/Y2006/1010-Regions.html>http://www.twf.org/News/Y2006/1010-Regions.html Handout at <http://www.twf.org/News/Y2007/Sunni-Shia.pdf>http://www.twf.org/News/Y2007/Sunni-Shia.pdf Odd, isn’t it? There … Read more

2007-02-19 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.newstatesman.com/200702190014 Iran – Ready to attack Dan Plesch Published 19 February 2007 American preparations for invading Iran are complete, Dan Plesch reveals. Plus Rageh Omaar’s insights from Iran and Andrew Stephen on fears George Bush’s administration will blunder into war American military operations for a major conventional war with … Read more

2007-02-19 Richard Moore Russian diplomacy is one of great openness. First, Moscow began asserting that there is no alternative to a collective international effort in solving regional or global problems, meaning that Russia cannot be ignored any longer in conflict resolution – be it in the Middle East, Afghanistan or Kosovo. Lavrov told the Arab … Read more

2007-02-19 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Brasscheck TV” <•••@••.•••> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:03:34 -0500 Subject: Brasscheck TV: Who can stop the war? Who can stop the war? The GIs can. That’s who. And they’ve done it before. Discover the truth about one of the most censored stories in American history: The GI mutiny that … Read more

2007-02-19 Richard Moore WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 ‹ Documents captured from Iraqi insurgents indicate that some of the recent fatal attacks against American helicopters are a result of a carefully planned strategy to focus on downing coalition aircraft, one that American officials say has been carried out by mounting coordinated assaults with machine guns, rockets and … Read more

2007-02-18 Richard Moore interesting to see this in a standard newspaper. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.reformer.com/letters/ci_5248468 Saturday, February 17 Road to fascism Editor of the Reformer: I have read with interest the recent letters to the Reformer debating the impeachment of George Walker Bush and his regime. I, too, love my country, and so … Read more

2007-02-18 Richard Moore We seem to be witnessing conflict within elite ranks. ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/printer_23895.shtml From AxisofLogic.com MEDIA CRITIQUES Why is the US press silent on Brzezinski’s warnings of war against Iran? By Barry Grey in Washington DC Feb 3, 2007, 04:52 The major national newspapers and most broadcast outlets failed even to … Read more

2007-02-18 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://rense.com/general75/zoil.htm Russia Proves ‘Peak Oil’ Is A Misleading Zionist Scam [stet 🙁 ] While Moscow invests heavily in unlimited oil production for the future, New York squanders America’s dwindling oil profits on fast cars and fast women Copyright Joe Vialls, 25 August 2004 2-16-7 In 1970, the Russians started … Read more