Phil Gasper: U.S. develops new weapons of mass destruction

2009-04-28 Richard Moore http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Weapons/US_Weapons_Mass_Destruc.html The U.S. develops new  weapons of mass destruction by Phil Gasper International Socialist Review, Jan/Feb 2003   The Bush administration accuses Saddam Hussein’s Iraq of attempting to develop nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Whether or not this charge is true, it is indisputable that the U.S. is not only the country … Read more

Richard Cook: Our Monetary System – State of Permanent Siege

2009-04-24 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13309 A Meditation on Our Monetary System: State of Permanent Siege By Richard Cook Global Research, April 22, 2009 showcase.bestcyrano.org/ THE LEVEL OF PUBLIC IGNORANCE  on the topic of the U.S. and world monetary system is astonishing. This is part of the plan, of course, because the monetary elite control not only … Read more

Castro re/ Summit of Port of Spain

2009-04-24 Richard Moore http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22464.htm The Secret Summit  By Fidel Castro Ruz April 21, 2009 “Cuba” — Neither represented nor excommunicated, only today could I learn what was discussed at the Summit of Port of Spain. They led us all to entertain hopes that the meeting would not be secret, but those running the show deprived … Read more

It Is Time to Dissolve All Central Banks

2009-04-24 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13247 It Is Time to Dissolve All Central Banks, a Cancer on their Nations’ Real Economies By George Washington’s Blog Global Research, April 19, 2009 George Washington’s Blog   As previously noted, the Federal Reserve has failed on its own terms. Specifically, it has failed to provide the counter-cyclical influence on the economy which … Read more

EP Heidner: Collateral Damage – U.S. Covert Operations and 9/11

2009-04-24 Richard Moore History has many interpretations, and this report has been just one of many – an interpretation pieced together  from the bold admissions and revelations of insiders, whose stories have been ignored and suppressed by the  major media organizations.  It is an interpretation of history that suggests a few determined men strove to … Read more

interesting news report on chemtrails (video)

2009-04-24 Richard Moore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRFbOe38Y1U&feature=PlayList&p=13300F7CE0A3B409&index=11 http://tinyurl.com/cb8y3g “Concerns About Chemtrails Given Fresh Impetus” focus on barium ___________________________ subscribe mailto: •••@••.••• websites:  http://www.governourselves.org/ http://escapingthematrix.org/ http://cyberjournal.org recent archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newslog/messages http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cyberjournal/messages old archives:  http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/ Moderator: •••@••.•••  (comments welcome)

Washington Post announces New Economic Order

2009-04-23 Richard Moore “The IMF is changing, and with it, there will be a sea change in the way the world economy is run,” said C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “Their role will dramatically shift. You’re talking about monitoring fiscal stimulus, moving toward tighter regulations for financial institutions. You’re … Read more

Gerald Celente: America lives in a fascist state

2009-04-23 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13251 “America lives in a fascist state” – trend forecaster Global Research, April 19, 2009 Russia Today The merger of corporate and government powers in modern America is plain and simple fascism, believes Gerald Celente, the founder of the Trends Research Institute and publisher of Trends Journal. Celente takes an in-depth look … Read more

Tons of released drugs taint US water

2009-04-23 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/042009K http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PHARMAWATER_FACTORIES?SITE=MOSTP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT April 20, 2009 AP IMPACT: Tons of released drugs taint US water By JEFF DONN, MARTHA MENDOZA and JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press Writers U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water — contamination the federal government … Read more

FYI: Committees of Safety

2009-04-23 Richard Moore http://www.committeesofsafety.org/ Committees of Safety Public Policy Statement and Disclaimer Committees of Safety is an organization dedicated to the individual and collective exercise of Americans’ freedoms of speech, association, and petition under theFirst Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, for the ultimate purpose of revitalizing “the Militia of the several States” under … Read more

Ralph Nader: Bailout Indignation

2009-04-23 Richard Moore http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22457.htm Bailout Indignation How about a test of your injustice barometer? By Ralph Nader April 20, 2009 “CommonDreams” — You might think that the reckless, avaricious, giant corporations, having shrunk the economy, cost millions of jobs and then demanded that taxpayers be dunned for years into the future for multi-trillion dollar bailouts, … Read more

school strip search: Supreme Court review

2009-04-22 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/042009EDA http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2009-04-15-stripsearch_N.htm Strip search review tests limits of school drug policy By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY SAFFORD, Ariz. — Eighth-grader Savana Redding was scared and confused when an assistant principal searching for drugs ordered her out of math class, searched her backpack and then instructed an administrative aide and school nurse to … Read more

Sharon Astyk: THE CASE FOR ANTI-MODERNISM

2009-04-22 Richard Moore I think it is important to realize that we cannot separate out the failures of industrial society in the present from the failures in the future. That is, peak oil and climate change (and the food crisis, overpopulation and the financial crisis and any other problems you want to pile on to … Read more

* Africa and the post-capitalist global regime *

2009-04-22 Richard Moore This is exactly what I predicted back in 2007, in my article, The Post-Bush Regime: a Prognosis. A land grab in Africa by northern powers, in conjunction with an ongoing genocide program to get rid of the natives. This is the nature of the post-capitalist regime, oriented around access to resources instead of … Read more

Mike Whitney: Housing Bust, Worse Than Ever

2009-04-22 Richard Moore In March, housing prices fell faster than anytime in the last two years.  Trend-lines are now steeper than ever before, nearly perpendicular. Housing prices are not falling, they’re crashing and crashing hard. Now that the foreclosure moratorium has ended, Notices of Default (NOD) have spiked to an all-time high.  “We believe there … Read more

Americas Summit ends with no agreement

2009-04-22 Richard Moore The reality is that in hemispheric relations, as with virtually all of the Obama administration’s policies, what is involved is an attempt by the US political establishment to put a new face on what are essentially the same right-wing policies pursued under Bush. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/summ-a21.shtml Americas Summit ends with no agreement on economic … Read more

Ulrich Rippert: The significance of the EU elections

2009-04-22 Richard Moore The widespread lack of interest in the election is an expression of growing opposition to EU institutions, including the parliament in Strasbourg. There is barely any other parliament in the world which can compete with the European parliament when it comes to lack of power and insignificance. European parliament decisions are not … Read more

Tea parties: a liberal view (Bill Berkowitz)

2009-04-21 Richard Moore http://www.australia.to/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8591:us-tax-protests-channel-enmity-for-obama&catid=89:reports http://tinyurl.com/c3xceq Australia.TO International Edition – Local and World News US: Tax Protests Channel Enmity for Obama Written by Bill Berkowitz OAKLAND, California, Apr 17  (IPS)  – Reports vary about how many people actually showed up at Tax Day Tea Party rallies in dozens of cities across the United States on Wednesday, … Read more

Fwd: extra bombs in OKC bombing

2009-04-21 Richard Moore Begin forwarded message: From: Don Stacey <•••@••.•••> Date: April 21, 2009 11:37:08 PM IST Subject: HOW THE MEDIA WORKS: OKC BOMBING:  Affadavits Please find time to read some of these and pay particular attention to the police logs. Although we read nothing about the matter in our daily newspapers, on the morning … Read more

What Do The Globalists Want?

2009-04-21 Richard Moore Some interesting viewpoints. Includes some videos on population reduction programs. rkm ____ http://www.foundingfather1776.com/ several videos in original What Do The Globalists Want? April 19, 2009 by foundingfather1776 Dear Readers, I am encouraged that so many of you have become loyal readers of this blog. I am happy to share the research that I … Read more

Moyers interviews Bill Black (video)

2009-04-21 Richard Moore Bill Moyers interviews Bill Black regarding the fraudulent nature of the banking crisis.      http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/604.html ___________________________ subscribe mailto: •••@••.••• websites:  http://www.governourselves.org/ http://escapingthematrix.org/ http://cyberjournal.org recent archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newslog/messages http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cyberjournal/messages old archives:  http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/ Moderator: •••@••.•••  (comments welcome)

Behind the US Banks’ Profit Reports

2009-04-21 Richard Moore The trillions of dollars in cash, virtually interest-free loans and government guarantees the banks have been given with no strings attached first by Bush and now by Obama, have, not surprisingly, begun to register as handsome profits on major banks’ balance sheets. The banks are continuing, with the blessings of the Obama … Read more

Lightwatcher: geoengineering & chemtrails

2009-04-19 Richard Moore http://www.lightwatcher.com/chemtrails/smoking_gun.html Feature Story – The Chemtrail Smoking Gun – Proof of Global Geoengineering Projectsillustration – by Bruce Conway / revised 6.20.03 / Lightwatcher Publishing forward: For the past few years investigators and researchers have been searching for hard evidence on the elusive phenomena of chemtrail spraying. If one searches GoogleNews for articles on chemtrails … Read more

Scientific American: geoengineering for intellectuals

2009-04-19 Richard Moore http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=geoengineering-how-to-cool-earth&print=true Scientific American Magazine –  October 20, 2008 Geoengineering: How to Cool Earth–At a Price Global warming has become such an overriding emergency that some climate experts are willing to consider schemes for partly shielding the planet from the sun’s rays. But no such scheme is a magic bullet By Robert Kunzig In the … Read more

TIME: popularizing geoengineering

2009-04-19 Richard Moore http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1720049_1720050_1721653,00.html Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2008 Geoengineering By Bryan Walsh I’m going to tell you something I probably shouldn’t: we may not be able to stop global warming. The Arctic Ocean, which experienced record melting last year, could be ice-free in the summer as soon as 2013, decades ahead of what the earlier … Read more

Iran: Israel continues preparations for possible attack

2009-04-19 Richard Moore “We would not make the threat [against Iran] without the force to back it. There has been a recent move, a number of on-the-ground preparations, that indicate Israel’s willingness to act,” said another official from Israel’s intelligence community. He added that it was unlikely that Israel would carry out the attack without … Read more

Fifth Summit of the Americas – exchanges of views

2009-04-19 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/041909E http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46551 We Can’t Be Trapped by History Peter Richards  PORT OF SPAIN, Apr 18 (IPS) – President Barack Obama had promised that his administration would be different. His, he said, would be a listening, caring one, even though like previous United States leaders, he came to the Fifth Summit of the Americas … Read more

Stephen Lendman: Barack Obama – Crime Boss

2009-04-19 Richard Moore The law mandates corrective action, the kind FDR took in the 1930s. He, Bernanke and Summers flout the law, “in naked violation, in order to pursue the kind of favoritism that the law was designed to prevent.” They’ve turned taxpayers into “suckers” who’ll pay dearly for decades, maybe generations. With most, perhaps … Read more

Eley & Grey: Obama’s Wall Street cabinet

2009-04-19 Richard Moore This will not come as a surprise to those who critically followed Obama’s election campaign. While he postured before the electorate as a critic of the war in Iraq and a quasi-populist force for “change,” he was from the first heavily dependent on the financial and political backing of powerful financiers in … Read more

Thom Hartmann: Geithner & Summers Want More Debt Bubbles

2009-04-19 Richard Moore http://www.alternet.org/story/136835/ Geithner and Summers Want More Debt Bubbles: The Result Could Be Catastrophic By Thom Hartmann, Smirking Chimp Posted on April 16, 2009, Printed on April 19, 2009http://www.alternet.org/story/136835/ “Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by the deluge … Read more

Michael Collins: The Money Party at Work

2009-04-19 Richard Moore The credit default swaps crisis is 40 or so times bigger than the real estate meltdown over subprime derivatives. The top 25 banks in the United States are loaded down with $13 trillion in credit default swaps and the deal is coming unraveled. If we accept the highly dubious assumption that the … Read more

Chossudovsky: US-NATO Military Agenda – Destabilization of Pakistan

2009-04-19 Richard Moore This US agenda for Pakistan is similar to that applied throughout the broader Middle East Central Asian region. US strategy, supported by covert intelligence operations, consists in triggering ethnic and religious strife, abetting and financing secessionist movements while also weakening the institutions of the central government.  The broader objective is to fracture … Read more

GM & bankruptcy: how the banks should have treated

2009-04-18 Richard Moore http://www.countercurrents.org/white140409.htm White House Pushing GM Toward Bankruptcy By Jerry White 14 April, 2009WSWS.org The Obama administration is aggressively pushing General Motors into bankruptcy, the New York Times reported Monday. The White House wants to use bankruptcy courts, the newspaper said, to break up the century-old industrial icon and sell off its profitable … Read more

Andy Kroll: The Corporatization of Public Education

2009-04-18 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/041509B The Corporatization of Public Education Wednesday 15 April 2009 by: Andy Kroll, t r u t h o u t | Perspective     Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s pledge to put more big-city mayors in charge of their school districts would exclude democratic forms of school governance and let big businesses decide the … Read more

Food & global south: farmland being appropriated by north

2009-04-18 Richard Moore five countries stood out for the extent of their foreign arable land acquisitions: China, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. Together, they control over 7.6 million cultivable hectares outside their national territory, or the equivalent of 5.6 times the utilizable agricultural surface of Belgium In 2006, Beijing signed … Read more

US Navy to get real ray guns

2009-04-18 Richard Moore http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2009/q2/090415c_nr.html Boeing Awarded US Navy Contract to Develop Free Electron Laser WEST HILLS, Calif., April 15, 2009 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a U.S. Navy contract valued at up to $163 million, with an initial task order of $6.9 million, to develop the Free Electron Laser (FEL) weapon … Read more

Fascism alive and well in UK

2009-04-18 Richard Moore Police mounted the preemptive arrests at a community centre and adjacent school on the unprecedented basis that those detained were preparing a protest at the nearby Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station. The power station is the third largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the UK and has been the location of previous protests … Read more

Obama’s education program

2009-04-18 Richard Moore Facing a $42 billion shortfall, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democratic-controlled State Legislature passed a massive austerity budget in February that cuts current state spending by $14 billion. Allocations for education were gutted by $8 billion, out of which upwards of $5 billion is to come from kindergarten through grade 12 schooling. … Read more

Legal left cools toward Obama

2009-04-18 Richard Moore “When Bush asserted the power to abduct people and put them in prison for life with no charges, he was a Constitution-hating tyrant. When Obama does it, he’s being really careful and cautious and doing it to protect us for really good reasons even if we can’t know what they are and … Read more